The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1901, Page 4

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Too Much Johnson.” - The Litte ambra—"The Angel of pie. corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialt! es, Zoo and Theater — Vaudeville every afternoon and T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew | dresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and isx represented by a loeal agent in 1l towss on the coast HE first quarter of 1901 is closing cheerfully, TRADE IMPROVEMENT MAINTAINED. T with no disturbing indications in any section of bank clearings still show ex- pandirg business, those last week being 51.2 per cent over the same week in 1900, with only one important the country—Minneapolis—showing a falling The gain at New York was 66 per cent, showing city off probably increased activity in the stock market, and at Pittsburg 40.4 per cent, showing just that much improvement in the iron and steel Chicags, where the wheat and provisions are bought and sold, showed an increase of 18.3 per cent. The failures for the week were 231, against 192 for the same week last rades year Wall street developed considerable strength and activity during the week, notably in steel and railroad stocks. The firmness attracted the attention of the public, who reappeared in the street as purchasers. Durin e week the strained situation at Tientsin gave the « cet a setback, not only in Wall street but on the foreign bourses, and a selling movement set in, but the easing off of the Russian and British strain re- lieved the tension and the market again took an up- ward turn > Merchandise seems to be in very good shape every- where. The retail trade, which has been active in the West for some time, has greatly. improved along the Atlantic seaboard and a good spring business is now expected in the latter section. The railroads are doing a very large business, which is one of the best of signs. Their earnings thus far in March show a gain of 108 per cent over the same month in 1900 and 36 over 1809. In fact, they are doing much business that the supply of inadequate to handle all the freight offered, as the orange shippers of California know to their sorrow. This is the case almost every- where in the country, and, though the different lines have recently placed large orders for cars with West- ern works, it will be some time before they cgn be turned out ready for use. Almost everything seems to be tending .upward. Hogs and hog products made a general advance early in the week, and hogs are reported scarce all over the country. Pig iron and finished steel continue to ad- vance. Wheat and barley are quoted distinctly higher then they were a fortnight ago, though the advance has been timid and - ting. A number of minor staples have also risen more or less. Even wool, so long neglected, is showing more tone, and there is no longer any tendency to cut quétations at Eastern centers. Cotton, however, still drags. Prices are off again, receipts from the South are free and prepara- tions for the new crop indicate an enormous acreage. The spurt in boots and shoes is less pronounced and fancy, high-priced lines are casier, though the staples show no weakness. In the local markets there was more going on last weck. Provisions led «ff with an advance, and wheat and barley followed. Hides sold off somewhat. There was continued improvement in prunes, and most sizes are getting scarce. The depression in this fruit is about over, and if the current demand keeps-up there per cent seriously cars is will not be a good prune left in the State when the | new crop comes forward, though .dealers expect to carry over a quantity of very small and otherwise in- ferior fruit. Even this, however, is now meeting with scme demand and may sell off better than expected. Other dried fruits are meeting with an improved in- quiry, and the canners have already entered the field | for fresh fruits, such as peaches, plums, apricots, pears, etc. This is earlier than the canners usually buy and the prices paid are very fair. Custom-house clearances show 2 continued large export business to Northern and South American ports, Pacific islands and the Orient. Altogether the outlook is even bet- ter than it was last year at this time, which is saying a good deal. 106 Eleventh, open untll 3 o'clock. NW. cor- | THE SAN FRANCISCO éu.x.,- MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1901. PRESIDENT HADLEY’S @DDRESS. RESIDENT HADLEY'S charter day address p at Berkeley was severely academic in tone and thought, as befitted the occasion and the audience. It was mainiy a criticism directed to a con- sideration of democratic government and of the re- lations between law and public opinion. There was nqthing in it upon which any partisan can lay hold as an argument for his party, but very much in it upon which all citizens ought to lay hold as a