The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1900, Page 4

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He who nders, by his own apathy and | 1 R cast a does not register sur: negiigence, one of the highest privileges of an Amer- n citizen his own land and virtually d t lares himself to be cither w intelligence enough to form decided opinions on the issues of the times or without pub- lic it enough to care to v for what his intelh gence te him 1s {or the welfare of the nation. Up 1o time the istration omething like than the number of voters who qualified tion of 1866, The population of the ing the four s and in the natu the enrollment of voters should i creas ore evident that there will It is the ver of citizens who will ng the c'os registration. | probability the take place and conscquently those yet cd their names on the roll ) ery one can find the 12 should register to-da % There is no re W the votc houl.l be Jess t {1896, The is v the ¢ of Bryanisn 15 NOW on of an obstinate without e business or in statecrait and almost ism.to rge corpc m 1d to th Supreme Ce the United States, would certainly Sendite al, con nd finan cial affairs of the country to such an extent as to lead to ething like a vniversal panic. The losses that success of Bryan would inte nd would be ie't 3 tize Wh 1 should there be any indifference igent men to the issues of the 15 no law by which a man can be forced to attend to his itical duties except the eat un ten laws of patriotism and of sel He that ss of those laws may neglect to register, re to vote and mock at every other public respon y which citizenship imposes upon him, but he cannot do so with impunity. When workingmen, business men, capitalists and professional men neglect nd leave the eloctions to the control of t gangs that follow them, they have t pay the penalties which bad government imposes, and the penalties of a Bryan government will be heavy in- deed politics and t The choice between prosperity or disaster has to be Ssde hyitbe swople st the molls aud Fone vl v vote in making the choice except those who have regis tered. The closing days of reg tion are at hand Del longer will be dangerous. ‘Get your name o list of voters and then sce to it that yo friends do likewise MORE MONEY FOR TEXA~. —ROM bad to worse is cen for the cy one along the G the com- 1ed co ners’ strike al situation last week would have worn a The former cut down the receipts of and did latter served to render mr more or tton, and the more or less timid as to its opera- . re. Otherwise trade Teports we me time. Orders for iron and stee number of steel mills s resu tion of work and "l the Deering Harvester s started up in after nearly two months of s. Jobbers retailers, in the West and ted g better di tion of good In boot and s oe trade showed signs he lassitude of the past several being received and idle factories though shipments from Boston he Tiveliest staple of the week. Closing 1g week were the highest for t Guli cyclone gave the market a and it advanced by bounds, the rise onding advance in Prospects for large profits tin 1 lines of trade in 110N CauSING a COrresy siactured goods re stimul peciaily as .the English spinners are f and the of supplies a fami more sanguine e in cotton before the redict close « Wool, however, continues weak, I tendency is upward < ris neing bacon is higher and ws ore tone other leading food ples show less change The clearings of the past week broke the otonous record of a 16 per cent loss, which has prevailed for some time, by dropping to 22 per cent ¥ 1895 St hough some of the largest cities, such as Louis etc., which have steadily lost for veered around and exhibited a gain. New Be we to lag behind lastyyear. ilures for the week numbered 1935, against 149 week in 1899, 1l prevails in Wall street. The market over to the professionals, who are threatened coal strike and dis- their precious dollars until they ses is going to jump. London is also at the strike and that bourse, too, I ureless ton conti he sorts of things for Alaskan and eserve th market from ness and the local whole- themselves very weli satisfied with the ers Tepo state of trade bids fair to turn out equally brisk. Specu- n on the different financial and commercial ex- ues dull, but the movement of actua! is and has been good. There are no ciently large to excite comment, the sup- money is ample for all necessitites and collec- e as easy as they ever are. As a rule farm ringing good prices, though the fruit men ng as well as they z to the small size of the fruit, which affects In this respect the fruit crop of the