The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1901, Page 6

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Larkin, open ul Market, at 10 o'clock, Horses as calm ac- he other it to a tended wurder robbery been pleased to in- of the Chinese the power of their own Gov- e protocol brings to be desired by her side. government th ment can go on militant missionaries t to return to tl rights rest upon for up more trouble in the h is the division of ve permitted, and the repre- ments should insist that re- ept apart until the terrible e come from that source ul conclusion of the It be characterized by e, all concerned can af- for it patiently. should be proud of the just part s had bringing about this re- e persistent patience with which its inate the e to do: ituation. | with which Chinese who have not es- ght to be in this country have been e detention shed of the Pacific Mail hat the ring of lawyers, exposed by ing a new road to accomplish that in i once thwarted. Perhaps an occasional prosecution of a Pacific Mail officer might prove :o oe 2 remedy Chicago is deep in the discussion of the municipal vwnership of street railways, and a commission, or- ganized for in gation, has urged the adoption of the project. The history of legislation in Chicago suggests that somebody must be striving to frame a New Year's gift for the local legislators of the town. When Martin Kelly announced that he owns the San Francisco delegation to the Assembly, will handle it, manipulate it and dictate its policy, he must have reached the conclusion that there is in San Francisco 'more than one man whose reputation is not worth more than a dollar. . If all the splendid pictures of moral, mental and sical health painted by the worthy educators who ere mow among us were realities we would lose that soothing hope which is founded in the faith of ideals. Most of our work would have been done. Once more, for the hundredth time, perhaps, the Board of Public Works has been accused of serious derelictions. It is not unlikely that Mayor Phelan organized the board 2s it is in order to make it the kicking block of his administration. An anarchist declared 2 few days ago that if occasion demanded he would not hesitate to kill President McKinley. This is probably one way the jellow had of giving his assurance that he was ready to meet 2 sddden death. . The county officers of Alameda have reached the interesting conclusion that they are earning larger | salaries than they are receiving. It is also significant " that the other people in the county do not share this opinion. SWIPE LEADERSHIP. ITY politics has 2lways been considered in this country a hard formation, but it is doubtiul whether it ever showed harder than in Kellys bossing of the job in San Francisco. If the delegation from this city, of its own mind, judgment and will, chose to take the somewhat un- usual step of unanimously supporting a can@idate for Speaker of the House, the comment would run as an objection to forestalling the action of the caucus-of all the members of that body. But when the delegatios ! coes not act of its own mind, will and judgment, but meets merely to indorse Boss Kelly's selection for Speaker, the action has in it more serious features. It means simply that Kelly desires to own the Speaker, the committees and the machinery of the House. To ay that the people whose votes made the immense Republican majority in this city cast those votes to cnable Boss Kelly to own a Speaker and control the House would be to utter fantastic, nonsense. The Jnembers of the House hold a trust for the people, and are not the tools znd trustees of Kelly. If they act as his agents they betray the people. | C | It is announced; without a blush, that Kelly forced his delegation to action as a forestalling move, and to influence the country members, who, he says, “pre- fer the creation of a nucleus.” nuclens making, th, for the benefit of the country members. He thinks they will “not desert the com- bination of Los Angeles and San Francisco.” Looking to the welfare of the State and the good repute of the Republican party, we warn the country members against any combination that is formed by Kelly. He is a man with no politics and no con- ception of principles. He was engaged in When he can make a better bargain for spoils with a Democratic candidate he be- ys the Republican party and defeats it if he can. His treacheries of this kind are recent—so recent that h tr henchmen yet display their “duds” secured by aries won in the enjoyment of Democratic patron- age. Let the