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Che Sl Call. AY .FEBRUARY 2, 1901 SATURDAY. ‘VO?%N D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Agéress All Communieations to MANAGER'S OFFICE. ..... 6. LEAKE, Mazager. | Telephone Press 204 PLBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. CDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press Delivered hw Carriers. 16 Cents Per Week. Kingle Copics. 5 Cents. Terms by Mall. Including Postages DAILY CALY, (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL cincluéing Eunday), § months. DAILY CALL Gneloding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month, SUNDAY CALL. One Year WEEKLY CALL. Ove Year. 431 postmasters are subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. LEEY Mafl subscrfhers in ordering chanee of address should e perticuiar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to msure a prempt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. +++1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS. 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Yorke, din Mabille. ncerned have treated the in- insult. titude unjustifiable. A large belonging to the taxpayers of this Citizens of California, inter- who ctical spent isited the exposition, unanimity, that the d not exhibit, that it was lost missioners themselves have bout the awarding of medals which an expression of judgment as e re unfortunate, but they empha- vestigation of the matter. There ther great expositions, and California will present. A complete statement of the er official representation at this admonish the people usefully to exhibit our resources 4 be s needed is not a ground plan and front ele- | of the drunks and carousals indulged in at ment of account showing how much money went for the collecting, trans tion of the State's ex- sear how much of the appropria- rent and the enjoyment of | When this purely business mat- | the committee it should not be al slanders about wine- | g, nor pleasant tales about nor even lurid reports of per- ex 1 I tion we Lok » by secure certain data that will | ion as to the kind of the commission. The State in at the Hamburg food show, a few | vea ch was managed by the State Board of Trade. It was immediately productive of trade or- ders and resulted in-the export of many hundreds h a conc service re ed an ago, w | | carloads of our dried and tinned fruit, producing a large profit for our producers and canners and driers, and the whole cost of the exhibit was less than $6000. | At Paris last year was an unofficial exhibit, in the king, transporting and installing of which te Board of Trade was again concerned It was shown as an ensemble exhibit, all together, and was highly approved by the Califgrnians who saw it. We suppose that its cost can be ascertained, and | with it and the Hamburg data some idea of the cost of such work can be reached for the purpose of com- parison It is rather disquieting to observe that so far dur- the investigation responsibility has been passed down the line, the Commissioners haying volubly dis- | avowed responsibility, only to pass it to the secretary, who passes it on-to a subordinate, who passes it, in an irdefinite manner, to the vouchers. This leaves no cne to vouch for the vouchers, so that it seems now iniprobable that there will be any really useful result. he Sta in Accusations are now made that hazing has been as offensive at Annapolis as it was at West Point. It might not be 2 bad idea for Uncle Sam to take his refractory students out somewhere and administer to them a sound spanking—perhaps the only element ! in a youthful education which in them has been neg- Jected . An old man, well provided in worldly goolls but t00 misesly to buy food, was found starving the other day in the ci % Perhaps he felt that his manner of life and retributive justice demanded that he should cheat himself before he died. \ The local woman who welcomed a term in prison the other day to éscape her husband’s abuse ought to nish in herself an excellent object lesson to sup- | port an agitation for the use of the whipping-post for | brutal husbands. |it violates tombs. T THE FORGED TREATY. CORRESPONDENT has admitted the truth of our statement that the missionary clause in the Franco-Chinese treaty of 1860 was a forgery. A | True, he objects to the use of that term, but we pre- fer it, for no other describes the act as well. The treaty had been negotiated in the usual man- ner. Its terms and details had been discussed and agreed to. The Chinese diplomats read French, the language of diplomacy. The protocol and draft of the treaty were in that language and were perfectly under- stood by the representatives of China. There was no missionary clause in the treaty, nor had the subject cntered into any of the discussions between the Com- missioners. By consent of all parties the treaty, as agreed upon, in the French language, was given to a French missionary to translate into Chinese. The scoundrel knew that he was expected to render the French text into Chinese text. He knew the nature of the crime he committed by interpolating a forgery into the text. He knew