State has cen somewhat of a disappointment, as The Call pre- ed far back as last spring, when the most ggerated estimates of the State’s yield were scat- sred broadcast all over the United States, to the great of the markets. It is bad business policy 1o m enormous crops to the world, for it invari- ably causes Eastern and foreign buyers to expect low prices in consequence and to reduce their bids ac- cordingly. Still, this i tematically doing for years. ndise failures suffy ply « 1ce is | prod did last year. owin, as ere is not much new to report. | It has been a very good summer here | what California has been sys- | 1e record of the reports ther frc Tex The first that fol one an [ wild dispatches after the storm mated the number of dead at 2000, then came the Mayor's esti- mate, made after three days of examination of the | wreck, that the number would reach 5000; now thz reports intimate that while the total list of the dead will never be known, it will not fall short of 8000 and may reach 10,000, Another sad feature of the later reports is the reve lation that the destru he hurricane was almost as dreadful in its effects in the districts around | itself. Fr m the pl e force of Galveston as in the city towns and the villages and fr. ter story of death-and disast the smaller rtations come r and appeal | | story aiter zpreal for help, for food, for medicine and for mone When all is known it will probably be found that in loss of life this has been the most appalling calamity that ever befell the United States and that | in loss of money it will be inferior only to the fires | that swept Chicago and Boston One of the dread evils of the sit ton is the fear of pe ice arising from the unburied | dead. Hundreds of bodies lying upon the beach or | floafing about the bay are decomposing and filling | the air with germs of discase. It is therefore under | the most depressing and horrible circumstances that the busy people are tryi ion in Galves- | ng to bring order out of con- fusion, to bury theif dead, to feed the starving, to heal the sick and the wounded, to give work to the idle, to check the looting by thieves and to get ready for the rebuilding of their homes. All that can be done by kind hearts and liberal hands to assist them in that-work should be done. There should be no help given. Let it go forward mptly, for it is needed in full meas- ure and it is needed now Contributions from all the States of the Union have thus far been most liberal and the people of California | have well upheld the traditions of the generosity of | their State. We must not, however, be content with what has been done. So long as every report from Texas shows an increasing magnitude of suffering, so long must each day show an increased subscription to the relief fund. ‘“*Human virtue,” as Robert Lee said, “should be equal to human calamity.” This has been one of the most appalling calamities of our time and thetefcre the virtue of the American people should show itself more potently than ever. For the relief of a distress so dreadful there should be ex- hibited a record-breaking generosit: W viggardimess in the | abundantly and p THE VAAL RIVER COLONY. ITH the flight of Kruger to Portuguese terri- tory the last fragment of the South African re- public ends. Botha and Dewet and certain minor leaders may struggle in arms for a time, but | they do not even pretend to constitute a government, and their struggles wi!l not be counted as war. The | Transvaal republic has passed out of existence, and in | place of it is the British provinc€ known as “Vaal | River Colony.” 3 | The event in South Africa will doubtless be | promptly followed by a dissolution of Parliament and | a call for the election of a new one. The Salisbury | Ministry has been successful in war, and the time is | therefore favorable for making an appeal to the coun- | try. Moreover, it will be good statesmanship as well ias good party politics to have a new Parliament at | this time. The present Parliament is nearly at the | end of its term, and is therefore unfitted to undertake { a work which will of recessity cover a long series of l')‘ears, apd such a work will be that of reconstructing SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, He maies himseli something of an alien ! | crimina challenge the triumphant Tories. Doubtless they { will favor granting to the Boers a large measure of | seli-government, while the Conservatives will pro- | pose a more stringent policy. It will be an excellent | test of the temper of the British constituencies on the fsubjcct of respect for the rights of the