The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 18, 1900, Page 18

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His state- eories but upon facts which collected, and the result should ment New York is not a suf- inistration there is fairly economi- , considered from a moral standpoint, the Tammany, through its con- police, deliberately uses the Sin and folly are encov nity, and their income is blackmailed Jichop Potter shows figures to prove ker's organization derives from its taxation ime and vice an income of nearly five millions a This is partly used to retain its politi- , and the rest is divided among Athe big s, who, with no visible or honorable means of support or profit, are rolling in sin-derived riches. Conditions have become eo startlingly rotten that the public conscience is quickened, and even the easy- going, who are satisfied if their tax bills are not high 2nd the streets are cleaned, are becoming disquieted 2nd show a willingness to even pay more taxes if the city can be morally cleansed. hop Potter is not given to sensational state- ments. He is 2 man of steady judgment. In a letter to Mayor Van Wyck, Croker’s agent and minion, he says: “I call upon you, sir, to save these people, who in a very real way are committed to your charge, from a living hell, defiling, deadly, damning, to which the criminal supineness of constituted authorities, st for the defense of decency and good order, threatens to consign us.” These words tear and cut as they are uttered. They @do not come from a mere impulsive sentimentalist, government ftrol of the c ity as bs is rot v aged THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMERCIAL HONOR. ' | HE Santa Ana Blade very properly and im- pressively warns the orange-growers of South- ern California that they must cease rushing their | fruit in an unripe condition into an early market. | This State is in a position to control the citrus fruit | and raisin market of the country, as well as to domi- | mate in canned and dried fruit. But this can be dope only by observing strictly the rules of commercial honor. This State, in its fruit production, can outdo the world. Our wines and brandies, and our other products of the vineyard and orchard, are easily the | best and are the greatest in variety. For every pound profitable market, at home and abroad, if we will sternly adhere to commercial honor. | that commercial intelligence is also required. Dif- ferent markets require different methods of prepara- tion. Our export trade in canned and dried fruits | should be studied more thoroughly. The countries to which we export are accustomed to a different “n'ethod of packing from that which is acceptable to the home market. Abroad, goods are most accept- able in glass packages. The eye must be pleased as well as the palate. We import French peas, and ber- in glass. An examination of the packages shows that the greatest care is observed in packing, so as to strike the eye. The color and form of the fruit are studied and the artistic sense is present in the whole process of preparation. The same is true of dried fruit. We have impressed Furope with our prune | product, and foreign producers admit their inability to compete with it, either in price or quality. Our other dried fruits are following the cleavage made by the | prune. As far as that market is concerned its com- plete conquest is only a matter of agreeable packing and first-class quality. The subject is immense, and | immensely affects the whole industrial future of Cali- | fornia The suggestion of the Santa Ana pgper covers par: it. The Southern Cali a orange ripener. market is a mistake. It not only injures the citrus | product of that section, but destroys the symmetry of | the State's capacity. The Northern California orange, with the center of its field at Oroville, Butte County, nearly in the latitude of Chicago, is an early ripener. For several days the fine Oroville orange has been in the market here, in perfect condition. It has been exported East for the Thanksgiving market there, and Southern California should be content to let it fill the ezrly demand. To unfairly compete with it, with un- e fruit, is to damage the reputation of the whole crop of the State and discourage further planting in the north. If the market were treated fairly the repu- | tation of the State as a citrus producer would be_ | greatly enhanced. Tt would then be demonstrated to t} of is late a son of any part of the world. Our northern orange strike the trade, in 1d ul v ovember, in excellent con- cition and hold it from November to January, and | then the Southern California orange would follow, filling the demand until spring. The trade would glad to discover that our season of perfect fruit covers about seven months in the vear, a long season that neither Florida nor Mexico nor Sicily can hope to Tivz If the south will refrain from crowding the et with oranges that should be left on the trees the orchards of the north will be greatly increased to supply the early demand, and the south will be in no way injured, for