The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCI1SCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1901, WEDNESDAY.........00000002. AUGUST 21, 101 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, - Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE -Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S, F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. . DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. AY CALL One Year.. KLY CALL One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples Wwill be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order | o insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE ..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Faneger Yorcign Aéverticing, Marguette Building. Chisag (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON <+.-..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ++30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, S1 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St.,, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—:2T Montgomery, corner of Clay. open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 8:30 o ssion, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencla, open ntfl § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. orner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. Fillmors i pia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and wimming. r and Exvosition. Sacramento—S=ntember 2 to 14. AUCTION SALES. By _Wm. G. Lavng—Thursd Fine Road Horses, at 721 Howa S 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Cnll subseribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail to their mew ®ddreszes by motifying The Call Business Office. | This paper will alse be on sale at all summer resorts and ix represented by a local affemt im | ~il towns on the coas . August at 11 o'clock, | d street. | READY FOR BUSINESS. °~ | s of the ited States on the Hague Court of Arbitration, is reported to have stated F REDERIC W. HOLLS, one of the representa- ¢ 4 re- cently that the outiook for prolonged peace among | the great nations is excellent, and that the powers gr: liy coming to recognize the possible use- fulness of the tribunal which the famous peace con- ference established to arbitrate disputes that might otherwise lead to war. It is gratifying to have this announcement. There was danger that so far from recognizing the useful- are ness of the High ‘Court of Nations the world might ! forget it altogether, and not even know it by name. It is a common belie among Americans that an in- stitution which does no work soon falls into decay and is brushed aside as so much rubbish. Mr. Holls, however, is of the opinion that The Hague court is an exception to that rule, if it be a rule. He is quoted as saying virtually that it matters not that the court has had little or no business to attend to; the essential point is that it is organized, open and ready for business as soon zs any bus comes along. That of course is a pleasant view to take of it, but we fear the powers are not recognizing the pos- sible utility of the court as fully as Mr. Holls There a great deal of bad busi- ness now going on in the world which might be con- verted into good business by the court if only its pos- sibilities ¢ d obtain just recognition from the powers created it. For example, there is the Chinese ity question that might afford a great deal of genuine work on the part of the tribunal were it submitted to that body with power to act. Of course the possible utility of the tribunal is in- able. Had the British Government, for ex- submitted the South African dispute to ar- on B-itain would have emerged from it without n honorable name. By refusing to do volved herself in a struggle which has many thousands of brave men and an ex- penditure of money which will be a debt and a bur- den upon her people for many a year to come. It & of course possible that other great powers may profit by the warning of the British experience in South Africa, but it is not at all probable that they will. Ru will not submit the Manchunian question to arbitration, nor would any other great power un- der similar circumstances be more respectful to the High Court at The Fague. It will have recognition as an ornamental institution bestowed upon the world by the Czar of Russia, and will be treated with the deference due to its august origin, but as for giving it any important work to do, that is another thing. The one ray of hope that illumines the court is that it may get at least enough work to do to show its possible utility. Wars have now become too costly for human endurance. The burdens put upon the nations of Europe to maintain their armaments eyen upon a peace footing are about as heavy as the tax- payers can endure. That they would gladly support the principle and the practice of international arbi- tration if an appeal could be taken to their sober judgment is beyond dispute. It happens, however, that such appeals have to be made when a nation is bent on war and glory, and with the jingo spirit aroused there is no use talking of peaceful solutions, The Hague court will be a long time waiting for big business. imagines. is th: A report from Europe announces gold discoveries in Palestine, so it would seem the scheme to promote emigration to that country must be in the hands of men who understand how to advertise. ‘i {by the B. O. T.” THE STRIKE AND THE PRESS. ISDOM has seemed to