The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCIS 30 CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1901. AUGUST 12, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicatisns to W. 8. LEAEE, Manager. VANAGER'S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 FICE...Marke: and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201 EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Slevenson St. Telepbone Press 202Z. Delivered hy Carriers. 15 Cenis Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Inclnding Postages CALL Oncloding Sunday), one year. CALL (neluding Sunday), § month DAILY CALL dncluding Eunday), 3 months. TAILY CALL—By Single Month FUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Year. DALY DAILY 853 All postmasters nre anthorized to receive - Eampts coples will eriptions. ‘orwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in orderiag chanes of addrese should be rerticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o msure a prompt end correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.... ...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE GNESE. Yansger Yoreign Adverticing, Marguette Building, Chiesgo. (org Distance Tel me “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLYOS. ........ Herald Square . C NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ETEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorr-Astoria Hotel: A. Brestans, 31 Morray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman Fouse: P. O. News Co.: Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House: Auditorfom Hotel. Untoz Square: BRANCH OFFICES~2T Montzomery, eorner of Clay. open mntfl $:30 o'clock. 300 Fayes. open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister. open until 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin. open untll #:3 o'clock. 1961 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corper Bixteenth, open untll § o'clack. 168 Valencie, open ©otll § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea untfl § o'clock. 00 Fillmore. open untll § p. m. —_—nmnmm AMUSEMENTS. nted Harpess.” - Opera-house—""The Liars.” Central—*“The Great Diamond Robbery." oli—*La Favorita. lumbia—*""Mrs. Dane's Defence.” Olympia. corncr Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and 4 Exposition. Sacrame to—September 2 to 1. AUCTION SALES. heen & Co.—Monda: 14 Montgomery street. W Layng—Thursday, August 15, Trotting Horses, Howard street. August 12, at 12 o'clock, 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of residenece during the summer months can have tieir puper forwarded by mail to their mew @ddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at ajl summer nd is represented by a local affemt im ~ii towss on the coast THE BUSINESS TIDE STILL HIGH. the tide of prosperity which has been flow- ver the country several years has not t to ¢bb was graphically shown last In of th 1t unfavorable weather con- hwest, whereby the cereal aged, and the labor h threw large numbers of loyment and closed down a number of mmercial statistics of the country condi The exceptionally fine business ons. g week last year, and of the owns reporting clearings only five— Jinghamton, Macon and Helena— rom 1900. This is probably the Iy showing on record. shows that trade in the U ted States is a sound basis that neither crop s have the power to affect In fact, from all quarters of the country are flattering. The distributive de- is brisk everywhere, wheat ied or actually advancing, money is iz no rabid speculation in Wail 1 and if they continue the year 11 be 2 record breaker in many respects, brill- mediate twe or three predecessors were. °s continue to make a good exhibit. Wool s. have been liberally ordered ahead. Structural b thus far has not been affected by the heir orders. Eastern boot and shoe report *orders up to their previous vol- n the West and Southwest are advance in this cereal, though her to the thought. Quotations for hay in the same regions have gone up d those fzrmers who get good crops will isco, in spite of the strike, a large ex- port business is being done, though the bulk of it is by L. The West and Southwest are calling on us for ¢ potatoes and onions we can spare, and within the past few days a sharp demand for the bean crop Purchases of dried fruit in the country r before known at this season, an;l at better prices than usual, with possibilities of a urther advance later on. Canned fruits and vegetables re firm, with a continuation of the demand for the West already spoken of. Wine grapes are in active demand and buyers arc paying from $20 to $32.50 per ton for them in the country and willing to make large contracts at these prices. British Columbia and Alaska & in large orders for fruit and other produce, In fact, almost everything that the farmer raises is in k demand for an immense territory extending from Nome to Texas and the Missouri River Valley. The latest products wanted are barley and oats for the two atter sections, and local dealers are now trying to get Iroad rates which will enable them to ship out large ntities of these cereals. In brief, there never was ng up. vier than ire send such