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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1900. S @all. | F e ;5 | AUGUST 27, 1900 MONDAY.. " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE..Mnrket and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 1. .217 te 221 Stevensom St. EDITORIAL ROOMS 1 Press 202 Telep Delfvered hy Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ingle Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Matl. Incioding Postage: CALL (ncluding Sun CALL (including Sunda CALL (including Sunda CALL—Bv Single Month. DAILY DAILY DAILY wabscriptions. Sample ccples will be forwarded when requested. ir request. CAKLAND OFFICE. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mznager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chicago. (ong Distance T ome “‘Central 2€13.”) XEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: ON ... Heraia Square ...1115 Broadway C NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH,., 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Uniom Square; Morray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eberman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northers Hotel: Fremont Hcuse; Auditortum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC. MO ....Weliington Hotel ON E. CRANE, Cormrespondant. ERANCF OFFICES » Baths—Open Fair, Sac eptember 3 to AUCTION SALES. 17 day, Draft Horses, at B | ture. | mind now. must be some safeguard for the rights of honest men THE FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD. i AD as is the confusion which the combined bosses succeeded in bringing about at the Re- publican primaries, there are good reasons for expecting that order and justice will be brought out of it by the firm action of the Committee of Eighteen | appointed by the County Committee to act as a re- turning board and eliminate fraud from the returns wherever fraud can be proven. What has taken place both in the Republican and in the Democratic primaries in this city is convincing proof of the need of a primary law, and decent mea of all parties should unite to bring about the enact- ment of one at the coming session of the Legisla- That much should be registered in the public Under such conditions as prevail there ¢ primary elections, and such safeguards can be given only by law. i In the meantime, honest Republicans wait with ex- pec good results upon the action of the Com- mittee of Eighteen, surances have been given that a fair investigation will be made, that no snap judg- ment will be taken upon any contested point and that every protest sustained by written affidavits will be fairly and fully considered. That is all the honest Republicans of the city ask for. Herrin and Crim- mins and Kelly virtaally admitted their inability to get a majority of the honest votes of the party when they resorted to the tactics that distinguished them at the primaries. A full investigation will prove that the victory of the better elements of the party has been confused only by cheating, repeating, stuffing and ballot-box smashing. The bosses who instigated such offenses should not be permitted to profit by them 3 Tlve prospect is favorable for a good convention, lled by men whno do not wear the railroad col- iar nor exhale the odor of Mint saloon influences. An honest that v ation of control conven I command the votes not only of Republicans but of indepenc That will mean victory. Everything rests with the Committee of Eighteen. t citizens, The members of that body are charged with a serious | responsibil y. Upon their firmness the success of party in this city is dependent. Should they 1 unswervingly by the principles they have laid all will be well, and they will have rendered to o Republicanism a service which will otten GENERAL DEWET'S ESCAPE. HEN the full story of the war in South Africa \v comes to be written the chapter which nar- rates the marching and the fighting of Dewet since the fall of Pretoria will be one of the most thrill- es in history. in the brief dis- patches coming in one at a time from the seat of war the record shows bril What Dewet has ing ron Even m will give the party a ticket | stronger elements of people of the South have, for | @ one reason or another, tolerated their crimes. If now the punishment of lynchers in Texas means that these elements are going to stand for justice hereafter, the worst of the barbaric lynching that has shocked the nation may be over. At any rate the country will hope so, and draw the best auguries from the action of the people and the courts in Texas. F the country predicting all sorts of dire disasters to the country and the people should gold be established as the standard of value. He said such a policy