The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1901. : TUESDAY..:..... wevveeners...AUGUST 27, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S ')I"I_'ICE. «+:Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Marlket and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep! Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ome year DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 momths DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL One Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year. 17 to 221 Steve: Press All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forward:d when requested. Maill subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. .1118 Broadveay C. GEORGE JKXROGNESS. Nunager Foreign Advertisivg, ¥arquette Building, Chisags. (Long Distance Telephome *“‘Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.... +essse0.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ..30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. Sl 55 BRANCH OFFICES—S52T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 ¥iayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Yjleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Filishere, open until 9. a. m. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbit: ‘Wheels Within Wheels. Alcazar— Romeo gnd Juliet.”” Grand Opera-houge—"Lord and Lady Algy Central—*The Two Orphans.” Tivoli—*‘Mefistof#le.” California— “Rogemary.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo apd Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaydeville. Sutro Baths-Swimming. Ringling Bro=.’ Circus—Folsom and Sixteenth streets. Mechanics’ ~Pavilion—Sclentific Boxing, Friday evening, August 30, State Fair and Exposition, Sacramento—September 2 to 1. AUCTION SALES. By §. Watkins—This day, Horses, Buggles, etc., at 1140 Folsom street 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. ©Onll subscribers cemtemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mafl to their mew eddresses by notifying The Cull Busimess Office. This paper will alse be on sale at all summer resorts mnd is represenmted by a local agemt im ~il tow: the coast. COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA. ARS among the states of Central and WSomh America are as a rule so much the result of a general lawlessness and readi- ness among the people to fight after their manner that they rarely mérit much attention. In most cases hardly anything is involved beyond the per- sonal fortunes of the leaders. Foreign powers have generally contented themselves with protecting the lives and property of zny of their citizens doing busi- ness in the disturbed country, leaving the natives free to fight as they please. It appears, however, that in the present imbroglio that invoives Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador there is something in the nature of big politics under- lying the movements of the chief actors. The three states were originally united as one country. It was in that form they gained independence from Spain. Their territory, however, was a vast one and was but sparsely populated. Communication was difficult and local prejudices and passions soon led to a break- ing up of the early government. Of late there has been a strong sentiment among a considerable num- ber of the people in fayor of reuniting as one nation, and it is said to be that sentiment which animates the leaders and their followers who are now warring against the Colombian Government. If the report be true it affords an intelligible ex- planation of the interference of Venezuela and Ecuador in the Colombian troubles. It would mean that the unionists of those countries perceive in the present situation an opportunity to accomplish their political aspirations, and consequently have given to the Liberals of Colombia all the help they can. Nor is it at all unlikely that both Venezuela and Ecua- dor, where the feeling in favor of reunion is appar- ently very strong, would gladly join hands with the Colombian r¢bels if they were in any way given a reasonable assurance of success. It is somgwhat strange that Colombia should be the one of the three states to hold out against union, for by reason of her larger population she would be the dominant state of the federation, unless the other two should always combine against her. According to recently compiled figures Colombia has an area of about 505,000 square miles, Ecuador of 120,000 and Venezucla of 504,000, a total of 1,210,000 square miles. Colombia’s population is about 4,500,000, Ecuador’s 1,500,000 and Venezuela's 3,000,000, a total of 9,000,000. Were the three states combined the nation would be the third in South America in area and the second in population. It would fake rank with Brazil and Ar- gentine and have great possibilities of national life. Such a political possibility is naturally tempting to ardlent patriots. It is an issue that raises the present quarrel far above the ordinary strife of South Ameri- can parties. Of course the people and the Govern- ment of Colombia have doubtless good reasons for objecting to merge their independent existence in that of a2 new republic, but the exact