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

6 T Che 20 Eall. SATURDAY......cecusesnsenensssy - JUNE 29, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. LEAKE, Manager. Telephone Press 204 Atdress All Communiestions to MANAGER’S OFFICE.. A S FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered hy Carriers. 16 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cemts. 7 Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL ¢ncluding Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 3 months. All postmasters are amthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. At s i OAKLAND OFFICE..............1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Meoager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON........0ttessses0.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWEB STANDS: €herman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House: Auditerium Hotel. SLANDERING THIS CITY. HE Brooklyn Eagle of June 9 devotes a page T to a rehash of the Examiner and Journal scares over bubonic plague in San Francisco. The writer signs himself “Mul,” and the best evidence of his disbelief of the story is his refusal to sign it with his true name. E He begins with a statement of thirty deaths alleged to be due to the plague, and occurring in the period March 6, 1900, to February 12, 19or. His descrip- tion of the first case may do for all: “Name, Wing Chut King, aged 41 years. He stated to Wing Ging, his brother, that he had been sick six months.” After treatment of a swollen gland in the groin this tough Celestial: survived a month longer. If the plague of lies and liars would only quit after a seven months’ run, like this famous $low coach case of Wing Chut King, California wpuld rejoice. Mr. “Mul” then proceeds to a lurid description of Chinatown, which is characterized as “the foulest spot on the American continenf.” He finds cause of offense in the personai appearance of the idols in the nese theaters, the “radishes a foot long” in the stores, and the eight padlocks on the safe of the Big Jim restaurant. All these adjuncts to the tale are called in to reinforce the case of tough old Wing Chut King; who, according to this therapeutic pundit, stood off the plague for seven months and died of one small bubo at last. Mul found “the prevalence of the plague in this dank, dark breeding place of pesti- lence, where San Francisco has .permitted human beings to live in dens and underground burrows un- fit for beasts, in the midst of unsanitary conditions a faithful description of which would give a rough turn to a sensitive stomach. Indescribable filth! Reeking atmospheres! Sickening squalor! Rotten, tumble- AMUSEMENTS. Tivoli—"The Toy Maker.” Orpheum—Vandeville. Columbt: It nder Two Flags.” ncle Tom's Cabin.”” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—S pecialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vandeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. guisteeth and Folsom streets—Scientific Boxing, uly Sutro Baths—Swimming. Thursday, AUCTION SALES. By W. M. G. Layng—Thursday, July 11, Horses, at 721 Howard street N — 10 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 addresses by tifying The Call Business Ofice. This paper will also be sale at all summer ®esorts and is represented by a local ageat in ®ll towss on the coast. T which are used the latest findings of science and experience. There are several schemes on hand for the building of model cities. It is safe to say that in such work the results of experience will not cut much figure. There have been several model cities founded in this country. The town of Grinnell, Iowa, ‘was laid off in lots and sold by its founder, each deed containing a clause that forfeited title if iiq- uors were sold on the premises. That was supposed to constitute 2 model town forty years ago, but Grin- rell began with prohibition and ended with Rev. George D. Herron as 2 professor in its model col- lege. The town of Greeley, Colo., began with the same sort of prohibition, but is now known more for its fine potatoes than its sobriety. A model town physically may be only a moderate town morally. In its physical features a model town may be made or one already built may be transformed. The drain- age and streets of a city are subjects of primary im- portance. A model city will have its streets exca- vated to the lot line, and arched over, furnishing a wide underground conduit for- carrying all sewer, water and gas pipes, and electric wires. In such a town there will not be an overhead trolley, telephone or teiegraph wire. The streets will be of the best material on the arch as the best foundation. Where the