The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1898, Page 6

O - % R R T VR Efl’ CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY..............NOVEMBER g, 188 C 5 — A i JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, UBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S. F. A Telephone Main 1868 ' DITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street L Telephone Main 1874 'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for i5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb ! 65 cents. “HE WEEKLY CALL... ...One year, by mall, $1.50 JAKLAND OFFICE......- - -oevennen ...908 Broadway wa YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. VASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.... ..Rigge House ¢ C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. PSHICAGO OFFICE.......... Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. £ URANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, " open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane ntucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS takes Will Happen.” innigan's Ball.” he Magician. ranglers of Paris.” rofla.” udevilie. The Heart of Chicago.” . corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Lillian F. Smith, Vaudeville and the Zoo. rt Thursday, Ncvember 17. sture Thursday afterncon. Native Son's Hall—Benefit to' Mr. Frank Mathieu. Sutro's Bat! wimming. Oakland Race Track—Races. ROOSEVELT’S VICTORY. Rosenthal—Coming in December. Y loyal and intelligent Americans in all parts of | 3 the country Roosevelt’s victory in New York will be hailed as one of the most cheering re- | luits of the elections. While his contest, strictly | peaking, was only a State campaign, the issues in- olved in it were broadly national. It was a question thether courage and honesty could win against all the “srces of corruption banded together in the strongest rganization known to American politics. The re- ult is a glorious victory for the right. It is another vidence that the American people can be relied upon 5 uphold honesty, no matter how powerful may be 1e foes that combat it. Theodore Roosevelt has never been a trimmer. He as never been a mugwump. He has never played the rt.of a demagogue. He has been a stalwart Repub- , and a thoroughly independent man at every age of his political career. He has held on his way rall times fearless in the face of every form of oppo- tion that confronted him in the path of duty. leither the clamor of mobs nor the threats of bosses fould swerve him from the faithful performance of s work. His record in every office in which he has een tried attests the sterling honesty of his character, nd the votes cast for him yesterday prove that the yeuple can be trusted to support such 2 man whenever lie appeals to them. ¥ The thousand demagogues who, after trying by flat- iry of the people to coax them into sanctioning in- ompetency or demerit, went down to defeat yester- ay can find a profitable lesson in studying the career { Roosevelt. They can learn from his triumph, when wompared with their own humiliation, the old truth, #Corruption wins not more than honesty.” In redeeming herself from the menace of Tammany | Jall New York has proven the soundness of Ameri- an political life. Roosevelt's victory is a victory for opular government everywhere. It is a triumph for sty and courage won under circumstances that a general rejoicing over it throughout the na- FAREWELL TO ALL NAVIES. I IKOLA TESLA announces that he has per- }V fected an arrangement by which any warship ! may be blown to bits without risk to the engineer %f the deadly mechanism. There is one glance from ‘he eagle eye of the operator, a twist of the wrist, and £11 is over but the newspaper accounts of a glorious \victory. There is not to bg any chance of salvage. Che fragments are to be so minute that the ocean ireeze will dissipate them in a cloud of dust. Death yill be painless and plenty. Tesla evidently contributes indirectly to the support %f a lot of space-writers. Ever and anon, or even itener, the world is startled by the report of some reat invention which is destined to revolutionize this ‘hing or that, and while waiting to see the revolution jegin learns with surprise that Tesla has concluded o switch his contemplated revolution somewhere else. ust now it happens to be the destruction of ships _vhich occupies his mind. Not that there is the slight- t probability he will ever get the device into work- g order. He seems to think an invention near fnough perfection when it has reached the stage to #e written about. | Uf course Tesla knows much of electricity. He \as caused it to cut curious capers. Nevertheless his hree-column dissertations concerning inventions vhich fail to get beyond a theoretical stage do occa- Yionally become tiresome. When Edison is in an in- ‘entive humor, he invents. A similar humor seizes fesla, and he announces that he is about to invent. "This illustrates a marked difference between the pair. There is no crying need for a scheme to blow navies sut of the water. We have a growing one, and it is nore useful intact and afloat. There is really satis- action in reflecting that Tesla’s bark is about 50,000 olts worse than his bite. . A GALLANT SOLDIER'S REWARD. 