conquered, and | the election will engage the attention of liberty loving | people in all parts ozhe world. In the meantime “De: been captured. The airmed resistance to British con- | | trol goes on, and it will be necessary for the empire to maintain there a lurge force for many years to | come. That fact will have no little influence upon the | mind of the British voters and may incline them to support the Tories in whatever plans they formulate for holding the Boers in subjection. The chances of the success of the Liberals are therefore very slight. | The Tories are likely to have control of Parliament tor another seven years, and since isbury, on ac- count of his age, can hardly hold the Premiership that the prospects that Chamberlain will become Prime Minister of Great Britain and attain an carldom good. lly pHio a4 NM P.CIORAL IVE journalism at Caf® Nome has reached tt L altitude of pictorial work. No longer do the residents of the bhoom camps along the gold lust strand have to rely who!ly upon printed’ words or the news of the day. There has been established in the meciropolitan camp of the coast “The Non Daily addition to its erary features, the spot and is an The editor, Chironicie,” whi he in is made s pic on to-date newspaper in ever: ect. A. H re: red is the w The Call, and the venture is ther From the first number of the paper we learn many A picture on the first page. presenting a view of the principal thor- oughf of the camp on a rainy day, shows a team passing the Chronicle of knee- deep in water. gest eiore in good hands. interesting things about Nome e ice with the horses Another picture, showing the “I store in Nome,” exhibits a barn two stories high, with a dofty attic. We are told the dimensions of the structure are 40x140 feet, the work of erecting it occupied a full week and the cost of the lot on which it stands was $30,000 The thir! nd last picture of the pumber is a cartoon of a woli | in the clothing of a man and is labeled “The Nome | Beach Wrecker at Work.” A paragraph points | the moral of the artist in the statement, “The only wrecked seaman to save the money on his mercantile good-sized way for person is to sink before reaching the beach.” There appear fo be a good many good things lack- | ing in the city. The Chronicle says Nome must have fire and police protection, sidewalks and street cross- ings. To obtain such things it will be necessary to incorporate and to incorporate it will be necessary | to get Judge Noyes to consider a petition for incor- | hut it has been too busy to give audience to merchants or poratio | consideration to such subjects as municipal improve- that it ome is to be a self-governed city | Some of the items of news run thus: “Smallpox | goes. rain comes, but the footpad #s with us foréver.— The who to be receiving the chiei rent, so is still an open question whether or not. people ts of this country are aptly known as ‘receiv- ers.'—The question of caring for the indigent poor is still agitating the community. What is to be done with the other portion of the population—the indigent rich?>~Governor Brady has great ideas of the agricul- tural future of Alaska. We hope he is right. We however, that the climate and soil of the district seem better suited for raising legal alities than for the production of potatoes.” appear benef | confess, | Nome techni One of the editorials of the paper demands the en- forcement of some system of compelling vagrants to work. It says other city in the United States; why should there n here is a law for vagrancy in every be one here? There are no doubt many deserving in Nome. but there are also any number of confidence men and dissolute characters, poor who shrink from the suggestion of honest work as the devil shrinks from holy water, and who would not turn their hand to labor were they paid $10 a minute for so doing. Many of these people are so well known that there would be no difficulty at all in getting at them. me needs many improvements that require the services of hard-working laboring Why not put a liberal interpretation on the vagraucy law, arrest these fellows and put them where they will be forced to hustle for the general good of « community to which they are now a disgrace and 1 danger. A few such arrests, followed by swift pun- ishment, will start an exodus that will open the eyes of those who are worrying over plans with which to meet the situation.” Ii will be seen that Nome has many of the problems of larger and less golden ci Moreover, it appears men they are dealt with elsewhere, by using them as in- centives to political action. We are