The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1900, Page 6

6 Che +22koa< Call. - WEDNESDAY.... ..DECEMBER 19, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. % ons 2o W. 5. LEAKE, Memager. cene .‘!‘.le.hnnerl’relrl m! Address All Communioat MANAGER'S OFFICE él BLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . .217 te 221 Stevenmson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Car 15 Cents Per Week. Single Co) Terms by Mai DAILY CALL (including DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months.. Tuding when requested. ng change of address should be AND OLD ADDRESS in order ance with their request L1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS. ign Advertising, Marguette Building. Chisage, Telephone * 3 Mazager Fore (Lor Distance €. €. CARLTON Herald Square ATIVE: 30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK RE STEPHEN B. SMITH. S STANDS: tano, 31 Union Square; ¥ Hot CHICAGO NEWE STAN Great Northern Hotel; 3 News Co.: Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC MORTON E. CRANE, ...1408 G St., N. W. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—:2 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open ntil 9:30 o%lock. 3% Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 1 930 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until open until 10 o'cl 2061 Market, Valencia, open ck. NW. cor 9 o'clock. Ole Olson Vaudey Opera-house—A Tale of Two Citles." Madame Butterfly The Duke's Jester. derella or and The Heart of Maryland,” Saturday night. Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties, Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and r's—Vaudeville Hall--Festiv: k- Races AUCTION SALES. & Co.—Thursday, Fridar and Satur- at §1-33 Sutter street, Books. Friday, December 21, at 11 o'clock, at corner Natoma and New Mont- Edward S. Spea: 11 o'clock & m. THE TEXAS RANGZ= T eport of the Secretary of Agriculture takes e of the improvement in the cattle ranges Texas. Their capacity for carrying cattle had w, through disappearance of the grasses r forage. Now it is rising again, so that the range carries one-third more cattle than formerly. This is due to the Texas policy of leasing the range nd not permitting it to be destroyed by use in com- HE r increase in range cattle in the last six years Texas. Everywhere else the decline in cattle is marked, having reached 66 per cent. as followed the example of Australia, and has established an object lesson at home which the producers' and censumers of beei, mutton and may well study. thereby w The revenue derived by the State from the leases arge, and the stock men who pay it do so cheer- and would by no means return to the free range e increase in the number of cattle carried by a given area of the leased range has followed a system of rotation in feeding. Having control of his range under a leasehold, the stock-owner follows the Aus- tralian system of changing his stock from one part of the range to another, permitting the pasture to re- cuperate, and especially ‘enabling the grasses to reseed themselves. In this way the vast plains of Texas, that were so reduced that i¢ no longer paid to run stock on them, have been renewed and show almost the primi- tive vigor of their grasses. In Texas there has been no complaint of encroach- upon the rights of the agricultural settler, or of 1l stock men. The latter, especially, are bene- fited, for they secure leases and become larger own- the renewal of the grasses on their lease- which thereby becomes able to support more cattle The stock-growers of the West who are just now the victims of price of to t would do well to send representatives e leasing system in Australia A TALE OF THE WINDS. TPON the first page of the Denver Times on L last Friday there was displayed in circus poster " type, “Storm Wrecks Frisco.” Beneath was an ampouncement in black-faced type that the worst stormm in its history had swept over this city, that the wires were down and San Francisco was cut off from ommunication with the world; then followed this: D Message Received—Word was received from there early this morning, however, that the storm was s0 heavy on the bay that the ferry-boats would have to be stopped. The damage in San Francisco is enormous, but no details as to the loss of life or proo- erty have yet been received, but it is likely that both - will be heavy.” That is the kind of tale our storm wind roared out as it swept castward, startling the dweilers beyond the Sierras with a fear that one of their own blizzards, or cyclones, or tornadoes, or hurricanes, had broken loose on this side the continent and was doing its usnal