a domestic demand for our farm products as that wl ich is now pressing vs for satisfaction. With these conditions California ought to be abun. » satisfied. Our crops, while not large as a rule year, are sufficient to bring us in handsome re- wurns and we, as well as the other States, ought to areak the business record this year. ings showed a gain of 52 per cent | is firm and woolen goods, particularly the plainer | in eager demznd and the manufacturers are | om the West are even better. | Herrin is in poli not evade. public judgment upon it. company is supporting to-day. Pacific Company? convention—may dictate the committees. PRESIDENT HAYS AND MARTIN KELLY. HEN President Hays announced that under its new management %he South- ern Pacific Company would attend strictly to railroad business and abstain from interference in politics, his words were received with gratification throughout California; and when a litttle later he issued his order to the offi- cials and employes of the road to devote themselves exclusively to their duties to the business of the company, there was a widespread hope that the words of the promise were to be fulfilled—that the railroad was to get out of politics and stay out. Now an elec- tion is at hand. The time has come for President Hays to make good his words. W. F. cs; the Evening Post is in politics, and both Herrin and the Post are on the payroll of the Southern Pacific Company. Does Mr. Hays regard their activity in the support of Martin Kelly as a violation of his promise and his order, or not? That is a question the people of California have a right to ask. It is one which Mr. Hays can- Last September the Evening Post, then, as now, an organ of the Southern Pacific Company, published an editorial plainly declaring Martin Kelly's character and the In the course of the article the Post said: “Kick Kelly Out.” “ile Is Indecent.” “Kelly Is a Traitor.” “Kelly Is an Impostor.” ¢Kelly Is Dishonest.” “Kelly Is a Menace.” «Kelly Is a Rascal.” The people of San Francisco say to Mr. Hays: The Kelly whom the organ of your company thus described last September is the same Martin Kelly whom the organ of your Kelly has not changed. He has not reformed nor even re- pented. Why then is he now supported by the organ and the attorney of the Southern Why is it, Mr. Hays, that an official drawing a salary from your corporation and a newspaper supported by a monthly subsidy from your corporation are now upholding the political pretensions and aggressions of a boss who but a year ago your Own newss paper denounced as indecent, a traitor, an impostor, dishonest, a menace and a rascal? Backed by the support given him by the officials and the organ of your corpora- tion, Kelly has had himself placed at the head of a gang ticket as a delegate for the Re- publican nominating convention from the Twenty-eighth District. cause of its number, stands first on the roll, and should Kelly be elected his name will be first that is called when the convention assembles. He will thus be placed conspicuously as the representative of Republicanism in this city. That district. be- He may name the chairman of the If he achieve that triumph, Mr. Hays, it will be mainly because of the support given him by Herrin and the Post, both of whom are on the payroll of your corporation and are under your control. Are you willing that men under your direction should take this man, once denounced by them as a traitor, an impostor and a rascal, and lift him out of the slums into the eminence at which his impudence aims? The people of San Francisco put those questions to Mr. Hays in order that ke may understand they are not ignorant of what his corporation is doing through its attorrey, W. F. Herrin, and its organ, the Evening Post. For themselves, the people will attend to their political business and will “kick Kelly out.” Southern Pacific Company cannot force a boss of the Kelly type upon the Republican party of this city, when the better elements are aroused as they are to-day. When a set of Whether in politics or out of it, the men first brand a boss as indecent, dishonest and a rascal, and then with that brand upon | him set about supporting him, their influence with self-respecting people is gone. THE BOGUS TICKET TRICK. has already brought to light the fact that IGILANCE on the part of genuine Republicans | V among other schemes designed to deceive the 1!!