The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1901, Page 6

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Sutro Bathse— Swimming Ringling Bros.’ Circus—Folsom and Sixteenth streets. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer mont! can have their paper forwarded by 11 to their mew eaddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agemt im towns on NE of the most outrageous jobs in the his- THE REMOVAL OF OSBORNE. O tory of the State was perpetrated at meeting of the trustees of the Home for Feeble-minded Children when Dr. A. E. Osborne was removed from the position of superintendent to make a place for that persistent office-seeker, W. M Lawlor, a protege of Governor Gage. It is to the credit of Robert A. Poppe of Sonoma, one of the trustees, chat he not only opposed the out- rage but refused to preside over the meeting at which it was carried out. His action will have the ap- proval of the community at Jarge, and his constituents and fellow citizens will take notice that he has proven himself faithful to his trust and has manfully inter- posed as far as he could to prevent the consummation of 2 job which turns over to professional politicians the care of the afflicted children at the home. The offense committed in the removal of Dr. Os- borne is so gross as to be an outrage on humanity. The care of feeble-minded children is one of the most pathetic charities in which the State engages. Most of the poor little sufferers can never hope to attain to any degree of mental strength. Their proper main- tenance and training is one of the saddest problems with which humanity has to deal. These little ones have none of that brightness, beauty and promise which make childhood attractive and give promise of future lives of usefulness, and as a consequence they do not excite the usual love and fondness which are so freely accorded to happier children. Compara- tively few people feel any attraction to the sufferers or have any of that loving sympathy for them which is mecessary to enable one to understand them or to help them. It is therefore in the highest degree im- portant that the superintendent in whose charge they are placed be 2 man who by nature and by training is fitted for the task. To place them under control of one who takes the office solely for the salary would be something like the commission of a crime against the most helpless and innocent of humankind. Dr. Osborne, the dismissed superintendent, has held the office for upward of fifteen years. His man- agement of it has been an honor to himself, a credit to the State, 2 boon to humanity. He is not only a specialist and an expert in the care and training of the feeble-minded, but he is something more than that. His heart as well as his brains and his hands kas been in the work. He has loved these affficted ones and has served them with a fidelity and 2 zeal that merit the honor of every man and woman in the land. It is shameful to have the care of these poor chil- dren made the sport of politics and their welfare sub- jected to political jobbery. Many vile things have been done in the politics of this State in times past, byt never before have feeble ninded children been made the victims of politics and their home turned into the list of spoils for which job hunters may wrangle. Lower than this it does not appear pos-v sible for even Gage to go. The bottom has been reached. A Rochester man is said to have invented some- thing so much like perpetual motion that no one can discover what makes it go or why it should stop, and now if he devises a means of attaching it to one of those Rochester voting machines the bosses will be all right. It is said the famous Ruskin colony of socialists that settled in Georgia some years ago has failed, Most of the people have gone, only two or three families remain and the land is offered for sale. So passes another dream, and the dreamers have awak- ened to the world of competition. —_— Senator Vest long ago announced that he would retire from public life at the close of his present term, but now- the Confederate veterans of Missouri have urged him to change his mind, and it looks a little as if he might consent to have himself pulled down. the | THE SAN FRANCIS PRIVATE OPINION OF STRIKERS. letters from strikers. A few of these are threat- ening in tone, but the large majority express satisfaction with our position and request that we do not publish the names of the writers for fear of per- sonal violence. Where there are exceptions to this we have no objection to publishing such letters with | the names of the writers. - These letters are interesting as evidence of the ex- tent to which intimidation is used to deprive men of the lawful enjoyment of personal rights, without which men are no longer free agents or free men. One letter we quote here at length, without the writer's name, which we