that it was a crime greatar than the breach of trust and betrayal of confidence of which he was guilty in committing it. Our correspondent says the Chinese Commissioners signed the treaty with that clause in, and goes so far as to say that they krew it. There is no evidence that they knew it. Indeed the evidence is all the other way. Théy supposed they were signing a Chinese copy of the French text. The missionary clause did not appear in the French copy at all. The English newspapers in Shanghai and Hongkong affirm that the existence of the forged clause was unknown to the Chinese signato-ies. The very intelligent native press of Japan, with an intimate knowledge of ‘the’ facts, declares that the existence of the forged clause was unknown until the French missionaries, accom- | plicés of the forger, claimed the rights it protected and referred to it as their authority for entering the interior. : Every bit of evidence and every circumstance of the transaction goes to support the belief that the Chinese trusted to Christian honor in the matter, and trusted in vain. We do not intend any attack on the missionary spirit or Christian faith, but we insist that it does not become Christendom to talk so much and so long and so loudly about the deceitfulness of Chinese dip- lomacy and the lying of Li Hung Chang. If their diplomacy is crafty, who taught them its deceptions? Ii they lie in national matters, whose example do they follow? ‘We think that Bishop Potter is right. The Chinese have had a mistranslation of Christianity. Our correspondent puts the blame on t cial classes. This is true only in one res building of railroads is offensive in China,. because We are not aware that Western merchants have ever caused any trouble. The pretext for Germany’s seizure of Kiaochau was not the act of a merchant, but of a2 missionary, It was the presence of German missionaries in the interior, by virtue of a missionary forgery in the treaty, that gave the Kaiser the pretext for stealing a port and part of a sea province. Naturally theft has followed forgery. A Foreign Minister to Peking from one of the great, powers has said much privately about the lack of dis- cwetion shown by the missionaries. In one case in which large indemnity was forced out of China he said the trouble had a trivial beginning. Some Chi- nese children, playing near the missionary compound, threw some sticks and stones against the stockade. One of the missionaries ran out, seized a Chinese child, dragged it inside and locked the gate. The playmates of the little prisonr ran off c-ying and told his ;'marcnts. When they came and demanded their child the missionaries refused to release him. Then happened what was to have been expected—the whole town rose in a mob, tore down the compound wall, recovered the child and wrecked the buildings, just as a white mob would do in this city if a white child were kidnaped and locked in the joss house on Jack- son street. The only difference would be that here a dozen Chinese would be killed in as many minutes. he commer- pect. The | The Government concerned compelled China to pay large indemnity, when justice required that the whole missionary party be punished for the original aggres- | sion. The missionary effort spent abroad would be better | invested at hotne. The Chinese who said to an Amer- ican missionary, “What for you want me in your heaven and not in your country?” uttered the philos- ophy of the situation. We don't want the Chinese among us, and it will be just as well to omit mission- ary aggressions among them. @MERICAN FORESTS HIS continent had the greatest forest endow-e ment in the world, and its richest part was planted in this Northwestern portion. The natural conditions for this sumptuous growth are sup- plied by the Japan current, distributing heat and moisture, and the trade winds from the Pacific, which aid the effects of the warm current, practically supply- ing transportation. Professor Lemmon, the botanist and dendrologis:, in a recent monograph upon this subject, says that these Northwestern forests possess more kinds or species of resinous wooded, needle-leaved, cone- bearing trees than any other equal area in the world, and these trees are either the largest in dimensions or bear the largest cones that the earth has produced. The cone-bearing trees of the Pacific Slope number fourteen genera, or families, comprising seventy spe- cies or kinds of trees, and thirteen genera with forty species are in California. Of these twenty-seven are pines, two larches, five spruces, two hemlock spruces, | two false hemlock spruces, ten firs, two redwoods, two American cedars, seven cypresses, nine junipers and two yews. Our sugar, yellow and Jeffrey pines are the largest trees of that family; no foreign pines attain half their dimensions. Two of our spruces, the Douglass and the tideland spruce of the north coast, are the largest and most valuable of their kind in the world. Five of our firs, the red bark, the white bark, the Shasta, the Grand and the Noble, are three times as large as any Eastern or foreign firs. Nowhere on the planet are any trees approaching in size our