The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1901, Page 6

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Central—""Kidnaped.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and ng. Merchant of Venice."” Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Open nights. AUCTION SALES. ctober 1, at 11 o'clock, Trotting By R. W. Scott—Tuesday, Horses, at corner St. Charles street and Fagle avenue, Ala- meda. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, October 7, at 12 o'clock, Crooks Estate Properties, at 14 Montgomery street. '——® PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE. USINESS was not very eventful last week, but B the showing was good. The bank clearings of the country exhibited a gain of 49.3 per cent over the corresponding week last year, and what was significant, every large city recorded an increase. In- deed, of the eighty cities and towns reporting weekly bank clearings, only ten showed a loss as compared with 1900. If this does not indicate a general expan- sion of business throughout the country nothing does. The gains among the first-class cities were large, New York -heading the list with one of 63.9 per cent, Chicago showing 25, Boston 57, St. Louis 49, Pittsburg 46, and so on. The failures, however, continued to run ahead of those last year in point of numbers, those fcr the week being 227, against 205, but none of them were sufficiently large to attract attention. The distributive trade, as will be inferred from the increased clearings, is everywhere good. This con- dition, though general, is more pronounced in the West and South than along the Atlantic Coast, though the latter section reports an increased retail demand. Dry goods are quoted quieter at many points, but this is offset by a larger distribution of clothing and boots and shoes. The settlement of the steel strike, as was expected, has resulted in a marked increase in business in this line, and the demand for almost everything is brisk. The inquiry for steel rails is breaking previous records, and is so sharp that the amount of old orders to be carried over for delivery into next year is esti- mated at from 250,000 to 400,000 tons. Some Chicago mills have orders for general steel products booked as far ahead as the close of 1902. This abnormal busi- ress is hardening”prices, and a number of descriptions have advanced during the weck. Cotton goods are still unsettled, owing to the weak- ness in raw cotton, but the mills are evidently not losing money, for several have advanced the wages of operatives. Hides rule firm in syinpathy with leather, n demand, both for export and domestic Wool and woolen goods are in fair de- which is consumption. mand and firm, without especial feature. The cereal markets are quiet. Wheat shows little fluctuation either way, as the best estimates indicate a world’s crop slightly in excess of the normal con- sumption, hence operators at the leading markets do | not look for much variation in prices until conditions change. Provisions have been unsettled at Chicago and other Western points, and while the tendency in quotations has been upward of late it is now reported by private wire that the strength has become some- what fictitious, and that the market is being held up by the large packers, and whenever they relax their support it immediately weakens. Wall street has been quieter. A flurry in copper shares enlivened the street for several days, but beyond this there is little excitement. Fluctuations in all classes of securities are narrower than for some little time back, and there is no change in the money market sufficient to create any especial activity, one way or the other. In our local market conditions remain pretty much the same. The wearing out of the strike is eas- ing up matters, though the improvement is grad- ual. * Goods are being moved with greater freedom and in larger volume, however, and the situation is much clearer than a month or even a fortnight ago. Country produce is still selling well at good prices, and the outlook is for another prosperous winter. e PR An international peace conference, which was in session at Glasgow at the time of the assassination of President McKinley, closed its proceedings by adopting a resolution urging the civilized nations to “put an end to international anarchy and convert the money now expended in armaments to the uses of commerce and industry.” The curious use of the word anarchy will be noted. It is going to be so after 2 while that 2 man cannot swear at a dog without calling him an anarchist. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. ECAUSE the Bohemian Club ordered the, Examiner off the club files and out of the clubrooms, Hearst has attacked the club by asserting that a suit for divorce in this city owes its origin to the fact that the husband in the case was led to neglect and to ill treat his wife by reason of his association with “dis- solute’” members of the club. That lie was refuted yesterday by a statement of the at- torney for the lady and its publication was characterized' by him as “a dirty trick.” Because The Call, as a part of its business as a legitimate journal furnishing the public with the news of the day, reports the various expressions of popular indignation against the yellow journals, the Examiner has sought to convey the impression that The Call commended Emma Goldman and her teachings when she was in this city in 1898. That lie also was refuted yesterday by the republication in The Call of the Goldman inter- view, which the Examiner garbled, and of the editorial on the day following, in which anarchy was denounced and the immorality of its teachers exposed by The Call. That lie of the Examiner then may also be characterized as a dirty trick of the same kind as the assault on the Bohemian Club. A I The two instances are recalled because they give notice to the public of the methods by which Hearst will endeavor to retaliate on those who condemn him and his journals. next victim of a dirty trick. The Examiner and the other Hearst journals will have nolack of judges upon whom to turn their yellow malignancy. Here are some of the judgments that, have been pronounced upon Hearst and his papers in the East and in the West: ) The New York Sun meets the defense published by Hearst in the New York Journal by saying: “This shameless publication would have it believed that the impres- sive and destructive condemnation of it which the outraged and indignant American public has expressed through the reputable press is in fact mere newspaper attack upon it because of jealousy cf its superior enterprise and novelty. * * * The utter perver- sion of the thing known as yellow journalism was never shown more conclusively or of- fensively than in this hypocritical pretense to exalted motives in connection with other ends as a cloak to complicity in a crime that has shocked the country.” The New York Post says: “The real offense of yellow journalism is not so much that it holds a public man up to undeserved ridicule, or visits upon him censure which he does not deserve, as that its pervading spirit is one of vulgarity,” indecency and . reckless sensationalism; that it steadily violates the canons alike of good taste and sound morals; that it cultivates false standards of life and demoralizes its readers; that it recklessly uses language that may incite the crack-brained to lawlessness; that its net influence makes the world worse. A force working to such ends ought surely to be restrained, and public opinion ought to be brought to bear dgainst it in the most effective possible ways.” The press of California, where Hearst’s methods of journalism have been paraded in the Examiner, are as vigorous in condemning him as those of New York, where he is known by the Journal, and those of Chicago, where he is known by the American. The Los Angeles Express says: “Herr Most has uttered nothing worse in ‘his viperous den than has the New York Journal, and Emma Goldman’s wicked appeals from the curbstone have scarcely equaled the editorial ravings of Hearst’s Chicago Amer~ ican.” The Alameda Argus, after quoting a specimen of the editorials of the Hearst pa- pers, says: “Anybody who might think this an extract from one of Emma Goldman’s speeches would be mistaken. It is a part of a Hearst editorial which appeared in the New York Journal barely two months before the President was shot. Is it any wonder that the people are aroused from one side of the country to the other?” The Santa Clara Journal gives warning to the Examiner in the statement: “There is a limit to the anarchist teachings of the Hearst papers that will yet cause trouble to its proprietor if he fails to observe it.” . s The Mail of Woodland, in describing the tone of public sentiment on the subject, says: “The feeling agzinst the Examiner is very strong. While going to the city the other day we met the newsboy after he had passed through three cars on receiving his morning papers and were unable to obtain a Call or a Chronicle from him, he having sold them all. He had a large bundle of Examiners, but was only able to dispose of three in the car we were seated in. The people absolutely refused to purchuse that paper and deferred reading the morning news until they arrived in the city.” The Petaluma Argus says of Hearst’s three pzpers: “The' opinion very largely prevails that these papers are justly condemned for their vituperative, false and malicious attacks upon Mr. McKinley and the party he so fully and grandly represented. There seemed to be nothing too severe, nothing too slimy, false or vituperative for these papers to hurl at an innocent man, even to the most hatred-breathing epithets and that a vile heart could conceive or pen or tongue could utter or express.” The Los Angeles Times says: “The Hearst papers were indecehtl_v insulting to the late chief magistrate and his administration, and more or less so to everything that stood for law and order. It is entirely proper and fitting that those American citizens who believe in the maintenance of law and order, who