dictate, up to this Wlime, that the press should avoid discussion of the many intricate issues that are in- volved in the destructive strike that is inflicting in- jury upon this city and State. This attitude is no longer possible on account of the incendiary course adopted by the Examiner. Not warned by experience, it is repeating the inflamma- tory tactics which it adopted in ‘the railroad strike of 1804, by which it led a large number of men into serious trguble and caused to them and their fami- lies prolonged distress. In such a situation as now exists in this city it is not wise to heat the temper of either side of the con- troversy, for, when heated, things are said and done which make the contestants more irreconcilable. As its excuse for casting off all reserve the Examiner invented a lie about Mr. Frank Symmes, which was proved a lie by its own witnesses, but served as a pretext for its subsequent course. It has daily pub- lished personal attacks upon the owner of The Call, with the transparents motive of benefiting its own subscription list at the expense of ours. For that the owner of The Call cares nothing. He is no stranger to persenal attacks and supports them with philosophy, especially when made by Mr. Hearst, whose sole relation to the industries and the morals of California has been the vicious injury of the one and the debauchery of the other. The owner of The Call, individually and in his connection with many industrial and business enter- prises, is a large employer of labor. The thousands of wage-workers who have worked for him are under no restraint that prevents them making any statement they choose about his relations or the fairness of his conduct toward them. With this let the-personal phase be, for the present, dismissed, while we ex- amine the advice given by the Examiner and those who hold with it to the wage-earners who are idle while there is work for them all to do if they will. Over and over again, as the basis of its argument, the statement is made that labor has the same right as capital to combine, and the labor union is sisted upon as the analogue of the corporation. We grant both premises. They are undeniable. Surely neither The Call as a newspaper nor its owner as a large employer has ever denied them.”, Admitting them freely, we say to those who stand for them that the analogy between the organization of capital and labor cannot cease with their right to organize, but in- | must continue to equality of responsibility. Capital combines and incorporates, but no cor- poration compels any one to join and purchase its stock, by depriving him of the means of earning his bread if he refuse. It pickets no banker's door, nor business man’s store, to denounce him to passers-by or customers who seek to patronize him. It does not enforce investment in its securities by calling “scabs.” It can do none of these things because the power for harm of organization being recognized, organized capital is hedged around by the law, and everything capital does is under the shadow and restraint of its legal responsibility. On those who refuse | the streets of this city may be seen trucks and drays with a printed placard reading, “Granted permission This means that some one has need of a wage-worker, and that the employer can- not have the services of the employe until a third arty who neither earns the wages nor pays them “‘grants permission.” Suppose that a truck were seen placarded, “Granted periission to work by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,” that company being neither the earner nor the payer of the wages, does not every one know { that not only would the whole town rise in revolt, but the courts would take instant cognizance of the offense against persounal liberty and punish the offender? Yet an act that capital dare not do is done by an organization that has neither legal standing i nor financial responsibility. Labor has the same right to organize as capital. We go farther than that and declare that labor has a better right to organize than capital, because men are more important than money. But, when organized, labor escapes none-of its obligations to the com- | munity of which it is a part. It has no more right | than capital to stop all industry and inflict an irre- :parablc injury upon production as is now being | done. If the corporations of California were doing as the Examiner is new encouraging union labor to do the courts would oust them from the control of | their business, and under the legal principle of the | failure of a trust by default of the trustee would, by judicial order, install trustees who would proceed to i discharge their corporate obligations. If it be insisted that individual contract between employer and employe shall cease, and that the em- ploye surrendering that right shall merge himself in a union, surrendering his personal liberty of con- tract, to work only when granted permission by the officers of his union, the safety of the laborer him- self demands that such potent and portentous con- trol of his fate shall be responsible and not irrespon- sible, that its power for evil shall be recognized as well as its power for good, and that its exercise shall | be as rigidly regulated by law as is the power of capi- tal and of corporations. The welfare of the wage-worker himself requires this. Thousands of men are now idle in this city and their families are feeling the pinch who were with- out grievance against their