The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, Che Soboe< @all. DECEMBER 7, 1900 FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Al Communications to W. S LEAKE, Manager 'S OFFICE. Telephone l’Al‘ffl/l 32: s kddre MANA PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..21 Telephone Press 202. Delivered hy Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALY, (including Sunday), one year... DAILY CALL (including ¥), 6 months DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL By Single Month SUNDAY CALL, Ope Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forws-ded when requested. subscrfbers in ordering change of address should be ular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order wure prompt and corvect compliance with their request. Ma part © CAKLAND OFFICE. ve...1118 Broadway « GEORGE KROGNESS, Maneger Foreign Advertising. Marquette Building, Chicage. Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619."") CORRESPONDENT: ..Herald Sq NEW YORK CARLTON. ... . c NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . 30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoris Hotel: A. Brentano, 81 Union Square: ray Hiul Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel uditortum Hotel AMUSEMENTS. Haver] Oakland—Dog and Poultry Show sb, Oakland Race-rack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. s day Wednesday December 1z, at 13 o'clock THE USE OF EARTH OILS. rnia proves to be exten- of a 1onstrated and it C nia that he re affected by the State’s lack of « nents now in progress prove ! T te teel producing Ir P exists ir ties of this State. By sible, but the lack of < c 1 deposits has made the ore us The 1 problem of applying oil to o pr be solved, and a new value wil be the to the iron ledges and to our < 1 re are other uses for this grade of oil that need n 1 Its utility in sprinkling r: 'n t and vegetation is t out of which com- n 1 ve to be cor str State C a nature, due to the i encells . such uses leave raveler subject to the nuisance of dust The Santa Fe of its ties and bal- 1 by holding mc . is prevented by the e oil treatment is already roads. and it has proved a c The experime b be triei | ¢ ty streets water, producing a saline dust | his wil also attracts moisture and keeps n many cases is not de- sent and-prospective uses of our earth oils erous that hail with we satisfaction the source of supply this oil new An eco- will not go begging for ke of invention and enterprise. WAR TAX REDUCTIONS., i attention a short time ago to the ty with which estimates of the amount of directec rapic reduction that could be made this winter in the i each new report on the sub- guess that there the extent of $15,000,000; then war ded as a might be a rec a report he Sccretary of the Treasury would recommen ction of $20,000.000; in his message the Presider mmended a reduction of $30,000,000; and now comes the report that Chairman Payne of Ways and Means Committee has introduced a 1ated will make reductions to the wount of $40.000,348 The Payne bill proposes to remove almost all the taxes to which there have been urgent objections. Those taxes, which, while annoying to the public, elded a comparatively small return to the treasury, to be swept away. In fact, from the summary of the bill that has been telegraphed from Washing- ton it appears as if something like a wholesale re- vision of the war revenue act is to be made. It i gratifying that among the amendments pro- posed is one to the clause imposing a tax on lega- cies, providing that “nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to bequests of legacies for uses of 2 religious, literary, charitable or educational char- acter, including works of art” It is against public interest to tax private beneficence directed to the gen- eral good, and that such a tax was imposed at all was due solely to the hurried way in which the act was drawn up to provide a revenue to meet the sudden emergency of the Spanish war. It is to be noted that Chairman Payne is quoted as saying he expects his bill to be passed by the House before Christmas. Should the expectation prove true, it will be 2 pleasant and welcome Christmas gift to the taxpayers. The Senate may delay the final pas- sage of the measure for some time, but that will not diminish popular appreciation of the action of the House. are all at 11 o'clock, Horses, at Twelfth and proves destructive to | be avoided in the use | THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE. { LTS | HE CALL recently said: “The decline of the stock