would be glad to use if his consent were given. He say: “As an American-born ‘workman, injured by the present strike, I, like hundreds who are deprived of work by the general demoralization of trade, de- nounce this strike as one uncalled for and without justification or excuse except to gratify the evil pro- pensities of some men who are never happy unless breeding trouble. These are the leaders who are too lazy to work, but desire to live easy and grow fat on the miseries of the thousands of unfortunates ®ho are made by forge to enter into these strikes, to their The loss to them will never be re- ‘.THE CALL is in receipt of a large number of lasting injury. gained, and the sooner the rank and file see this and act from their own better judgment the better it will |be. Winter is near at hand, and what is this army of unemployed going to live on? Has a working- forefathers helped declarq free? Are we to be jor- ever dictated to by leaders who do not work, but | manage to get control of our labor organizations, | whereby they draw good salaries out‘of us, and {larger pay in times of trouble like this which they | cause? Why, in the name of common sense, if we are | iree men, do we not act with intelligence and settle our own affairs in our own best interest? | “Let us get back to the places we have deserted. Let us provide for our families, and act as though we had a right to govern ourselves. This is the sen- timent of hundreds of others who think as I do in this matter.” | We have no doubt thatthis workingman expresses | the sincere conviction of a large part of the strikers, perhaps of nearly all who have families to support, | and feel that their obligation to wife and children is | higher than that to the leaders and the fire-eating | cliques who support them. " By others on strike we are assured that if the secret | ballot were used in unions the number of strikes | would be much less. The use of the libelous term | “scab” and other opprobrious epithets deters men | from taking a position on open vote which they would gladly assume under the protection of a secret | ballot | On Thursday ove thirty assaults were made by strikers on non-union men. Some of the victims | were beaten and kicked into insensibility. Some of most glaring criminality. Strikers invadea the fore- castle of the ship Highland Light and abducted two seamen, who were ordered to ‘akc their bundles of clothing and were forced over the side into a boat. They were taken to the headquarters of the Sailors’ Union, where the engineer's certificate of one was | Then both were taken out and brutally beaten. | When they were rescued and went with the police | to reclaim their property it could not be found. Now, in that one case, was committed a series of crimes the most serious and the most cowardly. In another case the same day a mob of over a hundred boarded a street car and abducted two non-union workmen, after breaking the car windows and terror- izing the passengers. The men were carried away and have not been hesrd of since. A score jof these abductions have occurred. { by the men who do these things raises a reasonable | doubt whether we have any law in this city that can protect men in the enjoyment of their legal rights as American citizens. One thing is coming surely into wiew. If the ex- ecutive authority of this city cannot administer the law and protect personal and property rights the citi- zens themselves will appeal to higher authority for protection. When a citizen even dare not let his opinion of a public matter be printed over his own signature there protect the lawful rights of the whole people. The labor unions profess to exist for a lawful pur- pose. We cheerfully admit that their declared pur- pose is entirely laudable. But they are causing the public to lose sight of this entirely by merging into a mob. The Call does not hesitate to support their laudable aims sought in a lawful manner, but will not cease to deplore, expose and reprehend their lawless acts and the murderous means they use under the incitement of evil advice. rr———— e A man in New York who bit off theé end of a cigar in the smoking compartment of a street car and then spat it out upon the floor was arrested for violating and convicted, but the Judge who convicted him said the street car companies should put cuspidors in the cars where smoking is permitted; so a new never have peace. S ——— EUROPE DREADS US. S Europe announced that he would give out no more interviews, but upon his return home-he casily recanted and resumed the old habit. The Sen- was natural for him’to desire to say it so that the whole United States might hear it. Consequently immediately upon his arrival he received the press re- pressed him during ]lis stay in Europe. His talk was mainly directed to the evidences he perceived of the increasing dread in Europe of a century ago,” he said, “when