matter of value to themselves and to society. The orator began by pointing out that of the two ideals of popular goveinment—individualism and so- | cialism—neither in itself is satisfactory. The individu- ; alistic theory has been tried for a time suificiently long | and with a scope sufficiently ample to afford a thor- | ough test of its merits, but the .r_csults have not been wholly satisfactory. It has been proven, as President Hadley said, that “seli-interest has done a great deal for us, but it will not do everything. It is a powerful stimulant to good, but neither in economics nor in | morals is it that panacea for social ills which so many | persons two generations ago thought it to be.” The failure of individualism in so many important respects has naturally tended toward-the development of a sentiment in favor of socialism, under the belief that the evils of the present system can be cured hy state machinery. With socialism President Hadley | may have something of sympathy, but he does not trust it as a panacea of the ills of society. He empha- |'sizes the truth that the power of government to use | its machinery in the public interest “is in some respects more apparsnt than real,” and goes on | say: “A democratic government is subject to special difficulties in exercising this power. It lacks the com- an aristocracy—for what is everybody’s business is | nobody’s business, and laws which are passed with | enthusiasm often go vnenforced. It lacks continuity | of policy and tenacity of purpose. This difficulty is { seen when we compare our own foreign policy with { that of a country like Rus: 4 | We Americans are living nominally under a govern: E ment by law, but really under a government by public opinion, and the speaker pointed out that the abiding opinion of the majority is not always expressed at the polls. The vote, as he said, “may be simply the out- come of a widespread personal interest and may rot | deserve in any sense the name of public sentiment or public spirit. Take the whole matter of anti-trust | legislation. Most people object to trusts. Why? | Largely because they do not own them. If a man really believes that a trust is a bad thing and would refuse to countenance its pursuits if he ‘were given a spirit of opposition to trusts by the title public sentiment.” We have here a high ideal of public sentiment. The phrase means, according to President Hadley, not that which a majority is willing to talk for and vote for, but that which thé community, or at least the domi- | nant portion of it, lives up to in very deed. As an illustration of the power of that kind of sentiment he cites the case of the student body at West Point, among whom there his developed a social code more potent thauy the regulations of the academy, the com- mands of officers and acts of Congress. When we have formed such a public sentiment throughout America in favor of right ideals of conduct in private business and in public sffairs we shall have at last established securely social welfare and demo- cratic government. In that connection, President Hadley defined the essential mark of a gentleman as “a readiness to subordinate a man’s own convenience and desires to a social code,” and he went on to say | an authority which the gentleman accepts of his own | free will, without waiting for any one to compel him to accept it. To the extent that he does this he not only proves himself a gentleman, but proves himself capable of self-gevernment.” We need then a social code that will set our “gentle- men” to work in the right way. That code, of course, cannot be formulated by statute. It must be the out- | men and the best women in a community. In the | ful persons will agree with him. How different all that is from the wild reports that have been given of President Hadley's addresses in the East the public will readily perceive. stated that he advocated social estracism of all who engaged in organizing and maintaining trusts, and | that he had declared there is danger there will be an imperial government establishedat Washington, | within twenty-five years unless public sentiment be | changed. No such doctrines can be fairly drawn even ply for a higher code of collective honor, and as such merits the thoughtful and serious attention of the pub- lic at large as well as of academic audiences. BABEL T liaments and Legislatures just now that is more amusing than serious. ' It began in the Austrian | Reichsrath, where "Czech and German meet. The Czech members two years ago insisted upon speaking their own tongue and refused to understand any pro- ceedings in German. The result was a daily fisticuff { and choking match on the floor. Desks were broken, | heads were cracked und the transaction of business | became impossible. These disorders have been re- newed in the same chamber, The Czechs swear great | caths in that capacious language, make speeches therein, defy the presiding officer and oveérrun all rules \°( order. Every session ends in a fight, and black | eves and split noses are proudly exhibited by the | statesmen on both sides as cvidence of their loyalty to the mother tongue. When the British Parliament met the Irish members took their cues from the IN LEGISLATION. HERE is a confusion of tongues in various Par- joying the great comfort of - saying their full mind | about the hated Sassenach in a language he does not | understand while he has to sit and take it. | One time O'Connell went to Connemara to make E a speech on Catholic emaricipation, in which it | was expected that he would transcend the limits of ‘\pcrmi!