7 OOD for Corporal Healy. He went as t a private to Manila, having been among the first to enlist in the First Regi- mment. To take up arms for his country he lesigned from a good position on The Call. He \vas in the battle before Manila, and for gallant con- luct was promoted to be corporal. Notwithstanding is attention to military duties Healy has found timieto ‘end to this paper some of the best letters the public | as had from Manila. His writings have been marked Ly vividness of description and a never-failing modesty thich kept the writer’s personality in the background, nd throughout have been enriched by a quaint hu- _nor. Now Corporal Healy has been made Superin- “endent of Schools in Manila. There is no doubt that ‘n the new position he will be as attentive to duty as fie was when earning a reputation as a good news- baper man, and later as a brave soldier in a gallant ‘egiment. | speeches won popular favor. TO THE FRONT. ALIFORNIA will receive the congratulations of her sister States this morning upon the splendid vote of yesterday. The combination of Democrats, Populists, Silverites, single taxers, calamity howlers—ail the foes of society and thrift— led on by their ablest, most aggressive and most dan- gerous leaders, has been met and utterly routed. It is a victory which will add to the repute of the State throughout the Union, strengthen her prestige and confirm her prosperity. The man under whom the conservative elements of the people have achieved this notable success, so bene- ficial to the general welfare, is well worthy of the honor. When Mr. Gage entered the canvass he was a comparatively unknown man to the greater portion of the people. He had never been an office-seeker. He had never desired notoriety. He had lived the life of a hardworking lawyer, and only to his neigh- bors, his clients, the courts and the bar were his splen- did abilities and sterling character known. As soon as he entered upon the canvass, however, the force and the charm of his personality were felt. The people soon came to know him and to recognize in him the qualities that make up a genuine manhood. The directness and the earnest sincerity of his He made friends wher- ever he appeared. His strength increased as the cam- paign progressed, and had the time for the canvass | been longer his majority would have been even larger than it is. Many factors have undoubtedly conduced to the great victory over Maguire and his radical followers, but it is beyond gainsaying that the personal strength of Mr. Gage was one of the most potent. With a leader of less force and capacity the ardor of the party would not have been so fully aroused; with one of less integrity of character the independent vote wotild not have been so warmly attached to the Re- publican standard. It is, therefore, to a large extent a Gage victory. The coming Governor has not only won the honor, but deserved it. For the commonwealth the victory is a most no- table one. We shall, perhaps, never fully know how great was the danger that menaced our prosperity in the Maguire movement. We can calculate the injury that would have been done to land-owners by pre- cipitating a single tax agitation led on by the Gov- ernor and can estimate the evil that would have been inflicted upon all forms of industry by the election of an avowed enemy of capital to the position of chief executive of the State, but the indirect evils resulting from such agitations and alarms we can never under- take to compute. Fortunately, the danger is over. The menace has ceased. Maguireism has been utterly routed. Cali- fornia takes a front place among the great conserva- tive and progressive commonwealths of the Union. Capital will seek her fields for investment, her labor will be in demand. She will continue to merit the title of the Golden State, and her wealth and pros- perity will grow with the years. BRITISH W(—IB_PREPARHTIONS. UROPEAN war clouds—which, like the poor, E it seems we shall have always with us—are at this time somewhat more threatening than usual. The cause of the new scare is the extraordin- | ary activity in the British naval and military depart- ments. This activity has been going on ever since the announcement of the arrival of a French force of oc- cupation at Fashoda, and, from all reports, has now reached a considerable magnitude. 