(1\\'3\')’ the bosses who are striving to control the | Republican convention have arranged to put spurious |tickets in the field. The trick consists in placing at the | head of the spurious ticket one or more candidates | known to represent the anti-boss element of the party, while the rest of the ticket is filled with the names of the henchmen of the bosses. Should many persons be deceived by such tickets the bosses would make con- | siderable gains and might bring about the election of |a number of their gang who could never have been [ elected otherwise. To guard against that and similar tricks that may be devised between now and the closing of the polls, genuine Republicans should be careful to read over the full list of names upon the ticket they vote. The gang is unscrupulous and cunning. It will not pay to take chances with them. It is to be borne in mind that the bosses are not resorting to these various kinds of fraud for nothing. They are aware of the importance of the issue. The | triumph of honest politics in San Francisco would be | felt throughout the State. It is for that reason that Herrin and Gage have brought to the aid of Kelly | every heeler they could control. We have had intro- duced ino our local politics the bosses of the interior. | Perhaps it is not accurate to say that the outsiders | were “introduced” into o@r politics, for thefe was | nothing of conventional manners about the process. Some of them were sneaked in, some were dragged in and some may have been kicked in much against their will. By one means or another, however, they have been brought in, and the Republicans of San Fran- | cisco have upon their hands the task of making clean | the city in which the outsiders have been doing so 2 much diriy politics after the manner of Kelly. | The issue that has brought about this extraordinary combination of bosses was raised by the passage of the | primary election law. Kelly and Herrin can no longer | carry the Republican primaries by the brutal pro- | cess of assaulting honest men at the primaries or by ! the fradulent process’of stuffing the ballot box or mis- | counting the vote. The new law gives to every citizen a right to cast his vote and have it fairly counted. | Thus the bosses perceive that their power is about to be broken. There is but one way for them to win and that is by standing together and making use of every deception that cunning can conceive and rascality | practice. . To the genuine Republicans of the city the issue and the occasion are as important as to the bosses. | Therefore, each and every one of them should go to | the polls, and when there scrutinize with care the ballot that he votes. Remember there is but one anti- boss ticket in any district—it is the ticket of the Re- publican Primary League. Chandler of New Hampshire is reported to have asserted that he will compel Fighting Bob Evans to retract certain statements made about the way in which Chandler conducted affairs when Secretary of the Navy, and if those two get into a row the Schley- Sampson controversy will seem like a side show. AT General Gomez seems at last to be on the road where he may find a job to his liking. The electoral bill is being so framed in the Cuban constitutional | convention a3 to make the old man eligible as a nat- uralized citizen for the position of President. It costs $4 13 a word to swear in Wilkesbarre, and it is said that the town is such that most of the resi- dents accept the tariff upon the luxury with eager- ness. It affords them a necessary vehicle for the ex- pression of their feelings. THE WIRELESS SERVICE, Y the dispatch published in The Call of Sunday B to the Hon. Julius Kahn from Willis L. Moore, acting Secretary of Agriculture, concerning the desired establishment of a system of wireless teleg- raphy between this city and the Farallones there is afforded a just cause for popular gratification. Mr. Mobre announces that the department has an observer at Nantucket assisting in the transmission of the Her- ald’s wireless reports from the lightship off that island and that it is probable an additional expert will be- sent. The telegram states: “Secretary Wilson is alive to the interests of the Pacific "Coast, and under his direction I am bending every effort to either secure from others or perfect by our own investigators a sys- tem that can be installed at the Farallones.” Wireless telegraphy has now reached a degree of development that renders it of practical use, and it is so used in many parts of the world. Consequently, since the Secretary of Agriculture is resolved to em- ploy it in the service of the Weather Bureau, it is Irardly likely that any considerable time will elapse before a suitable system has been obtained for the service so much desired here. The value of such a service to the city is now well understood. It will be even more valuable to mer- chants than to the Weather Bureau. If, therefore, our people appear insistent in repeatedly urging the matter upon the Government it will be only because they recognize that there is no telling when the need of such a service may be welil nigh imperative. Ever since the day when The Call achieved the feat of receiving by wireless telegraphy the news that the Sherman was in sight on her way home with the Cali- fornia Volunteers from Manila the people of this city have taken a keen interest in the new marsel of sci- ence. We should be among the first to have the ser- vice when established, and it is therefore gratifying to receive assurance from the officials of the Department of Agriculture that they are looking carefully after our interests. ) Therejis a report going the rounds that a fashionable preacher told his congregation the other day that “there are no golf lin in hell,” so people who think there is anything like hades in the neighborhood of San Francisco are mistaken. According to a story that comes from New Jersey lightning recently struck and set fire to