The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1901. ’ G‘l’ e - % ,?!'g;}‘hc? q[all s ee s JUEY 33, Y901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE .Telephone Press 204 ) _Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Per Week. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cen Single Copies, 5 Ce Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), € months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. f5c. SUNDAY CALL. One Year. ig WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receilve subscriptions. Sampls coples Wwill be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. <....1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago l‘(!;flfl‘ xg:‘eu.u:e Telephone “‘Central 2618.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. .... .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astorta Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES-—27 Montgomery, correi of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open auntil #:3) o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 8 o'clock. 1(8 Valencla, open unt!l 8 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 8 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll 9 p. m. _——————————_— AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*Tnder Two Flags. Alcazar—*“The School for Scandal. Grand Opera-bouse—*‘Secret Servic Central—"Held by the Enemy." Tivoli—Babes in the Wood.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. tes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and eveninz Fischer's—Vaudeville Recreation Park—Baseball. Recreation Park—Baseball, Sunday, at 10:30 a. m. Zoo and Theater—French National Celebration, 4 is—Swimming. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change ot residesce during the summer months can have | their psper forwarded by mail to their new | sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer | resorts and is represented by a local agent im &il towss on the coast. LIGHTS IN YOSEMITE. B taken steps toward establishing an electric light plant in the vzlley, certain members of the Sierra Club have been moved to protest. They de- clare in effect that electric lights in the wonderful valley would be in the manner of vandalism, a species of sacrilege, a blasphemy against nature. They have set in me the commissioners, and are appealing to the public to support them in their efforts to prevent what they are pleased to call a desecration of that sublime scenery. Rarely has there been in this State a more striking illustration of much zdo about nothing. An electric light and power plant in the valley will not be a dese- cration any more than the lighting of a camp fire or a tallow candle. Nature does not supply man with any light by night except that given by the stars and the "moon, and when he provides himself with any other he introduces artificiality. An electric light differs from the light of a candle only in the degree of the art exercised. since there is a hotel in the valley, and since numbers of people congregate there, it is necessary to supply them with some kind of light, and in this age of the world it would be folly to insist upon the tallow candle or the oil lamp. By some strange freak of misunderstanding, the people who are protesting against the electric plant have got it into their minds that the commissioners purposed to string clectric lights up the cliffs and down the s and across every salient point of the vast landscape so as to make the valley resplendent as a midway. Just how such a scheme could be carried out they 2dmit they cannot understand, for the cost of it would be enormous, even if the difficulties could be Such considerations should convince the angry protestors that it cannot be the purpose of the commissionets to undertake such a scheme, but evi- dently theyhave beentoomuch excited to think calmly on the subject. One of them is reported as saying: “Just fancy, with the machinery once installed, what. commercial commissioners could accomplish with the everlasting power there is at hand. I can see the name and face of some ambitious Governor outlined in incandescents on one of the domes.” All assertions of that kind are utterly unjustified and uncalled for. At the last session of the Legisla- ture an appropriation was made for a pumping plant and an electric light system. Those conveniences of modern life are necessary for human comfort. The roads must be sprinkled and the hotel ‘and houses must be lighted, and the best way to accomplish those things is to make use of the best appliances for such purposes that the ingenuity of civilized man has devised. One of the points of which the antagonists of the electric plant make the most is that when the plant js established it will be possible for the commissioners at some time to turn an electric flashlight upon El Capitan or Yosemite Falls. Such a thing, they declare, would certainly be desecration. Tt would not be easy, however, for any of them to specify how a flash of light would injure either the mountain or the water. As a matter of fact, such a plant as can be provided with the appropriation at their disposal will hardly furnish the commissioners with any large amount of power to throw away in making flashlight illumina- tions. Tt is safe to say they could not, if they would, make the valley look like a New York roof garden. The whole agitation appears to be the result of a misunderstanding of the purposes