would make times harder; that every one would suffer except money owners and money changers; that the hope of the toiling masses would be de- stroyed; that the opportunity for work would b= diminished; that the savings of the thrifty would de- crease; that the ability of savings banks to collect their assets would be lessened, and that depositors in the savings banks would have to withdraw their deposits to pay living expenses. To refute those predictions the Republican party need prepare no campaign document. The reports of bank officials afford all the evidence that is needed on the subject. Take San Francisco as an example of the country at large. The reports of the nine sav- ings banks in this city to the State Board of Bank Commissioners show that on July 31 of last year there was due depositors the total sum of $113,204,213 99. A week ago a call was made by the Bank Commis- sioners for statements of business at the close of busi- ness hours on August 11. In response the returns show that there is due depositors the surprisingly large sum of $120,480,827 70, or an increase in deposits of $7,186,713 71 in a little over twelve months. It is to be borne in mind that the depositors in sav- | ings banks are mainly workingmen and working SAVINGS BANKS DEPOSITS. OUR years ago Bryan was going up and down i ing on wages or salari The capitalists and the bus | ness men of the community carry their deposits al- | most exclusively in the commercial banks. Thus this large increase in the savings banks deposits repre- sents the gain that has come in a single year to the wage-earners of the city. It is a showing that car- | ries. unanswerable proof that the gold standard and | the protective tariff have fulfilled, in this city at any rate, all that their advocates promised, and its refuta- tion of the predictions of Bryan is complete. fl entering Peking with the allies, the Russian commander refused to desist from such further acts of war as the destruction of the royal palace and Government propery, giving as his reason that his Government had declared war on China. RUSSIA’S ATTITUDE. unconfirmed report is to the effect that, after It women—persons in moderate circumstances and liv- | | | ton never faced a more brilliant or better | with me admitted readily enough, how- ‘hat—pale blue with pink roses, SALLY SHARP GUSHES A BIT OVER NEw SocieTy BABIESE HERE are three brand new cribs in town and in thefr downy lace- trimmed, beribboned depths three brand new babies repose. The Henry Crockers are rejolcing over a little girl baby; Jimmie Fiood and his young bride are happy over the advent of a tiny, rosy bit of femininity; but the joy of the Crockers and of the Floods is a compara- tively mild affair compared to the glor- fous happiness in the Shortridge apart- ments at the Palace Hotel, where the first crib holds the precious form of Sam- uel M. Jr. Little Samuel M. made his first appear- ance in the Shortridge apartments on Sunday evening a week ago, at exactly five minutes before seven. In less than an hour conscientious Samuel M. senior had immortalized the great register of the hotel by adding to the list of new ar- rivals the name of Samuel M. Jr. Then he added unto himself several inches of chest measurement and a becoming pa- rental dignity, went back to his rooms, weighed his son, tested his lungs, decided what profession little Sam should adopt and then went out and opened any quan- tity of wine, in which the health of the new arrival was drunk by almost every prominent man in town. I saw the new papa on Monday. He was flooding the country with telegrams telling of the wonderful new baby. “Say, you ought to hear him,” he said. “I have decided that he is to be an ora- tor, but I am afraid nature intended him for an auctioneer.” “Is he pretty?” I queried. “Pretty!” he echoed, and then he beamed as that tall fellow always does he speaks of his adored wife. said he. “I should say so. Just looks like his mother.” i e Monday was a gala night at the Colum- bia Theater, and surely Henry Miller in all his triumphant tour as Sidney Carl- dressed audience. 