grades require it they will furnish proper footing for teams. Such streets will deliver their surface draimage into the pipes provided therefor in the wide conduit beneath, and this will not be permitted to mix with the sewage. The sewage will be converted into “sludge,” for a fertilizer, and its fluid parts will be so chemically clzansed in the process that they will not pollute the salt or fresh water into which they are finally delivered. The dry and wet garbage which constitutes city waste will be used economically i~ making caustic soda and potash, fertilizers and non-absorbent brick. A common red brick absorbs its weight in water and makes a damp wall. It is al- realy proved by works on a large scale in England that of city waste a brick of fine appearance, and non- absorbent, can be made as cheaply as the red brick. Now with such streets, conduits and care of the noxious and innocuous waste of a crowded popula- tion, and with everything that disfigures below and all that transfigures above ground, why will it not be 2 model city? Add parks and consistency and variety of architec- ture, and such 2 city would draw people from all over the world. If the plan were cranky it would be at- tractive. If it proposed some statutory enforcement of morals, manners or religion it would have a vogue. Yes, if it let these objects of proper concern of gov- ernment go as they are now, slipshod and frazzled, and proposed government ownership of utilities that are now better administered than they can be by Government, the politicians would buzz-saw the air in advocating it. What it would do in this beginning, for all time, is being done piecemeal and ineffectually and at as great cost. Streets are being dug up and then shabbily re- paired again to put down little conduits for electric wires and to lay or repair water, gas or sewer pipes. The surface drainage is bad, and a heavy rain floods MODEL CITIES. HIS is the period of great undertakings, in cellars, destroys property and by basement damp imperils health. All of this might be provided for in 2 roomy and dry underground street, for the use of which private corporations could be made to pay rent. It would be lighted by electricity and ventilated. Ancient cities had catacombs under their streets, and there stowed away their dead. Instead of death this model city would have life below its pavements, How many millions would excavate the streets of San Francisco, and how many millions of property would be created by filling the noisome flats with this material? B down buildings, even their foul, slimy cellars, way underground, the habitat of humanity. Beyond all question a breeding place for pestilence!” Then, pray, why didn’t it breed? This nimble falsifier de- feats his own purpose and spits in his own face and calls himself a liar. =Granting the foul condition of Chinatown, and its continuance unpurged during the entire year in which the thirty alleged cases occurred, does not this son of Ananias see that if the plague had been here under conditions so favorable to its spread among the 30,000 Chinese in that quarter, in- stead of the thirty alleged cases there would have been thousands? California offers as the best evidence of non- existence of the pestilence the very conditions de- scribed by this vagabond compiler. Not content with separating his premise of filth from his conclusion of pestilence, this fellow represents the State authorities as put under Federal compulsion to clean Chinatown. This is a palpable falsehood. The Governor of Cali- fornia and the local authorities entered upon that work with energy and have prosecuted it with suc- cess. The only news from the Federal authorities has been a false report of a plague case in April, which turned out to be not plague at all, and which those highly praised officials refused to correct after admit- ting they were wrong. The State authorities have watched this attack upon California with great solicitude. They have seen the selection of intimates of Dr. Kinyoun and medical favorites of rival overland roads put on Federal inves- tigating commissions, to find facts to fit the plague theory of our detractors and rivals. We have seen so- called “experts” sent here who never saw a case of bubonic plague, dead or alive. endured with a degree of patience. published in Greater New York, in the same issue in which it editorially announces that the very water in that city is so foul that a man dropped dead imme- diately after drinking a glass of it, devotes a page to slander of us,-we resent it. It has not even the ex- cuse of news enterprise, for the whole subject is as stale as the seven-months-old bubo of Wing Chut