The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1901, Page 6

L) JANUARY 29, 1901 TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. .. FUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. ¥. Telephone Press Z0L. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St Telephone Press 202. Delivered v Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5§ Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postages DATLY CALT. (Including Sunday), cne year. DAILY CALL ¢including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Eunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month, FUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEEKLY CALL. Ope Year All postmasters are suthorized to receive subscriptions. Eampis copies will be forwarded when requested. gt Y13 " 2 Ma!l subscribers in ordering chanee of address should de particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in orfer o msure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. . vev+221118 Broadway €. 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R PHELAN has ued an invitation to ressing or to attend aces” ning at the chambers rs. In a communication he meeting the Mayor stated re the meeting the petition esting the Legislature of the ting the racing scason to thirty He added that his own course ned by the action oi ing: “The Legis- properly regulars e such regulations effective, d is to influence the a of to can tement to the Supervisors can anybody. The meeting is getting what will at Jeast ative body of San Francisco the Legislature to adopt a meas- stricting racing, will vir- tu be a step toward reopening Ingleside track for | purposes. By getting men face restricts g 2nd pool=clling, he will obtain distort ifto a consent to the re- Ingleside. 1 ingenious one. sure that upon its Tk s no need of State legislation on this sub- ject s r as this city is concerned. Racing is per- missible here, but pool-selling and bookmaking are t. The gambling practices that in the past brought r f wretchedness, ruin, crime and suicide ity have been effectuaily stopped by That ordinance should be d enforced; and ro good citizen should on and support to any petition which by strued as signifying a consent nce. gambl t the track should be permitted again this city for thirty days or any other period in a year. In a matter of this kind nothing should be left to chance. Protests against the reopening of Ingleside track have been filed with the Supervisc.s, but the men who framed and adopted them should not he conte: that. They should appear withs their supporters at the Mayor's meeting. id be there 10 protest in person against the tened, and they should make the c and clear. . " be accounted certain that if the Mayor can ke meeting to petition the Legislature to limit acing to thirty days in each county, and to intimate that the municipal ordinance is not satisfactory, that petition will be used afterward as an evidence that the people are willing to zllow a thirty days’ racing ‘sea- son at Ingleside. The people, therefore, should be on their guard. They should attend the Mayor's g and be prepared to vote down any suggestion ints at the renewal of the old crime breeding practices The issue concerns nearly all classes of citizens. Business men whose employes are tempted into the commission of frauds by the track gamblers, parents whose sons are led astray by the insidious vice and whose daughters even are not wholly safe from it, the pastors of churches who know how much of sorrow nzs been caused among families by this curse—and, in short, all men who stand for morality and virtue should attend the Mayor’s meeting and make it an overwhelming demonstration against track Rambling, The day has come when men must Stand forth to be counted on the right side. Never mind what may have been the Mayor's motive in calling the meeting. Attend it and vote down any and every proposition that even intimates-the reopening of Ingleside track for noel-cslling and bookmaking. Telephone Press 204 n, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, | regu- | LEGISLATIVE PROGRESS. HE biennial visitation of State institutions by \Tlegislative committees is now in progréss and the important work of providing for them will soon be taken up in both houses. 4 There is a condition of anxiety in the State Uni- versity which we hope will soon be relieved. What- | ever way of relief the Legislature may adopt should be acted upon promptly. After the money now needed is appropriated, as zppears to be likely, in'a lump sum, there will be ample opportunity to study ways | and means for the future. We think it will be found iwnrth while to study a change in our laws of incor- | poration. New Jersey derives an income of over two millions from a sliding scale charge on articles ‘of incorporation. The charge runs in proportion to the capital incorporated. Here the charge is uniform | at $5, and that fee goes to the State Library, produc- | ing about $10,000 a year. Incorporation is a privilege to capita! for which it is willing to pay, as is proved in New Jersey. To an inheritance tax on realty there | are some rational objections. The realty has paid its taxes and borne its share of the public