The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1901, Page 6

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Columbia—*"Under Two Flags.” Alcazar—*‘Bapho.” Grand Opera-house—"The Only Wey.” Cengral—"Davy Crockett.” Tivoli—“Babes in the Wood.” Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. - Sixteenth and Folsom streets—Scientific Boxing, July 4. Sutro Baths—Swimming. Thursday, AUCTION SALES. By J. J. Doyle—Wednesday, July 3, at 11 o'clock, Horses, , ete., &t 327 Sixth street. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Oall subscribers contemplating a change eof Pesidence during the summer months can have Eheir paper forwarded by mail te their new ®ddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. paper will also be on sale at all summer mnd is represented by = local agent im i FIRECRACKER TIME. towss emn the coast. ROM now until after the last blaze of celebration F of the Glorious Fourth has died away it be- hooves all citizens to be more than usually care- - ful against danger from fire. San Francisco has never suffered a disastrous conflagration such as has be- fallen so many other American cities, and it is to be hoped she never will; but none the less there is al- ways 2 menace of some calamity at every return of the national holiday with its license to all classes of peo- ple, young or old, to make well nigh unrestrained use of fireworks of all kinds from a firecracker up. Every Fourth of July is marked by a notable list of fires in various parts of the country. They constitute ¢ very considerable part of the news of the following day. In every one of those fires there was the pos- sibility of some conflagration like that which swept the business center of Portland, or that which but re- cently well nigh destroyed Jacksonville. The fact that San Francisco has never been exposed to such a con- flagration is no assurance that the exposure may not occur at any time. We have an excellent Fire Department, and the officers of the city may be expected to be vigilant and careful throughout the celebration, but all should not be left to them. Every property-owner and house- holder should exercise supervision over his own prem- ises with more care than usual. If that be done the danger will be slight, for such fires as might be started by a match or by the burning paper of an ex- ploded cracker could be easily extinguished if seen in time. Hardly anything more is needed than watch- fulness, and that should be increased in proportion as the danger is increased. . Let each one, then, exercise more than ordinary care during the days that will be marked by the general explosion of firecrackers. In addition to watching their own property parents should see to it that their children do not endanger the property of others. With proper care we can pass the celebration without any fire losses, but if we are careless we may have to pay dearly for it. S — Mr. Vanderlip, formerly an assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who has just returned from Europe, is quoted as saying: “I think it not only possible but highly probable that Europe will agree to binding terms of trade combination against us within the next few years, and that the result will be the most gigantic and stubborn commercial war in the history of the world.” The prospect is not a pleasant one to face, but if the struggle come we can stand it better than Europe. By way of putting 2 stop to lynching the Alabama constitutional convention has accepted a provision by which any Sheriff who gives up a prisoner to a mob is to be suspended from office and subject to im- peachment. That is another evidence that the best men in the South as well as elsewhere are opposed to lynching and are doing what they can to prevent it. The resolve of the Democrats of Kansas not to fuse with the Populists in another campaign may be takep as sure proof that Democracy in that State has come to the conclusion there are not enough Populist yoters left to make it worth while to give them any nominees on the party tigket. It is noted that bank failures this year cause no panic. The people know that while there may be something wrong with a bank here and there, the sountry is all right. A BUREAU OF FORESTRY. ECRETARY HITCHCOCK is reported to have stated that he is preparing to organize a Bureau of Forestry in the Department of the Interior to carry out an extensive system of reforestation upon plans similar. to those employed with good results in Germany. The Secretary is said to have added that while he has not yet arranged the details of the under- taking the President and the Cabinet are satisfied with the practicability of the scheme and regard it with favor. ; New evidences of the need of a comprehensive sys- tem of forest preservation and for the replanting of forests are furnished at frequent intervals in the news reports from different parts of the country. The Call has repeatedly directed attention to them. Recently the Buffalo Express noted that the last group of pine trees, remnants of a forest that once covered Alle- gany County; have been sold and are to be cut down. A similar story comes from the South. The Charles- ton