1f there were any immediate danger of war, how- | ever, the British Government would not be the only one engaged in mobilizing war forces. Some other | nation would also be active in preparing for a con- | flict. The fact that all other powers seem to be com- paratively quiet, and are not exerting any extraor- | dinary energies in equipping their armies and their navies, justifies the conclusion that none of them re- gards the British display as a serious menace. Another explanation than that of imminent war may be found for the activity of the British War De- partment. It is known that the British, like our- selves, have relied largely upon a force of volunteer troops for the protection of the empire, and the diffi- culty experienced by the United States in getting such a force promptly ready for battle last spring made a profound impression on the British public. By way of testing their own readiness, the British Government mobilized an army corps last summer, and it will be remembered the results were far from gratifying. It is possible, therefore, that the present activity may be no more than the performance of the work necessary to make up the deficiencies in the service which were shown to exist on that occasion. It is clear, however, that sooner or later the long threatening gwar cloud must break. The expansive forces of the great powers are bringing them nearer and nearer together in Africa and in Asia. The friction between opposing claims and interests be- comes yearly more pressing and more grinding. Un- less something can be done to relieve the friction, it is only a question of time when it will cause flames to burst forth at some point in the world, and from there it will rapidly spread. In the meantime the situation, if not dangerous, is extremely interesting. We have looked for war from the great military powers of the Czar and the Kaiser, and not from the country known to the world as a nation of shopkeepers. Just now, however, the Czar is working for a conference to arrange for a general disarmament, and the Kaiser is journeying in the Holy Land ostensibly in the interests of the Christian religion, while the commercial British are making a gigantic display of naval force in every quarter of the ‘Whatever may be the motives of these different ac- tions, or whatever may be the results, we will have we are not a part of the European system. MILES ON THE WAR. ' \ affirmed, a military reputation, and connected with the army, has sent a report to the Secre- with Spain. Perhaps this is not a presumption on his part.” Miles has compiled his statements without having once consulted with Richard Haiding Davis.© He has failed to include the information that one of these gentlemen was the ablest tactician in the San- _fighting. Yet do they not modestly acknowledge this themselves? globe. good reason to rejoice on our Thanksgiving day that GENTLEMAN named Miles, having, it is tary of War concerning a recent misunderstanding However, there is every reason to suppose that has not drawn upon Creelman for facts. Probably he tiago campaign, and that the other did most of the It is true that old soldiers laugh at Davis, but old It is worth remembering that under the single tax | soldiers grow cynical. It is true, also, that Creelman slan Maguire would not pay a single tax. has been given more space for idle boasts and self- glorification, founded on fancy alone, than any other living, lying correspondent. Nevertheless, the two seem to be regarded as worth consideration, both by yellow editors of dailies and lead-colored editors of magazines. - Miles is in a delicate position. Supposing that he run counter to Davis and Creelman, where will he be at? Would he not better have permitt¢d them to write the report for him? Then they would have been satisfied, even if the rest of the world had to remain in doubt as to what happened in Cuba. o ————t1 DANGERS OF IMPERIALISM. N apparently well informed writer in the Fort- f\ nightly Review says that the tendency among the weaker nations of Europe to get rid of their colonies is caused by a general belief among them that such possessions are an expensive luxury. He declares that the real subject matter of the Dela- goa Bay negotiations between Germany and Great Britain was the relinquishment of all the possessions of Portugal in African territory, covering an area of 900,000 square miles. The Portuguese Government is now practically bankrupt, and it can obtain the money to pay the damages resulting from the Dela- goa Bay arbitration only by selling its African pos- sessions. “Great Britain and Germany,” says the writer re- ferred to, “have become joint heirs to the estates of the Portuguese crown in Africa, and, while undertak- ing the reversion in common, they have prudently provided against any clashing of interests when the | time arrives for entering upon their heritage.” And he adds that the Anglo-German agreement covers a right to pre-empt the various Portuguese colonies, with the purchase money assigned to each. The same writer declares that the loss of the Span- ish colonies through