damage. Probably California weather will never be under- stood in the East. Indeed, it is difficult to understand it here. The hottest days of our summers in the ho- test parts of the State do not produce sunstroke as they do in the East, and when we have a winter storm i is quite a different thing from what such a storm would be on the other side of the continent. San Francisco has not been wrecked, and the loss neither of life nor of property has been enormous, Nevertheless, if our Eastern friends believe we have been swept with something like a Galveston disaster and wish to take up a subscription, they are welcome to do so. We can find use for the money in some way, even if we do not need it as charity. criticisms because of the advance in the | CARDINAL VAUGHAN'S OPINION. ™ ARDINAL VAUGHA) (_) letter on the Chinese question to the English | Bishops of the Catholic church. The Cardinal regrets that the conduct of the Western powers, no- tably Russia and Germany, has caused the Boxer out- | break and identifies Christianity and politics in the | Chinese mind. In his view the trouble began when Germany seized Chinese territory as indemnity for the murder of two missionaries in Shantung. The Chinese saw in that act that they must submit to the overthrow of their system of morality and ethics or pay territory as | the price of resistance. The Cardinal might have | gone still further back for a beginning of the current troubles. They began when a French missionary forged into the treaty of 1860 a clause permitting the missionaries to penetrhte the Middle Kingdom. When that treaty was made neither France nor England | contemplated any privileges for the missionaries out- | | side of the treaty ports, and their copies of the treaty | were innocent of the forged clause which the criminal | missionary interpolated into tlre Chinese treaty. The literati and diplomats of China became awar has issued a pastoral of this forgery, but were powerless to correct it. | | Knowledge of its existence spread among the people, | and they came to look upon the missionaries as bad | people, who-had invaded their country under protec- | | tion of the crime of forgery. Therefore they were | minded to treat them as having no business there, just | as in California the Chinese are treated in various lo- | calities where they have been robbed and in some | cases killed. The Cardinal's view is so reasonable, coming from | a leader in the greatest of the missionary churches, | that it will call attention to the fact that missionar: | work in China has been made for all the future more | risky and less useful by the forgery of the treaty and | the seizure of territory. It would have added to ths strength of his pastoral letter if he had frankly told | : the story of the forgery, and put to the conscience oi { the Christian world the question whether it can afford i to rest its rights in China upon a crime. We are of opinion that the future ‘position of the missionaries in that country, and the future relations | of the Western powers to that empire, would be much | | improved if this forgery were confessed and the wrong righted. Cardinal Vaughan cvidently has in mind the bene- fit that will follow if :he other nations treat China | as they would each other. Not one of them would ‘ | for a day endure aggression under protection of a | forged clause in a treaty. Suppose that our treaty with China upon which the | exclusion act is based had been forged out of shape by providing that coolies may come and may become citizens, how long would this country have permitted } it to go unprotested and uncorrected? | It is to be hoped that the va-ious American mis- sionary societies will call attention to this forgery in | their coming meetings this winter by refusing to send | missionaries into the Middle Kingdom at all, as a reason that in the treaty of 1860 China did not | | intend to grant, nor France and England to exact, permission for them to go there. We are quite sure that such action would finally re- | dound to the honor of American Christianity, and | | would cause the Chinese to receive our missionaries | | with favor in all places where they may properly go. | | e a1 e | | The coming year promises to be an exceptionally 1 good one for big yacht races. Boston is to build a boat to compete against that of New York for the | honor of defending the America’s cup against Sham- | | rock H; and the race between the home rivals will be hardly less exciting than that against the British }yach!. UNPOPULAR REFORM MOVZMENTS. | ROM New York City comes the report that the 1 F:comminee of fiiteen charged with the duty of | organizing a