nature of these reasons has not yet been made clear to outsiders. - r———————— The Constitution has had so much bad luck in her trials against the Columbia that people are beginning to fear she may have some of the same sort when she tackles the challenger. As a rule the American peo- ple do not believe in luck, but all the same they don't like the way this thing looks. Some of the New York wits are trying to get even with Waldorf Astor by calling him “Walled-off Astor,” but just the same he owns a big part of their town and they cannot josh him out of his rents. In fact, if they do not look out he may tax them be- yond their humor. : 1 BAD ADVICE. E see no reason to change our opinion that v V volunteer counselors as the Examiner and the politicians. The country needs for its prosperity free labor and free capital. Both of these partners in production suffer when those who neither pay wages nor earn them intrude upon a situation for the purpose of ad- vancing selfish interests that are not the concern either of wage-payers or wage-earners. It would seem that only the men who are called labor leaders and are salaried out of labor union funds are greatly influenced by such advice and such ad- visers. The rank and file, the laboring masses, take their orders too implicitly from such leaders and are the ones injured by evil counsel. The several circu- lars and proclamations published by such leaders bear evidence of preparation by outsiders, whose object is the creation of friction and disorder, and not the bringing of a good understanding between the em- ployer and the employed. The personal abuse of em- ployers, the contemptuous characterization of them, and ascription to them of unmanly and evil motives, are not the work of men who have been in their em- ploy, nor is it the work of any wise leader of labor. The mass of wage-earners must be impressed by the absence of like abuse of them, and the lack of retali- atory epithets, in anything that has been said by or in behalf of the employers. The evidence of outside help or inspiration in the work of preparing documents issued by labor leaders is found in such statements as are made in the letter to President Wheeler and the circular to the country press. In the Wheeler letter, signed by Goff and Rosenberg, occurs this remarkable statement: “A liberal education makes those who are capable of re- ceiving it gentlemen. * * * Public opinion is strong, and we can assure you that the people are not at all disposed to pay for the establishment in the State University of a department for the education of—well, say stevedores.” The only meaning to be taken from this is that a university man is a gentleman and a stevedore is not a gentleman. No wise friend of labor penned that letter, for honor and fame from no condition rise, and a stevedore may be as truly a gentleman as if he were a university man or were born in the purple. An- other eviflence that bad advisers, who have motives entirely wide of the interests of labor, are taking a hand in these proclamations is found in the attempt to shift the responsibility of the damage done to farm- ers and fruit-growers by the strike. Country produce suffers from the sympathetic feature of the strike. The leaders say to the country people that they would grant permission to handle country produce if the empfoyers would do certain things. But the em- ployers did not order any strike, sympathetic or otherwise, and the issue between them and the labor leaders does not cqver that part of the industrial field where country produce is handled. The country people see clearly that the leaders need no concert with the employers in order to handle such perishable property as is now in danger of destruction. We need not say to wage-workers that such leadership is more damaging to them than any organized opposi- tion to union labor can ever be. As for union labor, it is not a new thing. It came long ago and to stay. It is capable of giving stability to industry, of bring- ing thrift, temperance and economy into the homes of labor, and of stimulating that ,ambition by which men of ernterprise go forward to independence. A majority of the members of the Employers’ Associa- tion began life as workingmen, and on less wages than they now pay to others, achieved independence and began business for themselves. That door out- ward toward independence should never be closed, but it is*not kept open by strikes, which cut off pro- duction and paralyze industry. All workingmen will finally feel the bad effects of impairment of their right of contract and of the vio- lation of agreements. In a conference held last Sat- urday with President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Associatign a Pittsburg dispatch says that the executives of various labor organizations, Messrs. Mitchell, White and Jenkes, criticized the action of President Shaffer in violating the contracts made by the union with tHe Western steeel mills, but the same day in Chicago Mr. Tighe, Shaffer’s secretary, de- nounced the union steel workers who wished to keep their word and their contract inviolate, accusing them of “deserting their union in order to live up to a