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AUCTION SALES. at 11 a m. an rback— n and Stockton Rugs, at SW. oo his day, THE ~HE AGGRESSIVE SHEPHERD. from the Livestock Convention at seem to show that the shesp ile and the cattle men are on 1 tion of the timidity of fixed every cattle man in the West. all herdsman, is a land-owner. s and headquarters buildings and is , on the other hand, are. rarely ave the daring and independence drive their flocks at will where they in one year making from 500 to z and fattening their sheep as they ge behind them bare and flock-master in Wyoming, who ck of 140,000 sheep, boasted eat fortune in sheep and yet had taxes on more than fifteen cost him nothing, for he lomain and paid the Govern- e feed that had made his great gressive shepherds have discovered tha: e the cattle off the range, for sheep will le have been, but cattle will not feed been. So when a sheep maa 1 talks highly about the Il he means a range to exclude cattle, These brave and ent this, for 1ey propo: her tariff and compel a 1spection of manufactured goods, tagging every bok « » show of what it is made. They forest reserves be thrown apen at they will not demanden 1l us on the street and we have woolen underclothing, with wer to i rison us for failure to wear wool from that never cost a dollar for their feed nomads are asking for what they t these vi ng it timid cattle men are in dis- 5 L ng themselves, and while they quarrel and higgie the sheep men are crowding them off the range With free feed 1 high wool tariff, and disappear- ance of range cat the profits of sheep-growing rise, ard so does the price of clothing and the price of meat. The con rs of both are the people who own the public domain. Perhaps they may soon de- that the shepherds pay them something for the nd destruction of their property. to the apportionment bill a clause Congressional districts “shall be of contiguous territory, and as nearly as practicable of equal number of inhabitants,” but as rangement of districts is a matter for State tors to deal with, the clause can hardly be z more than an ornaniental flourish. tiations for the purchase of the Danish West s seem to have reached an acute stage. ard from our Government had asked rk would take for them, and the Danes had replied by asking what we would give. At that point the diplomatists recognized that the crisis had come and paused for yeflection. m of hazing at West Point has t out the fact that since the beginning of the ademic term, September 1, there have been among dets seven fights to a finish with bare fists, In varison with that the prize-ring is a hollow mockery ati broug Senate has been so often charged with de- public business that attention should be called the promptness with which it passed the appor- tionment bill; but it is possible the Senators let i: is pass solely because they deemed it nene of their ! business. | nee of aAdress should de | THE INCREASE IN MONEY. HE report of the Director of the Mint shows Tthat the money of the world has increased 10¢ per cent in twenty-seven years, far oum;mning the increase in the world’s population. The world’s total stock of money in 1873 was $4,600,000,000, while in 1900 it was $11,600,000,000. The great increase has been in gold, amounting to $3,600,- 060,000. There is now less uncovered paper currency than in 1873, implying a sounder financial condition, because the coin reserve is able to float the paper easier than then. These monetary statistics are a complete refutation of the whole silver aigument. It was persistently | urged by the free silver advocates that “the crime of 1873" consisted in destroying hali the money of the world in order to increase the value and the purchas- ing power of the remaining half. It was argued that | this was for the purpose of gathering all the property of the world into the hands of the “money trust.” Yet steadily from 1873 to 1901 the money stock of the world has increased. Instead of losing 50 per cent | it has gained 100 per cent in twenty-seven years. Nor is it true that at any time in that period the volume of money, or its quality, has declined. The quality | ‘of the whole volume of money is determined by the amount of uncovered paper mixed with it. That means paper not redecmable in coin. There is now a | less percentage of such paper to the whole volume than in 1873. has continually improved while the free silver advo- cates have been’ insisting that it was growing worse. More than that. The years of most rapid improve- | ment have been those in which Mr. Bryan has been | striving to put this country on a silver basis. The accelerated rate of improvement began seven years ago, or three years before he introduced his cross of gold and crown of thorns into politics. The im- provement