The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1901, Page 6

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Central—"Held by the Enemy.’ Tivoli—“‘Babes in the Wood.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*"Under Two Flags.” Alcazar—*The School for Scandal Grand Opera-hbuse—*‘Secret Service. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By W. M. G. Layng—Thursday, July 11, Horses, at 721 Howard street. was 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Call! subscribers contemplating a change of vesidence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Sesorts and is represented by a local ageat iz @ll tewss en the coast. BOER AND BRITON. HE reports of the United States military at- T taches of the Boer and British armies in South Africa are now both out and supply much inter- esting information and some less interesting opinions. Captain Reichmann, who was with the Boers, says they lacked discipline, though as men they are of a very superior order. He will not be credited, how- ever, when he declares that the foreigners in the Boer army, “though few in number, were its aggressive element.” The sense of initiative and independence which he found among the minor officers astonishing. When an order did not suit one of these he simply disregarded it. This may have hindered concentration and co-operative movement and prevented many a de- cisive blow. But initiative is not without value even in a private soldier. In a stay of seven months with the Boers in their camps and on their marches Cap- tain Reichmann saw no drunkenness and heard no profane word uttered. After the day’s march or bat- tle these fighters read their Bibles and sang hymns. They we¥e more pained at the slaughter of the Brit- ish effected by their own sure aim than by the casu- alties on their own side. They have been charged with violation of the rules of war. A foreign attache to an army cannot say much on such a subject, so when Captain Reichmann says, “If there were any violations of the rules of war they were not all on one side,” it means much. Captain Slocum’s report of his experiences with the British army is of less value, because from beginning to end it betrays a toadying spirit, and is more de- voted criticizing the Boers than to recording the militafy means and methods employed by the Brit- ish. He takes occasion to say that the Boers lack staying qualities. As they have stayed by the fight for their independence for two years, though out- numbered ten to one in men and guns and a thousand to one in resources, isolated and without an expres- sion of official sympathy from any part of the world, Captain Slocum might have omitted that slur and de- voted himself to reporting British military operations, which was his errand in South Africa. He says the British have failed in taking the most ordinary military precautions and in neglecting to en- trench, but their discipline is splendid, courage superb and staying qualities beyond praise. He does not en- lighten us as to their skill in avoiding or using pro- fanity, and apparently was not impressed by their ten- dency to read Scripture and sing the songs of Zion in 2 strange land. e Considering that this is deemed a year of prosperity, the calamity record is extremely high. The spring was marked by disastrous floods and the summer has been one of almost unprecedented severity, while in addi- tion to what the weather has done, there have been an unusually large number of great fires and railway acci- dents. One of the Jeading churches in Omaha has adopted 2 rule that women shall remove their hats upon en- tering the pews to attend service, and now the Omaha folks will Jearn whether women go to church to wor- ship or to show their bonnets. If it be true that there is a demand in London for American restaurants the British business man must at last have made up Lis mind to do the rush act and San Francisco is going to be surprised to find how many people have good sites for libraries and how hard jt will be to select the best, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1901. LEWIS WILKINS, AN AMERICAN, FACT, OR FANATICISM? T the last monthly meeting of the Methodist A ministers of Chicago the army canteen came in for special treatment. It is a subject which | some people seem incapable of approaching in any other than a fanatical attitude. Men and women who can reason upon other things lose their reason when they use the vocabulary of “reform.” Enlisted men in our regular army are not all members of the Band of Hope nor graduates of the various thedlogical seminaries. They are the average of all the nation- alities to which we give an