contract.” There is an instance in which union workmen dif- fer with their badly advised leaders. They made a contract, advantageous to them and enforcéable by law against their employers, and are told by President Shaffer and Secretary Tighe that their obligation to their union is superior to their obligation to a con- tract which they voluntarily made. If workingmen will examine the subject uninfluenced by leaders whose leadership is made to seem necessary by labor troubles, they will find that there are several obliga- tions which precede their allegiance to leaders, which is often the real meaning of their union obligation. These leaders in San Francisco have caused the vio- lation of contracts, entered into by unions, which employers have strictly observed, and when taxed with this bad faith have said that “a nation violates its treaty contracts when it goes to war and union labor has the same right.” Not many workingmen will fail to see the danger- ous folly of such a claim. It means that all others must keep contracts and agreements because the em- ployer has property that is responsible. He cannot go into court and plead his right to break a contract because a nation breaks its treaties when it goes to war, The Pacific Coast Steamship Company had a con- tract with the Marine Firemen’s Union which that body violated, pleading a power equal to that of a nation when treaties are broken. But suppose the steamship company had been the violator, the Fire- men’s Union would have hired a lawyer, gone into court and enforced the contract, and would have laughed at such a plea made by the employer. In it all is a pitiful element found in the pinch that is felt in the homes of laboring men. The union leader, the business agent and the walking delegate are not pinched. Their pay goes on, but these lead- ers who command the union treasury are doling out a dollar a week to men of family whom they ordered to strike and quit employment that paid from $2 to $4 per day. In the homes of these idle men want is beginning to show its haggard face. Wives and children are being put on part rations, fuel, food and clothing are getting less, and the rent is overdue. At the same time work and wages wait for them all. They had no dispute with their employers, no griev- ance about hours or wages, but quit work unwill- ingly, because they were ordered to do so by leaders who thrive while the workman’s family wants. If man’s inhumanity to man need a new illustration, here it is. These strikers, ordered to quit work by these lead- the wage earners are badly advised by such | ers, “in defense of a principle,” are driven by neces- sity to invade the interior of the State and there take the place of hay balers and other rural laborers at a lowered wage. The work they take in the country has been done for a wage”of $2 and $2 50 per day. They take it for $1 50. The country laborer whom they displace comes to this city to take the places they deserted, and is hooted as a scab; and when po- lice vigilance is withdrawn is beaten and laid up with bruised body and broken bones. In the United States are fifteen millions of work- ing people who toil at some form of labor with their hands. How small is the minority of union labor in that vast army! Do rot union workmen see that the use of their organization for purposes that oppress them, injure their families, hurt the whole commun- ity, break contracts and compel them to do that for which their leaders teach them to call others’scabs, is arraying against unjonism the public opinion of a majority which ‘when united will smite the inconsid- erate leaders’and bad advisers who are the doers of all this evil? —————— A QUESTION OF CRITICISM. - ENSURE pronounced by the Department of ‘ the Navy so promptly upon Rear Admiral Evans for his criticism upon ex-Secretary Chandler gives an added interest to the criticism re- cently pronounced upcn the British War Department by Sir Neville Chamberlain, a retired field marshal of the British army. In each case there is involved the question of the extent to which a military or naval officer has the right to go in criticizing the conduct of the war authorities of his country. Evans charged that Chandler mistreated him be- cause he refused to make appointments to suit the political machine with which Chandler at the time was working, and expressed contempt for the Secre- tary by referring to his action as the stinging of an insect. The charges of General Chamberlain are much more severe. He has denounced what he calls “the frequent injudicious, if not reckless, burning or sacking of the farmsteads or homes of the Boers, the removal or destruction of the food stored in their houses for the maintenance of their families, the sweeping away of all cattle and sheep, the destruction of mills and implements of agriculture, and also the forcible removal into camps of all women and chil- dren, and there being kept in bondage.” Of those things the old field marshal says: “Even in the dark days of the Indian mutiny, ‘When there was an ever-present sense of the inhumanities practiced by the mutineers and others who abetted them, there never existed the idea that the horrors of