The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1901, Page 6

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Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternocn and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. ¥. ¥. Chase—Thursday, July 18, at 11 o'clock, Horses, Market street By Wm. G. Layng ard street s Union Stockyards Company—Monday, July 29, at 10 Machinery, at Rodeo, Cal. Tuesday, July 23, Horses, at 721 How- 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | Call subscribers contemplating a change of residesnce during the summer months can have their psper forwarded by mail to their new addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts amd is represented by a local ageat im all towes on the coast. THE SULTAN PAYS UP. claims made upon his Government by the United States for indemnity for losses suffered by Americans at the time of the outrages in Armenia there was a good deal of attention paid to the subject and public interest in it was keen. In fact, at one time when an American warship sailed for the Mediterranean it was rumored that the object was to compel the n's compliance by a display of force. Lately there has been very little said about the sub- ject, and now that the announcement comes that the Sultan has paid the $05.000 which our Government asked it is treated as a matter of course. It is natural that men should pay more attention to matters of strife than of peace, and have mqre to say about a n who talks of war than of one who goes quietly to work and accomplishes his ends by peace- ful means; but none the less the peaceful victories are far more vseful to a nation than strife, and the man who achieves them deserves credit for his work. When Secretary Hzy undertook to recover from the Sultan the amounts due to injured Americans he had a difficult task upon his hands. The Sultan has had long cxperience in evading payments of all kinds. Nearly every diplomatist of high rank in Europe has 2t one time or another been engaged in the task of getting a financial settlement with the Turkish Gov- ernment. Most of thcse claims are still unpaid, and consequently in seeking for the payments due us our Government had to deal not only with the evasive- ness of the Turk but with the jealousies of European Governments who wished their own claims paid first. The work of bringing the Sultan to a payment of the claims has been under way for more than ten years. Since it began several Ministers have served this country at Constantinople, but, though each was zealous in the task, little or nothing was accom- plished beyond collecting evidence to support the claims and obtaining from the Sultan’s Government some more or less serious consideration of them. Ac- cordingly when Secretary Hay entered the State De- partment it was not expected that he would be able to achieve more than his predecessors. Many people believed that we, like the nations of Europe, would have our Turkish claims as an everlasting possession. It is therefore a striking proof of Mr. Hay’s diplo- matic firmness and tzct that, with the assistance of the present American Minister at Constantinople, Mr. Leishman, the Suitan has been brought not only to consent to pay the indemnity but to actually pay it. The full sum of $95,000 has been paid over to the American Minister, 2nd drafts for it have been re- ceived at Washington. In comparison with the greater international ques- tions with which Mr. Hay has had to deal this of the Turkish claims is but a small matter. It nevertheless affords another proof of his masterly ability in hand- ling diplomatic affairs. He has succeeded where many before him failed, and some of the greatest Foreign Ministers in Europe would be glad if they could be equally effective in dealing with the Turk. S() long as the Sultan of Turkey evaded all A student who is reported to have written very learnedly on “Fifty Cents 2 Week at Harvard” is quoted as saying his chief diet was beans, the “most wholesome, most nutritious, most satisfying com- modity in the fare of the world.” That young man, with all due respect to his culture, was talking through his hat. He should have tried prunes. AT 20 An octogenarian in a little Illinois town married his son’s widow the other day and endowed her with a fortune. Some women in acquiring riches give more than they get. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, . THE OHIO REVOLT. TO one who saw the idolatry, the Bryanolatry, of the Chicago convention the sudden reversal in the Ohio Democratic convention is of keen in- terest. In 1896 the crude and unmasticated political theories of Mr. Bryan were swallowed without a wink and he was set upon a pedestal for the adoration of his party. The brains of the Democracy suddenly flowed out of its skull and left a body swinging arms and a head making snoots and howling. The Dervishes looked vainly along the ranks of great men from the dawn of history to these days for one fit to compare with Bryan, and failed.. To their distorted vision he was the foremost man of ajl time, “the peerless one,” one fool called him. In no State was this craze more acute than in Ohio. Jones, | Mayor of Toledo, a communist, and Monett, a Re- | publican and ex-Attorney General of the State, led | the choir there, and it looked and sounded as if Bryan would walk off with McKinley’s State. From Kelly’s Island to Walnut Hills, from Cuyahoga to Hamilton, from the Maumee to the Scioto, the wor- | shipful Democracy bent the knee to the lonesome and peerless person, and put up the money to pay him for speeches from his car tail. Sam Medary and Tom Corwin, “Backbone” Todd and John Brough, never saw such a yesty ferment in Ohio politics even in the brave days when Buckeye was an October State. Ohio pulpits even rang with pious approval of the prophet, seer and revelator from the Platte, and he was served up, with texts, like liver with bacon on the side. This was only so little while ago that a wise child born then does not yet know its own father, and yet Ohio has forgotten the object of its adoration. Where there was harvest heat now is the icy tenipera- ture of cold storage. When Bryan’s picture was car- ried into the conventien it was trampled under foot. The silver queétion and the whole round of issues raised by the Chicago and Kansas City conventions were ignored. Communism was purged out of the platform, and the Republican principles of sound money and anti-silverism, good public credit and scientific finance, were either directly indorsed or ac- cepted by refusal to reject them. As usual, the Democracy camped on the Republi- can trail five years after the issue was decided. Major Watterson hails the Buckeye buck with effusion and informs Mr. Bryan that the men in the trenches are tired of sucking empty eggshells, and that the revolt is on and only a fool willtry to stand in the way. But Mr. Bryan does not propose to sub- mit to the will of the party, in Ohio or elsewhere, to play the barrow pig in politics. In an interview in St. Louis he says: “It is a case of gold bugs trying to administer absent treatment to the Democracy of the nation.” To which brilliant and indeed peerless observation Champ Clark added: “And it is also a case of the tail trying to wag the dog, a feat that was never yet accomplished, and, mark me, will not { be this time. I do not know what the issues of 1004 will be, but I do know who the issuers will be. They | will be the men who were faithful to the party in 1896 and 1900.” In Solano County, California, there roamed vears a celebrated grizzly bear, called Clubfoot, be- cause of an injury to cne of his feet caused by being caught in a bear trap, from which he tore himself loose. After this trying experience he lived and fed on young pigs and lambs for a score of years, his for track left by his club foot. Finally, one day old Clubfoot was roaming at will in the mountains above { Vaca Valley, and stopped to®scratch himself on a | pine sapling, after the fashion of Highlanders. He was long and the sapling was small, and bending around it his hind quarters were brought to view. Thinking them the buttocks of-2 rival bear he immediately bit them; feeling the bite he thought the other bear was biting him, and thereupon proceeded to chew him- self off down to his ears, and when he was found he had his head in his own mouth. This seems to be the programme laid out for the Democracy by Clubfoot Bryan. He is at present biting his own buttocks and thinks it is the Gold Democrats. In 1904 he will be found with his little head in his big mouth, dead, in the belief that he was biting another bear. Mr. Champ Clark thinks the issues of 1904 will be made by the issuers of 1896 and 1900. We hope so. They have bungled two jobs, and can more easily bungle a third by rezson of their experience in bungling. Turn Clubfoot loose on his own hams. The Repub- lican party will furnish the sapling. It is interesting, however, to observe that Mr. Bryan proposes to bolt. His clans have gathered in Ohio and will meet in convention to nominate a rivalt ticket. This is too, too interesting. After calling the Gold Democrats bolters and warning them never to come back any more, he iow proposes to bolt a regu- lar party convention and fight its ticket and platform. The country will look on with some interest and more amusement. THE RECIPROCITY TREATIES. the manufacturing interests of the country on the side of the various reciprocity treaties ne- gotiated by Mr. Kasson, and which bear so injuriously upon California, it is gratifying to note that the Phila- delphia Manufacturers’ Club has declared against them. Evidence is thus given that the manufacturers of that city at any rate understand that protection in this country must be made fair to all industries. It was not designed for manufacturers only. The club accurately states the Republican position on the subject