told: “The Nome Frogress Club, started in the interest of municipal im- provements, will ere long be exercising its energies in the political field, if the speech delivered before the club last night by Rev. Raymond Robbins may be tzken as ‘a keynote. The club's members are, for the most part, responsible business men and it is very much to be hoped they will not be idle in any cam- paign fought in Nome this fall.” Thus it will be seen it would be useless to fly to Nome for relief from problems and from politics. Sar. Francisco folks might as well stay at home. Bryan is not howling for free silver this year, nor jumping on the Supreme Court, nor ripping up the trusts. It appears that when he determined to make ! a masquerade of this campaign he not only put an anti-imperial mask over his face, but changed his voice to suit the frolic. belief that Olney is followinz | There is a growing enough to the head of the procession to get the Democratic nomination himself four years from now. Count von Waldersee was quite right in taking a house along with him to China, for it luoks as if the tangle there would last long enough to require him 1o adopt the place as a permanent residence. FLERIES i The vote in Maine and Vermont may have been rest of the country in November will make the Bryanites apathetic for four years to come. The people of San Francisco have reason to con- gratulate themselves. Our local colony of pugs has become so thoroughly disreputable that its members South Africa. Naturally, before entering upon the | work, Salisbury will 2ppeal to the country and ask a ! new lease of power. | The elcclipns_will at once raise an issue concerning [!hc policy to be pursued in the conquered country. | Many of the British Liberals have been opposed to the | annexation of the two South African republics, but the annexation is now accomplished and the Liberals 1 will have to devise some other ground upon which to » despise themselves and threaten an exodus. According to the census returns the population of Lincoln, Neb., has fallen off over 27 per cent, so it is clear Bryan's talk drives away more than it at- tracts. e BN R e Public opinion is fast receiving its vindication. Even the' School B.Oild is beginning to realize a sense of its own delinquencies. a i % SEPTEMBER 17 wet and Botha have not yet | 1l-known correspondent of | said by the Chronicle that the Judge the people purpose to deal with them there much as | Bryan this year only with the idea of keeping near | apathetic, but it was enough. A similar vote in the | 1900 - SOCIETY: RV 1 | ARIE OGE is having a little niche built into the corner of her room to hold her trophies—four silver cups—all won in the chase, and which proclaim her possibly the Ibest horsewoman in the State |4 Marie is preity e is chic, and M._;rIe Thight count (if she could take the time {from her horse) her admirers by the score. But khe won't. She has only | thoughts for her hors Now her only ‘ ambition is win. My! but didn't we have fun at the wed- {ding of Clara and George Mar- tin. My co een troubling me the other cups she hopes to i little bit heard that the bride and groom did not drive all the way i the in the carriage we so boun- teo srated for th but had a | plai looking hack waiting for ithem round the corner, into which they i and made their train. 1 have + such ed carriage, and to tell the truth I never expect to see such We tied the horses—hand- I rourd with broad until there was an un- spot on them from blinkers to we covered the roof of the :d the correct coachman with s y best,”” and a of ais- repujable lcoking s d find to hind wheels. Whew! a sight! And what f But j ame I'm George suspected just wble of and prepared for Klad Florenc what we were ¢ the emergen topkins' wedding on the 2th is be viul swell affair. ee v &na fifty invitations have been and fully three hundred will be nt to see the stately beauty her hand to lucky Gus Taylor. Six of the mcst popular girls in her own ex- ol set will attend the bride. None will rejoice in the title of maid of honor— all will be known as bridesmaids. and t re: Edna Hopki Georgia = ro Crockett, May Scott, Car- Taylor and Mollie Thomas. Every- is ing that the wedding an engagement will be nnoun which Iad the interested parties chosen to make it public before might have made the at | Hopkips home on the 28th the scene of a double wedd “Fruits et read the invitations held on to the Carclan stable party to I the evening of the 25th, and, my! what a time the girls have had to live up to the “Fruits et flieurs.” The fruits, 1 believe, will hz et of it, and I know of