a barn in that State, and just as the neighbors were wondering what to do the lightning struck it a second time and put the five out. A A New York Judge has reached the severe con- clusion that there is but one honest man in a thou- sand. It might Le beneficial not only to himself but to the community in which he is suffered to exist for him to travel. It is reported that a bottle thrown into the Gulf of Mexico has been picked up near Cork after a voyage of about 300 days, and if that do not prove the natural affinity between bottle and cork, then nothing can prove it. sl T But one shadow of serious suspicion has been cast upon Admiral Schley in all the controversy in which his name figures so prominently. He is indorsed with every show of enthusiasm by William Jennings Bryan. Three men quarreled in a Kentucky town the other day over one cent and mortally wounded one another. This timely result ought to be considered a distinct victory to the community in which they lived. Civil service, it is said, is working honestly and ad- mirably in the Hawaiian public departments. This ought to be a pointer for Mayor Phelan and his hired men to study something worth learning. CALIFORNIA EXHIBIT THE BEST AT PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION hibit in the Hortfcultural ‘building, “there are other products of striking interest. For instance, California redwood, burl ar:d plain, beautifully polished, is Ingeniously ‘worked in to form an office. The same voh in wax finish is worked into facades on the main aisles. These, With other plain and or- namental wood specimens collected and sup- plied by the Southern Pacific Company, con- stitute even a more beautiful and striking WD; feature than is made by any one State in ¢ = Forestry building, and yet they are so adjust to the Horticultural bullding as to appear dec- u chicory, sugar.and sugar beets each T tems of Interest. Raisins, s and In clusters, are & strong pickled olives, dried olives and olive a prominent place. ILos Angeles County and Fresno County their products In a separate cc hibit, but so located and arranged a parts of Californta’s general _disp D seeded raisins In quarter-pound ; Tre peing dlstributed free under the a 5¢ the Fresno Chamber of Commerce from Fresno booth, and, as you can imagine HE following letter, telling how California is represented at the Pan- American Exposition at Buffalo, | will be of interest to residents of this State: FEditor Call: At this distance we are kept in comparative lgnorance as to how much is be- ing sald by the press of the State about the | part which California is playing in the big Exposition now in progress at Buffalo. The Call has generally backed movements atmed at California’s advancement, especially when as- sured that the effort was genuine and not in- tended solely to give some third-rate faker or fourth-rate politician a job, and hence T s sume that its legion of readers will be Inte ested In knowing of the State's showing at the Pan-American Exposition. To be brief, then, California has easily the best State ex- hibit at this fair. We have a creditable min- | teral exhibit in the mining bullding, embra. ing more than 2000 specimens and some seventy odd varleties of commercial minerals; this Is | handsomely installed and carefully classified, and to mining men and mineralogists especial- {1y it is a feature of much interest. In the Dairy building we have cream and butter put up in commercial or export packages from some six or eight different dairles. These attract more than ordinary attention from East- ern dairymen, as they generally concede that our style of package is superior for export pur- poses to anything thus far in use in the East. In the Horticultural building California oc- cuples just about two-ffths of the entire space. On coming in at the main entrance California | products greet the visitor on elther side, and | the installation is such as to make a striking and favorable impression. Ontario, Idaho, Flor- ida, New York, Illinois, Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Maine and Missouri are the other places represented in this building and as a rule thefr products as well as the installation of them serve by contrast to show California off to better advantage than If we had the entire building. While fruit fs neces- sarily the dominant feature in California’s ex- | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CARNEGIE—C. E. M., City. Published biographies of Andrew Carnegie state that his father and some relatives settled in Pittsburg, Pa., but they do not tell who those relatives we COMING AND GOING—J. A., City. and coming in describing the intention of a party to visit another at a distance. In writing; for instance, to a party in New York the form would be “I am going to visit you in December,” other hand, the party in New York should write the question. ‘‘Are you coming to see me next December?” the reply would generally be, “Yes, T am coming at that time,” but it would be better to write, “Yes, I will come at that time.” COFFEE—F., City. The coffee tree was introduced into Holland from Arabia in 1616 and into the West Indies in 1726. The | use of