burden during | the lifetime of its owner, and there may well be ques- | tion of the right to burden it further on its passage from the estate of the dead to that of the living. No | such objection can be made to a corporation tax. ‘The law is liberal to the formation of corporations, and they get valuable rights under it, for which they may well pay, to support the uniyersity. With more experience and a more deliberate dis- cussion between the university and the Governor 2 | plan may be ready for the next Legislature which will relieve the institution of the necessity of lobbying at every session for an appropriation to keep it running. The State looks to the Legislature for a fair legis- lative and Congressional apportionment. . We hear of the intrusion of personal and local ambitions into this | question. As it is a matter of law and figures, and by their application justice is easily done, there should | be no greed, personal or local, in the matter. The Republican party can better afford than ever before to abstain from any gerrymander. Political lightning in California is notoriously fickle, and the history of the past proves that device and artifice have never succeeded in holding on to power for the bene- fit of the party which employs them. Let the whole people be considered, and their con- venience and interests served, by a nattiral apportion- ment, and the party will have deserved their favor | by doing its duty. | better than to seduce it by artifice, or secure it by indirection. t This State is just entering upon a new era ahd a | larger life. It is shedding and putting away many | methods that are obsolete, and looks with as much hope to the future as it looks with pride upon the past. It feels new energies, pulsates with resources newly found, and has less patience with that which is petty than ever before in its history. As it feels these fresh impulses it finds itself controlled by the Repub- lican party. Its government is the armor in which it advances to conquest its hopeful future. That armor should be ample, and of pattern generous. Let those who have in charge the party destiny make it part of the State’s destiny, by living up to the full measure of responsibility and opportunity. BISHOP POTTER'S VIEW, | OME time ago we said that it remained for | S some voice of authority in Christendom to de- | mang justice in China. | It is gratifying that the Christian conscience has at ilast found expression by an authority as respected as { Bishop Potter. | He declares that the cause of the trouble in China | eriginated with the Christians and not with the p:- | gans. It is true that he does not specify the crime | that is the final cause of the causes that joined in pro- ducing the trouble. That crime was the forgery inter- | polated in the treaty of 1860 by a Christian mission- | ary. We desire to repeat that the treaty clause per- mitting Christian missionaries to operate outside the | treaty ports and to enter and own compounds in the | interior was forged, and that the crime of forgery can- | not find more flagrant expression than in the sophis- } tication of a treaty. That is the real cause of the spec- ’tade of inhumanity that has appalled the thinking | world. | The student of physics knows that man endangers | his own existence by interfering too much with the | equilibrium of nature. Whether it is by the intro- | duction of the water hyacinth in Louisiana, the rabbit into Australia, the mongoose into Jamaica, the gipsy moth into New England, or the draining of prairie | ponds in the Mississippi Valley, the deforestation of the Sierras, or the washing down of mountains by hydraulic mining, the disturbance of natural equili- ! brium brings loss and punishment. | Inlike manner the rude interference with conditions |in an old-established civilization like that of China brings loss and punishment to those who interfere. Why should we marvel that the Chinese resent com- mercial desecration of their sacred places and the vio- fation of their tombs? The Christian world planned and carried out three bloody crusades to rescue from the keeping of the Saracen the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. And cen- turies later the Christian nations themselves grappled, in the Crimean war, over the question of exclusive jurisdiction of the same place, which is the holy ground of the Christian world. Ships bring in loads of loot, rich spoils, tuken from Chinese owners. A petty lawsuit in this State discloses theswatch of ths Empress Dowager in the possession of an American. We have not been at war with China. No American has the least shadow of moral or legal right to the possession of a single penay’s worth of Chinese prop- erty, as the spoil of a war that is not, and has never been. As the Bishop puts it, these acts are not a happy translation to pagans of the basic principles of Chris- tianity. Our administration at Washington has striven, often in the face of unjust attack, for the application of the principles of justice to a Chinese settlement. The first indorsement of its efforts to that end is now uttered from the right quarter. We hope that Bishop Potter’s example will be speedily followed by others, and that the churches will declare that forgery, vengeance and slaughter are not among the methods of the church, used for advancement of the kingdom. Not only in the United States should this be done, but from England, France, Germany and Russia should come from every Christian pulpit and altar the ' same declaration. These united voices should be so certain in their sound that civil government, in the nominally Christian nations, will hear it and heed it, Those nations have destroyed in China handreds of millions in property, and for blood atonement have taken scores of lives for each one ended by the Chi- nese. The standing crops i ited by millions of Chinese, been destroyed, and the dreadful pinch of famine followed. 