the northern fruit does not compete with it at all in point of time. Instead of shipping | unripe oranges to the Fast, Southern California should be a customer for our earlier fruit, as we are for her later crop. 5 | A little less desire to make a present profit, at the | risk of destroving a rising market, would greatly | benefit the whole State. e ———— New York is Democratic and the State is Republi- | can, so the Republicans purpose to establish a State | constabulary so as to take the city police force out of | Democratic hands; St. Louis is a Republican city | and Missouri is a Democratic State, so the Demo- | crats purpose to have a State constabulary to taks | It would appear | | control of the St. Louis police. from this that among our Eastern fellow citizens the police force is regarded as the biggest thing in poli- tics. | B —— | AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GEORGIA. | T the last session of the Georgia Legislature a bill designed to restrict negro suffrage was introduced, but failed of passage. Now an- | other bill with the same intent, framed on the model | of that recently adopted in North Carolina, has been | brought forward, and it remains to be seen whether the Georgians will stand by their right decision or fol- low the evil example set them by so many of their sister States. i Georgia has now an opportunity to do much to | redeem the South from the discredit that has come upon it through the tricks devised and adopted to de- J feat the intent of the constitution and deprive the | negro of the franchise conferred upon him as a recog- |nition of his rightful place in American citizenship. The Georgians can make no just complaint of fears of fruit and every pint of wine and brandy there is a | Let it be added | The hurry to crowd it into the Thanksgiving | rket that California has the longest orange sea- | but from a wise citizen, who is under no romantic illu- | of negro domination. Equal suffrage has prevailed sions sbout human nature, but believes that govern- | there ever since the close of the war, and the State ment is instituted to repress vice and not to share its | during most of that time has been under full control profits. | of the whites. It has had a fair degree of prosperity, The metropolis of the continent should be morally | and of late, since the people have turned their atten- ts well 2s physically the pride of the country. No one | tion to mining and manufacturing as well as to cot- 2n doubt that New York, under the conditions fos- sred by Croker and Tammany, is the odium of the United States. Without believing that vice can be extirpated by funy ‘official vigilance, all men know that it can be minimized and restrained. The sympathies of the country will go out to any body of men who make a brave fight to break up the vice factory which is the source of Croker's power and pelf. o ——— If Field Marshal Roberts wishes to get that earldom he would better turn the war in South Africa over to Kitchener and hurry home. The struggle is be- coming exasperating to the British, and very soon they will begin blaming h'm for the whole business, A movement has been started in the East to make the second inaugural of McKinley the grandest dis- play of the kind ever seen; and the occasion me-its it, for the election came nearer being unanimous than ‘any we are ever likely to see again. Congressman Catchings of Mississippi advises the Democratic party to drop Bryan, free silver, anti- imperialism, trust regulation, government by injunc- ftion and appeals to the classes, and to start in again 2nd make 2 fight for free trade. % ), They are very fond of politics in New York, for Vile their city election is still a year off they are Peady talking about it instead of paying attention t. 1e approach of Thanksgiving. The talk about reforming Democracy would be sore valuable if some one would devise a means of seforming the Democrats. ¥ ton growing, the advance of the State in population and in wealth has been one of the most notable in- dustrial features of the decade. Consequently Georgia nas no grave evil to complain of. On the contrary, her people have every inducement to let well enough | alone. At the time when the former bill was under consid- | eration it was opposed by a large majority of the in- | fiuential men of the State, and its defeat was easy. Those men declared at that time that the true policy | of Georgia is to leave suffrage as it is, and to seek by education and by industrial development to fit the negroes for the rights of citizenship by treating them rightly. In other words, the negroes were to be in. sfructed in the duties of citizenship by practicing those duties. It is true that much of this excellent preaching on the part of the Georgians was hypocritical, for the negro vote has been virtually suppressed there by in- | direct methods, and a Republican ticket has no chance of success; but still a considerable part of it was sin- | cere and honest. Even that which was hypocritica} was at least a tribute to honesty, for it was a recogni- | tion that equal