began, it will be observed, in 1893, or with the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sher- man act. If the present rate of increase go on, far more rap- idly than that of the population, the world will be more likely to have too much than too little money. When Mr. Bryan issues his newspaper he will have an opportunity to perpetuate his mistake or to apolo- gize for it. IMPORTS OF RAW MATERIAL. EPORTS from Washington announce that dur- R ing the year 1900 there was imported into this country more raw material for use in manufac- turing than ever before in our history. The total value | .of foreign products imported in a crude condition during the year amounted to more than $275,000,000. When to that sum is added the value of imported ar- ticles, “wholly or partially manufactured for use as materials in manufacturing,” the aggregate of manu- | facturers’ materials imported amounts to more than $£360,000,000. It is to be noted that the statement is based upon So the financial condition of the world | | end to the stupendous folly of attempting to legislate cieven months’ detailed figures already received by | the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, to which is added an estimate for the twelith month, December, based upon the figures of the preceding month. This state- ment puts the importation of raw material in the | twelve months ending with December, 1900, at | $276,628,000, against $267,493,059 in 1899, $162,172,736 | in 1806, and $160,523,404 in 1804. | A comparison of 1899 and 1900 with preceding years shows an increase of over 35 per cent in the importation of manufacturers’ materials in these two years as compared with the entire period from 1890 to 1898, and an increase of nearly 70 per cent as com- pared with the years 1804 and 1806. Even the remark- able fall in prices of manufacturers’ materials which has characterized the closing half of the year 1900 has not prevented the total value of these materials im- ported in 1900 from exceeding that of 1809, though in | two articles, indiarubber and silk, the figures for 1900 show a reduction as compared with 1899. The following table shows the value of the prin- cipal articles imported for use in manufacturing: Chemicals Hides and s Lead . The statistics show to what vast proportions our manufacturing interests have grown. We have- be- come manufacturers of the raw material of other lands as well as of our own. Yet we do not by any means work up into form for consumption all the raw ma- terial of our own production. This is one of the paradoxes of industry. We ship our own raw products abroad to be manufactured, and we import raw ma- terial to.be manufactured ourselves. It is that practica that promotes commerce and goes far toward sus- tzining the merchant fleets of the world. come, s e A WATTERSON’S DITHYRAMB. ENRY WATTERSON is not wiser than other counselers of Democracy, and consequently has no advice to give which in its substance is worthy of note; but he has a breezy, picturesque, dithyrambic style that lends a charm to all his earnest utterances and renders men of all parties more or less interested in what he says. Consequently it is _wonh noting that he has taken occasion of the recent celebration of “Jackson's day” to pour forth the soul of him in a song of passionate prose designed to rouse Democracy and give it good cheer. Mr. Watterson begins by analyzing the characteris- tics that distinguish Republicans from Democrats. The Republican, he says, is a man who is convinced the country is all right, and that he should get a share of the good things that are going; while the Demo- crat, “with the weight of his country and his con- science upon him, lies awake at night and dreams, or else grinds his teeth and swears.” Continuing his analysis the gifted Kentuckian goes on: “Herein the Republican has much the bette- of |it. The Republican assumes that two and two are “ four and goes on with his mathematics. The Demo- | crat stops to discuss rhe problem, generally discover- ing, until it is too late, that two and two are five. The Republican looks not in the bottom of his glass. The Democrat will have sugar or he won’t drink at all. Be sure that Father Tom, he of the memorable encounter with the Pope, who lost his whisky punch while waiting for the water to boil so he might get it hot, was a Democrat. If he had been a Republican he would have taken it cold and got away before waking up!” Having thus pointed out what to a Kentuckian must seem the extreme of folly, the tendency to re- fuse whisky if it have no sugar in it, Watterson pro- ceeds to exhort Democrats to reform. He professes to be sanguine that Democracy’s opportunity will soon come and that along with it will come the needed lleader to profit by it. Dropping at that point