I at le sweet, luscious th s who ing as peache: Porothy Collier | had intefded to g Grapes,” but that me friends and the; is | began talking, and there were things said 1l off. She told s | about the fruit and the god Bacchus, and { pretty Dorothy had a chill and now she is | &oin, no, 1 won't tell, for it would not | be fair. PR Walter Dean is ill and Mrs. Walter Dean (Emily Hager) is worried to death on his account, and in her worry enduring much more pain than her pa- tient, suffering spouse. Anybody the Hager-Dean romance will un- nd how keenly young wife suf- . When a man and a woman love ch other for eighteen consecutive years | before the arch to the inspiring strains of Mendel: >hn or Wagner it is not hard | to imagine that the keenest must exist between them. When Walter | Dean was wearing kne ors and Emily had her soft brown a-hanging | down her back they were already sweet- { hearts. Then they grew up and their hearts remained steadfast and true, al- though the course of tl | aia not run smoothly. Speaking of true | love, what a fortunate thing it is that its | course is over hill and dale, now smooth, | now stormy! That is the charm of love | at least the girls think so. But to return to my Joving hearts. For seven whole years previous to the day that Emily | r said the th little words Walter | Dean proposed to her eyery time he got the chz Now can any one be aston- ished that this rarely devoted couple e another? ‘_ and suffer out of very sympathy for | Another case of seven years' wooing is that of Dr. and Mrs. Page, dear, sweet who | ympathy | unvarying love | . BY SALLY SHARP. ITS DELIGHTS AND ITS MANY WORRIES MARIE OGE IN FANCY DRESS. MISS OGE IS PROBABLY THE FINEST HORSEWOMAN IN THE STATB | AND IS THE PROUD POSSESSOR OF FOUR HANDSOME SILVER TROPHIES WON IN THE CHASE. | Mamie Burling. T don’t believe that there is a prouder husband in the world than | the handsome doctor, and his particular | bit of vanity centers round the peachy | | complexion of his wife. I was at a din- ner the other day and the doctor just bubbling over with vanity. “Look at that skin,”” he remarked, touching with | gentle finger his wife's soft, creamy cheek. ‘““What do you think of that com- plexion?” and looking much vainer than | any peagock, he concluded: “We buy | | that for 'S0 cents a box.” PR Susle Blanding, with her aunt, Lena Blanding, for chaperone, will spend the winter in the East, dividing her time be- tween the Empire City and the nation's capital. Susle is such a jolly girl and, possessing as she does, the happy knack of making and holding friends, it is a fore- | gone conclusion that she will have a glo- rious time. | Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hart have return- ed after a most delightful European tour. s girls read every ome of letters to his paper during his abroad and, judging by that alone, we are willing to wager that no man ever ate =0 many and such good dinners in so many different places as did the fash- ionable editor. Mrs. Neville Castle, who enjoyed a short | and successful lacal stage career some | months back, is in New York anxiously | pleading with the Gotham managers for a | chance to show the New. York public | what a talented California girl can do. | was — | While Mrs. Castle in the East is trying | to gain fame and the always accompany- | ing wealth, Mr. Castle is in Nome pur- suing the fickle goddess Fortune and hop- {Ing soon to get back to his Mary with his pockets not only lined, but bulging with gold. John Merrill and his charmingly fasci- nating bride (Olive Snider) have returned from their extended Eastern honeymoon trip and are prepared to take up life se- | rfously in a little town cottage. Olive, I have heard, is going to entertain in a | small and very informal way. She always | knows just how to do things, besides be- ing noted for originality, and I for one | am ready to wager there will be jolly | times in the Merrill Jr. home. | Mrs. Monroe Salisbury is arranging for { her popular fortnightly cotillons and ¥ | vitations for the seven dances to be held | during the season are being eagerly sought for. As usual, the gathering of the swell club will be held at Lunt's Hall land the first dance will take place on the evening of Novemiaer 2. | Another newcoger, pretty and rosy, has | been added to tHe list of debutantes for the year 1918. She is a charming little | girl baby and belongs to Dr. and Mrs. Redmond Payne. The Paynes think she s quite the sweetest and dearest thing on earth) and their opinion is shared by Mr. | and Mrs. John I. Sabin, who are inordi- { nately vain and