most Europeans thought native Americans were Indians or black. Now we are the white terror.” Senator said: “We are coming to De considered a common encmy to the extent that we actually sup- plant foreign manufacturers, and the feeling is inten- duces wages, or lays off a portion of its employes, as- cribing it all to American competition.” Of the manner in which the feeling manifests itself in busi- Everything there is syndicated. The trusts refuse to sell anything to a merchant who deals in an imported article. This makes it ‘more difficult for the im- the ordinance against expectorating in street cars agitation is under way, and it looks as if we would ENATOR CHAUNCEY DEPEW when in ator, in fact, has something to say, and of course it porters and told them of the things which most im- American competition. “It is less than a quarter of In explaining the tone of European sentiment the sified by every concern which goes bankrufk, or re- ness he said: “Germany has both tariff and trusts. porter, because the boycott means ruin. Where the man no individual rights in a land of liberty that my | these assaults were accompanied by incidents of the | taken from him and the clothes of both were seized. | The immunity: enjoyed * is occasion for the invoking of a power which will | |American opens his own warehouse, 4 the shoe dealers did in Vienna, the native shoemakers mob the piace, and the police look the other way.” The Senator ridiculed any suggestion that the fric- tion caused by competition would result in war, for, as he saiq, the relations of European Governments are too intricate and uncertain among themselvgs for any one anfbng them to take that risk, and combina- tion is impossible. He believes it to be equally im- possible for them to form an industrial and commer- cial alliance for the exclusion of American goods, but he reports having heard a Russian statesman say: “Concert of action ray be impossible, but Russia, in response to discriminating duties, has shown how each country in its own way can stop this compe- tition.” One point of the Senator’s observations deserves special attention. He said: “It was interesting to |note the intense interest and pleasure in the steel strike and the threatered one in the New England cotton mills. The newspapers were jubilant in their editorials. They predicted the extension of the la- bor trouble to all industries. They claimed that the contest was the inevitable outcome of the trusts, and that home troubles would postpone for years the Yankee industrial invasion and conquest.” From these statements it appears that Europe, while not yet attempting any concerted action against our competition, is none the less considering it. Her people note with satisfaction the divisions that have unfortunately broken out here between labor and capital. In that for the present they have high hopes. Tt would appear, therefore, that in the judgment of our rivals the only thing that can stop our onward progress toward industrial and commercial supremacy will be divisions among ourselves. A Chicago commercial traveler who has had evi- i dently too much leisure during the summer has found time to figure out that the average man in his trade speaks 12,000 words every working day and works about 300 days in the year. making a total of 3,600,000 words; but then he quit figuring before calculating how many big lies could be compacted into that number of little words. 2 | I undergone a gradual rise during the last half- i century. | In this country wages during the ten years preced- ing the Civil War were less than half the average of | to-day. Measured by their purchasing power they were about one-third. The real and proper purpose of labor is to gather to itself the fruits of its toil. Its success in this is measured by the amount of product for which it can exchange the wages cf production. This purchasing power of wages is the real measure of the wage. In the British Isles the labor unions early ad- | dressed themselves to this phase of the interests of labor, and instituted a system of wholesale purchase of the leading necessaries of life. The unions not only drew on the domestic supply of these necessaries but became large importers, drawing on the markets of the Continent, Australia and the United States. The effect upon the laboring population was ex- cellent. They secured a better and fuller supply of necessaries at a greatly reduced cost, and the union store became a feature all over Great Britain. Dealing directly with the producer, his price was maintained and the clements of risk were largely eliminated. It is of interest to the fruit producers of this State to know that in these union stores in Great«~Britain they will find a market for all fruit products that may be used in jams and jellies. It is probable that dried fruit and fruit pulp could be prof- itably handled in that