of reciprocity and accepts it as its own by adopting a resolution declaring: “That in ad- hering to the principle of reciprocity as originally formulated in the Republican platform of rgoo, we favor the associated policy of reciprocity so directed as to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce, in return for free for- eign markets.” Despite all the efforts of the free traders to break down the protective system by reciprocity treaties, there is good reason for believing that a majority in the Senate will vote against the treaties when they come up for final consideration. In addition to the generally urged objection to them there is another which Senator Hoar has recently stated—that such treaties would take tariff questions out of the hands of the House of Representatives, where of right they should be, and would place them in the domain of diplomacy, and thus subject them to foreign in- fluences. The Senator’s exact statement on the subject is thus reported by the Boston Herald: “I think we should go very slowly in binding the country irre- vocably in such matters by treaties. We find it neces- sary to revise our tariffs every few years; but a tariff made by a treaty can never be repealed without breaking our faith, and can never be revised without the consent of a foreign country and a two-thirds vote S INCE so many efforts have been made to align depredations being always fastened upon him by the | of the Senate. Such a measure takes the tariff out of the hands of the House of Representatives. It is true that a treaty may be made conditional to the assent of the House, but one House can never bind the hands of another. Mr. Webster was charged with a purpose of making a tariff by treaty. He replied with great indignation, ‘I hope I know the constitution better.’ The simpler and easier way to do this thing is by concurrent legislation.” . With such reports coming from centers where it was believed the reciprocity treaties would find their strongest support, it seems we may conclude that the treaties are virtually beaten. When first the fight | against them began it looked as if California would have to battle alone, but the longer the subject was studied the more widespread became the opposition and the weaker became the support. At present pyb- lic sentiment is against them, and even those who be- lieve that their ratification by the Senate would be favorable to our trade may still be inclined to oppose them on the very valid grounds given by Senator Hoar, THE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL. pointed to devise ways and means for bring- ing about the establishment of an educational institution at Washington on the lines suggested by Washington himself has submitted a plan and has appealeti to the country to support it. The institution is not to be a university, as it was deemed inexpe- dient to provide another institution of that sort in the immediate neighborhood of those of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Princeton; still it will be devoted to higher education in all branches of literature, science and art. : In the appeal issued by the committee the purposed institution is thus described: “The George Wash- ington Memorial Association has undertaken to carry outits purpose by securing a site and erecting thereon in Washington a substantial, dignified, useful memorial building, sacred to the memory of Washing- ton and dedicated to higher education, science and lit- erature. Such building will form the permanent home of the Washington Memorial Institution, the: Na- tional Academy of Sciences, with its affiliated societies, and of the George Washington Memorial Association. It will serve as the meeting-place and headquarters of the scientific, literary, educational and patriotic bodies which meet from time to time in Washington. For- this purpose it must needs be of ample propor- tions, solidly built, with large auditorium, small halls and numerous offices.” There is of course no need at the national capital for another memorial of Washington. The city bears his name, high above all its buildings towers a mighty monument raised to commemorate his fame, and not far distant the beautiful estate of Mount Ver- non, which was his home and is his resting-place in death, is carefully preserved by the nation. What is now undertaken, therefore, is not designed as a memorial so much as an institution to carry out his express desires for the promotion of higher education. The Washington Academy of Sciences has procured the passage of a law by Congress providing for the use of all the resources of the great departments of the Government for research and study by all stu- dents and investigators under such conditions as the heads of the departments may specify. The faculty of the Washington memorial will aid in directing students how best to profit by the advantages offered. THe Memorial Association has members in every State in the