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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1900. MISCELLANEOUS. FREE RIDE TO ALL. "THE CHALLENGE EXPLAINED” BY THE PATTOSIEN CO., GORNER (Gth AND MISSION STREETS, has been said by some of our competitors that we do not sell all of our furniture and carpets cheaper than We thereio nized a “SPECIAL CHALL c win stores pay; rse we are a little out of the way t o om IS5 per ceat 30 ces ENGE SALE to per cent on in fact we save $21,000 every year to our patrons but it is worth the trouble to come to us. our entire stock for this “SPECIAL CHALLENGE which is open to all comers. Our 15 on account of Besides the low prices, NEXT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 190l MODERN UTOPIA AND ITS RESULTS Some of the Reforms That Have Been Instituted in New Zsaland. Out-and-Out Socialism May Be the Result of the Economic Policy Adopted by the Islanders. —_— DANISH “WEST INDIES 19 SMLORS' BODIES SRR WikE BE OURS! - WISHED ASHORE State Department Admits That Negotiations for Their Purchase Are Practically Closed. Canvass of the Senate and House Indicates the Passage of Senator Lodge’s Appropriation Bill. mains of Twenty of the Crew of the Primrose Hill Recovered. Large Quantities of Wreckage, Evi~ dence of Further Disasters in the English Channel, Strew the Coast. ———— . “ —_— riends ‘o A FREE RIDE to and| "The home of social and economlc ex- HOLYHEAD, Deec. 28.—The 'bodles of e Y A from the store to all pur- | Periments” is the name given by some Special Dispatch to The Call twenty members of the crew of the Buit- r tea FREE chasers. Take Mission, | Writers to isolated New Zealand. It has | ish bark Primrose Hill, Captain ‘\nsnnr: o rue Orier Kearny and Fillmore street (;lls_o lbeen des]url,.»ed as lab«f:r(sh pur'a'a“llse,;‘ NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The Tribune has ment of the United States and me! r.-..n: L:l\v:!u:\[ kfuf‘y '\ xru-«;-)-.-er& Sv(vnr:l(cm , store.” way of social retorm and Stath fnterven | tical conclusion of megotiations for the [J5. RICEFEss. (To06 L o o e up, have ien> 1o i Yy 10 ¢ ven- Lo i o : @ | ashore Pattosien’s Chalienze Sale in 8 3 tion in the interest of the poor and lowly, ‘\',';:J:‘“se, ogoéé':mg‘a"::' l\:}:slq(:gw}):s | earlier stages something was attempt- | CDON, Dec. 20.—Quantities of wreck- CARPETS Pattoslen’s Challenze Sa'e in|savs iaward B. Clarke in the Chicago Y niually —cor el e e | fd,here through the resident Min-| thrawn up o the Aleent : RUGS Ttmes-Herald. Now Zealand ln iheretors | 33 riaton by Congress is|and one Captain Chirisimss Difkteldr, bui . evidence of disasters from the he largest and best light g £ " & democracy which may be studied with | gff 8PRFOPUEVOR BY CROEOSS R S hese efforts Iaid the foundation for | S41E 1O Vet reported. . ed the city Size 10-6x15, Axminster....827.00 | profit by those who would form an idea | o o ooovoe en 00 a0 0B NS oiner | What followed in Europe they could not | The Srint ,}‘ aorn r_mxro.‘g ltr:or:vuy s I Ca Size 11x12:6, Lowell B. B...825.00 | of the tendencies of unrestricted popular i . be regarded as successful, and after ma- | $1°aMmer plying between Milfo and X assels at....81.15 per yard S i) . s Pl : rule and the effects of what Is called pop- | Sméll Islands owned by Denmark lmme- | ;1. consideration the State Department | Vo erford, which, last night, was report- 95¢ per vard Size 8-3x12, Axminster.... . 818.00 o ALE Ok € o and what is in realicy s | diately to the eastward of Porto Rico, and | decided that Mr. Swenson, the United | S0 twelve hours overdue, reached Water- $1.10 per yvard Size 8-3x10 Wilton V.......815.00 | miid form of socialism. 1s New Zealand | it 18 the impression of the officials’that | States Minister to Denmark, was the best | (07d thirty-two hours late The remaa: e e L Size 10-6x10, Bigelow B. B..$21.00 (& warning or an example? Does it teacn | the money will be voted next month. The | person to deal with the case, In the inter- | $¢F Of the crew of the Spanish steames ++.-B0C per yard Si 6 4 S.50 | how to do it or how not to do it? | Breatest difficulty encountered in the ne- | est of this country. Therefore he was | Eiecuri, which was driven asho $1.05 per yard ize 10-6x9, English B. B... . B8.50 | B 1 92 00 HON ieibed Tor our benent | Eotiations has been the reluctance of | given full instructions and some measure | FUrtiand breakwater (whers twenty-two Biviensls F. - Size 8-3x10, English B. B...