war were to be indiscriminately carried into the homes of the population. Happily the representative of the crown then in India was a nobleman of calm, humane in- stincts, and history now lauds the part played by the man who at the time was railed against as ‘Clemency Canning.”” It is to be noted that no attempt has been made by any one responsible for the conduct of the war in the Transvaal to censure General Chamberlain for his words. The silence on the part of the War Depart- ment may be due to a desire to say as little as pos- sible-about the business, but it may also be due to a recognition of the right of a retired officer to criticize as he pleases. If such a right exists, then the cen- sure upon Evans was hardly justifiable. It would be difficult indeed to lay down a definite rule upon the subject. No one would think of ques- tioning the right of a naval officer to criticize the methods of a Secretary of the Navy of fifty years ago. Should he be permitted to give his judgment of the actions of a Secretary cf twenty-five years ago? Of course, Evans has not been harmed much by the censure put upon him. Probably he has been bene- fited so far as the sale of his book is concerned. Chandler certainly has gained nothing. He would have been wiser had he adopted the tactics of the British War Office and left his critic unnoticed. THE GOOD ROADS CONGRESS. W Roads Congress at Buffalo it is to be hopéed there will come a revived interest all over the country in the problems of highway improvement. The campaign of education on the subject has been under way for a long time, but in only a few States has anything like a comprehensive system of road work been even so much as devised. Not long ago the National Good Roads Associa- tion, in co-operation with the Illinois Central Rail- road, sent out a train to construct short roads at vari- ous points on the route of that railway from Chicago to New Orleans. The work had the effect of exciting a great interest in highway improvement along the whole line, and in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana a new impetus was given to road work, and a movement started among the people which is almost sure to achieve large results in the near future. 4 It has been estimated that the people of the United States pay about $500,000,000 a year for bad roads. For the same amount they could get good roads. What is needed for the desired improvement is not so much a larger expenditure of money as a more intelligent use of the money that is expended. Fur- thermore, bad roads entail a large waste in the amount of time and energy required to haul farm produce over them, so that there will be a great economy in the establishment of highways suitable to our civilization. There is no reason why the meeting at Buffalo should not produce good results. The people are now prosperous and can well afford to undertake road improvements. The increasing use of automo- biles makes also a new demand for good highways. It is time for our people to grapple with the problem in earnest. The improvements would carry a benefit to every class in the community. The Buffalo congress may be expected to furnish suggestions of practical value on every phase of the problem involved in road construction, and the proceedings, therefore, will be well worth the attention of all who are in- terested in the general subject. ITH the approaching meeting of the Good The committee in_charge of the Victoria memo- rial to be erected in London have decided to record the names of the great men of the empire during hér reign on a series of tablets surrounding the princi- pal group of statuary, and now their troubles have begun. Nearly every man and woman in the em- pire who can write is sending names which they in- sist should be recorded among the great. Tt is prob- able that when completed the tablets will bear some resemblance to a city directory. According to London estimates the demand for wheat in Great Britain, France, Belgium and Holland this year will be 664,000,000 bushels, and their produce will not exceed 396,000,000, leaving 268,000.000 bushels to be supplied from outside sources. Rus- sia has none to spare and India none. So-the United States, with a little help from Argentine and Aus- tralia, will have to get.in and feed the crowd. CHILDREN'S BUILDING TO BE ONE OF INTERESTING A FEATURES OF THE BIG ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR instruction of children. tion to make this building for the world other childish legends. subservient to that of amusement, great natural sciences. that realm, which would specially priate programme. tries should be drawn on. “We could make the greatest display MISTAKES IN TITLE AS, ORDERED. Republic of Flit. By Jowett Boy, Muscle and the Peas... Worcester's Digeases of the Callender.. The Treacle of-Storm. Photo Frames, 189%.. Guide to the Aerated Waters Nobody BOID............... Stories From a Dairy Adopted Aces and the Aposites of Cambridge. God Aim Us by a Farmer Jewel Logs by Simpsens. Thoughts for Washing Days. Gourdals Cart”in Lecture.. Nancy’s Voyage to Greenland . River Frozen, Silent Gold and Unsteeped Carbonical Club......... Murray’s Handbook Tunics Play Actress, and Cricket in the Pande- to Algebra How to Make a Hand Camel. Haugh's Harrow Arith.. Alice and Her Mistress. Bulwer. Birth and Growth of Worms... . Founder and Heretics. By Ruskin. Key to Carving and Analysis, Harry Stockle’s Masterpiece. Pharaoh’s Life of Christ Brown Antimacassar. Frenchie Owen... Shakespeare’s The Felon Across the Russian Nose Oxford and Cambridge Gladiators Can Bridge of The Timothy an Titus . J..B. Genius, or Generous, or some such thing ... sereeaeanen Marbles of Modern Speculation. By -1 Russell Think of the Mighty, or Sinks of the MAEhty *u..iiis. 0 Boy Hero of Walthamstow. Improver's Story........ Sweet Story of the Piptuagint. Handbook to Orkneys Shorthand. Telephona in Love.... Greatest of the Easlest PERSONAL MENTION. J. R. Defrees, U. 8. N., is at the Califor- nia. . J. G. Church, U. 8. N.,-is at the Califor- nia. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is at the Grand. J. W. Taylor, a cattleman of Texas, is a guest at the Palace. ‘W. Marchead, a wealthy mining man of Randsburg, is at the Lick. C. E. de Gerry Grant, a traveler from Sydney, is at the Occidental. F. E. L. Bent is registered at the Ocei- dental from Washington, D. C. John Sparks, a wealthy cattleman of Reno, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. Dr. E. W. Biddle, one of the leading ‘medical men of Healdsburg, is at the Lick. George Osbourne arrived yesterday from Monterey and s a guest at the California. 1i. Darter, a well known young clubman of Santa Barbara, is staying at the Pal- ace. Prison Director R. T. Devlin of Sacra- mento is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. C. M. Palmer, a mining man of Butte, Mont., is among the late arrivals at the Grand. W. W. Worthing, a well-known real es- tate man from Stockton, is a guest at the Grand. ' Among the arrivals at the Occidental are a number of young German army officers; who are returning from the China campaign to their homes. Harvey C. Somers, .he well-known capi- talist and hay merchant. was on the Pro- duce Exchange yesterday, after an ab- | sence of several months in the East. Ex-Senator R. N. Bulla of Los Angecles arrived in the city yesterday from Alaska. He expects to leave to-morrow for the south. He exchanged political gossip with Senator Thomas Flint at the Palace Hotel yesterday. Californiacs in New York, NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. J. Clark, at the Victoria; H. T. Johnson, at the Grand Union; J. C. Kirkpatrick, at the Holland; H. C. Min- ton, at the Murray Hill; J. Rankin, at the Marlborough; G. H. Robinson and wife, at the Park Avenue; W. A. Tough, at the Sinclair; L. C. Handyke, at the Eyerett; R. A. Walker, at the New Amsterdam; A. Watson, at the Continental; J. S Young, at the Ashland; Major D. 8. Dorn, at the Hoffman; Mrs. T. L. Holley, at the Murray Hill; W. L. Saalburg, at the Im- pertal; C. Williams, at the Manhattan. From Los Angeles—Miss A. Clark, at the St. Denis; Mrs. Griffith, at the Eari- ington; J. H. Smith, at the Imperial. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—At the Arling- ton, Dr. D. E. Lane, Alhambra; at the National, R. C. Lincoln, San Francisco; at the Raleigh, C. F. Lummis, Los Angeles; John M. BeaM, San Francisco. —— e TELEPHONES ABROAD. Although the use of the telephone has increased rapidly here there are countries in Europe in which telephones are in far more general use than here. In Stock- holm, Sweden, one person in every four- teen has a telephone, there being more than 20,000 telephones in a population of 271,000. Every tobacconist’s store is a pub- lic call office, and the rates are very low. ngland is far behind in the matter of telephones, there being only one to every 636 of the population. In little Switzer- land there is one to every 172 persons, but far more business is done over the tele- phone in England than in Switzerland. NE of the most striking and interesting features pro- posed for the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Celebra- tion at St. Louls in 1903 is the “Children’s Building," a structuré devoted exclusively to the amusement and The architecture of this build- ing is to be replete with sculptural groups representing the stories and legends of childhood, not only of our own nation— of the Anglo-Saxon race—but of all nations. 's children something never equaled, and never to be forgotten. gentleman interested in the proposed *Children's Building” at the St. Louis World's Falr, in a letter addressed to the Presi- dent of the Loulsiana Purchase Exposition Company, says: “In the line of ornamentation I would suggest outside and inside groups of statuary delineating Mother Goose stories and 1 would make the idea of instruction though ideas as much as possible, illustrating, for instance, Selections can be made from each and all of them, showing the most curious and striking truths from appeal to the child mind. Trained persons should be employed to mark out an appro- All the various arts, sciences and indus- «eeeee...Miracles of Modern Spiritualism. animals, the birds It is the inten- Charles Dexter, a room, where music combining both all the exhibit. deep sea; the curious