believe in respeciabi]ity and de-~ cency and fairness, should show their ihdignation and contempt against these miserable gutter sheets which pander to the baser passions of human nature and are to a great extent responsible for the spread of that spirit of anarchy which found. its latest vent in the cowardly assassination of the late President.” charges It will be well for the people to bear them in mind, for there is no telling who will be the| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1901. OF THE LABOR SITUATION REVIEW AND EFFECTS OF THE STRIKE O the Editor of The Call: I desire to review, for the careful consideration of the laboring men of San Fran- clsco, the labor situation in our city, as it furnishes, to say the least, food for reflection, We find that in May of this year the city was en- joying Industrial prosperity to an extent never before seen in all its history; the result of the Spanish war upon the city of San Franclsco was beginning to make it apparent that the city had entered on a perlod of growth and prosperity that bid fair to result in a large increase of population; an increase in trade and commerce; a new and bright era in its commercial life, and its workmen found a market for their labor at re- munerative rates, with steady employment in sight. ‘The visit of our late lamented President to the city turned the eyes of the country toward San Francisco and gave it an advertisement far more valuable than could have been secured by the Investment-of money or the efforts of any commercigl body. The larders of the workmen were filled with the comforts of life; the little ones were well clothed, well fed, well schooled and happy. They felt that it was but just that they share to a still greater extent in the results of prosperity and de- manded ten hours’ pay for nine hours’ work. Or, to put it more plainly, they demanded that their employers give them, either from their capital or their earnings, one hour's pay each day without giving an equivalent in work or anything else. This demand would have been conceded to the workmen and they could have reaped to this extent where they had not sown. Did they stop there? No. They demanded the privi- lege of running their employers’ business and forcing thelr brother workmen to join the union and contribute to its sup- port or else remain idle and starve. Did they, get their demand? No. us see. They got four months of idleness, during which to nurse their discontent; four months of oratory from the sleek and well fed ‘“‘walking delegate,” who rides in Pullman cars; four months eating into the little nest egg laid away for a rainy day; four months of picket duty, trying to keep their fellow workman from earning an honest living and winning his bread by honest toil, so that he could go home at night to his wife and little ones every inch a man and share with them the fruits of honest toil; four months living on a pittance doled out in meager sums by the sleek, fat hands of the officers of the union, who toil not, neither do they spin; four months of either prowling, pantherlike, ‘at night and springing, catlike, on their brother workman and brutally beating him into in- sensibility for no other crime than that he tried to earn his bread by honest toil, or else trying to explain that the union in whose Interest these crimes were committed was not re- sponsible for their commission; four months’ resistance to law and authority; four months’ business drifting to other citles not so thoroughly supplied with the ‘‘blessings” of untonism; four months’ prosperity turned into depression /and ruin, the fruits of which, if preserved, would have been shared to the full by every man on strike for principle—fruit blighted in the bud and withered in the blossom; four months to ac- What did they get? Let to be struggled under for the next four years; ?‘:fii“:fi:{i’.‘fl which to -‘efl or pawn for the bread of idleness the things which decorate and beautify the home; four months to prove to the employer of labor that the union work- man cares nothing for justice and equity, and to warn him to withdraw his capital and retire to a quiet lifs, wherse the unions cease from troubling and the weary find some rest; four months to read the “yellow” journal and learn that the man who has money to create work and pay for it on payday is the mortal enemy of the union; (‘our months to test the benefits of membership in a union. ‘";:'hnt of the next four months? Your ranks will be broken; the gentlemen of leisure who fatten best when strife is hottest and whose vocation is gone when labor is contented and happy will retire to the obscurity from whence they came; they will not be much in evidence around your homes replenishing your depleted cupboards or administering to your .p-""m‘ needs, and If they preach any gospel at all it will be “every man for himself.” Your places will be fllled by the man you have been taught to call “scab,” which is a modern Greek word which means “an American citizen who has not sworn away his liberty to work for