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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901. Chie® 2 - Call. MUNICIPAL CONTROL. _JUNE 21, 1901 FRIDAY......... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Addross All Communications to W. 8, LBAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 e e e A S PUBLICATION OFFICE Miarket a d Third, S. F. Telep! Press 201. ; EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stewensom St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cemts. Terms By Mail, Including Postage: DAJLY CALL Gncluding Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL Gncluding Surday), 3 months.. DAILY CALL-—By Single Month WEEZLY CALL. One Year.... All postmasters are anthorized to subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mefl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAXD OFFICE.. C. 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Colutabta—*"Heartsease."” Alcazar—*‘Céuntess Valeska." Grand Onera-house—'‘Gismonda. Central—"A Night at the Clrcus.” Tivoli—""The Toy Maker.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville everr afternoon and evenin: Fischer's—Vauderille. Recreation Park—Baseball 5, Sixteenth and Folsom streets—Scientific Boxing, Thursday, July 4 Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, July 4, at 12 o'clock, Choloe Property, at 14 Montgomery street. = 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUNMER. Call scribers contemplating a chang. e Fesidence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew ®ddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be sale at all summer ®esorts aud is represemted by a local agent im &ll towss en the coast. American public life a picturesque and in- V'V cfficient figure. To call him Michigan’s greatest Governor is to do violence to the memory of Lewis Cass-and Governor Blair. GOVERNOR PINGREE. ITH the death of Pingree passes from He took his rise in politics in the period that produced the ndustrial armies,” with Generals Coxey, Kelly and Carl Browne. There is no doubt that he felt keenly the distress of the poor in the hard years 1893-96, but his remedies were ephemer: 1 dealt with the thout going to its cause. He was a large facturer and fell into the habit of lecturing other manufacturers upon the proper treatment of their employes, but when his own struck for better wages and better treatment it appeared that even the most benevolent’ intent may not be carried into acti His vogue as Mayor of Detroit forced 1 forward as a Republican candidate for Governor 1806. He felt no sense of loyalty to the Repub- and s with difficulty that straight ns were restrained from voting for Rufus e Gold Democratic candidate, who would cted but the effect on the Republican iptoms of pov- erty v on Repub Sprague, t it wa have be nati cket. Pingree’s views of public administra- tion were opposed by sound economists like Professor Thompson of Michigan University, but were quite to the t of Detroit, Hon. Daniel Campau. more than once that the Democ- racy would take him up, but there was the restraint of liners, led by Don M. Dickinson, who has ed a quite powerful personal following State. It seemed immin in or Pingree's second administration was, un- Iy brated by many scandals and much ointees. The militia officers ap- ¥ him took advantage of the opportunity tion offered by the Spanish war, and several hile fugitives from justice and e penitentiary. Pingree pardoned them at the close of his term, good reputation in Mic judgment in scle ally honest ¥ du among hi: apy pointed for corre of them were arrested were sent to t higan. He was a man of poor appointees, and though person- elf, gave Michigan the most corrupt administ Here is 2 roblem in arithmetic to amuse people who ure for calculations. An un- known donor has presented Columbia College, New York, with $100,000 to found a chair of the Chinese language, g the gift with a létter say- rs I have refrained from the use represents the interest on my savings.” The question is to determine how much whisky and tobacco the man would have had to consume to make the interest on it amount to $100,000, Mrs. Kendal says a woman who secks success on the stage needs “the face of a goddess, the strength of a lion, the figure of a Venus, the voice of a dove, the temper of an angel, the grace of a swan, the agil- ity of an antelope and the skin of a rhinoceros.” The list is excellent, but it will be noted that Sarah Bern- hardt has none of them. She has, however, two arts that beat them all—she knows how to act and she knows how to keep herself advertised. Embassador Choate is reported to have achieved another brilliant success in London, but as it consisted in making-a good speech at the Tenniel banquet it would seem that his diplomacy is mainly a matter of after-dinner talk, 109% Valencia, open | 3ryan wing of the Democracy, led | an act that did not add to his ! mouth College decision, and the separation of quasi-public corporations organized for profit from those that are for religious and educational pur- poses, the doctrine of municipal control of the former has had a‘steady growth. Such control has not al- ways been wisely directed. It was in the beginning contested by the