country members reflect, for a moment, wpon what would have happened had it been nou an- ed last October that Boss Kelly would “create leus” and make “a combination” "that would ke him the owner of the Speaker of the House! Every man in the State knows that not a Republican repre cisco © The people of the two coun ties do not elect members for any such purpose. They don't want a Speaker tagged and labeled, “I am the chattel property of Martin Kell While Kelly was occupied in creating a nucleus one member objected. He knew that he and his col- leagues were elected for a public purpose and not for the private use of Boss Kelly. He was promptly d a liar and knocked down by one of Kelly's men. Aifter that no one ventured to object. peal to reason was irresistible, and the member who provoked it went forth for lotions and court plaster, to repair the damages sustained from one of Kelly’ uments. a nu n ative could have been elected in San Fran- Los Angeles. curious to know what such .gentlemen as Horace Davis, William R. Davis and Re- ans of their kind all over the Martin Kelly's nucleus. They are the kind of men put forward in campaigns to advocate the principles of the party and to conjure in its name, as represent- ing its quality and the character of citizenship that prefers it. Suppose, again, that in the last campaign hey had been silent, and Martin Kelly, John C ynch, E. M. Buckley, Jere Burke and Eddie Con- roy had been sent out on the stump to uphold Re- publicanism! Does any one believe there would have been a two-third Republican majority in the Legisla- ture? Why should not the men whose character com- mends the party to the voters be considered leading Republicans after the election? Why should their influence cease as soon as the votes are counted, and Martin Kelly step out as the dictator of the party, the beneficiary of its victory and the owner in fee of its House of Representatives? The country members hope that this is not the last Republican victory in California. They want a future for themselves and their party. They don’t want its epitaph to be: Died of Martin Kelly's Nucleus. LY UR Government is said to have received in- O quiries from subjects of Britain, Germany Z and France concerning certain claims against Cuba, and, while the nature of them has not been fully disclosed by the State Department, it is believed in some quarters they may amount to a serious issue. | It does not appear that thus far the Government of cither France,.Britain or Germany has interfered in | the matter. It is merely a question on the part of | individuals whether or no our Government will exert | its influence to induce Cuba to pay the claims, or whether the United States will itself be responsible for them. In one presentation of the case it is argued that if Cuba, as an independent state, refuses to deal justly with the claimants, their Governments will be called upon to enforce their rights, and in that case the United States will have to determine whether or no it will support Cuba or leave her alone to deal with the powers as best she can. It is of course well under- stood no considerable number of the American people would be willing to see Cuba coerced by a European | alliance, and consequently it is argued we are likely to be involved in difficulties that will in a measure force us to something very much like the annexation of the island. At least we may have to establish a | protectorate, and with that will be established cer- tain international responsibilities we cannot shirk. Another authority surmises from the vague reports ‘L givcfi out that the claims refer in part at least to the so-called ““Cuban debt” contracted by Spain for the | government of the isiand. That debt was guaranteed | by Spain at the time the money was obtained, but at the treaty of Paris an effort was made by the Spanish | Commissioners to get the United States to assume the | debt, or to guarantee that Cuba should assume it. | As neither of those obligations was accepted by our Commissioners, we of course cannot be held to as- sist the claimants in any way to recover what they believe to be due them. The supposition that the claims are of that char- acter is strengthened 10 some extent by a recent state- | ment of the Spanish Finance Minister, to the effect | that while the Cuban debt question was not settled by | the treaty of Paris, and while Spain has neither af- ifirmed nor denied that the debt went with the island | and is due by Cuba, yet the duty is imposed upon | Spain of “pegotiating, when the opportunity comes, | with