King. We resent being lectured and lied about by a newspaper that is circulated in the tenement quarters of the East Side, where children are born rotten and where the moral and physical filth is so sodden and dense that beside it Chinatown seems like the Elysian ifie]ds or the garden of Calypso. REPUBLICANISM IN THE SOUTH. ENATOR ELKINS of West Virginia has re- | S cently expressed the conviction that at the next | Congressional elections the Republicans will make large gains in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and in parts of South Carolina and Florida. He expects these gains because as he says: “The people of the South now appre- ciate the practical fact that business is business; sen- timent is giving away to business enterprise and busi- ness success.” | has remarkable resources for the development of all Esorts of manufacturing industries, and that the eyes of the more intelligent have become opened to the fact. Those men are mow bending their efforts to profit by their advantages and by the favorable condi- tions established by the Republican policies of sound money and protection. In the course of their efforts they have been brought into conflict with the Bour- bon conservatives of Democracy on the one side and the Bryanite radicals on the other, and will there- fore be forced to support the Republican party as the only means of bringing prosperity to their section as well as to the rest of the Union. 4 A different view of the situation is:taken by Sema- tor McLaurin of South Carolina, who holds that the | new movement now going ofi in the South is essentially a Democratic movement; that it does not imply a drift toward Republicanism, but a revival of the poli- cies which were advocated by Démocrats of old. In a recent interview he said: “In the speeches I have made on the subsidizing of our merchant marine I have called attention to the fact that the first subsidy granted by this Government was granted by a Demo- cratic administration in 1845 to the Collins line. It was not a success, because the subsidy was not large enough, but it was the same in principle. There is a good Democratic argument. The Republicans have simply stolen our platform. Are the Democrats going to allow themselves to be crowded off their own platform by the opposition party? I do not think so. Expansion was always a Democratic policy.” : Referring to the rapidity with w\hich the Southern people are coming back tg thé principles and policies gf the old-time Democracy, and are growing in favor of all legislation designed to build uip American indus- try, he said: “When I address an audience in my own State on the matter of subsidies I recall to them that all of the industrial enterprises that have-been | started in their country were subsidized. They know that this was done and they know the benefits that have come from these enterprises. The people of the South are not to be frightened by the talk of danger in subsidies. They know all about them. There is no section of the country that will be.more Benefited by a great merchant marine than the South. The cotton HE SAN FRA josshouse and the elocution of the actors in the Chi- | And all this we have | But when a sheet | The Senator went on ta point out that the South | NCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. JUNE 29, 1901. 7 that was once sold by the planter for four or five cents 'a pound raw now sells for 20 cents a pound in the \manufa:tured article. It must be transported across the sea to market. If the ships that carry it are with- drawn from the service, as they were in the Boer- | British war, freights will advance, the price of cottons such as we make in the markets of the world will go | up, and the consumption will decrease. , The planter iwill suffer. If we have a merchant marine under our {own flag the freights will not increase and the mar- | kets will remain steady and profitable. The South is more interested in this than any other part of the nation, and the people know it.” - ‘Whether the progressive element in the South will come to the support of the Republican party as Sena- tor Elkins expects, or remain in the Democratic party 1and “drive the Bryanites from control, will depend | mainly upon the issues between the parties in the next |'Presidential campaign.; Should the Bryanites again force a conflict over free silver or free trade, the intel- ligence of the South will be compelled to support the Republican nominees. If, however, the progressive Southerners can eliminate Bryanism from national | Democracy, they may be ‘able to continue in the Dem- | ocratic ranks. It looks, however, as if Elkins would | be proven