industry, brought about by destruction of 1 feed on the free range, has at last reached the consumers of meat in the form of a higher price for | | as an expression of “the cattle barons,” and, with a strangely strabismatic logic declares that: “It is not true that the destruction of the feed on the free ranges is the cause of the high price of meat to the consumer. The advance is normal, and is the result | season and the necessity of stall feeding.” The calm and common mind will be inclined to ad- mit that the’destruction of feed makes it scarce, and | we have the testimony of the range men themselves, and of the agrostologists of the Agricultural Depart- | ment, that use of the range in common, resulting in | overstocking, destruction of the natural forage by too close feeding, and increase in aridity, drying up the [drep springs and watercourses, is the cause of the ;rapzd decline in the number of range cattle, that has made meat scarce and high. Of course the advance in | the price of meat is “normal,” if by that is meant the | relation of supply and demand, as distinguished from an abnormal. .or artificial, rise in price, that would be due the cornering of the supply to hold it until the fied demand tiaised the price. The Post should seek understanding and discuss this important issue from the standpoint | and not as if it were the advocate of some great cor- [pm’ation that has millions of acres of land to sell and | wants the public domain that is suited to grazing only destroyed in order to enhance the value of its public grant. The decrease of range cattle and the high price of meat and the scarcity of forage are not things of a season, but are the progressing results of destroying to carry stock. We | quote again the, statistics of receipts of range cattle | in Chicago in proof that it is caused by no sudden | drought, nor by the emergency of one season. The | range cattle received in 1895 amounted to 429,300 j!‘md. in 1896, to 272.200; in 1897, to 236,300; in 1898, 175; in 1899, to 177.300; in 1000, to 142,600. That cline of 66 per cent in six years. It means, and can only mean, a decline of two-thirds in the feeding capacity of the free range which fed these cattle. The range has left only one-third the feed that it had in i895. Let things go on as they are, which the Post seems to want, and it need not tax its knowledge of business arithmetic unduly to figure out the brief time that will elapse before the free range is all de- stroyed and the * mits to exist, will be all the | E §m‘ the scarcity of feed on all the ranges, owing to the | | unsat i | | | | the capacity of the free range “scarcity” of feed, which it now ad- yme the total disappearance of range forage. It is not true that The Call, or ar advocated leasing “‘vast tracts of v stock man, has Government do- main to the cattle barons for long terms of years, thus virtually establishing a moncpoly in the grazirg | lands of the West that must eventually place these res absolutely beyond the reach of settlers,” as the | Post insists. At the m | tion in thi Congress asking it to pass a g of the Pacific Stockmen’s Associa- c ¥ last spring a memorial was sent to “law to classify lands in | the arid and semi-arid regions, segregating such tracts are more valuable for grazing than for any other pose. and leasing the same as grazing ranges, for the use of actual stock-owners and the owners of butting agricultural lands, reserving mineral and h other rights as will equalize benefits, induce ac- tual agricultural settlement when the same is pos- | sible, and, above all. arrest the present rapid destruc- tion of the sole value of these ranges, which consists in their natural grassss and other forage.” It was determined by the association which sent that memorial that no law could or should pass that did not protect the small stock-owner, the mineral | prospector and the agricultural settler. Yet the Post attacks these men as rabid monopolists, cattle barons ;m'u! sinister citizens! | As to the leasing policy for grazing lands, we are not without precedents and examples. It is probable d solution of in wise and reasonable treatment * | physical and economic problems the Australian Gov- ernments are the foremost in the world. The English race settled there has worked out on virgin soil the | very issue that is before us here. This has been done | without passion or prejudice, and Australia may we!l | be proud of the result. In an arid climate she pos- sessed vast grazing tracts that were as rapidly robbed | of their forage as ours