News and Courier in commenting upon the de- struction of the pine forests of the Southern States recently stated that unless something be done to check the waste there will not be a pine tree left in the South within another generation. On the Pacific Coast the waste has been fully as destructive as in the East and the South, if not even more destructive. The waste here has been due large- ly to the frequent forest fires that occur during our long dry summers, and the annual losses resulting from them constitute one of the heaviest drains upon the profits of our industry. Ernest Bruncken, who was for some time secretary of a forestry commission in Wisconsin, and who has made a thorough study of the forestry of the country, has pointed out the extent to which the great pine woods have been swept from the lake States. Twenty years ago the Michigan forests were so large that Saginaw was the center of the greatest lumber indus- try in the world, but to-day lumbering on a large scale in that State is virtually at an end. Wisconsin and Minnesota will soon be as bare as Michigan. Mr. Bruncken says: “There are now in Michigan and Wisconsin many places that were thriving villages and little cities fifteen years ago which are almost de- serted, with the houses falling into ruin. The pine lumber of the neighborhood has all been cut, the saw- mills shut down and with it prosperity has disap- peared. What is true of the white pine will soon be true of the Southern long-leaved pine, which is taking its place; probably the extreme limit for supplying the market with original Southern pine on a large scale is fifty years.” ‘While all sections of our gwn country show the evil | results of forest destruction, various European coun- tries reveal the benefits of forest preservation and cul- tivation. The great forests of Germany, France, Nor- way and Sweden are conducted in such a way as to vield a considerable profit, while at the same time being preserved for the benefit of future generations. It is gratifying that the Interior Department pur- poses to enter upon the work of conserving the for- ests of the national domain, and of reforesting areas that are now bare. The influence of the national Gov- ernment will have its effect upon the States and in the end a thoroughly satisfactory forestry system may be adopted in every part of the Union. The shirt waist man appears to have arrived every- preachers in the pulpit and Judges on the bench, and recently a2 man in a shirt waist was received at the shirt waist century. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. O opportunity for learning how her voters stand on national questions. It seemsthereisto be but paign which was virtually opened by the recent Re- publican convention. The speeches made by the lead- it is evident the party intends to ask of the people a vote of confidence in the Republican administration. the country has been placed upon a sound industrial basis by a protective tariff, and upon a sound of sound money. Prosperity has resulted, and we now hold that foremost place among the | things have been accomplished by the Republican | party, nor that the party will maintain the policies labor and capital alike. Referring to the opposition, the Senator said: to a new hearing in the people’s court? Has it turned a new leaf? Has it abjured free trade? Has it fore- followed Aguinaldo’s advice and ‘taken the oath of allegiance? Has it denied any article of its platform? mains identically the same bundle of un-American fallacies that the people condemned last year and years propose to do? Can any man tell? Does any Demo- crat know?” challenge their antagonists. It is to be seen whether the Democrats will answer or evade them. It is an not likely to be exciting, but as it is to be fought upon national issues it may serve to show to what extent support of the administration, and how far the virtual retirement of Bryan will be followed by a return of the where in the East. The garment has been worn by White House. The thing is settled—this is to be a HIO is to afford the people of the country an little in the way of local issues during the State cam- ers dealt almost exclusively with national affairs, and Senator Foraker pointed out to the convention that financial basis by the adoption of the policy | nations. It cannot be denied by any one that these which have brought confidence and opportunities for “What has the Democratic party done that entitles it saken free silver? Has it cast out Populism? Has it Not one. Its official declaration of principles re- before. If it has done nothing, what, then, does it It is with those questions the Republicans of Ohio off-year in politics, and even this contest in Ohio is the conservative forces of the people remain united in Gold Democrats to their former standards. during the months of May and June, and it is there- THE BOER PRISONERS. I strain Boer soldiers taken in warfare? If this is | It is announced that the crown colony, Jamaica, is to put them at labor as servile persons? The climate and disquieting, and the act itself will become in- i way. The burning of General Dewet’s farmstead and The New England