The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1898, Page 6

6 ........ JUNE 25, 1898! SATURDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22! Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ....Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. . -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 | SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o’clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. ! AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—* Aristoeracy " Baldwin —* The Passion Play'* Alcazar—+A Celebrated Case.* Morosco's —After Dark. Tivoli—"Ali Baba." Orpheum —Vaudeville. hanics' Pavilion—Red Cross Benefit, Tuesday evening, June The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. lympta—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. ‘s Baths—Swimming. El Campo—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. Recreation Park—Baseball this afiernoon. Coursing—At Union Coursing Park. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. Mirabel Park—Excursion, Oakland Racetrack—Races. AUCTION SALES. By Geo. F. Lamson—Monday, June 27, immense Library, at corner Market and Seventh streets, at 2 and 7:30 P. M. W ordinarily characterizes its columns of bogus news. People have grown accustomed to being swindled by | that paper. They regard its impositions as something | in the nature of a joke and take up the sheet with | daily wonder as to what form of confidence game it | will be found practicing. So thoroughly discredited | has the Examiner become that it has in a great | measure lost its power to do harm. But when its | heralded information is not only false but vicious | there is a tendency to resent it. The Hobson letter was an affront against decency, and particularly against that gallant gentleman him- self. It made him pose as a braggart and a crack- brained, self-glorifying ninny. While for a moment it might have misled a thoughtless reader, it could | not even temporarily have deceived a newspaper | man, and any newspaper man giving it unqualified publicity must have been guilty of deliberate effort to defraud. Not only did the subject matter of the letter betray its real quality, but other circumstances | stamped it as a stupid pretense. There was no possibility that such a letter could have been received, no possibility that having been | received it would have been turned over to the press. It was so clearly the product of a liar that no excuse can be offered by the Examiner for having presented | it as legitimate. The correspondent dishonors the | profession. He deserves to be barred. Yet such cor- respondents could not flourish to the damage of the | craft were there not unclean, conscienceless, yellow | journals ready to give currency to anything savoring | of sensation. Such a journal is the Examiner. THE INSULT TO HOBSON. HEN the Examiner published a fake letter al- | leged to have been written by Lieutenant | Hobson it was guilty of a crime blacker than | INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN BANK. NE of the larger measures affecting our peace- Oiul interests which Congress has found time to discuss among the excitements of war is the bill providing for the establishment of an international American bank. The object of the measure is to pro- vide a means for facilitating commerce among the countries of this hemisphere, and it is therefore a step toward accomplishing that great scheme of Pan- Americanism which survives as an evidence of the creative statesmanship of Blaine. | The bill has met the usual Democratic and Popu- | listic antagonism. It is a financial measure not of their making, and therefore they shy at it. It does not undertake the free coinage of silver, nor an un- limited issue of greenbacks, and thererore they op- pose it. It is not a fiat money scheme in any par- ticular, but a plan for promoting commerce by fur- nishing a safe means for transacting legitimate mone- tary affairs and the settlement of balances among merchants of the different American countries, and therefore it appears to the wild imaginations of the fiatists as another conspiracy on the part of the gold monster to press a crown of thorns upon the brow of Jabor and crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. Our Consuls in the various Central and South ‘American countries have repeatedly pointed out that one of the serious disadvantages under which our manufacturers and merchants operate in those mar- kets is due to the lack of American banking facili- ties there. Bankers of Great Britain and of Germany have extensive agencies in all the principal cities, and their influence is exerted to encourage the imports of the goods of their own country. To meet this ad- verse influence we must provide American banks, and this can be done better by the co-operation of cap- italists in forming one great