asylum. The army can- teen found them the prey of the deadfalls that exist around every army post, and it gave them light drinks, a reading-room, books and newspapers, and was the post club. The army officers testified to the moral and physical improvement of the men. In the can- teen they had access to the use of light wines and beer, were excluded from whisky and other distilled and highly alcoholic liquors, and their appetite for something of that kind was satisfied without making them drunk or bringing them into degrading associa- tions. The profits madg on the light liquors and lunches went into a common fund to stock the post library. To the reasonable but perhaps unregenerate man this séemed a great advance over the old dead- fall system, which consisted of a mixture of the worst \ whisky with the worst vices that tempt men and transform them into devils. But not so with the re- generate and exalted. To them the old way was pre- ferable, and they smote the canteen until Congress, in great haste, kicked it out. Chicago was the first scene of the celebration of this great victory. Spick and span new deadfalls rose around Fort Sheridan, and first payday that vicinity was given over to sodden drunkenness, debauchery and disorder. The same results have followed the abolition of the canteen everywhere. The harm done by the change has been observed and testified to by thousands. Enlisted men of the better class and of- ficers have given their testimony, but the reformer is impervious to facts. Fanaticism has nothing to do with facts. So that class of people who go about doing harm from good motives have set out to kick the dead canteen. . The Chicago Methodist ministers were addressed on the subject by Rev. William P. F. Ferguson. That reverend gentleman, among other things, said: “The flood of beer received by Shafter’s army was worse than the scanty rations. The canteen was the cause of the sickness that broke out in the army before San- tiago. The canteen is like all other saloons in its re- sults. Murder, suicide and riot have followed in its wake. It has been condemned by army officers and privates alike. The liquor dealers, however, favor its presence. They say tle soldiers begin their sprees in- side and finish them outside. - Chaplains in the army are afraid to talk against the evil. They have been ordered from Washington to cease reporting about the Government saloons. The men whe have repeatedly said that in the absence of the canteen drunkenness has increased and riots have been incited have grossly slandered the soldiers.” Now there are several statements that are facts or falsehoods, which? Did the use of the light beers and wines furnished in the canteen sicken Shafter’s army? Did that hastily mobilized force have the canteen along? Did the cariteen destroy the most of a British army, which once died in front of Santiago, failing to capture it, where Shafter succeeded? What evidence is there that taking soldiers away from the bad whisky and worse associates of the deadfall and giving them a reading-room, library and liquors with only 9 per cent of alcohol was followed by “murder, suicide and riot”? The enlisted man must be a singular person if he is a Christian gentleman on rotten whisky and a brute on light beer. Mr. Ferguson has made another discovery which will be challenged. When, where and to whom did the deadifall keepers favor the canteen? If they said, “The soldiers begin their sprees inside and finish them outside,” to whom did they say it? This reverend gentleman-also states as a fact that army chaplains have been ordered from Washington | to cease reporting about the canteen. Ordered by | whom? Only the President or the Secretary of War | could issue such an order. Which has done it? Army orders are not secret. They are matters of record. Can this ordained man produce such an order, or any one who has seen or received it? His charge is a serious one against the President and Secretary. Does any one believe that eitHer has issued such an order? If it has not been issued what must be said of the veracity of Rev. Mr. Ferguson? We are no champion of the canteen. It was better than the system it superseded. But such talk as the Rev. Mr. Ferguson's will raise up friends for it rather than enemies. The time has passed when state- ments made in such a discussion are received as facts | simply because of the cloth of the 'man who makes | them. T fiscal year just closed explain the industrial panic that has taken possession of Europe in fear of American competition. Qur total exports amounted to a billion and a half in round numbers. Agriculture furnished 65 per cent and manufactures 27 