$14.00 | special acts or policies of the New Zea- | Denmark to agree in advance to a sale, | of authority. He had nearly succeeded in | Mell g0t ashore, leaving five men on tha ey . land democracy, but the most compiste | While the United States was not prepared | his object last sprine when, through an | W'eck) have been landed. The captain € and 75¢ per yard and satistactory account of the poitics | to Suarantee to buy, fearing a repetition | internal chs in Denmark, the Minister | feVisited the vessel to-day, and he ssels Pattosien's Challenge Sale in and legislation of thal interesting colony for the past decade has just been provided of the embarrassing situation that arose thirty vears ago, when the Senate refused of Foreign Affairs was displaced. The new Minister was opposed to the as ped on her deck the ship keeled over ste; .ncf sank. The captain was drowi R ¥ ot .45¢ per yard BEDROOM SUITS. v Henry J. Lloyd in & work entitled | to ratify Secretary Seward's treaty of | transfer of the islands to the United sThe i““%‘ '}“k S‘“firi"’mml}m&“:; P gy 3 < P Vewest England.” Mr. Lloyd is in full flurchlse, when Denmark believed the sale | States and a wave of patriotic feeling | Jeptember . for Buntiwe., Tas —Cogh ttosien's Challenge Sale in Rich, full, swell front. cherry and | sympathy with the dominant tendences in | had actually been consummated. | sWept over the country to which the Gov- | dfiven ashore at Perranporth, Cornwer. PARLOR SUITS mahogany finished chamber suits (7 | New z:d’:nu. .;:I.d he &vrne- with .n&hu-d of“c:)sng:s::gf)r:;n?g:?ste?\t:o% o el;r:{::fl_‘ln:u'::’:ile%;o yldelg. and lht:' ne- | s Y (b Tochit AIEEReE. - v . 14 i 1 1 vi 1 1 asm of the things one, o] ed and | suspende or a me. | 1 - —solid oak, piano pol- pieces), with swinging shaped French Dianned tuN. the v :u&"%ow i | bill, carrying $,000,000 for the acquisition 18 g 0, has taken place fn the pub- | The British ship King ,dmé‘.‘fip; id mahogany, CHAL- 525 00 bevel mirror and bureau. 533 5() | Power. Yet he is compelied to make some | of the islands and for establishing Ameri- | lic,mind of Denmark and the present Min. | t2/n Read, from Antwerp Decembq{) o , solid colors LE PRICE . Challenge Sale Price... . D issions: whieh. to) the impartial gra: | ican soverelgnty, is assured of speedy and | istbr of Forelgn Affairs has, It is believed | San Francisco, has anchored in the Downs e Price Wi e themm as Stk ne S deat Wil apbear fnost usgestve, {avorable conslderation; and on this, 3o | hers. Feluglantly come to Yhe conciusion | nith, lons of Julle and 3, mas, Jegiey 537' 50 il i Golden - Odk Bedroom. Suitd, | la‘fl;( é;rgfinfazglis?n;&i:a;u}:r\lf: b‘oela- and transter have been perfected and the | necessary 1o hoid tne lslands. S Thelt ex. | driven back from Falmouth by heavy carved, best cast brass handles, plain | ness and self-confidence. It has had the signing of the instrument only awaits the port trade, normally done in large part weather. We have them as high as $150 and as low as $17. Come finish. Challenge Sale Price.......... | courage of its ideas. Thus the latest ven. | readiness of the United to pay the pur- | with the United States, has been greatly | _Advices from the French ports say tlie and see them e e Sifacs 3 2 515-00 ture on its part is universal penny post- chase price. 2 5 depressed, and_ though the commerce |Sale razed with extreme vlolencs-n :?H £ age. It has decided on this regardless of | COPENHAGEN, Dec. 2).—The United | might yield suficient taxation under um- | O A S the “ald or consent of any foregn ne. | States Minister, Mr. Swenson, has in- | restrained intercourse with the {nited | have been ~wrecked. Nine tion,” not excepting the mother countr; It be formed the Danish Government that the United States offers 12,000.000 kroner for States to make the islands self-sustain- ing, at present they are a drag on Den- boats have been stranded near Dunkirk and three of them will prove total wrecks. % : s . it asks for no reciprocal henefits, A 126 rds long, full width, best quality net, small neat designs, good edges. worth | ileves that penny rostage wili pay event. | the Danish Antilles and will not give mark and the Danish Government is| Thelr crews were seen clinging to wate HALLEN 3 ot 2 ¢ more. 0 to make good a o £ , b h o NITNeE DO LT $3.00 per pair |inidoite. aa duge: mnd it 15 tager | The nesotiations between the Govern- | fciton thelr aeount. | oo O |betond he reach of the rocksts A life We have lace curtains in sets as low as 65c per pair, a great from al parts of store nd as high as $150.00 per pair. CHALLENGE SALE” of Pattosien Company we will pay CAR FARE to and f the city while this great sale is on. THE PATTOSIEN CO., 16th AND MISSION STREETS. ssion and Fillmore street Kearny, M ONE COMPANY CAPTURES FIVE to act on that belief. 