coffee as a beverage was intro- duced into Egypt and Constantinople in the sixteenth century. It was first made known in Europe through the accounts of travel of Leonhard Rauwolf, a Ger- man physician, printed in 1573. The first coffee house in Europe was established in Constantinople in 1551, the first in Eng- land was opened by one Jacobs in Oxford, 1650, and the first in London was by a Greek named Pasquet in 1652. The first coffee house in France was opened in Marsellles in 1671, and the first one in Paris was opened in the following year. TESTING DIAMONDS—S., City. Mas- simo Levi, an Italian chemist, gives the following as an infallible method for testing diamonds: ‘If you have a doubt- ful stone put it in a leaden or platinum cup with some powdered fluorspar and a little ofl of vitriol; warm the vessel over lighted charcoal in a fireplace or where there is a strong draught to carry away the noxious vapors that will be coplousiy evolved. When these vapors have ceased rising let the whole cool and then stir the mixture with a glass rod to fish out the diamond. If found intact it is a genulne stone, but if it Is false it will be corroded by the hydrofiuoric acid that has been generated around it. A small paste dia- mond would disappear altogether under the treatment.” COMPARISONS—Gypsy, City. Each of the quotations ‘“comparizons are cdious” and ‘“‘comparisons are odorous” is cor- rect. The former is used in “Don Quix- ote” by Cervantes, in “De Laudibus leg Angliae” by Fortescue; in “Jaculo Pru- dentum’ by Herbert; in “Woman Killed by Kindness,” a play by Heywood; in “Le Livre des Proverbes Francais” by Le Roux; in “Answer to Sheridan’s Simile” by Swift, and in ‘“Anatomy of Melan- choly” by Burton in the sense that com- parisons are distasteful. The other are the words of Dogberry, the constable, in “Much Ado About Nothing,” whom Shakespeare has made to say “‘Compari- sons are odorous; palabras, Neighbor Ver- ges.” The words of Dogberry have been wrongfully credited to Mrs. Malaprop in “The Rivals.” What Mrs. Malaprop did say was, “No caparisons, miss, if you please; caparisons don’t become a young ‘woman.” i —————— CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach Cal., will be the popular summer resort this season. It became famous last year for com. fort, entertalnment and health. Its splendid cafe was a wonder, the fishing unexecelled, but if, on the | | Common usage justifies the use of going | celved an order from Russia for a crulser | | 18,000 horsepower and 25 orative and not out of place. Another feature of California’s exhibit is one of the finest collections of forest and fleld pho- tographs to be seen at this exposition, includ- ing one picture of the Big Basin big tree grove in Santa Cruz County by A. P. HIill that is twenty feet long. Among the Iinteresting articles sent from Stockton 1s a fine display of everything from raw wool to the finest manufactured goods from the Stockton Woolen Mills, some fine plain and ornamental leather from the Stockton Tannery, a model of a combiued harvester from Holt Brothers and some brickettes from the Tesla Coal Company. As a single item nothing attracts more attention from Eastern visitors, and especially from Eastern farmers, than the harvester. One of the imposing features of California’s display is a canned fruit house by the Cali- fornia Canners' Assocfation, a structure about twenty feet in either direction and buflt in pagoda style entirely out of canned fruit, re- quiring about 900 cans in its construction. As a single feature this is admittedly the best on the grounds, and yet it constitutes only one item of California’s splendid display. California wine is a strong feature of exhibit and Is beautifully instailed. There all told, north and south, some eighteen vin yards represented and some of them have been very generous in their contributions as regards quantity. Another strong and very attractive feature of California’s exhibit is the display of dried While different packers contributed to the fruits. this department the Santa Clara F Ex- change shows up Tost conspicuously with a large and very handsomely arranged exhibit of prunes. All grades are shown, from the Im- perfal to the smallest, and they are so ar- ranged that the bottom of the box, or the fruit in the bottom rather, can be seen and inspected as well as that on the top. Wild flowers and wheat, flower seeds and cereals, wool and mohair, ramie and flax, hemp and jute, cotton and silk, are all shown in California’s space. SUBMARINE BOAT OF ITALY IS A SUCCESS| pri S S Schichan, at Elbing, Prussia, I has re- | of an improved Novik type of 300 tons, knots speed. A | The ordinary naval expenditures of | Japan amount to $16,500,000 in round num- bers. A third expansion is likely to be authorized, which will bring the total up to $ e Out of 6122 officers on the active list in the British navy only 104 are qualified as interpreters in one or more foreign lan- | guages. This percentage is almost as low as the navies of France, Portugal and Spain. ¥ 0y e Eight armored coast-defense ships in the German navy are being lengthened | twenty-five feet and otherwise improved | and rearmed. The