right. For Southern men to support Re- jpubiican candidates will not be hard when once they have freed themselves from old prejudices, but to | cleanse Democracy of Bgurbonism and Bryanism ap- | pears to be a well nigh impossible task. OUR ALABAMA VISITORS. NE of the ladies visiting California with the O Alabama Press Association expressed her gratification with the hospitality of the city | by saying, “You all are just like our people in Ala- bama.” That is of course the highest praise an Ala- |bama woman could give, and, by those who know | what Alabama hospitality is, no higher commenda- | tion can be desired. | We are indeed like one another. That is the chief glory and surest safeguard of our republic. We are a homogeneous people. We can never be divided. | Wide as is the extent of our domain and scattered |as our people are through every variety of climate known to the temperate zone, none the less, whether from Maine or Florida, Minnesota or Texas, we are all alike in our Americanism, ahd the welcome of Cali- [them feel in very truth that they are at home and among their own people. 1 In the universal dominance of genuine Americanism | there is nothing of a dull uniformity. Like every other people on earth, we are subject to the influences | of sun and soil, and to conditions of society in which | we are brought up. As a consequence there is just ;enough of variety in the people of different sections to make them mutually attractive to one another. It | is not for nothing that we speak of “New England culture,” “Southern courtesy” and “Western vigor.” | These phrases signify certain characteristics of the | people of the different sections, which distinguish the | one from the other and enable an observer to tell almost instantly from what section of the Union any | individual hails. 2 Our Alabama visitors, representing the best types of Southern society, have conferred as much pleasure as | they have received. It has been a genuine happiness “ to be the hosts of so gracious a company of courteous men and charming women. They will carry back to Alabama no memories pleasanter than those they | leave with us. They seem to have brought with them some potent Alabama charm to drive our fogs away. We have had days of sunshine for their entertainment, and equally sunny will be all our recollections of their visit. TRANS-SIBERIAN TRAVEL. CCORDING to the Paris Herald, travel across ASiberia by the new railroad is to be rendered about as sumptuous as modern luxury can desire. An organization known as the “Compagnie Interna- tionale des Wagon-Lits” has arranged to run once a week what is called a “train de luxe” from Moscow to Irkoutsk in eight days, and it is announced that by September the traveler will be able to make an un- broken journey from Moscow to the banks of the Amur, except for the crossing of Lake Baikal, by these trains in about ten days. of one first class sleeping carriage, two second class | sleeping carriages, a drawing-room and restaurant | carriage, and a wagon containing bathroom, with shower, etc., a hairdresser’s establishment, a gymna- sium, and a compartment guarded by the head con- ductor and containing a number of fire and burglar proof safes. The keys are given to passengers having jewels or valuable documents which they desire to place in security. The carriages are fitted up with every device that can add to the comfort of the trav- eler. Each compartment contains two places with an adjoining lavatory. We are given the further information that the cars are lighted by electricity, they contain a well-stocked library and a piano, and the conductors can each of them speak several languages. The time table for the route at the present time is thus given: Paris to Mos- cow, two days; Moscow to Irkoutsk, eight days; thence to Strelensk, three days; the déscent of the Amur to Khabarovski, six days; from that point by rail to Vladivostok, cne day; thence by steamer to Nagasaki two day§,"making the trip'from Paris to Japan within twenty-two days. The only uncertain clement in the time table is the descent of the Amur. It is added that the Compagnie Internationale is seeking railroad connections in.China, and that it may soon be possible to travel from London to Peking in fifteen days at a cost not to exceed $300. The arrangements for the comforts of travelers along the route are not to be confined to trains de luxe. It is announced that by 1903, when the road will be vir- tually completed between Moscow and Port Arthur, there will have been established a series of hotels at various points along the route at which travelers can break their journey and rest under surroundings as comfortable as