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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Che Soioe Call. SATURDAY......cccoueensenssnsnaa-JULY 6, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 B N s e ~—rr 2 R PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telepbone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Sfevemson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. -50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65c JSUNDAY CALL, One Year. :: WEEKLY, CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail 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. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts y (Long Distance Telephone “Central 261.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union BSquare; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—:27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 3:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:3) o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 179 Valencia, open until $ o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untll § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § m. AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—*“The Only Way.” Central—Davy Crockett.” Tivoli— Babes in the Wood.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*“Under Two Flags.” Alcazar—*8apho.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Spedlalties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. | Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. & Co—Monday, July 8, at 11 o'clock, et street. . H. Chase Marke ¥. Sommes. &t 8 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER, Oall subscribers contemplating a change ef Fesidence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail te their mew Sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office, This paper will also be on sale at all Sesoris and is represented by a local agemt im @il towss on the coast. TOO EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSION. OME of the labor organizations, in their memor- S ial for re-enactment of the Chinese exclusion law, demand that no Chinese except the Min- ister and Consuls and their necessary official force shall be permitted in the country. This would ex- clude Chinese merchants and practically establish commercial non-intercourse between the two coun- tries. To have trade with China we must have the means of distribution and exchange. We own no sea- ports on that coast. England does not need resident Chinese merchants, for she owns Hongkong as the base of her commerce. So Portugal owns Macao, Germany Kiaochau and Russia Port Arthur, while France is entrenched in Tonquin. But we have no such base. Our Chinese trade is largely controlled by Chinese merchants resident in this country, who practically establish the point of exchange here in- stead of upon their own coast. We say they control this trade, which means that they created it. They find in their own country a2 market for American goods, and buy the goods here and ship them for distribu- tion. It wilt be seen that if we exclude these mer- chants our trade with China will have to be carried on through the seaports of England or some other Euro- pean power. If we exclude Chinese merchants we must not expect her to admit American merchants, so that we carnot transfer the point of exchange to her soil and send American merchants there to effect the distribution. All expansion of foreign trade means demand for the product of our domestic labor, which implies steadier employment and wages. Any con- traction of foreign trade means the opposite of these. In the exclusion of Chinese merchants we can see only contraction, and if that view be correct we oppose such exclusion as being opposed to the interest of American labor and the growth and independence of American commerce. Already one-third the tariff revenues paid on this coast is upon the goods im- ported by Chinese merchants. At the existing rate of increase it will soon be one-half the total revenue. If they are forbidden commercial asylum here we know of no means by which this trade can be maintained. The reason for the exclusion law, and the only and sufficient reason ever given for it, is that Chinese coolie laborers compete on unequal terms with white American labor to the peril of the latter. To go be- yond that reason in a demand for continuance of exclusion is in danger of bring taken as a confession that it is not good and sufficient. It must not be forgotten that we have the East to deal with in this matter, and the coolie question there is subordinated to the commercial aspect of the issue. If we unify the demand for exclusion to include coolies and merchants there is