the whisky simile, for of course the colonel could not dally long with merely metaphorical whisky, he in- vokes historic memories and urges Democrats to get ready to greet the emergency and the man. In a cheering voice he cries: “Old Hickory knew what to do with the cotton bags, let us know what to do with such defenses as we have; and so, above the roar of the huzzas of the Republicans, may we hear the distant drumbeats—mayhap- the guns—of the old Jacksonian hunting shirts, marching to give successful battle to the redcoats of Prerogative and Power to vindicate the divinity of Popul~r Sovereignty.” Having thus prepared the way for his climax he sweeps up to it with the rush of a wild goose alonz a gale of wind. There is something of exultation in his honk, and he hurls defiance at all the babblers who' are advising the party how to reorganize and reform. To his party he shouts: “Never mind the impudent twaddle of played-out politicians about ‘re- organization.” Never mind the self-admiring com- plaisance of would-be leaders and sham reformers. These are the merest froth, the veriest fustian, mean- ing little and counting for nothing. The leaders who | are to regenerate Democncy have yet to come upon the scene, and before they are arrived the old, obso- lete set—to whom we owe our undoing—will have passed away. For the present it is enough ta say close ranks and forward march! Down with Mounte- bankism! Down with Pharisaism! And, with a hip- hooray from the boys in the trenches, up with the standards of Jeffe'son and Lincoln, Old Hickory's battle-flag flying at the fore!” There may not be much of historic justification 1n that easy conjunction of Jefferson, Jackson and Lin- | coln, but the fact that Bryan's name was not added | to the list is an evidence the orator did not lose his | head nor his sense of the eternal fitness of things. His | screed, therefore, may be accepted as an interesting | contribution to the Demorratic literature of the day. | It is an evidence that there remains yet among us at | least one eloquent exponent of the old Democracy that never made the mistake of stopping to consider whether there was sugar in the glass. O— CONGRESSIONAL R:PARTEE. ONGRESSMAN BROSIUS of Pennsylvania C opposed the proposed increase in the number of Representatives under the new apportion- ment bill on the ground that the House is already too large for debate. He is reported in the Record as | saying: ‘“Without some restriction upon the tendency to increase, the House will continue to grow until | confusion worse confounded will bring the nation fo shame and invite the lingual curse of Babel to put an in a mass-meeting.” He went on to say: “Few members of the House can be heard with distinctness in all parts of the chamber without an exertion of the vocal organs which destroys every quality of the voice which makes speaking or hearing apreeable and corrupts every excellence in oratory. Much of what passes for | debate is only an exchange of vociferations across the | chamber.” ! As the House passed the bill by an overwhelming | majority it is clear the¢ arguments of the gentleman from Pennsylvania had no influence upon their minds. | Possibly the arguments were not heard. The debate, however, shows that there is something worse in the House than vociferation. Bad as the shouting may | be, it is not quite so bad as the wit that is intended to enliven the discussions. Here, for example, are some of the exchanges of attack and repartee be- tween Mr. Littlefield of Maine and Mr. Hopkins of | Iilinois: Mr. Hopkins—One moment, please. Mr. Littlefieldi—This is not a police court. is not at Mr. Hopkins—Well, then the gentleman home. Mr. Littlefleld—You would be at home on the frontier before a trial justice in the purlieus of civilization con- ducting your method of discussion. That much was merely preliminary. It served to | interest the House in the debate and brought about a | silence in the chamber, so that all could hear wha: followed. A little later this sally occurred: Mr. Hopkins—You say State of Maine. I deny it. Mr. Littlefield—I say that your speech from start to finish was saturated with a pettifogging attack on the State of Maine. Mr. Hopkins—Well, now, I deny it. I am not as familiar with pettifogging as the gentleman. Mr. Littlefield—I trust the gentleman will continue to stultify himself in the future. Mr. Hopkins—Talk to me about stultifylng myself! 