two redwoods. By way of comparison, to demonstrate the richness of our forest endowment, Professor Lemmon puts the Ezstern continent, Europe and Asia, alongside. That continent is 9000 mileg across, while ours is only 3000, But of the eighty species of pines the Eastern conti- nent has only twenty while we have sixty. Our part of the continent from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, 1000 miles, has forty of the sixty American kmdsnand of these California has twenty, or as many as the whole Eastern continent. If the distribution were equal, and the Eastern continent had sixty and America twenty, the Pacific Slope would be entitled to six kinds, and California would be entitled to ore spe-ies instéad of twenty. Professor Lemmon’s valuable monograph describes the migration of our trees and their return to the con- | ditions which favor their Best development. His work THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1901. SULU SULTAN'S FLAG is one of the greatest value to all who are interested in forest products and who are working to make our forests permanent. This State should 'do all that public authority can do, supplementing the efforts of the Federal Govern- meni, to secure the proper harvesting of ripe timber and preserve the coming crop. We protect the crop of fish grown in the waters of the State and the wild | game of the land. Why let the crop of trees perish in the fire or be exterminated by careless lumbering? Why not a close season for the forests as well as for the fish? e — A PROPOSED OIL INSPECTOR. ENATOR CURRIER has introduced a bill pro- viding for the appointment of a State inspector of illuminating oils manufactured from petro- leum or coal oils. The inspector is to have an annual salary of $1500 and “such further sum as he may ac- tnally and necessarily expend in traveling expenses 2nd prosecutions incurred in discharge of his duties.” He is authorized to appoint “a suitable number of deputies,” and each deputy inspector “shall be entitled to a salary payable monthly, the amount of such sal- ary tc be determined by the number of casks, bar- rels and packages actually inspected during the month. * * * provided that in no case shall such ingpector receive more than $100 as such salary.” The inspectors are to have authority to enter the premises of all manufacturers or dealers in oils, for the purpose of inspection. They are required to reject for illuminating purposes all oils which will emit a com- bustible vapor at a temperature of 120 degrees Fahren- beit. They are to collect 13 cents for each barrel, cask o~ package containing not exceeding fifty-five gallons, and at the same proportionate rate for any excess over that quantity. The money collected by the deputies is | to be turned over to the State inspector, and the State inspector is to render “to the Board of State Auditors quarterly a detailed account of all receipts and disbursements of his office to be audited and allowed by them if found correct, and ‘if at the end of the year there be any surplus it shall be paid into the State treasury.” The proper thing for the Legislature to do with the bill is to promptly kill it. There are many objections to the measure. In the first place a man capable of rightly fulfilling the duties required would be worth more than $1500 a year. the second place the right of appointing a suitable number of deputies is not a proper one to confer on a man working at a political job for $1500 a year. In the third place the standard fixed for illuminating oil is too high, being in excess of that established ia Pennsylvania. Many other objections to the measure might be pointed out, but it is unnecessary to do so. The vital objection is that California has already too many officials. It would be better business and better poli- tics for the Legislature to diminish the number of State officials and commissions than to increase them. Our people have done fairly well without a State | inspector of oils with “a suitable number” of depu- ties, and it can continue to do so. There are doubt- less many things that California needs, but mora office-holders and taxeaters are not among them. [ PROBATE REFORMS. ‘ Legislature designed to lessen the cost of pro- ceedings in probate. This is a praiseworthy purpose, and these projects ought to be considered carefully by the legislators in the interest of the poor people who are necessitated to have recourse to the courts. Many of these matters inflict hardship upon women and children already sorely tried by the loss of their bread-winner, and it seems cruel to add to their agony, already acute enough, by taking from their mouths their morsel of meat and bestowing it upon the probate parasites. It is literally another terror added to death for a poor widow with a mite of property, some little home- stead, a lot and cabin, perhaps, to be compelled to go into the funereal forum to be fleeced by the taxes of that tribunal which could be cut short by an act of legislation. The wastz of small properties in this way is to be deplored, but it can be corrected in the man- rer indicated. We allude to small estates particu- larly, because