citizens’ movement against Tam- many Hall in the approaching municipal campaign is doing its uttermost to prevent the undertaking from becoming known as a “reform movement.” In fact, they are seeking to get rid of the word “reform” al- tegether, being convinced they will have a much bet- | blown down by the winds. :G a good government to regulate the whole domain of morality. The persistence of men in uniting good government movements with various moral reforms enables corrupt politicians to win in almost every encounter. The committee now aranging for the fight for genuine political and administrative reform i New York is not going to make that mistake thi e, and consequently the prospect of the over- throw of Tammany is better than it has been for many a year. ——— THE HIGH FENCE NUIS@NCE. HOULD 'the lesson taught by the recent galethat S swept over this city have the effect of inducing the Supervisors to enact the ordinance intro- duced by Supervisor Booth restricting sidewalk fences to a height not exceeding seven feet, the community will find that_the storm has been profitable in more ways than one. The high fence is among the worst nuisances of American cities. It has been already too long tolerated, and it is full time to put an end to it. For some years there has been a vigorous campaign of education on this subject in every progressive city | in the Union. From New York, Chicago, Philadel- phia and Boston alike come reports from time to time of efforts made to abolish the nuisance. These | efforts sooner or later will be crowned with success, and it is to be hoped San Francisco will be a leader and not a laggard in the movement. The lesson of the gale teaches that high fences are dangerous when erected along the sidewalks. It was due to good fortune more than to anything else that a considerable number of people were not seriously in- jured when so many of the rickety structures were It is certainly advisable to take no such risks in the future, and consequently Mr. Booth's proposed ordinance should be reported favorably from the committee and unanimously adopted. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that such fences are to be condemned for other reasons than that of the danger with which they menace the pub- lic. They mar the appearance of a city, and not infre- quently they are injurious to the business value of ad- jcining property. Sometimes they even delay the con- struction of buildings, for when persons who have bought lots for speculative purposes find they can | erect an advertising fence and derive from it a revenue sufficient to pay taxes, they will keep the property un- improved much longer than would otherwise be the ! case. from the proposed ordinance, and Supervisor Booth is to be congratulated for having been so prompt to perceive the moral of the lesson taught by the storin in that respect. ARSENIC IN BRITISH BEER. REAT BRITAIN has just had a lesson in the evil results of sophisticated food stuffs that is very nearly as important to us as it is to the British, for in this country the science and the prac- ‘tice of such sophistications are carried just about as far as in any other land in the world. The British lesson has been derived from the recent “beer poison- ings,” as they are called; which have taken place in and around Manchester, and of exaggerated reports have been widely published. In a fecent issue of the London Chronicle Dr. Rob- ert Wilson, an eminent authority on such subjects, discussed the matter and gave what may be regarded as an authentic account of it. He says certain physi- | cians in Manchester “met with a number of cases of an affection which is known to medical men as ‘neuritis,” a term indicating nervous disturbance of a fairly definite order and usually produced by certain causes, among which excess in alcohol stands out ia due prominence.” Investigation showed that the beer-drinkers affected in the cases under considera- tion had not used an excessive quantity, and accord- | ingly the beer was tested for poisons, with the result- ing discovery that it contained arsenic. After some further statements concerning the his- tory of the cases and citing others of a similar charac- ter scattered over a wide region of country, Dr. Wil- son returned to the cause of the evil and said: ter chance of success if their campaign is freed from that word and all of its associations. | The correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Led- ger in explaining the causes of this desire on the pari | of the committee’says: “The word with a good many | people means only a political scheme to get office by | turning somebody else out. Among