suffrage is in itself desirable. It is to be hoped the Georgians will not fall back from the position they took at that time. The pa- triotism displayed by the Southern people during the Spanish war has banished the last lingering prejudice that may have existed in the North against them, and it is known that the present administration is desirous of advancing Southern interests and breaking up the unnatural condition of politics that prevails there. If the Georgians, therefore, will only show a willingness i to co-operate with the better elements of the whole country in dealing with the race problem, they will not only profit themselves but will: confer a benefit | upon all their sister States of the South. As usual, an investigation of a local scandal has | been made, guilt has been proved and no one upon whom to shoulder blame has been found. The milk ‘and water outrage at the City and Couhty Hospital 1 is another example of the farce of seeking to uncover | public rascals. od R ) | THAT IDEAL PAPER AGAIN. R. PARKHURST of New York, who was famous a few years ago and who may not be forgotten yet by persons of good memories, recently told a reporter of the New York Herald that | 2 syndicate of wealthy men in that city are seriously | discussing the advisability of establishing an ideal newspaper. The doctor defined an ideal newspape- as one that is at once “enterprising and truthful.” | He is quoted as saying: “When we read a news- paper we do not know whether we are reading the | truth. We have a very strong presumption that we are not. I am speaking, remember, of the average paper. At the present time there are some who are anxiously considering the matter of establishing a journal for the purpose of telling the truth, and suffi- ciently capitalizing it so that it will have no trouble in telling the truth.” The theory here announced that there must be a large capitalization in order to enable a paper to have “no trouble in telling the truth” is one which we trust is peculiar to New York. That, however, is a minor matter. The main point is the reliability of the exist ing newspaper, and upon that point the Boston Globe was printing a complete answer to Parkhurst just about the time Parkhurst was making his charge that people do not rely upon newspapers. The Globe announced to its readers on the 11th of this month, that is, five days after the election: “Mr. McKinley has not been re-clected and Mr. Bryan has not been defeated. There has been no choice pf Presi- dent. Even the Electors have not been chosen.” Then the Globe went on to say: “To be sure, 15,000, - 000 voters went to the polls and cast their ballots full five days ago, but these votes have not been duly counted and declared in any one of the forty-five States of the Union. How, then, can we be so cer- tain who received a majority? There is positively no official information. All we have seen thus far is ‘mere newspaper talk,’ and every cautious, long-faced | citizen in the community will solemnly warn you not te ‘believe anything you read in the newspapers.’ ” | The point which the Globe so cleverly makes ex- | poses the absurdity of the oft-repeated assertion that the public cannot and does not believe the newspapers. As a matter of fact the whole civilized world accepts the report of the newspapers upon the result of the | Presidential election, and hardly one in a thousand has more than a passing curiosity to know what the official figures will show. As in that case so in all others. The newspaper of to-day is about as near Dr. Parkhurst’s ideal as it is possible for human energy, honesty and enterprise to accomplish. There are fake papers, of course, just as there are fake preachers in the church, but they are not to be counted in questions affecting legitimate journalism. The people know papers of that kind and are not déceived by them except where they wish | to be deceived for the purpose of satisfying prejudice. Still, if Dr. Parkhurst knows a syndicate of wealthy men who are willing to try to im;)rove on the press | of the day we will guarantee them a cordial welcome tc the field. Our wealthy men can never be too en- | terprising, and money sent streaming through the | channels of journalism is just as beneficial as in any other channel. If the people of San Francisco entertained as slight | a regard for the Board of Education and the Super- | intendent of Schools as they, judging from their in- | terminable rows, have for one another, his Highness }the Mayor would see the necessity of appointing a | new governing body for the public schools. R —————— DRIED APPLE CHAMPAGNE. CCORDING to a correspondent of the New York Tribune, the Department of Agriculture | at Washington is engaged in making experi- | ments to determine the effect of the activity of cer- }tain microbes in the fermentation of wine and cider. | The correspondent says: | “Everybody has heard and has told with disgust | of the shipment of vast quantities of California wine | to France, to be returned and sold as French wine. | But that is nothing o the cider plan. Now it is told that