1 thought that Mrs. Joe Tobin was the best dressed woman in the house. Those who did not agree ever, that she certainly was the most at- tractive. She had on a gorgeoous pink gown of some soft clinging flimsy ma- terial, and I'd be afraid to say how very many vards the finely accordion pleated skirt must have consumed. The bolero and tabs of ecru lace gave a decided in- dividuality to the gown, and the black velvet hat with long drooping plumes that Mrs. Tobin wore with the dress just lent the right picturesque touch to a “smashing” ensemble. Miss Agnes Tobin, who was also in the Tobin box, had on a particularly Frenchy o ey It was a pity that the Rothchild-Kohn wedding was such a quiet affair, for it deprived many friends of the charming oot taste. It was of white satin, of course,) smothered in tulle, and the point lace flounces might have paid a king's ransom. As a bride dainty little Irmg astonished all her friends. She was without excep- tion the coolest thing that ever walked in | tulle and orange blossoms. “Do you know?” said her handsome mother, who was all teary at the thought | of being separated from her only daugh- ter, “do you know I could not eat a mouthful all day? But Irma—the size of the steak she consumed a few hours be- fore she faced Dr. Voorsahger—why, it nearly took my breath away.” - ey The very latest is to precede your thea- ter party with a dinner at a downtown restaurant. On Monday evening half the Columbia audience had dinner at fashion- able restaurants before going to the play. Harry Holbrook had a neat little down- town dinner party and then took his guests to “The Only Way.” Olive Hol- brook, of course, was one of the number, and the tan she took on during her sum- | mer outing was still with her. “Keep it | as long as you can, Olive,” say I, “it 1s immensely becoming. . The other day I saw Donald de V. Gra- ham, whom you and I used to rave over, well, not so many seasons ago. I had to MRS. SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE. | cept passionate, illuminated socks. (g a—— Jacques tells one of. He is shorn of)| mustache and his face has taken on a of magenta hue. Nothing is left to one of the idol of our young hearts a good phrase, but not original with I'm quoting a wondrously successful, still, could you believe it, modest ne paper man. 4. 0. Speaking of singers recalls to me splendid reports I heard concerning wonderful improvement of Denis O van. He is in Paris studying hard Cabrillo, and he has added four n his register. O’Sullivan does not s coming home to us, and it will be n year, his frlends affirm, befores we have the pleasure of hearing him e e Marie Wells is over in San Rafaal tif out every man who has the rare pleasure of going out horseback rid with her. Her latest equestrienne was the riding to the top of Tamaly with Lionel Roberts as her escort. started out early in the morning, lunch at the tavern at the top of mountain and were back again at Rafael long before the sun went down, . . The Ponlatowskis, the Mountford S This would install a very startling situation. would place the allies in the position of helping Rus- ntly. Wilsons, the Tobins and the Raoul-Duvals e back again at Burlingame after their be told who he was. He has changed so | I did not recognize him. Did you know young bride of the exquisite pleasure of sceing her arrayed in her gorgeous wed- been doing, and is doing still, is far superior to any- ifferent parts of the coun- thing White did at Ladysmith, or Baden-Powell in an we so gladly paid $4 to hear Del Monte outing. Mr. and Mrs. Waler | sia take the city a power at public war with China | ding gown. The dress was ordered before | that ;m- Loe, . = 2 s i s gl 4 g : | R : 4 PP f the uncle of | Sing in some swell charity opera is a clerk | Hobart, Mr. an rs. Walter Newhhil defense of Mafeking. In fact, he is accomplishing one | and wouldy we think, give the nations they represent | the sad and sudden death of the 1 y a of most remarkable feats in the annals of wa | h - SR Oif hi ‘ 2 f | the bride, when it was intended that the | in Judge Uur}nes court? And, say, the |and Mr. and Mrs. Rober: Colenfhn " riains i E RS Py | the same status as Ru t course, this is insuffer- | weqaing 'should match in splendor the | only singing he does nowadays is to re- | went to Lake Tahoe aftes r stayfa: For weeks General Dewet has been hunted by |able. The United States, France, Japan, Germany | magnificent wedding gown. Irma had |cite in sotto voce the oath that all wit- | Del Monte. Mrs. Henry Scétt has gdne three armies—one under Kitchener, one under Hunter 1 one under Baden-Powell. hese served by sugh subordinate commanders as French, have been | and England were in arms on Chinese soil only to protect the interests of their citizens or subjects and her pick of Parig, New York and local makers. SHe chose San Francisco, he result did credit to her rare good splendid judgment and exquisite | nesses must repeat after him before they may take the stand. There is little of the cld Donald de V. left. He has grown round, like the Justice the melancholy | on to New York to meet her daugh the summer abroad. I icreaulanty. ‘Thé bank | to rescue their diplomatic representatives besieged by ong remarkably even, the | Hamilton, Methuen and Smith-Dorian. Over all has | riotous revolutionists, with whom the Government | ———— e ST RN R s TR R R T : p gt g % an Deen Field Marshal Lord Roberts. It was stated that | professed to be unable to cope. The duty of those ’ [ Ehey are (5 kont. i ieugti; W fout Bowams 17% per cent, against an 5 Y 3 el St Spacrie | G aen s i e sepow , per cent for the past few weeks, | “hen the hunt began Dewet had under his command | nations was clear and they discharged it with ardor THE WORl'Di SWARSHIPS :::”:zli\'n;":[:a;?gr:; i s PERSONAL MENTIO nk clears an indication, business is un- We are just so far behind 1809, neither gaining losing. 