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4 THE RERMANY SEEKS THE FRIENDSHIP OF UNCLE SAM Berlin Would Avert Tariff War. EFFORTS AT CONCILIATION LOCAL INSPECTIONS OF MEATS TO BE ABOLISHED. RBelief That the Emperor Caused the Acquittal of the American ‘Who Called Him a “Blockhead.” Copyrighted, 188, by the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, Dec. One of the leading gubjects discussed throughout the week by the newspapers was the present and future relations between Germany and the United States, more particularly to the commercial side of the question. The correspondent of the Associated Press here has interviewed a high Ger- man official who has exceptional sources of information. He said: “The reports current in the press of both countries on this subject are la- mentably inexact. In Washington they seem to have jumped at the conclusion that Germany is on the point of leg lating spécifically against American ag- ricultural product nd they are ‘tak- ing the bull by the horns’ in order to forestall us. The fact is there is no such intention here, at least not in Gov- ernment circles. The meat inspection bill is only on the point of reaching the Bundesrath, which is the first legis- lative stage. Then it goes to the Reich- stag. So it probably will not pass, if at all, until the end of the session next spring. Even then the bill may not be framed to hit the Americans particu- larly. On the contra United States Embassador has received conditional that the integral feature of th surances bill wiil Yy, Mr. White, the | at Berlin, | Delbruck has since received uproarious ovations from the students and from the Legislature halls. The Munich Al- legemeine ‘Zeitung, which otherwise is in complete harmony with the Govern. ment, expresses the general feeling of detestation of the Government interfer- ence, saying: “We are indignant, not because we agree with the professor’s views of the evictions, but because the German uni- versities must remain the guardians of free speecl Even in times of the wild- est reaction, truth and love of -truth have found in the German universities their city of refuge, and whoever ate tempts to drive them forth with a po. lice bludgeon desecrates consecrated ground.” 3 The Conservative Post described Dr. Bosse's - action as ‘retrograde and | senseless.” ~ Professors of the unlver- sity intend to issue a vehement and unanimous protest. Dr. Delbruck belongs to the Conserv. ative party. Crown Prince Frederick intrusted him with the instruction of | Prince Waldemar, and the doctor re-| ceived the unprecedented honor, after | the battle of Gra tte, of being called out of the ranks and created an officer on the field of battle. The latest measure against™ the Schleswigers is the Governor’s decres commanding parents to recall children who have been sent to schools in Denx | mark. It is expected that the parents | will-defy the Governor and thus cause a crisls. ENGLAND'S GREATEST MEN. They Spring From the Middle Classes | Rather Than the Nobility. On _ locking into. the antecedents of our eminent men many interesting dis- coveries come to light, and of these the clearest conclusions are that the intel- lectual giants, of our day at any rate, come from the middle classes, and that a son rarely distinguishes himself in the same direction as his father. | These rules have exceptions, O course. Three of our English Judges— Lord Justice Vaughan-Williams, Sir | Walter Phillimore and Mr. Justice Channell — have all followed their fafhers’ footsteps to the bench. Two of our bishops, Salisbury and Chichester, are sons of bishops, and | Lord Roberts has only gone a step higher than his father, who was a dis- tinguished general and a G. C. B. The aristocracy, too, has made some useful contributions to our roll of great men. Our bench of bishops includes a baron’s son in the Bishop of Peter- borough, the son of an earl in his Lord- | ship of Lichfield and the son of a mar- | Quis in Lord Alwyne Compton, Bishop of Ely. Thb} navy has its distinguished sons of noble families in Earl Clanwilliam, the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, Lord John | Hay and Admiral Fremantle. | The army and the law, in their top- | most strata, owe little to the aristoC- | racy, while it has no part at all in our leading men of letters. The bar has a fair percentage of titled members, but the bench is chiefly; | recruited from the middle classes, and | from nearly every representative grade be the abolition of the repeated local inspections of American meats, of which the Americans have complained The bill provides for a strict inspection, but it will be perfectly fair and will be applied as equally to the domestic trade as to imported meats.” The officials of the United States Embassy generally express the opinion that the German Government sincerely | desires to improve its relations with the United States and sees indications | pointing to a_successful issue of these | efforts, though the bills simultaneously introduced in the House of Representa- | tives and in the Senate at Washington | fore: iation have been re- | ceived with a great show of indignation | by the Government and Government | press, while the Liberal, and especially the commercial papers, have unani- mously expressed fears that the legis. lative action on both sides will culmi- | nate in a regular tariff war. | The Vorwaerts says: ‘“The greed of | the agrarians has disturbed our tions with America for years past. Un der ext of protecting the health of the German people, the importation of American products has been prevented in spite of the treaties.” | Continuing, the Vorwaerts demon- strates that German exports of sugar textiles and wines to the United S are worth 18,000,000 marks, and say “‘As the financially w Germany will undoubtedly be the loser. | But the agrarians ignore this. Pro- | vided the enhanced food prices flow into | their pockets they snap their fingers at | the hungry masses.” | The Boe rier, a leading com- mercial an, s: “It is evident | that the United States is preparing for a commercial war with Germany, which the German agrarians seem to regard | as a trifling matter. We hope the Ber- | lin and Washington governments are | more conscious of their responsibility. | We fear the German export trade wmj have to pay the score the Federation of | Husbandry has run up.” | The agrarians are jubilant at the | prospect of a tariff war, which has been | their dearest aim for years. A num- ber of insulting articles have been pub- | lished in their newspapers deriding the United States in every possible way. The Kreuz-Zeitung even throws mud at the American people on account of the recent war and its results, calling Xhe‘ | American troops utterly inefficient and saying the Government is corrupt to the | core. These utterafces, however, are exceptio The majority of the press | is discussing the question calmiy and | fairly. | The emigration bill introduced in the | Reichstag by Professor Hause and | Count von Arnim affects the interests | of the United States. It advances the | policy of “once German, always Ger- man,” and refuses to any German the right to become a naturalized citizen | schell of a f them. Of the two living men who have sat on the woolsack Lord Halsbury is the son of a doctor of laws and Lord Her- enting minister. Sir Francis Jeune is a bishop’s som, and Sir Walter Phillimore’s father was a baronet. Our remaining Judges come without exception from the professional and business classes or are sons of country gentlemen or courtesy es- quires. Sir Joseph Chitty is the son of a bar- rister, Lord Russell of an Irish gentle- man, the Master of the Rolls of a pro- fessor of botany, Mr. Justice Bigham of a Liverpool merchant, Sir Gainsford Bruce of a schoolmaster, Mr. Justice | Kennedy of an inspector of schools | and Mr. Justice Wright of a Somerset | rector. In the army the story is the same. Lord Wolseley's father was a maJur.{ Sir Evelyn Wood's a clergyman (and | barcnet), General Harrison’s also a parson, Sir John Lintorn Simmons’ a captain of artillery, while Generals Sir e White Markham, Sir Charles | n, Sir Redvers Buller and many rs of our best-known soldiers are | the sons of country gentlemen. Of our archbishops Dr. Temple of | Canterbury is the son of a major and | Dr. Maclagan of York of an army doc- | tor, both of our archbishops, strangely | enough, having a military origin. Dr. Kennion ¢f Bath and Wells is the son of a Harrogate physician, the Bishop of Ripon of a Liverpool incum- bent, Dr. Stubbs of Oxford of a York- | shire solicitor, the Bishop of Truro of | a Yorkshire manufacturer and theI Bishop of Carlisle is the son of a canon | of Manchester, all these five bishops thus springing from two northern coun- ties. The father of Dr. Jayne of Chester was a magistrate, Dr. Ryle’s of Liver- pool a Macclesfield member of Parlia- ment, the fathers of the Bishops of Worcester, Gloucester and Lincoln were all clergymen and the Bishop of Man- chester, like the quintet above, comes from the north and is the son of a Sheffield gentleman. Among our leading politicians we naturally find many wearers of titles, but many of our ablest statesmen spring from the middle social stratum. Mr. Chaplin is a parson’s son, Sir H. H. Fowler and Lord Herschell come from the “manse,” Mr. Chamberlain from commerce, Mr. John Morley from medicine and Mr. Arnold Morley from | a city warehouse. Mr. Long and Mr. Balfour spring from the squirearchy, Sir Willlam Har- court from the church, Mr. -Asquith from business, Mr. Bryce from the law and Mr. Sidney Buxton from the House of Commons. It is in the world of writers, however, of any other country. The United|tnat we find the . e 3 ; greatest diversity of States Embassy officials, however, 8a¥ | origin, Mr, Blackmore Is a clergyman’s that if the Dill is adopted it cannot | gon as also are Mr. Anthony Hope and override the German-American treaty | My Cutcliffe Hyne, while Mr. John of 1868, exempting German-Americans from such legislation. The German Cabinet at recent meet- ings has discussed the question of facilitating imports of Russian petro- leum, and it is said from a reliable source that it has been decided to in- crease the testpoints and thus exclude inferior grades gl’ American petroleum, provided the Russian Government grants an equivalent. The result of the trial of Frank Knaak of New York, who was ac- quitted of the charge of referring to Emperor William as a “blockhead” on the ground that he was in no position | to realize his offense, came as a great surprise, even to counsel for the de- fense, as the testimony was precisely similar to that of the majority of such cases, which have ended in convictions. The presiding Judge. Herr Denso, con- victed R. E. Kneebs, the American horseman charged with ‘“ringing” the mare Bethel on the German turf, and sentenced him to nine months’ impris- onment and to pay a fine of 1000 marks. Judge Denso is considered to be very severe and learned, and there is the best authority for saying that the ac- quittal and unusual leniency shown Mr. Knaak were due to a hint from Em- peror Willlam that his acquittal, if legally possible, would be appreciated by both his Majesty and the German Government, in view of the present del- jcate relations between the United States and Germany. The Emperor and his family will spend the holidays at the Stadtschloss at Potsdam. The elder Princes have arrived there from the military acad- emy at Ploen. His Majesty, in order to celebrate his formal occypation. of the estate at Codinen, recently be- queathed to him, has ordered a liberal spread to' be given to the poor and to the children on the estate on Christs mas. The Minister of Education, Dr. Bosse, has evoked a chorus of condemnation from all sides by ordering disciplinary proceedings to be taken at the Berlin University against the well-known Dr. Delbeyck, for the latter's scathing criti- cisme'of the expulgion of Danes from North Schleswig in public writing. Dr. Davidson, the poet, is the son of a min-. ister. Mr. Marion Crawford is a sculptor’s son, Mr. Herbert Spencer the son of a schoolmaster, Dr. Conan Doyle of an|I—" i 5 artist, Mr, Rider Haggard of a barrister Certalql‘y, sir,” sald the analyst, and Norfolk squire, Sir Edwin Arnold | smiling. ‘I think you will find the of a Sussex magistrate, Mr. “Tan Mac- laren” of a civil servant, Mr. Kipling of a gentleman in the Indian educational service, Mr. Clark Russell of a singer and composer and Mr. Willlam Wat- son, the poet, is a farmer’s son.—Lon- don Malil —————— Decorated Dogs. To the casual and unsuspecting observer of dogs the canines of Frankford present a very fantastic and incongruous appear- ance. In this quiet suburban section there are roaming at large dogs whose hairy coats are tinted with the colors of the rainbow and whose general effect puts the most daring of poster creations to shame. If the citizens of that locality were to hold a dog show they could ex- hibit such a variety of parti-colored canines as would eclipse entirely the swell functions of ermantown and Chestnut Hill. How the Frankford bow- wows came by their bizarre appearance is a mystery which many indignant own- ers of dogs would like to solve. Some un- known person, who apparently has access to a dye factory, has taken upon himself the task of relleving the awful monotony of dog flesh in. the neighborhood, and playfully dips a poor little cur into a vat of dye so that one-half of the body is colored a bright and unmistakable pink or green, as the case may be. This un- known artist takes the greatest pains in his color combinations, and if pink and black are not exactly harmonious the effect is at least startiing. As there are many dye works in Frankford, the dog owners -are at a loss as to whom to suspect; but woe betide this canine dec- orator when he is captured.—Philadelphia Inquirer. ——— Stratekut—Doctor, do you believe that smokl’l;:g cigarettes ever made any one crazy? Doctor—I'm not so sure about that, but I suspect that craziness has caused a 00d many people to take to cigarettes.— 5oulun Transcript. GREED FOR MONEY CAUSED A YOUTH TO MURDER HIS FATHER Young John Henry Collins Con- victed for Committing a Most Appalling Crime at Topeka. TOPEKA, Kans., Dec, 24—"Guilty of murder in the first degree,” was the verdict returned at 9 o’'clock to-night in the case of young John Henry Collins, charged with the murder of his father, James 8. Collins, a prominent real estate and insurance agent of Topeka, who was shot as he lay asleep in bed early one morning in May last. John Henry Collins, the convicted man, was a student in the Kansas State University and a <icensed lay reader of the leading Protestant Episcopal church of Topeka. The motive of the crime was found in the youth’s greed for money which would come to him upon the death of his father. The elder Collins carried $26,000 