trade. . Although this excellent method of increasing the purchasing power of wages has not been adopted by the unions in this country, a day's wage now will buy more food, fuel and clothing than it did fifty years ago. Instead of his lot being harder now than then the laborer’s lot is easier. Yet those distant days are often referred to as a sort of Golden Age to which | labor longs to return. One condition that prevailed then is less present now. In that period of lower | wages there was a higher degree of thrift and eco- nomy. It pervaded all classes. In that condition was laid the foundation of many of the great for- tunes which are now used to excite the discontent of | American workingmen. The heads of families then accomplished marvels by thoughtful economy. No American family played a greater part in the world than the Fields. The world owes o Cyrus Field the submarine telegraph cable. His brother, the Justice, has left an imperishable impression upon- our juris- prudence. Their sister. was the mother of another Justice of the Federal Supreme Court. There were seven of them and all had a college education at the | cost of their fathér, though his income never ex- ceeded six hundred dollars a yegr, or $1 65 a day! The family lived in the old town of Haddam, Conn., and was a typical American family of that day, and its seven children got a college education on an in- come less than ungkillcd labor gets to-day, for un- skilled labor is in demand in this State at $2 per day! It is probable that reither the parents nor the chil- dren of that Field family thought they were having a hard time or were being oppressed. But to-day men who earn and get a wage from a third to three THE RISE IN WAGES. N Europe, where wages are still low, they have less price, talk about themselves as slaves and are at war with their condition. . Sociologists seek far afield for thé causes of exist- ing unrest. Perhaps a nearer examination of the relative thrift and cconomy of the people in that Golden Age and this Age of Discontent would re- veal the reason. Professor Suess of Austria figures it out that un- less the European nations form a federation the close of the present century will see them overshadowed by three great powers, the United States, Russia and China. It is a very good prophecy as it stands, but the curious would like to know where Great Britain gets in, or is put off. s The reform elements in New York City seem to be made up of all kinds of*people except leaders. They have plenty of men among them who are will- ing and able at any time to organize big corpora- tions, but not one man of first-class ability who is willing to serve as Mayor. X SRR AT P 1t is stated that for some time in the Chicago mar- ket potatoes cost more than peaches, thus enabling the people to realize the saying of the philosepher, Give me the luxuries of life and I will dispense with the necessaries. e Among the nations of Europe there are plenty of Boer sympathizers, but not a single Lafayette in the crowd, and it looks as if President Kruger might as well have stayed at home. S B times as high, and enjoy the necessaries of life at a* 50 GALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1901 SCIENTIFIC WAR ON THE PESKY - MOSQUITO BEGINS IN NEW YORK COMNNOR'S POND,S.I. \WwHERE rHE ngPEAI/'lENI'S Witk FARE PLAca - AR on the mosquito, conducted scientifically and having for its purpese the extermination of the malaria spreading pest, has been begun by Dr. Alvah H. Doty., Health Officer of the Port of New York. Equipped with specially constructed ap- paratus, and-with the resources of one of the best bacteriological laboratories in this country at his command, Dr. Doty ex- pects to carry the investigation of the re- lation between mosquitoes and malaria to a point that will add materially to the present knowledge on the subject, and at the same’time demonstrate practically a method of extermination. Dr. Doty ‘disclaims any intent of ridding Rickmond Borough of all the mosquitoes that plague its residents. His aim is to conduct experiments in one locality and observe their effect. both upon the mos- quitoes and upon the health of the resi- dents of the neighborhood. % Pests, Bred in Stagnant Ponds. Selecting a little hamlet lying in the hollow of the hills, back of Clifton. and known locally as Congord, Dr. Doty be- gan his experiments. He found a series of ponds filled with stagnant water, above which clouds of mosquitoes swarm every evrnings These breeding places of the pests are without outlets and are known as Millers, Connors and Bunners ponds. The three sheets of water are surrounded by small frame dwellings, n which fami- lies of workingmen live. It is one of the local traditions that all the mosquitoes found on S:aten Island are bred in these land-locked ponds. Accprd- ing to some of the oldest inhabitants this summer has been a record breaker in the number of the insects on the island. The frequent rains and hot, sultry weather following them are blamed for the over- production. Dr. Doty said that he did not want the fmpression to go out that he was fighting the mosquitoes of Staten Island because they were more numerous there than else- where. PERSONAL MENTION. A’ B. Forsythe of Honolulu is at the Occidental. J. W. Minton, a rancher of Sharon, is at the Palace. ~ Mr. and Mrs. H. Morgan Hill are reg- istered at the Palace. J. M. Day. a mine-owner of Los Angeles. 