employers. They were not put under any ban as union men. They had union wages and hours, but they are refused permis- | sion to work because third parties refuse to grant | permission to wage-earners to work in some other line of employment. Such men are denied the right to keep their contracts and agreements with their employers and compelied to stand impeached of bad faith -because of a controversy they did not cause and cannor settle. In the absence of any legal status or responsibility they find themselves compelled to resort to the primi- tive method of force to prevent the comunity, of which they are a part, continuing the processes by which its life is maintained. As they feel the pinch worse and their condition becomes more desperate in enforced idleness, they resort to personal violence in denying to others the right to do the work and take the wages they have abandoned. Into this painful situation is thrown the evil advice of the Examiner in search of nickels. It is teaching the wage-earners that they have no responsibility to the community, that the ships may rtot at the wharves, the farmers’ grain and fruit waste in the fields, and the commerce and industries of the State migrate permanently elsewhere, to the lasting injury of both labor and capital, “for the sake of a prin- ciple,” which involves the right of a third party to grant or refuse to men the right to work when em- ployment is waiting for them. No question of hours or wages is involved, only this “principle,” which is such a high and afflicting form of interference with i I personal liberty that it cannot safely be intrusted to. any man or combination of men irresponsible to the law for its abuse. - No matter what the result of the bad counsel of the Examiner, wage-workers themselves will ultimately be compelled to seek the protection of the law against the very power they are now advised to establish. e ———cer: AMERICANS IN ENGLAND. N observant student of affairs in England has A recently written for the New York Post a re- view of the changes that have been brought about in that country during the last forty years. Many of these changes he attributes to the presence and influence of Americans, whose numbers in Eng- land are rapidly increasing. In some respects the writer resents the intrusion of the American, whose desire for sightseeing has set a fashion among the British themselves, so that now all the lovely spots in the island are overrun. He says: “The famous seat of the ‘lake poets,’ Cum- berland and Westmoreland, is so overcrowded with tourists that the road through the mountains seems to be leading to a fair; the small steamers on the lakes are crowded to their utmost capacity. Un- happy is the place which has some touch of Ameri- canism in its history. The railroads dump on it thousands of our countrymen, who poke their noses everywhere, cut chips off every wooden memorial, apply the hammer to every stone one, and almos compel the inhabitants to move out.” * The rush of sightseeing Americans, however, has not been without its good results. The demand for accommodations suitable to American desires has led to an immense improvement in railway carriages and hotels. The writer says: “The old cabined, cribbed, confined tavern, consisting of a private house fitted up as an inn, has almost disappeared, and new hotels on ‘the American plan’ are springing up everywhere.” Social changes have followed the inroad of Ameri- cans with their ideas of equality, but the British pub- lic is still a long way short of the American level. In fact, the writer thinks that a good many American millionaires and other dignitaries go to England solely to enjoy the deference with which they are re- ceived. He says: “It is well known what small force titles haye in America, how little account Amer- icans make of Judges, Archdeacons and Bishops. In England these are all great personages, and I have heard an American Bishop give a most impressive account of a sensation he made at Westminster Hall by driving up in an English Bishop’s carriage. So, in like manner, the millionaire, who - receives but small honor in the United States, if, indeed, he is not looked on with suspicion, becomes a stupendous character ‘when he lands in Liverpool or Southamp- ton. The American who in any profession enjoys ever so slight a distinction at home has little idea what a great man he is until he' comes to England.” Doubtless it is that deference to rank and wealth on the part of the British public which induces a good many Americans to take up their homes there. Such people are no great loss to us and they seem to be a good deal of benefit to England. They im- prove her hotels and railways and give her a livelier movement in the way of right progress. They there- fore serve a better purpose there than they could do at home, so aiter all the American in England may be the right sort of man in the right place. BRITISH ARMY CANTEENS. RITISH military authorities have an army B canteen problem under discussion which, while radically different from our own, is none the less interesting and may be instructive. It is not with them a question whether the canteen shall con- tinue, but one of ways and means of conducting it in such a way as to prove most beneficial to the indi- vidual soldier and to the army at large. It appears from the London Chronicle that in the past there have been grave abuses resulting from the peculiar manner in which the military canteens have