corporations, which relied on the doctrine of vested rights as asserted in the Dart- mouth case. But this form of contest between the corporations and the people was ended by the Su- preme ‘Court in the so-called “Granger cases,” in | which Western railroads were involved. Since then the principle of municipal control has developed quite rapidly, and now has a definite body of law and well defined limitations. Such control must be judicially exercised. Under the fourteenth amend- ment to the Federal constitution the due process of law has been clearly defined as the judicial process, |and life, liberty and property must have its benefit. | State railroad commissions must act judicially, and | for that reason are now actually treated, as they will | soon be legally recognized, as courts of first instance. Other public bodies which fix rates for all kinds of quasj-public corporations have assumed such func- | tions judicially, greatly to the benefit of the public. | A decision by any oi such bodies is subject to the | same rules as if given by a court. There is a recent familiar instance of this in the Oakland water case. | The law of this State makes City Councils and Boards of Supervisors the regulating and contreiling author- ity in fixing water rates. The habit of doing so judicially has not yet become fixed, and men who hold those positions yield to the temptation to get votes and power by announcing in advance that fllcy | will cinch the water company. Now this is the same as if a Judge should announce in advance of a hear- |ing his decision in a case that was to be tried before | him. Such prejudgment would of course vitiate his | decision. Unaware of the judicial nature of their action and | of the dignity of the function they were about to ex- ercise, the members of the Council courted public | favor by announcing their hostility to the water company and their intention to decide the rate ques- | tion in a certain way. But they were dealing with a litigable matter, and when it was litigated the un- | pleasant fact was revealed that they had left the city | defenseléss by their lack of judicial method. The | consequences are serious at present, but the projected | effect will be good, since it puts all such public bodies in this State on their caution, and warns them that if | their grtion is to be really beneficial to the people {it must be in all respects judicial. Candidates for | those offices can no longer bid for votes by pre- pledging themselves to do things which the courts |are sure for that reason to reverse, but which would not be litigated at all if done judicially. In the manner and benefit of public control of | quasi-public corporations, the State of Massachusetts leads in this country. She comprehended and ac- | cepted the judicial idea of that function in the begin- :ning. Her Railway Commission was made prac- |tically a court of first instance, and thereby the | method was established for other public bodies charged with the same functions. All of threse bodies have carefully worked out the general principle of law that no corporation shall be permitted to do any | act that is of injury to the public. The Gas Commis- | sion recommends consolidation and monopoly of the electric lighting companies of Boston, but it also forbids any watering of the stock of the combination, | and retains control of the rates. This establishment | of the principle that the State, the municipal author- |ity, may oversee the service rendered the public by a | corporation, and also forbid the issue of fictitious securities in excess of the actual value of the prop- | erty, is so salutary and sane that it deserves exami- :nalion as a method in competition with municipal | paternalism, If the country go forward on the Massachusetts blines the trust problem will begin to reach a solution, ince the most offensive feature is the fictitious infla- tion of values by watering stock and over-issue of | securities. WHen the people have learned that cor- porate properties may increase in value and that the only way to express that increase is by issuing more stock, and that such operation is as legitimate as the expression of increased land value by its rise in price, but that increase of stock which represents no increase | in value is a fraud upon the public and a confidence game upon the buyer of the inflated security, a long step forward will have been taken to prove the su- periority of municipal control over municipal pater- nalism, SINCE the limitation of the'action of the Dart- John Wanamaker's offer of $2,500,000 for railway franchises given away by the City Council in Philadel- phia came as something like a bluff after all was over, | but had it been made while the measure was under | consideration it might have made the city solons pause | and divide, ! BLOOD FROM A TURNIP. Y some ancient proverb-maker of our language [ B it was declared impossible to squeeze blood from a turnip. That impossible thing the allies are now trying to do by demanding from China various indemnities aggregating $315,000,000. The Ministers of the nations are well aware that China be squeezed out of her as Germany squeezed five mil- liards from France, and, furthermore, they are aware that as her bonds