politicians the | word is as malodorous as mugwumpery itseli. To } them it means a blow at party organization and party | discipline. Among a large class of merchants, espe- | cially retailers, the word is associated with an admin- | istration of affairs which, by a series of corrections cf petty abuses, seriously injures their business. Among | the Germans ‘reform’ is dreaded as too often meaning | interierence with personal liberty and cherished na- | | tional customs. So everybody is trying to get rid of | | the word, although it is the best with which to de- { scribe the present movement.” | There is an immense amount of significance in thi antagonism among the people of New York to the | word “reform.” It teaches a lesson of past follies | and blunders on the part of zealous men eager for the | improvement of their city and their fellow citizens that skould not be lost upon any portion of the American public. Not in New York only has “reform” come to be regarded as a sort of charity word that covers a multitude of sins. In almost every city in this coun- | try when a considerable body of men have organized | for the purpose of redressing political evils by political | methods there comes to the front as allies in the | movement a host of men who do more harm than | | good. The mere office-seekers in the crowd are by | | no means the most dargerous. It often happens that men of genuine'earnestness and free from all taint | of seli-seeking injure the cause they desire to help | by joining to it some moral reform that can never be effected by government. These people have the idea that the only way to get rid of a corrupt munici- | pal administration is 10 enforge sumptuary laws, tem- | perance laws and many other\ws that affect matters of conscience rather than of politics, and consequently they rouse up antagonism to the whole movement and thus lead to its defeat. 5 Tt is doubtful if New York City has really profited much by its political reformess. It has had more re- form movements than any other city in the country, ond yet it remains under the control of Tammany. The reason is not far to seek. At this very juncture it is stated that certain representatives of the indepen- dent Germans of the city have given notice they are willing to join the fight against Tammany for good government, but will vote for Tammany rather than support a movement to curtail personal liberty. One of them, ex-Sheriff Tamsen, is quoted as saying: “We are not going to countenance any movement like that of 1803, when all the saloons and place§ of amusement were closed on Sunday.” Here is a lesson to be learned by all who are inter- ested in good city government. It is not the duty of ! - 1 | “It was at first suspected that in the process of dressing the hops arsenic might have been derived | from the sulphur employed, but it is now evident that the source of the poison is to be found in the sulphuric acid employed in the preparation of the glucose or sugar now largely used in the making of beer. The glucose is made from maize, rice and other plant products which contain much starch. It is boiled with the acid, as an ordinary practice, and if the acid is not chemically pure, its arsenical constituents are bound to be added to the sugar, and hence must necessarily contaminate the beer. The remedy is obvious—name- ly, the use of chemically pure acid only. It is a little disturbing, T confess, to find arsenic cropping up so often of late days in unexpected places. Recently phosphate of soda supplied t6 certain chemists, and widely used as an antacid and aperient, was found to be dangerously contaminated with this poison. But the occurrence of the cases under notice will have one good result in serving as a warning against future danger and in promoting the manufacture of chemically pure products.” The point of importance in the story is that the poi- | soning was the result of making so-called “sugar” out of glucose and sulphuric acid, It is well known tha glucose is extensively used inla large number of food adulterations and the claim has been always made that it is harmless. The British have now learned that such claims are invalid. In fact, “sophistication” has been carried one step too far. The sulphuric acid used in. sweetening the glucose has itself been sub- jected to sophisticating processes and is not always chemically pure. Surely it is time to enact a national pure food law; to make it sufficiently comprehensive to include all manner of food and drink; and to enforce it with-an undeviating strictness. The action of the French Chamber of Deputies in calling upon the Government to prevent the manu- facture