any to be found in Europe. The se< ries is to include a grand hotel at Peking, the site for which has been already purchased. In these promises there may . be ' something of exaggetation, but they none the less serve to show that the trans-Siberian route is soon to be the speediest and most comfortable way of making the trip around the globe. In fact, if the performance comes anywhere near keeping up with the prospectus, the Siberiah ride will be a pleasure trip in every sense of the word, and Californians wishing to visit Paris will go by the way of Vladivostok instead of New York. £at A young fellow of Binghamton received the con- tents of two barrels of a_shotgun in his body the other night for persistently annoying, in company | with several, gthers,' ‘a_newly wedded cotiple.© The annoying victim seems qualified to adopt the adage that he who dances must pay the fiddler. A description of the trains de luxe says they consist | THAT EXODUS-OF FOREIG FROM THE CELE * KEB-PON LI-HING—‘“Velly fine piecee machine, but no havee money chnp-clgop, no can workee.” E2 NERS STIALS' LAND —London Express. -y B e e e e e ol e e e e B e A e e fornia for each and all is of such a nature as to make | DARINGLY OBSERVES TERRIFIC OCCURRENCES ON VERY EDGE OF THE CRATER OF MOUNT VESUVIUS Italian Geologist Peers Into the Seething Depths While Red-Hot Rocks Shoot Aloft and Fall All Around Him. T IS not often that a man risks his I able. Perhaps there are not many to ment of Professor Matteucci, the distinguished Italian geolo- gist, who lived on the edge of the crater of Vesuvius for three But all's well that ends well; and he escaped days last year. with a whole skin. The volcano resumed a very active phase nearly five years before Professor Matteucci went into camp on the outer edge of the scene of disturbance. Vesuvius bégan a new eruptive period on July 3, 1865; ebullitions of greater or less magnitude, accompanied by a,considerable flow of lava, were of frequent At last, on September 1, 1899, the lava ceased to flow through the lateral fissure by which At that time the bottom of the crater was 700 feet below- the lowest part of its rim. Fresh supplies of lava began slowly to fill up the crater the surface of the lava was occurrence for about fifty months. it had escaped from the crater. again. On April 24, last year, within about 260 feet of the crater edge. period of violent activity began, lasting for an entire month. No lava was discharged down the mountain side but some of the explosions in the crater were terrific, May 4 end 11, reaching a maximum on May 9. the explosions was distinctly heard throughout a large part of the Campagna. The Italian professor watched all the phe- nomena from the slope of the mountain and spent May 11, 12 and 13 at the crater’s edge. It is well known that the eruptions since the seventeenth Century have greatly altered the contour of the mountain, and that its central vent or crater has undergone many changes. During the period of Professor Matteuccl’'s observations the crater was enlarged in one of its diameters about twenty feet. It measured at the top 164 metres, about northeast to southwest and 180 metres from east to west. flames produced by the sulphurous vapos were abundant; sclence, says a writer in the New York Sun. one. would recelve much praise for doing so, though there are occasions when such an act is most heroic and Jaud- many projectiles wer attained being abou On May 9 the pi life in the cause of As a rule, no applaud the achieve- watch in hand and On that day another particularly between The noise of on. riging above the top of the crater. re hurled into the air, the highest altitude t 1800 feet above the bottom of the crater. rofessor observed a block of unusual size He happened to have his found that the projectile was in the air above Vesuvius seventeen seconds before it reached terra firma on the slope of the mountain. measured about twelve cubic metres and that its weight was approximately thirty tons. traveling at the rate of about three hundred feet a second. It has been estimated that the force which propelled this mass of rock high into the air was equal to 607,99 horsepower. The volume of the solid material which was ejected from the crater during the explosive period of April and May is estimated at about 500,000 cubic metres; and in that time about thirty feet were added to the altitude of the mountain. It may be imagined that it was not extremely .pleasant to linger in the immediate neighborhood of these terrific occur- rences, but the daring man. of science held his ground and aid not take his departure until he had completed the observations he had in view. The