an honest living, nd you will have plenty of time to answer the question: ‘“Does unionism pay when it goes out of jts legitimate fleld of work, which Is the moral and intellectual betterment of its members? When it Is not con- tent to treat with employers on the question of wages and hours alone, but demands the right to arbitrarily run its em- ployer's business, and, failing to do this, malms and wounds his fellow laborer because he exercises his right as an Amert- can citizen in selling his labor in the open market?” You will have time to figure as to whether the dues you have paid to the lodge and the four months of enforced idleness, with its consequent results, have been a good investment, and you will be able to answer inteiligently: Does it pay to belong to a union? If not, why not? Also which is the greatest tyrant, labor or capital? Which has caused the most tears to flow, the labor leader who or- dered the strike or the employer who refused to yield to his demands? Also which of the two classes mentioned below has. contributed the most to the prosperity of the city and directly to the pockets of the workmen? Namely, the Scotts, the Hendys, the Gibbses, the Spreckels, the Risdons and the Strausses as employers of labor or the labor leaders, namely the Furuseths, the Rosenbergs and the Caseys? Furthermore, it might be a liberal education if the striker would devote the next four months in attempting to balance the following ac- count, which will serve as a sample for all: Machinists' Union of San Franclsco To John Doe, Striker, Dr. To four months’ dues, at $150eper month.. ‘Ro 100 days lost time (est.), at §3 50 per day, averag .To(al ........................................................... Cr. To average strike benefits o SN0 e A RS Respecttully submitted, ROBERT J. ANDERSON. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 27, 1901 @ et A B e @ NOTES OF THE PROGRESS IN THE UPBUILDING OF THE NAVIES OF THE POWERS OF THE WORLD Ten Torpedo-Boat Destroyers Are Being Built for Russia and Two Battleships Are in Course of Construction for Germany. —es EN torpedo-boat destroyers of 350 tons were ordered in the beginning of 1899 from the Nevski yard at St. Peters- burg, but only two have been launched to date. The boats put overboard are the Akula and the Buichk; the others will be named Makrel, Nalim, \Okum, Plotva, Peskar, Keta, Palkas and Sig. . . . Detalled accounts of the sinking of the German torpedo- gunboat Wacht in the Baltic on September 4 was a case which will no doubt be serfous to the commanding officer. The steer- ing gear of the Wacht had become disabled during the maneu- vers and the vessel was being navigated by an emergency ap- paratus when the collision with the Sachsen took place. The Wacht was rammed between the engine room and another compartment, destroying the bulkhead between the two com- partments. All of the crew sprang overboard, only the captain, first officer and the chief engineer remaining with the ship. The vessel sank in twenty-two minutes in twenty-five fathoms and the Sachsen proceeded to Danzig for repairs. . . . One of the most efficient war vessels employed during the last three years in the Philippines is the Laguna de Bay, a .small sidewheel steamer, only 120 feet in length and drawing three feet of water. She was purchased by the War Depart- ment and went into commission January, 1899, with a comple- ment of eighty officers and men. Her armament consisted of two 3-inch, two 1.65-inch Hotchkiss, four Gatlings and one Colt automatic gun. The boat was recently sold at public auction for $2000. Her service record shows that she was in ninety- three fights and eleven engagements, in which she had four men killed and fifteen or sixteen wounded. . . . A Swedish. naval officer has proposed the plan of a sub- marine battery ds a means to close narrow straits and inlets to hostile vessels. His idea is to mount a tube on a founda- tion some inches under water from which tube pneumatic tor- pedoes may be discharged. The foundation serves as a mag- azine for projectiles, and the battery is worked from any point on shore like other submarine mines. The tube is movable horizontally within an angle of % degrees. The failure of the steam trials of the Jeanne d'Arc were chiefly due to the unbearable heat in the boiler room, and im- provements will be made to overcome this defect. Screens will be placed in front of the bollers to protect the firemen against the flames, which shot out whenever the ship was going at a high rate of speed. Similar improvements are also to be in-\ troduced on board another new armored cruiser—the Jurien nh‘ la Graviere. . . . Two battleships bave been lald down in German shipyards— one at the Schichau yard, Danzig, the other at the Germania yard at Kiel. They are of 13,000 tons displacement—the largest ships yet built for the German navy—and will carry very heavy batterles, consisting of four li-inch and eighteen 8.7-inch quick-firers. Each of the 1l-inch guns can fire a shot at inter- vals of % seconds. - 4 % Of the 22,119 sailors and others in the Austrian navy, 3M49 are Germans, 1373 Magyars, 1463 Czechs, 119 Slovacks, 463 Poles, 523 Slavs, %121 Servian @roats, 12 Bulgarians, 30 Roumanians and 6263 Italians. There are 103 whose nationality is not stated. . . . 