would be worthless she cannot bor- row the money. They have therefore set their wits to work and are trying to devise means to get the | spoil they have exacted. | The first scheme proposed was a simple one. Rus- sia; Germany and France joined in a suggestion that the powers unite to guarantee the loan. In that way it would be easy to sell the bonds, the various Gov- ernments would get their money at once from.the stock market, and then if the Chinese did not pay when the amounts became due the allied armies would descend upon China in battle array and there would Le further indemnities and another issue of bonds guaranteed by the powers. The proposal was tejected by our Government on [ the ground that the United States could not consent to guarantee the bonds of any foreign nation without | the consent of Congress. The British objected to it for reasons which have been explained to Parliament by Lord Lansdowne. In the first place, his Lordship stated, the Ministry do not believe they would be jus- tified in asking Parliament t6 pledge the credit of the empire to facilitate the collection of vast indemnities of which the British empire would receive less than one-ninth. In the second place, Great Britain has | had experience in making joint gudrantees of debts of Egypt and of Turkey, and the result has not in- clined the Ministry to enter upon new experimerts of the kind. Third, because the only way in which the bonds could be redeemed would be by increasing customs duties on Chinese importations, and as the great bulk of such imports are British the scheme .| might be paid at frequent intervals to a board or coun- ‘would feel like celebrating the Glorious Fourth as i has not the money, and consequently that it cannot | would virgually mean taxing British trade of foreign Governments. Lansdowne went on to say the British Government proposes that China shall pay no money down at all, but shall give to the powers concerned bonds repre- senting the share due to each of these powers, which bonds may be extinguished by payment of principal and interest. Obviously, if any power chose to guar- antee its own share of the bonds to purchasers, that would be its own affair. For the service of the bonds to be issued by China in the manner described Lord Lansdowne thought it should be possible to specify certain sources of Chirese revenue, the yield of which cil, whose specific and sole business it would be to receive the money and distribute it among the cred-, itor powers. Such a board would be merely a re- ceiving board, and would not be directly concerned in the imposition or collection of Chinese taxes. There are of course serious objections to that plan. The United States Government has indicated a will- ingness to waive a money indemnity altogether and to accept in place of it “increased commercial privi- leges.” That proposal has led certain financiers to discuss the feasibility of financing the whole loan in return for the privilege of operating railroads and mines in China. In these days of billion dollar syn- dicates it would not be difficult to float a loan of the amount of the Chinese indemnity if big trade privi- leges were back of it. % Thus the Governments and the financiers discuss among themselves what shall be done to get out of China what is not in China, and it must be admitted that sometimes diplomatists have perplexing problems, A i e — e —— From the way they are wriggling it would seem that if the Democrats could only get rid of Bryan they Thanksgiving day. PRESIDENTIAL SPECULATIONS. HEN President McKinley announced that W he would not under any circumstances be a candidate for re-election the country was not surprised, though there was of course a good deal ! of gratification that the talk of a third term had been | so promptly ended. So far as the public is concerned the incident was closed by the President’s letter, and there has been little further speculation on the sub- | ject, for the people have other things to do than to discuss the next Presidential contest so far in advance. | It is different, however, in Washington. At the na- tional capital things are dull at this season of the year, and as a consequence the Presidential succession affords as good a subject for debating and predicting | as any other. Shortly after the publication of the President's de- termination to retire at the end of this term there came from Washington a report that Illinois men are already grooming Senator Cullom for the race. It is said that Senator Mason has announced the can- | didacy of his colleague and will support him from start to finish. Cullom is a venerable statesman who was in politics before the war, and his friends say he bears a striking resemblance to Lincoln. He is rather old to be spoken of as a Presidential candi- date, but the Illinois men do not count that as an obstacle; and, moreover, in Illinois there is no younger man around whom the boys would rally. A few days ago Senator Allison went to Washing- ton and visited the President, and the political experts of the city immediately began te figure out his chances for the succession. The correspondent of the New York Sun in‘noting his arrival said: “In several conventions of the Republican party the name of