a view that these burdens should ultimately be | laid, as justice demands, on the resources of the t ed | territory, which Spain, in the legitimate exercise®of ! her sovereignty, mortgaged for the payment of the kb ¥ i If the = presented to our Government turn out to be o more than those of holders of Cuban | 1 | na Such an ap- | e think of | | for a triumph which has not yet been accomplished, 1 houses. solution of the problem so far as we are concerned will be simple. We will neither pay them ourselves nor urge Cuba to pay them. Spain obtained the money mainly for the purpose of conquering Cuba, and the Spanish must pay. There is, however, a pos- sibility that among the claims are some founded upon a just obligation of the Cubans, and consequently the problem may be as serious as is suspected by those of our contemporaries who see in the issue the first step toward the development of an international situation which will in a manner force the United States to consent to the annexation of Cuba. e CLOSING THE CEMETERIES. Y the decision of the Supreme Court on Friday PS in the case of the Societe Italiana di Mutua Beneficenza against the city and county of San Francisco, the ordinance of 1897 prohibiting the burial of the dead in the City or Golden Gate Ceme- tery was upheld, and it appears the way is now clear for closing all cemeteries within the city limits and thus bringing about a reform which Ias long been rieeded. ) In the particular case before the court the ordi- nce was upheld on a double count. The lots in the City Cemetery occupied by the society had been granted to it by a former Board of Supervisors, and the court, in upholding the ordinance prohibiting further burials there, declared first that the Supervisorq had no right to grant land in the cemetery to a pri- vate corporation, as. the tract in question had been turned over to them by an act of Congress; and, secondly, that the Supervisogs have the right to pass any ordinance for the good of the community. It is the second point of the decision which is of most im- portance to the city, for it'appears to sustain the right and authority of the Supervisors to close all ceme- teries within the city limits whenever the good of the cemmunity can be served by such action. The question of closing the cemeteries has been leng before the public, and all who are interested in it are familiar with the arguments on both sides. It is therefore not necessary to go over the subject again. Suffice it to say that those who desire to bring about the prevention of further burials within the city limits have no intention to desecrate the graves of the dead or in any way to offend the tenderest respect of the living for the resting-places of their | oved ones. The plan for preventing further burials is nothing more than the following of a precedent hich has been adopted by every civilized city in the world where intramural cemeteries exist. The old order of things has heen changed partly because the increase of population has rendered it necessary, and partly because modern science has disclosed the fact that the burial of the dead within a crowded city in- volves danger to the living. | At the time the cemeteries in this city were estab- liched they were remote from the habitations of the people. It was not then foreseen that in a few years the growth of population and the extension of street car lines would soon expand the residence districts far beyond those comparatively remote localities. What was unexpected by the pioneers has happened. | The cemeteries are now surrounded by homes, and they block the expansion of the city in districts that | are among the most desirable for residence purposes. | Sooner or later they will have to be closed against | further burials, and the sooner the reform comes the | better it will be. o a————r—ca——— ROBERTS AND KITCHENER AR’S capricious fortune was strikingly illus- thted by the fact that on Wednesday the dis- patches from London announced first that | Field Marshal Roberts had been welcomed by the | Queen with all the honors due to a successful general in a great war; and, second, that the foe, so far from | being vanquished, has taken the aggressive and is now actually threatening the British capital in South Airica. Roberts thus obtains glory and an earldom and Kitchener is struggling in far-off South Africa | to justify the reward received by another. Some time ago a dispatch from London announced that Roberts would Le received witi» greater honors than had been shown to Marlborough or Welling- ton. That of