(ed speech and lay himself liable to arrest. | Therefore reporters were sent along to take him | vown verbatim. When he rose he said to these gen- | tlemen, “Are you ready?” They responded that they “were, whereupon he proceeded to make an impas- | sioned speech in Irish, understood by all his auditors, | but an entirely unknown tongue to the reporters. R There is only one bar to the pleasure of the presen: Irish members in following his example, and that i3 in their desire to not only free their minds, very freely, about the Sassenach, but their wish that he may know the words and phrases in which the freeing is done. g Coming nearer home we have a Territorial Legis- lature in our young sister Hawaii, and a majority of pelling force behind it which is felt in a monarchy or | majority interest in its stock he can fairly dignify his | “The code may be a good one or a bad one, but it is | | growth of the intelligence and the virtue of the best | velopment of such a code President Hadley sees his | only hope of the republic, and in that regard thought+ | It has been | by inference from his statements. His appeal is sim- | Czechs and have been making speeches in Irish, en- | its members are natives who either cannot or will not speak English. They insist on debating in the liquid language of their fathers, with its even flow of vowels seldom interrupted by a consonant. This is disagres- able to the white members, who are accustomed to the corduroy course of English inh which consonants interrupt like chuckholes across a speed track. The Speaker of the Hawaijan House is half Chinese and half Hawaiian, and is a sort of polyglot megaphone, talking all three languages fluently, so that he is not disturbed by the situation. Perhaps there is the same wise and Providential purpose in this confusion of tongues that appeared in that original parliament of man that undertook to get above high water mark by building the Tower of Babel. That was for the purpose not only of stopping work, but to disperse man, each tribe and kindred by difference of speech. from the others being compelled to go by itself. Maybe this modern instance is to teach the nations and races that it is better each should flock by itself and manage its own civilization and insti!ufions./ e — U v FIRE PREVENTION IN BERLIN. CONSULAR REPORTS for March announces that the State Department has received a note from the Germany Embassy at Washington in regard to the international exhibition of appliances for protection and rescye from fire, which will be held vear. It is announced that the executive committee is desirous of having fire appliances of all kinds sent from the United States to the largest extent possible. The date for the exhibition was chosen so as to make the occasion serve as a ceiebration of the fif- | tieth anniversary ‘of the organization of the Berlin Fire Brigade. The German authorities are well | pleased with the record of the brigade, and the note to | our Government says: “The organization at Berlin | has been the means of starting in Germany a new | epoch of development in connection with apparatus | or means for the extinction of and protection against fire; and thanks are due to such organization and the experience directed therefrom, whereby it has | been possible, by : nitreasitte " the. five protecting { means, to put a check on the dangers threatening in ,‘ consequence of the rapid development of technics and | industry.” 1t is further announced: “The object of the exhi- | Lition is not only to give manufacturers of every coun- | try an opportunity to notify others of the present | state of this branch, but also to bring the represen- tatives of fire brigades of differerft nations in closer | contact with.one another. We cordially invite muni- cipal authorities, fire hrigade associations, national | unions, manufacturess, mill-owners and interested | parties of every country to compete, and respectfully | request the same to erergetically promote the object in view, and especially by exhibiting suitable appara- | tus and the like.” i The exhibition promises a very goed opportunity. for American manufacturers of fire-fighting machin- ery to find a good market for their products, and