the wealthy can usually protect them- selves; but the poor are mostly at the mercy of lega! sharks. A distinguished minister of the Gospel, the Rev. Horatio Stebbins, in commending the bills now before the Legislature, writes that he feels “it will not be out of place to express my earnest, unselfish hope that the bills will become law.” Dr. Stebbins says that he has had considerable ex- perience in this line of affairs, and he has been ‘again and again impressed with the almost barbaric wrong that is perpetrated under the present law. An estate in his care was wrested from him through a sheer technical construction of the existing statute, and he was mulcted in $4000 expenses where in his own care $400 would have suificed. Moved by this sense of injustice Dr. Stebbins exclaims: “We applaud the benefactors of society, the founders of charities, schools and colleges; but no benefaction, charity or school can diffuse the good that a wise and just law confers.” D The United States insists that Cuba shall remain the ward of this Government in order that the hot heads of the island shall not get us into trouble with our friends. This seems to be one of the cases where we have caught a prize, cannot give it away and dare not throw it away. William Jennings Bryan says that he is opposed to a six years’ term for President of the United States. One would think that the American people had been sufficiently emphatic in their opinion of him to make a discussion of the Presidency by him an extremely indelicate affair. China after all is mistress of the situation in which she is involved with the powers. She says that the foreign Governments may cut off the heads of some of her generals, but they must not be the heads of capable generals. She may need them later herself. Industrious correspondents insist for the thou- sandth time that the situation in Venezuela is serious. This never will be until our fiery southern friends have been so soundly thrashed that from necessity if not choice they will behave themselves. National officers who are investigating the recent gigantic theft of stamps in the revenue office at Peoria appear to have only one enduring consolation. They are glad there were no more stamps “in the building when the thieves arrived. b The young man who stole a barrel of whisky in this city the other day evidently was determined to culti- vate a case of delirium tremens or go to jail. In being caught he should congratulate himself that he has escaped acute alcoholism, In | ERTAIN bills have been introduced into the | IS M Looks Like an Article of Mea : ADE OF CALICO Underwear, but Is Full of ning. = 2 HE Sulu Sultan's flag, sent to the War Department by Major Sweet, is made of black, white and red calico, Wwith a white ruffied border, giving it the appearance of some article of underwear as it hangs over the back of a chair in General Corbin’s office at the War De- partment. Its red ground is ornamented, says the New York Tribume, with two | typlcal Moro weapons, a kreese and a | spear, and the square black field bears five white stars. Major Sweet, in his letter accompanying the gift, describes it as the flag of the Central Africa. all parts of the world. In one picture, which is intended to represent the miraculous draught of fishes, the disciples are shown in a Chinese junk, which is so loaded with fish | that it seems In great danger of being swamped. These pictures are produced for missionaries, and are sold in enormous numbers. It is difficult to make a native take any interest in people who are of an altogether different race, but he shows a lively interest in a drawing of a man of his own type. The missionaries show him these pictures, his atten- tion is caught, and he soon learns the meaning. The Enzlishman who sup- plies these colored prints has sold Immense numbers, and they have been car- rled to the ends of the earth. They caan be bought at all prices, from 6 a dozen to 30 cents each, and the sales average from 70,000 to 100,000 every | 1 year.—Cincinnati Enquirer. PERSONAL MENTION. Postmaster Thomas Fox of Sacramento is at the Lick. ‘W. W. Chapin, a Sacramento merchant, is at the Palace. Dr. J. W, Clark and wife of Santa Rosa are at the Grand. Dr. Ernest Crutcher of Great Falls, Mont., Is a late arrival at the Grand. Willis Pike, a Fresno fruit man, pending a day or two at the Grand. Alexander Brown of the State Board of Equalization is registered at the Lick. Carl E. Lindsay, City Attorney at Santa Cruz, is a late arrival at the California. Louis Aubury, a mining engineer from Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan are among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. Colonel John T. Harrington of Colusa, a member of Governor Gage's staff, is at the Palace. W. H. Atkinson and wife of Napa are at the California. Mr. Atkinson is a prominent fruit grower. M. H. Walker, a prominent Salt Lake is | sl at the Occidental last evening. Rev. Alex Mackintosh and wife are at the Occldental, having just returned from a trip around the world. Mr. Mackintosh is pastor of a Honolulu church. Mrs. G. M. King, proprietress of the Rossland Hotel, accompanied by Miss M. Johns, have taken apartments at the Cali- fornia for the balance of the winter. S. W. Eckels, formerly general agent of the Union Pacific here and recently traffic manager of the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City, has been appointed traffic manager of che American Smelting and Refining Company. Mr. Eckels has many friends on the Pacific Coast. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. Graham, at Holland; M. Kohn, &t Herald Square; Miss Mack, A. Mack and wife, at Savoy; J. C. Wormser and wife, at St. Cloud; Miss Flood, L. Sloss Jr., at Holland; J. Colman, at Her- ald Square; W. F. Holden, at Imperial J. 8. Dodge, L. Eloesser, at Belveder: H. B. Sadler, H. Kohn, at Herald Squa: From Oakland—Dr. Adams, at Grand. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—G. W. Hinkel and wife of San Francisco are at the Metropolitan. —_———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Simmons—He says he met his wife b accident. Jimmons—TI hope he was carrying an ac- cident policy at the time.—Smart Set. “Jimmy,” exclalmed the first boy, “teacher jumped on you pretty quick. Yanked you up and walloped you like lightning, didn’t he?” 0, replied the other boy ruefully, “not like lightning. He hit me too oftén in the same place.” “The easiest way to get Into soclety is to marry for money.” ~ “But suppose a fellow is in and wants to get out?”’ i “Then marry for love.”—Smart Set. Bri| 1 hear you have been operating in Wall street. Griggs—A great mistake. T have been operated upon.—Harper’'s Bazar. “I'm thinking about that lodger of ours,” the landlord remarked to his wife, “About whhl,:?" é R “H s rent so regular! thi T'd better raise it on him P lmlelvhr;: es. Tt was with the utmost caution that the fox_crossed the highway. “You see,” he explained, “there is a hunting dub of the swellest kind in this vicinity, and I smell so extremely like an anise that I have to be very careful, indeed!”"—Puck. “Any man who has fought with ger in New York, as Rooseveit marked the observer of events and things, “doesn’t fear a cinnamon bear or a fe Colorado lions.”—Yonkers Statesman. “0ld Grouch went to the the other night disguised as Dy one rec'ognbe ~ "Nnbo’lfln’ but his ."'—Brooklvn Bagle. the Ti- L e e s e R R THIRTY PRODIGAL SONS IN STOCK. In a little shop at Port Sald an Englishman has started one of the most | curlous businesses in the world. He has an immense stock of colored pictures of all sizes, {llustrating the events recorded in the Bible. The figures in these pictures are of all nationalities, from the pigtailed Chinee to the negro of One subject—the return of the prodigal son—is drawn in over thirty dl‘fler- ent ways. In one picture the flgures are almond-eyed Chinamen, in other South Sea Islanders, Hindoos Samoans, Malays, Dyaks and other races In L e e e o banker, accompanied by his wife, arrived | Mohammedans of the Sulu Archipelago, and each feature of it is symbolical. The | first star represents religious knowledge, | the second star prayers, the third star In- dulgence money, the fourth star titles and the fifth star pilgrimage to Mecca. The centerstar contains Arabic lefters in black, | announcing the fact that the banmer is | the flag of the Sultan, viz., Basilan, Jolo, | the Stassi group, the Tawi Tawi group {and Borneo and Palawan (Paragua). The | red grounad of the flag represents the sub- | jects of the Sultan, the Moro weapons ! strength and war. | | cents 0 0 |ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ROCKEFELLER-G. D., Hamburg, Cal. The residence of John D. Rockefeller is in New oYrk City, 4 Fifty-fourth street. LAND IN WASHINGTON—B., Occi- dental, Cal. The taking up of a home- stead in the State of Washington i v- erned by the Federal land law. which i the same there as in any otner State Wwhere lands may be settled upon. | THE LOWEST POINT—Subseriber, ]Grass Valley, Cal. The lowest tempera- | ture In San Francisco in the past twenty mars was onll-‘ebruary 6. 1853, when the ermometer in the weather bu - istered 28 degrees. prrads, THE CLAY STREET LINE-T. O. M., City. The original Clay street line of ca- | ble cars were first operated on the morn- | ing of the 1st of Augusts 1573. The line Was from Kearny street to Leavenworth. The line was extended from Leavenworth &r;et to Van Ness avenue In November, FOREIGN MAGAZINE—L. R. J., Oak- land, Cal. The magazine asked about is ublished originally in the city of London. uplicates of the plates used there are shipped to New York and from these the magazine is printed there. This is done to save the cost of transportation of a large amount of printed matter. BALLOON CARS—L. C. 8, City. Bal- loon cars that were designed by the late Henry Casebolt, who was the promoter of the Sutter straet line of cars, were first operated in San Francisco in 1873. The lines over which they were operated were Bush and Polk to Union and_ Octavia streets, and irom Sutter and Larkin streets’ to Mission, and out that street to Woodward's Garden, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Verdi’s Work Immortal. The death of Giuseppe Verdi femoves the world’'s greatest living composer. The man s dead. Il Trovatore,” “La Tra- viata,” ,'“Alda” and a host of other com- positions will never die.