4 Women are dying of staf*fiqé_,_ -nd_ dddm\' r To deserve public approbation is | 1 (T HOSE CHINESE SIGNATURES. ESTED GENTLEMEN): UNCLE SAM (AFTER CAREFUL SCRUTINY TO THE OTHER INTER- “THEY SAY THEY'VE SIGNED IT, BUT i HAVE THEY?"—INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. & b b ity Dear Sir: Atlas submitted to me cellent work. without leaving his 7 fornia. yrer ;/( rated 1D ecember U ACADEMY OF. SCIENCES IJII:DW‘ @ . k mew(f/flnuaq_zs,m_ /,fi ] ¥. S. LEAKE, Manager Call, \ I have carefully examined the Cram's Inits scope and accuracy of detail it more nearly approaches a guide book than an ordinary Atlas, and with its aid not only the student of geography but the general reader can take a trip abroad | thoroughly familiarwith all that pertains to the geography of the world. | President Geographical Society of Call- || andfind it a mostex_ arm¢hair and become > PERSONAL MENTION. Judge F. M. Angellotti of San Rafael is at the Occidental. Circuit Judge W. B. Gilbert of Portland is at the Occidental. David Starr Jordan registered at the Occldental yesterday. Captain G. E. Ide of the United States navy is registered at -the Grand. Dr. J. L. Dixon of New York Is among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. Mrs. J. A. Nordin, proprietor of the springs at Sonoma, is at the Grand. S. Rummelsberg, a Colusa merchant, is stopping at the Grand for a few days. William H. Bonsall, director of the Old Soldlers’ Home at Santa Monica, is at the Grand. W. J. Sharwood, a mining man of Marysville, Mont., is registered at the Oc- cidental. C. L. Canfleld, general agent of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, has re- turned from Chicago and other Eastern points, Colonel A. B. Hotchkiss, e@ttor of Pub- lic Economy, published in Los Angeles, is in this city for a few days. He is stopping at the Lick. Carlton C. Crane and John A. Gill, Pa- cific Coast representatives of the New York Central lines, leave to-day on a business trip through the San Joaquin Valley. Major and Mrs. O. E. Wood will give a reception to Alfred E. Buck, United States Minister to Japan, and his wife in the Occidental Hotel parlors this afternoon from 4 to 6. Captain H. T. ith, treasurer of the Southern Pacific, who has been quite seri- ously ill, was able to go out for a short walk yesterday.. He hopes to be able to be at his office the last of the week. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORX. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The Californians in New York are: From San Francisco— R. J. Alden, at Imperial; A. H. Boomer, at Gilsey; W. T. Backley, at Sturtevant; Mrs. C. B. Dexter, at Albert; Mrs. F. W. Draper, at Park Avenue; M. S. Hewes, at St. Denis; C. Hickmott, at Gerard; Hoone, at Astor; H. E. Huntington, at Netherland; J. Jacobs, at Normandie; A. Karle, at Gerard; J. Leszynsky, at Nor- shrivel and fade away at the mafernal fountain gone forgery excel in cruelty all that was wrought by the Mongol conquerors. Let pure Christianity rise in its place in the nations and confess the crime committed unChristian oppression. EpT—— PUNISHMENT O~ KIDNAPERS. Q islatures of the Eastern States there comes a revival of the question of the advisability oi establishing the whipping-post as a means of punish- some people are inadequately dealt with by either fine or imprisonment. That discussion is now going on at a lively rate in the East owing to the fact that in are used as punishment, there is an agitation to abol- ish them; while in Connecticut, where they do not exist, there is a movement to establish.the whipping- ‘The question has bad a new i terest added to it this time by the suggestion that whipping be used as a part of the punishment\provided for kidnaping. As Cudahy kidnaping case in Omaha, the existing laws do not adequately provide for the punishment of that offense. In nearly every State efforts will be made edy the defect, and consequently in the East that issue has naturally become involved in the whipping-post discussion. cated the adoption by that State of the whipping-post as a punishment for kidnapers who carry off children with the intent to extort ransom, and in defending his objections to such a penalty? That it would be in- human? There is nothing inhuman in using reason- able severity to punish physical outrages. It is so- It is the natural impulse of every man to meet force by force. That it would be unChristian? For an in- dividual to right his own wrongs in such a way per- criminal wrongdoers with the heavy hand is