course was an exaggeration. There is considerable difference between the earldom and the moderate fortune conferred on Roberts and the duke- doms and splendid estates granted to the victorious commanders at Blenheim and Waterloo. Nor, with the embarrassments of the war still fretting their minds, is it at all likely that either the Government or the people feel much like receiving Roberts with a genuine enthusiasm. They have welcomed him, of course, for the people have been glad to hail their only general who achieved victory in South Africa, and the Ministry is well pleased to have him at home to take charge of the army and relieve the War De- partment of further responsibility; but, after all, that kind of a welcome does not rank in the same class with the tumultuous outbursts that greet a hero who returns from a victory which has ended a war and established peace. In contrast with the fortune of Roberts, Kitchener has had hardly anything but misfortune in South Africa. In no single instance has he attained any brilliant or notable success. He is left to the dreary task of pursuing the swift traveling Boers _and of wreaking vengeance here and there by burning farm- His efforts thus far have been futile. The burning of homesteads has had no other effect than that of making the people more bitter than ever against the empire, an 1 his attempts to head off Dewet have resulted in the capture by the Boers of troop after troop of his scattered forces. In the meantime the British taxpayer is doubtless thinking less of either Roberts or Kitchener than of the increasing taxes the war has entailed. When the struggle began Parliament in a burst of enthusiasm voted $50,000,000 to defray the cost of it. That sum was soon expended, ard up to the time of the disso- lution of the late Parliament more than $346,000,000 had been added to it. A large portion of the expenses will be paid out of current revenues and war taxes, but more than $220,000,000 is to be raised by loans. The financial experts of the country are discussing how to provide additioral taxes to supply the re- quiréd revenue, and to taxpayers generally that dis- cussion is more interesting than the reports of skir- mishes ‘and petty fights in South Africa. Kitchener, therefore, has very little opportunity to win glory, 1t appears he has been left in more senses than one. T T ——. The p.ledge which a man seeking high public sta- tion receives in the fumes of liquor and in a saloon from saloon politicians should not be to men who understand their responsibilities afl assurance that he possesses the worth necessary to quali(y him for the post to which he aspires. The airship, the submarine boat, the Nicaragua | Phat canal and the north pole are among the things the nineteenth century did not attain, but all the same it made a close race for them, and has a right to brag debt bords iseued by the Spanish Government, the | of its efforts. NEW DESIGN FOR A COMPASS CARD HE United States Hydrographic Office has decided that a simplified com- pass is a necessity of the new century. It considers the ‘“points” superflu- ous and suggests a much simpler contrivance, which it claims will give better results. In order to obtaln the opinion of shipmasters the world over it has ssued a circular accompanied by a diagram of the new com- pass and a copy of 'h has been furnished or will be furnished to every ship captain in United States ports. Every captain will be asked to forward his opinion on the proposed change, and If the majority are favorable to it, then Uncle Sam will adopt the new compass for use on all American vessels. The proposed card is {llustrated in the accompanying drawing to scale, and corresponds in dimensions with the present United States navy standard T'%-inch compass card. The circumference of the card is divided into the usual 360 degrees and marked continuously to the right, from 0° at north to %° at east, 180° at south, 270° at west, and 360° at north. The card is subdivided as follows: (a) Into divisions of 10 degrees, accentuated by heavy lines om the graduated rim, and by suitable geometric figures on the card, each 10-degree division of the card being indicated in figures by its appropriate number from 0° or north. (b) Each 10-degree division of the card is further subdivided into half and quarter divisions and appropriately marked. (c) Every fifth-degree line of the graduated circle between the 10-degres di- visions is marked in figures, indicating its appropriate number from 0° or north. (d) The cardinal and intercardinal directions are emphasized on the card in geometric figures. The present card contains points and degrees. The conversion of one into the other is a natural result of the presence of both, but is not a necessity, as would speedily be recognized were the points omitted. Accuracy requires expres- sion in degrees for courses, bearings and compass errors, and not in points, the use of which is but a duplication of work. A comparison of a few leading features of the present system with that pro- posed is given below: PRESENT CARD. 360°=32 points. 