1 deny having done anything of the kind. Mr. Littlefield—I will demonstrate that you did. Mr. Hopkins—Oh, yes, you will do wonderful things. Mr. Littlefield—Is not the gentleman getting a little touchy in that direction? Mr. Hopkins—I am not. Mr. Littlefield—The gentleman can stand up or sit down, just as he likes. Mr. Hopkins—That is just what T am going to do. Mr. Littlefleld—That is just exactly what you are go- ing to do. In that round it will be noted that while the spar- ring was clever on both sides no really effective blow was landed. A little later, however, the knock- out was delivered in this manner: I made an assault on the Mr. Hopkins—If there is any man who knows better than another what can be done in that way (pettifog- ging) 1t is the gentleman from Maine. Mr. Littlefield—The gentleman from Maine never yet defended a criminal, but he has prosecuted several in his time and he is after one now. It is to be borne in mind that Hopkins and Little- field are among the ablest and b ightest leaders of the House. Hopkins has been in the House a long time and is one of its most distinguished debaters, while Littlefield, though a new man, is a native Maine bril- lrant who managed to make himself dazzling in his first session. Such being the style of wit and repartee that passes tetween Congressmen of their rank, it is clear the House loses nothing when it loses the ability to hear what is said. It is therefore gratifying that Mr. Brosius’ objections to an increase in the number of the Representatives passed unheeded. Less talk and more business is what the country wishes of its Congressmen. D — Since some of the yellow journals continue to scream out that Senator Hanna has “threatened” ¢, have the President call an extra session if the ship- ping bill be not passed, it is worth while to call at- tention to the fact that in a recent interview he statad the story “is a lie.” The language is hardly Senatorial, but it suits the- case. There is little wonder that we are popular with our newly reconciled English cousins. The London stock market was threatened the other day with all sorts of disaster and it was saved by the prompt assistance of American gold. It is announced that the proposed combination of publishing houses in the East is not to be a trust, but only an alliance for the improvement of the trade and the benefit of authors and readers. In that there is*comfort. It is strange that after providing so liberally for harbor im_provefnents Congress should hesitate aboat the shipping bill. Are we improving our harbors solely for the benefit of foreign ship-owners? § | every other one by an electrical circuit, | possible,”” says Mr. Whitehouse. | for Speaker, declines to serve as chairman | | Public Bxpenditures.—Napa Register. | o iase PLANETS FLOAT IN AN ELECTRIC OCEAN New Theory of the of Heat a Source and Cause nd Light. i | LINES SHOW THE ELE IN ETHER. \ CTRIC C THE PLANETARY SYSTEM IN THE WHITEHOUSE OCEAN. WHITE + TRCUITS CONNECTING THE ORBS HE new theory of the source and cause of heat and light ad-anced by Frederick Cope Whitehouse is at- tracting wide attention, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. According to the new theory, the planets are sus- pended in what Mr. Whithouse calls an electrical ocean, commonly called the ether, and each one is connected/ with the conductor being the ether space be- tween the planets. “Electricity Is the primal source of heat and light where chemical action 1s im- “With this basic fact as a starting point, investi- gatlon has led me to believe that the earth is a bubble in the vast ocean of interstel- lar space, that the so-called ether is not e an exquisitely tenous and pellucid gas through which a feeble twinkle from a star a billlon miles away becomes visible to the eye, but that each star as seen by us, as well as the greatest of the planets, the sun, is only to our eye the point at which the vibration comes Into our atmos- pheric_sphere. According to my theory all light and heat are penetrated by the earth itself. “For the scientific reader a brief sum- mary of this theory would be: The ather is not a gas of Infinite tenuity, but com- posed of non-homogeneous matter, en- dowed with electrical conductivity. No force is required for the generation of light and heat, except the disturbance due to the rotation of magnetic masses in it. ““There is no loss of force except that due to what we call friction, for each planet sends back to its neighbor exactly what it recefves.” ON THE | CALIFORNIA EDITORS LEGISLATURE Comment of the State Press on Men| and Matters at Sacramento. Alden Anderson, refusing to be treated better than the men who supported him | of the Committee on Commissions and The California Legislature starts out under an il omen. The election of Pen- dleton as Speaker forebodes no good for the present session, it being conceded by the Republican press that he is the hench- man of Martin Kelly. The members who supported Anderson for Speaker, it is fur- ther conceded by prominent Republicans, represent the better and more conscien- tious element of the Republican party. The outlook is not flattering, to say the | least.