habits of the animals and birds in rela- tions to their young, as well as insect animal life wherever the beautiful and wonderful maternal r lations could be delineated; the strange fre: ks and metamor- of plant life, g::.estrikl:g experiments from the chemical laboratory; ths new wonders of the microscope, graphs of microscopie subjects; wonders of the heavens as revealed in the telescope; & music It, Will Be Remarkably Replets With Everything of Interest to the Youngsters, From Toys and Dolls to the Striking Wonders of the Heavens representing the dolls of all nations; the games, legends and stories of children of all nations. The stories of the young ot of the air and also the inhabitants of the life, and indeed all like those half animal, half plant; simpla shown in enlarged photo- the old and most striking appealing to childish faney should be commanding feature;a stage, where plays specially adapted for our purpese could be enacted; exhibits of toys and vehicles for children: in fact, a mimic kindergarten exposition for children “The amount of itls, wealth of ideas in this line. enterprise without hesitation, as simply to mention it carries a world of suggestion to every. mind. stitution is about founding a museum devoted to children, and by 1903 wil have made considerable advance Everything is to be marked in plain English in the Government We could probably make a loan of this collection we would be overwhelmed with a We could plunge right into tho ‘The Smithsonian Ir in _that line for the time being and make this a nucleus for our plan. of dolls ever made, ORDERING GOODS Easily Fall Into Error Through lgnorancé or Carelessness When Sending Orders to Jobbers. in ordering goods from the jobbers in London: BOOKS REQUIRED. Republic of Plato. By Jowett. Bog Myrtle and Peat. Worcester Diocesan Calendar. THE Critic prints the following list of “bulls” made by English booksellers +In the Track of the Storm. Photograms, 1895. .Guide for Manufacture of Aerated Waters. Nobly Born. Stories From the Diary of a Doctor. .Acts of the Apostles, Cambridge Bible. .Gaudeamus. -Duologues. . Thoughts for Working Days. By Farmer. By Simpson. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures. Nansen’s Voyage to Greenland. Lands 5 voseeas +...Rev. Frazer's Silent Gods and Sunsteeped Lands. +eseenees.. Carbuncle Clue. d .Murray’'s Handbook to Algiers and Tunis. monium Library....... +sesuseene... Play Actress. By Crockett. Pseudonym Library. Charlotte in Loveliness. Braddon .Charlotte’s Inheritance. Braddon. .How to Make a Hand Camera. .Haugh’s Higher Arith. +Alice, or the Mysteries. +Birth and Growth of Worlds. .Frondes Agrestes. .Key to Parsing and Analysis. Ruskin. Aristotle’s Masterpiece. .Farrar’s Life of Christ. .Brown Ambassador. .French Heroines. -Shakespeare's Othello. .Across Russian Snows. .Oxford and Cambridge Galatians. e ...Cambridge Bible, Timothy and Titus. Cambridge Bible, Genesis. By A. Russell Wallace. -Seats of the Mighty. -Boy Hero. .Improvisatore. -Swete's Story of the Septuagint. .Handbook to Orkneys and Shetland. .Tryphena in Love. By Walsham How. reatest of These Is Charity. L e e e S e R R ) A CHANCE TO SMILE. Impression Confirmed—*“Reynolds,” said the older member of the firm, “how do you spell ‘which?' “W. B, 1 e, B” re sporded the other. ““That's what I thought,” rejoined the older member, covertly scratching a “t” out of the word he had written.—Chicago Tribune. “Is this Mrs. Outsome?” asked the man at the door of the modest suburbaaite home. “Yes, sir,” said the woman who hail answered: the bell. “I am sorry to be the bearer of had news, madam, but a man was overcome by the heat while on the train that left the city about half an hour ago, and sev- eral persons say he is Mr. Outsome. He lies unconscious at the Trailway station here.” “‘Did he have his arms full of bundles?"” she asked, with trembling lips. “No, ma’am. He had no bundles.” “Then it isn't John!" she said, the color coming back to her face.—Minne- apolis Times. Church—How did you lke that war drama at the theater the other night? Gotham—It seemed like the real thing. There was a boy eating peanuts in the gallery and the shells were dropping all about me.—Yonkers Statesman. A clergyman’s wife vas mending clothes for her boys when one o: her lady neigh- bors called in to have a friendly chat. It was not long before the visitor's eye was attracted by a large basket, more than half filled with buttons. The lady could not help remarking that there seemed a very good supply of buttons. Thereupon she began to turn them over, and sud- denly exclaimed: ‘““Here are two buttons exactly the same as those my husband had on his last winter suit. I should know them any- where.” “Indeed,” said the clergyman's ‘wife, quietly. “I am surprised to hear it. As all these buttons were found in the collec- tion bag. I thought I might as well put them to some use.” Before she had finished speaking the vis- istor hastily arose and said she must be going. The story soon got about, and since then no buttons have been found in the collection bag.