also | for American firemen to show their superiority in | all the work a fireman is called upon to perform. | Ii anything like a_genuinely representative exhibit | be made from the United States Berlin will be treated | to an_exposition that will astonish as well as instruct ‘ her people. . The difference between our methods of fighting | fire and those that obtain in Berlin is shown by the | statements of an American who had an experience with the Fire Department in that city. He occupied { an apartment on the third floor of a four-story build- ing, and, according to his story as told in the New York Times, this is what happened: One morning he was aroused by the smell of smoke, | and on examination found a fire smoldering down through the ceiling of his dining room.’ He rushed to the corner and turned in the electric alarm. No one in- terfered with this, but -as he started to return he. was courteously but emphatically requested by a policeman who had impassively watched the proceeding to remain where he was. His appeals to be allowed to return and look after his wife and children were waived aside as irrelevant. - There was probably no occasion for o much impatience, and when R;nalarm was rung the authori- ties expected exact information as to who had rung it and why. The fact what the gentleman was in slippers and bath robe ccunted for nothing. Before he was | allowed to return his name, occupation and address | were taken, and a second policeman was sent' to his | house to ascertain if there was a fire there. When his statement on this point was verified he was allowed to return. Presently the eng#fies and other fire department apparatus assembled in a quiet and orderly way. There was no frantic excitement, little clanging of gongs, and no shouting. As it was a “third class fire,” the first and second class engines were sent home again, and the third class firemen took the matter in hand. In- stead of deluging the building with water, they did the | work with chemical apparatus, and had the fire out | before any serious damage had been done. The fire- imen then swept up the rubbish and carried it away, and astonished the housckeeper by scrubbing the floor | of the room in which a part of the cefling had fallen. Meanwhile the officers of the department were busy taking notes and making diagrams. When they left the place was clean and in good order, save for the | carpentry work and replastering needed to repair the damage. Any procedure more different from fire fighting in this country it would be difficult to imagine among a | civilized people. There, is one feature of it that will fill Americans with wonder. What would be thought here of a set of firemen who after putting out the | flames should proceed to clear away the rubbish, | scrub the floor and inake a general clean up before | leaving? We can teach Berlin much in the way of | machinery, and surprise her by the promptness with | which our firemen act, but in the house-cleaning | touch she is ahead of us. It has been announced that a distinguished citizen of Chicago who has been detected in the commission of such smart tricks as forging checks and selling tickets for “benefit concerts” of which he was the | only beneficiary is the original “shirt waist” man, who started such an agitation for that form of dress last summer; and now the dudes are hunting round for a new leader. A Kansas story announces that a lively young ! woman of that State recently went through the mar- | riage ceremony standing astride of the boundary line which separates Kansas from Missouri; and now the | experts of that section are discussing whether she is only half married or doubly married. | I With the racetrack war out of the way, Ingleside closed, the President coming and a city election in sight that will give us a chance to get a better mu- | nicipal, government, we ought to feel that the twen: a new era of good to evérybody. At a recent discussion on street improvement in New York one of the speakers suggested there should be a monument erected to the memory of Boss Tweed; so it seems a colossal, municipal thief is not | to be classed among the prophets, who are without honor in their own country. .