1 point=11.25" % point= 6.625", % point= 2.8125°, Gradvated circle is marked in degrees in each quadrant, from 0 at north and south to %" at east and west. The fifth point is NE. by B. or N. 66* i B. The thirteenth point is SE. by 8. or § 33* % B The course is 8. 18° E. or 8. by E. % E. Easterly deviation is additive in the NE. and SW. quadrants; substractive in the SE. and NW. quadrants, to compass course to get magnetic. Westerly deviation is subtractive in NE. and BW. quadrants; additive in SE. and NW. quadrants, to compass course to get magnetic. In line with the proposed card, the compass rose on the chart should be marked from 0° at north continuously to the right to 3§°, omitting the present sys- tem of points. The salling directions should give courses and bearings in degrees, and not in points. The azimuth tables would require cnly a changs in the rules glven at the bottom of the page, as follows: ‘When the iatitude and declination are of the same or contrary name: In north jatitude the azimuth is the tabulated value when the time is a. m. In north latitude the azimuth is 380° minus the tabulated value when the time is p, m. In south latitude the azimuth is 180° minus the tabulated value when the time isa m. In south latitude the azimuth fs 150° plus the tabulated value when the time PROPOSED CARD. 360°=36 aivistons. 1 diviston=10". 4 division= §*. % division= 2.5°. Graduated circle is marked in degrees con- tinuously to the right from 0° at north to 860° at north again. The fifth division ts §0°, a multiple of 10°. The thirteenth division {s 130°, a multiple of 10 The course s 162°. Easterly deviation s always additive to compass course to get magnetic. ‘Westerly deviation {s always subtractive from compass course to get magnetic. is p. m. It is belleved that the proposed markings of the compass card would result in greater accuracy in navigation In its relation to the compass. Courses would :; laid in degrees and more accurately noted, as the approximate course of SW. Y W. 3%4“W. “a little westerly,” for example, would be replaced by the exact course of 240°. Chances of error in the application of the deviation to compass courses would be lessened. Conversion of points into degrees and the reverss would be eliminated from the problem. Boxing the compass would be a matter of a few minutes’ instruction to the layman of average Intelligence. Sailing direc- tions would be simplified. All work in relation to the compass would be facil- itated. PERSONAL MENTION. Henry McCray of Bakersfleld is at the ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Grand. Thi daectmait’ S Ao ment does no lertake to P:-l,u.:ré'nuu. & NMomtecky banker. In ot the [ aavise: iy one how 1o Invest mdaey & any speculative or other enterprise. A. W. North, a Woodland attorney, is at the Occidental. | | vital creeds: know thai every creed ~ i District Attorney J. M. Walthall of Mo- desto is at the Lick. 2 A. L. Ferguson, a St. Clair, Nev., cattle- man, is at the Russ. E. Dinkelsplel, a prominent BSulsun attorney, is at the Lick. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace with bis wife Max H. Isoard, a Nevada City mining man, is registered at the Lick. J..F. Burns, claim adjuster of the Santa Fo route, Is stopping at the Russ. W. W. Douglas, Deputy State Con- troller, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. W. H. Hodgkin, an extensive Fresno rancher and raisin grower, is at the Cali- | fornia. Senator A. 8. Milice of Riverside stopped at the Grand yesterday on his way to to. " B. F. Shepard, a prominent Fresno vineyardist, accompanied by his wife, has taken apartments at the Occidental. Willlam Hood, chief engineer of the Southern Pacific, left yesterday on an in- spection tour of the new Coast line. George B. Morse, Clerk of the United States District Court, who has spent two weeks at the White House visiting his uncle, President McKinley, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Abner McKinley in New York. He will return about the middle of this month. senator Willlam V. Sullivan of Missis- sippl, who figured in a sensational breach of promise suit brought against him by his typewriter three months ago, and who has been spending several days in this city, a guest at the Palace, re- turned home yesterday. He came out here on his honeymoon. —_————————— ONINGS ¥ BMP MRAUTIFUL. An Artistic Grouping for the Foster- of Estheticism. A new institution, called the School or College of Esthetics, and also the Aca- demy of the Beautiful, has been founded in Pars by & ve 1 Bouheller. ol common ground y E'nao a ‘.