financial institution than by separate efforts on the part of many. While it is gratifying that Congress has been able in a time of war to give attention to this measure of peaceful commercial enterprise, it would be more sat- isfactory if the subject of Pan-American commerce had been taken up as a whole and not by piecemeal. The need of an international bank to facilitate trade is great, but the need of ships to carry it on is even greater. The British and the Germans in seeking a market for their products in this hemisphere have not contented themselves with providing banking conveniences for their merchants and their customers. They have provided ships to carry the goods and have granted liberal subsidies to maintain the shipping. We must do likewise if we hope to succeed in win- ning the markets from them. No occasion for alarm is constituted by the report that the Cadiz fleet is bound for the Philippines. Even if it could get there Dewey could defeat it without calculating on the help of the Charleston and the Monterey. There can be no objection to Blanco’s hurling de- fiances, as dispatches say he is doing. feels in duty bound to hurl something. | 1895, two years after Senator White's election. He doubtless 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1898. ANNEXATION INSTRUCTIONS. ECAUSE Senator White has, from the incep- tion of the issue, stood against the reception of Hawaii as 3 giit from Dole, incumbered B | only by his $5,000,000 debt and 30,000 coolies, it has pleased the annexation organs to fling at him the resolutions passed by the Legislature which elected him. Whenever The Call has explained this matter it has zllso pleased the same organs to say that this paper is Senator White’s organ. Of course their instant de- fense of Democratic members of Congress who vote for annexation is not “organic” at all. The facts are that the Legislature which elected Senator White did pass a resolution favoring the annexation of Hawaii by “honorable means.” As such means have not yet | been used, he would be absolved from obedience any way. It is not honorable to attempt to annex the country against the protest of a large majority of its people. When such plan fails by treaty it is not honorable to violate the constitution by annexing a separate sovereignty by a joint resolution. It is not | honorable to pretend that the latter method follows the Texas precedent. Texas was never annexed. It was admitted directly into the Union as a State, after the issue had been submitted to and indorsed by the people of that sovereignty. But what of the legisla- tive mind and will on this subject? Senator Perkins was elected by the Legislature of An annexation resolution was introduced in the Senate of that Legislature and was beaten by a vote of nine to twenty-two! Every Democrat and a majority of the Republicans voted against it. If there is binding force in legislative instruction to Senators of the United States, this last expression of the legislative will would bind both of our Senators. While it suits the organs of the Hawaiian sugar planters and coolie labor to attack Senator White for not obeying the legislative will of 1803, it suits the same organs to cordially support Senator Perkins for not obeying the legislative will of 1805. In this same connection the Oakland Enquirer has had somethingtosayabout newspaper sentiment toward Senator White, to the effect that a Republican paper in Los Angeles is indorsing him for the purpose of his return to the Senate and at the same time desires to elect Mr. Henry T. Gage of Los Angeles, a Re- publican, for Governor. It is added that the Los Angeles paper is thereby showing servile zeal for its | attorney and its leading stockholder. The Call wants a Republican Senator and a Re- | publican Governor, but when servile zeal is mentioned we cannot withhold the reflection that the Enquirer is zealous for a candidate for Governor who is also largely interested in its ownership. While he daily records his good opinion of himself in his own paper he should not point the finger of scorn—or, in fact, their ambitions by owning “organs.” A LESSON OF THE WAR. / \ ernment and the people of the United States from the difficulty and delay that have been for the troops enlisted for the war. In the camps on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts the sup- any finger at all—at others who may try to reach N important lesson is to be learned by the Gov- experienced in providing sustenance and equipments plies have been insufficient and the resultant evil | serious. Much of the complaint and criticism have doubt- less been exaggerated by sensational journals, but when due allowance is made for that distortion there remains enough to justify earnest consideration of the subject. All the critics have not been irrespon- sible persons. General Miles himself has