American apples—not good ones, but such as can find no market as apples—are dried and sent to France in bales and there soaked and ground and made into cider and treated with the chosen microb~ and sent back to this country as champagne, and such | champagne, too, as an expert can scarcely tell from } the genuine.” | | A The story comes quite apropos to the discussion of | proper labeling which the French precipitated upon us by excluding some of our wines from competition at Paris. If the reports be accurate that French deal- ers not only put their brands on cheap California | wines first imported to France and then sent back to | New York, but are also furnishing champagne made from dried apples, it is clearly time for California winemakers to drop the use of French names. There is, of course, some doctored and “sophisticated” wine. made in this State, but it is only a small fraction of the whole wine output. As a rule, our wines are pure and are made from grapes of good quality. Why, then, should any of our winemakers desire to put upon them a label that will give rise to suspicion that they may be fraudulent? Concerning the experiments, it is stated they are based upon a theory that the excellence of a wine de- pends not so much on the fruit from which the juice | comes as upon the right microbe getting into the juice. It is claimed upon that theory that if we can rrepagate and cultivate the right micrgbe the wine produced from dried apples will be ag good as tha choicest wines made from grapes. The corre- spondent adds that the Agricultural Depurtment is getting on rapidly with the experiments ard has at- tained some encouraging results The military press censors in South Africa must be taking a vacation. We are being regaled, in the latest reports, with the startling contradictory asser- ticns that the Boers are begging the privilege of giv- ing up the ghost, and that General Roberts is insist- ing that every British soldier in the field is needed. If it were as easy for some politicians to be elected to Congress as it is for them to apportion and gerry- mander Congressional districts our crop of statesmen might well be looked upon as dangerous to public safety. Russia, it is announced, wants to treat alone wi h China for peace. Highwaymen, even nations, sel- dom want to work their game in the presence of others. CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1900. M. DE ROSTAND'S DRAMATIG FAIRY STORY. T IS difficult to realize that only five years ago M. de Rostand, now fam ous as the author of “Cyrano de Berge- rac,” had acquired but little reputation among his own coun- trymen and was praciically unknown among the English- speaking peoples. Yet such was undoubtedly the case. It was Sarah Bernhardt who introduced him to London when she played a short engagement there In the summer of 18%. Four out of the thirty-one performances she gave upon ‘t.hl! occasion were devoted to a short four-act play called “La Princesse Lointaine” (“The Princess Far Away),” a play which aid not commend itself to the mature judgment of M. Sarcey and in which only one or two of the English critics could find anything out of the ordinary. Yet the most cursory reading of this play discloses the same defects and the same virtues that characterize “Cyrano de Bergerac’—a conventional but skillfully handled plot, an excess of dialogue: wit, lyrical power and a keen eye for the details of stage effect. The germ of his story M. de Rostand found in an old Pro- vencal legend (“‘only a few lines,” he says) recorded In “Nostra- damus.” Joffroy Rudel, Prince of Blaye and trcubadour from Aquitaine, has heard of the wonderful beauty of Melissinde, a Princess of Orient, Countess of Tripoll. He composes a song In her honor, which is sung by troubadours and pilgrims not | only through the lengih and breadth of France but aiso | throughout all the M-diterranean coasts. Here is the third stanza in French and the entire song in English (translated by Charles Renauld): g RUDEL TO MELISSINDE. Car c'est chose supreme D'ajmer sans quon vons alme, D'almer toujours, quand meme Sans cesse, ‘une amour incertaine, s noble d'efre vaine. . . . ¢ faime la lointaine Princesse! I 'Tis matter commonplace To be attentive to urn, dark or fair ress, hen auburn, fair or dark, Is captured easily. . . . ~1 love the far-away Erincess! hid /Tis matter plain enough To be a lover true, L ‘tis a thing supreme ove, though not beloved. love profound and brave, 4 ove uncertain that' | noble being vain. . . . | | | —I love the far-away Princess! OF Iv. For 'tis a thing divine Te love as fancy bids, —1 love the Princess Far- Away! e But Rudel cannot content himself merely with sing'ng the praises of the Princess; there comes over him a longing to see | her—a longing so great that he must satisfy it or die. Ac- | cordingly he embarks for Tripoll, taking with him his bosom friend, Bertrand d'Allamanon, knight and troubadour of Pro- vence; Father Trophime, his chaplain, and Erasmus, his phy- slclan. Their vessel is attacked by a Turkish pirate, whom they beat off with difficulty; storms