proud, and are already | teaching that baby to say “grandpapa’ and “grandmamma.” THE WORLD'S WARSHIPS has received a large order for guns for | | Krupp. the great gunmaker at Essen, | | | the Turkish navy. The British cruiser Isis, 5600 tons, aver- | | aged 16% the Med fitted with the old type (Scotch boilers) which Mr. | to confuse the boilers. ots speed on her vovage from advocates of knot | bas sold two twenty-six boats to Turkey for $334.400. were built for the Italian navy, but the straightened condition of that country's finances permitted the sale of the boats she was unable to pay for. Wireless telegraphy is being established along the coast of England. The old armored . eruiser Minotaur, located at Portsmouth, Is having a mast bullt 150 feet in height. Five other masts of 150 feet are to be placed on as many head- lands between and including Dover and the Scilly Islands. Psilander, Swedish torpedo cruiser, had her official trial last month at Stockholm and made a speed of 20.5 knots with 4500 horsepower. The vessel is of S00 tons and is fitted, Wke all the latest vessels in the Swedish navy, with Yarrow watertube boilers. A sister ship will shortly be fin- ished and four small armored vessels of 3650 tons and 5000 horsepower are under 1cn)nsn'uz:flon in Swedish yards. The joint Invention of Degraz and Bal- thazar, two French engineers, Is of the greatest value to submarine craft and is claimed to do all that the inventors prom- ised as far back as February, 1899. They make use of dioxide of sodium, which, under the action of water becomes oxXy- gen and soda. The latter is then utilized to absorb the carbonic acid of the vitiated alr, thus keeping the supply of oxygen pure. The Russian cruiser Novik was launched at Elbing August 15. She is intended to | be the fastest war vessel of her type and size in the world, and being fitted with triple screws and engines of 18,000 horse/ power she is likely to attain such a speed on a displacement of only 3000 tons. She !is 347 feet 10 inches in length and 40 | feet beam. Her coal capacity is 500 tons, | sufficient for 6000 miles at ten knots, and her armament consists of six 6-inch and six 4.7-inch rapid-fire guns, besides smaller machine guns. The new royal yacht Victoria and Albert has passed through two of her stipulated trials of forty-eight hours at sea with sat- isfactory results. The first was under one-half power, which gave 5142 horse- power and a speed of 16.3 knots with a coal consumption of 1.94 pounds. The second trial, also of forty-eight hours, developed 7625 horsepower and an average speed of 18.3 knots, the coal consumption bef again 1.94 pounds as on the first trial. e yacht was to start on August 25 for her final trial of eight hours under full power, during which she is expected to make twenty knots with 11,000 horsepower. The vessel is down, to her load draught and displaces 4700 ton: The Spanish Premier, Senor Silvela, Is confronted with a very difficult problem to reorganize the remnant of the navy. He has, however, undertaken to act as erranean to Hongkong. She is| len is sure to make a note of, | vatertube | watertube | renewal. — | for the personnel of officers, 4500 seamen Ansaldo, the noted shipbuilder at Genoa, | and 300 marines, but most of the money | torpedo | The boats | Minister of Marine and one of his first acts was to strike off the list and order the sale of no less than fifty vessels. Most of these condemned ships were antiquated, but there were also some new, notably the cruiser Lepanto of 4826 tons, launchied in 1862 and credited with a speed of twenty knots. The boilers of nearly all the ships which remain on the active list are in a bad state, those of the armored cruiser Carlos V, launched in 189, and the Pe- layo's, put in only two years ago, require The sum of $4,600,000 was voted soes to maintain the dockyards at Ferrol, Cadiz and Carthagena, and the Admiralty, which swarms with officers of high rank. Senor Suvela 1s confronted with the dilem- ma of permitting things to go on as usual or to ask the Cortes to reorganize the naval service to reform abuses and abol- ish sinecures. JUDGE CO0K and MRS. CRAVEN. Editor Call—A scene was enacted in Judge Carroll Cook's court last Friday afternoon which I believe to be without parallel in the judicial history of this or any other civilized country, and which every lover of justice and fair play in San Francisco will pray may never be repeat- €d within the limits of our fair city. It was a scene that ought to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every just man and woman in this city. It is