—Tit-Bits. S .t USE FOR KANGAROOS. Kangaroo tendon is in great request among surgeons, says an English writer, for making the largc- ligatures, for it is absorbed in tne tissue and leaves no foreign matter. Some surgeons prefer the older silk ligament, maintaining that it Is on the whole more satisfactory and that the foreign matter can easily be removed, but the majority favor the prep- | aration from the marsupial. The French College of Surgeons, indeed. is so appre- hensive of a falling oft in the supply, due to the merciless war wageC on the kan- garoos in their own home by stock owners anxious to save the .vailable pasture for their cattle, that it is seriously proposed to acclimatize them on a large scale in France. As two species, at any rate, Bennett's wallaby and the great kan- garoo, already do well at large in a num- ber of French and English parks, there | seems no reason why the suggestion { should not be adopted, though the kan- garoo tribe, once made thoroughly at | home. is as difficult to eradicate as the rabbit. When it comes to lp‘ned-l our !_};:k:s the man who laug! figst zghl st. Such a buflding would be unique and it would draw.” BOOKSELLERS MAKE CURIOUS IN ANSWE TO QUERIES BY: 'CALL READERS WATER AND FISH-J.C., City. If you have a tub of water weighing 100 pounds and place therein a live fish weighing five pounds the whole will weigh 105 pounds. SKETCHING—L. M., Oakland, Cal There are schools in San Franeisco whers one may learn sketching, but this depart- ment does not advertise private enter- prises, PRONUNCIATION—L. G., City. This department refers you to any dictionary or cyclopedia for the pronunciation of such simple words as are named in the letter of inqui POUNCE—Subscriber, Angels Camp, | Cal. Pounce is powdered resin or some gun resin, that is to say, mastic, sanda- rac, copal reduced to a powder; also the powder of cuttlefish bone. COIN QUESTIONS—J. M. C., City: H. B. L., San Benito, and A. B. C., Redding, Cal. No premium is offered by dealers for balf dollars of the United States of 1806, 1808 and 1825; nor is any offered for a dims of 1853. CONTINENTS—A. S., City. According to the Royal Geographical Society, Janu- ary, 1901, the continental divisions of the world are: Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Australasia, Europe and | the Polar resion. | A POSITION—Subscriber, Burlingame, Cal. To apply for a position as engineer's | cadet or deck cadet on a steamer of the company named, direct the application to | the company and it will be turned over | to the proper department. RAILWAY SPEED—A. S., City. The highest rate of speed developed by any railroad was made! on the Burlington routs, January, 1869, in a run from Siding to Arion, 2.{ miles in 1 minute 20 seconds, or at the rate of 130 miles an hour. INTRODUCTION—Ball Room, City. An introduction given for the purpose of enabling a lady and gentleman to go through a dance does not constitute an acquaintanceship. The lady is at liberty at any time thereafter to pass the gentle- man without recognition. AMERICAN—A. 8., City. American is a native of America, north or south. The name was originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitant, but now to the de- scendants of Europeans born in America: In a restricted Sense it is applied to the inhabitants of the United States. SOUTH PARK—A. O. S., City. What Is known as South Park was accepted by the city and dedicated as a public park “to_be hereafter kept and improved in such a manner as the other parks and squares,” on the 13th of November, 13%. The length of the park is 525 feet and its width T feet. AN AMENDMENT-J. J. H., City. Par- lamentary law dees not require that an amendment to a motion must be accepted by the proposer of the motion before it can be placed before the meeting. T presiding officer of your lodge who re fused to present an amendment that had been properly seconded stands in need of a few lessons in Cushing, Robert or some other work on parliamentary taw. THE BEE—Curious, City. The reason that Napoleon I adopted the bee as a regal emblem was that he wanted some- thing more ancient than the fleur de lis. He adopted the bee because when tha tomb of Childeric, who reigned 43 to 41, was opened in 1683 there was found, in addition to other relics, about 300 of what the French heralds thought were bees of the purest gold, their wings being inlaid with a red stone like cornelian. These fleurons, supposed to have been attached to the trappings of a war horse, were sent to Louis XIV, but it was Napoleon who sprinkled them over the imperial robes as emblematic of the enterprise an.. activity of his dynasty. It is thought that what is called the fleur de lis is really a bee with i outstretched wings. WRITING FOR THE PRESS—Subscrib- er, City. A person who has talent and is able to write for the press, whether daily or periodical. can find a market for that talent without influence. Matter intended for the press must be written on one side of the page only. Typewritten copy is préferred. Copy may be submitted in person or by mail. If accepted, the writ will be notified; if rejected it will go :m} the waste basket unless there is a request for return and sufficient postage accom- panies the request. 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