officially condemned the manner in which the troops at Tampa and other Floridian camps have been left without sufficient supplies, and in all probability the officers in command on this coast have been tempted at times to send similar communications to the Government. It is well known that many of the most needed sup- plies for the camps in this city have been provided by the voluntary efforts of the women of the Red Cross, and while their action is highly creditable to them, it is to be regretted the necessity for it should have arisen. The blame for the situation does not rest upon the administration nor upon any of our official authori- ties. The evil has been the result of the system, or lack of system, provided by Congress for the manage- ment of our armies. We have beeft so sanguine of the permanent continuance of peace that we have made no provisions for war on a large scale. The superb administrative machinery built up during the Civil War, which enabled the Government to main- tain: and supply an army of a million of men, has long since been broken down and abolished. We entered this war, therefore, rich in every sort of sup- plies, but without the means of making prompt use of them. The condition of our war legislation may be es- timated from the fact that the United States statutes to-day provide that: “Every citizen shall * * * be constantly provided with a good musket or fire- lock of a bore sufficient for balls of an eighteenth part of a pound * * * two spare flints * * * with a good rifle shot pouch and powder horn * * * and a quarter of a pound of powder. * *.* Each commissioned officer shall be armed with a sword or hanger and a spontoon.” That was the war regulation of the period of the Revolution. It was a part of the scheme adopted by ‘Washington and his colleagues in the making of the nation to keep the country prepared for the possibility of war. We have kept the letter on the statute book but have lost the spirit that made the letter valu- able. It is time now to revive the intent and mean- ing of that old law of the fathers. We must adopt regulations which will at all times maintain the na- tion in readiness for conflict and clothe the Govern- ment with power at any moment to make full use of the vast resources of the people for the equipment and supply of its troops as fast as volunteers muster to the colors. g —— Mrs. John White is in jail for the offense of throw- ing her boy out into the cold, and with due defer- ence to her sex, it is proper to hope that she may stay there until the boy shall be big enough to defend himself. Probably Spaniards will claim victory as long as they have breath in their bodies, and the death of those who are killed will be ascribed to the joy of triumph. It is difficult to keep track of the Kaiser the way the correspondents toss him around from a posi- tion of friendly neutrality to an attitude distinctly hostile. Two of McKinley’s nephews have enlisted without waiting for commissions. Some years ago a dis- tinguished uncle of theirs did the same thing. After a while the Spanish will be in a corner and winded by a long sprint, be obliged to fight under the disadvantage of being l THE HAUL OF JUSTICE. THE report of the Grand Jury upon the “cause- less delays” and “wanton waste” which have characterized the execution' of the contract for the construction of the Hall of Justice at Kearny and Washington streets can be regarded, though a grave document, in no other than a serio-comic light. The present Grand Jury is not the first that has regis- tered a protest against the delays, nor are the present boozled by the contractors. Again and again, for upward of three years, grand juries and Supervisors have tried to straighten this matter out, with no more success than will probably follow the latest effort. The truth probably is that Bateman Brothers— whose political pull is evidently one of the great in- | stitutions of the town—took the contract too low and ; are unable to execute it. Surely under prevailing cir- | cumstances it cannot be a source of profit to them. Men have been known to make money by keeping close to boards and Supervisors, but never while hanging around them asking for time extensions on bad contracts. If Bateman Brothers are getting rich constructing the Hall of Justice it is not apparent where the money is coming from. The contract may be “salted” in some way, or retaining control of it may contribute to their political influence, but as a business proposition the whole thing must necessarily be a howling farce. Why, it may then be asked, do not the contractors let go? No one has yet been able to answer this question. Two or three grand juries have “reported” upon the phenomenon, large numbers of property- owners have “investigated” it and on numberless occasions Supervisors’ committees have traversed the subject; yet nobody