Free Trade League announces fore evident the silly season this year is about as in- S it assumed that England has the right under the assumed, we think the authority for it under any ar- asking that several thousand of these honorable and of Jamaica is deadly to these men from the veldt in famous in history if it be carried out. The world is driving his wife and children forth like hunted beasts that it has received a large increase of membership tense as ever. laws of war to deport, exile or permanently re- i ticles of war, or public law, should be made plain. hardy men be sent there. For what purpose? Is it the temperate zone. The very proposition is sinister getting sensitive over the South African war any- is not an act of war but of wantonness, savoring .of unsoldierly revenge. The concentrating of Bper women and children in noisome camps, where they are underfed and herded like animals, is no credit to Great Britain. It is worse than a discredit, and the awful mortality among these non-combatants is making it murder. Public septiment in this country tolerated the Spanish war because of the same treat- ment of non-combatants in Cuba, The English peo- ple will not submit to the staining of their good name by such a policy carried out by their Government. A p— Bryan is said to have drawn big audiences at Bui- falo and other cities in New York, but it will be noted that the press is not giving attention to his speeches. He may still shine as a lecturer, but as a politician his light is dim? ASTERN reports giving an account of the re- THE REDEMPTION OF PALESTINE. Ecent Zionist convention at Philadelphia state that the progress of the movement for Jewish colenization in Palestine, and the re-establishment of that country as an independent Jewish state, has been more notable during the past year than dver before. Many new societies in this country and in Western Europe have been organized to promote the plan, and there has been established a “Jewish Colonial Bank” b to finance it. The reoccupation of Palestine has been a dream among certain types of the Jewish race for a long time. | In the past it has been a dream only, for the conditions of Palestine in relation to the rest of the world were not of a nature to attract any Jew back to the old land unless he were willing to make himself a martyr to 2n idea. In later years, however, the conditions of that part of the world have materially changed, and the possibilities of Palestine are now of a character to attract men of energy and business sagacity. When the various railways projected through Asia Minor eastward toward India have been completed and connected with the Russian lines in Central Asia there will be no physical reason why Palestine might not recover its old positign of vantage as a central point on the great route for trade between Asia and the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Even at the present time there is a good deal of trade activ- ity in and around Jerusalem. A correspondent of the New York Post, who is now traveling in that country, says: “An American salesman recently went to Jeru- salem and Beirut and in one day sold merchandise of an up-ta-date type to the amount of $3800. Commis- sion houses for the handling of American goods have | been opened in every city and town of importance in Palestine and Syria, and in many instances are con- ducted by wide-awake American business men.” He goes on to say that in Jerusalem there are electric lights, telephones, phonographs, sanitary plumbing, modern stores and most of the comforts of civilized life. Of course, anything like a wholesale emigration of Jews to Palestine is uot to be expected. Among the nations of Western Europe and in America the Jews have long since become established as a part of the population, having the same rights and the same duties of citizenship, and comparatively few of such well established families will leave their homes. A large migration back to the old land may be expected, however, from among young Jews looking for a place to settle and from among emigrants from Russia and Southeastern Europe. The country back éf Jerusalem is no. longer the desolation it was for many a century. The Post cor- respondent in writing of it says: “One commission house has bought a §$350 windmill from an Illinois firm and will erect it on the Bakaa plain. This firm is confident there is to be an important market for windmills in Palestine and Syria, and for irrigation machinery of all sorts. Rich foreigners are figuring to secure control of some of the once fertile valleys of the country, and should they succeed there will be an attempt to make them again a land flowing with milk and honey.” Taking the reports from Jerusalem in connection with those of the convention at Philadelphia, it will be seen there are good reasons for the hopes of those ardent Zionists who are striving to once more estab- lish in Palestine an independent Jewish state. e sy The big harvests in Nebraska and Kansas are said to have settled the tramp problem for a while, for there is now so much work to be done that all the tramps have left that section of the country and the | farmers cannot find one on the roads. LYNCHING NOT SECTIONAL. 