1g a better showing, , against 154 for the cor- nor about 7000 men. How many have been on his trail irom first to last has not been stated, but it has hardly been less than 80,000. Nearly every active troop in the British service has had a whack at him at one time or another. He has been surrounded more times than there are letters in his name. He has had ioes to the right of him, foes to the left of him, foes nd succe: Russia did not proclaim any other pur- pose and her presenze with the allies committed her ch made their presence neces- | | to the same policy v sary. There have heen suspicions of a secret understand-" ing between her and the Chinese Government. This declaration that war cxists between the two empires Austria's naval budget for 1990 foots up to $8,222,190, a large increase over last year's expenditure. French gunboat Zelee, built at| Rochefort, made 13.5 knots during her re- | cent six hours’ trial under full power. | A sister vessel, the Decldee, is now on its | o the Orient. The i age for 190 tons, sufficient for 10000 | miles at 10 knots. The cost of each ves- | sel complete with armament is estimated | at $5,796,500, and th will carry 23 offi- | cers and a crew of 67. They have been | named Jules Ferry and Leon Gambetta, and are to be completed early in 1905 and during the middle of 1904, in the order named. Thé batteries are proportionate Mark R. Plaisted of the Fresno Demo- crat is at the California. J. Smith, a prominent mining man jot alt Lake, is at the Grand. Hugh Braunton, a mining man of mora, is registered at the Lick. Joseph Goldman, a prominent mere! of Merced, is stopping at the Grand. S g week in 1899. e ; % : Nl 3 b 2 A 7 - S to the size and general object of thesc| D. W. Kirkland, a leading drugsist ot " i edkiti shore fiactuition. - More | Mot of him and foes behind him; but he has never | might - be in line with such an understanding. If | The Marseillaise, of 10,014 tlnlns ;1: Safya; and rn'np:so four 7 6.inch. sixteen | Los Angeles, s a guest of the Palace. s i it i Tkt r e quota. | Y€t been cornered where he could be held, nor has | Russia claims a state of war the allies can neither aid | Puilt at a French dockyard, b o Cand | 6-4-inch, twenty 3-pounders and four| O. B. Harvey, a big mining man of CCE e JCRYIEL 15 MO, TSR S e e wruck the ading 1 cith succeed ; P ix months after the keel was laid, and |, o, g.rc pesides five torpedo dis- | New Mexico, is stopping at the Grand 5 rompec, Aol ke wiicts vat Thitaio he ever .U'lh»\ the surrounding lines without succeed- | her nor China and th2 two would be leit free to con- | the Suffren was six and a half months in ) by, e ey es Linvaas O e . it b n"'." isco are quoted in better condition: | ‘& in breaking through | clude a peace by a treaty that would give to Russia, | the stocks. Tnssohap peep c‘k;:’:‘",:“;?,"” - | of Marysville, is stopping at the Grasd. e 4 - e \4 + D riti are an f H H g . . . n renc locky: | H g " shoe trade still languishes; fac- | Vel the British are looking for him in one place |as a belligerent, exclusive advantages of the most im.- | improvement In Freach COCRerr S0 0 @<+ 6e¢eootoosoeee® | Thomas Vigus, an extensive ofl specu- are working o part of the tim there is more stock on hand The iron t somewhere else. He has marched over a wide region of country, but he never seems be tired. He is a strategist, a tactician and a fighter, and in each of those departments of a gen- he bobs up serenely to off from wherever he was going, he suddenly appeare1 in front of Baden-Powell’s force and sent to that hero portant nature. Such a treaty might combine the physical strength of the two empires for offense and defense, put the vast military strength of China under expert Russian dazzling in its pi bilities as to stimulate the astute statesmanship of Russia. With such an ally “Adam { | remain years on the stocks. . The Austrian coast-defense ship Haps- | burg is to be launched at Trieste Septem- ber 9. She is one of three of a new type, 353 feet length, 65 feet beam and 23 feet f FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. § : +eee st et eseseg * inch quick firers and two 2.75-inch rapid- | fire guns. . R T S 3 lator of Los Angeles, is a guest of the