per cent of that vast total. No other country exported {an equal amount, and several that call themselves | commercial nations did not equal it. The details of the business for May and June are not yet complete, but during the first ten months of the fiscal year we exported to the value of $1,155,000,000 to Europe; to other North American countries, $195,000; to South America, $44,000,000; Asia, $48,000,000; Oceanica, $36,- 000,000; Africa, $26,000,000. Europe, of course, remains our best customer. The standard of living there is higher than in the other grand divisions, and the wants of life are greater. The only discouraging feature in the statistics is the low state of our South American trade. The cause is largely political. Public sentiment there has set against us since the Spanish war. Another more corrigible reason is the lack of North American mer- chants in South America and of South American merchants in North America. The trade is a hap- hazard, catch-as-catch-can affair, with but little study of complimentary production and adaptation to the taste of consumers. Germany, England, France and Italy have subjects engaged in trade from the Rio Grande'to the Straits of Magellan. They find out the absorbent capacity of the market, study its taste and feed it with the sur- plus of their respective countries, These merchants have the same influence upon trade as the Chinese merchants domiciled here. It will be an excellent thing when American com- mercia] enterprise shall locate in South America. It is complained that commercial colonists there have to face instability of protection to person and property, and that other countries protect their citizens and subjects and practically extend the power | of the home law over their foreign inyestments, So « . THE YEAR'S TRADE. HE statistics of American commerce for Z¢he far our Government has failed in this respect. The policy is bad. This Government should promptly compel respect for the rights of its citizens abroad. We get no trade by the opposite policy and have none to lose by letting the other Americas know that our flag is over the head of every citizen of this republic. Sonte firmness and promptness in this direction will probably take some of the shame and sting out of future statistics of our trade with our southern neigh- bors. 4 W the gift of Andrew Carnegie of $750,000 to San Francisco for library purpoées there arose many expressions of delight from the unreflect- ing. The Mayor, who had solicited the giit, showed a disposition to pose as if he himseli were the bene- factor, and in some circles there was an evident ten- dency to do him honor. Now, however, the public has had time to consider the gift and its meaning, and_it is perceived that the whole affair puts San Francisco in a false light and goes far to discredit her. There are many objectionable features in the trans- action. In the first place there is something dis- pleasing to every self-respecting citizen in the fact that the Mayor should have put the city in the atti- tude of a beggar going about begging from outsid- ers money to supply any of the needs of the com- munity. Mr. Carnegie is not now nor has ever been in any way identified with San Francisco. He is a rich man upon whom we have no cla'ims, either sen- timental or otherwise. In soliciting money from him the Mayor was literally begging from strangers. It was putting San Francisco in the position of one ghat secks charity and is indifferent from what hand it comes, MR. CARNEGIE'S GIFT. HEN first the announcement was made of act of liberality from a friend, but as a dole conceded in response to solicitation. Under the circumstances it is not surprising to learn that it does not come to us as a free gift. The giver dictates the manner in which it shall be used and exacts from us more than he gives. We are to furnish sites for the central li- brary building and for the buildingg for the branch libraries. We are, furthermore, to expend $75,000 a year to maintain the libraries, so that without count- ing the cost of the sites we are within ten years to furnish for maintenance a sum equal to the whole of the solicited donation. It will be seen that Mr. Car- negie drives as shrewd a bargain in philanthropy as ever he did in business. He requires the city to fur- nish him a site’on which to erect a monument to his liberality, and then to support it forever after. The form in which this solicited gift comes to us is unfamiliar. The people of San Francisco and of California generally have received many giits from our own millionaires, but none of them has been made a | matter of bargain. The noble benefactions of Lick, Stanford, Wilmerding