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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1900. . The Sodase Call. THURSDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Mamager. MaNaAte OFFICE. Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE Dellvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5§ Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: b Y CALIJ, (including Sunday), one year. $6.00 I Y CALL (including Sunday), § months. 3.00 r CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 150 I By Single Month . [ €1 One Year. 1.50 W ! One Year. - 1.00 All postmasters are auth receive scriptions. I be forwarded when requested. M beeribers in ordering change of address should be . give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order su prcmpt and correct ompliance with T request OAKLAND OFFICE... ++.+.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE K;‘KOG.‘ESS. Manager Fereign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago, Long Distance “Central 261.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT CARLTON. ... Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ++380 Tribune Bullding W YORK NEWS STANDS: c o DECEMBER 27, 1900 | on !t.'b Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentamo, % Unfon Square; | Murrey Hotel. AGO NEWE STANDS: CHIC. use; P. : Great Northern Hotel; WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—S2T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until ®:3 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Ldrkin, open until 1541 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, hony Dockstader M se and 5. The Heart of Maryland White Horse Tavern.” cer of the Second stree audeville every Spe afternoon and day evening, De- ple—Yale Glee and Banjo Clubs, Thursday AUCTION SALES. ¥, December 29, % at 12 o'clock, EOR HONEST PRIMARIES of NATOR ROBERT T. DEVLIN of Sacra- has prepared for submission to the Le or holding primary nder the supervision of the law, and as the the be « session, he has properly press in order that it may be hly understood not only by the His action in ior there ex ng furnished copies to t very horoug by the public as well endation, rits ¢ and others be prompt who profit by frau to take advantage to procure the enactment of an ad that would be declared invalid ing his bill Senator Devlin has followed he act of 1899. In noting 14 it advisable to make he s o simplify matters by proceeding Election Commissione: mary ines of t the election ts at the primary and cou zll reference to State conven- nveations and local conventiofis, as 1d . be left to the commi sroperls tive parties. In the la sere was apparently no provision made for delegates, to a State convention to gates a national convention, and I have i to cover that point.” cter of the measure may be estimated owing summary. ¢ 1800 t the election of chara provide " pared as the committee of any party may desire for that if it be desired to have candidates ct and county conventions elected upon t may be done. be of a color different from that of another voters are to have the same g conventions as members of po- n the election of delegates to county conventions not more than three precincts can bs lidated to delegates independently of cts, but in conventions where more than y concerned the delegates may be elected by Assembly districts The pledge provided in the bill is almost identical with that of the act of 1897, but it is coupled with the requirement that voter shall write his name one ba are tc ar Independer stical elect r prec one cot the wpon tk sires to vote. Finally election officers are to be al- lowed a nominal compensation of one dollar a day to avoid any question as to the constitutionality of a law compelling a citizen to render service to the pub- lic without compensation. Such are the essential elements of the bill. The clause giving to independent voters the same privi- leges as may be exercised under the act by political | parties is designed to meet the objection made by the Supreme Court in the recent case brought before it. The measure appears to have been carefully consid- ered and to accord with all constitutional require- ments. Whether it should be enacted as it stands can be determined only aiter full discussion upon all bilfs designed for the like purpose which may be in- troduced. Every feature of it should be attentively studied. California is in great need of a sound pri- mary election law, and the Legislature should be careful to make no error this time in enacting one. ._ Our local officials who are still quarreling over the expense of the elaborate furniture which they insist shall adorn and decorate their apartments should re- flect just long enough to understand that they were neither elected nor appointed to be ornaments. We are amply provided in that field by his Honor the Mayor. A determined effort is being made in connection with the proposed construction of a Pacific cable 20 insure governmental ownership. Uncle Sam is evi- dently fixed in his purpose that there shall be no more “round robin” attacks upon his news censorship. A Separate ballots are | for separate parties, and it is provided that | nany ballots for different conventions may be pre- | The ballots of each party | R the balance of trade in their favor are greater than | roster stating the party whose ballot he de- | i Y T | seems probable that the exports of the calendar year 633 | | boy and no ransom need be