194 SOUTHERNER” writes to the Placer ACounty Representative something abaut the “dirty, narrow partisanship” and sectional “spleen” of The Call, in resentment of an allusion to the burning to death of negroes in the South as evi- dence of barbarism in that section. ‘We have always believed that such a crime is evi- dence of barbarism wherever perpetrated, in Kansas, Colorado or South Carolina. The only reason why one may say that-there is more barbarism in the South is because more ne- groes are roasted there. Burning at the stake is a peculiarly barbarous proceeding. If people will not let the law as it is take its course, nor amend it to make the punishment fit the crime, there are less bar- barous ways to kill men accused of crime. Burning at the stake began in Texas, and had oc- curred in nearly every Southern State before it ap- peared in Colorado and Kansas,. Lynching, by rope and shooting, has prevailed on the frontier and throughout the West, and no one who is regardful of the good name of the country excuses it. We have deprecated it in California ahd in Georgia. That | the crime grows on what it feeds upon is shown by the progressive cruelty of the processes ployed. Where hanging once served, burning is now used. We expect that this will soon give place to the more savage plan of drawing the victim asunder by horses hitched to his arms and legs. Our hot-blooded critic has no word of rebuke or deprecation of these outbreaks of barbarous fury in the section which he defends against what he thinks to be our partisan prejudice. We make no rejoinder because we have any respect for his opinion, as the opinions of men who hide their names behind an em- / alias are not respectable, but only to say once for all that Iynching is a crime and that burning to death is barbarous, whether it occur North or South. e ——————— The Boers seem determined to continue the war long enough to have & fight at or near every village or hamlet of the country, so as to entitle each to a place on the map and a record in "istory. By the time the thing is over persons who are following the war with care will know more about the Transvaal than about their own States. i When it comes to taking high degrees, the ther- | mometer in the East scems to eclipse anything known at the universitics. s ‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1901. TEN HEAVY TRAINS COULD BE CARRIED BY CONSTITUTION’S BODY = ‘WEIGHT OF TEN TRAINS. * C which a landsman might well think would ONSTITUTION, the America's cup fifth of an inch. make-up. Constitution is ten times stronger than vated railroad structure. on a frame which is but one-tenth the wel struction. than is Constitution’s hull, yet with the strive in vain to break it. boat is the same in construction. than in the building of Constitution. It constructed of steel. been the aim of her designer and buflder. eliminated. Frames, joints, plates, braees, of the strain. Thus, in a heavy gale, when one and one for all. Constitution’s frame is an innovation PERSONAL MENTION. R. B. Canfield, a Santa Barbara attor- ney, is at the Palace. Frank Lyman, a prominent Fresno at- torney, is at the Grand. The Rev. H. H. Hamilton of Quebec is a guest at the Occidental. A. Brown, a member of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick. L. Wilberg, a well known Seattle cap- italist, is a guest at the Grand. John R. Johnstone, a prominent orange grower of Riverside, is at the Palace. Robert Effev ex-Mayor and prominent citizen of Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. George E. Goodman, the well known banker, of Napa, is staying at the Palace. G. W. Harvey, an extensive fruit grower of Marysville, is spending a few days at the Grand. 8. N. Griffith, an ofl man and well known attorney of Fresno, is staying at the California. X Prince and Princess Hatzfeld, who are at present at Sacramento, leave for New York to-morrow. Thomas A. Graham, division freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pa- cific at San Jose, is spending a few days in the city on business. John 8. Wilbur, the mining engineer, is registered at the Palace from Cisco, near which place he is developing some quartz properties for San Francisco capitalists. —————— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 1.—The. following Californians arrived here to-day and are registered at the Raleigh: John M. Beall, ‘W. B. Hinchman of San Francisco, and M. Neskey and.M. W. Brady of Los An- geles, s e A Hard One for Sampson. Apropos of Rear Admiral Sampsgn's letter, opposing the promotion of enlisted men to commissioned offices on the score of their lack of ‘*‘social qualifications,” the Boston Globe relates an interesting incident. Socn after ihe close of the war “a dinner was given in honor of Admirat+ Sampson by a Cambridge gentleman dis~ tinguished in the woild of letters. One of the guests when introduced to the admiral remarked: ‘I had the honor of serving under you before Santiago, sir. Admiral Sampson looked puzzled for a moment {and then remarked: “I thought I knew all the officers in the fleet; may I ask on what ship you were? ‘I was a seaman on the Prairie, sir,’ was the reply.” The ex- seaman guest was a college professor!: Utica Press. B Official Route Christian Endeavorers to Cincinnati, Ohio. The Burlington Route via Denver has been selected as the official route. Through Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars to Cineinnatl 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 Detroit at $82 25; July 3-4 to Buffalo $s7; July 20-21 to Chicago $12 50. For sleeping car berths call on or address W. D. 