nowhere proclaimed more explicitly than in the New Testa- ment. That it would degrade the kidnaper? De- Who is lower, baser, meaner, than the scoundrel wio steals away a child to extort money for his ransom? | That it is going back to the dark ages? For some A sidelight upon the question is thrown by reports that the whipping-post in Delaware causes all the criminals of that State who if convicted would be The report has stirred up the Marylanders and they e now asking one another whether it would be bet- ter to aid the movement for suppressing the whipping- | so drive the criminals over the border into Pennsyl- vania, Whether the whipping-post be established or no-. ment of kidnapers. It is not likely the Cudahy ai- fair will stand long as an isolated case. The success of the criminals in obtaining a large ransom and get- the example, and as a consequence some fitting pun- | ishment for the crime should be provided this winter in every State where the Legislature i A QUESTION OF DATES. UR estecemed contemporary the New York | Times directs attention to the fact that if we | dates we must celebrate Washington’s birthday du-- ing this century on February 24 instead of February 22. The argument is that in this century the differ- calendar amounts to thirteen days, and since Washing- ton was born February 11, old style, in 1732, the anni- versary of his birth falls on the 24th. Gregorian calendar the leap year intercallation is omitted three times in every 400 years, while thers was no such omission provided in the Julian sys- sixteenth century there was a difference of ten days between the new style and the old. The year 1700 was a leap year in the Julian calendar, but a common year difference between the two was eleven days. The sam= combination occurred in 1800, and during the nine- teenth century the difference was twelve days, and calendar but was a leap year in the old style, therg is one more day to be added to the increasing divergence between the two, and we have now thé thirteen re- The introduction of this subject affords an oppor- tunity for those who delighted in the controversy con- cerning the date of the beginning of the century to sions over the question of the anniver§arics of events which took place before the adoption of the new cal- endar. it has been suggested that we adopt a conventional date for the celebration of the birthday of Washing- ton and make it the 22d of February, regardless of the with other anniversaries of the kind, such as the birthday of Franklin, which isgcelebrated in some States, the discovery of America and the foundation " Unless a conventional fixed date be agreed upon Americans are' likely to see strange things in the far distant future. Thus the Times says: “If we make with the slow procession of the true anniversary, in about 17,300 years Washington's birthday would fall on the Fourth of July.” : The very iqtmion of it is liable to produce confu- sion and perplexity in the minds of those who find pleasure in .iaoking ahead. Tt is to be hoped the mat- of February 22 as Washington’s birthday. There are | times when old dates are better than fresh ones. 5 —————— dry. The horrible results of that original crime of in its name and demand Christian justice instead of EGULARLY with the assembling of the Leg- ment for cerfain crimes which in the estimation of Delaware, where the pillory and the whipping-post past, if not the pillory. \ was pointed out by The Call immediately after the during the present session of the Legislature to rem- Judge Baldwin of Connecticut has strongly advo- proposition is reported to have said: “What are the ciety striking back at the man that gave the first blow. haps might be; but the duty of the state to punish grade him from what? What is his station. now? things we may well go there and get light.” subject to it to leave Delaware and live in Maryland. rost in Delaware or to establish one in Maryland, and it is certain something should be done for the punish- ting away will be sure to encourage others to imitate i in session. O are going to be accurate in the matter of | ence between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian The cause of the shifting of the date is that in the tem. When Gregory established his calendar in the in the Gregorian, so in the eighteenth century the finally, as the year 1900 was not a leap year in our ferred to. Byl o ey have another lively lot of calculations and confu- By way of avoiding the confusion and shifting dates variation of time. The same thing could be done also of our older colonial settlements. Washington's birthday a movable feast to keep pace What kind of a combination holiday would that be? ter will be promptly settled by the general observance The young rascal of this city who admits that he | comes of him. He may be assured that this is th only particular part of his affairs in which the public sympathizes and hopes that his despondency may in, | jail feed upon itself. : < The young member of the San to the State Assembly who tried the other day to tive trickery, like other fine arts, cannot be learned in. .!