and the sale of absinthe promises a great re- ' form among the French people. Absinthe is regarded as the most dangerous liquor in use among civil- ized men, and the consumption of it in France is regarded as a potent cause of many ‘of the greatest evils that afflict French society. Preaching against it has had no effect. The useyof it is increasing rapidly, | hence the demand for governmental action. e oo SR Oklahoma is the youngest of the Territories, but is not satisfied with the position and demands statehood. A bill to gratify her desire is now before the Senat: and hg; good chance of passage. She would be a red- hot commonwealth to start the new century and might be expected to blaze the way for Arizona and New Mexico. Producers of beer are still' asking for further re- mission of the war revenue taxes. There is such a uidakcum:udnllloodthiuh‘_htandlodng an advantage already gained. ; They are unsightly and offensive in themselves. : | Many benefits are therefore likely to be derived | which somewhat | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER \19, 1900. “TELEPHONE EAR” IS THE LATEST AILMENT Serious Impairment of Hearing Threatens Users of Relay Instruments With Explosive Receivers.. i l <+ |PERSONAL MENTION. Sherift T. M. Brown of Eurcka is at the Russ. Dr. C. P. Thomas of Spokane is at the Grand. D. P. Durst of Wheatland is at the | Grand. | Willlam Metcalf, a Nelson Foint miner, is at the Russ. Dr. H. P Stanley of San Miguel Is reg- istered at the Ru: P. H. Sexton, a Montana mining man, i3 at the California. Dwight Hollister, a Courtland rancher, I | | | e | WNILE THIS RECEIVER I 18 B3 CanEcren 4 con ’ SRS et s et U e orneA x5, A i ' | 1 |1 | semomeitst | vasTwe i “ | geman | 18] it || | | o - N time to come, and that time not far off, we may have, In addition to the present bodily \(s known as the “bleyele face” and the “'golf arm,” a far more serjous ailment than these in what will be designated the ‘“‘telephone ear,” partial deafness having cases been brought ahout by the use of the stelepkone. Nearly every person who has had occa- $uffered the annoyance and inconvience caused by the cracking or miniatureexplo- sions frequently heard in the receiver. | This trouble has greatly increased since the introduction of what is termed by electricians the “relay” or “‘common bat- tery’ system, by means of which the ne- cessity of ringing up *central” is avoided, the subscriber simply lifting the receiver | from its eatch, ‘which action conveys the signal to the central office. The interrupted sound not only injures in some sion to usge the telephone has no doubt | the hearing, but seriously affects the rerves of many persons, and may in some instances finally result in serious nervous disease. | In the telephone stations where large | numbers of men and giris are employed | to attend to calls made by subseribers no great complaint has been made, for the reason that the operators do not et as severe an effect from the concussion as | do the subscribers at the other end of the wires. | In some instances the explosive sound | 18 so strong that it can be plainly heard at a distance of raore than two feet. The| force of the sound waves, when delivered | directly Into the ear, particularly in the| case of those whose auditory organs are | more than ordinarily sensitive, may be imagined. It is possible, however, that electriclans may devise some means | | whereby the present cause of complaint | may be lessened, if not entirely overcome. | | A CAMEL'S HAIR CLOTH COSTUME. The costume represented is of mixed gray camel's hair cloth. The corsage opens down the front and is trimmed with narrow bands of black velvet, held by steel buttons. he skirt is flat and trimmed with a finely pleated flounce of velvet on the cross, ornamented in the style of the corsage. FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. re | ! | BEAVER COLORED VELVET MANTLE. The mantle represented is of beaver colored velvet, made in wide flat pleats. | It is trimmed with passementerie and | chenille to match, mixed with silver| thread. The collar and trimming of tne front are of gray fox, the lining of straw | colored satin. MAIL TO HONOLULU—J. D. 8., Sacra- mento, Cal. All steamers that sail from San Francisco and touch at Honolulu carry the mail. ) POSTOFFICE STAMPS — Subscriber. City. Stamps issued by a postoffice ar> good until used on a-leitér, newspaper or anything on which postage is req:xlr-fi. DELIVERY OF MAIL—Subscriber, Miiton, Cal. The task of a contractor who carries the mail ceases when he de- livers the mail at the stoffice. He is ns]ll required to deliver it in the postofiice b ding. CHINESE RULERS—J. F. and L. C. Marysville, Cal. The original picture of the rulers of the Chinese empire, repro- duced in The Call of Jul{ 900, can be had from any number of dealers in the Chinese quarter. INSECTS—S., City. There are so many insects that owe their ex|s(el:‘ce to het: t it is impossible to give the name of i !":?