batter their frall craft,and starvation threatens them. * * * At this point the play opens, the stage showing the deck of their disabled and blood-stained galley. The common sailors have become infected with Rudel’s desire to gaze upon the Princess; this sustains them and makes them hope against hope that they shall yet reach the shores of Tripoli. So much of the action as precedes the rising of the curtain is skillfully explained by a conversation between Father | Trohpime and Erasmus; then Prince Joffroy, who is dying from fever, is brought on deck. JOFFROY. All hall to thee, O day. just dawning now! When thou are spent, shail 1 have joined Her? O Princess with a name mellifiuous: O Melissirde! . . . . whom Emp'ror Manuel Desired for his Empress Byzantine, Botween us stil waste of einople! 4 © flower grown from glorious Baudoin’s blood, | Shall 1 at last across the sea, afar, Vith golder, beach and silver fringe of waves, See happy Tripoli in which you reign?— Light vapours, in the distance, build as yet Tt fancy's palaces'—O prison craft! Hold death in check, to let me, ere I dle, Inhale at least, with brine, a breath of hope, And recogrize, in distance-reaching watt, The fragrance of sweet myrtles o'er the seas! Land is sighted at last, and Joffroy, too weak to go him- self, sends his friend Bertrand to entreat the Princess that she £o eetest a Whose lave you Make haste! I His brother, terror through see the against it). Now let’s forget! The second act opens at the palace of Melissinde. She is jealously guarded by a Chevalier aux Armes Vertes, whom the Emperor Manuel has placed there to ward off all other suitors. The Princess is unhappy: she longs for — — she knows not what, but she thinks it Is a poet’s love. Bertrand, denfed ad- mission, slays the outer guards; Melissinde and her lady of honor, Sorismonde, hear the tumult: MELISSINDE (mounting on_thé window-stll, and holding it aloft). Strike hard, brave Knight! Here's my sleeve of white! 1 order you to change its color here! Your blood be spared! Make theirs in rivers run! You have my silver samite, pure as snow, Now dve it red, and bring it me! . . . . | (She throws her sleeve.) THE VOICE OF BERTRAND. I shall! (tumult. clash, then silence). MELISSINDE (coming down). He's hewed his way within! . . . - (Sorismonde closes the window. tearing oft her sleeve | & black sall: Oh! God! Stlence.) All noise has ceased. u All still. . . . What sought he here? The bod'Y of SORISMONDE (pointing to the gallery). But see! Oh! Took! (A slave enters from the gallerv. covered with blood, sword in hand, his clothes in shreds. He speaks to the Knight.) THE KNIGHT. "Tis well! (He takes his battle-axe, and, with tranquil courtesy, turns to Meliseinde.) By your permirston, T (He closes the door. will_eclose the door. The pushing of bolts is heard. Silence.) MELISSINDE. What are we to expect? Oh! breathless fear! (A noise, growing nearer, is heard iIn the palace) He comes!The Knight-Whose-Arms-Are-Green is there, And he will kill him with that axe he has A child like him could never fell the brute (Nose behind the door. Clash). | M. EDMOND DE ROSTAND, FIRST HEARD OF BY | ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE AS THE AUTHOR “LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE.” What a_capital situation! Melissinde does not let Bertrand finish the song: she knows it When we imagine, dream, by heart and finishesit for him. Or may. . . | loss of bl Then dream is all to us. | be Joffroy. What's life without a_dream? cause. Come, Princess with friend. Well, now it's closed! . It's closed, I say, and | They satd. . . . . BERTRAND (who has gone to the As white as hope of Prolong, 1 pray, the whiteness of the sail In which I ses,'at passages, such as the follo" MELISSINDE (rocking Jo By L. Du Pont Svle. | _— But even better is to follow. ® ¢ Bertrand faints from : Melissinde binds his wounds and belleves him to When Bertrand revives he pleads his friend's BERTRAND. a pame melliftuous, he shall know in life what heaven is, So he shall have, upon his sorry craft, most desired death! The swi MELISSINDE (who Fas been falling back each time he was advancing.) You speak of wkom 3 BERTRAND. Of this Joffroy Rudel Whose dying nioment has arrived—ot him sald you loved. He breathes his last! promised! . . . . MELISSINDB. But. . . BERTRAND. Bertrand 4’ Allamanon, - . . Come on then quickly! MELISSINDE. but you, Sir Knight, Who are you then? Not With this master stroke the act closes. The third act depicts the struggle in the soul of Bertrand | between love and friendship. fully, but in va{n: he paces the palace uneasily and he great window, lest while he delays ley in the offin i MELISSINDE (runs to the window, He resists the temptation man- lances in e should koist the bluck sali. closes it and leans back . . And thou art mine to [teep! 1 not ope again! This palace s a world! (Sh. toward e goes tm.) r is loaded with perfumes. We'll breathe! alace be our home, we'll leave it ne'er! Now see the warmth of roses on the floor ‘Where lilies spread their coldness in the morn! —The