paid. if THE AMERICAN BANDIT, HE world has long been entertained by tales oi the sins of bandits in Italy and Greece who make a business of kidnaping travelers [homang the same for a ransom. These bandits are | usually on good terms with the country people, upon i whom they sometimes bestow largess, and from whom | they occasionally recruit their ranks for an expedition B Market and Third, S. F. | that requires an unusual force. They have means ci getting information about the ank accounts of their intended prey, and seem to | prefer fat English bankers, of the Cheeryble brothers’ | type, for whom they receive an average of £600C { apiece. When the ransom is not forthcoming on th= | first demand it is their rude custom to cut off an ear | of the prisoner and send it down to his friends duly | authenticated by himseli over his own signature as his ear. no cash is in sight by a certain daté the other ear The last ear is sure to come, too, t. When the ears are gone will be sent down. unless there is a paymen and have They r hese pleasant people send down the nose, been known to send aiso a finger at a time. gard this pruning of the captive as the cutting off of interest coupons on the amount they demand. Their habits are so well known that the friends of a captive gener;ll_\' lose no time in raising the money required to secure a release. The imdustry has waned of late years through the habit of the .Governments concerned of holding the ocality responsible and cutting off a few heads in the neighborhood. This has proved salutary, and adiposz bankers are safer on the mountain roads of Italy and | Greece than for some vears. But as the industry has waned abroad it has waxed here. Our bandits do not lie in wait by the moun- tain roads. They do not infest thinly populated but picturesque sections cought by tourists for their scenery. Their trade is plied in large cities. The first noted instance of this horrible form of crime was the kidnaping of Charlie Ross, the infant son of a rich man in Philadelphia. The bandits offered to return him for $20,000 and no questions asked. But the po- lice persuaded Mr. Ross that they could recover his It is said that he was also actuated by the feeling that if he yielded the succss of the wretches in getting money would not only encourage them but their imitators to commit the same crime against other fathers. But he never saw his child again, and, aiter spending his fortune in a vain search, di=d not long ago, a broken old It is believed that the kidnapers killed the boy and made way with his body to conceal the evidence of their crime. Several other cases of the same kind man and Along with the edr goes the information that | capita. Thus in the thirty years the balance of trade 1has gone from a minus quantity of $1'50 per capita | to a plus quantity of $8 50 per capita. | Such is the record of our commerce during the last | year of the nineteenth century. It sets a high mark | of prosperity for the twentieth century to attain and | surpass. We have reached the foremost place in the commercial world as well as in the industrial. Our | trade is now the greatest among nations, and when | once we have built up an American merchant marine sufficient to the needs of this vast commerce the do- minion of the seas will be ours. HE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITIES % T HEN Leland Stanford was going about the country studying the problems of usiversity foundation and getting all the information he could as to the best course to pursue in founding the great institution he had at that time in contem- | plation, there was a ttory to the effect that he asked President Eliot of Haivard what his “plant” cost him. Whether the story be true or false it caused a good deal of merriment in the East and was oiten cited as a proof that great business magnates cannot under- stand the difference between a seat of learning and a tory. There was supposed to be something absurd in the supposition that Harvard had a “plant” and that its value could be estimated in money. The years since those days are few, and yet already | the most conservative and self-sufficient of universi- | ties have learned that they have a plant, and that if 1t | be not kept-up to date the results are serious. Among | the universities that have learned that truth it ap- | pears those of Scotland are to be numbered. Those | venerable institutions are not holding their own in the world; they are not drawing students as they did in former years. At one time the medical department of the University of Edinburgh attracted students | | from all parts of America and Europe, but the num- | ber is now greatly diminished. It has been recently announced that the number of medical matriculants | | at the university has fallen in eight years from 2023 | |to 1147. A similar decline in the number of students | is noted, moreover, at the universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrew's. - In fact, the Scottish | | universities are conironting a crisis. So far from | | drawing students from other lands, they are hardiy | holding their own. e According to the reports that come to us, the | cause of the decline in attendance at these famous cld schoaols is the lack of money. That lack prevents them from providing a sufficient number of profes- sors and maintaining an adequate plant. Experience is teaching them that Stanford was not hopelessly ab- Is a Matter of NLY the life of a feeble old man, City, is