been conducted. In a recent review of the subject it says: “As is perfectly well known, they have hitherto been liable to serious abuses. The British soldier has beeh robbed that contractors may make fortunes, and non-commissioned officers pocket bribes in the shape of presents, secret rebates, dis- counts and other unfair forms of profit. Temptations are continually offered by large firms to canteen stew- ards, and there is no code of honor strong enough to keep the stewards from yielding. In very many, if not in most cases, they become accomplices with the contractors in taking money out of their comrades’ pockets.” No such complaint .as that was ever made of the American canteen system even by its most irrespon- sible opponent, and it will be surprising to many Americans to learn that abuses of that kind could have existed even under the British service. Some- thing like ten years ago Major Lionel Fortescue, who was recently killed in South Africa, took the man- agement of the canteen of his regiment into his own hands and within a year eradicated the old abuses and established a model upon which reforms are now being undertaken throughout the army. In describing the plan of the proposed reform the Chronicle says: “On the strength of his success Major Fortescue assisted Major Crauford, late of the Grenadier Guards, to establish the Canteen and Mess Co-operative Society, which first began its work at Caterham. The War Office has discouraged the society as it discourages everything new and most things that can be of advantage to the soldier. But in spite of that the society has developed rapidly, and in the first four years of its existence its turnover grew to £150,000. Shareholders are mot allowed to hold more than £200 apiece, and their interest is lim- ited to a2 maximum of 5 per cent. It is hoped to abol- ish private shareholders altogether and to make the regimental institutes the members, so that the society might become the sole property of those institutes, the profits being shared entirely among the con- sumers.” = This plan of turning the canteen into a co- operative association is in line with the present co- operative tendencies which are so marked among all classes of the British people. The Chronicle claims it would be of enormous advantage not only to the soldier but to the country if all the canteens in the army were managed on these co-operative and profit- sharing principles, under the direction of a central committee composed of officers who have an interest in the welfare of the soldier. z It will be seen that with the British there is no thought of abolishing the canteen. The authorities seem to be agreed that even with all the old abuses it is better to have the army canteen than to leave the soldier to the enticements of the outside grog- shop. e ———— There is something of a flutter among the women of the East over a report that earrings are coming into fashion again, but the men are praying it may prove to be a false alarm. UNDER GROUND RAILWAYS MENACE ST. PAUL’'S CATHEDRAL, LONDO N gz:fi'"" settle more than elsewhere. PILL FOR EXAMINER. Office of the Naval Officer of Customs, Port of San Francisco, Aug. 20, 1901. Editor San Francisco Call: The Exami- ner in an attack upon Hon. Will S. Green accuses him of running with me. I hardly know which gives me the great- er pleasure—the friendship of Will Green or the enmity of Billy Hearst. JOHN P. IRISH. PERSONAL MENTION. F. O. Hihn, the Santa Cruz banker, is a guest at the Grand. W. H. Clary, a Stockton mine owner, is a guest at the Lick. Thomas Whitto, a wealthy mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. W. H. Devlin, an attorney and politician of Sacramento, is at the Lick. John Morgan, a prominent business man of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. H. E. Adams, manager of the gas com- pany of Stockton, is at the Grand. H. C. Woodrow, a mining man of Shasta, is a gucst at the Occidental. A. G. Glenn, a millionaire rancher of Willows, is a guest at the Occidental. Dr. McCollum, one of Sacramento's leading medical men, is registered at the Grand. ‘W. Fraser, a traveler from London, England, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. G. R. Walker, son of the Salt Lake City banker, is among the late arrivals at the Occldental. are at the Lick. C. A. Harrison, a hotel man of Helena, Mont., is at the Palace while on a short pleasure trip to this city. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Peasléy, well known soclety people of Portland, Oregon, are registered at the California. James Lewis, a capitalist of Phila- delphia, is at the Palace accompanied by his wife and zheir two daughters. James Kelly, an Alaskan pioneer, who first went to the Territory in the early sixties, is a guest at the Windsor. Joseph Underwood, a Chicago capitalist, who is largely interested in California mining propertles, is among the arrivals of last night at the Palace. Joe Fontaine, the affable chief clerk of the Grand, has gone off on a week's vaca- tion. He is accompanied by his wife. They will spend their outing among the redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains. Emmerson Warfleld, son of the pro- prietor of the California Hotel, returned yesterday from the Yosemite. He has been away several months in company with Dr. J. W. Hudson of the Chicago Field Maseum. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The following Californians are in New York: From San. Francisco—F. Beardsley, Mrs. M. Beards- ley, at Cosmopolitan; B. W. Burridge, at Grand Union; F. R. Denman, at Hoffman; G. A. Foster, at Netherland; S. Living- ston, at Cadillac; W. B. Peck, at Man- hattan; I. G. Gresing, at Holland; W. P. Shaw, at Park Avenue; P. L. Walsh and wife, at Murray Hill; D. C. Adams, Miss A. Tietjen, at Herald Square; G. H. Rob- inson, at Albert. b From Los Angeles—H. C. Ackerley, at Holland; F. N. Sgear, C. M. Staube and ‘wife, at Grand Union. VISIBLE SHOT. A patent has just been granted for a ‘‘visible projectile,” which is intended to be seen during the course of its trajec- tory by a smoky streak if the daytime or by a luminous streak at night. This 1s accomplished by coating the bullet or shell with a substance which is ignited by the gunpowder of the charge. -Covered with a thin coat of this substance the daytime and at night will produce dur- ing its passage a bright trail enabling the gunner to see whether he is shooting cor- rectly. —_———— Strawberry festivals are the popular form of church entertainment at present. ————— CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Cal.. will be the popular summer resort this season. It became famous last year for com- fort, entertainment and health. Its splendid cafe was & wonder, the fishing unexecelled. e S UCH anxiety has been caused in London by the discov- M ery that the foundations of St. Paul's Cathedral are sinking and that the great structure has been cracked in many places. Somers Clarke, the architect, who has charge of St. Paul's, in discussing the matter recently. saild: “The immense weight resting upon the eight piers uphold- ing the dome has caused the foundations under the dome to The settlement thus caused has broken the eight arches and the windows of the clerestory over them in the nave of the choir and the north and south transepts Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Harlan have come | | up from thelr home in San Ramon and | shell will give off a visible vapor in the | them to sink, and in the two underground ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SCULLING—Outrigger, City. For books on single sculling you shculd apply to | dealers in sporting goods or to a first- class bookseller. LICK HOUSE FIRE—A. P. 8, City. It was on the 224 of July, 1877, that a fire destroyed the dining room of the Lick House, in San Francisco. JACKPOT-C. P., City. If a player opens a jackpot and none of the other players stay he is required to show more than the openers; he must show the whole hand. VIOLIN MAKING—W. D., Vallejo, Cal. Books that treat on the art of mak- ing violins are: ‘“Hart's Violis “Allen’s Violin Making” and “The Violin,” by Manuel de Lauthier. RAILWAY MILEAGE—Enq., City. On the 30th of June, 1899, the railway mileage of the United States was, according to of- ficial figures, 188.277.49, and to this is added the unofficial figures, 1,017.17, making a grand total of 189,204, AMERICAN FREE SCHOOLS-J. H.,| | City. The first record of free schools in America is the passage of a law in Mas- | sachusetts in 1849 requiring every town- | ship to maintain a free school and every | town of 100 families to maintain a gram- mar school “to fit youth for the univer-| sity.” SLEEP—Mother, City. Medical authori- ties that babes require from sixteen | to eighteen hours' sleep out of the twenty- four in a day: children of 12 and youns peoples eight hours. As age increases the number of hours required decreases and after the age of 60 six hours of sound ep suffice to maintain health. PARTY—A. THE BOSTON 8., City. { The Boston Party, which included the ! Boston Board of Trade, arrived in San | Francisco June 1, 1570, in a special train, coming into the city by way of the San Jose track, then laid on Market street. | The train, which stopped in front of the | Grand Hotel, landed its passengers in the presence of more than 5000 people at half past 12 o'cleck in the morning. THE COMPASS—M. H. F., Alameda, | Cal. The needle of the compass®does not | point directly to the north. The north | | magnetic pole does not coincide with the north pole. East or west of a zigzag line | | which moves east and west the needle of | the compass pdints west or east of the north magnetic pole. A compass has to be corrected and the variations deter- mined at least twice a vear. COUNTY LICENSE—M., Sonora, Cal. The license case to which you refer in | your letter of inquiry was reported in The | Call of July 12, 1901. It is the case of a saloon-keeper in Los Angeles on habeas corpus. He refused to pay the county H- cense because he had already paid muni- cipal license. Chief Justice Beatty held | that under the law passed by the last Legislature the counties cannot collect a license on liquor business for which muni- cipal license has been paid. AUTOGRAPH COPY--H. R. H., Lath. rop, Cal. By “Autograph copy of a book’ you probably mean “author's copy It is the rule generally for the author of a book to have a number of coples printed on better paper and bound better than the general editlon to be used by him for special purposes. These he generally sends out with his signature on the first page. These are called author's copies. They may also be termed autograph copy, as each bears the autograph of the author, FROGS—T. M. H., Vallejo, Cal. In the United States the bullfrog is cultivated for food. In Europe the kind cuitivated is the common green frog. There the frogs are caught in great numbers in nets and placed in large inclosed