life insur- ance, and it was provided that of this amount $6500 should go to the son. The young student was enamored of Miss Frances Babcock of Lawrence, whose family is considered wealthy, and the trial devel- oped the fact that Collins had lived beyond hjs allowance at Law- rence; that he had contracted numerous bills at the university town which he could not pay, and that he had planned to join the Bab- cocks when they went to spend the summer at an Atlantic Coast resort. Jess Harper of Lawrence and Johnson Jordon of Topeka, two of the most notorious negroes in Kansas, were important witnesses against the youth. They swore that, wbrking through Jess Harper, Colling had hired Johnson Jordon to assassinate his father. The ne- groes, after securing money and valuables from the youth, refused to carry out their contract, and then, according*to their testimony, Col- lins boasted that he would “do the job” himself. He came to Topeka from Lawrence, pleading sickness, retired at the usual hour and according to the theory of the State, arose before daylight and shot his father as the latter lay asleep in bed. One of the youth’s first acts after the murder was to run to a telegraph office and dispatch a message to Miss Babcock, in which he said: ‘“Father is dead; tell nothing.” The investigations of the detectives developed the information that Collins had told Miss Babcock wild storles about his father's life being threatened by negroes.. They also produced numerous let- ters which Collins had written to the negro whom he had hired to kill his father; in fact, the story of the negroes was corroborated in every detail and they even produced the watch and diamonds which Collins had given them as a pledge for the money which he promised to pay when he'should realize upon his father’s life insurance. Miss Babcock was among the witnesses for the State, and told of the wild stories which Collins had related to her about the threatened assassination of his father. Mrs. Collins, the youth’s stepmother, who lay beside her husband when he was shot, has from first to last urged the innocence of her stepson, and in all her testimony there was not one word which would implicate the youth. The jury which returned the verdict of guilty deliberated about five hours. But one ballot was taken, the verdict being unanimous SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, ‘ances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. from the first. 000OO000000000000000000OO0000000900000000000000000000 0000000000C00000000000000000C00000 CCOoCO0COOCCo000000000000000C00C000000C0000C00C00000C00000 A LOCAL SHERLOCK HULMES. How He Told Who Had Last Used the Public Teiephone. “The last man who used this 'phone,” sald a New Orleans Sherlock Holmes, preparing to wrestle with the instru- ment in an up-town public statlon, “was a short, little fellow in a deuce of a hurry, smoking a cigarette. He asked for the L C. freight office, was told they were busy and repeated his request five times, getting madder at each call Meanwhile his cigarette went out :lnfiv after vainly searching for a ma(chf “Hold on there!"” exclaimed a friend who had accompanied him to the booth. “What kind of a ...ry story are you iving me, anyhow?” - % “Nug fairy story at all,” replied the amateur sleath biandly. “I was merely | stating a few facts.” “But'how the dickens did you ascer- n them?” “Plain as A B, C, my boy. To begin with, the adju-table mouthpiece of the instrument is pulled down, as you see, to its fullest extent, indicating clearly that the last user was very much un- dersized. Isn’t that evident?” “Ye-e-e-es, I guess 80; but how about the rest?” “Well, look at that ledge and you will observe five charred spots and an equal number of small piles of tobacco ash. What do you infer? Why, obviously, that the gentleman was smoking and laid down his cigarette each time he called. The piles of ash are still undis- turbed, showing they were recently de- posited, and they are very small, prov- ing plainly that the intervals of calling were brief. My logical conclusion was that the 'phone he wanted happened to be busy. and I looked instinctively for a memorandum of its number, which most men make under such circum- stances. I found it, as I anticipated, on top of the box, scrawled in pencil, and recognized the number of the freight office. Such memoranda are al- most always rubbed out by the sleeve of the next customer, and as this one is still fresh and bright, it is fair to pre- sume it was made by the last man in the booth—otherwise the short chap with the cigarette. Moreover, a freight office ’phone is usually busy at this hour, so the clews interlock and sus- taln one another. Not so, my dear boy ?”* “But the matches?” “Oh! I deduce the match incident from thase fresh toothpicks on the floor. When a man in a hurry searches for a match he invariably finds quanti- ties of toothpicks. I would—" “Are you through with that 'phone?” asked a short, stout stranger appear- ing suddenly at the door and vigorously puffing a cigarette, “because if you are t. freight office disengaged at present.” “Well, I'l. be hanged!” gaid the friend.