between the Mormon C | to its presidency. Lorenzo Snow vears of age, and the state of hi: hension and causes consideratio Not since the time at Nauvoo, when B came the head of the church after the ki doubt as to the right of succession. The t Lord inspires the Twelve Aposiles in th variably the presiding apostle has been c| the senior one in term of service in the q Richards, the president of the twelve, dl ecclesiastical problem to his brethren. The president of the church has two c the apostles. Thelr apostolic functions ar but if when their chief dies his successor their seats among the apostles. George counselors of President Snow. Canno reached the apostolic rank in 157. But B actual member of the apostles’ quorum u taken seats in it. and he claims seniorit ground of his earlier ordination. When the apostles were confronted wi death of Richards, they evaded a decisio MORMON CHURCH IS FACING A CRISIS Righvt'of Succession to the Presidency Keen Rivalry. according to latest -dvid from Salt Lake hurch and a crisis affecting the succession , the present head of the church, is 86 s health gives his people frequent appre- n of the question as to his successor. righam Young overcame rivalry and be-f Iling of Joseph Smith, has there been any heory of the Mormon Church is that the e naming of the church president, but in- hosen, and the presiding apostle has been uorum of the twelve, as the apostolic | organizatfon is called. So heretofore it has been simply a formal matter to desig- | nate a new head of the twelve 6r a new head of the church. But when Apostle ed a few months ago, he bequeathed an ounselors, who are chosen from among e suspended while they act as counselors, does not retain them they go back to Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith are the n became an apostle in 1360, and Smith righam Young, son of the prophet, was | ordained an apostle by his father's favor in 183, although he did not become an ntfl 1868, after Cannon and Smith had y, with the right of succession, on the th the duty of selecting a chief on the n of the question of suceession involved have occurred. The only noted case of the capture | surd when before founding his urfiversity at Palo Alto | by leaving the position of president of the twelve vacant. To take the place George of a grown person occurred in this city three yvears ago. A rich Hawaiian planter was lured to impris- onment in a house in a thickly populated part of the | he sought information as to.what a first-class unive-- | sity plant would cost. Speaking at Glasgow recently upon university ques- Q. Cannon would hav been compelled to | he is regarded by many as virtually the h the elevation of Brigham Young would h dent, of his claim to the church presiden: is regarded as on the whole indicating th: retire from his present position, in which ead of the church. On the other hand, ave been a concession, according to prece- cy. So the failure to select a chief apostle e preference of a majority of the apostles city. He escaped aiter several days' confinement, and | tions, Lord Rosebe-y is quoted as saying that for | i, behalf of Cannon. But Young and his adherents hope that his name has not his captor was identified and is now serving a sen- | university work of our time an institution founded to- | yet lost its power to conjure, and that the favoritism shown him by his father will 8 e | s ; : lling recognition of his s tence at San Quentin. day has an advantage over one founded in the fif- | Pave strong influence in compelling recos| of Mov T The case of the Cudahy boy, at Omaha, has exciteq | teenth century. No doubt in those ancient institutions E (5 7 | great interest, and all the detective intelligence of i i e wa istoric associ T Phical Soclety of the Pacific, Mariners’, & erl c genc there is much in the way of historic association to | PERSONAL MENTION. | K 80e e Xt tva " Sons e ta s o | the country st important to be dealt | | punishment for the the | officers, who | is watching it. The father was warned that his boy did not deposit a ransom of $23,000 in gold coin ’s eyes would be put out with acid if he He | paid the money and the boy was returned, safe and sound. This case had very dramatic details. The father received a letter directing him to drive over a certain recad, alone, at night, with a red lantern on the dash- board of his buggy, and when he came to a white lan- tcin to leave the money there and drive aw He obeyed instructions, took the lonely drive with the gol in his buggy, and in a brief time the boy was dropped near home from a close carriage. Mr. Cudahy has taken steps to detect the criminals. | But if they are found the laws of Nebraska furnish no ne. Our laws to punish abduction are very lenient. They have been framed down to a current idea of what that offense is. It is regarded as a charge that may lie against the sighing stripling who elopes with an old man’s daughter, or against a divorced husband o: wife who skips with the children. case should remind State Legislatures, of which many are to meet this year, that a statute should be framed to punish abduction znd demand for ransom. We believe the penalty should be death, since the crime can be made productive to the criminal only by the threat to murder or mnaim the prisoner held for ran- som. It is to be hoped that Mr. Cudahy has found such | trace of the gang that took his boy as will result in the capture of the miscreants, though they cannot be adequately