= . g Now wherever Carnegie is feasted in Scotland the braw Scots will expect him to rise and after putting down his.glass, hold up a model library building and say, after the American fashion, “Gentlemen, have one ron me” e 2 | in Berlin during the months of June and July of this | tieth century is living up to its promise of bringing in | SOCIET DELICIOUS story Is going around apropos of a recent swell engage- ment, the announcement of which astonished us all so much. It ap- pears now that we were not one Wwhit more surprised than was the happy man in the case. It happened at the Mardi Gras ball, at least so the story runs. He was feeling happy andsolly and he kissed Mary. It ‘was the spirit of the carnival that was accountable for it all. \ Mary, however, did not see it that way, and she went and told mamma. Mamma did not see it in the carnival light either, and she announced the engagement. . . . T am just telling this to show that even one supposed to know it all may be i3- norant of certain matters. - . Alfred Bouvier and Mayor Phelan were having ‘a little friendly chat together. Naturally that was some little while ago, and the theatrical man, having in his mind’s eve Phelan as a patron of the arts, deftly furned the conversation to Sembrich. “‘Sembrich,” sald - the Mayor, with a bland smile. ““What does she do? . “Sings,” sentantfously replied Bouvler. ‘Oh,” sald Phelan. And then they talked and talked—of something else. " $i e o Pretty Dorothy Collier's health is caus- ing her many friends considerable alarm. Mrs. Collier has taken her to Santa Bar- bara, where she will remain for some time to come in hopes that change of scene and climate will prove bgnefictal to her. Doro- thy is all unstrung. She,can't sleep, she has lost her appetite and is growing pale and listless. However, it is expected that three months In Southern California will completely restore her to her once rosy self. : Mrs. Collier’s return is eagerly awaited by winseme Margaret, so she may name the happy day that will make her the wife of Royal P. Macdonald. The wed- ding will take place before Easter. This much has already been decided upon. Mamma is also to be consulted upon the absorbing question, “Who shall be asked to the wedding?' and it rests with her whether “those present” shall include only the family or also some. intimate friends. As to Dorothy’s wedding to young Nor- ris, it 1s not probable that that happy event will be solemnized within a year. S e ‘We have all been calling upon Mrs, Fol- ger, congratulating her upon her return | and upon the little Folger heir that has been so warmly welcomed all around, no- where more cordially, howeyer, than by the quartet of young Cunninghams. It has been my special delight to watch Mrs. Folger and her little ones wend their way to St. Dominick’s every Sunday morning. I do not belleve any one will contradict me when I declare I consider her to be the most stunning and best dressed woman in San Francisco. The clothes she has hrought with her from abroad represent the finest, from a good taste as well as from a monetary stand- point. On Sunday last she looked simply "BY SALLY SHARP. regal In an exquisite gown of the finest broadcloth, of that shade the.uninitiated refer to as “plum” and which the modiste refers to as ‘“‘puce.” It was severe in its outlines, and the only trimming was the Clunie lace on the corsage. A hat with great bunches of violets was worn with the costume, as was also a nile-green silk underskirt. The little Cunninghams, who went with mamma to church, attracted quite as much attention as did their parent. They looked like prize French dolls in their long ts of black satin with great lace col- ars, and the black poke bonnets trimmed ‘with nestling bunches of pink rosebuds. . e . Harry McFarlane’s box party at the Sembrich opening on Monday night car- ried off the honors of the house. I never saw such neck-craning and leveling of lorgnettes as I saw directed toward the McFarlane loge. From all sides came the same whisper: *What pretty girls; who are they?” They were the Dunn girls—Mrs. Henry F. Dutton, nee Dunn, and her sister, Polly Dunn. Mrs. Dutton was in white and Polly was gorgeous in pink, and I believe they were the only ladies in the crowded auditorium who were in full opera regalia. LSRR, Miss Friedlander is being congratulated on all sides by her many stanch, true friends for striking out so bravely to re- trieve the family fortunes. Miss Fried- lander has taken the plunge boldly, and has entered the catering business. We all lvriah her success; that goes without say- ng. Lo T Mrs. Sprague—Belle Wallace that was— is with us for a short visit. For her there have been many pleasant greetings and infosmal little gatherings, but nothing very pretentious, because of the Lenten season and the lady's strict observance of the rules of her church. Years have not changed Belle Sprague much, except ., SOME INSIDE FACTS ABOUT A SWELL ENGAGEMENT. l * TWO WELL-KNOWN SAN FRAN- CISCANS WHO ARE SOON TO WED - g in the rounding of the curves—a very small increase in avoirdupois that is very ‘becoming. % aiie All thoughts tend countryward theso days. Those of us who are not ready to go, once the Easter bells have ceased their joyful ringing, are looking around and spending wakeful nights in trying to decide the vexed question. r. and Mrs. Russell J. Wilson have taken a place at San Mateo for the sum- ‘mer and will leave during the first week in_April. The Harr{rml T. Scotts have already opened up t! r place at Burlingame. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Josseiyn and the Misses Josselyn leave shortly for their place at Woodside. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Taylor spend the summer with their parents, Mr. and . E. W. Hopkins, at Menlo Park. Mr. and Mrs. Will Taylor will occupy their Burlingame place early in April. will WORLD'S NAVAL NEWS The British battleship Prince George claims to have made the fastest time in coaling ship when on January 15 she took in 1220 tons in seven hours, from 1:30 to $:30 p. m. The German Navy League was estab- | lished five years ago with the sanction of the Emperor, who at that period took the first steps toward making an extensive naval programme for Germany. The func- tions of the league have been to promote a national interest in the naval defenses of the country, and it has done good work. The organization now numbers 559,141 members, against 246,97 a year ago, and the number of branches throughout the empire has Increased from 286 to 1010 dur- ing the year. 2088 Complaint is made in the Ttallan navy that the language of the country is not receiving encouragement as a study. It has hitherto been customary to have an annual competitive examination of the midshipmen in either French, German, Spanish or Italian, the entries being op- tional, and for which there were $50 prizes. Recently Italian has been withdrawn from the prize list and a not unreasonable ex- ception has been taken to ignoring the mother tongue. A A court-martial has been held on the officers charged with the loss of the Brit- igh cruiser Sybille, on the cbast of Africa, about two months ago. Lieutenants Hol- land and Cayley were ‘adjudged to for- feit five years' seniority, Gunner Tapps to forfeit six months’ senlority, and all, in- cluding Sub-Lieutenant Street, to be se- verely reprimanded and dismissed from their ship. The closing sentence would seem to be superfluous, as the ship lles partly on the rocks and partly in deep water and is a total wreck. & e e The submarine boat question has be- come one of great importance, and is se- riously considered since our navy has given encouragement to inventions in that line and ordered seven Hollands. No se- rious attention was apparently paid to the submarine boats of France, but the Amer- jcan boat will shortly be found in the British navy, and Admiral Boerreson of the Norwegian navy has recommended the purchase of a Holland boat. That sort of craft is especially well adapted for the coast and fjords of Norway, the admiral contending that with one of these sub- marine vessels, requiring only four men to operate it, ft will be possible to inflict more destruction on an enemy than with a battleship manned by a crew of 300. Nothing is known of what.is being doge in that line in Russia, but Austria and Germany are adverse to submarine craft, - Admiral von Tirpitz of the latter navy, chief of the admiralty, having stated be- fore the Reichstag that he was not pre- pared to withdraw his objections to the building of such craft. i3 50 N The record of the German cruiser Fuerst Bismarck's voyage from Kiel to Singapare is published in detall in the January num- ber of the Marine Rundschau. The voy- age began on June 30 last year and ter- minated at Singapore August 1. The ves- sel coaled at Gibraltar, Port Said, Port Tewfik, Perim and Colombo, ani the voy- ‘age of $352 knots was e in twenty- three days and twenty-one hours, deduct- about %00 knots in length and the speed ranged from nine to sixteen knots. The of these small craft, they be- 155 tons, ttle trou- slow i only H o H ® s aég B | B i i g H i ANSWERS TO QUERIES. DIME—A. '8, Selma, Cal. Dealers charge from 30 to 65 cents for a dime of 1843, but do not purchase any of that date. AGE OF A MAN—W. R., City. A man who was barn on the 1ith of January, 1861 was on the 13th of March, 191, aged 40 years 2 months and 2 days. MEXICAN PLACER MINES-G. P. 8, City. The information desired about lacer mines in Mexico may be obtained y writing to the Minister of the Interior, City of Mexico. LOBSTER—F. H., City. There is no record of the “largest lobster caught on the Pacific Coast in the past two years,” mnor of the “largest ever caught on the eastern coast.” STEAM ENGINEERING—S., Berkeley, Cal. To become a “‘stedm engineer” go to a bookstore, purchase books on steam en- gineering and in reading such you will acquire a theoretical knowledge. To ac- quire a practical knowledge secure a po- sition as fireman and work up. POPULAR PAPER—Subscriber, City. If the popularity of a newspaper published in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., is gauged E the circulation, fhen the Brooklyn gle {s the most popular paper. This department is unable to state if any pa- per published outside of that city i3 more popular there than the Eagle. LEMONS—J. R. W., City. The countles in the United Siates in which the greatest amount of lemons are raised are Los An- geles, San Diego and Riverside, in