grave danger that we may get no exclusion at all. On the exclusion of coolie labor our people are a unit. On the exclusicn of merchants they are not a upit. Is it useful, therefore, to so formulate the de- mand as to make us scem divided rather than united? e e . In the contest between John Alexander Dowie and a Georgia negro as to which is the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah it must be admitted that Dowie has the better color of title. It is announced that Gorman will be a candidate for the Senate from Maryland, but up to date there has been no sign of surprise about it. Bryan has at last a rival Bailey of Texas—the famous “Boy Bailey”—is in the hands of his friends, and they bave put him in the race. SPECULATIVE BANK FAILURES. HE'CALL has repeatedly warned the country T that the furor for speculation, which always accompanies good times, was likely to go to such extremes as to cause disastrous failures and make the conditions for a panic. The panic of 1857 came out of a clear sky and ensued upon a long period of prosperity. Its proxima.te cause was a speculative con- fidence in the rapidity of Western development. The Ohio Trust Company had invested and speculated in Western credits, and values had been inflated beyond a sound limit. Naturally that company had become the agent or trustee of moneyed concerns farther East, and when it found itself unable to carry its speculative load it fell and dragged credit and confidence down with it. There has been a well-grounded fear that the immense capitalizations of industries would repeat the conditions of 1857. The financing of ‘these great combinations involves a large number of institutions, which hold collateral that will perhaps shrink with prices. On a rising or stable market such securities are good, but they rapidly lose their integrity if prices fluctuate lower. It remains to be seen whether even such a colossal combination as the Steel Trust can stand. the hardship of a falling market and decreased consumption. It must not be taken for granted that such organizations are immortal and immune to the causes which affect credit. When financing them has strained all the strong banks in the country, none remain to come to the rescue of their credit, for the strong are already under them and the weak can only take care of themselves. If the story told about the Seventh National Bank of New York and the broker Marquand is true, it proves that the great industrial combinations have to imperil themselves in trying to preserve the conditions necessary to their credit. Marquand had undertaken to finance a coal road which would tap a region to be operated in opposition to the coal ¢combination. That organization, to save its own credit, found it neces- sary to destroy his, but in doing so it blew up a big bank, and might have started a panic that would have reacted upon its own securities and destroyed its own credit. There is no doubt that were our financial condi- tions the same as in 1803 the failure of the Seventh National would have started a panic. The explosion would have been felt in the United States Treasury, and in scuttling for cover its gold would have been drained and the national credit imperiled. People | forget how in 2 panic they depend upon the verities and not the fiction of value. When Phil Armour felt the panic of 1893 coming, he did not increase his line of credits, nor reach out for more paper securities. He began systematically to get gold, and did not stop un- til he had accumulated millions of it sufficient to carry him through. Those who reached for collateral did not get through. But in respect to the National Treasury, there is a change since 1893. Then the Harrison administration had seen it run empty and the Cleveland administra- tion received it in collapse. Now the gold standard is definitely established; the endless chain is cut, and there is a Treasury surplus of nearly eighty millions. Instead of being the first victim of a papic, the Treas- ury now is in a condition to put in practice the prin- ciple of first aid to the injured, financially. It is this change that isolates such failures as that of the Seventh National, and minimizes or postpones the consequences that may follow the great industrial cap- italizations. If one of these do break, it will be inter- esting to compare the results with those which fol- lowed the break of such a pigmy institution as the Ohio Trust Company in 18s7. The recent race of automobiles from Paris to Ber- lin caused so much disturhance along the roads that the French Government has forbidden the driving of the machines hereafter along public highways at a rate of speed faster than that permitted to horses. The sule may hold for a