punished. The presence of such criminals and the commission of such a crime in this country may well stir our people to thoughts of the imperfection of our civili- zation. A MARVELOUS RECORD. EPORTS from Washington are to the effect that the commercial statistics of the year wiil show that the exports of the United States and ever before in history. In other words, we are to close the last year of the century with a degree of commercial prosperity that in some respects would have been considered marvelous had it been predicted 2 decade ago. The reports say that basing the estimates for the year upon the eleven months' actual figures already received by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, it 1900 will reach about $1,470,000,000, and the impors $825,000,000, making the excess of exports over im- ports, or favorable balance of trade, $645,000,000, a sum greater by $25,000,000 than that of any preceding year. Considering the commerce from the per capita standpoint, the contrast between the import and ex- port figures is even more phenomenal. Following the records of our commerce back to 1870, it is found that the imports when considered in the light of the actual population have decreased rather than increased, while | the per capita of exports has enormously increased. In 1870 the population was 38.558.371 and the imports $461,132,058, an average per capita of $11 ¢6. In 1880 and 1890 the per capita was a little over $13; in 1805 it had fallen to $11 47, and in 1900 will be about $10 90. On the export side the showing is even more striking. In 1870 the exports per capita amounted to $10 46; in 1885 to $12 26, <in 1800 to $13 69, and in 1900 will be about $19 42. Thus the imports show since 1870 a slight reduction per capita, while the ex- ports have almost doubled per capita during the same period. Gratifying as is the showing made by those figures, balance of trade, from the per capita standpoint, the development §s startling. In 1870 imports exceeded exports by $57.546,048, and the excess of imports ovar exports amounted to $1 50 per capita. By 1875 the balance had turned in our favor, but amounted to only 17 cents per capita. By 1885 it amounted to $1 79 per capita, and in 1900 will amount to about $8 30 per The Cudahy | it does not tell the whole story, for considering the | stimulate earnest and noble minds, but to | stimulate to scholarship and to supply scholarship are two different things. The student needs more than | young | | | irstruct him in making use of it. {land young California can draw a lesson useful at | surely we cannot expect Berkeley to compete with students. On the contrary, there are more than the | | tendance will not continue unless the university be ! | ought therefore to receive' a: willing support from S—SE——— [ | GREAT BRITAIN is about the last place in the | | ! expect to find followers of the policies of | | ment to establish state dispensaries for the sale of | South Carolina. | with national profit” says: “His idea is that the pub- i tien by conducting it in the interests of the state in- | a house of refreshment where alcohol could be ob- bar, as it now is, and it would not be to the interest | public benefit. This is a move in the direction of From that statement it appears the only notable | nish liquor through state dispensaries to restaurants, It is to be noted, moreover, that recent reports | State orders for December included 2500 barrels of make the largest shipment of merchandise ever sent | The people of Berkeley who are making their stub- cause. They should have seen a little army of repen- venerable halls and their memories oi great names He needs an up-to-date plant and first-class men to | { Out of the moral of this experience of old Scot- this time. If a university so renowned as Edinburgh ‘ cannot hold its own without an increased revenus, | the great universities ‘of the United States withon: « adequate income. At Berkeley there is no lack of | university can properly care for, but that large at- { made equal 1o their rightial demands. The bill pro: | viding for an increased revenue to the university | | every legislator. It is one of the measures that should | | certainly be enacted this winter. o | ! STATE LIQUOR DISPENSARIES. | inglish speaking world in which we would | | Senator Tillman, and yet it appears likely a serious | | effort will be made at the coming session of Parlia- 1imoxicating liquors, the scheme to be carried out | on lines similar to those which Tillman adopted in The London Chronicle in discussing certain plans | which Lord Grey has for “uniting temperance reform Iic house may at once be made less harmiul than it is to the individual and a source of revenue to the na- | stead of in those of the private publican. Under | these reformed conditions the public house would he teined in its natural proportion to other articles of !food and drink; it would not be a mere drinking of the manager to push unduly the sale of intoxicants. Any profits derived would be administered for the sunity and common sense, and would be an improve- ment indeed on the:Gothenburg system.” difference between the British plan and that in force | in South Carolina is that the British propose to fur- while under Tillman's plan the dispensaries deal di- rectly with the consumer. from South Carolina show that the business is prov- | ing profitable in these good times. It is.said the whisky, and a single Pennsylvania factory has been given a