Union, the aggregate being upward of 1500. It has already accumulated a considerable fund and is now appealing for more. Doubtless Congress will be asked to make an appropriation if ample voluntary subscriptions are not forthcoming, so it seems fairly well assured that the institution will ere long be established and in operation. RAIN AND THE CORN CROP. GRATIFYING reports come from Kansas of ! FTER long deliberation the committee ap- rains in various parts of the State. The Weather Burezu at Washington estimates that the worst of the hot spell is over for all parts of the Mississippi Valley, and that while no general rain is to be expected, yet thunderstorms will probably bring cooling and - refreshing showers throughout Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and In- diana. The showers will materially benefit the corn crops, which were threatened by the drought, and will doubtless save the farmers from much of the heavy 1éss they had begun tc fear. The benefits, of course, reach much further than the farmers. Corn is one of the most important crops grown in the country. A recent authority states that it averages a total yearly farm value double that of wheat or cotton, and more than double that of oats, tye, barley and buckwheat put together. It far ex- ceeds in aggregate value even the hay crop, and, like hay, it forms a principal source of support for the ani- mal food of the nation, aside from entering directly into a large popular consumption. Some of the railways in the Mississippi Valley are largely dependent upon the corn crop for their fall business, and accordingly when it was feared that nearly the whole crop would be blighted by the heat the value of the stocks of those roads fell in Wall street, as it was doubted whether they would be able to pay dividends this fall. Such fears are now likely to pass away, or at least to be greatly diminished. Even under the best conditions of weather from this time on, however, it will not be possible for the corn States to wholly recover from the effects of the long drought and blighting heat. It has been an- nounced that many farmers when they saw their corn withering in the fields sold their hogs and cattle for fear they would not be able to feed them. Such losses cannot be made up by the coming of good rains. Fortunately the wheat crops were ripened before the heated wave came upon the fields. From that and other cereals the farmers may possibly get something of a compensation for the losses on their corn. e ——— s It is said that Richard Croker has decided to aban- don New York politics and devote himself to the task of winning the Derby with an American colt trained by Americans and ridden by an American jockey; and, as anything is better than Tammany, his new ambition may be taken as a sign of a desire to lead a better life. The inmates of an insane asylum in New York who were recently permitted to play a game of baseball are said to have gone through the game without once finding fault with the umpire. To the average base- ball crank such lunacy would appear incredible. There is a rumor that Edward may have himself crowned King of Great Britain and Emperor of Greater Britain, and then we shall have to call him Imperator Ned. Billy Mason of Illinois would like to know why he should be forced to wear his Senatorship on his sleeve for Dawes to peck at. MORE THAN A 1901. — THOUSAND TRAINS GO OVER THE CROSSING DAILY NE of the most remarkable railroad crossings in the world is that just outside the Newcastle-on-Tyne Cen- tral Railway station, England, pictured in the illus- O trains. [ ] PERSONAL MENTION. ! John Head of Santa Cruz is staying at the Palace. S. C. Lowe, son of Professor Lowe, is &t the California. Robert Robertson of Santa Cruz is at the California. Dr. G. C. Simmons, the well-known phy- sician of Sacramento, is at the California. E. C. Merritt, the well-known attorney of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Califor- nia, E. G. Chaddock, one of the leading mer- chants of Fresno, is in the city on busi- ness and is staying at the California. Charles Schirmer of Dixon, ex-Assessor of Solano County, is spending a few days in the city with the Epworth Leaguers. Miss Rose C. Davison, the Hawalian Commissioner to the Pan-American Expo- sition, arrived from the islands yesterday. She is at the Palace. Dr. S. L. Rea, one of the leading sur- steons of Ukiah and superintendent of the Mendocino County Hospital, is in San Francisco. J. B. Wattles, an old-time member of the San Francisco Stock Board, returned from his ranch at Healdsburg yesterday and is at the California. Dr. Charles Litton, superintendent of the infirmary of the State University Dental College, left Monday for a vaca- tion in Mendocino County. ‘William Shryock, the Baltimore banker, and wife have just left this city after a two weeks’ visit to their niece, Mrs. Lizzie Thorn. The Shryocks will journey home by easy stages and will not reach Mary- land until late in the fall. ‘William B. Beaizley, deputy Clerk of the United States Circuit Court, left on the steamer Crescent City yesterday aft- ernoon for Del Norte County, where he intends to spend two weeks in hunting grizzlies and fishing trout in the moun- tains. During his absence his place will be filled by Assistant Clerk John A. Schaertzer Jr. i e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 16.