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. — e SWISS “TRADE IN FOREIGNERS.” One is irresistibly reminded of the “chocolate soldier” in G. Bernard Shaw's amusing play, “Arms and the Man,” when one reads a just issued re- turn of the annual “trade in foreign- ers” in Switzerland. The return only deals with the trade for 1897, and it shows that in that year twenty new hotels, with an aggregate of 750 beds, | were constructed, which, with addi- tions to hotels already existing, went to swell the number of available beds in hotels from 80,000 to 90,000. It is estimated that the visitors number about 600,000, a very considerable in- crement to a country numbering some 8,000,000. Eighteen per cent are Swiss— oddly enough; 16 per cent English, 34 per cent German, 12 per cent French, 8 per cent United States of America, and other countries 12 per cent. Their total expenditure is estimated at £19%.- 000,000.—London Chronicle. D ———— ‘Showered the Wrong Couple. A couple of Ann Arbor young ladies played a joke on a strange couple on an Ann Arbor passenger train the other day which was not intended for them. A young Scio couple were married and it was desired to shower them with rice. The two Ann Arbor girls were told that the Scio couple intended to fool the: by not taking the train at this city, but would probably drive to Hamburg and take the train there. So when the train arrived at this city the young ladies, armed with big bags of rice, boarded it and asked the conductor if a young married couple had got on at Hamburg and if so where they ‘were sitting. The conductor a newly married couple who lived at Hamburg get on the train and he gave the desired information. The Ham- burg couple were looking unutterable things at each other when the young ladles stole up behind them, and, with- out Jooking at their faces broke the bags of rice over them, literally show- ering them. Imagine the surprise, con- sternation and dismay of the Hamburg couple and of the young ladies, who fled as they saw the faces of the newly married. The Scio couple escaped.— Argus Democrat. ———— SOME LADIES WILL SMOKE. French Law for a Russian Countess Who Despised Railway Rules. “No smoking allowed” will now have to be affixed on the carriage compart- ment of railway trains allotted to ladies only. This, at least, must be done if the companies mean to obviate the re- currence of such scenes as that wit- nessed yesterday at the station of the Orleans Ceinture line. Mlle. Viron, 42 years old, and a lady who turned out to be an authentic Russian Countess were ‘sitting together in a first-class compartment marked ‘‘dames seules,” on their way to Vincennes. They were unknown to each other, and did not talk for some time, but when they did break the silence the language used on both sides was deplorable. The Rus- sian Countess lit a thick cigarette and soon filled the compartment with smoke, which caused Mile. Viron to cough, and then to exclaim, in a snap- pish manner, “I wish you would ieave off smoking, please; you see that it in- conveniences me, and it is not allowed in this carriage, which is marked “La- dies only.” The Muscovite Countess smoked on with greater vigor, and re- marked that, as there was no notice in or outside the carriage to prevent those who liked tobacco from indulging in it. she was determined to finish her cigar- ette. Mile. Viron protested with all her might against the action of the Countess, and called her a drolesse, or bad lot, whereupon the Muscovite lady. utterly unmindful of the Franco-Rus- slan alliance and its exigencles, struck her co-traveler twice in the face. ‘When the train stopped at the Orleans Ceinture station Mile. Viron, consider- ably damaged about the features, and wearing her hat in a manner which seemed to denote that she had been in a collision of some sort, emerged from the train, sought out the station- master, and lodged a formal complaint with that official against the Russian Countess. The latter was instantly called upon to throw away her cigar- ette, as smoking in a ‘“ladies only” compartmeht was contrary to all rail- way rules and vregulations. The Countess only puffed more vigorously, sent spirals of smoke into the faces of the stationmaster and the guard, and told them that they had no case against her, as they had not put a no- tice forbidding indulgence in pipes, cigars or cigarettes on the compart- ment reserved for her sex. The refrac- tory fumeuse, as the station officialsg called her, is to be proceeded against by Mille. Viron and the Orieans com- pany.