the late war with the United iStates has produced a decided sense of relief in | Spain. There is now a strong demand for cutting down the expenses of the army and navy, and the business men of the kingdom, to say nothing of the privileged classes, are looking forward with hope to the time when the country will be free from the enormous drain which has heretofore crippled the home government. He also notes the fact that Italy is much gratified at having got out of her disastrous African colonial venture with a clear skin, and he doubts very much whether either of these countries will ever again aspire to colonial empire. All this is very interesting when considered in | _onnection with the acquisition by the United States of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. Spain, with a complete colonial system of government, has made an abject failure in carrying on the affairs of those islands. Yet the people of the United States, with- out experience or qualification, and with no idea whatever of the work before them, have entered gaily upon the solution of the great problem. Nobody seems to entertain any other idea of the business than that we shall make a brilliant success in governing these subject countries, the population of which is utterly incapable of governing itself. It would seem that at the present moment there is great need in this country of a political party which will set its face strongly against the imperial or ex- pansion policy. The fact is, colonial enterprises de- pend for success upon a thorough naval and civic or- ganization. Great Britain has such an organization, and she has therefore made a tolerable success of the business. But in a country like the United States, where government is conducted solely by consent of the governed, and where flap-doodle politics and office-seeking are leading industries, colonial ex- pansion is bound to prove a failure. According to the writer in the Fortnightly, Spain is glad to get rid of her colonies. Perhaps before we have had Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines many years we shall cede them with equal relief. But in the meantime a great deal of discreditable and humiliating history will | have been made. RUSSIA’S OLIVE BRANCH. ROM the first there has been a suspicion that Fthe olive branch waved by the Czar of all the Russias is loaded. This is confirmed by the circumstance that the Czar has about as many sol- diers as anybody to disarm, but keeps right on drill- ing them. He talks peace and acts aggression. ~The bear is trying to coo like a dove, and somehow the result fails to soothe. Lately Russia has indicated a willingness to take the part of Spain in her troubles with this country. Now, if his game is really the promotion of brotherly | love, the Czar would be wise to have the cards cut for a new deal. The monarch, as well as the person, who attends to his own business does much in the direction of acquiring esteem. If the Czar think to scare us he has been viewing the United States through a glass reversed. We are not impressed by his olive branch, nor do we shudder because it pro- trudes from a rifle. Now the suspicion toncerning the Czar’s insincerity becomes certainty, for he has received the admiration of Editor Stead of London. “I thank God for him,” says this journalist. “If that young man is spared he will go far.” Not, we trust, too far. There does not appear any valid reason for thanking God for the Czar or for any other potentate. It may be reason- able to express gratitude for the goodness which has set them at such a distance. Stead seems to be in that condition best described as “rattled.” The Rev. Dr. Talmage once had the experience of dining at the palace of Russian royalty, and has been gibbering about it ever since. Stead, apparently, has been similarly swelled. He thinks that olive branch is all right. o TT————————— An Oakland man who murdered his wife eight months ago has been brought back from an asylum to be tried for the offense. He professes to be unable to recall the deed. The trial should at least be rigid enough to refresh his memory. However con- scientiously and unknowingly a man may slay his wife it tends to create the impression that he is not a de- sirable person to be permitted at large. There are naturally signs of discontent in relation to army promotions among the Philippine forces. This is always to be expected. California is not com- plaining much, but does make bold to affirm that her Colonel Smith of the First deserves to be a general now. It seems to be the plan of Spain to charge the United States a stiff figure for the lodging of troops in the Philippines. Probably it will next be bringing suit for damages based on the harm done its boats. e SN United States war vessels are going to Samoa. Per- haps there will be some objection to this, which is an excellent reason for sending them. President