—Oakdale Leader. .. The Senate’s views on economy may be seen in the fact that when the Governor desired to address it on that subject It refused to listen to him. If he had asked it | out to take a drink he would have had | the attentive ear of every man in the | House.—San Luls Obispo Tribune. S The mass of legislation lhtroduced at | Sacramento is, as usual, verv heavy and | not half the measures introduced will be | carried to a final reading. us man; good laws will be lost to the people whila others of less importauce are carried to the statutes. The League of California Municipalities should be represented by some energetic man who will push the presentation and passage of the laws and amendments recommended at the recent session of the league.—Santa Clara News. el There is great discontent among the friends of Alden Anderson, the defeated candidate for Speaker of the Assembly, over the treatment they recelved from Pendleton, the Speaker. They seem to have been treated with scant courtesy and his friends are filed with anger.— Red Bluff News. by The Legislature at the outset voted that each Senator should have $16 a day and that each Assembiyman should have $8 day patronage to give out to their friends. This makes $1280 a day and will bring tha cost of the sixty days’ session up to 376,500 for attaches alome. Drill, you hump- backed tax-payer, dril:!—Sotoyome Sun. 27w When one notices the avalanche of bad bills introduced by members of the Legis- iature anu also observes the lavish cx- penditure of time and money In dickering over the army of useless employes pro- vided for it leads to the belief that less injury will be suffered by the State If the Legislature confines itself entirely to the useless employe evil. The State can bet- ter afford a waste of its money than idiotic_tinkering with its laws.—Los An- geles Express. The Sacramento Bee says that the ex- travagance of the Legislature in the mat- ter of patronage is of small consequence compared with the iarge appropriations that at times in the past have been made for notoriously frauduient and corrupt purposes, and if freedom from blame is maintained in large matters of legislation the minor fault of extravagance may be forgiven. from a paper in the city which reaps a benefit from the army of useless attaches: but some people down this way have an idea that it is a disgrace to pay political debts in a smell way with the State's money, even though no million-dollar !!;x:lls may perpetrated.—Stockton PERSONAL—MENTION D. 8. Lewis, a Portland merchant, is at the Palace. H. E. B. Glll, a Bakersfleld ofl man, is at the Grand. A. P. Fraser, a banker of Stockton, is at the Occidental. Dr. P. Frank of North Yakima, Wash., is at the Grand. F. H. Howen, a merchant of Syracuse, N. Y., is at the Palace. A. W. Maltby, rancher at Concord, is stopping at the Grand for a few days. Professor W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observatory is at the California. J. R. Edson, proprietor of the Klamath| Hot Springs, Is at the Grand with his wife. R. W. Chilson, a successful prospector and mining man in Inyo County, is at the Russ. J. D. Fanning, a prominent hotel man at Denver, is at the Occidental with his family. They are going south on a pleas- ure tour. Mrs. L. Blumauer is at the Palace, hav- ing come here from Portland with the body of her son, who died recently of heart trouble. J. P. Lipoincott and E. T. Perkins Jr. of the United States Geological Survey at ‘Washington are among yesterday's ar- rivals at the Occidental. Souichiro Matsmoto, Director General of the Japanese Government railways, ac- companied by his secretary, Is expected in this city Sunday. The Director General is now 1n Ogden and will leave that city for the coast to-morrow afternoon. He will come In a special car over the Southern Pacific llne. Matsmoto is mak- ing a tour of the United States for the purpose of obtaining information about modern railway building. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.—J. B. Fetter and Mrs. C. B. Jennings of San Francis- co, Mrs. Hepburn Wilkes and family and Miss Nichols of San Rafael are at the Ebbitt; Mrs. Josephine de Greayer, Sam- uel Knight, A. B. Costigan, H. H, Dana and wife and H. W. Holbrook of San Francisco are at the Arlington; T. Dick- son and Mrs. Duerr cf San Francisco and P. K. Wood of Los Angeles are at the National; €. E. Worden and ¥. M. Far- rar of San Francisco are at the Raleigh. “I want to return this dog to the gent what OEB . 