aggregate cost of this work is less than the first cost of one modern battleship. - € in A boiler explosion has occurred on board the German cruiser Ariadne as a result of which two men were killed and | four wounded. The boiler was one pf the Schultz type—a combination of the Thorneycroft and German variety of wa- ter-tube boiler. iy e There is little hope for engineer offi- | cers in the British navy improving their status. A deputation which recently | called on Lord Selborne, First Lord of | the Admiralty, to present the grievances | of the Engineer Corps, found him averse | to any of the improvements suggested. | . Six million dollars is the limit of cost of the new naval academy at Annapolis, | and contracts for some of the buildings | have already been made, and work is in | progress. Large as the sum is, it is like- | ly to be exceeded, and the indicattions | strongly favor such a supposition. In | the distribution of the available and prospective appropriations the Navy De- partment has allotted $400,000 for a new | chapel, a sum which seems sufficient for | the erection of a good-sized cathedral. o e An important ifivention in rapid gun- firicg was tested last month on board the French coast-defense ship Valmy at Cherbourg. The invention is by Com- mandant Guic, and was applied to the tvio 13.89-inch turret guns, five shots be- ing fired from each gun in four and a half minutes. The best record of the 135-inch gun in the British navy is one minute twenty-seven seconds be- tween rounds. The American 12-inch is claimed to be able to fire three shots in tour minutes, and the 8-inch at the rate of one round per minute. The French gun of 13.39 inches. throwing a $28-pound 1 | | asainst the American 8-inch shell of 27 pounds at the rate of nine rounds. -l The Delfino, a submarine boat built at Spezia for the Itallan navy, was tried during the last week of July, and is said to have come up to expectations of its designer. It traversed the whole Bay | shell, fires ten rovnds in nine minutes,i of Spezia at a good speed and launched l DISPLAY , AT THE BUFFAL.D ExPOYITION R place is very popular With the visitors. n the stand is ements consum- of prupes in the auspices of the wds, and “Not to see Californ has become a common has been intenst- fled by the of free ral With free prunes and prume products, which are to be given away on and after the 5th, added to estion whether those In em the tide or not. alifornia’s one for our Very truly, of the people. is not to see the fair” This aistribut; expression. OBSERVER. PERSQNAL MENTION. Abe Marks, a merchant of Ukiah, is reg- istered at the Lick. H. .W. Bingham, a business man ille, is at the Palace. D. Tillotson, a mining man of Red- is located at the Grand. liam Kettner, a newspaper man of alia, is one cf the arrivals at the Lick. E.C. Voorheis, a prominent politician « Sutter Creek, is registered at the Palace. H. A. Jastro, one of the leading mer- chants of Bakersfield, is registered at the Grand. Thomas O. Toland, member of the Stata Board of Equaization, is at the Lick for a brief sta ———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. of Pessimistic Artist—Just look where they've got my canvas: on the top line! Optimistic Artist—It might be worse. “I can't see how; it's as high as the cefl- ing will allow.” “Yes; but the ceiling might be a great deal higher.”—Yonkers Statesman. Agent—Now, here's a grand thing—a rubber guard to keep your screen doors from banging. Man—Yes; we have it in use already. can’t you get up semething grand by which we can keep our neighbor's sereen doors from banging?—Chicago Record- Herald. Master Boerum Place—Unecle Jack, when the American flag is only half hoisted it means that some one is dead, don't it? His Uncle—Yes; and when it is hoisted upside down it is a signal of distress. Master Boerum Place—Not on land it isn’t, Uncle Jack! I've watched and it only means it's a holiday.—Washington Star. “Somebody finds fault because the medi- cal profession’s great work is not at- | tested by some representative name on a tablet ir the Hall of Fame.” “Perhaps there are quite enough names on mortuary tablets now that testify to the profession’s great work.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. @ i g a torpedo against the armored cruiser Varssa notwithstanding the fact that the | latter had been warned against an at- tack. As the experiments were made by a crew composed of commissioned of. ficers, in order to better guard the se. crets, and none other than Italian naval officers were present, the word of those directly interested must be taken for the favorable result. Little Is known of the lDe:flnn.hexm:jpt that the boat Is 49 feet n length and calculateq to m: of 10 knots. A oreto o —_— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* —_—— T Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureat (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—————— Be No More Careful Of the word you use than of the paper on which you use it when condueting social correspondence. The fashionable styles just now are the “Carrara Marmor,” Peau d'Antilope” and “Linen Lawn.” Kept at Sanborn & Vail's, 74l Market. * -t