of the commission- ers and the right uses of the valley for the enjoyment of human beings. If it be permissible for men to visit Yosemite, then it is permissible for them to have lights and roads, and if they are to have such things, then pumping plants znd electric dynamos are essen- tial. Either, therefore, we should provide such things or e'se shut men and women out of the valley alto- gether. ECAUSE the Yosemite Commissioners have overcome. ion a sort of agitation against the plans of |, 1t will be conceded by every sane man that | ADVERTISING THE STATE. N his address to the State Board of Trade descrip- tive of the Californid exhibit at the Buffalo Exposi- | Ition, William H. Mills made several suggestions of great value. No man in the State has made amore pro- found study of its resources, its internal economy, and also of the state of mindand point of view of thepeople who may be induced to immigrate here. Mr. Mills is convinced that it is not useful to present California to the intending immigrant in terms of California ex- pression, but in terms familiar to the immigrant. It is like reducing foreign coins and weights and measures to expression in our own coins and weights and meas- ures. Talk to an East Indian about dollars and pounds and he does not comprehend, but reduce them to annas, rupees and piculs and he understands at once. We want an access of farmers to our population. They are familiar with conditions in their own coun- try. They know that an immense crop of what they raise there means a fall in prices. So when we make a quantitative statement of our crops here, taking pains to trace the benign and fructifying influence of our soil and climate forward into the abnormal fruitful- ness of our fields and vineyards, the Eastern man, in- stead of being attracted, is repelled. He goes back to some seven fat years/in his experience when his lush crops did not bring as much as in the lean years, and he is shy of a country that is represented to him as a continuous Mardi Gras. Now, we Californians are accustomed to talk in size. It is a big State, bordered by a big ocean and a big mountain range, was settled by big men, and has done big things. Therefore, how natural that we talk in terms of bulk, quantity, size. And the talk is all true, but it does not impress the people whom we want. With them size, bulk, quantity are associated with states and conditions not conducive always to pros- perity, and men change their location only to better their condition. Of course, with us quantity is not associated with the conditions which make it repellent elsewhere, but that has to be shown by a long and claborate explanation, and by statistics which are fatal to the zeal of an intending immigrant. Mr. Mills finds at the Buffalo Exposition that it is the element of quality and not quantity that attracts. When a man sees the fine wheat of Sutter and Yuba, the barley of Salinas, the raisins of Fresno, the fine, clean oranges of Butte, the deciduous fruits of Placer, the prunes of Santa Clara, the apricots of Solano, the dates of Yolo, the grapes of Napa, the wines of Sono- ma, the nectarines of Tulare, the olives of Santa Bar- bara, and is given to understand that these represent the products and the productive resourcesand capacity of the whole State, an impression is made upon him which requires no index, statistics, ground plan and front elevation to explain. It is not necessary to talk to him in terms of size. Let him see the quality. He knows the average price of these products in the East, for he is a buyer. Let him figure out for himself the problem of production and price, and no explanation is needed. Considered in their nature and quality, our products are an exhibit of our climate. The orange, raisin, fig and date, the olive and grape are to all the world an impression of luxury and of clemency of climate. We want people who are seeking both. The pre-eminence of this State in horticulture is shown in Buffalo, where our exhibit in that line ex- ceeds all that is shown by the rest of the three Amer- icas. So marked is this pre-eminence that the horti- cultural building has come to be known as “the Cali- fornia building,” because we occupy so much of it. The conclusions reached by Mr. Mills require that the rest of the State adopt the persistent and enter- prising methods which have so firmly seated Southern California in the world’s fancy. The semi-tropical fruits produced here, as we all know, are produced clear to the foot of Mount Shasta. They are common to the whole length of the State, and of equal quality, and equal ease of production. Yet their persistent advertisement in connection with Southern California State must be sought for climatic advantages. In the north we have rested too content upon our commer- about the size of it all. Let us now tell more about what we produce, and The reports from Buffalo indicate that great advan- tages may be expected from our exhibit there, and the there after the Eastern harvest is over. DISTURBED SPAIN. F of riot and violence. The outbreaks have been in all parts of the kingdom and have been an and police have shown sympathy with the rioters, among whom are many students and people of the who control the Spanish monarchy, this condition of tumult is indicative of decay. But this view is wrong. it is ended the better. It is the method of thought and national mood inspired by her days of empire that empire,” that is being