111 iuck appears to follow vessels in the British navy named after reptiles. Four Vipers have been wrecked in home waters, three Lizards, two Snakes, two Dragons and one each of Alli- gators, Adders, Crocodiles, Rattlesnakes and Basilisks. . . . The Danish coast defense ship Herluf Trolle, of 4200 tons, has made a successful trial, making a speed of 15.65 knots with 4399 horsepower and 14.6 with 3170 horsepower. The design called for 4200 horsepower and 15 knots. . . . An armor plate weighing 15.4 tons and 8.8 inches thick was recently tried in England. Three rounds of 3%0-pound shells were fired from a 9.2 inch gun. The shells broke up, only slightly flaking the plate at impact. . . . Russia has ordered thirty Creusot guns for her new battle- ships. Their caliber is not given, but as they have a range of’ twelve miles they are probably 1l-inch. . B . A submarine boat is being built for the Argentine navy for which the usual claim is made that “it will revolutionize naval warfare.” L e e e i i e e i e e e o o S Y PERSONAL . MENTION. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A CHANCE TO SMILE. tucky.” the time was ripe to strike the blow.” breeder of anarchy. “What is an anarchist? ity as anarchy want the change or not.” chall we. It stands as Hearst published it, The Humbold: Standard says: “Such papers as Hearst's Examiner, Journal . and Chicago American have reeked with anarchistic rot, foul detraction and cruel calumny directed at the very man whom Czolgosz slew. suggest the assassination of McKinley after the assassination of Governor Goebel of Ken- The Examiner even went so far as to Here are further expressions from the East: ’ The Philadelphia Sunday Item says: largely responsible for the President’s assassination is evident to all thinking persons. The fact that the New York Journal was flooding the land with vile cartoons deriding and | belittling President McKinley doubtless caused those who favor war with all govern- ments to believe that a large section of the American people were bitterly hostile to him. It is natural to suppose that their meeting places were plastered with these’ cartoons and that the spirit they breathed made the leaders of the assassination conspiracy believe that “That abusive and licentious journalism was The Chicago Journal, in reviewing the defense made by Hearst’s paper in that city, the American, says: “Hearst has been a fomenter of strife; a stirrer up of class hatreds, a Even anarchists like Johann Most place the burden of the crime,of Czolgosz on Hearst’s yellow journals. By their fruits ye shall know them, and no de« fense at this late day will be able to clear this unscrupulous, reckless and mischief-making man from this great and terrible responsibility.” The New York Press, as an illustration of what Hearst has done to promote anarchy, prints this from the New York Evening Journal of May 22, 1901: “According to accepted definitions issued by the higher class of society an afi- archist is one who tries to do something useful that has never been done before. “There is a change coming some day, whether the gentlemen who denounce char- Upon that statement no comment is needed. The Press gave none and neither In a few days San Francisco will be called upon to welcome another distinguished body of men and women. The men will represent the highest thought in the Episcopal Church in almost every civilized land under the sun. It goes without saying that San Fran- cisco will extend to her visitors a welcome as gen- erous and as broad 2s it has given to the thousands of other distinguished visitors who have honored us with their presence. —_— Logan E. Bleckley, who for many years was Cl}iel Justice of Georgia, has entered the State University as a student and will enjoy his retirement in study, provided the student body doesn’t induce him some day to act as umpire to a football game and use him up. From the frequency with which Southern news- papers point with pride to the fact that Roosevelt’s mother was a Georgian, it would seem that there may arise a Roosevelt party in that section that will make Democracy look like thirty cents at the next election, R e ' The report that President Roosevelt said he would not be a candidate in 1904 has now been denied, and. all aspirants who thought of putting up rods to attract Presidential lightning will of course ,take notice without further warning. —_— It will be some time before the yellow journals will show that color again, for they are getting such an amount of kicking from patriotic citizens that they will be black and blue for months to come. Dr. F. G. Cannell of Chicago is a guest at the Palace. E. B. Waterman, an attorney of Bak- ersfield, s at the Grand. T. B. Rickey, a lumberman of Carson, is staying at the Palace. John Fennell, a