have been. But Australia | with keen wisdom, arrested the destruction in time, and by a wisely regulated leasing system has restored | the stock-carrying capacity of her public protected large and small stock-owners in their rights thereto, and guarded also the rights of the mineral prospector and the agricultural settler. As a result Australia is one of the great meat supplying nations. Our troops and crews in the Philippines have been fed Australian meat, and her supply and export are in- creasing ev vear. Her people are like ours, and as free. They are as alert in protecting their rights against monopoly, and under their leasing system no monopoly has appeared, except a monopoly of pros- perity to the stock-owners, large and small. To say that we cannot well tzke lessons of Australian wis- dom is to utter foll; The law upon which our Western stock men are reaching agreement proposes that the leasing policy shall be optional to counties, and shall not anywhere apply except in counties that have asked for it. This optional system is itself a safeguard against monopoly. Unless something of the kind is done, and that soon, the drought and the desert will monopolize the ranges, and the rise in the price of meat will go on un- til its percentage of advance equals the percentage in | the decline of range stock, and meat will become a luxury. R balloting machines in the Presidential election were sent out from cities where they were tried in New York and Massachusetts immediately after the election, but for some reason those irom Rhode Island were belated. They have now been forthcom- ing, however, and are of a nature satisfactory to those who hope to see the machines in general use all over the Union. In Rhode Island seventy of the machines were used in various cities and towns throughout the State. The test to which they were put was a severe one, for in addition to candidates for Presidential Electors there were also candidates for State and for munici- pal offices, eleven constitutional amendments and a question of an appropriation of $700,000 to be voted upon. To add to the complexity of the count, the constitution requires that ballots for State officers must be segregated from those for municipal officers and for Presidential Electors, as all votes for State officers must be recounted. In spite of all these com- plications the vote was satisfactory. Out of the total number of machines in operation in the State there was only one in which there was VOTING MACHINES AGAIN. EPORTS of the results obtained by the use of | that food.” It is surprising that the Post attacks this | of accurate information, | domain, | | any hitch, and in thaz one the interruption did rot | exceed five minutes. A review of the votes showed 1 that fewer mistakes were made by the machines than by the voters in marking the Australian ballot; and | there was a great gain of time both in voting and in counting the vote. It is to be noted, moreover, that ‘a careful recount proved the count of each machine to | have been accurate. | Commenting upon the confirmation which the | Rhode Island experiments have thus given to the re- sults obtained in other cities, the Springfield Repub- | lican says: “It is practically settled, if appearances | do not mislead, that change from hand to machine | voting in the near future is inevitable. The important | thing at the present time, therefore, is a careful and unprejudiced examination of the claims of all ma- chines in the market in order that when machines are adopted they shall be the best adapted for the pur- pose designed. Let all have a fair chance to show what they are capable of doing. It is only in this way that we can get the best and the most economi- | cal.” | The view expressed by the Republican is undoubt- | edly the right one. Machine voting has come to stay. California should not be the last State in the Union to adopt the system, and the subject should receive the attention of the Legislature during the coming A method of voting which has proven eco- winter. nomical, accurate, speedy and labor-saving in so many | cities can no longer be regarded as a visionary | scheme. | S E——————— |PENSIONS F_R FORMER SLAVES. £ ROM several of our Eastern exchanges we learn there is being carried on in that section of the | Union, and notably in the South, a scheme de- | vised by certain unscrupulous persons for duping colored people. The scheme is embodied in a so- | called movement for obtaining pensions for former | slaves. The scheme was exposed at the last session | of Congress