—Boston Journal. Hoar’s Epigram on Davis. Speaking of the wit of the late Senator Davis, Senator Hoar uttered an epigram which deserves to be remembered. “No spark from him,” sald Senator Hoar, ever a cinder in the eye of his friend. St. Louls Star. Knows When to Speak. To the credit of the Prince of Wales, who is now the King, he was never known to exercise his jaw touching mat- ters that interested the nation over which his mother officiated as Queen. As King, if he can continué to hold his jaw, just in that proportion will his reign prove successful.—St. Louis Star. Russia’s Good Sense. Russia’s announcement that she will not a plain bid to secure for Russian bonds the preference over those of the British exchequer. This rivalry may yet induce the Briton to announce that he will not undertake to impose the hated income tax on the free American capitalist.—Pitts- burg Dispatch. The Problem of France. France is again asked to solve the prob- lem of decline in population. Ome of her legislators has prepared a bill_providing for the taxation of bachelors and spinsters at a graduated rate, and although the proposition is received with much amuse- ment, it may possibiy receive voies enough to become law. It is In line with other remedies tried in that country, suci as prizes for large families, greater toler- ation in the matter of remarriage of di- vorced persons, and so on.—Deseret News. One of Britain's Weaknesses. The weak point of the British cavalry service was illustrated the other day when out of thirty cadetshivs effered eleven were left behind unfilled, only nineteen can- didates having ed. The reason is to be sought in the that the cavalry regt- ments are_“swell’” and therefore so expen- sive that ‘they have to be recruited from a limited elass. The natural result is that while‘the army has not shown any super- flhung.nve of brains in South Africa the cavaMy is reputed to-have eve: its proper share.—Springfield P Mister Nation’s Apathy. It appears that Mrs. Helen D. Natfon, the woman who Is carrying a hatchet from one Kansas town to another and smashing saloon windows with it, has | been twice married. Mr. Nation is her sec- ond love, and from trustworthy sources we get réports to the effect that he is not in sympathy with the lady in her present operations—at least not heart and soul. aking all the facts of the casé into econ- sideration. we are surprised at the gentle- man's apathy. From the Atchison Daily Globe we learn that Mrs. Nation's first husband was a drunkard. Our contem- porary adds that he was probably driven to drink, but we shail not jump at coneclu- slons in ‘that direction. He may have had troubles that he wished to drown In the flowing bowl, and then again it is possible that he was a drunkard merely because he found It easy to wobble from the paths of decency. Be that as it m: given to understand that Mrs. now endeavoring to have first husband's fallings. down to a. drunkard’s grave, leaving her wretched and alone, propo: n her hatchet and her finger nails, to put 3 stop to the saloon business. This may be praiseworthy on her part. The grogshop is an unworthy Institution. and we hope the day is not far distant when it will be only a shameful memory. But is Mrs. N: motive a worthy one? Is a mad de vengeance to be pralsed may accomplish_th public benefit? We I tled by the expoments fcs and the representatives advanced thought. It is Inconceivab though, why Mr. Nation does not join his wife in her crusade. If she has been wronged by the saloon-keepers it would seem that he has been doubly offended by them. If the lady's first husband had nog been killed by strong drink Mr. Nation might to-day be—but it is unprofitable to speculate, after the irrevocable has hap- pened, upon what might have been. Wa can only wonder in silence at Mr. Na- tion’s disinclination to_go for the saloons with an ax.—Chicago Times-Herald, —_——— Mrs. Wygatt—Every one who knows her says that Mrs. Loveland Is a two-faced woman. it. That fat Because he went Mrs. Hyatt—No disputin; double chin of hers is proof enough.—Den- ver News. —_———— “I belleve our baby is intoxicated,” re- marked the proud papa. “Why, what do you mean?" demanded the fond mother. ““He seems to be full of high bawls,” ex- plained the proud papa, whose knowledge of acoustics was thus shown to be equal to his information as to Intoxicants.—Bal. timore American. —_— Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —_——— Best eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to 40c. Loolk out for 81 4th. front of barber and grocery.® —_—— Townsend’s California glace fruits, e a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. ‘A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building.* e — Special information supplied dally te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Lont- gomery st. Telephone Main 1043, e THEY WH THE CORONATION OF ENGLAND’S KINGS AND QUEENS )| PHOTOG QUEEN VICTORIA’S PREMO- NITION OF DEATH. IS . FEXTEL? By REV. 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