—The following Californians have arrived: San Franeisco —J. A. Johnston,‘at the Sinclair; W. P. Johnston, at the Manhattan; Miss A. M. Lehnert, at the Normandie; A. Martin and wife, at the Astor; T. Mullaney, at the Cadillac; S. G. Bitten, G. E. Dalton and wife, at the St. Denls; P. L. Knapp, at the Vendome; E. P. Prentice, at the Holland. San Jose—D. L. Kass, at the Everett. Oakland—C. J. Heeseman, at the Herald Square. Los Angeles—C. §. Hertoz, at the Broad- way Central. OLD FOSTER PARENT. Seven fluffy little chickens belonging to a family living on Twelfth street, near Broadway, Louisville, have a queer mother. For the past two weeks the only protection they have had has been a big feather duster. The substitute for the mother has served its purpose so well that the family expects to raise chickens in the same way every year. The chickens were hatched about three weeks ago, their mother being an old hen which the family had bought in market and had intended to fatten and eat. Be- fore she arrived at the proper condition to be baked she took a notion to sit. As is usual in such cases, persuasion was vain, and she held to her determination to raise a family. A dozen eggs were given her and she hatched out eight chicks. Of these she was very proud. About two weeks ago a number of friends from out of town visited the family unex- pectedly. The problem of what to have for dinner was a serious ome, as it was Sunday and no groceries were open. It was suggested that the hen be killed, but the children were not willing that the chickens should be left to shift for them- selves at so tender an age. The problem was solved by the boy, who suggested that the hen be killed and the big feather duster be substituted for the hen. The duster was suspended just above the floor in the corner of the kitchen and the chickens placed under it in a box. There they have remained ever since and are growing rapidly. They seem to take kindly to the innovation, and at the first sign of danger they all retreat to the duster, nestling among the feathers. —————————— SWIFT ELECTRIC CARS. One of the oddest spectacles in the transportation business is the sight of an electric car running two miles or more a minute on a one-rail track. Even if it ap- peared feasible, on a casual examination one would say that it was about the most dangerous form of traveling that could be devised. But the truth is the exact re- verse, judging by the records of the three mono-railroads which are in existence. There is one in Ireland, another in France, and a third in Belgium, and it is proposed now to build one in England to run be- tween Manchester and Liverpool, thirty- four and one-half miles, which distance, it is said by the projectors of the scheme, can be covered in eighteen minutes, The line in Ireland, from Listowell to Ballybunnion, ten miles, has been run- ning thirteen years, and the company proudly points to the fact that in that time there has not been a single accident on the road. The cars and the engine are suspended from a single steel rail, which rises about three feet from the ground. The center of gravity of the cars is be- low the rail, which takes away the possi- bility of the trains leaving the track. S L B S SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coropado, Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15, $60 for round trip, iIncluding 15 days at hotel, Pacific Coast 8. 8. Co.. 4 New Montgomery st. tration here reproduced from the Scientific American. On a day when the regular schedule is being followed 1135 trains pass over this extraordinary network of rallways, which is used by the passenger, mineral and general freight Of this total 675 trains pass over the High Level bridge, the tracks which lead to this bridge being those on the shift, working eight man for each shift U o e 0 ANSWERS TO QUERIES. APPRAISERS—A. S., Novato, Cal ‘When an estate is in probate in California the appraisers are allowed $5 per day for their services while so employed. POLL TAX—W. T. B, City. Poll tax is not levied in every State and Territory of the United States. In Maryland and Ohio it is declared cppressive, and by law the collection of such a tax is prohibited. REUBEN-—Subscriber, City. To ascer- tain if any officer by the name of Reuben was ever professor of military tactics at ‘West Point you should addresssa com- munication to Colonel Albert L. Mills, the superintendent. MICHIGAN LAW-D. C. Gardenier, Or. If property (real estate) is sold in the State of Michigan for