time, but in the end it will have to give way, for the automobile age cannot be held back to the pace of the past. e s PHILOSOPHY IN THE EAST. HILE the people of the East have been W sweltering and falling prostrate under the tefrific pressure of heat and humidity, the philesophers of the press have been discoursing wis- dom with all the serenity of gentlemen who never get heated except at election times. They have been tell- ing their readers to go slow and think cool things; have reminded them that hot weather is good for corn and watermelons, and in other ways have sought to persuade the sufferers that it will be worth while to survive the heated spell'so that they may be alive next winter when the cooling blizzards blow. The methods of treating the subject are various. The Boston Globe says: “The lesson for sweltering humanity when a hot wave surges over the length of the land never was put more aptly than by the old philosopher whose counsel was: ‘Be easy, keep easy; and if you can’t be easy, be as easy as you can.”” The New York Press strives for a new consolation. It says: “It would be sardonic for us to tell you to keep cool when you ¢éan’t keep cool, but we venture to re- mind you that we have had it much warmer and that you should be grateful now that it is not so warm as it will be before the summer is over.” By way of show- ing a complete cheerfulness, it adds: “The Press is an optimist on all questions save the regeneration of Tammany Hall; therefore, we say to you that the weather is particularly gracious in that it is uniform in its markings of temperature from day to day. Life is much more tolerable with an dverage thermometer reading of 82 from Monday to Saturday than with the mercury at 70 on Tuesday, at 95 on Wednesday, back again to 70 and up to 96 again.” ; The New York Sun, strangely enough, turns its attention from things of the day to things of night, which is a queer proceeding on the part of a sun. Despairing of finding any counsel fitted for the work- ing hours of life, it tells the New Yorkers how to sleep at night. One would suppose the instruction would be briefly thus: “Read the Sun and you will sleep”; but no such curt phrase ac that befits the subject. The Sun reviews various plans that have been proposed for producing sleep and finds none of them equal to the exigencies of a hot night. It says the mechanical tricks of repeating poetry or the multiplication table won't work; that hot baths and hot milk are an old story and are unsuited to the weather; that the plan of taking exercise is bad, for no one would get out of bed on a hot night to swing Indian clubs; that mus- cular relaxation and a mind emptied of thought can hardly avail anything, since it would not be casy to get much more relaxed or limp than one is already under the influence of the weather. After rejecting all plans hitherto put forward, the Sun offers one of its own. Itsays: “Let there be no clock or watch in the room. Then you won’t have to get up to see what time it is. If you smoke, smoke a cigar in bed. ' It is an infallible means of inducing sleep for some peaple. There are many excellent fire insurance companies, and \shonld anything happen you would never wake up. This is serious advice. There is no other remedy for sleeplessness that equals the smoking of a cigar in bed.” The New York Times cheers the public by arguing fhat the average New Yorker doesn't suffer from heat as much as he used to. It says that about thirty years ago “it was necessary in midsummer to establish emergency hospitals in the City Hall and elsewhere for the victims of the too ardent'sun, and the news- papers published daily lists that filled several columns and read like the reports sent home after a great battle. Nowadays a brief paragraph usually suffices, and yet the weather is just as hot, and the humidity just as high, as they used to be. The increased power of resistance to heat shown by the city’s population seems mysterious at first thought, but it is doubtless due to the same causes that have lowered the general death rate—to the improved conditions of life, and to the better personal habits, especially as regards eating and drinking.” 