contract for 130 carloads of flasks, which wili South. Tillman is not much of a statesman, but he seems to have scored Zell with his dispensary policy. born fight for town temperance have overlooked z powerful object lesson which would have aided their tant “celebrators” who faced, with hanging heads, a San Francisco Police Judge Christmas morning. A Sy The London preacher who had the audacity to at- tack the Prince of Wales and Lord Rosebery for their too evident enthusiasm for the racetrack is evi- dently not looking for that governmental preferment P. Sweed, a Petaluma merchant, is at the Grand. * George W. Henderson of San Jose is at the Occidental. F. F. Cadle, a merchant at Stockton, is at the California. J. E. Terry, wife and son of Sacramento are at the Palace. W. H. Nichols, a Portland rancher, is ‘registered at the Grand. James G. Coffin of Stanford University | is registered at the Palace. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent of Schools, is at the Palace. ' C. C. Van Liew, principal of the State Normal School at Chico, is at the Lick. J. B. de Jarnatt, a prominent Colusa mining man, is among the late arrivals at the Occidental. C, E. Smith, commercial agent for the Chicago,, Rock Island & Pacific Railway at Los Angeles, is in the city. Y. G. Rowley, of the Paeific Mail Steam- ship Company, arrived in this city yester- day, and is stopping at the Russ. €. W. Smith, city passenger agent of the Burlington route, returned yesterday from a month's trip to Chicago and New York. W. C, Langdon of Fredonia, N. Y., is registered at the California. He is on his Way to China, where he goes to engage in missionary work. Frank B. Winship, traveling passenger afld freight agent of the Hlinois Central, leaves to-day to spend New Year's with relatives in Los Angeles. —_—e———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHIN GTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—R. G. Lincoln of San Francisco is at the National, A e i INFORMATION FOR STOCKMEN. Editor Call: Instructions from Wash- ington show that practically the same rules will be in force for stock grazing on the Rorest Reserves next season that were introduced last year. Permits will be granted upon application for the graz- ing of horses and cattle upon conditions stated in printed forms of application v the Government. O hnsen wh failed {0 obtatn permits jast year should at once write the super- intendent at Fresno for application blanks. a fed To those who ha rmits last year blanks will be mailed for new applica- ions. Truly yours, s CHARLES L _NEWHALL, Forest Superintendent. Fresno, Cal., Dec. 18, 1900. pe More Compliments. (Healdsburg Tribune.) The San Francisco Call issued a splen- did number last Sunday, a very creditable Christmas edition, beautifully illustrated and full of the world’s current news, in- teresting special stories, scenes and events. The Call is a very popular paper, second to none on this coast, and spar- ing no expense to excel and make {tself pular with the people of California. As K‘Zr great building towers above all adja- cent structures so does The Call tower above all competitors. ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A PREMIUM COIN—C. P., Vacaville, Cal. Dealers offer from 40.to 75 cents for a dime of 1807. If you wish to buy one from dealers_you will have to pay from 75 cents to $1 25. A CAROLUS COIN—Subscriber, Bul- lards Bar, Cal. A Svanish coin of 173 the size of half a dollar, issued during the reign of Carolus 1V, a market value, according to dealers, of from 75 cents to $1 25. t is their selling price. They do not purchase such coins. i BLACKLISTING—Subscriber, Onkland, Cal. Whether a man who has been black- listed by a corporation has a z' l;v‘yvu a n&.ner that wo\:% d e lons. one that can be answered only by table attorney upon a presentation a re of all the facts. POSTAGE STAMPS_T. B. H., Upper Lake, Cal. Postage stamps were first in- which finds expression in a good living. .~ —_———— San Francisco appears to be indulging one phase of boyish precocity which might justly and ju- diciously be corrected in the reform schools. We have had altogether too many “boy burglars” of late Many a man has had a merry Christmas, but | ‘troduced in the United States in 1845 as issues. Th were first i cal in Public (free) San Francisco Bar Associa- tion, San Francisco Medical Society, San Francisco Law, California Pioneers, Milis® Law, Supreme Court, Sutro, Theosophical, Wells, Fargo & Co., Young Men's Christ- ian Association, and Young Women’s Christian Association. WATER CASES-M. T. C., City. In the California Reports, % Cal., p. 635, there is a report of the action of Steward ve. The City Water Company of Los An- geles, in which it was decided that a wa- ter company has the right to shut off wa. ter from a consumer when the esnsumer refuses to pay for the water supplied. In 67 Cal., p. 120, there is a case of McCray vs. Bgudry, tn which it is held | that “‘a person engaged in furnishifg wa- ter to the inhabitants of a city under a franchise permitting him to lay pipes through the streets for that purpose an. to sell water, cannot, without reasonabie cause, shut off the water from one who is using the same at a fixed rate.” These are the only California cases cited. SHAKING DICE—M., City. This corre- spondent writes: “A bets B that he will beat him in any shake of dice he may {throw. B shakes three sixes and A Shakes three sixes. A claims that he did pot lose.” 