doubt- ful if such an outrage would be tolerated anywhere in the dominions of the Czar of Kussia, the Sultan of Turkey or the Snah of Persia. A woman, a citizen of this free city, who has been confined to her bed for tne last three months by severe iliness, and wno was, a week ago, stricken witn paralysis involving half ner body, was compeiiea by order of Judge Cook to attend ms court to ve arraigned upon a_ lengthy indict. ment, aespite the fact that three repu. tableana wistnguished physicians had cer- luned to her neipiess conaition and to the Ganger of compelung her aitendance in €ourl under the circumstances. ‘Lne cruel order was carried out by three Deputy Sherifis, who lifted the unfortun- ate woman, sick almost unto death, from ner bed at the Palace Hotel and carried her Into the courtroom. e ) is not for me to udgemen stand, the law presumes to be innocent until she is proved to be guilty, but I am decidedly of the opinion that the ends of Justice nelther dlem::.d nor Justify the cruel and unseemly haste insisted upon i lhs(i m‘:uer. i 5 et e my ent and I would be derelict in my dlxly':;l 'E'hrl&‘: my patfent and recreant to every senti- ment of humanity if I did not enter my earnest protest against such a barbarous proceeding. From my point of view the conduct of Judge Cook In the matter was absolutely inexcusable and wholly unjustifiable, and if the unhnfpy ‘woman had died under the cruel ordeal to which he subjected her he would have been morally, and I believe legally, responsible for her death. n conclusion I wish say that™ Craven-Fair has not sought 'yl'e(u(: ?r‘o the law under the plea- of insanity.” On the contrary she has been anxious to ap- pear in court.and answer the charge of miury Which she denounces as faise and ness o %o ippearand Snswer Bas grent- r b s 4 g“A. cxflf:"'mx M. D. San Francisco, September 16. RSONAL MENTION. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare is at the Palace. H. A. Schulz, a well-known rancher of Porterville, is registered at the Grand. P. H. Molse, a merchant of San Luls | Obispo, is staying at the Grand for a few days. W. J. T. Orr, a prominent resident of | Santa Rosa, is at the Lick, accompanied | by his wife. A. McKinney and F. J. Dunham, two ‘prominent New Yors merchants, are guests at the Palace. State Bank Commissioner A. W. Barrett is staying at the California. John W. Nichols, son of Right Rev. Bishop Nichols of California, is registered | !arrlved from Los Angeles yesterday and | | | at the Occidental from San Mateo. E. L. Conger of Pasadena, a brother of | United States Minister Conger, is regis- | tered at the Palace with his wife and son. M. C. Gorgas and wjfe and G. C. Sweet, U. 8. N., came down from Mare Island gel(:rlduy and registered at the Ocei- lental. —_— SERVED HIM RIGHT. He carefully prepared the small gar- den plot, while his wife, deeply interest- | ed in his labor, stood watching him. After | he had put in the seeds and smoothed over the bed his wife took his arm to | accompany him to the house, and on the way she asked: “When will the seeds come up, John?" Layimg his hand caressingly on her | shouller, the smart man said: “I 8on’t expect them to come up at | all, my dear. ed. “Then why ou don™ she excl: have you gone to all that trouble?" { With a smile that springs from superior | knowledge he answered. “The seeds won't come up, but the plants and flowers will by and by.” |, Yet he was 'l’nhfi_ for his neighbor's hen got into his garden and the seeds did come up.—Colller's Wegkly. HER INEXPENSIVE AMBITION. | [Well, little Emily, T suppose you want | t4 be a soclety leader when you grow | up *‘Oh, no, Unele Jerry. Oh, TUncle Jerry, when I grow up le’s me an' you have a horse an’' wagon an’' peddie tinware out in th’ country.” AT THE SUICIDE CLUB. First Member—FHas the last brother who drew the black bean decided on his method of leaving the world? Second Member—Yes. He told me ne intended making prohibition speeches in Kentucky this fall—Philadelphia In- quirer. ————— | Cal glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's * [ Spectal | information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 Mont- gomery,st. Telephone Main 1042, B ——— | During the last five years the Presby- terfan church in the South has gained | about 15,000 communicants, while the ag %Wntflbutlous have increased near'y HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Spectal rates still in effect at this beautiful home, where summer and winter are.ome. At 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, get Tates with special round-trip summer ticket. | | —_—