Lick. > Captain George F. Ellis, one of the for- mer kings of the Klondike, is stopping at the Lick. £ General John F. Kidder, the well-known own by Western dealers, who | CTLs 4ctivity he shines with no mean light. Withal | training, equip the cighty millions of Chinese of fight- | araught, with a displacement of 530 tons. | | raflroad man of Grass Valley, is a guest ctions to their consignees ¢ 1S @ merry warrior and delights in a little joke. | ing age and strength with modern artillery and small | The speed is to be 18 knots, and the armor | e T 2 t long ago, when Dewet was supposed to be far | arms and enable the combined Muscovite and Mongol | Peit IS § feet in hefght and 87 inches max- | % | W. M. Harrlngton, a banker of Colusa, away dnd Ballls was straining himself to head Hir | o5 dote thia | iy 7 Mongol | 5 um thickness. The battery is compo: & accompanied by his wife, is registered away and Buller was straining himself to head hin | {6 defy the world. The reach of such a policy is 5o | ed of three 10.6-inch Krupp, twelve 5. | T4t the Totash: H. Isaacs, first assistant superintend- ent of the Southern Pacific Company at of price reductions here 3 : & W ¢ Los Angeles, i he G 4 a white flag, a n E 5 7 ahe ;2 z ey There are some French naval experts oS nfe es, i3 at the Gragd, orts of a marked increase in | % "It ’_1!;- dem; ‘l"dfl g h]fl_ s“')rrmd‘_crI The Britisher | 7ad the bear” would be the dictator of the destinies | ("5 mor awprove of huge batte-ships. | D. S. [Cone. one of Red uWfrs most S oo it ihie aw the joke and humored it by politely asking in re- | of the world, as far as the awe of a vast military force | and claim that it would be better to | prom\nexu business men, is at the Palace. and will be kevt np | P W hat terms would be granted him. Then before influence them. No wonder the cabinets of | build vessels of 6000 to 8000 tons to have He is adcompanied by his wife. supply get closer together. tant, for an English inquiry t upon the reduced q o- is firm: barley on account of a reduc the Mafeking hero could get ready to strike Dewet was gone. aturday dispatches from Roberts stated that Dewet has buried all his cannon: that his army has been broken up into small bands and the force with him is now not more than 300 men. Pole-Carew and French and all the rest are now scampering after the ttered bands. Perhaps they will catch some of them, but the chances are we shall hear ere long that On can Europe are disturbed by the prospect. If the Board of Education were as successful in keeping secret the results of its scandalous scheming to know in connection with school affairs, there would be less of scandal and more of decency in the records of the School Department. Commissioner Maguire of the Board of Public as it is in depriving the public of what it has a right | all the defensive powers of the present | 15,000-ton ship, but with less speed. N Normand points further to the fact tha the phenomenal speed of 23 Kknots de- manded from some cruiscrs i{s not car- ried ‘out In practice, and that such a speed dwindles down to 13 or 19 knots at sea. An interesting trial took place recently in the Mediterranean, when four ships of the British scuadron were ordered to steam under four-fifths power from a C. C. Hampton, a prominent resident of Marysville, accompanied by his wife and | daughter, is stopping at the Lick. Richard U. Goode of the Geological Sur~ vey, Washington, D. C., i3 registered at the Occidental. He is expected to deliver at an early date another lecture on the scientific work he is now pursuing. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Grove 8. Aydrs . the Government demand 2 s : : | f San Francisco is at the Hoffman. - most of them have succeeded in making their way to point six miles east of Gibraltar to an- - I NERREANG 3 N t- supplies. * The cereal f V v k her point six miles north of Cape Fi- Marion de Vries of Stockton is at the 7 P ! come point agreed upon and have there united for fur®| \Orks wants to declare the tracks of the Southern ;;,f S‘;flm_ The distance was 788 miles, Gerard. ! siderably dur good shape ned off 1 there is ther fighting. Even if the end be at hand, Dewet will be remem- bered as one of the ablest leaders of mounted in- try that ever sat a saddle and fought against odds ten to one. He may not win the independence of his country, but he has proven the ability of his countrymen to fight for it like men, and attested his Pacific Company in the Mission a public nuisance. Does he think that any assertion on his part will give emphasis to what the people of San Francisco have known for years? M. F. Taylor, the Democratic orator, holds out to | us the awful threat that William Jennings Bryan will which the new battle-ship