forgotten. It is the shadow passing with the substance of empire. The Spain of been made by attacking the Spanish people. They are of excellent traits, high character and desirable qual- the twenty millions of Spain have in them great capacities. This is proved by the patience, cheerful- system of florid pretense, fuss, feathers and folly in government. not the nation. The toplofty traditions of the nobility are not the nation. The boasts of Charles and Philip move forward is proved by the civil disturbances which are the only means they have for manifesting ground into self-government. A constitutional mon- archy may be better for them now, but it must rid has convinced a majority of Eastern people that they cial and productive supremacy, too satisfied with where. and how, and let size and quantity take care of press and cther means of advertising the State should expression of feeling against the clerical and civil better class. It merely means that the system which has drained are in decay. It is Philip’s boast, “I am the richest the Cid passed long ago, and the pretense that it ities. Those of Spanish blood among us are as desir- ness and industry with which they have borne the Such a people does not deserve Lord Salisbury’s are not the nation. The millions of great and toiling that their patience is at end and their power is begin- them of all forms of oppression, permit them more grow only there, and that therefore that section of the knowing it ourselves and too much inclined to brag themselves. be made use of in the vast crowds that will resort OR several months Spain has been the scene establishments alike. In many ‘instances the troops Looked at from the point of view taken by those Spain of ker life and energy is in decay and the sooner baptized man on earth; the sun never sets on my existed was satirized by Cervantes. A mistake has able citizens as we have. The people who make up burdens of misrule, and served as the foundation of a slur about a dying nation. The Spanish monarchy is people are Spain. That they are getting ready to ning. No one expects that they will leap from the general education, give them more of the fruits of better chance in life. If it do not give them these the indications are that they will take them, and more. Let the world note Spain. Some history will be made there during the next few months. FORGETFUL DEMOCRATS. F all the things put into the platform by the O Ohio Democrats rot one is half so conspicu- ous as the thing they did not put in. The omission of any reference to the national platforms adopted at Chicago in 1896 and at Kansas City in 1900 constitutes the really salient feature of the new declar- ation of principles. Bryan was ignored and Bryanism eliminated. That is the kind of platform agreed upon by the McLean conservatives and the Tom Johnson radicals, for we are told that the two factions com- promised upon an agreement that the McLean men should formulate the national planks and the Johnson men the State issues. They made up their platform in that way and left Bryan out. Secretary Walsh of the Democratic National Com- mittee, who was present at the convention, is reported to have said of it: “If by reorganization is meant the turning down of men and principles heretofore recog- nized as Democratic, there will be none of it, but there is liable to be a lot of forgetting.” That then is the new name to givé to the revolt against Bryan. He is not to be turned down, he is only to be forgotten. His platform is to share his fate. His policy of fusion with Populism falls also into oblivion. All those things and all that they imply are to be passed over to the domain of forgetfulness. The new phrase naturally raises the question as to who is to do the forgetting. Bryan himself can hardly forget that he has twice been a candidate for the Presiflency, and is still young enough to run two or three times more. The Populists who entered the Democratic party under his leadership will also retain certain memories that make it hardly possible for them to keep company with those who are bent on forgetting everything that has taken place since 1896. Finally there are the ardent Bryan worshipers in the ranks of Democracy itself, the men who believe in free silver, right or wrong, at 16 tog. What if Bryan, with all the Populists and Bryanites at his back, should insist on remembering and being remembered? Even if they succeed in evading the Bryanites and the Populists, the forgetful Democrats would still have to face the great mass of people who have good memories in politics, and.who are not likely to forget what has happened whenever Democracy is in power, nor what would have happened had it been intrusted with power either in 1896 or in 1900. Moreover, it is evident that the remembrance is goingto be kept fresh in their minds during this very Ohio campaign, for in his speech at the opening of the Republican State Convention Senator Foraker said: , “The Democratic party came into power. Prosper- ity vanished, and four years of disaster followed. The soil was as rich, the sunshine was as warm, the rains were as abundant, the seasons were as regular, and labor was as eager, but it was all in vain. The Demo- cratic party was at the helm. Free trade was in the saddle, and capital went into hiding; the mills stopped, the mines closed and idleness, want, suffering, tramps and riots spread over the land. Commerce waned, the balances of trade turned against