1 seen his ‘ad’ in the paper,” said the rough-looking man at the d oor. “How did you ghess it was a ‘gent’ that put the ‘ad’ in?" asked the woman. **Cause it said ‘No questions asked.' "— Boston Globe. At Hotel D2l Coronado The season is now on at full tide. American and Furopean plans. The best of everything, ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ANOTHER SNOW BLOCKADE-J. W., City. There was a snow blockade on the Central Pacific and Union Pacific in 1872 | ;jmch lasted from January 21 to February BARRON BERTHALD—G. E. P., City. Barron Berthald, who recently sang at the Tivoli, is with the Metropolitan Eng- lish Opera Company, which is now in the Western circuit. THREE NEWSPAPERS — Subscriber., City. The New York Sun was established by Benjamin H. Day in September, 1832; the Herald by James Gordon Bemnett in ay. 1835, and the Tribune in April, 1841, by Horace Greeley. Loy DAYS OF WORSHIP-—A. D. 8., City. Sunday is set apart as a day of worship by the Christians, Monday bv the Greeks, Tuesday by the Persians, Wednesday by the Austrians, Thursday by the Egyptians, Friday by the Turk. and Saturday by the Jews. NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR—S., St. Hel- ena, Cal. To become an assistant naval constructor in the United States Nav partment the applicant for such a need not be a graduate of Annapolis, A pointments may be made from civil ll? roviding the applicant is ssed Eequtme qualifications. o L ARBOR DAY—K, M., Ceres is no law in California designatin; day of the year as arbor day. Tha e Adolph Sutro attempted at one time to have the people of San Francisco devote § day to tree planting, and on one occa- £ion donated a large number of trees that were planted by school childre example set was not followed. =~ Ut B¢ EMBER DAYS—A. 8., C1 are certain ones set apart for fasting at the four year—that is to say, every quart church calendar these are zmm:i.,lf !l?;: imploring a blessing on the ordinations rqrtormed at that time. The word ember s from the German quatember, a quar- terly day; from the Latin quatuor tem- pora, the four seasons; from the Low Ger- man tamper, and the Swedish ymber , Cal. There ty. Ember days by the church Seasons of the CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS—W. C. A., Antioch, Cal. By the act of March 11, 1891, the State of California was divided 'l!o‘s)u'!even Congressional districts, as fol- First—The counties of Del Norte, Siski- you, Modoe, Humboldt, Trinity, Shul:‘:. Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Sierra, AMendo- cino, Sondma, Napa and Marin. _Second—The counties of Buite, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Ama- dor, Calaveras, Mono, Inyo, Alpine, Tuol. umhe, Mariposa, San’ Joaquin and Sacra- YThlrd—’rhe counties of Colusa (Glehn), meda. Fourth—Part of the city and county Sa[\ Francisco. X Fifth—All that part of the county of San Francisco not in th District and the coungles of and Santa Clara. (,s"‘hET"‘fi“;“”{;?,? of Snsr:a Cruz, Mon- Tey, San Luis spo, Santa Ventura and Los Angeles. Bachs, !‘"l_s; and e Fourth San Mateo incliding the character of entertalnment. Ap- ply at 4 New Montgomery street, city, for spe- aial Hcket. . ] venth—The counties of St (Madera), Merced, San Benito, mm:‘:,’ Tulare (Kings). Kern, San Bernarding (Riversidei. Orange and San Diexo. This is magnanimous, coming | ’ EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY | ol Astor’s Peace Offering. W. W. Astor’s gift of $25.000 te ald fami- les of men fighting in South Africa, in re- sponse to the public appeal by ‘tm\ Prin- cess of Wales, is regarded as a “‘peace of- | fering’”” in London, the Princess having sided with Captain Miine, _whom Mr. Astor Insulted last summer.—Utica Press. i Southern Welcome for McKinley. Grant and Harrison were the o Pr dents who condescended to visit Little | Rock, and both were accorded warm | ceptions. Should President McKinley | eide to t he will be given | of the gr: ¢ ovations he | ceived in the South.—Arkar | Soul of Honor. It is hard for civilians to understa: “soul of honor.” which is s posed to dwell in the army, can be de veloped and nurtured by secret violation of the rules of the Military Acade That is a point in casuistry which ths hazers and the “fighting committees ought to explain.—Cleveland Leader. Sunday at West Point. The discovery vorite day for alling off™ fights,” which are a part of the education given to young gentlemen at West Point, will not make the methods of the cadets | any more popular with the decent peopla d | how that | | | of the United States. Even in “wide | open” citles is not chosen for | “knockouts.”"—Cleveiand Leader. | A Wart on Wars. Professor Douglass® explanation that the singular “protuberance” seem on Mars, which some imaginative persons thought might be ignal to the people of the earth, wa only a bright cloud float- ing In the Martian atmosphere seems en- tirely reasonabl but it postpones the time for establishing communication with that planet indefinitely. Despite all the forecasts that have been made, we are very little, if any, r to opening cor= respondence with our sister planet than we were a hundred years ago.