has discovered why the con- tractors do not throw up their job and let somebody else construct the Hall of Justice. We think it would be well to give attention to this branch of the diffi- culty. If it cannot be determined why Bateman Brothers persist in preventing the completion of the buiiding, would it not be a good idea to form some plan for kicking them out and putting in charge a builder who will at least make a bluff at it? This re- sult would justify a lawsuit. One great point, however, has been settled by the Grand Jury report under consideration. It is com- prised in a single sentence: “We found,” says the jury to Judge Belcher, “that the architect up to June 13 has been paid $8618 on progress estimates of $105,600, and that during the whole period of inac- tivity a superintendent was employed at a salary of $250 a month and an inspector of bricks at $5 per day—receiving $4375 and $1700 each respectively up to this date.” ; We have assumed that no person was deriving ben- eflt from the delay in completing the structure. This shows that we have been mistaken. An architect, superintendent and brick inspector are making money. The gratifying nature of this information can scarcely be overestimated. The protesting property-owners, indignant grand jurors and bamboozled Supervisors may now hide their diminished heads. The con- spicuous purpose of all Government work is being subserved in the case of the Haul of Justice. Three tax eaters are getting fattened out of it~ Let the delay continue. It is the duty of the city to fat its tax eaters. Even in this case the end justifies the means. SPEAKER REED. PEAKER REED’S bold and statesmanlike S stand against the unreasoning course of the Hawaiian annexationists has drawn upon him- self the adverse criticism of a whole host of talkers and scribblers. The criticisms as a rule hardly amount to a direct attack. The critics content them- selves with pecking at him, finding a little fault here, a little defect there, and questioning his motives and his manners. Among these pecking critics is a bolder one—the Chicage Inter Ocean. It advances the theory that the opposition of the Speaker to the annexation scheme is the outcome of a personal spite against the President. It declares he has fallen in public esti- mation, that he has lost the confidence even of his own constituents, calls his present situation a “mourn- ful one,” and says, “It illustrates too clearly the fate bound to overtake the man who tries to subordinate the interests of the American people to the ends of personal spleen.” This exhibition of criticism gone daft is cited to show the extent of the delirium which has taken pos- session of those who have given themselves over to the mania for territorial aggrandizement, reckless of the consequences and careless of the method. In its sober senses the Inter Ocean knows that rarely in our history has any man ever held a higher place in pol- itics or in public esteem than that now occupied by Tom Reed. He has in a measure reconstructed Con- gress, has changed it from a wrangling debating so- ciety, disorderly and ineffective, into the most effi- cient legislative body on the globe. His easy mastery over its mutinous factions has never been more strik- ingly demonstrated than during the present session, and the loyalty of his party to him as evinced by the representatives of the party in the house was never stronger. When a cause can be supported only by alleging that such a man as Speaker Reed Is actuated in a grave issue of national interest by petty spite and per- sonal spleen, that cause is a bad one. Moreover, there will be a widespread belief that those who make such allegations are themselves given over to ‘spite. The spectacle presented by the Inter Ocean is a mournful one. It illustrates too clearly the fate bound to overiake a newspaper that subordinates the interests of the American people to the ends of per- sonal spleen. According to the growing strictness of the inter- pretation of laws concerning registration a man will soon be required to swear that his father was never related to anybody who knew anybody who had speaking acquaintance with anybody born in a for- eign land. —_— The penalty for shooting a Stockton attorney was fixed at $100. It can hardly be thought that such a paltry sum represented anything like adequate pun- ishment for the crime of attempted murder. Per- haps it was intended as a fine for the failure. PSR " There are several reasons why the Chinese habit of murder should be checked. It gives the town a bad name, and some of the assassins are likely to shoot wild, to the detriment of the passerb'y. Sausalito gamblers continue to fight each other, and a strange tendency to discourage them seems to have developed. A war of mutual extermination would be a blessing. An evening paper hints at the danger of bom- bardment