'l%ie same readiness has been shown in other and more ques- | tionable directions. Here is a list of the reforms instituted by New Zealaud since 1890, the year of the “peaceful revolution'* and the extraordinary wave of political | radicallsm which abolished the “ancient regime” and swept the conservatives out of power—forever, we are assured: , [ ol Abolition of general property tax and substitution therefor of iand and income | taxes to force the large land-owner Lo | sell his holding. The tax on the rich is | | progressive and high; the poor is largely exempted. | | | | | | LUCK TURKED JUST I TINE whoopingeough or the housemaid’'s knee could beat the colt and advised me hold a few little girls up for their ear rings and bracelets or beat a policeman t death for his gun metal watch in orde to get a bet down. Now, I don't train with the good thing team, but I'd seen this colt. The Rogue, win'a pretty fair race with a long figute about him and I had the glooms about the little $2 note (hall( alone remained of my §7 overcoat soak. r boat gallantly rescued many of the fisher- men, but ten of them perished. | ADVERTISEMENTS. | GOOD REASON FOR IT. The Success and Popularity of the New Catarrh Cure. The remarkable success and guhrl of the new catarrh cure, S:uanylo ltl.rx 4 - “It was about 3 o'ci HUNDRED IMPERIAL SOLDIERS) i Shie e torad b sbo: | One Sheetwriter Does Not | o chie oui”snd SESm hekelstonat | Tavlcta, ix largely hecause It not only state becomes a landlord, establishes a board, 1t was half-prst 3 oenen i an, e | ferers who use these tablets know what new tenure, lease in perpetuity, and limits transfer, area and cultivation. Mind How Cold the the hock plant and the race was due at into their systems—no se- | they are takin z what they contain. They cret is made § of B » g .. 4. I started to yank tie ring off when I 4 S 3. Contract work is done away with, and s 4 e B 1 1 composed of hydrastin, blood root, Count von Waldersee Reports a Feat by a De.achment of the|ut @hemma itk frtet ot | Wind Blows. | found that 1L wouign e vemove, Tn Bl | 315 205 nd red gum, re bleasant o the Batd g ol i I had bruised up my knuckles and they | [St¢ and, belng dissolve . Third Asiatic in the Mountains Near Mancheng. His Resignation. 4. Compulsory arbitration is established | and strikes are eliminated. All disputes | are settied by a court specially created fi into her own hands, practically displac- | sumes the role of chief purveyor of credit In the Bitter Hour of Need a Bad Debt Is Transformed Into meeting at Aqueduct to begin, "I sure am | were swollen. 1 was in a blg hurry and [ moistened the finger and twisted the ring around, but it balked the knuc! Then the man behind the desk_tri was losing time so fast that I began to nd the neckband. | they take immediate effect upon the mu- cous lining of the throat, nasal passages and the whole respiratory tract. The cures that Stuart’s Catarrh Tab- the purpose, regardless of ail considera- | Y =Py ried 0| .t5 have accomplished in old chronie 2 —The War Office has | Schwargenstein that it would demand 60 Su is the nephew of the former Emperor, | ticns of frée contract and free private | a Small - Sized Bt AF. 8 prjtas s w hustied | cases are little short of remarkable, and " nt 3 Val- | taels a month beginning with N\\»! who had no sons and designated the |enterprise. ? | Fort @ bottle of vaseline, chased Loy 1oU&N¢ | the advantage of knowing just what you I vouthful nephew to succeed him, But In| 5. Unemployed are taken care of on a ortune. gl 4 | are taking into your system is of para- ' — - | the recent dlsturbed conditions of the em. | state farm. { [t e Tt Saghs 1 the venes] 1ce when it is remembered DISPLEASED WITH CONGER. | pire. the ancient usages appear o