—London Telegraph. ———— Wages in' a Silver Country. The scarcity of labor all over the re- yubHc is becoming a serlous question to he raflroad companies that are building new lines and extending old ones, and the contractors are getting very anxious, as there is no relief in sight. All the roads in the republic are complaining of the scarcity of labor and one or two have been compelled to stop work completely, as they, had no men to go on with con- struction. The International is feeling the scarcity in a marked degree and work on their branch to Mon efreY ‘Is being. greatly delayed; The National s also ex- eriencing difficulty in s ng men on ts Uruapan extension, and.the Central cannot get enough men for its Tampico division, which is undergoing extensive repairs and betterments. ! The average amount pald per day for men is 75 cents, though in a number of places §1 per day is offered and pald when- ever men can be got to accept the price. The rate can be appreciated -vhen it is known that any number of men can be got to work on farms and hacfendas at 25 cents per day, and the same men will not work on a railroad for less than $§1 i per day. The reason is that in the latter osition they are required to work gnd steady.—Mexican Financfer. B e et WHO LOVED HIM. “‘Somebody loves me!” he softly cooed, “And can oo guess who wmebod)y' 157! She raised her great gray eves until their glance rested full upon his beaming countenance. - “Oo!" she answered, with all the confi- dence ot‘ :.h u‘;\;sglng hea.rt.g &\tu!nvely aware of the basic_sentimen: t ates all mankind.—Detroft Je g 1898. MEDICINES THAT -~ ARE NOT TAXABLE Includes All But ‘“Pa- tent” Concoctions. COLLECTORS’ INSTRUCTIONS DESIGNATIONS BY THE INTERN- AL REVENUE OFFICE. Preparations Not Advertised as Cures for Specific Diseases Are Exempt Under the Terms of the ‘War-Tax Act, Speclal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—The Com- missioner of Internal Revenue to-day promulgated for the guidance of col- lectors the opinion of Assistant Attor- ney General Boyd in regard to the tax- ability of medical preparations under schedule B of the act of June 13, 1898. Later on the following existing regula- tions will be amended to conform there- with. In the course of his opinion Mr. Boyd says: To draw the distinction more clearly be- tween medicinal articles or preparations which I hold to be taxable under the pro- visions of the law and those that are not, 1 will call attention to a class of prep- arations or medicines, samples of which have been flled with me for examination, and which, in my opinion, are not tax- able. They are articies which are put up in bottles, phials or other packages, more particularly for the use of physicians and pharmacists, They are such articles as _ anti-stretoceic serum, anti-tetanic serum, anti-diphtheritic serum and many others of like character. The articles are not put up in the man- ner or style of patent, trademark or pro- prietary medicines In general, nor are they advertised to the public upon pack- age or otherwise as specifics or remedies for xlyla.rtlcular diseases, or claiming speclal merit, The names upon the bottles, phials, or other packages containing tuese prepara- tions are simply medicinal or pharmaceu- tical designations used to indicate the class of medicines to which they belong, and are for the guiaance of physicians, druggists and pharmacists, through whom they are dealt out to consumers as pre- pared prescriptions. These articles have the technical med- ical name upon the bottle or upon the package and also the formula by which they are prepared. There is no exclusive proprietor or proprietary right claimed in them, but any pharmacist or manufactur- ing druggist has the right to make them after the formula given and there is no retail price or value stated on the bottle or on the package containing them. It might make the distinction still more plain to say that the class of medicines which, in my opinion, are taxable under the provisions of the law are such as I have described above,’ which go to the consumer in the unbroken package in which they are put up by the proprietor, manufacturer or compounder, with name, digease and directions for use, with- out the intervention or a prescription of a physician or pharmacist; while, on the other hand, the provisions of the act do not reach such medicinal articles or prep- arations as are put up under pharmaceu- tical or classifylng names for the use of physicians in their practice or of phar- macists or druggists in thelr trade. Calomel is ‘a medicine article already compounded (I belicve) from a formula from mercury, sulphuric acid, chloride of sodium and distilled water. It is a well- known remedy for certain diseases and special merit is claimed for in ths treatment of diseases like bilious fevers, hepatis, jaundice, bilious and painter's colic and other affections attended by congestion of the portal system or tor- pidity of the hepatic function. The medicinal article'is put up in quan- tities by the manufacturers after the pre- scribed formula and is sold todphyslclnns, pharmacists and druggists, and the latter in turn prescribe it for the afflicted and deal it out in quantities