and its fraudulent nature denounced by | the Senate Committee on Pensions, but none the less | it continues to flourish, and it is said the President re- | ceived many letters and petitions urging him to | reccommend the plan to Congress in his recent mes- | sage. | The promoters of the scheme have in the past | made it profitable by organizing associations in va- | rious parts of the country to support the movement. It is stated that for each of these associations there was a charge of $2 50 for a charter, and 10 cents a month was collected from each member. In that way quite a considerable revenue was obtained, and, ac- | cording to the Washington correspondent of the New | York Times, it is estimated that upward of 100,000 | victims have been duped. | The circulars sent out at first were of a nature so clearly fraudulent that the postoffice authorities ex- cluded them from the mails, but it appears the pro- moters have still some means of operating. They | maintain a show of activity at Washington and in- | duce a considerable number of negroes, particularly f the more ignorant and credulous, to contribute funds. | The fraud so attractive to many that the | dupes are numerous, and several of the more | | influential papers in the East have undertaken to put an end to it. Thus the Philadelphia Public Ledger says that while the scheme is not | | without the veneer of plausibility, “it will not de- | | ceive intelligent people of the North and South oie | {2 % | either race. The States and private benevolence and | The na- | charity must support the dependent classes. | tion, as such, discharged its duty when the slaves were | given the boon of freedom and when the constitution | and the Federal laws guaranteed them civil rights. The duty of enforcing them still rests with the na- It is unfortunate if this scheme for the benefit | of its conscienceless organizers cannot be reached by | the criminal law and punished as a conspiracy to cheat and defraud.” Whether there has been any fraudulent working of the scheme on this coast does not appear. It is, how- ever, ane by which honest and worthy men might be | deceived so far as to give it aid and countenance. It is therefore a matter to which our people should give some attention. From all that we can learn the ac- | | tivity on the subject displaved at Washington has no | { other object than that of enabling a set of promoters | | to live on the contributions of their dupes. | | e ——r o i r— is tion. | TOWNE'S BRIEF GLORY. OVERNOR LIND'’S appointment of Charles A. Towne to the United States Senate to fill | the vacancy occasioned by the death of Sena- tor Davis will be received with no surprise either in { Minnesota or in any other part of the country. The | appointment confers upon the free silver leader but | a brief glory, for the Minnesota Legislature will be in session this winter, and then a Republican will be chosen in his place. The only event that could prolong Mr. Towne's enatorial career would be a deadlock in the Legis- | lature over the election of his sucgessor. That, how- ever, is not likely to occur, notwithstanding there are strong rivalries among the Republican leaders in the | State. Deadlocks have become odious to the Ameri- | can people. They have been so numerous of late as to have aroused public indignation and to have | greatly strengthened the demand for a change in the constitution so as to provide for electing United States Senators by direct vote of the people. In the face of that sentiment Minnesota Republicans will be foolish indeed if they permit any factiopal dissensions or personal jealousics to interfere with prompt ac- tion in electing a successor to Mr. Towne. During his brief term of office Towne will have no time to acquire influence in the Senate or to accom- plish much. He may take advantage of the office ‘o vse it as a platform from which to make a last long speech for free silver, but that will not avail him muach. In fact, he is a statesman out of a job, and as such wifl be considered even while in the Senate. He may regard the appointment as a compliment, just as he regarded the Populist nomination for Vice President, but the one will be about as empty of real honor as the other. Democracy soon turned him out of his position as a Vice Presidential candidate, and Minnesota Republicans will almost as quickly turn | him out of the Senate. Mr. Towne should adopt some other profession. Politics is not his forte. S, —— It is admitted there are a great many reformers in New York, but they are confronted by a difficulty in finding a leader, as none of the aspirants for the posi- tion have any following; and it looks as if Croker might yet have the gratification of laughing last. The cruise of the Kentucky around the dominions first of the Sultan of Turkey and then of the Sultan of Morocco may be perfectly peaceful, but it has given the ship a chance to be true to her name by acquiring an immediate reputation as a fightq. One of the benefits derived from the meeting of Congress is that it has given the people live subjects to talk about and put an end to the discussion of the future of Democracy, 1 City. 1900, THE REAL WORLD POWER. 