McKinley consumed just one minute and six seconds in voting. Evidently a straight ticket was good enough for him. When the Maria Teresa went down it sunk in a depth of 2600 fathoms. Even Hobson will concede that it has gone to stay. SElees Now that the.election is over the=e is a chance to look forward to the next one. ROUND THE . CORRIDORS. Rev. John Traup of Healdsburg Is at the Baldwin. E. W. Allen, a San Jose lumber man, is at the Lick. Dr. L. H. Head of San Jose is registered at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lux of San Jose are at the Palace. " 8. H. Rice, a prominent attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. R. Henderson, a Los Angeles merchan- dise broker, is at the Lick. F. B. Chandler, a large ranchman of El- mira, is a guest at the Lick. ‘William B. Frue, a well-known San Jose capitalist, is at the Baldwin. Henry Hicks, a well-known Grass Val- ley cattleman, is at the Russ. Jesse D. Carr, the well-known Salinas capitalist, is at the Occidental. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCoy of Los Angeles are at the Occidental. Frank L. Coombs, ex-United States Min- ister to Japan, is at the Palace. , Captain W. H. McMinn, the San Jose capitalist, is a guest at the Lick. H. D. C. Barnhart, a prominent cattle- man of Santa Cruz, is at the Lick. C. A. Cook, agent of Raymond & Whit- comb’s excursions, is at the Palace. E. S. Churchill, the Napa banker, accom- panied by his wife and daughter, is at the Palace. August Lohr, a prominent mining man, is registered at the Russ from the City of Mexico. Whaling Captain George B. Leavitt of the Thrasher has arrived from the Arctic, and is at the Russ. Captain C. W. Anderson, a mining man of Dawson, registered at the Russ, is on his way to Randsburg. Miss Marion Bentley, the well-known pianist, now at the Baldwin, will leave shortly for New York to fill professional engagements. Jacob Bueck and A. H. McClellan, own- ing considerable mining interests in Alas- ka, chiefly on Bonanza Creek, are just in from Dawson, and are at the Russ. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—Phillp Lippitt of San Francisco is at the Savoy: J. H. Langtry of San Francisco is at the Nor- mandie; F. E. Titus of San Francisco is at the Girard. THE OLD RUSTIC BRIDGE. "Tis just a common rustic bridge, And spans a common stream; Where mild-eved cattle slake their thirst, And shadows glint and gleam. The goldenrod and asters flame Along the sedgy bank; The grass is thick, and lush, and green, The weeds are tall and rank. But it is falr, this quiet stream, Where minnows dart and play; Through all the livelong day. The planks are old, and gray, warped, The rail is broken down. But it is dearer far to me Than any bridge in town. MARY M. REDMOND in Donahue's. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GENERAL SCHOFIELD—S. 8. T., Presidio, Cal. General Schofleld was Te- tired with the rank of lieutenant generfil. ON THE NILE—P. E. C., City. The article_descriptive of the building of the eat dam across the River Nile appeared n The Sunday Call of August 14, page 22. BONDS—A. 8., City. United States | bonds do not specify that they shall be paid in “gold or both silver and gold,” but that the principal and interest shall be paid in coin. STATE ELECTIONS—Reader, City. The State elections in Montana and Washington will be held on November 6, 1900. The year was omitted in the printed answer given a few days since. VALUABLE HALF DOLLAR—W., City. The selling price of a half dollar of 1832, United States mintage, if the legend is in small letters, is from 75 cents to $1; if in large letters f $250 to $350. WOMAN'S EXCHANGE-M. E. P, Petaluma, Cal. Mrs. Sophie Lillenthal is the recording secretary of the Woman's Exchange, San Francisco, and Lucille B. Foreman is the corresponding secretary. STRYCHNINE—J. A. B., Pozo, Cal | This department is informed that an | amount of strychnine equal to the size of | & small | 900-poun nistered to her. HOLDING A PLEDGE—M. C., City. The law of California says that a pawn- broker who receives an article in pledge must not sell the same until it has re- mained in his possession six months after the last day fixed by the contract for re- demption. A CONTRACT—C., City. The law of | California says that a contract is an agreement to do or not to do a certain thing. The essentials are: Parties capa- ble of contracting, consent, a lawful ob- Jject and a sufficient cause or considera- tion. Contracts may be oral. STATE CAPITOL DOME—A. B. C., City. The height of the ball on the top of the dome at the State Capitol, Sac- ramento, is 243 feet above the level of the crossing of Tenth and M streets. The | top of the dome is 223 feet above w.e level of the same crossing. THE HIGHEST RANK—S. 8. T., Pre- sidio, Cal. The highest military rank in the United States at this time is that of major general. The ranks of lieutenant general and general have been conferred, ut have ceased to exist since the death of those upon whom conferred. IN THE CIVIL WAR—H. A., Sunol Glen, Cal. The following are the figures given as to the number of men enlisted for the Union armies during the civil war: Total, 2,018,200, divided by nationality as follows: Native American, 1,523.300; Brit- ish-American, 53,500; English, 45,500; Irish, 144.200; German, 176,800; other foreigners. 