1s staying at the Grand. 1. J. Yancy, a merchant of Newman, s at the Lick for a short visit. ¥. R. Stradley, a well-known business man of Seattle, s at the Lick. W. B. Bishop, a prominent merchant ot Pittsburg, is at the Palace. G. McM. Ross, a mining man of Virginia City, Nev., is at the Occidental. J. M. Lane, a mining man of Nome, Alaska, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. F. M. Archer of Redding is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. T. J. Fleld, the Monterey banker, Is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. F1. W. Vermilion, a well-known business man of Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. P. K. Pease, a wealthy coffee planter of Guatemala, iIs registered at the California. Arthur L. Levinsky, a prominent attor- ney of Stockton, is in the city on business. Judge Frank H. Short has come up from his home In Fresno and Is at the Palace. Thomas J. Kirk has come down from Sacramento and is staying at the Palace. Division Freight and Passenger Agent Graham has come up from San Jose and is at the Palace. J. B. de Jarnatt, a wealthy fruit grower of Colusa, is at the Occidental while on a short business trip to this clty. - gl S ‘Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Arlington—Victor H. Metcalf, Oakland; B. Isaka, San Francisco. Ebbitt—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Walker, Los Angeles. GRANT'S PROMOTION. Brigadier General Frederick D. Grant recently returned to this country from the Philippines on leave of absence and told how eager many of the Fillpinos are to observe American holidays, to wear American clothes and to honor the Ameri- can Government, says the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. The resemblance of the general in ap- pearance to his famous father Is very striking, and especially when he is in mil- {tary uniform. General Grant has just passed his fifty- first year and is himself a graduate of West Point. His career has been curi- ously varied. He was for a time a col- onel of cavalry; afterward he was United States Minister to Austria; still later he became one of the Police Commissioners or New York City; during the war with Spain he was once more a colonel; then he was made a brigadler general of volun- teers, and recently was advanced to the same rank in the regular army. In connection with his appointment to his present rank a pretty story is told that illustrates the kindly heart of Mrs. McKinley. : “As the President and she sat talking one evening Mr. McKinley told her that he had ‘that day decided to give General Grant this last advance, and Mrs. McKin- ley expressed her pleasure at learning of the intended promotion, and added: “Don’t you think, dear, that It would be nice to send a note to Mrs. Grarit, tell- ing her that you had decided to appoint her son? It would be so much nicer for her to get it direct from you than to read the officlal announcement in the papers. I can imagine how a mother would like to know of her son’s promotion.” The President agreed, and, going to a writing table, he penned a little note stat- ing that, at Mrs. McKinley's request, he wrote to tell Mrs. Grant that he would take pleasure on the following day in ap- pointing her son *“Fred” to the rank of a brigadier general in-the regular army. Mrs. Grant, the venerable and beloved widow of the great soldier and statesman, was greatly touched by Mrs. McKinley's thoughtfulness of her. Kitty—Charley Jones proposed to me last night. Janet—Well, did you kiss him? Kitty—Why, no, indeed. I can't go around ing every man I meet.—Balti- more World. 5 TANK W AGonNn To 8& GsEp (N TRAINNSPORTING TIE Oli AN \ M7+ oAr vs=o BNy 015 TRIGUIING] 1] Tre ©lie?33 g WHERE DR. DOTY HAS BE- GUN FIGHT AGAINST MALA- RIA BREEDERS. o “I belleve it Is ur unusual year for mosquitoes,” said he. ‘“Wehear of them in New Jersey, along the Hudzon, and even in the upper part of New York City. T belleve that Staten Island is a healthy place, and is no more troubled with in- sects than other suburban sections. I selected Concord. because th-ve are sev- eral stagnant pools _here, with houses surrounding them, so as to torm a court. The residents of the vicinity are poor and they have willingly offered to help in the work which I have begun. “1 have made a careful canvass of the thirty or forty families in the vicinity, and,I found malaria in every house. In one or two instances every member of the family had it. “Malaria is evidently characteristic of the neighborhood. In my attempts to assoclate the malaria with the pools and with the anopheles, or disease carrying mosquito, T have taken samples of the water containing the larvae and have re- ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ]| A TRICK—S. T. C., City. In the game of euchre, Hoyle lays down this law: “No player has a right to see any trick but the | last one turned.” SUPERVISOR—N. N., City. A. B.