3 Perhaps there is no better consolation available than that. When it once gets into the head of the New Yorker that he is becoming used to the heat he will be ablegto bear it with something of equanimity. In fact, some generations from now there may be a species of human salamander inhabiting the city who will really like the heat and humidity and who will advertise their locality as the only summer resort in the world where one can have free Russian baths without having to leave his rooms. t —— In speaking about the war in South Africa in a re- cent address, Lord Salisbury called it “a great crisis,” and said: “We are defending the King’s territory against invasion by neighbors who, in international law, had no just complaint against us.” That is one way of putting it, but it doesn’t accord with. the gen- eral understanding of the facts, —— OUR GAME LAWS. THE season approaches in which the hunter of big game is interested in the game laws of Cal- ifornia. They are complicated in respect to the open and close season for certain game, the date dif- fering in different counties. ‘Oge feature of the game laws is common to them, we believe, in all the game States. They all provide penalties of the severest na- ture for having game in possession after the end of the open season, though it may be proved to have been taken when to take it was lawful. : The result of this law is that any game left in the hands of a dealer at the end of the season must be thrown awady and destroyed. It is a waste that makes the act of taking the game almost a sin. There is but one reason for taking game, and that is its use. . To take birds for their plumage alone and animals for their skins is an offense, because it implies a waste of food or a disturbance of the equilibrium of nature. It is a poor comment upon the intelligence of the law makers that the use of all game carried into the close season is forbidden, to the loss of its possessor | and of those who need it for food. We are aware that it will not do to supply the hunters with a motive for over-killing during. the season, to enable the dealers to carry over a stock. But this can be avoided by limking the quantity of each kind of game that may be carried over, so as to cover a legitimate surplus. There is too much tendency to so frame our game laws as to make it possible for only an exclusive few to take game at all. Those who need it for food are deprived of some of the best varieties, for its sale is prohibited. There is no less of such game taken, but its use is exclusive and the general public is practically prohibited. To them it is forbidden fruit. As much game is taken every year as if those fond of it were permitted to buy it in the market, so that the effect upon game preservation is no better than if sale and use were permitted. A revision of the game laws so that their exclusive features are eliminated and that good food need not be destroyed because the planet has made one more revo- lution would preserve game just as well, while per- mitting its enjoyment, lawfully, to more people. — The number of “unknown” persons who were pros- trated by heat in Boston during the hot spell was so large that the papers are advising citizens to tag and label themselves so that if they drop on the streets the police will know who they are and where to take them., THE RIGHT URSE. PRESIDENT SYMMES of the Merchants’ As- sociation announces in the current number of the Association Review that “there is an un- written and absolute law that this association cannot aid any-one to office or take a partisan stand in elec- tions.” He goes on to say: “Its principles are em- bodied in measures, not men. It seeks to obtain the best results from the conditions the voters give us. It is a voluntary aid to good government. A taint of politics would ruin its influence. Its freedom from it, and the thoroughly unselfish spirit of its workers, have established a high standard in the past, and it must maintain the same for the future.” The statement has been made to meet reports that President Symmes and the former president (Mr. Dohrmann) are among the candidates for the office of Mayor. Addressing himself definitely to the re- ports Mr. Symmes says: ,“As each of our names has been mentioned among the early candidates for the mayoralty, both Mr. Dohrmann and myself desire- it to be distinctly understood that neither one is a candidagey and neither one would accept a nomination if it might be offered.” . The rule which the officers of the association have thus voluntarily imposed upon themselves is unques- tionably a good one. The Merchants’ Association would soon lose its influence among the people, a considerable number of its members and a large part of its power for good if it undertook to advance the interests of any particular candidates or to set up can- didates of its own. It is now a powerful and use- ful organization, and has rendered effective service to the community in promoting many forms of mu- nicipal improvement, but it has managed to do all that solely because the people believe its officers and members are not seeking personal ends. President Symmes is therefore right in saying a taint of poli- tics would ruin its influence. It will doubtless be gratifying to the members to receive this clear and emphatic ?tement from the president, and the grati- fication will be shared by the community at large. L r———c The next thing is to make ready for the coming of the Epworth League. Every citizen in proportion to his medns should do the proper thing by subscribing to the entertainment fund and decorating his prem- ises. i T e T, The Springfield Republic_an refers to Cuba as “a plattamended island,” and while the word can hardly be pleasing to the Cubans, it is better to have their country amended that way than not amended at all. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1901, OLD LOG CABIN IN WHICH THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR WAS BORN, AND THOMAS T. THOMAS, A RICH NEGRO, WHO PLANS TO CONVERT THE FARM UPON WHICH THE CABIN STANDS INTO A HOME FOR e = =) THOSE WHO WERE ONCE SLAVES. probably be converted into a home - “L ex-slave, vid Crear of New York City, of the farm, for the purchase of the great emancipator. tire fortune to the carrying out of his of the North, it is sald, view the project coéntribute money when it assumes a more PERSONAL MENTION. e Dr Thomas Flint of San Juan is a guest at the Palace. Governor Gage is In the city and is stay- ing at the Palace. A. M. McDonald, a mining man of So- nora, is at the Lick. J. B. Chinn, a fruit-grower of Porter- ville, is at the Grand. E. Myron Wolf leaves to-day for a two weeks’ visit to Vichy Springs. J. M. Forgens, a prominent attorney of Santa Cruz, is staying at the California. Dr. T. A. Craw of Agnews Asylum ls at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Frank Cummings, the popular clerk of the Palace, left yesterday for a two weeks" vacation. Judge John F. Davis of Jacksonville, Amador County, registered at the Palace yesterday. C. M. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, arrived from Sac- ramento yesterday and is at the Lick. ‘W. S. Morrison, the well-known insur- ance man of San Jose, Is staying at the California. He is accompanied by his wife. James McCudden, the well-known naval contractor of Vallejo, arrived here on business yesterday. He is staying at the Grand. Dr. Weir Mitchell, the prominent physi- cian and author of Philadelphia, returned yesterday from Del Monte, and is at the Palace. Captain P. Bradley Strong, son of the late Mayor Strong of New York, returned from the Philippines yesterday and is at the Palace. Percy L. Schuman, ex-Lieutenant Gov- ernor of Illinois, arrived here yesterday from Chittenden, where he has been in- specting his many mining industries. He is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Dickinson, accompa- nied by a number of artists, will make a month’s stay at Lytton Springs. Several trips will be made through the picturesque country in the immediate neighborhood. Jules Clerfayt, formerly with the Penn< sylvania Lines in this city, has been ap- pointed general passenger agent in the United States of the International Sleeping Car and Buropean Express Trains Com- pany, with headquarters in this city. e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 5—The following Californians are at the hotels: P. C. Allen at the Earlington, Mrs. W. A: Barn at the Herald Square, W. A. Ber- nard at the Murray Hill, C. C. Bricken at the Imperial, C. P. Freeland at the Her- ald Square, E. Coleman and Miss P. Cole- man at the Tmperial, K. Fuhrman at the Sinclair, B. Georges at the FEarlington, Misgs R. Dingley, Mrs. M. Dlnglv. Mrs. C. F. Starke, at the St. Denis; *A. D. Spveet at the Herald Square, Mrs. J. Hecht at the Manhattan. Los Angeles—M. 8. Collins at the Im- perial, Miss H. L. Davie at the Astor, C. C. Desmond, L. Harris and wife at the Netherland; A. C. Moore and wife at the Astor. £ San Diego—F. H. Woodworth at the St. Denis. —— - Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 5.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Ralelgh—Fannie A. Charles, W. H. Chick- ering. Metropolitan—W. Maxwell. Shore- ham—T. W, Brooks. All of San Francisco. —_—eee————— > POWER OF A SONG. Foster’'s “Old Folks at Home” Is the most popular song in existence. It has been translated into all the languages of Europe and also into some of Asfa and the isles of the sea. The lines are poetic only In the sense of suggestion; they are so simple and artless that it would seem that any school child could pen them and improve upon them, but they express the sentiment of every homesick man or woman that ever lived. Compared iwith “The Old Folks at Home,” Kipling's “Mandalay,” which has been said by some high authorities to be the acme of homesick expression, is a disgusting emui- sion of beer and sensuality. There is an oft-told story of a regiment of trocps, with pay overdue four months, that was overtaken by