this popular Hawkeye citizen and experienced legislator has aroused enthusiasm and brought forth votes. On more than one occasion, too, his name has been well to the front on several ballots. * * * Of course Governer Shaw, Speaker Henderson and cverybody else in the Hawkeye State will be for Mr. Allison if it be deemed wise to present him to the convention.” The Iowa man is not so old as Cullom, but still he is not what would be called a boy orator, being 72 years old. The Sun man says: “No one would guess him to be over 6o, and he looks much younger than many men of that age now in public life. * * * He is no nearer being baldheaded than he was at 30, and his cheeks still retain the rosiness of youth.” | Another Congressman who has made a summer trip | to Washington is Landis of Indiana, and his appear- ance at the capital has led to the suggestion of Fair- banks of Indiana for the Presidency. The correspon- dent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger says: “Mr. Landis is a Fairbanks man and a politician of acknowledged astuteness. He is said to have | sounded the President as far as was polite to-day on his disposition toward the different possible Presi- dential candidates. What the result was neither Mr. Landis nor the President has yet divulged.” By way of describing Mr. Fairbanks the writer goes on to say: “He is a cool, calculating man, and would not be a candidate if he were not sure of some of his premises. He has wealth and commands confidence among public men in his ability as a lawyer and his sagacity as a statesman. He came up from severest poverty, and for years after he began to study and practice law did his own cooking and took care of his room. He has made his wealth not only by his law practice but by shrewd investments and the habit of saving rather than spending. Representative Landis says that Republicans of Indiana will do for Fairbanks what they never did for any other favorite son—not excepting Morton or Harrison—they will send a solid Republican delegation to the next na- tional convention for him.” It will be seen from all this that the Washington correspondents are getting a good deal of space writ- ing out of the Presidential succession. Any man who wishes to be mentioned for the Presidency has only to go to the capital before the heated term is over. In the meantime the country at large is keeping quite cool, knowing full well that the choice of a President is work for another year, and not for this one. The dress of the first shirt-waist man to appear at a swell resort in New York this summer is thus de- scribed: “The garment was made of pink mousseline de soie, with a false front, accordion plaited. Looking from the sidewalk no stays were apparent. The gar- ment was not cumbex:cd with cuffs. The man wore a high turnover collar, with a flowing tie, patent leather shoes, gray trousers and a straw hat, with a brim in three layers.” Since the University of Glasgow has conferred the degree of LL.D. on Andrew Carnegie we may as well admit that money has its culture just as well as schol- arship. The Empress Dowager of China has emerged from retirement long enough to say she is in favor of re- form, but she seems to, retain the idea that she alone | should have the right to enforce it. e REMARKABLE ENGINEERING FEAT IS ACCOMPLISHED AT POINT BONITA REMARKABLE engineering s achlevement was the building at Point Bonita for {he Federal Government of the whart and tramway just completed. Lo- cated within the point, it is sheltered from all directions except from the southeast, but storms from this quarter are very rare and never of extreme violence. For some years the Government has been promising to fortify the entrance of the harbor, but it was not until the war with Spain began that actual work was inaugurated. Construction of forts at Point Lobos offered no difficulties what- ever, but when the fortifications were un- dertaken on the opposite side of the bay it was found that engineering talent of the highest order would have to be em- ployed. L2 < 25 feet above the sea. It is bullt in three sections. The first, 100x50 feet in dimensions, forming the platform of the wharf, is elevated fifteen fqet above the bay. Section 2 is 77x28 feet and the third section is 204x26. The incline of the tram- way is one in ten. A small detachment of United States tillery under command of Lieutenant R. F. Gardner is now stationed at the site of the new fort. —_————— \ Station D’s Name Changed The name of Postoffice Station D at the foot of Market street has been changed. This branch will be known as the Ferry Station in future. The little office in the Ferry building will be known as Sub-sta- tion No. 34. T | | | THE | y// e GOVERNMENT WHARF A~o Fort Baker, as the new post is called, Is located on the crest of the low eleva- tions of the Coast Range, which here meets the bay, and at a height of 300 feet above mean low water, Approach over the steep hills of Marin County was possible, but extremely Impracticable without constructing roads costing a | quarter of a million dollars. Colonel C. E. L. B. Davis, who has charge of the engineering works of the Government at Point Bonita, decided upon a wharf with a tramway, constructed on the style of mountain roads, but his plan was opposed on the ground that such a whart could not be built at Point Bonita and that the first storm would wash it away if it was built. Colonel Davis was permitted, however, to carry out his plan, and the storms of last winter had no effect upon the whart whatever. Last week the whole work was completed and the wharf and tramwav are now being utilized in the landing and hauling of materlal for a large boarding- house and other buildings for sheltering a large force of workmen to be employed on the negw defense works. The' new wharf has a total length of 675 feet and ascends to a point N Several years ago it was her suit through the grande monde of Paris. was given into the care of his father: as his fortune. Duchess of Avaray. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. A. L. Tebbetts of Petaluma is at the California. T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, is a guest at the Palace. John A. Mcintire, a prominent attorney of Sacramento, is at the Lick. Brainard F. Smith, a prison officlal at Folsom, is a guest at the Grand. G. W. Lewls, Southern Pacific passen- ger agent at Los Angeles, is at the Pal- ace. George F. Ellis, a mining man of Santa Barbara, is at the Lick, accompanied by his family. J. C. Hoffman, an oil man of Coalinga, is here on business and has made the Lick his headquarters. D. C. Clarke, connected with the school department at Santa Cruz, registered at the Grand yesterday. Frank Burnet, clerk of the Grand Hotel, left yesterday for a short visit to his par- ents at Vancouver, B. C. Joseph E. Terry, the well known lum- ber merchant of Sacramento, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. James M. Brophy, the popular young actor, who was born in this city, arrived from New York yesterday accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roberts. Chauncey Olcott, the well known actor, arrived in this city yesterday and is at the Palace. He intends to spend his sum- mer vacation in California and leaves to- morrow for Del Monte. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, June 20.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Miss Fredericks, Miss R. J. Jones, at the St. Denis; F. Macpherson, at the Sturtevant; C. M. Radcliffe, at the Park Avenue; M. Sommer and J. G. Spaulding, at the fmperfal; W. D. Tobey, at the Manhattan: W. H. Landon, at the Broadway Central; J. B. Bacorde, at the Gilgey; J. D. Coughlin, at the Murray Hil; C. H. Howard, at,the Broadway Central; F. A. Jackson and wife, at the Grahd. From TLos Angeles—D. Fleming and James H. Olmstead, at the Grand Unilon; E. T. Toy, at the Herald Square, O lady of the French aristocracy has set more tongues a-wagging nor has appeared oftener in the courts than the Duchess of Avaray, says the Chicago Times-Herald. Duke that let loose a number of truths about the high-flying Duchess which served to keep scandalmongers busy for many a day. Just now these stories and many more are circulating For the Duchess of Ava- ray has again appealed to the courts—this time to obtain pos- session of her son, a boy of 16, who at the time of the divorce Those who know say it is no belated affection springing up in the heart of Mme. la Duchess—she has been content for a decade or more that the little Marquis of Avaray should be reared by his father— rather, say these, is it a new method of extorting money from the man who was once her huspand. She is not content with the liberal sum granted her with the divorce, for it takes money to keep up with the set in which she is a conspicuous figure; vast amounts of it to earn and maintain the reputation of being the most extravagant woman in Paris. Reckless extravagance is the keynote of her character, and | from it springs all the good and bad fortune of the Duchess | of Avaray. The marriage of Rose de Mercy-Argenteau, a dow- erless bride, to one of the richest nobles in France soon proved that the hest filled coffers could not stand the demands of the newly made Duchess. Soon it began to be whispered among the Duke's friends that his patience was diminishing as fast The splendor of the Queen of Sheba and the Empress Eugenie combined could scarcely rival that of the It is sald, tco, that $100,000 went into un- derwear alone in less. than eighteen months, cut short this heedless disposition of the Duke's money, though TFRENCH DUCHESS WHO HAS THE REPUfiTATION OF BEING THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT WOMAN IN PARIS Splendor of Queens Could Not at One Time Rival That of the Divoresd Wife of the Duke of Avaray. of divorce from the So the divorce ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CONUNDRUMS—J. Z., City. The pur- pose of this department is to furnish in- formation t.at is of general Interest, and not to answer conundrums. THE CALL'S ATLAS—Subscriber, Fres- no. For information relating to The Call's Atlas communicate direct with the circu- lation desar!ment of the paper, giving full name and address, LOYAL LEAGUE—Me., City. Loyal League was a name given to many of the organizations effécted among the negroes in the South during the reconstruction period for protecting their newly acquired rights. WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES—A. O. S., City. The