threatening San Francisco. Yet it might have found important things to think about. It may be noticed that the attempt to discredit Miles does not receive any sympathy in the West, where the general is best known. J Supervisors the only ones who have been bam- SPECIAL | i By Blockade Runner WAR AS AN INVESTMENT. By Russell Sage. WHAT 1 SAW IN SAN JUAN DURING THE BOMBARDMENT. CAPTAIN SPRAY, IN SCIENCE. SAVING THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY FROM DROUGHT. PROMNENT - i 2 i LATEST WONDER COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Nixie of London are at the Palace. T. H. Buckingham, a rancher of Vaca- ville, {s at the Grand. Paul E. Lindsay, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, Is registered at the Grand. Alph Verel and A. Jenkins, mining men | of Glasgow, Scotland, are at the Grand. C. J. Campbell of Honolulu arrived on the Peru and is stopping at the California. On Wednesday evening about 6 o'clock Benny 0@@@;‘; $HOW THE 5. P.& BEAT ) 4 Bcniamin, the & well-known rac- $ BENJAMIN. & g reporter, was & @ the happiest man SOOOOOPOOOOOOOD 1 this city. An hour later he was the saddest, and there- by hangs a tale. ‘When the season closed here Benjamin determined to go to Montana and keep an | eye on the horses in that far-off country, but he could not satisfy himself that it was necessary for him to purchase a rail- road ticket to get there. All the influence that his friends possessed was ineffica- clous to secure the much desired pass for the trip. The twelve labors of Hercules were mere insignificant undertakings compared with the efforts of ‘“Benny’'s" friends to soften the stony heart of the 8. P. At last a real friend came to his rescue. He gave Benjamin a note to W. FH. Mills of the Southern Pacific, in which a pass was asked for, and in return a promise was made to publish an “ad” for the 8. P. in the paper of which the friend is the editor. Mr. Mills received Benja- min with the utmost courtesy and ‘o show his magnanimity he waived the of- fer of the editor and told Benny that he would give the pass to Montague as a mere act of friendship. He also said that he would unhesitatingly fill out a pass to Portland, but the interstate law prevent- ed him. Benny thought that this was all right, that the charges from Montague to Portland were a mere trifle, so he accept- ed the pass and after effusive thanks- givings he left the S. P. building with glistening eye and swelling chest, ready to start for Portland on the first train. W‘alklr‘ up the street he met a railroad man. is joy was so great that he im- mediately told his good fortune, wonder- ing why some people say the S. P. is not charitable. The railroad man smiled and proceeded to question the pass-holder on geography and rates. Then Benny dis- covered that the fare from Montague, which is on the State line, to Portland is $12, and that the rate from this city to the metropolis of Oregon is only $11 with berth. Foraminute the life of Hon. W. H. Mills was in jeopardy, and there will be a warm time when Benjamin meets that gentleman. The racing authority is. still in this city. John Ena, Mrs. Ena, John Ena Jr. ana Miss Anna Ena are registered at the Cali- fornia. Captain George W. Coffin arrived yes- terday from Yokohama and is staying at the Occidental. Sanchez Aguirre and family are guests at the Palace. Senor Aguirre is a prom- inent merchant of Mexico. T. W. H. Shanahan, the Code Commis- sloner, arrived last night from Anderson and is staying at the Grand. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 24—Knox Maddox of San Francisco is at the Holland. C. Ball of San Francisco has gone to Paris. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 24.—Henry Olds of Los Angeles and Taeodore Sweigert of Qakland are at the National Hotel. —_————— BASIS OF ENGLAND'S AMITY. Considering that England's purchases from us are actually essential to her ex- istence, we find in that one fact alone suf- ficlent reason for Great Britain's keen interest in, and strong friendship for, us. For Great Britain to be summarily cut off from receiving our food stuffs, would be the worst blow that could be inflicted upon that nation. If we were involved in a war with Continental Europe, and they should effectively blockade our ports, it l { would fall would be Great Britain, and net the United States, that would be at the mercy of our enemies. Of somewhat secondary, but of very great incidental importance, would be the loss of employment that upon British manufacturers and their employes, if they were deprived of the raw materials which they purchase from us in such prodigious quantities. Fully two-thirds of our foreign carrying is done by British ships. Probably fully one-third "of the entire British shipping in the foreign trade is employed in the carriage of our imports and exports. Were this shipping