the paymaster just as it reached a camp near a great city in which everything was “wide open.” Many of the men, with their pockets full of money, “broke guard” and returned to camp in a condition prejudicial to good order and | military discipline. The guard themselves became untrustworthy, good men though they had been on the march and in battle; the sober members of the regiment strove unsuccessfully to restrain the uncontrolla- ble, and the colonel gravitated between slaughter andfsuicide, when suddenly the leader of the band asked permission to try his hand on the disturbing element. Grouping his musiclans in the center of the camp he started “The Old Folks at Home," and played unceasingly for half an hour, when the officer of the guar: reported that the camp was entirely quiet, even the.most uproarious drunkards hav- ing wept themselves to sleep. INCOLN’S old homestead near Hodgensville, Ky., will is the plan of Thomas T. Thomas, a wealthy negro and e, who has entered into negotiations with Da- the Thomas has considerable wealth which ‘was left him several years ago by his former master, to whom he had been faithful unto death, and should the proposed pur- chase of the farm become a reality he will appropriate his en- Thomas claims to have the backing of several wealthy negroes of the North and East, and several prominent white citizens for ex-slaves. Such present owner birthplace of the original location. contemplated plans. with favor and will definite shape. The the ex-slaves. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PENNIES—Three Young Ladies, City, Pennies of 1850 and of 1861 do not command a preminm. BOSTON MASSACRE—R., City. The Boston massacre occurred on the night of the 5th of March, 1770. ACCORDION—J. D., City. This depart- ment cannot advertise the “name and ad- dress of a teacher of the accordion.” LABORER'S PAY—J. S. E., Presidlo, Cal. The average wages of laborers at the Union Iron Works is 20 cents per hour. MAGGIE MOORE—J. F. H., City. The last time that Maggie Moore, actress, ap- peared in San Francisco was at the Cali- fornia Theater. MARBLED SEALING WAX—L. B., City. Marbled sealing wax is made Ly mixing different kinds of sealing wax to- gether just as they begin to solidify. LANGUAGE OF STAMPS—Three Young Ladles, City. The so called language of stamps was published in this department of The Call in the issue of April 30, 190L MAYOR PHELAN—J. D. M., City. James D. Phelan is now serving his third term as Mayor of San Francisco, having been elected three times in uuccesflo‘n, i - TEACHERS—W. A. ., City. For fafor- mation about teachers in the Philippines and positions for such communicate with the recorder of the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, Cal. REPRODUCTION—H. §., San Mateo, Cal. Pictures in newspapers or maga- zines can be reproduced by means of the camera, the pantograph, sketching and the use of a specially prepared varnish for transferring. BAD BREATH—C. M., City. Bad breath in a person may be caused by decaying teeth or a disordered stomach. The rem- edy depends on the cause, and such can only be prescribed by a reliable physician after a diagnosis. OILED ROADS-B. J. €., Ledi, Cal While the use of oil has been found valua- ble for the purpose of keeping down the dust on roads it would not be advisable to use ofl for the purpose of packing the earth of reservoirs. CALIFORNIA PAPERS—C. & L., City. Files of the California newspapers can be seen at the Free Pub§c Library or at offices of newspaper agencies, the ad- dresses of which can be found in the classified part of the City Directory. FIVE DOLLARS—Miss D. S, City. A five dollar gold piece of the United States that does not bear on the reverse the motto “E Pluribus Unum’ does not com- mand a premium. Eastern catalogues rate those with the motto as commanding from $1 to $2 premium. HEIGHTS OF QUEBEC—W. G. R., City. This department has not the space to reproduce poems. If you will go to the Free Public Library you will there find “The Heights of Quebec.” You will also find there accounts of Arnqld’'s trea- son and of the attack on Boston. WHO WROTE IT—A correspondent to this department is very anxious to know who wrote a poem in which occur the lines: It easeth some, though none it ever cured, To think their dolors others have endured. The correspondent is also anxious to know where the poem is to be found. Can any of the readers inform him? BESSARABIA—A. G, City. Bessarabia, a frontier province of European Russia, is a part of ancient Dacla. After being possessed by the Goths, Huns and others it- was conquered by the Turks in 1474, seized by the Russians in 1770 and ceded to them in 1812. The part annexed to Roumanla was, in 1856, restored to Russia at