48,400; ‘foreigners, nativity unknown, 26,500, THE ARIZONA—A. O. S, City. The last advice recelved as to the Arizona was that the vessel was to go to Hono- lulu to convey soldiers from there to Ma- nila. What Is to be done with her after that is something that no one can tell at this time, as she is subject to the or- ders of the War Department, and may be ordered to any point at any moment. It is probable that her crew will remain with her until her return to this city. STREETCARS—Reader, City. The city ordinance regulating the stopping of streetcars at crossings in San Francisco is as follows: No driver, engineer or conductor of any streetcar shall permit such car to remain upon an{ street crossil or upon the crosswalk thereof so as in any manmer to obstruct the travel over such crossing or cross walk; provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to cable lines where the grade of tge street such that the car cannot be stopped be- yond a crossing on account of the incline of the street. RULE IN CASINO-J. H. V. D. H, City. The rule in the game of casino is that when the last hand is played it must be played to a close before a count i3 taken, and the one who holds cards is the first to count, and if he has enough points e wins. In case neither party has cards, as in a case of tie on the number of cards, then the one who holds spades counts first. The order of counting is: rds, lyndes. big casino and %ttle ino, aces. If it is agreed that sweeps shall count, then they follow aces, According to the rule, If in a game of thirty points A has six to go and B has four points, A makes cards, big casino and one ace, and B makes spades, little casino and three aces, s the er, as he has the first count, and having made cards (3), big casino (2) and an ace (1), he has the requisite num- ber to win. NOT A LEGAL MARRIAGE—H. B. B., City. This correspondent writes: “Brown marries twice. By each union he has and cow if ‘n’l :on‘,n ‘hln gme the ndby ‘the second e es ] laughter of the \first wife's son. Would such s marriage ‘Where willows droop and blackbirds call | ea would be sufficient to kill a | 27 It would not be in i e 13 Byewn No. 3 e s n No. are brothers of the half blood. Dlood is the relation between persons of the same father or mother, but not of the same father and mother.’ Brown No. 1 marries and has a daughter; she be- comes the niece of her father's half brother (Brown No. 2), and as the law says that uncle and niece cannot marry in California, such a marriage would be void. In such a case, the consanguinity is not,_ as the correspondent Suggests that of cousins. He must have got half brother confused With step-brother. TWO PARKS— P. M. C., Angels, Cal. The Yellowstone National Park Is in the northwest corner of Wyoming, bounded on the north by Montana and on the west by Idaho. It is about sixty- two miles long north to south, and about fifty-four miles wide east to west. It is nearly a rectangle in shape and con- tains 3312 square miles. The Yosemite Valley is a cleft in the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, in Mariposa County, near the center of Cali- fornia. Its location is 155 miles south- east of San Francisco. COINAGE BY PRIVATE PERSONS— Subscriber, City. It was not until, the early part of 180 that Congress passed a law prohibiting private individuals from coining money. The constitution provides that no State shall coin money, but is silent as to individuals. In the early part of the sixties tne attention of Secretary Chase was drawn to the fact that a repu- fable firm in Denver, Colo., was coining money, and when he inquired into the matter he was informed by the Atterney | General of the United States that there | was no law against it and that the firm had a right to coin such. That led to the assage of the law prohibitin individuals | from coining money or establishing pri- | vate mints. GLADSTONE—M. R. and others, City. The following is given as a resume of the public work of the late W. E. Gladstone, and is from an article written by w. T. Stead: He completed 2 revision in British finance v Peel began; established free trade and threw the ports of the empire open | to' the world; abolished paper dutles and ren- dered a cheap press possible; reduced the duty !on cheap light wines in the interest of tem- | perance; prepared the way for a heavy in Come In the death duties and steadily reduced the national debt; he was the most potent force in the electoral revolution which demoraliz