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 1ine and costs you lesy. Ask at 641 Mar- ket street for particulars.” . —— . | Fourth of July rates to Stockton, Fresno, Visalia, Hanford, Bakersfield and all points on shell boat, says the New York World. with an egg her shell is equally thin, but this shell is so constructed that it can withstand tons of pressure, blows of many horsepower, a strain on her sail area The thickness of Constitution’s hull is little more than a Her frames are the strongest part of her Yet each frame is less than a fifth of an inch thick. She is able to bear the sam Ten trains could pass on a structure no heavier they rumble over the thick iron pillars of the “L.” GREAT STRENGTH OF THE HULL. Constitution is put together with little less cunning than an egg. If an egg is held accurately end to end a strong man may The principle of the Herreshoff The hull is a self-sustaining whole, so fragile that one might plerce it with a walking stick by a wisely applied blow, yet so strong in its entirety that tons of waves may assault it and avail nothing. Engineering skill is perhaps in no wise better exemplified stated that she is as strong as steel, for the secret of her al- most incomprehensible strength lies in the fact that she is Most important, however, is the fact that lightness, making possible the greatest buoyancy, has To attain this every ounce of unnecessary welght has been component in the body of Constitution has been wrought of materials whiéh sin€ly would be highly destructible, but when joined according ‘to the cunning of the builder’s craft combine a structure which is a bulwark of strength. As an illustration of the unity of strength of the yacht, her builders say that an ounce of pressure on her sails is felt in every part of the vacht and every part bears its burden boards and an enormous amount of force must be resisted, the gallant little craft in her thousand and one parts fights all for_ The thickness of each frame is about 6-40 of an inch. The fram- ing is run throughout the body in both directions instead of L B R R RS | players declare that as a rule a ball batted | ones being a lack of sunny exposure and the Santa Fe Valley line. Tickets on sale July 3 and 4 at €41 Market st. and Ferry Ticket Office. “Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. BestLiver Medicine, VegetableCure for Liver I1ls, Billousness, Indigestion, Constipation, Malaria, Stop Diarrhae and Stomach Cramps. Dr. Slegert’s Genuine Imported Angostura Bitters,* . defender, 13 an egg In comparison crush her instantly. a section of the ele- urden con- to “turn turtle.” ght of the same security that may be accurately FRAGILE SKIN OF STEEL OF CUP DEFENDER IS SO DELICATE THAT A PISTOL BALL WOULD PIERCE IT, YET IT IS SO INGENIOUSLY BRACED THAT IT WILL WITHSTAND A PRESSURB REPRESENTED IN THE longitudinally alone, as in the comstruction of Independence. This serves to take up a large part of the longitudinal strains, which formerly fell to considerable degree upon the plating, and so the weight of the plating is materially lessened. DEFENDER WILL NOT “TURN TURTLE”» To landsmen it s not generally known that Constitution, in common with other yachts of her general comstruction, is non-capsizable. The center of gravity made possible by the tons of lead in her keel is in such relation to the center of effort cf her salls that it would be impossible for Constitution The matter of keel is one which gave the Lsters. miss concern. It is an axiom of ship builders that the more lead a boat can carry with a given water line the more sail she can carry. Constitution approaches as near the attainable in this respect as any yacht ever constructed. Lead plates of a total welght of nearly 100 tons are attached to Constitution’s keel. This lead represents about three-fourths of the total weight of the yacht. Every pound that could be taken from sails, rigging, blocks, etc., has been placed in the the lightest attalnable shell. So it is finally t has been lightened in every possible manner, which must bear the strain of many horsepower of wind. Could an onlooker have viewed, Constitution before her plates were riveted on he would have seen the model of the boat outlined in a mass of steel frames and braces. He would also have noticed that narrow bands of steel run lengthwise of the yacht, reinforcing the belt framing. From the deck frames to the frames below the water line braces are riveted. eel, producing shell, which One of Constitution’s frames looks not unlike a bridge girder. belts, in fact every placing and bracing. her sails are taut as Toller. in yacht bullding. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. “UNDER TWO FLAGS"—H. B, Car- ters, Cal. “Under Two Flags,” a novel, was written by L. 'de la Ramee. NOT CLEAR ENOUGH-O. B, City. Your question about distribution of prizes is not sufficiently clear to admit of an answer. A BATTED BALL—Sub, City. Baseball fair and square with the end of the bat will go further than when batted from the center of the bat. COTTON MILLS—H. W., Manka, Cal. Until the figures-are furnished by the cen- sus bureau, based upon the statistics col- lected in 1500, it will be impossible to give the information desired as to the number of cotten mills in the various states of the Union at this time. L RN T TOMATO VINES—C. ¢R., Metz, Cal There are a number of causes for the blight of the tomato vine, the principal the quality of soil. The soil, while not too rich, should be treated to a mulching of manure in order to insure a good growth. TO FORT ROSS—Prospective Camper, City. In an air line Fort Ross, in Sonoma County, is about twenty-five miles from Meekers Camp. The most feasible road for a walking tourist to take to reach the fort from the camp is to take the train to Cazadero, sixteen miles, and then walk eleven miles from that point by the road that leads to the coast. JUMPING—O. B., City. The record for a running broad jump is 24 feet 7% Inches, Myer Prinstein (amateur),, Philadelphia, April 28, 190. Standing long jump with 22-pound weights 14 feet 5% inches, G. W. Hamilton, Romeo, Mich., October 3, 1879; without weights 12 feet 9% Inches, L. Heling (amateur), Brooklyn, November 20, 1884. Running high jump, no weights, 6 feet 5% inches, M. M. Sweeney (ama- teur), Manhattan fields, New York City, September 21, 1895, STRAW HATS—X., San Mateo, Cal. The following is given as a means to clean straw hats or bonnets: “First brush with soap and water, then with a solution of oxalic acid.”” 1If it is desired to bleach the hats or bonnets after having been cleaned the following is given as a method: “Get a deep box, air-tight If possible; place at the bottom a stone, on the stone a flat piece of iron red hot or a pan of lighted charcoal, on which scatter powdered brimstone, then put on the lid, to which the hats or bonnets have been suspended from a hook. Let them remain in th> box over night.” THE OYSTER—N. 8, City. This de- partment has examined a great number of books that treat of the oyster, but has not been able te discover any mention that oysters are polsonous during the months of the year that are minus the letter R. The fact that oysters ought mot be eaten in those months has been traced back to the early Romans, who had the following: Mensilus errutis Vos ostrea Manducatis, ‘Which may be rendered: “Lapsing the R- less months, you may oysters freely eat.” ‘William Harrison, chronologer and his- torfan, 1534-1593, wrotk: “Alblet our oisters are generallle forborne in the foure hot months of the year, that is to sale, Male, June, Julie and August, which are void of the letter R. Yet in some plaices they are continuallie eaten, when they are kept in pits, as I have knowen by experfence.” De Voe, in Market Assistant, says: “Oysters are in season almost the year through except when spawning; then they are milky, watery, poor and considered unfit and unwholesome. The months are May, June, J’uly and Ausns=t " Their greater lightness, however, ends the comparison. SECRET OF FRAME'S GREAT RESISTANCE. The secret of their great resistance lies in the manner of Constitution is built with ability to encounter without in- Jjury furious blows which are given a boat in a heavy seaway. Strain may be removed for an instant from the yacht’s hull, to be followed a moment later by the crushing impact of a The Herreshoff yacht rides the waves in absolute Indif- ference to these dangers. tain its model unchanged by so much as a fractional inch by the buffeting of the waves. The plates which cover Constitution’s framework are of bronze to just above the water line, where composition steel plating extends to the decks. plates is from six to eight thirty-seconds of an inch. Her steel hull is depended on to re- The thickness of these bronze A CHANCE TO SMILE. Lady (to clerk in clothing store)—I want a pair of trousers for my husband. Clerk—What size, madam? Lady—I don’t krow the size, but he wears a fifteen collar.—The Smart Set. “And don’t you believe in sharing with another, Ostend?” “No, ma’am! Last time I gave baby brother half of my jelly cake I had to give half of the money in my bank to pay the doctor’s bill.”—Chicago News. Jack—I just saw your wifs, old man; she was simply stunning. By the way, you're looking rather miserable yourselt. ‘What's up? Tom—Don't get enough norishment, that's all. You see, I arranged with my wife the first of the yegr to give her a certain amount each week, out of which she was to pay household expenses and buy her clothes.—Philadelphia Press. ‘““Was your club paper troublesome, Dorothy?” “‘Oh_ horrible! I ransacked eleven books and ate three pounds of chocolate cara- mels while I was getting it up.”—Detroit Free Press. ““What salary are you getting, old boy 7" “You have a brutal and discourteous way of putting it. 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