the close of the war of 1878, in exchange for Dobrudscha, by the treaty of Berlin, July 13, and given up October 21, 1878, COUNTING IN CASINO—E. T., City. In playing the game of casino, if it is not understood that points shall be counted as they are made, then the following method prevails—cards, spades, big ca- sino, little casino, sweeps. When cards are even spades count first. If A had four points to go and B one point and A should make spades, little casino and two aces and B make big casino and two aces, cards being even, A wins, as he is entitled to count first and he makes enough to put him out. WEALTH OF DENMARK-L. (., Marshfleld, Or. Mulhall in his latest re- vised edition of statistics gives the fol- [16wing figures as to the wealth of Den- mark: Per inhabitant, rural $2, urban $525, total $1150; value of real estate per inhabitant, $20; personal property, $530, For statistics of exports of butter to Eng- land from Denmark in 1899 and %00, as well as of other products of the country and the number of creameries, address a communication to the United States Con- sul at Copenhagen. TO BUILD HOME FOR FORMER SLAVES UPON THE LINCOLN HOMESTEAD . d \ only obstruction to making his project a success, says Thomas, is the disinclination of Crear to sell his farm, although he has expressed a hope that the plan may become a reality. Should Crear decide to keep the farm he will offer the free use of it for the building of a home for ex-slaves. the original cabin in which the ex-President was born, which are at present on exhibition at the Pan-American Expositior., will be brought back to the farm and erected on the site of its Thomas -says that log cabins similar to that in which Lincoln was born will be built all over the farm for the homes of the ex-slaves, and that a fine building will be erected in the center for headquarters. not be used for habitation, but a magnificent bust of Lincoln will be made and erected in the center of the cabin. Additional land will be purchased and cultivated to supply provisions for The logs comprising The original eabin will L e i e e e e e e e e L A CHANCE TO SMILE. It was a Frenchman who, in writing to an acquaintance, said: “I left my knife at your office yesterday. If you find it please send it to me. Yours, Le Roque. “P. S.—Since writing this I have found my knife, so you need not trouble to send i “I see that thesNew York Sun has re- ceived a number of suggestions for nam- ing that proposed woman’s hotel in the big city. Somebody advocates ‘Hotel des Dames.’ “Sounds Frenchy, doesn’t 1t? Besides, there wouldn’t be one New Yorker in 10,- 000 who could pronounce it.” “Well, what do you think of ‘Angels’ Roost’ 7" “Suggests roosters.” “How about ‘The Honey Comb’?" “It might do if the rooms were en suite.” “Then there’s ‘The Eva.’” “Suggests ascending to the skies.” “What's the matter with ‘The Joan d’Arc?” ‘Too much flavor of burnt stake about it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Youah teeth twubbling you again, Weggle, deah boy? Why don’t you go to youah wegular dentist, then?” “Because, deah chappie, I learned to-day that he doesn’t even fill his own teeth, and a fellah who hasn’t that much con- fidence in himself I'm afwaid to twust, don’t you see?’—Harlem Life. ““What we needs in dis country ter-day,” sald the old colored parson, “is moi hell in religion. A man came 'long heah some time ago, endurin’ my absencs, after I got married en wuz off by myse't enjoy- in’ er my homeymoon, en preach a sar- mont in de which he 'lowed dat hell wuz gettin’ cooler every day dat de brim- stone wuz givin' out, de matches wuz wet, en de coal wuz gwine, en atter dat it wuz onpossible ter git a quorum in de meetin’ house! De congregation went off en give a big barbacue, en sold all dey bymn books fer a song.. En ter dis day dar's some er.dem dat won't b'Teve in fire en brimstone twell dey see it blaze.” —Atlanta Constitution. Trying to Place It.—Tealher (on May D—To-day is the anniversary of a fa- mous battle, Tommy. Can you tell where that battle occurred? Tommy Tuft (after thinking hard)—Was it between heavyweights or the little fal- lows?—Puck. Mrs. Catterson—I thought T would come S.nguteu 'y'?uh that your Harold has been ghting th my Bobbi matter 1f I could. sry b Mrs. Hatterson—Well, for my part, T have no time to enter into any discussion about children’s quarrels. I hope I am above such things. “I'm delighted to hear that. Harold over on a stretcher in an so.”—Harper’s Bazar. 'l send hour or “Yes,” said the Rev. Mr. Goodman, “1 am Sorry to say that thers is a vast dif- ference between my brother and myself. Two years ago we visited the Holy Land and the River Jordan. 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