| Spreckels was a Supervisor of San Fran- cisco in 1895 and 1896. NEW YORK TO PROVIDENCE—W. C. V7., Berkeley. The distance by rail over | the New York, New Haven and Hartford : Rallroad is 173.77 miles. | DRUNKENNESS—R. 8., City. A man who is discharged from the United States army is dishonorably discharged, be he an officer or private, and he is not “given a | year’'s pay.” | SINCE—N. H.. City. In the following | sentence ‘‘since” stands for “inasmuch as,” “No, since by so doing you would lose the entire trade of that section of the | country.” POPULATION—Constant Reader, City. As the Census Bureau has not yet fur- nisked the details of the population of San Francisco, it is impossible at this time to answer the question asked as to the two classes of population named. EMERIC—A. E. C.. Santa Cruz, Cal Henry F. Emeric, who was Interested in the San Pablo Ranch, Contra Cesta County, Cal., and who at times was al- luded to as “Emeric of the Emeric mil- lions,” died on the 15th of August, 159. MARRIAGE—J. M. M., City. The law of California says® “Marriage may be solemnized by either a Justice of the Su- preme Court, Judge of the Superior Court, Justice of the Peace, priest or minister of the gospel of any denomina- tion.” k] FOLK—C. W. M., City. Dr. James H. Murray in his ‘‘New English Dictionary on Historical Lines” gives the following defl- nition of folk: *‘Men, people indefinitely, also people of a particular class, which is indicated by an adjective or some attri- Lutive phrase. From the fourteenth cen- tury onward the plural has been used in the same sense and since the seventeenth century is the ordinary form, the singular being archaeological or dialectal. The werd Is now chiefly colloquial, being su- perseded by the more formal use of peo- ple.” POTATOES—P. B., San Rafael, Cal Potatoes were originally discovered in Chile and Peru. It is generally believed that they were brought to England from Sunta Fe In America by Sir John Haw- kins in 1565. Others ascribe their intro- duetion to Sir Francis Drake in 158. The general introduction of the tubers was in 1592. Thelr first culture in Ireland is re- jerred te by Sir Walter Ralelgh, who had. large estates in_ the vicinity of Youghal. From Ireland the cultivation of potatoes was introduced into Lancashire about the end of the seventeenth century. It then spread all over England and other Euro- pean countries. SOLDIERS’ CLOTHING — Subscriber, City. The United States law declares that clothing issued-to a soldier of the armv of the United States cannot be sold, ex- changed, bartered or given away and that any-such clothing found in the possession of any one not entitled to the same may be seized by the authorities. There has never been any judicial opinion as to what a soldier, honorably discharged from the army, may do with the tlothing he received from Uncle Sam and which he is permitted to take with him and wear, but the opinion of military men Is that if a discharged soldier offered to sell such clothing he could not give a legal title to it. -Such clothing Is issued for his own use and for no other purpose. ACKNOWL NTS — F.. Napa County, Cal. ‘The law passed at the last heid jon of the Legislature, which went into effect on the Ist of last July and amends the seciion of the code rela- tive to acknowledgments before notaries and others, reads as follows: “The acknowledgment must not be taken unless the officer taking it knows or has satisfactory’ evidence on the oath or affirmation of a credible witness that the person making such acknowledgment is the individual who is described in and ‘who excuted the instrument, and if exe- cuted by a corporation that the person making such acknowledgment is the per- son who executed it on behalf of such cor- poration.” quested the rasidents to capture mosqui- toes in their rooms. I have distributed glass tubes corked with cotton in which the mosquitoes may be kept alive until they are delivered to me. 0il on Bottom of Ponds. “We shall dissect these mosquitoes and look for malaria germs. We shall also watch the larvae and ascertain the varie- ties that are produced by the differext ponds. “While this work is in progress we shall try the effect of crude petroleum spread thoroughly over the bottom of the ponds. 