\e et hat 1s satd B e created by continuous heat” without a view of a spectmen of the one asked about. HALF DOLLARS—L. J. A., City. Half dollars of 1807 and of 1808 l;:ut;t gfinl) that are purchased at a premium eal- urz. 'rhe‘:e sell At prices varying from B cents to $1 75. Those of 1807 witn 50 cen's stamped over 20 sell at from $2 50 to $3 0. GOLD-EYED NEEDLES—W. H. M., City. To find :29 ueflglr:l:ed\;lflm: m'annu; v hctureer l::m!: ):fidonlzr in such you fld di on it. This depart- g!m“t h--m:e'd xl:fl‘l'yLlnnullncod that it oes not publish the 'address of any pri- vate business house. 5 CORBETT AND FITZSIMMONS—C. M. A.":ml J. B., and W. J. 8., City. Dur- and Fitzsimmons, Corbett got in s than ‘about two ne. Since the W hnaluon City ‘Corbett and Fitzsimmons have not met in the ring. SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY-H. W., City. As yet no official collated fig- ures have been given out to show the vote of the Social Dnmmttl%fly at the st general election. e as e besn chmptied they Wil it :{ The B in the local columns MUSHROOM CATSUP—G. G., City. Mushroom catsup is orepared by sprink- ling the of mushrooms with salt, em occasionally for two or irg the fight in Carson City between Cor- ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. then allowed to cool, is strained and bot- | tled. It Is put up in small bottles, as it | does not keep long after being uncorked. bt | METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS— N. F., City. Meteors and shooting stars always have a downward direction be- | cause they are bodies that become de- tached from that which supports them, | and masses, large or small, follow the ! natural law of gravity. Some, in their | passage, move with such velocity that | they afe entirely consumed, while others | are so large that they are not entirely | consumed and fall in fragments to the earth in the shape of aerolites. o | JUTE AND BAGS—H., Antioch, Cal. | On the subject of jute the Dingley tariff says: “Single yarn made of jute not finer | than 5 lea or number, 1 cent per pound | and 10 per cent ad valorem; if finer than 5 lea or number, 3 per cent ad valorem.” | On the subject of bags it says: “Bags or sacks made from plain woven fabric, of | jute yarn, not dyed, colored, stained, ! painted or bleached and not exceedinz thirty threads to the square inch, count- ing the warp and filling, seven-eighths of one cent and 15 per cent ad valorem."” AN OIL CLAIM—Subseriber, Coyote | Creek, Cal. If A takes up an oil claim, puts up a location notice according (o law, has the location recorded in the min- | ing district, also In the office of the Coun- | ty Recorder, and five days later B takes up the same land, puts up notices and has a record made, it would, under tie | general rule, be in favor of A as the prior claimant and locator, provided he fulfilied | all he was required to do. There might be some claim set up by B that Is. not | mentioned in the letter of inquiry. In that case a co\a‘t would have to decide "hlch claimant Was entitled to the loca- | on. i e e | SUMPTUARY LAWS-T. R. T., Oak- | land, Cal. Sumptuary laws were laws to | prevent extravagance in banquets, dress and private expenditure. They abound in | anclent legislation. The Lochrian legls- | lator Zaleucus, B. C. 430, ordained that no | woman s ld appear on the streets at- | tended. by more than one maid servant | unless she were drurk. At an early periog | of Rome the censors who were intrusted with the npeflntenflen::d of fiublh: and | al private morality punisi ty of Iuxurious living. aqmp:m; laws were in favor in the legislation of | England from t! the Riforrantion: & e Bdward I il ew mained on the until 2&“.“’ by edict of Charles y an ict of Char! lowed to exceed Y Hotel del h*m. | chocolate cakes. 906 Larkin, phons is stopping at the Grand. Dr. A. H. Sweeney of Fresno registered at the Grand last evening. Dr. E. J. Parmer.a prominent New York surgeon, is at the Occidental. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stockton is registered at the Lick. Captain E. E. Caine, a Seattle steam- | boat owner, Is at the Palace. P. A. Starton, a prominent Los Angeles real estate and insurance man, is at the Grand. G. McM. Ross, a Virginia City mining man, is among the late arrivals at the Occidental. J. M. Walthall, District Attorney of S aus County, is registered at the Lick from Modesto. Nathaniel Hath: a weaithy resident of New Suffolk, N. Y., with his family, errived at the Palace yesterday, and will spend a part of the winter here M. Takenchi and T. Hagura, who connected with the Royal University Japan, are at the Occidental. They have been making a tour of the Eastern col- leges, and will return home on the next boat. CHANCE TO SMLE The Restaurant Keeper—I see some fool doctor says pie is not fit to eat. The Regular Victim—Does he eat here? —Indianapolis Press. “Was_it a valuable watch you madam 2" “Valuable! their teeth on it lost, All five of my children cut "—Chicago Record. “] understand,” said the reporter, “that the defaulter’s method was very simple.” . said the bank official, with a {e just took the money.”—Puck. “I saw one of these new moving stair- ways in New York last weal “That isn't so much I saw a rolling prairie in Kansas last year.”"—Denver News. “Are your brother and his wife musi- Vell, he seems to fiddle his time away and she certainly is quite a harper.”"—Philadelphia Bulletin. ie—Just one more question, pa. Our Sunday school teacher says I'm made of dust. Am 1?7 Pa—I guess not. If vou were you'd dry up once in a while.—Philadelphia Press : 1 gave her to understand that she couldn’t be impudent to anybody in this office except the proprietor.”—Chicag Record ———— The Meanest Man. ‘The meanest man I ever knew,” said the shore passenger, “was a fellow who got a football and painted it to look like a watermelon. Then during the summer months he kept it conspicuously displayed in His backyard and amused himself set- | ting a savage bulldog on hungry pmg:a the who happened to take a fancy to bogus melon."” “‘He certainly had his mean points,” said the tall passenger. “but I know a fellow who could give him a Aiscount and then beat him at his own game. I was in a restaurant once where this fellow was gemng his dinner. After he had finished e called the waiter who had served him and_asked: “ “How much do you get for a tip as & The waiter's eves sparkled: he rubbed his hands together and replied: “ ‘Well, sir. we generally get at least | sixpence, but sometimes nice, nteel, prosperous-looking gents like you gives us a bob.’ “Then what did this fellow do but put on his hat and say: “ “Thanks. 1 merely wanted to kmow how much 1 was gof to save by mnot giving you anything.’ "—Tit-Bits. ——e—————— Privileges of Law Making. Some of the privileges of members of foreign legislative bodies are unique. Dan- ish M. P.'s can have a free seat in the Royal Theater at Copenhagen whenever they like. The lawmakers of Norway r celve free medical attention and nursi if they fall {ll during the session. M. P.’s have extended this privilege in¢lude courses of gymnastics, massage baths, wine (-medical comforts"). ing and stopping teeth—all gratis—London | Express. ———————— Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.® el epa— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's® ————— Thousands of pounds of California glace fruits all ready for shipping. Townsend's.* —_—ee—————— Townsend's famous broken and plain mixed candy, 2 Ibs 25¢. 639 Market street.® —_—ee— . Time to/ express Townsend's California glace fruits to your Eastern friends. ¢ —_—_—————— s California glace fruits, 3¢ 2 fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- A nice present for Eastern friends, und, ets. | 639 Market street, Palave Flotel bullding.* e, information suppilfed daily to s and public men by the Bureau (Alten’s). 510 elephone Main 1042. Spectal business ho Press Clippin, gomery st The hackney coach proprietors and eah drivers of Naples have formed themselves into a company for the purpose of tran forming the hackney coaches and carroy- ellas into automobiles. Henry Miller Says “It Is the Only Way.” The traveling public = the “Overland Limited, dally at 10 a. m. via Central Pacific, Union Pa- e:fic and Chicago and Northwestern rallways and running through to Ch g0 without change in less than three days. Only four days to New York or Boston VSRS N L M Guillet's ice cream. mocha, camelia, pt —————— The Bigzest mateh factory in the w is the Vulcan mateh factory at Tidah Sweden. It employs over 1200 men manufactures daily 900,000 boxe matches. ADVERTISEMENTS. CONSUMPTION begins and leaves off in thous- ands of people, who never sus- pect it. It isn't much more than a pimple—indeed it is a a pimple—lung pimple. Health, all round it, stops it--just as a skin pimple gets How to get that health all round it : take Scott's emulsion of cod-liver oil and be careful. ‘We'll send you a little to try it you Hke. SCOTT & BOWNE, g Fearl sirenty Now York.