to suit the emer- gency. ' Now, calomel {8 not taxable under the rovisions of the war revenue act, when t does not come within tne description of articles declared to be subject to tax under the provisions of the act. In the first place, it is not put up in the man- ner or style of patent trademark or pro- prietary medicines in general, and in the second place, it is not advertised on the package in which it is put up, as con- templated by the act, and even if the manufacturer or compounder were to be ut on the additional words ‘“anti-bil- ous” or “anti-hepatitos,” it would, in my opinion, on{{ have the effect to desig- nate more particularly the class of meg. icines to which It belongs and not to ad- vertise it as a specific or remedy for par- ticular diseases. I have given this illustration and used the name of a well known medicinal arti- cle to make the distinction which I have alteldnpted to draw the more easily under- stood. AN AUTOMATIC RACING JUDGE. Machine for Marking Wheels in the Order of Their Crossing a Line. It is rarely that a cycle race meeting is carried through without dissatisfac- tion arising in some heat or final with the verdict of the judge. Given a hard- fought finish, in which two or more men cross the tape within inches of each other, and it is difficult. indéed. for the most skillful and reliable judge to arrive at a decision which will not be questioned by some one; not often, however, by the riders, for in cycling the judge’s verdict is final, like the um- pire’s in cricket. Still, the liability to error is undoubted, and a promising effort to put an end . to it is worthy of notice. A. Laidlaw Baird, an Aus- trallan wheelman, has devised a ma- chine which seems to solve the problem effectually, in a manner which is both simple and ingenious. His apparatus was_exhibited yesterday afternoon at the Portman rooms, Baker street. The place of the tape on the track is taken by a slot about two inches wide. In this slot five strips or leaves of metal— aluminum is used in Australia—stand on edge. They are graduated so that the fifth, counting in the direction in which the riders are moving. rises slightly higher than the fourth, and that than the third, and so on. When in operation in the last lap they are raised by simple mechanism so that the fifth is about five-eighths of an inch above the surface of the track. and the rest in proportion. he five leaves are fresh painted with enamel. The first wheel that crosses receives on the tire an impression of the five strips, and its passage causes the fifth strip to fall out of action. “The sec- ond wheel Is marked by the remaining four strips, the third by the three. and g0 on. When the riders pull up the whegls are examined and the one hav- ing five bars on the tire is obviously the winner, and the second man’s tire will bear four bars. But if the rear wheel of the first man’s machine has crossed the “automatic judge” before the front wheel of the second man, it will have four bars ,and the latter will have three. Only in the rare case of five front wheels crossing the “‘judge’” before one rear wheel does so would a “place” be marked at the drooping of each leaf. It will be seen. there- fore, that it is the relation of the num- ber of bars on the front tires to each other that decides the position. Thus the winner might have five bars, the second man three and the third one. The enamel marks do not. become ob- literated for a considerable time. even in wet weather. This machine would seem to afford a highly efficient settle- ment of a troublesome question. It has been tried on cycle tracks in Syd- ney, and a large number of prominent Anflguhn racing men have given their opinfon in its favor. The mechanism son to believe that it will be liable to get out of order. It may easily be fit- ted, and when it is not required may readily bé covered over and removed. so that.it presents no_ obstruction to the use of the track.—From the Lon- don Telégraph. ¢ —_——————— PASSING PLEASANTRIES. DANGERS OF SCIENCE. The “lady” professor suddenly reached forward and deftly plucked a long, light hair from her husband’s coat. ““Wretch,” she cried, ‘“‘whose is this?"" “One of your own,” he answered, stout- | BARS BELIGILS OARB I SCHOLS Ruling Made by a State Superintendent. Iy, “We will see,” she haughtily observed, | and speedily vanished through a door la- beled "lubara‘ol’i’." For an hour or more the sound of'clinking tubes and glasses | m.:ls faintly heard through the heavy par- on. Then the door suddenly opéned and the “lady"” professor stood on the threshold. = “Villain!”* she cried. *“It was bleached.’ But ‘he was gone.—Cleveland Piain Dealer. 1 POUGHKEEPSIE CASE DECIDED CITY MUST PURCHASE SCHOOL PROPERTY. ‘WHAT IT LACKED. Sculptor—Why do you object to -this | bust of your husband, madam? | Widow—It ccesn't seem natural, | Sculptor—You have admitted that it looks like Fim. > 1dow—Yes, the features are all right; but there's no use talking, that statue wil} never remind me my dear, dead and one husband in the world. It's too quiet. vy _husband had St. Vitus' dance.