window’s closed, Pale flowers born of Love giveth richer blossoms. We shall ignore the world. I say; abolish fear'— dream are mow foresworn: Smile thou here! How should we know? We'll question nobody. E'er at my feet will' come on board the galley and let him see her ere he die. Thy life. And naught chall be but our embrace! Bertrand departs on this errand. having promised to recite to Why should we feel remorse, or even fear? tke Princess the love song which Rudel has written. In case ko ever spoke of gallevs, of Rudel? Joffroy dies during Bertrand's absence the galley is to holst & No living soul! Naughts true but our lovel black sail. Bevond this golden beach , the Extends toward the blue: no galley's there! Some day, far off, The window'll show but And then we’ll laugh. . . The window opens suddenly, as if a gale were blowiny. Melissinde dares not close it n, They hear the ing outside about a galley in the harbor that has holsted Bertrand suffers an agony of remorse for his treachery to his friend. MELISSINDB (going to the window). Betrayed and dead! I'll seek thee mow! when we shall open it, light, and nothing more. talk- Have mercyl No revengs! (With a Joud ery. Bartrand, the sail 16 whitet ¥ e e monrasat s T o8eed that fading ship that bears away the Knight-Whose-Arms-are-Green! Our galley rides at anchor still! Its sail is white! MELISSINDE. Against azure sky! pardon’ - Gracious hn..x’vl.u{numml I The fourth act shows the deck of the o | of Melissinde and Joffro | &ins’ no striking situatlons, b win | and the death of the ut abounds In They've met! . . . . How long it lasts! . . . . They be-t a'.':‘”b.'..'.‘?u?'fi'..ifi‘;s'fim? " & struggle on! . R o To sail, no sooner landed, is ] Now shuffling feet! To see decay mar hness on the shore! A {Drad sounay There's rapture for you in = (Sflence. The door opens. She backs.) Foull not have known the wasting sadnces . . « . Now open doors! The idol grown a mere familiar gmr (Bertrand appearr in the doorway, sword in hand. wounded on the ’s in me still that far-away you forehead. He throws at the feet of Melissinde her sleeve now soalkng And. thou; eves close to ope no mowe, in blood.) Foul1 ‘mee e aver in my shadeloas 1 the first, MELISSINDE (still backipg). As'HE Twers aiways > artt Sir Knight! . . . . What would you say to me? i e e e ol R’ . 'airy story, if you , but exquisite . BERTRAND, e dramatic art. Symbo lism, too. but stmpls, srus aed oo "Tis matter commonplace Is there no audience for such a y in San Francisco? v S B s o tatr e wel e pisy then I Tingin n:"eb‘hu:u the id N a 3 N L] Mistress. eto. gm{? . b ooy PERSONAL MENTION. BEen Thomas, a Delano rancher, is at the Grand. Dr. M. M. Shearer of Santa Rosa Is at the Lick. Judge 8. Solon Holl of Sacramento is at the Grana. M. P. Stein and wife of Stockton are at the California. Dr. J. G. Bally of Santa Ana is regis- tered at the Palace. W. A. Thompson and wife of Butte, Mont., are at the Palace. J. E. Beard, a prominent Napa mer- chant, s at the California. e Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Phipps of Los An- geles are at the Occidental. R. M. Straus, a mining man from Mex- ico, is registered at the Grand. James W. Menturn, who has charge of the Sharon estate at Sharon, is at the Palace. P. G. Gow and family of Scotland, who are making a tour of this country, are at the Palace. Governor de F. Richards of Wyoming arrived at the Occidental last night. He is on his way to Coronado Beach,.whers he goes for two months’ recuperation. The Governor 1Is greatly pleased over Wyoming’s big vote for McKinley. A CHANCE TO SMILE, “Man is never too old to learn.” “That's so; but he has to be pretty old before he will admit it.”"—Chicago Record. Crawford—Why do you always stay out so late? Crabshaw—My wife sald she would have me help her fit up a cozy corner the first time I came home early.—Puck. “What's the matter over there? What" the crowd doing In front of that house? “The man who lives there has just In- herited $100,000. Those are friends of his who have come to tell him how to invest the money.”—Chlcago Times-Herald. ——————— Cal. glace freit Gc per Ib at Townsend's.* il Lo, Special information supplied dafly to ess houses and public men by the !!,"::;: Clippine Bureau (Allen’sy: 510 Mont. gomery st. Telephone Main 1043, . ————a————— «1f 1 walk backward down the cellar gtairs in the dark I'll see my future hus- a band. 3 “Nonsense: you'll be more likely to see our family surgeon.”’—Chicago Record. e New Overland Tourist Car Line, The COLORADO MIDLAND RAILWAY win run every Monday from Los Angeles at 10:20 p. m. and every Tuesday at § p.m.from San Fran- clsco, a personally conducted through Pullman tourist sleeper to Chicago, via the Rio Grande Western, Colorado Midland and Burlington i e tes. Salt Lake City and Denver f - Tiant. For further tnformation aadress 3. 3. | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON DAVENPORT, General Agent, San Francisco, x - it e A e WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—T. E. Dwyer, F. 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