_ %n;zcisco delegation | Nave .mm me? mandie; E. Murphy, at Imperial; H. Perin, at Herald Square; Miss A. L. Stone, at Viectoria; G. F. Sheolin, at Park Avenue; G. Q. Chase, L. Kohnan, E. Kern, F. 8. Owles, at Herald Square; A. R. Whitmore Jr., at St. Cloud. From Los Angeles—W. Woodard, at Im- perial. From San Jose—L. Sonneksen, at Her- ald Square. £ ——t————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. G’n—s-;r. ;)lcb:ns.ot San Francisco and A. G. Steuder of n Diego are at the National; G. W. Max- well and wife of Los Angeles, C. Knapp, is a bigamist, says that he does not care what be- | H. C. Keller, SgM. Shortridge and George 8tone of San Franclsco and Edmund f Los Angeles are at the Raleigh; T eer of Gakland 1 at the Ariington. —————————— levon lfl y.nr b&;n? by P metion o 1 SEYOR Youm e ot it summer? - y (warmly—Why, of the Ydllfl 1 eat districts, inhab- | trick some of the older members is probably con- Tois M"&.".".l q::-gt.-.wo‘ vinced now in his failure that the fine art of legisla- ——— | &"" ik et di ;?-l ; but it's a splendid likeness.— A Stray ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ANTE MERIDIAN-G. H, I, City. The| abbreviation a. m. is from the Latin ante | meridian, before noon, and p. m. the ab- breviation of post meridian, from the same language, meaning afternoon. JACKRABBITSJ. G. S., Tule Lake, | Or. This correspondent wants to know | it any reader of this department can fur- nish “a successful method of poisoning jackrabbits, which are the greatest pest | we have to'deal with up here.” ELECTRICAL STORMS-J. W. B, San Luis Obispo, Cal. The recent electrical storms which passed over San Francisco extended to Alameda and Fruitvale, in | Alameda gounty. The wind storms were | not so severe there as they were in San | Francisco. Electrical storms are not con- | fined to a small territor— like Fruitvale, | but extend over a great territory. ! ABANDONMENT—Reader, Dutch Flat, Cal. At any time after six months from entry and before the expiration of the required five years of residence to per- fect title to a homestead under the United States law, If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Land Department that the settler has changed his residence or abandoned the land embraced in his homestead entry for mere than six | months at any time, such entry will le canceled and the land revert to the Government, when another entry may be filed upon it. RURAL FREE DELIVERY—S, Pa- checo, Cal. The following are the govern- mental instructions in regard to the estab- | lishment of free rural delivery: Present a petition, addressed to the First | Assistant Postmaster General, signed by those | Who desire the service. This petition should be signed only by heads of families and should mention the number in each family. It should | set forth the nature of the country where the delivery is desired, whether densely or Iy populated, the principal avocations of tl peo- ple, the character of the roads and the dls- tances which under existing conditions each patron has to travel to receive his mail, and should be accompanied wherever possible by a rough m;&lmdlc-uu the route or routes pro- posed. s~ petition, properly signed, should be sent to your Representative in Con- tors, with a re- s estabiish Iree Ivery. purpose of the glive postal facilities to those who Is daily to remote rural com: its of which would other- ‘wise bave to travel from two to tweive miles to receive their letters newspape: roads must be good. This is an essential pre- requisite to any investigation. No route ea be established that is less than 20 to 25 mlle: in ‘or which serves less than 100 fam- illes. The route should be arranged that the carrier will not be required to travel over the same ground twice on the same day. desiring the delivery must be prepared to up_at their own at some convenlen: location which can be reached by the carrier without dismounting from his buggy appro- priate_and secure boges for the reception of the United States malls. are ot _required to deliver majl £o houses standing back from the main 3 service is one of mu the patrons are to meet the ent half way in fording facllities for its establishment It does not necessarily follow that a office be discontinued beca: such office, but If it does, it mdemMfi extent that sooner or later it is discon- tinued for lack ot TORREe. o hoDIS | not any dist: celve mail from the 'lnlgcr:;. put t g% g | many, and some of them show most a: Honor Amcng Thieves. Alabama kidpapers seem to lack the es- sential elements of honor as manifested by the Omaha branch of the flk. In the Alabama case the father paid the ransom demanded, but has not yet received his son in return. Thus-does the “homor among thieves” theory get another rude joit.—Omaha Bee. Russian Diplomats Rewarded. The Czar's presents to his Ministers for their_successful diplomatic efforts touch- ing Manchurfa were, of course, not be- stowed with the ided that Russia is to withdraw from shat province. sovereign need never be susy ing gifts to anybody who ernment in retiring from tory.