'The correspondent does not state if this was a single throw with three dice, but presumably it was. If that was the case it was a foolish bet, for A must bave known that there was 4 possi- bility of B throwing three sixes, the high- est possible, and that he could not possi- bly beat that throw. The law governing dice-throwing is laid down by Hoyle in a decision as follows: “A throws 11 at a raffie. beat it and B throws 1l. Does C lose his bet or win it? Answer—C loses, the tie not answering to his proposition. The 11 was thrown before the bet was made, and to beat 11 it is manifest a higher number must be got. But when a man says be- fore a throw, ‘T'll beat you," a tie makes the bet a standoff. Thus, if A and B throw dice and C in advance of the throw savs, ‘I bet that B will beat A's throw,’ then A takes the converse of C's proposi- tion, and by the acceptance of the wager bets that he (A) will rl‘mal! B C bet B will | any important Boer leader since the su 'EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Future of Cuba. The more the subject is considered, the more variously it Is viewed, the more clearly does it appear that the adoption -of the Teller resolution was a great mis- take; that we ought to have taken poss: sion of Cuba just as we took of Porto Rico and of the Philippine that the original blunder having been committed the only thing for us_to,do now pending the request which the Cu- bans themselves will eventually make for annexation is not to permit the control at least of the foreign affairs of the isis and to pass out of our hands.—PHILA- DELPHIA INQUIRER. ‘What “Bobs” Has Done. “Bobs” is a great general, but he did not conquer the Boers. He ent the war at the most favorable mome his own reputation—when the B army had attained its greatest num and when other generals. by their | jering, had al y ed the e points of the stra ituation a received the hardest blows wh;((h the emy at that time could give. Pretoria by the sheer weight of over whelming numbers, but, in response political considerations urged by the ernment, he went so fast as to dama severely the efficiency of his own party He took Pretoria, but had taken prisonc neither Mr. Kruger nor Mr. Steyn, & render of Cronje.—SPRINGFIELD RE- PUBLICAN. Important to Italy. The announcement that the Queen of Italy will in a few months become a mother is of great importance in the af- fairs of that country. The hope of both the royal pair and the people will proba- bly be for a son, and if it shall be real- {zed the rejoicings will be unbounded. Such an event indeed will -fl’. far toward strengthening the throne. e King is a delicate man, and the fear has been that thers would be no issue from the mar- riage, and this has depressed both tha King and all the friends of his house. But a son, and especially if he shall show the reinforcement of the maternal blcod and give promise of vigor, will enlarge ail the calculations of the house of Savoy. The arrival, we may be sure, will be cele- brated far and wide throughout Italy.— WASHINGTON STAR. What the South May Do. The Macon Telegraph asks: “Have ws rot had enough of fusion with hell and rtnership with death?’ It notes the Fict that “a majority of the voters of the South refused to 0 to the pol n No- vember,” and the even more significant fact that “the Republican vote showed marked gains (240,000 more in the South- ern States than in 1896) at a time when the negroes refused to vote even whers they could,” while the Democratic vots in these States fell off nearly 50,000 from that of 1896 and three-quarters of a mil- lion below the combined opposition vote of 1392. Fusion, free silver and Bryan are recognized by the Democrats of the South as played out and _everlastingly “done up.” It remains to be seen if they have sufficient initiative and vigor to resume their old and natural and successful alll- ance with the Democrats of the East and the Middle West.—NEW YORK WORLD. Cur Growing Navy. While these developments of the last sixteen years have been taking place the TUnited States has moved upward fram near the bottom of the list of the world's naval powers to the fourth place; and In actual warfare the United States navy has earned a distinction which has put its vessels Into the first place among the warships of the world. Except for Japan, Which aid not bulld her own navy, Ameri- can vessels alone of the vessels of mod- ern navies have been put to the test, and have given the world proof of their capa- bility and power. The achievements of the American navy have gone into his- tory. But it is not always kept in mind that the building of the navy has had its part in the creation of an industry which in the early years of the new c fury must inevitably become ome of th> foremost industries of the country.—BOS- TON TRANSCRIPT. i ——————— Plenty of fruit at Townsend's, —_—————— . All new stock of candies at Townsend's.* ——e———— New fire-etched boxes at Townsend's.* —_——ee—————— Cholce candies, Townsend's Palace Hotel.* —_—e————— Townsend’s California giace fruits, 50c 2 und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ts. A Dice present for Bastern friends. §39 Market street, Palace Hotel building.* —_———————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allens), 310 Mont- gomery st lephone Main 1043. If a man posse the rudiments of wisdom he will formally decline to write his name on the back of a note as a mat- ter of form. 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