5 FIGURES OF THE LAST CENSUS SEEM TO WARRANT THIS PICTO- RIAL EXULTATION OF THE NEW YORK WORLD. S ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DAY IN JANUARY—A. O. 8, City. The 6th of January, 1873, fell on Monday. PEREGRINE PICKLE—H. D. D., City. “The Adventures of Peregrin Pickle,” in which are included the me- moirs of a lady of quality, may be had at the Free Public Library of San Francisco. NOT PREMIUM COINS—-C., Sacra- mento, Cal. Dealers do not offer a pre- thium for half-dollars of 1803, nor for uarters of 1534, as they do not b:! such, Such half-dollars can be purchased for $1 and quarters for 50 cents. IS ELIGIBLE—G. W. H,, City. Any boy born in the United States Is a citizen by birth and is eligible to become a candidate for the office of President of the United States, no matter whether born of foreign gflrem.s or of parents born in the United tates. VALUE OF A CENT—J. H. F., City. An English penny is a British coin and money of account of the value of about two cents in Federal money. In the United States one cent is the one hundredth part of a dollar, equal to about & half penny | English mcney. CORBETT-JACKSON-SULLIVAN — J. H., City. Corbett and Jackson fought sixty-one rounds M 21, 1891, before the California Athletic Club. Declared contest.” Corbett and Sulllvan fought twenty-one rounds at the Olympic C New Orleans, September 7, 1892; Corbett the winner. THE TIME BALL-J. K., City. The | reason that the announcement is made daily in the papers that the time ball on the ferr; h\xlrding fell at exactly noon or a second before or after that time is to keep those who watch the time ball and regulate chronometers by it informed as to the precise moment at which it fell. PICTURES OF AN ACTRESS-S. H., If you are very anxious to obtain the photograph of a certain well-known actress you can obtain such from several local booksellers, who make a speclalty of dealing in photos of stage celebrities. Should you fail in this you might write a letter to the lady, asking her to send you one. VOTING—S. M., City. The election law of California as to the method of marking a ballot is that the voter must mark a cross after the name of each candidate Le desires to vote for, and that cross must be made with a rubber stamp provided for that purpose. If there are five judges to be elected and the voter desires to vote for the five of one party he must stam a cross after each of the five names. 1t he should stamp a cross opposite the first one of the five the ballot would be counted for that one only. THE STEAMER PACIFIC—J. W. D. City. The steamer Pacific was sunk in collision with the ship Orpheus forty miles south of Cape Flattery, November 4, 1876, TENDER FEET-P. C. H, City. Ten- der feet are the result of a condition of the body, and there are many causes for such conditions. Would suggest that you consult a reputable physician. THREE DOLLAR PIECE-F. L. S., Santa Cruz, Cal. The premium offered by dealers for three dollar pieces of 1857 is from fifty cents to one dollar. The price that dealers charge for such is from $4 50 to $5 50. ELETON — Several LINES ON A SK friends of this department have kindly sent copies of “Lines on a Skeleton,” asked for by one of the correspondents. The thanks of this department are ex- tended to these friends. CALIFORNIA AN LUZON-E. E, City. The gross area of square miles of the State of California is 155,360 and the ex- treme length of the State is 770 miles. The area of the island of Luzon, the largest of the Philippines, i= 40,083 square miles. Its length is 500 miles. FRIEND IN THE ARMY—A. F. O. T. C., Oakland, Cal. To ascertain whers a friend in the army is located communi- cate with the War Department at Wagh- tngton, D. C., giving name of the friend, letter of the company and number of the regiment, the branch of the service and rank. y McKINLEY'S ANCESTRY—J. C. and W. R., City. Robert P. Porter in his lifa of Willlam