and others have been free gifts to the people. In no case has the donor imposed a tax upon the public to maintain an institution de- signed to perpetuate his memory and to benefit the community. The full freedom of the gifts made by the spontaneous liberality of generous men who ac- quired their wealth in California and were identified with the community is thus in striking contrast with the conditions imposed upon the comparatively small sum which Mr. Carnegie has vouchsafed to bestow in response to the begging of the Mayor. Stanford, Lick and others gave millions, and the public was not asked to expend one cent for maintenance of any institution they founded; but for Mr. Carnegie’s $750,- 000 we must give sites that will cost many thousands of dollars, and in addition must provide $75,000 a year so long as the city stands. £ It is not surprising that the people are not enthu- siastic over the success of the Mayor as a solicitor of charity. This city, which is rich and liberal enough to provide for all of its wants, is set before the coun- try in the position of a beggarly town compelled to ask aid from outsiders. it is gratifying to know that the Mayor was authorized to enter upon any such solicitation. begging was not done by San Francisco. un- TECHNICAL TRAINING WANTED. ROM our Eastern exchanges we learn that at the F commencement exercises of one of the higher institutions of tcchnical instruction there was a frequent announcement in the distribution of dipl(v‘mas | of the phrase “graduated but not present.” The ex- planation of the absence of so many students from demand they could not wait to complete the college course, and the president had given them permission to go out and enter upon their work without forfeiting their diplomas. It is admitted that the case is an exceptional one. Rarely has there been such a demand for specially trained men as at this time when so many great in- dustrial enterprises are being reorganized and so many new enterprises undertaken. Even under the excep- tional circumstances, however, the fact is significant of the prestige which technical training has now ac- quired in the business world. It proves the value of education in industrial arts and applied sciences, and effectually refutes the recent statement of Mr. | Schwab of the Steel Trust that college training is of no benefit to young men in business. The British of late have had occasion to make an earnest study of the causes that have enabled the Germans and the Americans to become such potent competitors for the trade of the world, and one of them in summing up the opinions of experts on the subject says: “With one voice they ascribe the sub- ordination of British supremacy to American and German competition to the higher technical knowl- edge which prevails” in the two latter countries, whereby craft is developed under scientific direction and initiative.” These experiences in the East should give a new stimulus to technical education in California. * We ‘have as yet no school of that sort equal to the higher technical schools in the East. In this city there are three foundations for technical instruction, and if they could be combined so as to work together it is prob- able that out of them a really great technical college might be built up. Technical training of a high order is a need of the time and we should not have to go abroad to get it. —— ! The Springfield Republican says the Republican party has never nominated a New Yorker for the Presidency and argues therefrom that Roosevelt has reached the limit. It seems never to have occurred to our learned contemporary*that the gifted Teddy might settle in Oklahoma and make the race as a rough rider. ) : el e An Indiana Judge has sentenced a man to jail for stealing an umbrella, and it would seem that -the light of justice has at last begun to dawn uponya y wicked world, The gift comes to us, then, not as a spontaneous } Under these circumstances | The | the exercises is that their services were so much in | BIGGE HERE fis glory of a sort and the satisfaction of physical superiority, but also a vast number of inconve- niences, in being the biggest man in the world. Just now this title belongs to a 26-year- old American, Lewis Wilkins of St. Paul, Minn., whose inches are earning for him ¥ ST MAN IN —_ L STRETCHED ARM. MR. WILKINS CAN “TIP THE SCALES” AGAINST TWO 180-POUND MEN AND CAN WITH EASE SUPPORT A MAN'S WEIGHT ON HIS OUT- S an_excellent salary in a TLondon music hall, says the New York World. The figures attesting the physical su- premacy of the young Coliath, who is bound to look over the heads of the whole human race as long as he lives, have