—‘Nw York lmw PREMIUM DIMES-M. E. E., City. The United States dimes for which deal- :;; ofl;s;m pm]x;:um are those of 1706, 1797, . ), 1-2-3-4-5-7-8-11-14 large date if weil preserved, ‘n—nnd-’:lu'lm FIRST CORONATION — Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. The first coronation of a Christian sovereign was Int“'lfi.'hm Leo of the Bast by patriarch Constan Majorian ‘15’ said to lave been eqeehic Emperor of the West in a simil, ner in that year. GASES—J. 8. B., Guerneville, Cal. Ac- cording to Gould in the “Dictionary of Medicine’”” nitrous oxide gas has a specific gravity of 1.06, and according t pubusiod by Samuel Hu; loln‘ agz.- pratt’s cl}emagmtry‘ 'h:'rs specific vity ot c as is .. -675, qunm‘y of gas nneoi R ki PENSIONS TO WIDOWS—E., City. The words “the act of May, 1900, among other things provides for an extension of in- come to widows pensioned under said act to $250 per annum” in President McKin- ley’s message, mean that under the act a widow who is recelving a_ pension may %:v'efl :;. a‘:{“'“fi' lncglma gt t& Instead of en In, b langering her right to such TELEGRAPH OPERATORS—M. E. A, City. To be a telegraph operator a per- son must study telegraphy, have a good ::gfi to catch the sound o 've messages an quickly and correctly. The also have the ablility to work a typewrit- ing machine, as now nearly all messages are transcribed by means of a typewriter. POSITIONS.—M. B. A., Clty. For posi- ummmmmuamrmmq desiring such must take a civil service ex- amination and should make application to the secretary of the commi: guh bl;‘uch for guormlon u'::md;!': ‘or such examin: Secu) sition in the office of 5 rast Aot 'Way company the person di such should fil plication and obtaln the influence :r‘l:n.:t one uo is acquainied with the powers THE FIRST OF JANUARY-W. J., Raymond, Cal. New Year's day is a legal holiday. The memory of man runneth not back to the time when that day was first observed as a holiday, record of such first ol m- us, B. C. 715, accord! to the legend, who transforred It to J:nflgfnnl. day being held sacred to Janus Bi- 'lpvn'ho ('hu \'g K n& :orvu‘r‘d ‘ear It Sras nai till late =2 2 g i ] EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Stage on Sunday. New York does not desire Sundays like those in foreign cities, in which the after- noons are given up to sports of every imaginable kind and every theater is open in the evenlng-.“ In hlhl.l 'clly ar'l: !ahnli T the afternoo d Evenings ¢ six days I the week should suffice for the homes of theatrical amuse- ment. It is unjust to the players and singers to ask them to work on Sundays. Public sentiment in this city and State is undeniably hostile to the stage on one day out of seven, and the police should enforce the laws.—NEW YORK TRIB- UNE. 01d and New Creeds. A creed is but the =xpression of what men believe about the truth. As that be- lief changes the accepted formulas cha | also. And the men cavable of dra | or new, is but an attempt to comprehe in a form of words the big truths w no form of words is large enough i clude. A change In the point of vi shows the truth from a different side a | any statement of that phase of the truth | must be compared with the statemen:s | of other phases else we shall fail to com- prehend what has already been discover=q about truth.—BROOKLYN EAGLE. Lucky “Bobs.” Fortunate is it for Lord Roberts that he has been relieved of the command ir South Africa, so that he cannot be held responsible for this unexpected setba Kitchener, his successor, will have bear the brunt of it, and the man who a short time ago was the pet hero of the English people, will soon discover that he is not above criticlsm. _Thousands who were applauding him will now con- demn him. For each disaster to the sol- Queen, the British people have gh apegoat, and even Kitchener, with all his past successes, cannot hope to escape the fate of his predecessors.