have | 6 Transportation at o e T But the knuckle was still about a fwen- | that the coc or morphine habit has s been lost sight of and in September, 1898, | the government’s railwa ‘Pollr,\. | “Yes' sald the 'bookmaker's shest- | tieth of an inch too Lig and the ring's | Peen frequently cor tracted as the result State Department Would Welcome | the Empress Dowager executed a coup | The principal bank of the colony is | e 2 Lo e always heen a close fit, anyhow, and [ | ©f using secret catarrh remedies, as so s d'etat and took the reins of government | “‘nationaiized,” and the government as- | writer, who is waiting for the spring 3 d ¢4 s AN many of them are well known to contaln | these injurious dru; | > calcine are s. s - WASHINGTON, Deec Administra- | iIng the Emperor. Later the Empress to the business interests. resting just now; but I don't know; 1/ "y "'”ir, about to pass the word to| Stuart's Catarrh %MIPN meet with the gping K tion officials beileve it would help toward | Dowager named the young son of Prince | 8. Pensions are given to all aged poor. | guess I'll be able to give ‘em an argu- | the man behind the counter to chop the | approval and cordial support of physi- - ot i T I Chinese ques- | TUAN 8s the successor to the throne, and | 9. Free cold storage s provided; patents | BI0858 oo B2 0 800 4 oandy cane | inger off, or file tha ring off. or seme. | CiAns because their antiseptic character r s " King . ' . No | Bow. according to press dispatches, the |are bought up and made free to all; boun- &l ¢ the Santa Claus sock be. | IDINE. When I gave the three-stoner the | Fenders them perfectly safe for the gen- £ ti ster Conger ;f:lgnv No | Empress Dowager has displaced the Em- | ties are paid for the development of new | Sticking out of the Santa Claus soc | kind of a do-good twist it needed and eral public to use and their composition SAY THE COURT WILL ACCEPT. | . ' unicated to | PSEOL With & new successor | industries, and instruction Is given by the | sides,” whereupon the resting sheet- | {70, ® pfoqd (WISt L nesded and off | 1y jes them a common sense cure for all - . e ere. and the | ache previous acts of the En.press Dow- | government agents in co-operative pro- | writer paid for the arinks for the crowd | 3nq when I got the $30 and the ticket if | forms of catarrhal trouble. ¢ ¢ Circlos seems o | Leor have not been such as would permit | duction. around the table from a roll of the brown | was a pat 4. 1 chased out with the dougn | _\Vith nearly all advertised catarrh cures ats of Chinese Newspapers _ofcial circles seeme to | intervention by the powers, aithough the | 10. Women are enfranchised. ones that he was Snly able to pull out |in my mit and made a lope for the near. | it is a matier of guesswork as to what Bve G ten lg remain, Mr. Con: | Emperor has made appeals to Great Brit- | Bome of the reforms have been in effect | 0¢®yig"" 1ighthand trousers pockst by | €5t Ioom, Which was three blocks away |YOU Are taking into the stomach. as the & b ) & s - - dr ries to upho) s an- | but a short time and it may be unfair to ' = o B e - ol roprietors, w 2 A . pupecs B i | clent prerogatives. But, with the powers | it 1n judgment upon them. But {he ques | 5tooping over. The others at the table, | 8t that Jfi“’n";.‘?’:”?m’é‘é ::";?\'Ln i Claims as to what their medicines will do. E a decided to P e e tantion | Operating In China, it is not likely that|tion may yet be asked—What has been | at sight of the bundle, simulated sudden | ., “ihinking” I ‘suppose, that I'd just | 8re very careful to keep it a close secret 1 wers and d to cali his atten they will permit a further exercise of the | the visible result of all this “fraternalism | attacks of heart disease, vertigo and oth- N g - as to what they really contain. which sald he The report Empress Dowager's influence, particular- and paternalism?’ Mr. I d says in oue | er prostrating seizures. The sheetwriter swung some old lady for her purse, but I kept right on and | *This is one reason why Stuart's Catarrh . i to resign gave as its cause fric- | ly if it takes the obnoxious form of seek New r | nally made the stairs have been so widely recommend- fict t yart- g - place that New Zealand {s prosperous in | wealth stooped over and returned | of the room. Just as I passe: e look- | Tablets have L - [ & E b Ty e, friction aross Than: the Shek ety M ST Erines e (epEGOIE S0 Thi T edion e s L righthand | out and got In the Hoor et a1 nonr | od; because L e T Rl o s 28 < say th ction g 0, the e spirator in the Boxer policy i& a “success.” But in apother oot B4 -4 | convenient to . bt 30 ; onger’s fallure o properly | disturbances. Besides the specific de- | place he admits that the people are | trousers pocket, beamed cheerfully upon | Put the °Bgrator hootiug thraugh the meg- | {105 e s not putting into his stomach nstruction. | mands made by the powers on China, it - mnge: ild he no hesitancy on the part | 1 pting Mr. | is well known that the Governments and their Ministers to Peking have for some time been congidering means of overcom- ing the sinister anti-foreign Influence of | neither happy nor content; that the work- | men dare not publish the names of their official leaders lest the employers black- list them, and that the birth rate is| steadily decreasing owning to an economic the open-eyed party of five around the | table, lit a fresh cigar and went on: “A couple o' weeks ago, when 1 got back from Bennings with the old man, it looked llke a case o' hustle for a winter | Bogue, forgetting that 1 intended to play “l made two jumps of it for the win-| dow, planked down my $30, panted The the mutt all three ways across the board ‘ “They're off—no more taken,” said ths anything of an injurious character. These tablets are sold by druggists ev- erywhere in the United States and Canada at 50 cents for complete treat- | ment and probably there is no better rem- e granted him, | the Empress Dowager by excluding her | pressure which makes people afr ever devised for the-permanent cure ot in at t 4 T g | pres e akes people afraid to v v ¢ | duck behin o AR edy ever .} preferred to remain at hia post. | from Peking and from all turther partici: | have children. Bul the strongest evidence 00, 88 & sweepout for mine, It was by | Cick Bening the window, and I recognized | 5¢ catarrh. whether located in the head, r - iht here that he W anon | Pitlon of the governmental affairs of | of dissatisfaction is found in the demand | g23.® of" pikers—and they werem't such |and I saw the marks of my three-stoner | Lhr0at. bronchial tubes or in the stomach. e g » b 80t aining untl the negotiations ina. s | for additional and even more revolution- | {f\if 3, “fat this year chused. the oid | £Ull fed and raw on s chin. He was my | _ e en i Chang has sion St b . r By Jepmgtion. man block Inside of a week, and | Welching boy. g ! ision may ot be reached for DELAYS MAY BE PROLONGED.| The measures and reforms which the B R o e iier ad g T Tta uil ot for that $00-yoil- owe Jorted by missionary and Congressional o | progressive party advocates make a list| gy roll in their pajamas. You people {1 said to him, ‘if you get this $30 down e e . in ofice during | China Not Expected to Blindly Agree €ven longer than that of the things al- iy have heard that out of the forty and | on The Rogue’ and, as the operator dilyer s gy B e . to the Demands. ready realized. The principal items. in ' ,iq Jayers who went on the stools at the | hadn't vet called S the way the horses Lodi : s i | WASHINGTON, Dec. 201t i e e e lete. A tionalisation ot Ot | opening of tnis last Henniugs meeting only | g0t away from the post. and the boss be- - ! NGTON, Dec. 20.— s recog- , C % v nd the desk wi " } HONORS A SON OF TAUN. og fourteen etayed the route, and these were asn't_looking, he made a LO-ND ON Kl':mpren Dowager’s Choice for Ruler of the Chinese Empire. WASHINGTON, Dec ago the Empress Dowager of China desig- nated the young son of Prince Tuan as the successor of Kwang Su. Although the name given in the dispatches as that of of old signs 29.