us, revenues declined, deficits occurred and multiplied until they amounted to | hundreds of millions.” Taking all those things together, it will be seen that the forgetful section of the Democratic party is going to have a hard time of it. In the face of reminders at home and reminders abroad, they will be forced at last to remember what they are and who they are; and then will come a recognition of the necessity of turning scmebody down. It may, how- ever, come to the forgetful ones too late, so that when the turning down process occurs it will be the Bryan- ites who do the turning. VOICES FROM THE SOUTH. F all the Fourth of July orations delivered ‘in O the South this year, only two have received much attention from the press. One of these is the address made by Senator McLaurin, represent- ing the progressive element of the Southern people, and the other that of the Hon. Fleming G. du Bignon of Georgia, representing Bourbonism. Each in its way appears, from the reports, to have been an excellent address so far as form and language go, but judged by the sentiments to which they appeal the title of excellent can be awarded only to that of Sen- ator McLaurin. The policy advocated by the junior Senator from South Carolina is now fairly well undetstood by the people. In the Senate he has refused to be bound by the Bourbons of any section of the country, and during the last session of Congress voted with the Repub- licans on many important issues. Since that time he #as repeatedly in public addresses urged the Southern people to ally themselves with the progressive forces of the nation and not to stand aside in sectional stag- nation forever. His Fourth of July speech was in line with that policy. “We must go forward,” he said, “and meet the grave responsibilities of the future.” That "was the keynote of the whole. From first to last it was a call to the South to move with the nation in the upward and onward path of progress. Mr. du Bigm®n had another doctrine to preach. He is reported to have said that in the agitation of new issues in the nation his greatest concern is “lest the Southern people should become divided among them- selves;” and he went on to say: “With the people of the South there is one problem which overshadows all the rest, and to my mind it is, ds has been well said, like the pestilence that walketh in darkness and the destruction that wasteth at noon day. - * * * Until this menace is removed the white people of the South cannot afford to divide amcag themselves no matter how widely they may differ upon economic issues or national policies.” Such are the two voices that are now appealing to the intelligence and to the conservatism of the South. The one points to the splendid prosperity that may be realized by going forward, while the other stands halt- ing and hesitatyg before fantastic phantoms of Bour- bon terror. The issue thus raised is not of yesterday nor of to-day. The same voices have been appealing to the Southern people for many a year. In the past the voice of Bqurbonism has prevailed, but there is now hope that the other will be heeded. It is significant that the men who are now speaking for progress in the South are not subjected to social ostracism as they were some years ago. The Southern people have at least learned to listen with patience, and that in itself is promise of good to come. The report that Andrew Carnegie is suffering from indigestion is not surprising. It has been pretty gen- erally known that he bit off a good deal more than he can get away with. Bryan says he still stands on the Chicago platform, but the Ohio Democrats have dropped the platform. their industry, more voice in the government and P |-Nov5, where is Bryan? WORLD’S QUEEREST NEWSPAPER CERE Y NRRNINT PORTERS LIKE ORDINARY NEV/SPAPERS. L s UDAPEST has the most singular newspaper in the world. It is called the Telefon-Hismondo, or Telephone News. For eight years this venture has been in working or- der, and it is a great financial success. There are 6200 subscribers, who at regular stated intervals receive the news of the day ‘hot” from all over the world while sitting comfortably at home. The subscribers take up at a certain time of day their telephone receivers and listen to the news which is spoken to them all simultaneously by a “teller” in the newspaper office. Advertisements are heard in the same way. you cannot skip the advertisements in the telephone newspaper, for they are artfully sandwiched by the teller between exciting pieces of news, and you are bound to listen for fear of missing anything. One editor, four assistant editors, nine reporters and a num-~ ber of “tellers” compose the staff of the paper. News is col- lected in the usual way, and is written out by the reporters, passed by the assistant editors, and finally initialed by the edi- tor. Then it is handed in to the ‘“teller,” who speaks it over the wires. Tl T “TELLER” OF THE TELEPHONE NEWS OF BUDAPEST ENGAGED IN IMPARTING THE DAY'S NEWS TO MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND SUESCRIBERS OF THE UNIQUE JOURNAL, WHICH HAS A STAFF OF RE- IS IN THE CITY OF BUDAPESTL | — during the secular days of the week. Aggrieved subscribers dissatisfled with the editorial policy of the paper sometimes wish to stop their connection with it, but this is not done easily. In the first place, instruments have been installed in the house, and security given for a year’s sub- scription, and some time