0Oil has been used by others on the sur- face, but the larvae remain at the bottom most of the time, and I have designed a special apparatus to force the oil down. It will naturally rise to the top, so that I shall accomplish all that others have done and more if possible. “It should be understiod that nothing T am doing is intended to replace good drainage. If the city would drain these ponds and others that breed mosquitoes and malaria these experiments would not be needed. If I succeed in showing that the ponds breed anopheles and furnish malaria germs to them, which they carry to human beings, we will have learned a lesson.”™ Aid From the Standard Oil Company. Dr. Doty has an oil tank car and a tank wagon, loaned by the Standard Off Com- pany. which has also contributed all of the oil to be used in the experiments. The tank wagen is used to haul the ofl from the raiiroad to the ponds. It is then passed through rubber hose to perfo- rated iron pipes arranged like a grid- iron and susvended ffom a wooden fléat. The float is pulled from one side of a pond to the other until the entire bottom re- ceives a coating of oil. After all the ponds have thus been treated samples of the water will be ex- amined for the larvae, and a second cen- sus of the locality afflicted with malaria will be taken to ascertain if the suffer- ings of the residents have been alleviated. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “And now, my boy, don’t have any se- crets from your father. What are your college debts? Don't be afraid to tell me the sum total, to the last cent.” “I won't, father. The whole amount is $5327 50.” 2 | boy., may can. thank you for your confidence, my and T will be equally frank. _You pay those debts the best way you —Chicago Tribune. ““What did your trip through Europe and the Holy Land cost you?” “A little over $600.” “Why, I thought the company that got up the excursion promised that the ex- | Pense for hotel bills. guides, drives, shors excursions, railway fares and all would not be over $39."” “They did, but they forgot to figure n the tips.”—Chicago Tribune. else “l see that the descendants of Oliver | Cromwell in this country have formed an association to get a share of the property left by the grim old Roundhead.” “They'd better be careful how they conduct themselves.” “Why 302" ‘“Because just as soon a8 they have proved their relationship to Old Noll the British Government may ask to have them all extradited as accessories to the assassination of the late Charles the First."—Plain Dealer._ The stranger rode up to the gate In front of a farmhouse in the Kentucky moun- tains and addressed a man on the pofen. “Good morning,” he said/pleasantly, for there is no good in riling a mountaineer unless you happen to be a “revenoo” and aresthere for that purpose. “How d'y'?” responded the party on tke porch. “I want to see the man of the house,” continued the stranger. “Thar ain’t any,” was the gentle answer that turneth away wrath. “I reckon it's my wife you wanter see, but she's down to_the meeting-house and wop’t be home fef two hours.”—Detroit Free Press. Last summer two little girls in a Col- lege avenue family were repeatedly re- monstrated with by their indulgent mother for playing bareheaded in the sun. ‘“You will be burned so badly,” said she to them finally, “that people will think you are black children.” Her warning had little effect, however, tnd she gave up trying to keep their hats on. One day she sent them to a neighbor a block or so distant to make some in- quiries concerning a washwoman. Mrs. 8., the neighbor in question, mistook them for the children of a Mrs. Black, who lived in another street near by. “You are the little Black children, are you not?” she asked. “Oh, no,” came the prompt response from the elder. “Only sunburned.”—In- dianapolis News. When Willie came home last night he was more convinced of the uselessness of scinools than he ever was before. Asked the nature of his latest trouble, he ex- plained that “postpone’” had been one of the words in the spelling lesson of the day. The teacher had directed the pupils to write a sentence in which the special word should appear. Along with others, Willle announced that he did not know the meaning of the word, and so could not use it in a sen- tence. The teacher explained that it meant “delay’” or “put off.” and encouraged the youngsters to try. Wiltle’s thoughts were on pleasanter things than school, and his made-to-order sentence was: “Boys post- pone their clothes when they go in swim- ming™ ‘Willie wishes he lived in Jacksonville.— Buffalo Express. B ———————— Cholce candles. Townsend's. Palace Hotel* —_——————— Cal. glace frult c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_———— Selling out. Best eyeglasses, spees, 10c ta 40c. 81 4th st.. front of barber and grocery.* Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- v Fomery street. 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