—New York Weekly. WHOM SHE KNEW. “Do 3’0\1 know any one in these parts Queried a lawyer of one Mrs. Schultz, who Wwas a witpess in a trial at Pratt. Mrs. Schultz dropped her eyes, plticked nerv- ously at her shawl for a moment and then blushingly responded: “‘Sheriff Keyes over there used to be my beau before either of us were married.” ‘Whereupon the court hammered vigor- orously to bring the auaience to order.— Kansus City Journal. HE WAS RIGHT. “It was a pitch battle,” He said. ** ‘Pitched,’ you mean,” she corrected. “I don't mean anything of the kind,” he | replied. “I mean ‘pitch.’ It was a fight | between tars.”’—Chicago rost. | HIGH OLD TIMES. Tommy—Didn’t the ancients have pretty hlfih times? is Father—Why, my son? Tommy—The book says tney set their | watches on the hilltops. — Jewelers’ ‘Weekly. Cannot Rent Buildings of Various Church Denominations as Has Been Done Hereto- fore. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 24—State Su- perintendent Skinner has decided the appeal of Edward Weiser against the Board of Education of the city of Poughkeepsie in favor of the appellanta The- appeal is from the action of the Board of Education in the rental of school buildings for permanent use by the Board of Education and the em- | ployment as teachers of persons who wear the distinctive dress or garb of & religious order. The Board of Education of the city of Poughkeepsie since 1843 has been renting of various church denomina- tions and individuals school buildings in which they conduct public schools of that city. It has neglected to equip its school system with sufficient accom- modations owned by the city for the’ | children desiring to attend the school thereof and the result has been that on NOT NECESSARY. “If Wiggins called ¥ou a liar you ought w“?vflhl;e: gl\r;“ ‘3‘0’?“1{‘ that do?'—Chicago | the first day of September last upward Record. | of 1000 of the school children in that | city were compelled to alternate in their attendance and were able to Te- ceive but two and one-fourth hours’ in- struction each day. Superintendent Skinner holds that union of interests is no longer desirable nor for the best in- terests of the schools of the city, and is against the letter and spirit of the | constitution. The public school system must be conducted in a democratic and Catholic spirit that Jew and Catholic and Protestant alike shall find therein absolutely no cause for complaint as to Proper Price of .Bicycles. ‘When Sir J. Wolfe Barry's paper on London streets and traffic appears in the | Journal of the Society of Arts it will be | found to contain glad tidings for cyelists. | ‘This is the passage: ‘“The present price of bicycles will not, I suppose, rule very long, ‘and we shall see these admirable machines made at prices which now seem unattainably cheap. The weight of a bicycle is so small that the value of the material, except the india-rubber tires, cannot be serious. And if all the parts of a good machine-made watch can be man- ufactured and put together and sold for less than £1, the manufacture and put- the exercise, directly or indirectly, of any denominational indulgence. The Superintendent also rules that it ting together of a_bicycle ought not to | s the duty of the Board of Education cost more.. If We add the cost of the steel and the indla-rubber, it surely seems not | too sanguine to suppose that a few years | hence bicycles will be sold at about a fourth of their present price.”—London News. = e - Light and Profit From Garbage Cre- mation. Accounts for the first twelve months’ ‘working of the combined dust destructor | and_electric light undertaking in Shore- | ditch show, says this week's London, a Eross profit of nearly £6000. The Electric ight Committee estimate that the saving on the dust destructor, as compared with the old method of disposing of refuse, was £1253, and they conclude that the net profit and saving on the dust destructor and lighting combined has been, for the twelve months, £2679. It should be borne in mind that during the first three months, when the work done was small, there was a loss of £500, and that the vestry has reduced the price of current by | 33 per cent during the year.—London Tele- | graph. to require teachers employed by them | to discontinue in the public school room the use of distinguishing dress or garb of any religious order. The effect of the decision is that the plan long in operation in that city must be discontinued and all villages and school districts must own the .prop- erty in which their schools are con- ducted, except in cases of temporary emergency, which are provided for by this school law. Adopting a Safe Plan. A minister of Winfield, Xan., think. ing he was as “active as he ever wa jumped from a moving train and came pretty near killing himself. 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