—Some months | nized by the officlals here as a perfectly natural course on the part of the Chinese Government to ask for explanations of the Important points in the agreement reached by the Ministers at Peking, so the President is not surprised to hear now that before blindly accepting the agree- | ment as binding upon it the Chinese court wishes for some definite statement as to land, increase of the taxes for the further equalization of the rich and poor, State | insurance against fire, nationalization of | the steamship lines, complete nationaliza- | tlon of banking and a government news | service. In the face of this remarkable programme Mr. Lloyd says that ‘“while theorists invite the world to choose be- tween the catastrophe of state socialism and trust soclaiism, New Zealand finds staggering and all out at the finish. When the old man's satchel was cleaned out, that let me out of work, of course, and the little $200that I went down to Wash- ington with, intending to bloat the same into a leather trust, was by that time snugged away in the kicks of the Gov- ernment_clerk's shortclothes; and 1 had all I could do to spade out enough to buy a ticket back to New York. When you're swift“write-out_of the ticket. called oft ‘Twelve hundred to thirty on The Rogue,’ which was at 40 tc I, and before I had a chance to butt in and say that I wanted to put §10 all three ways on The Rogue ithe ng@ratnr chimed in and announced that The Rogue was third and only a length away from the leaders at the quarter, which made me a nose too late, Then The Rogue came on at the half, an. -~ aing more wounced, and % a way out between these extremes.” What : oices and the | f th o o the lower DOFt: < complete- | the mew successor aiffers from that| What Chinese cities are to be occupfed, | does Mr. Liovd understand by socialism }:!:’g'"‘fi.fiffliu‘ifl{l ;msr;x':;: ices and the | from there he tow-roped the bunch, com | named by the Empress Dowager some |how long the occupation is to continue, | if all that New Zealand asks, In addition yup about 60 per cent of favorites, like| *They are now,” soncluded the sheet- | as imperial names refer to the dynasties the name he bore before he ascend- e throne. Should the change be med, it would doubtless be regarded powers as a high handed act and e powers. Under the ancient system ina, the Emperor is able to name his times going outside-of the | time ago, they may be one and the same, | whether it is an absolute. condition th. the Princes are to be behcaded and whether the Taku forts are to be razed has from the beginning of the ne a- tions taken an attitude on e | be more time consumed in securing a final acceptance of the agreement than Was at first expected. Tt was not to be supposed these fiva | to what it has realized. is not socialism? The lesson really taught by the expe ence of the antipodean Utopia is that | New Zealand inevitably leads to another | and another. In the end the colony will have to choose between out-and-out so- | cialism and the economic policy which it | May not the colony be confronted by | bankruptey? -And will not the restriction | upon manufacturing industries cause in- that Bennings meeting did, you're due to fall off and break yourseif into a pic- ture no artist can paint, which was me, to come back to when you've bowed a tendon and there's nothing doing—with the copper on. For a couple o' days cof- fee and sinker dough locked as big as the and the ciammy digits everywhere. didn’t want to send this three-stoner that I'm wearing up the eaves, feeling that it writer, “‘runnin Francisco for Mr. Hogan and his friend | Sweeney and I'm_going to let " | and change upon “’“"‘_"“t"‘f“‘ - the | or “whether ~dismantlement will ~saf- | there is no “way out between.” for one | jifesize. Wee sl it Whes i s i e | throne, that of Kwang Su being erent | fice. It is a fact that our Governmen: | Step toward paternalism as practiced in -~ “New York is such a nice little old place | give the rest of the bunch a chance. This | is going to be one of the merry Christ- mases when it won't be a clay pipe and hay and snowballs for mine.’ and then the resting sheetwriter rose, buttoned his Sun. at New Orleans and San | FRONT 2 »m BAGK LISH WELT, Ma e B S 9 L] = - e oy <] z =] =) < » =2 fOIV[OUBLY URG ‘1§ INdRY D9 ‘Yousdg ISEO) JI2EG | | Broken e not likely to be countenanced. | Government ed as a basi | has discarded. The prosperity the colony | g be > A 5 s of | has ) ny | figurehead of a ship to me. I did the|fine new Raglan about him and strolled E I the present n‘.v,dh;‘nn of g’f%fi such | putting them. | enjoys is not the consequence of its ex-| hustle around the rooms to see if I|out, leaving the others to the contempla- | ye ass e by the ;llnprif].“ nwagelr‘ It begins to appear from the character | Perimental legislation. What will happen = couldn’t nail some pencil work, but it was | tion of the dope shaets on probable 40 to 1| frense against na as well | of the Chinese respouscs that there may | under a period of industrial stagnation? nix all along the line; crews all filled up | shots entered tot run that Jny.