non-payment of taxes the owner may redeem the same within one year after the Auditor General has given a deed. JOINT OWNERSHIP—A. S., Novato, Cal. If a man and wife own property in their joint names in the State of Califor- nia and either should die the matter would have to go to the probate depart- ment of the Superior Court unless it was property declared a homestead, in which case the property vests in the survivor. HOMESTEAD—F. B. M., City. There is nothing in the laws of California to pre- vent an individual who has purchased a piece of improved property, and who after paying one-third of the purchase price pays on the installment plan, from declar- ing the same a homestead before the full amount js pald up. ' A homestead may consist of the land and improvements and it may be worth any amount, but the ex- emption from demands by creditors is $5000. BOOTH-SURRATT—F. F. S8, City. There has been published a book entitled “Life, Crime and Capture of J. Wilkes Booth,” by G. A. Townsend, to be seen at the Free Public Library. In the same in- stitution there is to be seen the flles of the New York Herald, which contain a full report of the trial of Mrs. Surratt, hanged for complicity in the murder of President Lincoln. In 1867 the Government printing office at Washington, D. C., is- sued a stenographic report of the trial of Mrs. Surratt. MASSACHUSETTS—M. M. C,, City. Ac- cording to the census of 1300 the popula- tion of Massachusetts was 2,805,346 At the election in 1900 in that State the vote for McKinley was 238,86, Bryan 158,997 The vote for Governor was: Dalton, Re- publican, 228,054; Paine, Democrat, 130,078, The State Legislature for 1901 is 214 Re- publicans, 64 Democrats, 4 independents and 2 Socialistic Democrats. From these figures you can judge for yourself as to the politics of the State. NATURALIZATION—Republican, City. You were misinformed when told that all the Superior Judges of this city were off on vacatlons at this time. While it is true that it is vacation time, there are al- ways at least four Judges during that pericd to attend to business while the others are absent. Having your first papers and desiring to become a citizen you will have to go before one of the Su- perior Judges, or you may go before one of the Federal Judges, prove by two reputable witnesses that you have resided in the United States for five years con- secutively and at least one year in the State and then take the oath prescribed by law. You will be then given your sec- ond papers. BUMMER AND LAZARUS-H. 8, Ala- meda, Cal. “Bummer” and “Lazarus” were two dogs that were famous in the sixties in San Francisco. The first named followed Ned Knight, one of the old-time reporters on the Alta California, from Petaluma to this city. He was a cross between a Scotch terrier, black and tan and a Japanese snub-nosed poodle, with coat like a moth-eaten fur and one ear cropped shorter than the other. He proved to be a famous ratter, and be- came, despite his homeliness, a favorite around the markets on Clay street. For want of a better name he was called “Bummer.” He became everybody's friend and everybody became his friend. Some time after his appearance he was joined by a mongrel dog, part hound, part terrier, and the two were always to- gether, they having formed a 'sort of Pythian friendship. They visited the lunch counters for food, also the markets, and whenever there was an occasion both were in it for rats. One day Bummer came to a saloon for his usual meal, but it was noticed that Lazarus, the other dog, was not with him, and that instead of eating what was given him he carried it away. This he did for several days, so he was followed and it was discovered that Lazarus was sick in a crockery crate and that Bummer was nursing and feed- ing him. This was written up at length by the reporters of the day and attracted the attention of every one in the ecity. Every one knew Bummer and Lazarus, One day the poundkeeper scooped in Laz- arus, and that act aroused so much in- dignation that a citizen paid the amount required to release him, and then the Su- pervisors on petition gave the two dogs the freedom of the city and immunity from arrest by the poundkeeper during life. One day some heartless individual poisoned Lazarus. Bummer became dis- consolate and moped, seeming to care not how soon the end came. A few months after Lazarus went to dogland Bummer was kicked by a drunken ruffian and he died in a few days from the effects of the brutal kicking. The offender was arrest- ed and fined $20. The skins of both dogs were stuffed and are Tolica of bygons dave, "Il Preserved as extreme left of the picture. The remaining 460 trains pass to and from the district on the east side of the station. The switches are worked from the signal box, of the picture, which contains 224 levers. staff of signalmen, worked in three shifts of eight men to each shown on the extreme right It is operated by a hours at a stretch. The crossing is spanned by a signal bridge which is 155 feet in length, and there is one stationed on this bridge. At the end of the station represented in the picture there are ten platforms. ' ° A CHANCE TO SMILE. The young man—I suppose, sir, that when I become formally engaged to your davghter you will admit me as a member of the firm. The father—Well, I don’t know. I don’t | feel as if T could afford the expense of both of these things just now.