wonder is that he was not killed. On the last day of his sojourn upon the top of the mountain a period of intense violence succeeded a few hours of comparative calm. The explosions in the crater were of great frequency, and the geologist had the hardihood to see everything that was going One extraordinary explosion caused a rain of fragments all around him. "Myriads of small bits of rock and red hot frag- ments of scoriae fell all around. Nobody knows how he had He ascertained later that it ‘When it reached the earth it was the good luck to escape, for his entire outfit of baggage was destroyed excepting owner were all that dron of lava was a 540 feet across from The has made a special his camera. This instrument and escaped without a scratch. its The professor says that the spectacle of that bofling caul- marvelous one. He has not, however, undertaken to describe it, though he has written at length upon the scientific aspect of the phenomena he observed, and study of tHe naturc of the materials that were ejected from the crater. L B e e R Y ) PERSONAL MENTION. W. A. Beard, a mining man of Oroville, is at the Grand. George S. Jones, a mining man of Grass Valley, is at the California. Colonel W. Forsyth, a big raisin grower of Fresno, is at the Occidental. E. 8. Churchill, the well known banker of Napa, is a guest at'the Palace. S. N. Grifiith, an extensive oil man and leading attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. John Caffrey arrived in the city yester- day from Southern California and is at the Palace. R. E. Jack, an extensive landowner and banker of San Luis Obispo, is at the Palace. T. Farr, ex-Mayor of Ogden and an ex- tensive railroad contraétor of that city, is at the Lick. Assemblyman George G. Radcliff of Watsonville arrived in the city yester- day and is a guest at the Grand. —_— e e———— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 28.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—A. E. Barker, at the Grand Union; G. A. Chamberlin, at the Norman- die; A. F. Coffin, E. L. Dow, at the Man- hattan; G. Hay, at the Grand Union; J. Marsh, at the Savoy; J. S. Potter, at the Normandie; E. Tutt, at the Grand Union; Mrs. R. H. White, at the Normandie: F. Boruch, at the Holland; Mrs. W. J. Cos- tigan, at the Manhattan; J. H. Keller, at the Bartholdi; L. D. Owens, at the Hoff- man; Miss And, at the Herald Square; Mrs. C. M. Battes, at the Gerard; Miss A. C. Moulfy, at the Herald Square. From TLos Angeles—H. P. Weed, at the Impe- rial. —————— Californians in Washingtofi.' WASHINGTON, June 28.—The following Californians haye registered at the hotels: Metropolitan—Franklin Brooks; Johnson —Miss Nora Ellis; Ebbitt—W. 8. Jordan; St. James—John §. Davis, all of San Fran- cisco; M. B. Hudson, Palo Alto. —_——————— Gets a New Eyelid. Fourteen-year-old Joseph Cambardiel, of 187t street and Arthur avenue, New York, was provided with a new eyelid, at the Fordham Hospital a few days ago. The boy was born with a-deficient left eyelid, which prevented iim from winking or entirely closing his eye. ~As he bégan to grow the boy felt sensitive about the physical defect, which he thought would become more embarrassing as he grew older. His family recently decided to have an operation performed to overcome the unpleasant effects of this deficlency. The other day he went to Fordham Hos- pital, where Dr. Higgins cut a piecé of skin about an inch square from his left cheek, which he applied to the lad’s eye- lid. The surgeon in cutting the skin al- lowed one end of it to remain intact on the cheek to continue the nourishment of the rest of the fragment, which he swung around so as to form an eyelid. Deftly sewing the skin to the boy's eyebrow and eyelld, the surgeon in less' than twenty ‘minutes provided the youth with a per- fectly modeled eyelid, which will hence- forth enable him to wink at will and close | his eve when he chooses. ANSWERS. TO QUERIES. The 3d A DATE IN MAY-A. I, City. of May, 1869, fell on a Monday. TEACHERS—Subscriber, City. For in- formation relative to teachers seeking employment in the schools of the Philip- pine Islands address the recorder, Univer- sity of California. HEALERS — Constant Reader, City. “Magnetic healers” are engaged in pri- vate practice, and as this department does not advertise any business or profession it cannot ‘“‘mention a few of those healers residing In this city.” POPULATION—T. M., Somerville, Cal. The population of Ohio, according to the census of 1900, was 4,137,545, of Massachu- setts. 