-xew York | Lenses replaced for 5O centa. Any Astigmatic lenses duplicated for $1.00 | and $1.50. According to a correspondent, two mag-| Guaranteed correct and best nificent carpets, presented by the Infanta | Oculists’ prescriptions flled. Factory Donna Sanche to the royal convent of St, | Premises. Quick repairing. Phone, Main 1. , although under the pres- has been the custom to e the son and helr as successor, that the allles, in/view of their union | Austrial paralysis? New Zealand will upon the use of the word “irrevocable,” | know more ten or twenty vears hence as applied to the agreement, would toler. &bout the soundness of tne concern called ought to stick as part of the front, but my No. 2 benny went in for a bum seven- On the exchange fo ay that I put my overcoat L. - en s th of ground ; he absence of a son, to sclect a | ate unnecessary delay on the part of the | “Government & Co., Unlimited.” In the e et a duck on Forty-second street | Antonio in 150, have just been sold by | - " t Mumm von | member of the imperial family. Kwang | Chinese Government in amn: upon ;R: meantime no democracy will be tempted ma!g‘:"been owing me m)smce last Au- | auction at the munictpil chamber in Lis. ! agreement, but the inquiries made ap-|to emulate New Zealand's example. The gust—not $30 in milk tickets or rain| pon to pay for repairs at the g ad | pear to be 80 _reasonable, at least i the | spectacle is an Interesting one, but it is | ehecks, but sure-enough maney; he hand- | P07 0 Pay it SORFRNE S8G | 7es of qur Government, that there can | Dot half over. No congratulations such as | ed me the hurry fouch for It at the track | SRUICL, The S48 0f the carpets. which| OpTICIANS p"mpcll""cm“ scarcel e a Vi 3 0 xtends are as . V. e -. - > 1 stderation. Obisction 1p st coli-J IR AOYE & yet in order. | one afternoon. When I met him I held | Tpil i5eraq with real gold, caused much | SCENTIFIC Uy (/4] I W Waterproof that's sure Eight years have de- monstrated that prop- yglenic and comfort- cble besides Made by Buckingham & Hacht, at $5 the pair for men No otled silk or rubler #inings, se unhealthful to_the fe: For sale only at [/ 4 / '{'I/,/I//I///// fody Ak (3' bl //I/(/I(.'.// lsbpasptinnds, ’,’///l' — Cable From Tientsin to Shanghai. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The Commercial Cable Company has issued the following : The German administration announces that in concert with the Great Northern Telegraph Company and the Eastern Ex- tension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, cable has been lald for the German Government between Tsintau and Ehanghai. The opening f will take place on Samuars LoD service German Law of Libel. The German law of libel is a curlosity. An editor recently sald in his paper that e certaln gentleman ‘‘was an unmannerly boor,” in consequence of which a libel ac- tion was brought against the paper. The evidence given seemed to show that the only fault with the expression was that it was not strong enough. The case was taken from court to court in the usual ‘way, until it reached the highest tribunal. The final decision was t the editor would have been perfectly fustified if he had said that the plaintiff “had acted like | &n unmannerly boor,” but since he had said that the plaintiff actually “was an unmannerly boor,” he had committed Ii- bel. In Germany it Is libelous to call a man a pig or an ass; but if you combine the two and call a man a pig-ass, then there i8 no libel, because such an animal does not exist. The favorite combination among Germans is, we believe, pig-dog (schweinehund).—Chambers’ Journal. —_——— Home of Naval Secrets. One of the most exclusive laboratories under the British Admiralty is situated at Haslar, near Portsmouth, and is used malinly for secret experiments and models, says a London correspondent. No strang- er can enter the gates without giving a clear statement as to his object. Even Camera Supplies. ! Cameras, photographic supplies, kodaks, | albums for unmounted photographs, printing and developing. Sanborn, Va.fl & Co., 41 Market St. . —_—— | There Was Sorrow There. i The colonel halted his horse In front of | a Dakota dugout and uttered a vigoroua “Hello!"” and after a minute a tow-headed girl of about 16 vears of age showed up #nd looked him over and said: “Now, then, what ye whoopin’ fur ana who be ye?”’ “Can I get anything to eat here?" “Not a thing.” “Any water for my horse?” *“The spring's gone dry.” “How far is it to the river?” ask your father to step. out.” op’s been on a drink for a week.” i nd your mother?” “She's got the toothache, That's her ‘¥Hsven't you got a brother?” “Yep. but he got snake bit vesterday and don't feel well.” ' persisted the “Well, what about you colonel. “You feem to be all right,” “Oh, but I ain't” she reglled as she made ‘ready to_ disappear. ‘I was to git married vesterday, but my feller got shot by an Injun, and it'll take two weeks to ketch on to another. This ar’ a house of Plnse to ride on sorfow, sir, and ye will and not ask any more New York Sun. ool questions. Barler's Odorless Qil Heaters are guar- anteed not to smoke or smell. Money re- funded If not satisfactory. Six sizes. Call or send for booklet. Charles Brown & Son, 807 Market street, 8. F. . e A petrified forest, covering an area of the Prime Minister would not be allowed an e N Tl s S, y. A casual visitor, lucky eno o admitted, must leave his euneg: at the gates, and on the first attempt to take notes he Is conducted beyond the pale. 100 square miles, has existed for centu- ries in Arizona. Thousands and thousan: of petrified logs strew the ground and represent beautiful shades of pink, pur- le, red, gray, blue and yellow. One of he stone-trees spans a gulf forty feet wide. ! corner and pass it out to me. out my hand and let out a slight cough. He didn’'t show that he was wise to my pantomime, however, and so I mildly re- quested him to produce. He was diked out in all the glad ribbons fit to wear, and a rock in his puff tie at that, but he told me he didn’t haye the $30 on him, but said he’'d meet me that night on a Broadway I was on the corner on time, but the tin horn with my thirty bucks wasn’t. He didn't turn up at all, although I waited an hour for him, and when I faded away I had my mind made up to tap him one on the crust for luck the minute I saw him. T ran into him on the next night, when I only had $4 left out of the $7 that I'd got on my understudy blanket. He tried to thread the crown when he saw me, but [ got _to him and said a few words of war medicine, whereupon he began to snap steel chalns with his chest. There was only one thing to do. I'm left handed and I gave him that one right on the chin dimple. Then the seven-foot biddy on the corner gave me the arm-clutch, and it was a pinch for mine. The dub that owed me the thiry went along to the Thir- tieth-street refrigerator and preferred a complaint against me, and 1 had a real nice night of it on a plank listening to a lady in the female tier weep and yell be- cause she found it hard to pull her jaw teeth with her fingers. ! “They drilled me down to the market the next morning and kept me in the gilded cage until about 1 o'clock before my number was drawn. The welcher that smashed didn’t show up and so I was ssed after being scowled at a heap by the man who heips to keep up the population of the isiand. “It was about 2 ociock when 1 was passed out into the damp air and I was so sore on things that the dozen or so that I hurled in before getting to my room didn't even make my fingers tingle, There was a special delivery letter for me on my bureau. It was a pretty bum scrawl written by a trainer who had a couple of old ones down at Bennings. 1'd given him a lift on two or three occasions and he was getting back at me by pass- ing me on this little ward about one that he thought looked o,ou't. and that was in that day. The good ~ne was a two-year old named The Rogue. to run in the fifih The old chap wrote that nothing but the 642 MaRKeT ST. InsTRUMENTS umpER cHROMCLE BuLONG. CATALOGUE FREE excitement. The most eager bidders werse two groups, French and German, and the Frenchmen' secured ~the prize for $899, which is regarded as nearly $000 below the real value. TONG PO CHY, Suecessor to Dr. LAI PO T, graduate of Canton M Coliege, after a very success- ful practice of many years in China, has located in San Francisco, The surprising and marvelous cures effected ADVERTISEMENTS. his herbs demonstrate their potence and his skill. 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