McKinley says of the Presi- dent's ancestry: “On his grandfather's side William McKinley can boast of Scoteh-Irish ancestry and a greatgrand- father who fought 1a the revolutionary war. On his grandmother’s side he fs equally well off, except that t~e ancestor who married James McKinley the second originally came from England.” o — EASEHON HINTS FROM PARIS. EMPIRE CLOTH MANTLE. The engraving represents an empire mantel of beige cloth, slightly sloped at the waist and trimmed with silk embroi- dery rather darker in color. Around the edge are three rows of silver braid. e BLUE CLOTH COSTUME. The skirt of this costume, which s of sapphire colored cloth, is ornamented with applications_of black’ velvet, edged with silk braid. The short, rounded bolero and the sleeves are trimmed in similar style. EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY How to Inaugurate Corruption. Once in: rate the Tammany system in the national Government, snd give the Government control of the transportation lines, the telegraph lines and the trusts of the country, and we shall have the same system of corruption in the nation that we now see in the city of New York, and it will be just as difficult to oust the party in power, which controls the patronage, as it is to oust Tammany—RICHMOND TIMES. Not a Woman’s Religion. Islamism is a man's religion, as the Koran Is a man's book. To the Mussul- man of to-day, as to the follower of the Prophet in the seventh century, woman is an incident, a reward and a pleasure to man. She ministers only to physical wants and has no share iIn future. Superior feminine beings are his houri companions in paradise. Woman is of the earth, a creature, a clod, whose re- ligious observances are of value only as they make her earthly lifs acceptable to Allah. She e!ls'!s xnng w‘léh man, dbut tg; man. Her life is insignificant and to sacrificed with tmpunity if need be.—NEW YORK PRESS. Boers as Soldiers. It was believed that when the Boers loei their ablest generals, and when their President had been driven from the coun- try, they would descend to the worst specles of lawless warfare. B The best friends of the fighting Boers feared that in their extremity they would resort to the tactics of desperate men and conduct a cruel, relentless warfare agalust the invaders of their country. They have not done this. There is no more savagery in their campaign now than there was in the beginning. Fhey capturs British garri: sons and release their prisoners. They at- tack British camps, but after the method of daring, disciplined soldiers. In their method of campaign, in their treatment ct prisoners, they are holding fo & stan- dard certainly as high as that of the Brit ish themselves. They are fighting tg the e dlers, CHICAGO INTER OCEA PERSONAL MENTION. W. Y. Soper, an Ottawa merchant, is at the Palace. Judge W. G. Bond of Santa Clara is at the Palace. Judge J. M. Hughes of Sacramento is at the Lick. | J. R. Foster, a Marysville hotel man, is at the Lick. O. 1. Woodward of Woodward Island 1= at the Grand. George Jesson, a Watsonville merchant, is at the Grand. W. S. Green, a COolusa newspaper man, 18 registered at the Grand. S. T. Shannon, a prominent Montana mining man, is at the Palace. | F. H. Kennedy, a well-known merchant | of Stockton, is ‘at the California. Harry Corson Clark, the actor, accom- panifed by his wife, is at the Occidental. H. N. Wood of the United States reve- nue cutter service Is registered at the | Granad. Frank B. Baird, a member of the Buf- falo Board of Trade, is spending a few days at the Palace. C. B. Hopkins and C. E. Nefll, miing men from Spokane and Vancouver respec- tively, are at the Palace. G. S. Holmes, proprietor of the Knuts- | ford Hotel in Sait Lake City, registered | at the Palace yesterday. | ©C. C. Crane, Pacific Coast passenger agent for e New York Central, left | yesterday oh & trip to Los Angeles and | other southern points. | H. C. Whitehead, chie? of the Santa | Fe auditing department, J. 8. Hall of | Chicago, C. S. Sutton and N. H. Morrison | of Los Angeles—all connected with the | Santa Fe—arrived at the Palace last even- ing. | A. M. Castle, who is connected with a large steel and iron company in Chi- | cago, s in the city and is making his headquarters at the Palace. He pre- dicts a big boom for San Francisco and other Pacific Coast points in the event of the passage of the subsidy bill. | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Wakefleld Baker, Mrs. A. N. Towne and Mrs, C. E. | Worden are at the Raleigh; R. T. Ames, | E. 8. Pillsbyry