probably never been matched in this age { of the world. Bid your dmagination travel its liveliest pace and see if it will reach the concep- tion of a perfectly proportioned human being who is 8 feet and 2 inches tall, with a chest measure of 66 inches, a weight of 24 pounds, a hand that requires a No. 14 glove and who wears a No. 25 shoe—is there such number known to the shoe- maker's art? As a result of appalling dimensions the young giant, who is amiable enough in appearance, has led a most peaceful life. He declares that he has never yet found any one willing to quarrel with him. PERSONAL MENTION. T. R. Sheridan, a banker of Rosenberg, is staying at the Lick. A. Chilberg, a prominent banker of Seat- tle, is staying at the Grand. R. Robertson, * manager of Springs, is staying at the Lick. M. B. Martin, a well-known rancher of Pacheco, is a guest at the Grand. Colonel W. Forsyth, the extensive raisin grower of Fresno, is at the Occidental. F. C. Havemeyer of New York, nephew of the great sugar King, ts at the Paiace. L. J. Evans, a shoe merchant of Stock- ton, is a guest for a few days at the Grand. Mrs. J. M. Bell, wife of General Bell, arrived from Maniia yesterday and is at the Palace. L. H. Littlefield, a prominent young club man of Providence, R. L, Is staying at the Palace. J. Craig, proprietor of Highland Springs, | arrived from Woodland yesterday and is at the Grand. L. L. McCoy, a prominent attorney of Red Bluff, is staying at the Gigged. He is accompanied by his wife. Frank Carolan and wife and Mrs. W. S. Hobart are up from Burlingame for a few days and are at the Palace. E. K. Smart, a mining man and store- keeper at Grass Valley, is in the city on | business. He is at the Grand. E. O. McCormick, general traffic manager of the Southern Pacifie, returned from Salt Lake yesterday. A. C. Rosedale, a merchant of Pacific Grove, is in the city on business and has made his headquarters at the Grand. A. P. Stevens, traveling passenger agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, left vesterday for a business trip to the Sound. Captains Davis and Goodwin, officers in the English army, arrived from China yesterday, en route to England. They are at the Palace. United States District Judge de Haven | has gone to Eureka, Humboldt County, Gilroy | on a month’s vacation. He will return on the second Tuesday in August. John G. Mott, a prominent attorney and exalted ruler of the Elks of Los Angele: returned to Southern Czlifornia yesterda after being the guest of Willlam Hum- phreys for several days. e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 8—The following | Californians are in New York: From sSan Francisco—F. Bell, at Astor; W. C. Bun- ner and wife, at New Amsterdam; W. D. Forbes, at Gilsey; S. W. Hard, at Metro- politan; A. Le Breton, at Amsterdam; R. E. Queen and wife, Miss Queen, at Hol- land; F. Ruechan and wife, at Belviderc; C. C. Rledy, at Imperial; F. H. Robbins, at Marlborough, W. P. Shaw, at Park Avenue; Miss E. H. Withrow, Miss M. Withrow, Mrs. H. K. Withrow, at New Amsterdam; R. H. Shérman, at Manhat- tan; A. L. Whitney, at Holland; M. Cohen, at Hoffman. From Los Angeles—W. Cor- kins, at St. Denis. PR % Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 8.—The following Californians arrived to-day and registered at the St. James—J. K. Eldridge, Califor- nia. At the National—R. S. Lincoln of San Francisco. The coast and geodetic survey Is prepar- ing a map of the wcrld for what is known as the “war room” at the White House. This room was arranged during the Span- ish-American war for the President to watch the movement of ships and troops by means of meps placed upon the walls. On these maps were recorded the location of each regiment, company and ship, and in the rocm were the telesraphic and cable instruments. The new map will cover the whole west side of the room and will be about thirty feet by fifteen feet in dimensions. It shows the location of all the cables in the world, all the coaling stations an@ ail the docks where ships may be repaired. Even the smallest islands are so marked as to show the sovereignty to which they are sub- ject. A considzrable number of these lit- tle places are shown to be subject to the United States, through their acquisition for various purposes by American eciti- zens. Officials of the coast survey. say they have had a great deal of trouble in mak- ing this map up to date. Atlases and geo- graphical textbooks are behind the times, so rapidly are changes made in these days on the map of the world. The survey has accordingly gonme to first-hand sources through consular inquiries and in other passenger | 3 | Dr. Ralph Huntington, tried