must elapse before the receivers can be removed. The subscriber may decline to listen to the news, but the maddening bell will nevertheless continue to ring him up at the customary iIntervals. The penny-in-the-slot system is being tried in connection with the newspaper, so that soon any one in Budapest will be able to have “‘pennorths” of news doled out to them. This novel and interesting enterprise was started. about eight years ago by Theodore Buschgasch, who had been inter- ested in electricity and had patented some inventions. Busch- gasch died in 1893, and the present efficiency of the paper in all that pertains to its technique is largely due to Emil von Szveties, who is known on the staff as technical director. His skill and energy have produced great results. The concern is owned by a stock company with a capital of about $250,000. The telephone newspaper does not escape libel actions. It has had four and won them all. There are two Sunday “issues,” as'well as many “editions” At first some difficulty was experienced in hearing the new: clearly over the telephone—a difficulty ~ ~ which telephone sub- scribers in other countries experience in ordinary conversations —but a stmple invention soon disposed of this obstacle. L e e s e e Y PERSONAL -MENTION. George Berg of Panoche is at the Grand. J. G. Scott of Agnews is at the Califor- nia. Dr. Paul Cohen of Vienna is at the Pal- ace. Dr. M. Hitt of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Captain Coudock of the royal navy fs at the Occidental. W. R. Spalding, a lumber man of Vi- salfa, is at the Lick. Frank Mattison is Grand from Santa Cruz. W. O. Rlasingame, Fresno, is at the Grand. Prince Poniatowskl is registered at the Palace from Burlingame. W. E. Bartholomew, a manufacturer of hardware supplies, is at the Palace, reg- istered from East Orange, N. J. General A. W. Barrett is registered at the Callfornia. He has just come from the south, where he has been spending a vacation. Edward W. Byrn, the author of “Prog- ress of Invention in the Nineteenth Cen- tury” and for twenty-seven years patent expert at Washington, is at the Grand. John P. Dooner of New York, Superin- tendent of Buildings and a prominent poli- tician of Gotham, is at the Palace. He is making a tour of this coast, and before returning to New York he will visit every place of Interest in California. He will spend a few days in San Francisco and will then start south. He is accompanied by his sons. BIG TRADE TRIP. Consul General Carl Baily Hurst writes from Vienna that under colonial auspices an “Austro-Hungaridn commercial expe- dition to Eastern Asia” is about to be taken around the world. This expedition has been very carefully organized and is under the leadership of an Austrian mer- chant who has resided many years in the Orient. The expedition receives no gov- ernmental or other subsidy, and is under- taken on a business basis, calculated to render the enterprise a financial success. This is the second venture of the kind made under the same management, and as the first was profitable this expedition, improved in equipment and traveling far- ther afield, bids fair to bring in substan- tial material returns for the participants and to open up for Austria-Hungary mar- kets where this country is now unrepre- sented, as well as to introduce goods into lands where Austro-Hungarian agencies already exist but where other countries have a monopoly. The expedition is to start in June, stop- ping on its way in New York and in San Francisco, and make exhibits at the fol- lowing places: In Japan at Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki; in China at Tientsin, Shanghai, Canton and Hongkong; in Siam at Bangkok; in the Straits Settle- ments at Singapore and Penang; In Su- matra at Medan-Deli, Palembang, Padang and Kota-Radjo; in Burma at Rangoon; in India at Calcutta, Madras and Colom- bo, and, farther on, at Aden, Suez and Port Saild. The expedition will aim to carry sam- ples of Austro-Hungarian manufactures, to_exhibit them in suitable places and to take orders; to collect samples and price lists of salable articles abroad and submit them to manufacturers in Austria-Hun- gary interested in such articles; to extend the relations with transoceanic firms be- gun during the first Austro-Hungarian ex- pedition in 1899-1900, and possibly start its own commercial establishments. —_——— registered at the a_ horseman of Among tht several States and Territo- ries Oklahoma shows the largest percent- age of increase, according to the census of 1900. - ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TEN DOLLAR PIECE—L. F., Melitta, Cal. A ten dollar piece of 1847 is not one of those for which dealers offer a pre- mium. CITY OF GLASGOW—E. H. H. H, Napa, Cal. The city of Glasgow, Scotland, has municipalized all the common services except the cemeteries. NAVAL WARFARE—R. W. G., Ala- meda, Cal. It was Captain Mahan, U. S. N., whose works on *“Naval Warfare” at- tracted attention in all parts of the world. CANARY BIRDS—Subscriber, City. G. H. Holden, who for many years was a bird fancier on an extensive scale, is au- thority for the statement that German canaries are the best songsters. They are the Campanini canaries. A GOLD PIECE-E. H., City. A five- dollar piece of the United States of the date 1843 does not command a premium. This department has, on a number of oc- caslons, announced that no premium is offered for coins of that demomination Is- sued