ponds called froggeries, where the little animals are fed until wanted for the table. The prin- cipal food of the frogs is insects, but when in froggeries they are also fed with bread crumbs and chopped meat. The flesh of the frog is best in the fall. POPULATION—C. H. R., Vallejo, Cal. | Thg population of California, according to the census of 1900, is 1,208130. The same | authority sets down the foreign born pop- | ulation at 316,505. The population of San | Francisco is given 342,782. The dlvision of | the population by races and nationalities has not yet been given out, but thus far the figures show colored population in San Francisco, including negroes, Chinese fected the foundations. F vibrations resulting from the passing trains. | man. o THE DISCOVERY HAS RECENTLY BEEN MADE THAT THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL ARE SINK- ING. THE ARCHITECT IN CHARGE OF THE HISTORIC FANE EXPRESSES THE BELIEF THAT THE UN- DERGROUND RAILWAYS HAVE AFFECTED THEM. ——— where they abut on the dome piers in the same way. ‘The very great weight of the western towers has caused sinking they have cracked the west front vertically thrugh the great door, the window above and the vaulted ceiling of the portico. They have also cracked the wall of the chapel to the east.” After mentioning the unequal distribution of weight as a cause of the settlement, Mr. Clarke expressed the opinion that railways and the large sewers have af- He laid particular stress upon the A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Pat,” sald a manager to one of his workmen, “you must be an early riser. I always find you at work the first thing in the morning.” “Indade, and Of am, sor. trait, Oi'm thinking.” “Then your father was an early riser, too?” fe father, is it? He roises that early that if he went to bed a little later he'd meet himself getting up in the morning.” —Montreal Star. It's a family “Yes, I'm pretty well fixed,” remarked the Western millionaire. “I began life a barefoot boy and—-" “Of course, busis that unusual out your way " “Well, yes; I'm rather an exception.” “Well, well! I know it's quite common in the West for one to die with his boots on, but I didn’t know you folks were born that way, too."—Philadelphia Press. “You owe this country nearly every- thing you possess in literature,” remarked the Englishman. “Yes,” answered the American business But bLy the time our capitalists get through you may owe us enough for locomotives and other things to more than offset the account."—Washington Star. “I understand,” said the tenderfoo “that your jury found the offender guilt of murder in the second degree. I didn know you fellows made any distinctio between first and second degree mu: derers.” ‘ “Sartinly,” answered Alkail Tke, “wa' makes this distinction. When a man's found guilty in the fi degree we hangs him to the highest limb and shoots him full of holes, an’ whea a man's found guilty in the second degree we hangs him to the lowest limb an’ don't do no shoot- in’.”—Indianapolis Su: Church—I understand the jury stood eleven to one in favor of acquittal at first? Gotham—That’s right: we did. “Well, how in the world did the eleven ever come around to think as the one man?" ‘“Well, you see, the fellow who was alone for conviction knew the prisoner pretty well, and he told us that the fel- low had a lot of interesting children, and he was forever telling stories about their marvelous sayings, so we thought it wouldn’t hurt to lock him up for a few ‘weeks.”"—Yonkers Statesman. Mr. Jones came home at an unseemly hour the other night, and was surprised to see Mrs. Jones sitting up for him be- low stairs, with no other light than that of the gas lamp, which faced the door, to keep her company. ““M-M-Marie,” he said, huskily, “y-vou shouldn’t sit up s’ late when I'm out on business.” As Mrs. Jones did not answer him he continued In an alarmed voice; “Shorry.¢ m'dear, but it's last time—tell you I'm\ sorry—won’t shpeak to me?” At «this moment Mrs. Jones called from above stairs: “Mr. Jones, who are you talking to at this hour of the night?” “Thash what I'd like to know m-m-my- self,” stammered Jones. Mrs. Jones hastened downstalrs, lamp in hand. When she saw the situation she laughed, in spite of being very angry. “It's the model,” she said—"the model I bought to-day to fit my dresses on.” “Yes, thash so,” said Jones, tipsily; “model woman—didn't talk back—make some fellow good wife.”—Tit-Bits. —————— Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® saneniBa e o sl Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® supplied daily to the font- : Special information business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ————————— In Indla if you see a quantity of strings tied from side to side of the street, with three-cornered pieces of paper fastened to them, you may know that a birthday is being celebrated in onc of the houses. ——————— Are You “Of the Old World”? Everything pertaining to the New World may be easily and cheaply seen at the Pan- American Exposition, and. the best way to get to Buffalo is by the comfortable tratns of the Nickel Plate Road, carrying Nickel Plate Dining Cars, in which are served Amer- jean Club meals from 35¢ to $1 each. Hotel accommodations reserved. JAY ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 31 Crocker |and Japanese, 17404. The Chinese and | Japanese together number 16,750. free, showing pictures of exposition inlm:? building, San Franciseo, Cal.