—Providence Journal. American Privileges. It is announced that Delegate Wilecox will appoint a native Hawailan as a ca at West Point. By the time the unluc | Kanaka is “exercised,” “eagled ™ called out to fight a six-footer of the 1 | drinks_a bottlz of tobasco sa | through a few ‘“‘safimy races.” doe regulation amount of “choo-chooing eats eighty-five prunes at one sitting he will begin'to have some new ideas about what it means to be an American citizen. —Stockton Mail. Billions in Electricity. Six hundred thousand persons are em- foyed In the electrical industries of t Tnited States and the capital invested ut at the following immense figures treet rallways. $1,300,000,000 th!ln!. $1.- 200,000.000; telephony, $300 : telegra- phy, $250,000.000; mining. power trans sion’ and plating, $250.000,000; manufactur ing apparatus, $150,000,000; automobiles and storage batteries, $25.000.000. This makes a total of nearly $4.000.000,000, and sho to what vast extents the electrical bw ness of the country has grown.—Provi- dence Journal. Unattached Female Persons. There is something delightfully and characteristically ponderous and solemn | in the title of an article which the Janu- ary Eclectic Magazine prints from Scottish Reylew on “The Redundancy of Spinster Gentlewomen.” By way of deli- cately indicating to the reader his own versatility in phrasemaking the s another place refers to the “the surplusage of unattac persons among our upper and upr * All of which means that t es dle classes. | article has to do with the increase in the | proportion_of old maids in the better | classes of Great Britain.—Sioux City Tribune. Pope Leo’s Will. Pope Leo XIII has made a will In it he has named the Cardinal he prefers as his successor. A copy of the document, sealed, with solemn obligation ciplent not to break the seal | Pope’s demise. has been person ered to each Cardinal present at tr cent consistory. A copy similarly sealed and conditioned has been dispatc messenger to each absent Cardina! is created a dramatic suspense of keenest Interest to the entire world. He whom Leo XIII has nominated as his suc- cessor is, therefore, a person of immensa tmportance to millions and of keen curios- ity to a still l#fger proportion of man- kind.—Chicago Chronicle. The Presidential Succession. If the President and Vice President were | to die on March 4 Secretary Hay—if he did not die also—would become acting President and would, in obedience to law, | convene Congress in extraordinary ses- sion. Congress doubtless would enact a | law for a special election, and until it was | held and a President and Vice President chosen the Secretary of State wpuld be at the head of the Government. So, if Bryan | and Stevenson had been elected and both | were to die on March 4 President McKin- |ley would go out, but Secretary Hay. | would rematn in, and a Republican admin- | istration continue until a new election | could be ordered and held. An election | would be-ordered, no doubt, even if one { house were Republican. Public sentiment | would demand a new election. Until it had been held Democratic office-seekers would have to possess their souls in pa- | tience.—Chicago Tribune. | How 0ld World Cities Grow. Americans ara aceustomed to believe that their cities increase in population faster than those of any other country. In this respect, however, we have a stro; rival in Germany. There are now thirt three cities of the 100,000 class in Ge: tonjshing growth for the last five years. Nuremberg, for example, is one of the oldest towns in Europe, yet it is growing faster than any American city of the 100,- 900 class did in the last decade. Nurem- berg has gained 98357 people since 1385, or more than 60 per cent. Posen, another ancient town, did nearly as well, with 58.6 per cent gain. Stettin gained nearly 50 er cent, Halle nearly 35 per cent, Mann- Eelm over dsdper cent; Chemnitz, Cassel and Dortmund nearly 3 per cent; Frank- fort and Kiel 25 per cent. Onmly one of the thirty-three in the 100,000 class showed a decline, and that was very small. Crefeid had 358 fewer ple than on December 1, 1595.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “What is the law of compensation “Well, hero's how it is: The things we don’t want are given us to console us for our lack of the things we want.—An- swers. Time is a scandal monger;y Alas! we know it well. Though we may guard our Old time will surely tell. e . “The fact 1s,” said the fat man, “T mar- ried because I was lonely as much as for any other reason. To put it tersely, I mar- ied for sympathy.” “Well,” sald the lean ulny E“)'ou have mine."—Stray Stories. “Why baven’t you congratulated that bridal couple?” “Can’t do it! I can't congratulate her because I know him, and I can’t congrat- ulate him because I knew her!”—Der Flol “They say the cigarette habit is on the “¥es. But no doubt yowll find a corre- | sponding increase in other forms of men- tal aberration.—Philadeiphia State Jour- nal. “What do you find in that stupid old pa- per to_keep you so busy?’ petulantly asked Mrs. Youngeouple. “I was just icoking at the money mar- > he answered. n‘!bh. do they have a money market? Are there ever any bargains?’—Indianapolis Press. Dr. Ende—There's nothing serions the matter with Patsy, Mrs. Muleahey. I think a little soap and water will do him H_good as anything. s Muleahey—Yis. docther; an’ will oi give it t' him befoor or afther his males?—Leslie’'s Weekly. 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