before Judge | o 2 Nevertheless, he has his troubles. One of them is the attention he attracts. This unfortunate Guliiver is doomed to be on exhibition his life long, to be eternally stared at by throngs of wondering Lilli- puts, never to be able to take a comfort- able casual stroll unless he finds some {lesi!olate desert or untrodden prairie to do t in. Wherever there are human beings with eyes there Lewis Wilkins is regarded as a free show. Another unfortunate point about being a giant is the expense. It is the most costly role there is. Mr. Wilkins sadly says a man cannot get through life as a giant without pay- ing more than double for pretty nearly everything except fresh air and soil to walk on. The glant’'s reckoning days with his tailor are a serious matter. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HOOSIER SCHOOLMAS —S., City. The novel known as the “Hoosier School- master’”” was written by E. Eggleston. MILITARY TACTICS—A. L., City. There are a number of professors of mili- tary tactics at universities and high srade | military colleges, but there is none at the Presidio. NOT A RARE COIN—A. C. R., Oakland, Cal. A half dollar of 188 coined at the | branch mint in New Orleans is not a fare coin and it does not command a premium from dealers. THEATERS—Subscriber, City. The seat- Ing capacity of the Grand Opera-house in Sar. Frarcisco is said to be about 2500, that of the Orpheum about 2000 and that of the Central Theater about 1750. BICYCLE CLUB—C. E. A, City. If a | club of ‘amateur bicycle riders desire to | join the League of American Wheelmen | they should communicate with Abbott Bassett, secretary, 530 Atlantic avenue, Boston, Mass. OLD PAPERS—L. B., City. The value of newspapers one hundred years old is | graduated by the scarcity of the papers and the demand for such curios. There Is no fixed price for old newspapers printed a century or more ago. Reprints of such have no value. RALPH HUNTINGTON—J. C. A., City. | Lawler and a jury for the murder of Jen- | nle McKewen, was found guilty of man- slaughter and was sentenced on the 20th of last February to imprisonment in San Quentin for ten yvears. HOMESTEAD—S. W. K., Carters, Cal A man who settles on United States land | under the provisions of the homestead | law must comply with-all the conditions of that law before he is entitled to a pat- ent from the Government, and until he does obtain such patent he does not ac- quire any proprietary right in the land; consequently it is not his to dispose of until he does obtain his patent. HARDWOOD FLOORS—N., Oakland, Cal. Hardwood floors are polished with a mixture made as follows: A pound of the best beeswax is cut into small pieces and allowed to clve in three pints of turpentine. The mixture should be only a little thicker than the clear turpentine. It is applied to the floor with a rag, the flogr being smooth and perfectly clean. It requires practice to know how to apply the mixture, as too little or too much will not result in a good polish. Less is re- quired for close-grained wood. Profes- sional waxers are often compelled to ex- periment before they proceed with the wyork. I MASTER OR MATE—Suv., City. No one can ‘obtain a license to serve as master or mate on a vessel, steam or sail, unless he has had sea service. An appli- cant may be licensed as master or mate of ocean or coast steamers if the appli- cant for the first named position served five years on-a sall vessel, two years of which as master, and for the latter if the applicant has served five years on sailing vessels, two years of which as chief mate. Any person who served as master of any steamer of the United States at the time a license was not re- quired can obtain a license as master. As to sailing vessels no one can be licensed as master who has not served a full term of one year as chief mate, and no one shall be licensed as chief mate who can- not show by documentary evidence that he had full three years' experience on sailing vessels of 300 gross tons and up- ward. TRADE DOLLAR-L. C. M., Yountville, Cal, Congress by an act passed in authorized the coinage of a coin designated as the trade dollar, to contain 420 grains of silver. While such coin was not in- tended for general circulation as doliars, but for the convenience of merchants for export to the Orient, the weight and fine- .ness being marked on the coin, it was by the act made legal tender to the amount of $. The trade dollars did not get into circulation, and the declire in sflver ren- dered the coinage of silver bullion into trads dollars for circulation profitable to holders of builion, as the actual value was less than that of the standard dollar. In +| 1876 the clause in the act making the trade dollar a legal tender was. repealed, the coinage was then restricted and in April, 1878, suspended. Congress deemed that, many having icken such dollars on the strength of the name dollar, it was right to indemnify the holders, so the Forty- ninth Congress provided for the redemp- tion of ail trade dollars presented at the ways, and the map is said to be absolute- l yel:"::d Stat;;;:e;x;?fivglnmm:% %&e:i 1y accurate, z out of a coinage of $35,965,924, i0 s hg N IN_THE WORLD Twice as much material, more than twice as much work, insists the tailor, And the giant is forced to pay §75 each for the cheapest suits he has. Hats, boots and gloves have also to bé made especially for him. The circumfer- ence of his hat where it fits his head is twenty-seven inches. A comforting fea- ture is that it never gets mixed up with other people’s hats. The pgia‘x)n's gloves you will be able to picture when you know that his third fin- ger is 1% inches in diameter and 4! inches in_circumference. The hand itseif measures five inches across the palm and twelve inches from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger. When opened to its utmost his hand will span thirteen inches. His friends declare that Mr. Wilkins' handshake is a formid- able affair. . A The giant has achieved considerable prowess as an athlete, his skill in this di- rection having shown its practical value last summer at Atlantic City, when Mr. Wilkins saved a man and a woman from drowning by wading in the water up to his neck and with all his clothes on when he heard their cries for help. Swimming and riding are his favorite sports, while he also improves his physi- cal condition with bag-punching and the Sandow exerciser used indoors. His . interests are not exclusively athe letic. He is an excellent linguist, a stamp and coin collector and actively in- terested in politics, his affiliations being Republican. ¢ L e e e e B 0 e e e e e . A CHANCE TO SMILE. “I heard you had a cow for sale,” be- gan the amateur, “and as I'm thinking of buying ome I—" “Wall,” interrupted the farmer, “that's thet Jarsey. | good p'int in her thet—" “O! Gracious! That would never do. I'd need a quart at least.”—Indianapolis | News. professional Thar’s one In casting up accounts relating to the Boer war, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach ad- mits that $100,600,000 has already been | spent. He further estimates that it will cost | $250,000,000 to finish up the account, or $950,000,000 in all. The Eng.sh voter may well ask him- self if he has not paid too much for his whistle.—Atlanta Constitution. The Chinese mob, become In a measure imbued with Western idegls, were re- | solved to lynch the miscreant, tut with certain deference to ancient custom. Accordingly they beat down the doors of the prison and handed the wretched fellow a pistol with which to commit sui- cide. Then, with a loud cheer, they dispersed. Conspicuous in the mob were the most prominent men of the place.—Detroit Journal. g The late Bishop of Oxford was not a man too much wrapped up in dry studies to be able to turn a joke. The following rather mordant epigram came from his pen at the time when Kingsley had re- signed his professorship of history at Cambridge, with some disparaging re- marks on thaj study. and Froude had said in his rectorial address at St. Andrews that history had been corrupted by the clergy: “While Froude instructs the Scottish youth That parsons never tell the truth, The Reverend Canon Kingsley cries That history’'s a pack of lies. These strange reswits who shall combine? One plain reflection solves the mystery— That Froude thinks Kingsley a divine, And Kingsley goes.to Froude for his- tory.” —London Chronicle, “Ah, me!" she siged, and tears welled from her eyes. Fortescue St. Cyril bent down until his breath all but swept her low, broad fores head. “Do you know what will knock that cold?” he asked, earnestly. She looked quickly up info his face, and it was what she saw there, rather than his words, that told her he loved her. “Quinine and?” she faltered, shyly, for it seemed up to her to say something.— Detroit Journal. “A’ year or two ago,” said a youns man to a friend, “I spent a few weeks at south coast watering places. One day I saw a machine which bore the inseription, ‘Drop a penny in the slot and learn how to make your trousers last’ As I hadn't a great deal of mfonev I thought an invest- ment of a penny to thow me how to save the purchase of a pair of trousers would | be small capital put to good use, so I dropped the requircd coin in and a card appeared. 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