cut off, summarily and com- pletely, from this trade, the losses it would inflict upon British shipowners and the great mass of the Britsh people would be fearful. When we reflect upon these material—actually vital—considerations, which compel Great Britain to become and to remain our stanch friend and faithful ally, we find that, whether her heart is in the alliance or not, her inter- ests are so bound up in our well bein; that a suspension of trade relations wit! this country for a protracted period might inflict injuries upon Great Britain which she might not be able to survive. Let us not beguile ourselves, therefore, nor be beguiled as a nation, into believing that Great Britain’s interest in the United States is wholly sentimental.—Seaboard. HOBSON’S CHOICE, His to do and never ask, What the peril of the task, His to brave the sullen foe, His_to strike the daring blot That was Hobson's chol Down into the jaws of Death, In the battle's scorching breath, Went he with his sturdy crew, Nor_the danger never knew, This was Hobson's choice. His to face the screaming shell, Face it bravely, face it well, Playing for a glorious stake, Risking all for country’s sake, This was Hobson's choice. 8o, my lads, no longer scorn This old saw so lowly born, But whene'er you chance to hear The old thing get up and cheer For Hobson's_choice. ~—New York Evening Telegram. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OILS—J. B., City. This department has announced time and again that it does not advertise any business or firm. If you wish to ascertain the names of deal- ers in a particular kind of ofl look in the back part of the directory in that portion known as “classified business.” THE VESUVIUS—A Subscriber, City. The contract for building the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius was. awarded to the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company ot New York, but the vessel was actually built by Willilam Cramp & Co. of Phila- delphia. The work was begun February b , and the vessel was placed in com- mission June 7, She carries three fifteen-inch dynamite guns and three rapid-firing guns. Gun cotton shells are used.r‘trlnefl? r{:eelnx] c?n!ltfiered tthe most owerful Xplostve gn shlphnn.r%. P! e for safe carriage RED CROSS SOCIETY—A. B, City, and A. S., San Leandro, Cal. The objects of the Red Cross Soclety were set forth in an answer to_another The Call of June 8. 'l‘c)?;uhs:xt)gpx?:tniénm gresldent is Gustave Monyier of Geneva, witzerland. The society derives funds from its membership and from donations in case of need. The Government has given sanction to the Red Cross Society to send nurses to the front. POSTAL EXAMINATION—C. B., City. Any one desiring to undergo civil service examination in the postoffice branch can obtain the proper blanks and all informa- tion concerning the examination on ap- lication to the secretary of the commis- sion in the office of Po: city. BRANCH MI S. A. M., City. The parent mint is in Philadelphia. In 1835 branch mints were established at New Orleans, at Charlotte, N. C., and at Dah- lonega, Ga.; in 1852 at San anci i 1864 at Dallas, Or., and in 1870 at City, Nev. Assay offices were established at New York in 1854, at Denver, Colo., in 1864, and at Boise City, 0, in 1 These were considered nches of the Philadelphia Mint until when the coinage act of that year made them sep- arate mints and assay offices. These mints are bureaus of the Treasury De- partment, and are all under the general supervision of the chief officer of that department. The mints at Charlotte and Dahlonega were suspended in , that of Dallas in 1875, that of New Orleans from 1860 to 1879 and that of Carson City in 1885. The demands of commerce re- quire the maintaining of the number of branch mints now in operation. —_———————————- Townsend's peanut taffy; best in world. ® elnnos e R Cream Mixed Candies; 25c 1b. 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STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Rallway, 638 Market st., S. F. ey L The Santa Fe Route will run second excur- sion to Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, on Thursday, June 30. Noted scientists will ac- company the party. A pleasant and profitable trip. Get full particulars at No. 644 Market st. e In the Cuban swamps a bottle of Dr. Stegert’s Angostura Bitters will do wonders to keep your digestive organs in order. A neighbor was trying to console a farmer whose son had enlisted. “Don’t be worried,” he said; “it's my opinion that boy’'ll be heard from!” “He's been heard from,” was the dis- consolate reply. ‘He's jest drawed on me fer $50!"—Atlanta Constitution. ADVERTISEMENTS. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Made from pure grape cream of tartar, and absolutely free from lime, alum and ammonia. o : ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK,