The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1900. 6 NERVING GREAT BRITAIN. test the value of the invention, it appears there @ ll g 2 : o |is some danger the old telegraph companies ) c & a’ N prospect of victory Lord Roberts is fi°‘“g his | will buy up the patents and suppress the use e et s s ol = part in the politics of the war by reporting “Boer | of the new system for some time to come. TUESDAY onnovvooesvunnonn, MARCH 20, 1900 | © ‘outrages” and other things defamatory of the | The invention is in the hands of a syndicate, Proprietor. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, #ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Main 1S6S. ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1S74. EDITORIAL Delivered by Carriers, 15 Lents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Including Postage: Terms by Mail, CALL (1 Y CALL One Year......... postmasters are authorized to receive sabscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE .1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mznager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: e Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STAN 2 Sh House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fren use; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; C.) OFFICE.. ON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—E 3 ck. 300 Hayes gomery, eorner of Clay, open pen until 9:30 o'clock. 639 k. pen until 10 o'clock. 2261 ket open until ® o'clock. 1096 ncie, op clock. 106 Eleventh, open until The Grand Duchess.” cert this afternoon. ead Wilson fonday, March 6. Loved Him So.” Trovatore.” ~Vaudeville every afterncon and and Eddy streets—Specialties. 4 A. Farland, Banjoist, Friday AUCTION SALES. 11 o'clock, Horses, at Harrison streets THE McCARTHY RESOLUTION. ( UPERVISOR McCARTHY has taken the first \ t in the char- ot company free 1 rvision provided for every or corporation having a fran- Thus the trick y, through its astute at- the charter-makers is in ly as the machi utility. ] ares: cits e qualified el neisco that sub- I, of the ch amended to ervisors of the fix and determine by ordinance in each year, t take effect on imom rates of rson, company y for the use of telegraph or pneu- ¥ or to the o prescribe the quality of the That the attention of the Election ereby called to this resolution. been referred to the Judi- to be considered upon its mind there is nothing to telephone com- endment merely puts light, heat, power and s and other organizations no more than remedy a serious at is all. pervision over telephone cor- I protect the rights of the pub- 1e demand for the supervision Fr. co. In Massachusetts all such companies or corpora- rol of a State commission, be- ions of the telephone corporations i t have been found intolerable. Congress 1 S y to interfere to protect the r e people of the District of Columbia Supervision here will line with the policy adopted else- ¢ is no reason to be given why not be an the way the charter 1ded in proposed, and pt the McCarthy resolution. Election Commission can submit the ors in time to have it ready for rati- the Leg: ure next winter. That pro- ne on which there should be unanimity 3 Is and intelligent citizens. he ele nister to W st because the correspondents in- i ug 3 1g his name, is to be succeeded by a gentleman whose name cannot be pronounced. 1f we ever get into a diplomatic squabble with the Shah be safer to thrash him first and talk about it 1 —_———— among them will be materially reduced if the Pacific Company is forced to place gates gerous crossings. as they are vel the illusion. operated in the Mission Methuen accounts for one of his South cfeats by a flash of two rifles and a lantern 2 The excuse might pass were it not for the i ct that the same General declared that the fire of the Boers with dumdum bullets was dis- A" effective. BEdES~AT cil Rhodes continues to shout his harsh criti- s of certain British generals there will be no need for a discussion of the opinion that he is the “patriotic” spirit who is sacrificing thousands of human lives in a bloody war. ..Wellington Hotel | 615 Larkin, open until | er Twenty-second and Kentucky, | and county arter | it can hardly be doubted the Supervisors | 2 That | hington, who resigned | people of Suisun are convinced that the death | A little expert testimony on | brave but few in South Africa who have held an em- pire at bay for half a year. The course of his Lordship is deliberately taken to | justify the crime of politics that is to follow the trag- edy of war. The sinister purpose of Cecil Rhodes is to be accomplished, and duality of government in South Africa is to cease by the destruction of the re- publics. There seems no ground for holding the least hope of any other result. Of course we leave out of the calculation things not in sight now. The Transvaal may stubbornly resist so long that complications else- here will change the whole aspect of affairs. That England feels how little might turn the scale is shown | by the official prder to make the display of the Irish | flag and adulation of the shamrock an effusive offi- cial ceremony, under the patronage of her Majesty. While the Irish have never been formidable, this in- cident is evidence that the right little, tight little isl- and will feel safer if the Irish are flattered into re- But, including all the visible and probable fac- tors, there is in sight no help for the assassination of the two republics. That which Rhodes attempted in the Jameson raid Chamberlain will accomplish by a pose. war that was begun upon another pretext, but for the | | same purpose. } Not even the British Liberals will present a united | front against the destruction of the republics. In his speech in the Commons on February 15, after re- | peating the history of the American Civil War, which ; began with a call for 75,000 soldiersandrequireda levy of 2,750,000 men before it was over, Lord Rosebery replied to 2 member of the Ministry who said, “This is not a great crisis like that; that was a matter of and death,” as follows: “I say this is a matter of life and death. I completely adopt the words of the noble Lord opposite. Take the hypothesis for one moment, though we will not admit it, that you should not be victorious in this war. Then you lose South Africa. You could not show your face there. You | lose the principal colony of your empire. You lose | the most important base.you have outside these isl- But if you lose South Africa you lose a great deal more than that. This empire rests largely upon prestig These colonies, that have come so en- thusiastically to our ‘support, have done so because | ands. | they believe they are associating themselves with the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. If you deprive them of that feeling the life of your em- pire is short. You will be shut up in these islands, | one of which, I fear, does not love you, and your empire outside will break away from you, and where | it is without defense will fall a prey to other nations. In the meantime you alone, with your fleet, will be in the midst of a Europe which has many, scores to pay off and will be only too ready to begin.” It is impossible to see in this declaration by an | opponent of the war any other lesson than the ne- y of destroying the republics vhose existence | caused a menace to the life of the empire. The British feeling is practically universal that the pres- tige of the nation requires the wiping out of the | Boer governments. And as Lord Rosebery admits that prestige is the foundation of the empire, what- ever maintains it is necessary to imperial life. A world power then becomes greatly like a world’s champion pugilist—must respond to every challenge to fight, and win in every battle, or give up the belt. English Liberals are as much committed as the Con- servatives to the maintenance of the empire, and so there is no room to hope for any effective opposition to Mr. Chamberlain’s programme for making | crown colony out of the two Dutch states. Still Lord Roberts finds it necessary to fire the British heart, and even Parliament encourages mobs to break up anti-war meetings, and free speech checked throughout the islands, not by law, but by lawlessness. Standing over against Lord Roberts’ report de- faming the Boers may-be put this sorrowful bit from 2 Royal Army Medical Corps officer, written from near Ladysmith: “One of the Boer medical officers rode in to us under a Red Cross flag and asked us to go and bury our dead, which we did. a is a letter by But the sight of those poor fellows lying on the hill, | some of them dreadfully riddled with bullets, I can never forget. The Boers were very good; in fact, one would hardly have thought they were enemies. They talked to us quite freely and helped us to dig | the graves and to carry our dead. There was one very touching incident. After our major had read the burial service one of the Boers stepped out and | s2id a short prayer, hoping the war would soon end, and while we stood with uncovered heads they sang | a hymn in Dutch. It cut our fellows up very much indeed; in fact, we could hardly speak for some time.” | Incidents of that sort are not widely circulated in | Great Britain, where a political emergency, incident | to the prestige of empire, makes it necessary to pre- sent the Boer as an unfeeling savage. There are some who think Victoria’s decision to | sport the shamrock and to visit Ireland is due to dip- lomacy, but there are others who regard it as an evi | dence that she is trying to assure herself a green old ! age. | WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AT WORK. | ATE reports of experiments with wireless telegraphy made by officers .of the German | &= navy are to theeffect that such improvements have been made in the system that it is now avail- able for use at distances of upward of fifty miles over ! water, when the messages are sent to a fixed station, | but that for some reason communications are not ac- | curately received by a ship at a distance of more than thirty-five miles. | The experiments were conducted by officers on the | Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, communicating with a | land station. When the steamer was fifty miles away her signals were distinctly and correctly read at the | station, but the return signals were not clear at that distance. These results, while not equal to the ex- | pectations of the more sanguine portion of the world, show a wonderful accomplishment, considering the recent beginning of the system. B Less than a year ago, when The Call received re- ports from the international yacht race off New York harbor by wireless telegraphy} the announcement that such messages, amounting to many thousands of words, had been received across fifteen miles of water was met in some quarters with incredulity and scoff- ing. The yellow journals in particular were sure the reports were the result of faking. The Examiner in | this city, for example, actually declared there was no such thing possible as wireless telegraphing. Now the feat accomplished by the Germans shows the sys- tem to be practicable for fifty miles under good con- ditions, and available between ships for a distance more than double that covered by the telegrams sent last summer. > While these and other recent experiments at- and ipdividual enterprise, spurred on by competition, has no opportunity to push forward its improvement and development. Thus the Philadelphia Record says: “The ship-owners can do but little toward realizing speedily the full utility of this discovery. The child of Marconi’s brain may perish of inanition after all, starved to death by the monopoly monster which now guards all discoveries promising cent per cent.” S — Governor Gage is thoroughly convinced that the newspapers are arrant cowards. This is evidently one way of confessing that it requires absolutely no bravery to expose him in his multitude of faults and self than first glance would indicats STATE OWNERSHIP. CALIFORNIA entered upon a small experiment in State ownership of lands, somewhat on the single tax line. It is in the form of an amend- ment to our State revenue law, which makes the State the sole purchaser of lands sold for delinquent taxes. Before this law was passed such lands were sold to tax title buyers. The theory of the change was, of | course, that the oppressed delinquent taxpayer could | redeem his property from the State before expiration of his equity, without paying a speculative advance which the tax title buyer might exact from him. The real motive behind this theory appears to have been | to introduce the State into the real estate business as | a land-owner. Of course if the State could succeed in amassiig a considerable landed estate it would be practically withdrawing that much property from taxation, since it cannot pay taxes to itself. This would increase the burden of taxation upon the pri- vate owners, and this would naturally be followed by an increase in delinquencies and further additions to the State’s holdings. Of course to utilize its lands and realties the State will have to become a renter and take the rental value of its property as public revenue. The real projectors of the law, the single taxers, would then have their system in actual opera- tion. | It never occurred to any one that the delinquent taxpayer could be protected against abuse by legally | limiting the advance that the tax title buyer could put on the property for redemption. The law could | protect the treasury, the delinquent and the buyer equally, so that the treasury would get the taxes, the buyer a reasonable return on his money, and the de- linquent a chance to redeem without being oppressed. The change has furnished no better protection to the treasury and has introduced oppression, not of the delinquent, but of the payer of taxes. | As is usual when the State goes into paternalism, there is less scrupulous exactness in the transaction of business by revenue officials. The result is that a | great many taxpayers all over the State who hold re- | ceipts for their taxes find that without their knowl- edge the State has become the owner of their prop- | erty through purchase under this paternal law. The | entry of their payment has not been carried forward | to the final account and they have been sold out as | delinquents. Their troubles do not stop there. Un- | der the old system when such a mistake occurred the presentation of a tax receipt canceled the claim of the tax title buyer. If he had any way of getting back | his money from the treasury that was his business. | The property-owner got the advantage due to his vigi- | lance and civic spirit in the prorngpt payment of his | tax. Now this is all changed. The citizens who hold | tax receipts, and find that through neglect their prop- | erty has gone to the final account ®delinquent and been sold to the State, are compelled to pay their tax over again to get back their own! On no other terms will the State let go its grip. nothing else. We believe the oppressed taxpayer has recourse in the Federal courts, where a State may be sued. It is depriving a citizen of his property with- out due process of law. But suing the State is ex- pensive. The State pays its lawyers out of the treas- ury, with the money furnished by the taxpayers, so that the suitor, when he goes to law with the State, is, in a certain sense, suing himself and has to pay | both sides of the fight. Therefore it is cheaper for the average sufferer to pay his tax twice and get his property back than it | is for him to fight for his rights in the Federal courts. The law was unsound in principle, and therefore proves a failure and an oppression in administration, and should be repealed. | | | | TWENTY LESSCNS IN FRENCH. ! ARIS has made herself more radiant than ever, | p and during the summer will entertaih visitors { from alj parts of the globe by an exposition of | the wonders of human industry and the marvels which ithe arts and the sciences of- the nineteenth cenggury have accomplished., To visit the city thousan ‘pcnp]e in the United States are now preparing, and | therefore the series of lessons in French conversation which are now appearing in The Call are to many | the most interesting and most instructive of the entire spring course of the Home Circle Studies. These lessons, twenty in number, have been pre- pared especially for Americans who have no-knowl- edge of the language by Professor Benno Kirsch- baum, a distinguished French scholar and teacher. All readers of The Call who wish to make a begin- ning in French conversatioh will find it to their ad- vantage to follow these studies. The ability to use ten French words “to the point” will help to make “touring” easier, and a working vocabulary of one hundred words will surely cover up a multitude of embarrassments. Professor Kirschbaum has con- ducted European parties, and is thoroughly familiar with the initial language needs of an American in Paris. Several papers of the serieg have been published and have received warm commendation from persons who are not only familiar with the French language but have had considerable experience in teaching it to Americans, and therefore are well fitted to judge of the merit of the lessons as home studies. Even to persons who are not going to Paris the course will be found an agreeable as well as a useful study, for in a cosmopolitan city like San Francisco it is always of advantage to know something at least of that which has been called “the polite language of the world,” These French lessons therefore deserve the attention of all, and will well repay the time and study given them. % e — Y The elections this year will present an interesting contrast to most of those that have gone before them. They will be lacking in the element of contest and will serve simply to register and legalize an over- whelming Republican victory. 5 Roberts has captured Bloemfontein, but from there to Pretoria is a far cry, and the war is young yet. foibles. His Excellency has a juster estimate of him- ! of | } | | B = R e e e e e E e a e el e e e e e e e e el e AROUND THE CORRIDORS ‘W, H. McKenzle, a banker of Fresno, is at the Lick. F. A. Autenrieth, a merchant of Yreka, is at the Grand. ‘W. D. Bannister, a mining man of So- nora, is at the Lick. J. F. Coleman, a mining man of Rel- ding, is at the Palace. S. D. Ballou, Sheriff of San Luis Obispo County, is at the Grand. . Dr. A. P. Ruddy of Forest Hill is regis- tered at the Russ House. Byron Waters, a lawyer of San Bernar- dino, is at the Occidental. A. Weilheimer, a well-known merchant of Fresno, is at the Grand. S. N. Griffith, a well-known attorney of Fresno, Is a guest at the Lick. John Sparks, the cattle king, of Reno, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. J. M. Davidson, a mining man of Fort Jones, is registered at the Grand. Jopn F. and George F. Callihan, two capitalists of Boston, are at the Palace. Professor W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observatory, is a.guest at the Occidental, John Baggett, owner of the famous Black Bear mine, is a guest at the Pal- ace. Thomas J. Kirke, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is registered at the Lick. M. Minihan, proprietor of the United States Hotel at Cloverdale, is a guest at the Russ. G. S. McNeill and Jacob W. Young, min- ing men of Poker Bar, are registered at | the Occldental. It is confiscation and | C. C. Cherry, Inspector of Hulls and Boilers for the Northern District, is regis- tered at the Occidental. J. J. Hebbron, superintendent of the Pa- cific Improvement Company’s ranches at Salinas, is at the Grand. Lieutenant P. N, Olmstead, who is in charge of the Weather Bureau at Port- land, is a guest at the Occidental. Theodore Voorhies, first vice president of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- road, and family are at the Palace. ‘W. J. Sutherland, general manager of the western division of the Mooney & Do- land Railway Secret Service of Chicago and Kansas City, and family are guests at the Grand. J. Ries and Chris Harrington, two min- ers lately returned from Alaska, ar2 guests at the Russ House. They have purchased a valuable ranch in’ Napa Coun- ty with the money they made in the Klondike region and will shortly turn farmers. DICTIONARY GIRLS. A disagreeable girl—Annie Mosity. A sweet girl—Carrie Mell. A big-hearted girl—Jenny Rosity. A smooth girl—Amelia Rate. A clear case of girl-E, Lucy Date. A geometric girl—Hettie Rodox. A rich girl-Mary Goid. A nice girl—Ella Gant. A flower girl—Rhoda Dondren. ‘A musical girl—Sarah Nade. A profound girl—Metta Pls/!ict A star girl—Meta Qric. A clinging girl—Jessie Mine. A nervous girl—Hester Ical. A muscular girl—Callie Sthenics. A lively girl—Annle Mation. An uncertain girl—Eva Nescent, A sad girl—Ella G. A great big giri—Ella Phant. % warlike girl—Millle Tary.—Boston Her- ald. / Croker’s Best Story. T have heard a good many stories in my time, said Richard Croker, the Tammany “boss,”” but the trouble is to remember them. I enjoy them when I hear them, but they go in one ear and out the other. The best one I can now recall is about Sherift Dunn. Perhaps you know that there is a Thomas Dunn Association, nan:edunner tge sherlmb It is a soclal or- ganization and gives a every year. Last year the%all wuagvm soon after Mr. Dunn was elected and there was a big attendance. One man, an old friend of the Sheriff, got himself up in great shape for the occasion, appearing for the first time in his life in eve::ltnhg dress. He wen Dunn e ball. “Hello, Tom,” he sald; “how do I look in a dress s P “First rate,” sald the Sheriff, “why don’t you get one?” P On another occasion a certaln Tam- many man came to Dunn’s office and told him he was going to be married. ““That’s good news,’” sald the Sheriff, “have you seen Croker about it?""—Life. Taken for a Seidlitz Powder. - e Very old persons and very young sons are apt to_be great sticklers for %‘;:tte.' Queen Victoria is an exam| the one, and Lord Buuclumv?. the Governor of New South Wales, other. Since the latter has oce Government house at Sydney he at T;;at ns ts mn.kemcg!lldu recelmglnl as imposing and digni as possibls. With this end In view he has ordalned that only guests of a ce rank should be permitted to ap ch ‘the presence through designated soon. To these blue tickets are awarded; to others of inferior mold, white. At a recent function, through some misman: lent, an important pul lic man received a blue card, while a white one was sent to his wife, and when_ the pair trr“clg“ %: audience chmbe;o was trouble. The declined to be sep- arated from her the aristocratic blue ranks. An aid-de- camp endeavored to reason with her and explain the commotion that would enste ‘ CITY TREASURY i CAN ANY ONE TELL WHO INSPIRED THE RAID? L e S R et ot S e e if blue and white were suffered to mingle together. But the fair one was equal to the occasion. “Nonsense,” said she, as she pressed for- ward; “what do you take us for? A seld- litz powder?” The aid collipsed. |And yet it is some- | times sald that women have nd sense of humor.—New York Evening Post. —_————— Microbe of Old Age. Dr. Foster of Chicago is not an ardent supporter of the Pasteur theories. He says: “When a man spends his lifo in sterilized clothing, eating sterilized grape: off a sterilized table, washed with ste ilized water and dried with a sterilize napkin, and then dies at the early age of 62, T say his life is useless from a scientific point of view. His mind and time are oc- Cqued in dodging microbes.” propos of which we are happy in an- nouncing to the scientific world that the microbe of old age has at last been dis- covered. He is baldheaded, with no teeth and a trifle sprung in his front legs. —_————— A Giddy Young Thing. “Some scientists say that the earth is thirty million years old.” “Then I suppose that Venus is one of the ballet girls of the solar system.”—Life. ——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MASONRY—Subscriber, City. This de- partment is unable to obtain Information of a satisfactory nature as to whether the individual named in the letter of in- quiry was ever a Mason or not. —T. R. M., Fairmount, Or. There is no prospect that those soldiers who served In the Phillppines and returned to United States on transports will receive ani travel pay. MINING AND AGRICULTURE—G. W. G., City. If you desire information about the mining and the agricultural interests of the State of California call at the of- fices of the State Mining Bureau and of the State Board of Trade, both in the Ferry building, this city. OPENING A LETTER—D. W. C, City. The penalty in Cal‘fornia for opening -a letter addressed to another is that which attaches to a misdemeanor, not to exceed $500 or Imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both. The party aggrieved is llhedone who should prosecute the of- ender. SUPE—C. R., City. ‘“Supe” is used in the theatrical profession i{s the abbrevia- tion of supernumerary and is applied to those individuals who in the plays make up the “army” or fill non-speaking parts and sometimes to the individual who, dressed in livery, enters and says, ‘“Mi Iud, the carriage waits.” The pay of such is from 50 cents to $1 a night. WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP-M. A. M., City. Women who are allens can be- come citizens of the United States just the same as men. The applicant for citi- zenship must make application in the