—Philadel- phia Ledger. West Point Code. Fighting at West Point seems to fall under two heads, according to the testi- { mony of Cadet Bettison, president of the graduating class—the fAght to wipe out a | personal insult and fight to demon- | strate the ranking supecriority of the up- | per class men. ?n the latter case, the | combatants have no real grievance against each other. The upper class man fights to uphold the dignity and prestige of his fellows, the fourth class man be- cause he cannot avoid fighting without | exposing himself to a charge of coward- | ice, which in the end would mean his ex- | pulsion from the academy by decree of | the corps of cadets.—New York Evening | Sun. | Bryan’s Retirément. Glad alacrity is but half concealed by the sweet resignation with which the news of Mr. Bryan's retirement is re- {celved by Democratic politicians. The | way the properties are kept reminds us | of the exemplary conduct of the relatives |at certain funerals. Every one knows | that the supernal fiight of the dear de- | parted is a relief to the distressed survi- vors of his family. But mourning gar- ments are put on and a judicious sorrow {1s indulged, though the funeral baked meats are to furnish forth a marriage ta- | ble. And perhaps the more imaszinative, | emotional and venturesome spirits may | even go so far as to extol the virtuous life just closed and exhibit a violence of feeling. It is almost like the real thing.— Chicago Times-Herald. The “Interimistic’” Batom. The Kaiser has placed the venerable King Albert of Saxony on the sama foot- ing with Field Marshal Count Waldersee ¥y presenting him with a so-called “in- erimistic” Fleld Marshal's baton. The difference between this baton and the reg- ular baton is that the latter is used only on state occasions and parades, while the | “Interimistic™ baton is carried also at the | maneuvers, ordinary reviews of the troops {and similar occasions. It is an inven tion of the Kalser, whose fondness for show knows no bounds, and was first specially created for Count Waldersee in order that the international troops in { China might always be foreibly reminded of the German general’s rank. course, the Emperor has also granted such & stick to himself, which he carried ostentatious- 1y at the Jast German army maneuvers in Pomerania. —Pi‘tsburg atch. 'A CHANCE TO SMILE. Contributor (reading aloud)—His eyes were riveted on her face. Magazine Editor—Riveted? Here, cut that out. If he didn't belong to the union you'll have all the boilermakers in this country down on us.—Chicago Record, “Do you think it is desirable for a man to study the dead languages?” “No, sir,” answered Mr. Cumrox, with | emphasis.” “If queer words are what a i;(»unz man aspires to, the golf and base- all reports in any daily newspaper will | supply all his wants.”—Washington Star. | | { Young mother (to butcher)—I have brought my little baby, Mr. Bullwrinkle. ‘Will you kindly weigh him? Butcher—Yes, ma'am: bones an’ all, I s'pose?—Tit-Bits. Passenger (to station porter)—Now, it's | 4 o’clock and the time table says the train arrives at 3:M. Station Porter—Oh, well, you mustn't | take the time table too seriously.—Flie- | gende Blaetter. “Then you don’t bank much on ances- tral pride?” “No; it is more to a man's credit to start from nowhere and be somebody | than to start from somewhere and be no- body.”—Indianapolis Journal, —_————— Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel. - R — | ‘Wilgus ofl burners. Office and salesroom 514A Mission street. Telephone John 2406. * ——— Townsend’s California glace fruit= und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- fots. "a nice present for Eastern Friends. €39 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * I Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. b | Nearly all articles formerly In leather | are now being made of paper, such as suit cases, traveling bags, etc., and the imitation is very successful. New Santa Fe Train. The new Santa Fe train known as the Call- fornia Limited affords service very much supe- ror to anything ever befors offered to Comst travelers. - ————— | | Butte, Mont., has the highest expendi- ! ture per capita for public school educa- tion of any city in the country, viz., $ 67. ‘ ADVERTISEMENTS. ! BABY'S COLD ?is the way J pneumonia— | makes short work of lots of babies. | Scott's emulsion of cod-liver ioil relseves it at once; but re- lief is not cure, you know. It stops'the cough, and gives him a chance to get over the olo, Lake, Solano, Contra Costa and Ala. | cold; yes, lifts him right out of it. f That’s the proper way to say it. | ‘We'llsend you a littleto try, i Fyou ke | SCOTT & BOWNE, 4°9 Pearl strest, Neow York,