following are the recognized wedding anniversaries: First, iron; fifth, wooden, tenth, tin; 4ifteenth, crystal twentieth, china; twenty-fifth, silver; thirtieth, cotton; thirty-fifth. linen; for- tieth, woolen; forty-fifth, gold, and sevent; silk; fiftieth, fth, diamond. SPILLING SALT—B. E. Berkeley, Cal. Spilling salt was held by the Romans in ancient time to be an unlucky omen. The superstition has descended to the present time. In Leonardo da Vincini's famous picture of the Lord's Supper Judas Isca- riot is represented as spilligg the salt. He grobably introduced that feature to em- ody in his picture the popular supersti- tion. Salt was used in sacrifice by the Jews as well as by the Greeks and Romans. It was an emblem of purit the sanctifying influence of a holy life aa others. Spilling the salt after it had been used In a sacrifice was looked upon as a bad omen. A gift of bread and salt was -a token of friendship; salt was also a token of amity; so spliling a man's salt may‘ have been construed Fnto a token of enmity. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 20.—The following Californians _arrived here to-day and registered: From San Francisco—W. J. Gardner, at the Shoreham; J. H. Cobin, at the Raleigh. —_———— Chofce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_————— Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, < TRAMWAY + a liberal allowance was granted by him to the lady whe con- tinued to bear his name. Those who would speak a good word for the Duchess of Avaray offer many excuses for her. Mercy-Argenteau was a beauty, and up to the day of her wed- ding had enjoyed only in part the luxuries she coveted, the jewels and fine raiment which she knew wotld enhance her charm. Then her father, attributing all the unhappiness of his life to a restrained youth, gave his favorite daughter unreined freedom to go where and with whom she pleased. Thus Mlle. Rose de Mercy-Argenteau fell in, while she was still a child, With a set whose creed was extravagance in language, conduet and dress. And further, any one familiar with the separate idlosyncracies of aristocratic families will tell you that nothing more need be said than that the Duchess of Avaray has Car- men-Chimay blood in her veins. Princess of Chimay seems to more than account for any reck- lessness on the part of her daughter. Not long ago the Duchess, by the death of her parents, came into possession of their ancestral home of Argenteau, Which was built early In the eighteenth century on the ruins of an ancient castld overlooking the Meuse, near Liege. she lives part of each year. in the hunting season and ta of the turf as the Princess of Montglyn, a title which belonged at one time to the Mercy-Argenteau family. sporting proclivities and her newly acquired necessitated an increased Income. to increase the Income naught; therefore, as well founded report has it, sult of the Duchess of Avaray to get possession o merely a ruse to obtain much-needed funds. L RS -X-H—I*H%P-H-"H"'FH'!‘H%H-I%M L[] In the first place, Rose de That her mother was a Here Then she goes often to England kes Ler place among great ladles Naturally her chateau have A constant fight on her part settled upon her in 1889 has resulted in the present f her son is A CHANCE TO SMILE. Changing Names.—“If T ha, homely as Keturah's I'q chgn:'enlug.q" e “Nonsense! It isn't her front name girl worrles about.”—Cl, n Flatn g eveland Flain ‘Iglg‘wlkt—Are you a believer in vaccina- Jewett—Most certainly: 1t kept my d{;ughter from playing the plano for nea:- Iy a week.—New York Town Toples. Crawford—What is y Sl t is your wife so put out Crabshaw—She bought a pair of those straight front corsets and thought they Would make her look like the figure of the woman in the advertisement.—Puck. o Crawford—Come around to the h and have dinner, old boy. oy Crabshaw—Not on your life. I brought you home when you were drunk the other night. and your wife got a good look at me.—Town Topies. ‘“Well, Kayton, were vou successful in Introducing your breakfast food amoni the Parisians?” & “Far from it. Why, those gay Parisians sleep so late that they don’t eat any breakfast.”—Detroit Journal. ‘““The new neighbors don’t seem to be very popular.” “No, the women around here all mis- trust them. You se2 they moved in after dark, so gobody saw their furniture.”— Philadelphia Bulletin: —_———— Official Route Christian Endeavorers to Cincinnati, Ohio. The Burlington Route via Denver has been selected as the official route. Through Pullmah Tourist Sleeping Cars to Clncinnat! will leave San Francisco July 1 at 6 p. m. Tickets on sale June 30 to July 1: rate, $76 50 for round trip. July 1-2 we will sell round trip tickets to Detrolt at 352 25; July 3-4 to Chicago $72 50, and to Buffalo $87. For sleeping car berths call on or address W. D. Sanborn, General Agent, 631 Market street. —————— Good Service and Quick Time. The Santa Fe Routs train leaving San Fran- clsco 4:20 p. m. dally mow rums through to Fresno, making the shortest time between San Franeisco, Stockton, Merced and Fresno. plastiommruadte b Soa ih ‘Beach, resort this lort, entertainment and health. Its splendid cafe was a wonder, the fishing unexcelleda CORONADU TENT CITY, Cal., will be the pormlar