and H. D. Loveland are at | the Arlington—all from San Franeciseo. I e —— | Children Taught to Swim. | | A few years ago it was rare to meet | with a native of London who could swim, but this condition of things is rapidly | changing. In connection with all board | schools are swimming clubs, and once a | week at least both lads and lasses are | taken to one of the adjacent swimming | baths and taught the art of natation. In | the St. Bride’s Institute swimming i® | taught as one of the subjects, and there |are no less than W who glo steadily | through_the course during the session. | Nearly half of this number are females, | mostly engaged in the postoffice, and | among them are mmgflexpert swimmers. | Up_the Thames, too, ween Teddington and Windsor, from the houseboats and riverside residences, swimming is _con- | stantly indulged in by both sexes.—New- castle Chronicle. ———————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel * Townsend's California glace fruits, S0c a ‘Eound' in fire-etched boxes or Jap., bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * gt o eun, St o Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press C| Bureau (Allen’s), 310 ifi - somery st elephone Main An Austrian named Anton Paterm: | del, who recently died at Steyr, had made :l collection of about 3000 knives of all i mes. T IT WAS THE ROUTE IN 49! It Is the Route To-Day, and Will Be For All Time to Come. Ladies and children traveling without escort appreciate the advantage of a solid vestibuled train ltke “The Overland Limited,” running through from San Francisco to Chicago, with~ out change, IN LESS THAN THREE DATS. Leaving San Francisco daily at 10 a. m.. via Central Pacific, Unfon Pacific and Chicago. and Northwestern rallways. —_————— The municipal authorities of Glasgow are considering a proposition for the es- | tablishment of a city savings bank. n'nfl“.lflr ‘l‘fl.r ANDERSON FOR SPEAKER. SAN LUIS OBISPO TRIBUNE.| The Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner and a number of other Califor- nia papers are daily endeavoring to make it appear that there is a bitter contest on for the Speakership of the Assembly. There may be some hidden purpose for all this. The Tribune makes the prediction that Hon. Alden Anderson of Sulsun, the Speaker of the last Assembly, will be re- elected by the unanimous vote of the Re- publican members. The Tribune is the first paper in the State to make this clear- cut declaration, but the forces at work will make it hold good. Walt until the Republican caucus meets at Sacramento and remember the prediction. The re-elecglon of Mr. Anderson would not be the triumph of any faction in the gurty. He I8 a close friend of Governor age and would be in touch with him in his_efforts to redeem Republican party pledges for an honest and economical ad- ministration of State affairs. Tn the diplomatic task of the Assembly during that rial contest of 1899 and 199, had always good words to say of Colonel Senator Bul residing over itter Senato- and Mr. Grant. While standing pas for . e his constituents wanted, he treated , Mr. Anderson |, la | A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Is Miss Triller an obliging singer?" “Oh, yes; haif the time she refuses to sing.”—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. “Yesterday our literary club discussed ‘Conversation as a Lost Art.’ " hat was the final decision?" Journal, Uncle( severely)—When I was T always stood at the head of m: Sam—What been at football.—Puck. y class. The Doctor—Here I carried that through a desperate sickness, only His Wife—Iave him object to your fee? 120; drop dead when he saw my billl"™ el are you nosing around that ";()h,l'; pfl? the latter, erely picking up a e ¢ —Detrolt Free Press, — Cool currents. — el b A GAY SEASON prom! Coronado, CM‘&L, th‘:‘v:n‘:‘:&l-: ing. dancing, eta, 5 Oh, such a hubbub arose that nobody heard what anybody sald.”"—Indlanapolis your age a chump you must have | patient his' e lantic cable fr?'’ asked the lobster l‘h‘; bluefieh. lead nonchalantly, NEXT TO MURDER A doctor, who keeps his pa- tient at home, when he ought to send him away—for money —ought to be held responsible. 'So ought we, if we mislead. | Our offense is greater than because we endanger | thousands of lives by one ad- | vertisement—millions read it. | Some few must go for a | change of climate, or die; but, | to thousands, Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil is cure at home. ‘We'll send you a little to try if you like.{ BCOKX & BOWNE, o Reacl sirvaty New Yock,