first the urban then the rural electorate, and then directed the attack on the House of Lords: he revolutionized and popularized the forelgn policy of England—it supported young peoples strugsling to be free; championed Bul- aria against the Turk and defended the prin- Giple of the Furopean concert as the germ of the united states of FEurope; he conguered Egypt, gave up the Iontan Islands, the Trans- vaal, Afghanistan, annexed Fiji and Southern New Guinea and either granted or confirmed the charters to the Royal Niger, Borneo and South African companies; in the case of the | Alabama he established the principle of ar- bitration as the right way of settling interna- tional disputes between English-speaking peo- ples; he abolished church rates and university tests and disestablished and disendowed the Irish church; he attempted to do justice to the | Irish peasants and closed his career by an un- availing effort to pass a measure of home rule for Ireland. —ee————— HUMOR OF THE DAY. use your telephone? Who do you want to talk Biggs—Can I | Diggs—Bure. to? Biggs—Sluggs. I understand he made a | derogatory remark about me, and I want | to tell him just what I think of him.— Chicago News. i “It's all up with us now,” he remarked as he raised the umbrella. “No,” she replied, “you mean it is all over between us.” ‘And if was not laughter that shook the ribs of the umbrella, it must have been | the wind.—Philadelphia Bulletin. | Tommy—I dunno whether that new boy | nex’ door is a coward or jist smart. Mr. Figge—What have you been up to now? | " Tommy—W'y I called him a Spaniard, an’ he said 1 ought to go in the house an’ | | get him something to eat.—Indianapolis | | Journal. | “They should send a regiment of im- | munes against those Indians.” “Immunes?" . | “Yes; bald-headed men.”—Cleveland | Plain Dealer. “It seems to me that I recognize the features, but the picture is somewhat | blurred around the mouth.” ““Yes; that is a speaking likeness of my wife."—Judge. ‘When horned owls toot Their sad salutes, While still the wicked flea; If in pursuit, The arrow roots, Why can't a cat nip tea? —Life. | ——————— COST OF LIVING ABROAD. Those people who, from what they have been told, have formed the impression | that living is cheaper in Europe than in American might not so hastily jump to | this conclusion if they would follow the | | advice of Robert Luce in “Going Abroad,” | and demand that when a man claims that he has spent less in a year abroad than in a year at home he shall go into details as to what he got in return for the money expended. “Ask him If he kept House,” says Mr. Luce, and “did he have a bathroom? Was thére a range in his Kitchen? Was the house heated by hot air, hot water or steam? Was it an apart- ment house? Did it have an_elevator? Were there set tubs in the laundry?” These questions, It is claimed, are more than likely to force him to confess that he really did lack some of the conveni- ences in Europe which he cannot live Without in America. If interrogated on | the matter of food he will admit that the European cost has not differed much from the American. “But.” continues the writer, ‘ask him about Clothing and at last he will smile triumphantly and_tell You how ‘cheap he bought a suit in Lon- don or gloves In Naples. If, however, you demand . ‘How did they ' wear? ' and ‘Fow did_they fit?’ he will evade the ques- tions,” In conclusion: “The assertion that living abroad is cheaper than here is a_half truth, deceptive and dangerous. Endoubtedly,” most Americans. who g0 abroad live cheaper than at home, but ihe ‘Teason is simply that they are’ con- tented with less. Irom necessity or with- out unhappiness they. dispense with many things that in America they deem indis- pensable either for bodily comfort or to maintain social position.” —_——————— BLACK JACKS. LEATHER BOTTLES. Sack is ever associated in my mind with black-jacks, perhaps from the old rhyme: The great black-jack Well filled with Sack, etc. These bombards sometimes held sev- eral gallons. In the inventory of the oods of Sir John Fastolfe, who died in 1459, are potell bottels, gallon bottels, quartletts, four “galon pottis of lether” three ‘‘pottelers of lether,”” etc. The black-jack made a good tavern sign. From the window of the Black Jack in London leaped Jack Sheppard to escape arrest. The old festive song, “The Leather Bot- tel,” is 200 years old. A bottle had a stop- ple; therefore the song asserts the bot- tle’s superiority over a jug or black-jack in these rhymes: Then what do you say to those black pots there? If a man and his wife should not agee, Why, they'd tug and pull till their liquor doth spill, ‘With a leather bottel they may tug thei 3 And pull away till their hearts do =ke. e And yet their liquor no harm can take, 80 I wish In heaven his soul may dwell, That first found out the leather bottel. Black-jacks and leather bottles were used for a time ‘;)‘}' the American colo- nists. Governor Winthrop had leather bottles among his belongings, and he sold a_black-jack to Governor Endicott for 1s 6d. In the inventories of the Connecticut colonists leathern jacks, bottles and cups are named. But few, however, now are in existence in America; their bands and handles of silver have been taken off and melted and the stout leather vanished. The two Narragansett survivors are ex- ceptionally good existing examples, and were exceg(lonally handsome black-jacks. even in their day and time. Few now can be found even in England. They were in use In Winchester College, however, until the year 1840.