Califor- nia. There are several other California counties in which great quantities of lem- ons are raised, but it is claimed that these are the banner countie: TRAINS IN OAKLAND-G., Oakland, Cal. The reason that the trains in pass- ing through the city of Oakland do not observe the ordinary rule of “keep to the right” is because of the manner in which the tracks are arranged at the mole. If the rule of the road was followed trains would have to cross a number of tracks and by so doing increase the liability of collistons. BEARS—J. M. B, Sonora, Cal. Oliver Crother of Wolf, Nevada County, has kindly furnished this department with an answer to questions asked about bears. He writes: * ‘Clubfoot,’ the grizaly, was killed. He weighed about two thousand pounds. Several big grizzlles have been killed in the Santa Cruz or Coast Moun- tains in Ventura, Santa Barbara and Kern counties. They weighed from six- teen to eighteen hundred pounds. Very few grizzlies are captured. They are too savage. If J. M. B. desires I will furnish a history of ‘Clubfoot.’ " PETROLEUM - Subscriber, Tacoma, Wash. Petroleum was known to the In- dians of Western New York, was used by the “medicine men” and was called Seneca oil. It was collected bg the In- dians and early settlers of that State and of Pennsylvania, amounting sometimes to twenty barrels a year. and successful ei company along Oil Creek, After that oil flelds were located in other parts o York and P hio and West Virginia. Petroleum was found 100 years ago in making the Duke of Bridgewater tunnel at Wolsey, at West Leigh in Hfia-mr-flng‘ the coal flelds ngland, the su abou barrels a da: ire are Tecords of ihe finding of find any record of di in Mandall, Norway, sixty years ago. SAND BLAST-D. P. B, City. The sand blast is a method of engraving on glass, metal or other hard substance by the force of a rapid stream of sand driven '“&C. 'uan?fom mm" :?Omotnndmylndflvcnby;blm steam from a boller at high pressure orbyu.,‘drbhnwa' luced by a fan re- Contaified in & hopper aud (hrough & uls lathe and of fron. ‘mo- q-n-‘-‘-ruuvu mcfl PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. P. Turner of Philadelphia is at the Palace. J. W. Gillis, a mining man of Sonora, Is located at phe Lick. 'fi ist of Bos- Henry A. Belcher, a capital ton, is a guest at the Palace. J. E. Hilerman of Pueblo, Mexico, Is & recent arrival at the Lick. Captain R. B. Grover, a merchant of Bll';)cklon‘ Mass., is at the Palace with his wife. Dr. J. J. Tully of Stockton and Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodi are guests at the Grand. Richard Dale, who {s connected with tha Pennsylvania Rafiroad, s at the Palace with his wife. Harry Edward Freund, representative of the Musical Age of New York City, is registered at the Palace with his wife. Bernhard Lindeaberger of Rortland, Or., is at the Occidental. Mr. Lindenberger proposes to establish a cold storage plant on the Sacramento River for the preser- vation of salmon. ———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Beggar—Say, boss, won't you help a poor fellow out of a job? ley—Graclous! Can't you get out of it withcut my help? Pretend you're sick or something.—Philadelphia Press. “If that Mrs. Carrie Nation came to oun town what would you say?” said the bar- tender to the Kansas saloon-keeper. “Why, I'd say darn-Nation,” was the stout man’s response.—Yonkers States- man. “‘Another theatrical company has been uarantined. There seems to be some- thing contagious about these traveling ag- i non".h ps it's the catchy songs they . rha) 80 slua\’y 't. Louls Post-Dispatch. “You have three daughters to take cars of, 1 believe.” “Yes, my family consists of three girls now, but unformnnd{ they are develo irg tastes that are likely to just double he number of people who will look to me t 3 toretgners Botion —————— ' Choice candies, Townsend’s, Pzlace Hotel * Cal glace fruit 30c per Ib at Townsend's.® Best eyeglasses, 10c to 40c. Look out for 81 4th, front of barber store and grocery.® —_—————— ‘ Special information supplied dally to “Yes. They a fondness for tit Transcript. business houses and public men the Press Clij Bureau LAlkn’u 510 = gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. d Conductor—Why didn't you _stop for them three fellers that signaled? Motorman—{ got me week's salary in ma pocket. and you bet I ain't = taking chances like that.—Puck. ADVERTISEMENTS. NOT HEREDITARY “In the main, consumption is not hereditary; it is infec tious. Low vital force is hereditary; which gives consumption its chance. An infection starts it. Between the two, the crop is a big one: about onesixth of the human race. We suppose it needn’t be | more than 5 per cent, if people would take fair care and Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil. - ‘We'll send yon a little to try, if you like. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl strest, New York