Su- preme or Federal Court for first papers, and in time she can apply for naturaliza- tion papers and obtain them, if she has complied with all the requirements, which will be explained when she receives first papers. BY THE MONTH-—W. P., City. If a man engages by the month to perform any labor, he is, according to the recog- nized rules, entitled to pay for thirty days, whether he works Sundays or not, and if discharged before the end of the month entitled to pay at the rate of one- thirtleth of the month's pay for each day he worked or was in employ. If there are thirty-one days {n a month he has to work the full thirty-one days, for, like rent, the working month is from say the first of the month to the first of the next. TWO SALARIES—F. T., City. The charter of San Francisco says: “Any per- son holding a salaried office under the city and county, whether by-election or appointment, who shall during his term ny office hold or retain any other salaried office under the government’of the United i the | B R States or of this State, or who shall hold any other salaried office connected with the government of this city and county of San Franciseo or shall become a mem- ber of the Legislature, shall be deemed to have vacated the position held by him under the city and county.” | A LOST VESSEL—M. V., City. The ship that some years ago took a pilot on board at the mouth of the Columbia river and was lost was the Cadzow Forest, wrecked in February, 1896. In May following por- tions of the wreck were found. BALLOT BOX—Subscriber, Lewls, Mar- iposa Co., Cal. The Political Code of Cal ifornia does not prescribe the particular kind of a ballot box that shall be used at an election, but it provides before re- ceiving any ballots it must be exhibited to those.present, closed and remained closed until after the close of the poils. RECONSIDERATION—A. 8. N, City. Parliamentary law is that when a motion to reconsider properly belongs to a_vote that has been taken it can be made on the same day on which the vote was tak- en, when a member has the floor, when other business is before the body or when the vote is being taken on a motion to adjourn. [But_action must be deferred until the busi- ness then before the body is d! of. In such case the motion is made and seconded, en- tered upon the minutes and business proceeds before the meeting as before, and as soon as disposed of the reconsideration, 1If called up, takes precederce of all other motions, @cept to fix the time to which to adjourn and to ad- Journ, but if pot called its effect terminates with the session, provided that In an agsembly having regular meetings as often as monthly, if no adjourned meeting is held of the ome at which the reconsideration was moved, its ef- fect shall not. terminate until the close of the next meeting. As long as its effects last, as already shown, any one can call up the motion to reconsider and have it acted upon, except‘ng | that when its effect extends beyond the meet- ing at which the motion was made no one but the mover can call it up at that meeting.} The above is from “Hoot's Digest of Parliamentary Rulings.” Shattuek in “Advanced Rules of Parllamentary Law" says: “The motion to reconsider may be made at the same meeting, or at the one next succeeding that.at which the vote was taken, but not later.” Assemblies are guided by the rules pro- vided in the by-laws, and not knowing under what rules your association is working it Is Impossible to determine if the ruling of the president was correct or not. ————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.* ———————— Special Information supplied dafly to business houses and pyblic men by the Press Cli Bureau (Allen’'s), 510 Mont- gomery lm{ Telephone Main 1042 . If_you're getting a new spring gown, The fashionable gown to get Is the one which every ome’s going to wear But no one is wearing yet. S —Detroit Journal. —_————— Personally Conducted Excursions In Improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist rleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Experienced excersion conductors accompany these exeur- sions to lovk after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Weddesday. To St. Louls every Sunddy. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 628 Market street. et D oo B Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. The best liver medicine. A vegetable cure for Itver il's, billousness, indigestion, constipation.® —_——————— No well regulated household should be with- out a bottle of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. —_— e The Pleasures of Puktlic Life. ““What office is Colonel Bunker rnmns for at present?’ asked the man who Jjust returned from the Klondike. “He isn’'t a_candidate for anything at present,” replied the one who had re- mained at home. “Great George Dewey! What's the mat- ter? Has he been g victim of foul play?™ “No; he succeeded in being appointed ofl gauger about three months ago, and he's been away .on his vacation ever since.”—Chicago Times-Heral: RUSSIAN CIGAR ETTES With Mouthpiece 10 cents for 10 ~ Monopol Tohacco Works \