Ocean covered in 46 hours and 54 minutes, an average of 16.8 knots, consuming 520 tons of coal. The battle-ship Renown, four years old, averaged 16 knots; and the Isis and Dido, cruisers of 5600 tons, 16.7 and 16.25 knots respectively. The Russian Admiralty will establish B e R I B T o S o 3 LITERARY PRESCRIPTIONS. For clearness read Macaulay. For logic read Burke and Bacon. For action read Homer and Scott. For conciseness read Bacon and Pope. For sublimity of conception read Milton, ent < market. The professionals are A : s i A { remain in public life until we have dealt with him as tra|:|_lnx c?ul;ze:“aet :’;‘,,‘3‘,:;1‘,’.;"::; ";fa';',‘:; Z For vivacity read Stevemson and Kip- ‘ 2 2 own right to rank among the foremost patriot leaders i b v ucation of ma = a : 5 i r something to turn |y sy g P s | he has d.calt with us. Voters have a solemn duty of arehitects. They will also get the benefit | g "';‘sor e actatin et liseare 7 50 dull. The Basik of ’o. a me. suppression to perform at the polls. from actual working in the navy-yards. | @ -64-0 46464634660 | Job A Engz ¢ bees v strength- & e < = 5 % 2 The United States-navy is the only one e Iy legance read Virgil, Milton and P tly Deca g"c’“”v‘ strength- | THE SENTENCE OF LYNCHERS A visiting military authority says that it looks as if | in which sraduates from the naval acad- Thul‘f&DER FOULARD DRESS. s ey cued by the United States’ subscription | B | . verd. ik B Chi emy are made assistant naval construct- © Indoor dress represented is of 1av- | “For common semse read Benjamin | ¥ our soldiers were “up for a run” in China. The gen- le of ; lemental | ender foulard, with printed patt, " " 2 to over $20,000,000 in go'd UT of Texas comes one of the most cheering : A ors after a couple of years supp ¥ patigrns of a | pranklin. | " - € | tleman may have been perfectly sincere in his mean- | theoretical education in England and | darker shade. Tt is trimmed with Japan- | For simplicity read Burns, Whittier, ased the London money reports that has come out of the South for a ing, but he certainly might have been more judicious | France. Their practical apprenticeship \e:‘:!k‘l):;\d?ne:ilf;d with many colored em- | Bunyan. m read Adas 1 Haw. it further withdrawals of gold long time. It is the announcement that a in expressing ot begins with their commission :l' officers | Oy & at lhzr ;{5’;‘;:‘?"&31““'}5“?} lhl(-);;;mflfll . o esno longer apprehended. Easy | number of men engaged in lynching have been con- gL % £l gogp:;;i:tf 1::;;;!“":“'3';3"::‘; :r_n;? flounce around the bottom. For interest In common things read Jane Ii the soldiers ‘who made a dastardly attack upon Gre oc b s little perceptible effect on the ndon or New York. There is no e air. 2 ! »od. There are no complaints ¢, and the export business of the port | ut 2 b <. Farm products as a rule | 0od prices, and the State at large is | 1 the benefits thereof. Canned and dried | fruits zre very n, with a smaller output of both | conviction for Iynching clear up the dreary si i h size in course of construction B » th \ | 'y situation 3 f _ | the same m these. If there be one thing that I more than than expected carlier in the season, and the tendency |in the South. It} only a sign of the’coming of better search for errors in tlie remarkable document was at | are the Borodino. Orel and Alexander | Removed neither D Yorinser, sword OF | another admire it is the having one’s wits in prices is upward. Gra E : v . WFIEOE an end. III. Their armor belt extends clear fore B e about one—perhaps because I never haq m prices is upward. Grapes are opening at first rate | things. It may be a long time before another oceurs, —_— and aft and is of 10-inch Harvey steel | §he lies neith ;% g mine. To be possessed only of I'esprig i are w ces. with a fair but not large crop. Many products ting the outcome in China. If hostilities there are prolonged and large bodies |of troops are main- tained in the Orient 1ber of farm products will surely feel the cffects of it in higher prices before long. The situation both in merchandise and farm produce i= decidedly bullish, and it would not take much increase in the demand to send prices still higher. D - The Southern Pacific Company is defending itself { ment. | victed of the crime and sentenced to life imprison- It thus South itsel appears that there is a revolt in the against the barbarities that have been committed in that section under the name of lynch w, and that at last an earnest effort is to be made to bring the offenders to answer for their violence be- fore the bar of justice. » One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one Nevertheless, the ¢ountry will be gratified even with this one sign. The record of Southern lynchings