—Detrolt Journal. Stokes—Whew! wasn’t it hot last night? T thought a ride in a summer car would give me relief, but I couldn’t get a breath of air. Smokes—Me, too: but the only time a | breeze sprang up was when I struck my last match and tried to light my cigar.— Philadelphia Press. Nothing Like Accuracy.—First Clubman —Woggles, I want you to decide a bet. Higginside says the quotation, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” is from the Book of Psalms, and I say it's from Job. We've put up $5 on it and agreed to leave it to you. Second Clubman—I think you're both wrong. I know it's in the Bible, but my Impression is that you'll find it in the Pro- verbs of Solomon.—Chicago Tribune. “Did I hear you say you wished a show- er would come up?” asked the man with blue glasses. “Yes, sir,”” answered the superheated citizen. “I wish it would rain this min- ute.” Right out of a clear sky?” “Of course.” “My dear sir, don’t wish anything so desperate. You know what terrible re- sults come from letting water suddenly into a hot boiler. i shouldn’t be a bit sur- prised if a shower at this time would pro- duce an explosion that would blow up the universe.”—Washington Star.™ Chinese servant stories are Here’s one, and it's true. A West Side woman a few days ago was boasting to a caller of the virtues of her Mongolian cook_ and she emphasized the latter’s systematic methods as his especial strong .point. “John finishes his work at precisely the same minute every evening.” said she proudly. “I always know exactly where he is and what he is doing at any time of the day.” ‘““Well, what is he doing now?" asked. “Let me see. It is 7 o’clock. Well, he has just finished putting the dishes away, and at this moment is sweeping the kitch- en. Come, let’s go out and see if I'm not right.” They started through the dining-room, and found everything in its place, prophesied. In the pantry the dishes wase neatly arranged in their customary place. Then they opened the kitchen door. There in the center of the room was John, and he was—complacently washing his feet in the dishpan! The embarrassed mistress and her con- vulsed guest retired in haste. And the servant problem was dropped.—Milwaulkes Sentinel. —_————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* ————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.® —_— i Special information supplied dally to epidemic. was business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ e Recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court concerning trademarks and labels afford encouragement to pro- moters of the union label. Any infringe- ment of the label or any attempt to issue an imitation calculated to deceive wiil be a transgression of the law as laid down by the high court. ——— Are You “Of the Old World”e Everything pertaining to the New World may be easily and cheaply seen at the Pag. American Exposition, and the best way to get to Buffalo js by the ‘comfortabls trains of the Nickel Plate Road, carrying Nickel Plate Dining Cars, in which are served Amer- fcan Club meals from 35 to $1 each. Book free, showing pictures of exposition buildings, Hotel accommodations reserved. JAY W. ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 3 Crocker bullding, San Francisco, Cal —_—————— Grand Canyon Excursion, On July 224 a speclal excursion rate of 0 for the round trip, San Francisco to the Grana Canyon of Arizons, will be made. Leaving San Francisco at 8 p. m. on the 22d, you reach the Canyon for supper the 23d. No other sight is e RN s marvels. a Fe office, about It. - ——— . Best Way to the Yosemite. The Santa Fe to Merced stage via Merced Falls, cmurvu:..u Hazel :-;:.n: Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridat Vell Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at 5 the next afternoon: This i3 the most popular routs and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder. Cheap Rates for Epworth Leaguers and Their Friends. The Santa Fe will sell alt points July 12 to Anxu-m'z Ha "In:l‘::l‘v‘: :: holders of Epwerth League tickets and friends accompanying them. Call at Santa Fe office, 641 Market street, or ferry depot. ————— Chicago and Return $72.50. On sale July 20 and 21, the Union Pacific Railroad will sell Tound trip tickets to Cbi- §ago. wood for 0 days. at rate of 1250 D. W. c] leneral A it 1 M ;omery San Francisco. g s i —_———— To neglect the hair is to lose youth and come- liness. Save it with Parker's Halr Baisam. the best cure for corns. 15 cta.