2,806,346 and of Iowa 2,231,853. In- crease in ten years: Ohio 455,116, Massa- chusetts 546,399, Towa. 319,556. THE JERSEY LILY—E. M. M. M., Oak- land, Cal. Emelie Charlotte Lillle Lang- daughter of Rev. W. C. le Breton, Dean of Jersey. She was born at St. Heller .on the island of Jedrsey, in 1852. TWO FIRES—E. M., City. The fire which destroyed the building on Post street occupied by the Olympic Club and 0O’Connor, Moffatt & Co., occurred June 20, 1883, and the Bancroft building on Mar- ket street was destroyed April 30, 18%6. The Fire Department was not called out to extinguish any fire on the 30th of March, 1886. PRESS AGENT—L B., City. The duties of a press agent are to prepare for the press such matter as his employers desira him to arrange for the newspapers. In some lines of business it is the duty of the press agent to prepare advertisements, in others it is his duty to furnish the newspapers with advance notices and t¢ keep the press posted as to future events. CARTOONIST—C. W., Oakland. Car- toonists, like poets, are born, not made. That particular branch of drawing can- not be imparted by an Instructor. There are a number of individuals who teach drawing, but this department cannot ad- vertise them. If one has the ability to draw and has the gift of making funny pictures, he will, by his own application, become a cartoonist. CRIBBAGE—Last week two questions in cribbage were received by this depart- ment and were given to The Call's card expert for solution. One was “A con- tends that three treys.and a pair of sixes in_cribbage count 14, while B claims that they count 18" The other was, “A says that three deuces and two nines in crib count 14, while B says that they count but 12" In placing the answer on the questions asked the 18 count was written on the question relating to the coynt of 12, and that of the count of 12 was writ- ten on the one relating te 18. Three treys and a pair of sixes count 18 and three deuces and a pair of nines counts 12. As this dgpartment aims to be as nearly cor- rect in all things as possible it makes this explanation. try, known as ‘“the Jersey Lily,” is the | A CHANCE TO SMILE. A British magistrate, on being informed by a vagabond that he had no wife, re- ;punded: “Well, that’s a lucky thing for er.” It was an Americam lecturer who sol- emnly sald: “Parents, you may have children, or if not, your children may have.” It was a Scotchman who sald: “The butcher in our town does such a small business that he only has to kill half a beef at a time.” At a prayer meeting in Vermont a plous old deacon invoked a blessing on a “poor young man whose father is a drunkard and whose mother is a widow.” At a negro hall the doorkeepér, on being asked what “Not transferable” on the tickets meant, replied: “It means dat no gelx;uemn am.admitted 'less he come his- self.” It was a Kansas editor who wrote: “A subscriber asks us whether the battle of ‘Waterloo occurred before or after the dis< covery of America. We answer, it did."— Chicago Daily News. A Connecticut Yankee said he once raised a pumpkin so large that eight men could easily stand around it in a circle. His statement was equaled by the Hoosler who saw a flock of wild geese flying so lt;w that he could almost throw a stoneé at em, —_———— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel*® —_—————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —— . Best eyeglasses, specs., 10c to 40e. Look out front barber and grocery, 81 4th. - e————— Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men he Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 otm- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. —_——————— So successful has been inoculation against cholera among coolles employed 2}: tea planters :n Iggls u}h“l the natives e now eager for the tio The ‘Planters have clauses In their con- tracts calling for inoculated coolies. —_————— Official Route Christian Endeavorers to Cincinnati, Ohio. The Burlington Route via Denver has been selected as the official route. Through Pullman Tourlst Sleeping Cars to Cincinnati will leave San Francisco July 1 at 6 p. m. Tickets on sale June 30 to July 1; rate, 376 50 for round trip. July 1-2 we will sell round-trip tickets to Detroit at $82 25; July 3-4 to Buffalo $87: July 20-21 to Chicago $72 30. For sleeping car berths call on or address W.sD. Sanborn, Gen- eral Agent, 631 Market street. —_—————— Quickest Way to Yosemite. “The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thence via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced, Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Veil Falls to Sentinel Hotel. This gets you in at 5 in the afterncon, which is ahead of any other line and costs you less. Ask at 841 Mar- ket street for particulars.” - —_————— Stop Diarrhae and Stomach C; Slegert's Genuine Imported Dr.