has been so hideous and every effort to bring the lynchers to justice has been so feeble and so futile that it scems almost fike the dawn of a new era to learn that the law has at last taken hold of some of the bold of- fenders and sentenced them to an imprisonment which will prevent them from doing further harm. Noyw that the first step in the direction of reform in the matter has bzen taken it is to be hoped the two women the other night had been caught by angry citizens they would have discovered probably that there is a court more summary in its vengeance than a court-martial. Auditor Wells has found another defect in the charter and appears to be surprised. He might be justified in his feelingz if he had discovered that his Frenchman may not have a very exalted idea of some of our attributes, but they certainly have 2 wholesome respect for us as fire-caters. The Kansas City firemen have won from every competitor at Paris, LS AT, Sharkey says he never knew what hit him in his contest with Fitzsimmons. It is unfortunate that the argument of the Cornishman was not sufficiently strong to make the sailor speechless for a while at Knas Potemkin Tavritchesky s the euphonfous name . of a battle-ship being constructed at Nicolaleff, of 10400 tons and 10,600 horsepower, to steam 16 knots. The vessel is nearly ready for launching. Another battle-ship, named Knas Suva- Toff, is to be begun shortly at the Baltic works, St. Petersburg. She will be of A PUZZLING EPITAPH. An anclent epitaph in Latin tn the Cha- teau of Chantilly, France, may be trans- lated thus: Aelia Laelia Crisnis Neither man, nor woman, nor hermaphro- the Tsarevitch type, but larger, of 13,600 tons and 16200 horsepcwer. Others of The batteries are four 12-inch, twelve g- | inch and twenty 3-inch guns. The British torpedo-gunboat Niger is to have new engines and boilers. She was launched in 1892 and made her steam trials in the following year. Eleven boats of that type and size were built at one time, and were expected to develop 4500 horse- power and 21 knots. Only one of the lot, the Speedy, built by Thornycroft, ex- ceeded the horsepower by 202, but gave only 20 knots speed. The average of the others was only 3600 horsepower and 13 ite, Neither infant, young nor old, Neither chaste, d.flraved. nor modest, But er in the sk{ nor in the Tiicis Agathe Crispis, atha Crispis. Neither husband, lover nor friend, But all these. Neither weeping nor rejofeing. But both. Has crected this, neither a_mausoleum, a pyramid nor a sepulchre, But all three, Both knowing and not knowing to whom e hath erected it. This is a tomb that holds no body, ‘This is a body held in no tomb, But Is its own bedy and its own tomb. The answer is not known, and so every nimble wit is invited to exercise itself on For humor read Chaucer, q Mark Twain. 3 For choice of individual words Keats, Tennyson and Emerson. For the study of human nature Shakespeare and George Eliot. For loving and patlent observation of nature read Thoreau and Walton. ———————— PRESENCE OF MIND. d'escaliers is simply an aggravation. As fllustrative of ready witted men, { recall an incident that I have often tolq but never published. Let me do that now in justice to one that is gone. In company with the late J. R. Osgool 1 once of an evening dropped In at Wal. lack's old Fourteenth-street Theater, W, ecould get no sea's. as there was standing room only. At the end of the first act two orchestra seats were vacant in front, anq we walked down and took them. Barely were we seated when two gentlemaniy looking voung men came down the alsig and addre: in the Uni!:dd S;mcs]Cil;fluit ?Imm in a damage suit | supporters of law and justice in all parts of the South Yy / ‘g:.?;ii.‘.'-l”ihu“fi hTI"l: :l"::um. ‘m;; T OS. 9i8 powale “Beg pardon’g'ut have you checks f on the ground that the life of 2 man whom it killed | will take courage and be more resolute than ever i i bout 16 knots. The fault lles 1 those scats?” 1 r in | Some surprise has been created by the fact that | 2PoU ; th - the rg . SORRS] was worthless. And the strangest part of the affair is | their fight against 2 barbarism that has threatencd | James Taylor Rogers has sold his law books. A e | Soar: S Sl Sre sing Umensions and Cal. elace fruit Sc yor at Townsend's*| ] wa- on the polnt of risfps when that the man who was killed was not a Southern Pa- | the very foundations of Southern society. The lynch. Epath apeec Bpectal, tnfemmation supplied daily ta | They hadut St wves wersha bit of cific official. | ers have been bold only because the better and son certainly has the right to dispose of something for I which he never found need in his business. Two armored cru.lnenotfi.flltaum to be laid down at Cherbourg and Brest. the R AR