after 1834, JACK, QUEEN AND TENS-J. B. K., Monterey, Cal. In cribbage, jack, queen and three tens, with the jack turned up, counts 15. There are three runs of three, which make nine, and six for the three tens, making fifteen. Twenty-nine is the highest that can be made in crib. OCEAN DEPTHS-T., City. The great- est depth in the Pacific ocean is northeast of Japan—4655 fathoms—and the greatest in the Atlantic js north of Porto Rico— 4561 fathoms. The greatest depth with a dredge in the Pacific ocean was that let down by the Challenger, 3125 fathoms. EMERGENCY HOSPITAL—A. 0. S. City. The rule at the emergency hospi- tals of San Francisco is that after a pa- tient has been taken there he is not re- moved to his home or that of friends in [any conveyance under the control of the hespital department, but if removed, it is at the expense of those who so remove him. IMMIGRATION—S. J. B., City. Until the figures are given by the census bu- reau it will be impossible to state the ex- act_immigration ‘goom Germany and Ire- land to the United States in the past ten years, but from figures furnished by Mul- hall and others it appears that the sreater number of immigrants came from Ger- many during that period. MACE AND HEENAN—R. M. B.. Gold- en Gate, Cal. Jem Mace, the prize-fighter, ‘was whipped by Tom King in a match for four hundred pounds sterling and the champlonship of England, at Thames Ha- ven, England, November 2, 1862, twenty- one rounds in 33 minutes. John C. Heenan, “the Benicla Boy,” was whipped after his fight with Tom Sayers, which took place April 17, 1860. He was whipped by Tom King in a match for two thousand pounds sterling, in twenty-four rounds, in 33 minutes, at Wardhurst, Eng- land, December 10, 1863. DRILLING—Hayes Street, City. The drillers’ contest during the Midwinter Fair ‘was on Miner’s day. The rock was gran- ite and the time limit fifteen minutes. Those who entered the single-hand drill were J. J. Coan, T. J. Ahern and E. F. Durham of Grass Valley; C. J. Martin of Amador: A. Phillips of Sutter Creek, and B. F. McGowan of Silver Creek, N. M. Durham won the first prize, having drilled 19 31-32 inches, and the second prize went to Ahern, who drilled 19 9-16. In the two- handed contest Sam Harvey and John Kitto of Amador won the first prize, with a record of 30 %-32, and P. Feeney and Jerry Lynch of Cyprus Valle ord of 21 ey, with a ree- A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Teacher, teacher “Well, what is 1t? “Didn’t you say yesterday that the world was kept in place by the force of gravity?” “Yes, the attraction of the sun keeps the world moving in a regular orbit.” “Then somebody’s been stringin’ my pa again. He said last night that it was J. Plderpont Morgan.”—Chicago Record-Her- ald. * said little Richard. Visitor—Why do the residents of this town keep so many dogs? Mr. Suburb—For protection. cheaper than police. Visitor—But dogs are dangerous to in- offensive persons. Mr. Suburb—And so are police.—N Y. Weekly. They are Aunt Emma—Well, Mary, I haven't seen you for a long time. I hear that you have a little sister at your house. I sup- pose she cries sometimes. Little Mary—Cries? Well, I should say she does! Why, I never saw any one that seemed to look on the dark side of things as she does'—Puck. ““Oh, no; she's not at all what you would call a really feminine woman. She affects masculine ways.” “How?"” ““Well, for instance, yesterday I saw her give a streetcar conductor a nickel when she had five pennies in her purse.”—Chi- cago Post. —_———— PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM of Ralle ways. Office—30 Montgomery street. * —————— Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ———————— Best eyeglases, specs, 10 to 40c. Look out for 81 Fourth, front of barber & grocery.* Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureay (Allen’s), 510 t- gomery street. Teleplione Main 1042 * For Vermont the enumerators report 33,- 100 farms; in 1380 there were 35,522, and in 1890, 82573. The number of farms in 190 was 52 in excess of that of 189, and 2413 less than in 1880. Grand Canyon Excursion, On July 224 a special excursion rate of $60 for the round trip, San Francisco to the Grana Canyon of Arizona, will be made. Leaving Sar Francisco at § p. m. on the 224, you reach the Canyon for supper the 23d. No other sight is comparable to this, the grandest of nature's marvels. Ask at 6i1 Market street, the Santa Fe office, about it. —_—— Best Way to the Yosemite. The Santa Fe to Merced and stage th via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bri'a Vell Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at i th- next afternoon. This is the most popular route and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Marc- ket st. for particulars and folder. ——————— Cheap Rates for Epworth Leaguers and Their Friends. The Santa Fe will sell low rate tickets to all points July 12 to August 15 inclusive to | holders of Epworth League tickets and friends accompanying them. Call at Santa Fe office, 651 Market street, or ferry depot. Chicago and Return $72.50. On sale July 20 and 21, the Union Pacific Railroad will sell round trip tickets to Chi- cago, good for 60 days, at rate of $7250, D. W. | Hitcheock, General Agent, 1 Montgomery st., San Stop Diarrhae and Stomach Cramps. Dr. Slegert’s Genuine Imported Angostura amun-" —— Neglect of the halr brings bald: Use Parker's Hair Balsam and save your hair. the best cure for corns. 15 cta