— BALTIMORE AMERIC, | How to Suppress the Boers. British war veterans in London have evolved in the comfortable cormers of { their clubs a new method of putting an end to the war in South Africa. Summed | up briefly, their plan is to suppress the Boers by suppressing the news of fight- | Ing. The war is over, they say, but Lor Roberts does not know it. He s claim a state of peace and quit 1a pro- ssuing dalily bulletins of military movements and in the British casualties. A strict censor, | their opinfon, could do more than | army of 200,00 men which Lord Robe: s just asked to have reinforced by som: 00 more soldiers.—PHILADELPHIA | NORTH AMERIC. | No Divores Law. South Carolina is the only State in the Union, we are told, which has no divorcs law, and the people ara very proud of the | fact. There is a clause in the constit | tlon forever refusing the rupture of t marriage ties by th When peopie | in South Carolina get married they do 3o with the full knowledge that it is a lifs | long contract, and that the tle is indisso- luble. The knowledge of this fact, h: | ever, necessarily makes people mors care- ful how they take upon themsalves the, vows of matrimony, and so far as the | State of South Carolina is concerned, appears that the law has been eminentiy successful. There may be under this law | some cases of hardship, but there are such | cases under almost overy good law.— | RICHMOND TIMES. | Stronger Than Ever. | The country has just passed through an exciting political campaign, and the cry was raised that the republic was in d ger: that thers were conspirators w were plotting to overthrow it and se up an em) But Senator Danfel, a | Southern Democrat, says that we are the most thoroughly unified of the great tions; that our peopie understand each n_thev have done. conspquently they have mors hearty f | s friendship and sympathy for each | other than they ever had. These are the s of Daniel. the statesman, and they are the words of truth. They can be de. nded uj , and they are reassuring. Vo are the strongest of nations, as ha says, and we are strong because in union there is Strength. The country is s and the republic will itve forever. MOND TT h A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Spenders—Oho! here’s an account | ot another bookkeeper who has st thousands of gollars. Mr. Spenders—Wel “"Well, you always object to the woman In business; do you suppose a woman book- keeper would do that?" “She’d have no excuse, not having an extravagant wife to support, for instance.” “T wonder,” mused tHe inquisitive man, “if there is really anything about the Filipino insurgent so barbarious as some people would make out.” “Wall,” re- | marked the precise Bostonian, ‘“could | anything possibiy be more barbarous than | that word ‘gent? “They tell m: sald the soft shell crab, “that you were always wise beyond your T 1 early learned,” responded the lobster, “that dissipation 1s a lo game. avolded excesses, and thus kept myself out of hot water. “But,” the crab persisted, “did you not in the greenness of youth ever long for the gayer life?” “There was no such period,” said the lobster with a little sign. “I had no salad days." |~ And he paintully rattled away on his rheumatic claws.—Cleveland n Dealer. Choice candles, Townsend's,Palace Hotel.* —_——————— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a und, in fire-etched boxes or Ji bas- g:'.l A nice present for Eastern lends. 39 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * Special information supplied dally to bustn an c men m‘&yfix_}, Bureau (Allen's)s 610 Monts elephone n g gomery st —_———— blem, how to strike a cypher on !h’;h:l State House bell in elphia to indicate the incoming of 1901, has been v a plan that omits striking it. !’fl.‘é’ex}’x{uer will maks nineteen strokes, then pause and then strike a heavy sin- le stroke! There is a double significance n this. It indicates the century, twen- tieth, and 1801 A GAY SEASON is promised at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal., this winter with a Jolly houseful, an expert golf tournament, mee ing of fleld trials club, hunting, fishing, boat- ing, dancing, etc. —_—————————— An lental power is to be built in Chi i‘;’%flnd is to ;so:‘?lln wfi:fi'& ] COLDS The quickest relief for a cold is by Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil. You will find the edge taken off in a night; and, in three or four days, you'll be wondering whether that cold amounted to - anything anyhow. Th-t's relief. If you tackle it quick, the relief is quick; if you wait, the relief won't come—you know how colds - hang on. 4 ‘We'll rend you a littleto try, if you like. SCOTT & BOWNE, 4e9 Peasl streat, Now Vork,