—Chap Book. SONG OF THE KATYDID. “The common names by which insects are known,” remarked a gmn who knows something about orchard life, ‘“‘are so often misleading and out of keeping with the characteristics and habits of the in- sects that the naturalist feels sometimes like exclaiming that all popular opinions are fallacies. There is the ka d, for instance. The katydid was named after e ———— Half | posed to iterate so dete; $third and final note, | Katy! Katy, Katy, blance to the sound of the words than it has to the number of syllables in the "t:tement ‘which the insect is nning his song the kutly {\ij dou‘not l::vs;l;a‘;t He—on! e males muelcalyap aratus—begins the song very low, very slow, and with a single syllable, After a time he adds another syllable, and Taises his voice—properly speaking, he raises his wings, because that’s where the noise comes from. ““Pretty soon he increases the volume of sound and adds still another syllable. It was at this time, with the accent on the that the original and superficial observer named the insect the Katyaid. But the song does not end here, by any means. More syllables, or notes, are added, the volume of sound increasing all the time, until they number seven or eight. Such a number is not alway: reached, however. The katydid's solo is a love song. The song stops when it has Served its purpose of attracting a mate. One may always tell the approach of the shy and blushing she-katy by the agita- tion in the note of the wooing male. His orchestra stops the raythmic and monot- onous sing-song. It breaks up into short, nervous, staccato notes. He no longer lays ‘katy did’ or whatever movement f the upward scale he was engaged n upon. e stops suddenly and begins sgx.;lethlng like this: ‘Kate! Oh, Kate! aty!” If the slen- der Katherine is true to the instincts of her sex, and for the proper period re- mains coy, the fienflemnn will, perhaps, ursue her. Perhaps, on the other hand, e will sulk. That usually has the effect of bringing about a definite understand- fng. It may be that she rejects him ab- solutely, and, merely to prove that he does not care a straw, he will reflect upon the other pebbles, and once more take up his chant. “The people living in the country have a great deal of faith in the katydid as a prophet. He begins his song, they say, exactly six weeks before the first frost. This is another popular opinion gone broke. The Katydid is an Irish prophet— he prophesies-backward. His song begins after the last frost. “The song of the katydid is, properly speaking, not a song at all. It is an in- strumental solo. His musical apparatus is at the base of his wings, and it is as curiously constructed as some of those mysterious instruments of a Wagnerian orchestra, about which one always won- ders what it would be like if somebody tried to play a solo on it. The katydid's | method seems to be a cross between the method of the bass violist and the man with the big drum. He scrapes with his legs and beats with his wings, and if he corresponded in_size with a human or- chestra he would be capable of renderin; life unfit to live in a place of the size o New York State.”—New York Sun. YOUR HEALTH. Tepid water as an emetic. To bathe weak eyes, salt water. For croup, a cloth wrung out of hot water. For constipation, hot water taken freely before bedtime. For earache. a bit of cotton soaked in oil and sprinkled with pepper. For headache, application of hot water to the back of the neck and the feet. For sudden hoarseness, a lump of borax the size of a pea dissolved in the mouth. For cramp in the foot, pressing the hollo.; of the foot against something round and hard.—Good Housekeeping. “Hollows” in the front of the neck are easily filled up when you begin to | breathe deeply, instead of from the top of the lungs. Try it, keep at it, and tell others. ———————— KERNELS OF TRUTH. Springfield has corn on exhibition, the stalks of which are seventeen feet in length. Another evidence that this is a Republican year.—St. Louis Star. —_————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend’s® —_———————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_———————— Hopkins Institute of Art. Last week of the exhibition. 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