land owner of Tehama County, is at the Palace. W. T. Porter, a Fresno merchant, is a late arrival at the California.. George Myers, a business man of Fres- o, is at the Lick for a brief stay. Ludwig Brefeld, an attorney of Berlin, is one of the arrivals at the Grand. Samuel S. Dennis, an official of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is registered at the Palace from Lakewood, N. J. Edward N. Camp, a Chicago capitalist who s largely interested in Oregon mining properties, is at the Palace. ‘& 'W. McMurran, speclal correspondent fo: an Eastern magazine, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and son. Captain George McCluskey of the New York Police Department left yesterday for his home after a prolonged visit to this coast. W. Murfin and his son, H. Hamilton Murfin, who are connected with a leading railroad in Sheffield, England, are regis- tered at the California. Dr. Oscar J. Mayer, a medical prac- titloner who has been absent from this city for two years, has returned and Is registered at the Palace. A Kindly Opinion. From the Windsor (Cal.) Herald, Sept. 28. The good, faithful and patriotic work being done for the people of this State as well as for the nation by the San Francisco Call cannot be overestimated or overappreciated by the people of Cal- {fornia. The Call stands square up for law, order and decency and counts not the cost to itself in doing it. The Call is fast gaining a high place in the esteem of the public for its bold, fearless and true Americanism and it should find a wel- come place in every well-regulated home. Hurrah for The Call! —_—————— Royal Photographer. The Shah of Persia Is an enthusiastic amateur photographer. Indeed, quite a number of apartments have been fitted up at the palace at Teheran for the conven- jence of the royal photographer. He is declared to possess the most remarkable collection of cameras in Europe, some of them being so large that two attendants are required to move and fix them. Many of the cameras are very valuable, some of them being ornamented with precious stones. The Shah has spent a great deal of time in taking snapshots of Ms cour- tiers and attendants in all kinds of gro- tesque dresses and attitudes. —_—— SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal.. effective after April I5; 360 for round trip; including 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S. S. Co.. 4 New Montgomery st. A PHILADELPHIA BRIDGE—Santa, City. The length of the bridge across the Schuylkill River at Walnut street, Phila- delphia, is 3756 7-10 feet. PANAMA WEATHER—Santa, City. Panama has wet and dry seasons, the former lasting from May to December. July, August and September are the hot- test months. LANDS IN 'TWO STATES—For the in- formation desired about desert land in California and Colorado direct a letter of inquiry to the Genera] Land Office, Wash- ington, D. C. DATE LINE—M. B., City. The reason that the date line from which all nations reckon longitude is ‘‘crooked and not straight” is because all nations do not take longitude from the same meridian. CUSTOM-HOUSE—S., City. It s claimed that the Custom-house in New Orleans, La., is the largest in the world. It contains 111 rooms, was commenced in 1848 and was not completed until thirty vears later. It cost $4,900,000. CATHOLIC ASYLUM-—A. O. §. City. The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of San Francisco at one time stood on a part of the site now occupled by the Pal- ace Hotel. It faced on Market street, be- tween Second and Annie. THE AMERICA'S CUP RECORD-D., City. The record of races for the America’s cup, together with the time of winner, was published In The Call of October 16, 1899. That includes every race from the first to the one preceding the present one. FAMILY MATTERS-F. 8., City. The questions asked are purely, with two ex- ceptions, private family matters which this department has no right to inquire into for the purpose of satisfying curi- osity of any individual. You are at lib- erty to write to the party named, but the chances are that the reply will be that it is none of your business. YACHTING—A. 8., City. Yatching as a sport in England dates back to the time of Charles II. He won the first reported race between yachts on the Thames, as appears from the following from the diary of Samuel Pepys: “October 1, 1661—Yacht race between Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, for 100 guineas; sailing match from Greenwich to Gravesend and back. The King won.” THE CENTRAL AMERICA—S. D., City. The steamer Central America, formerly the George Law, left Aspinwall via Havana for New York with a large num- ber of passengers, mostly Californians ‘who were returning home, and with $2,- 000,000 in treasure. When off Cape Hat- teras, on the 1ith of September, 1857, she was® struck by a gale and foundered. Four hundred and nineteen passengers were lost and 173 rescued, including all the women and children. The news of the loss of the vessel did not reach San Fran- cisco until the 22d of October following. \ B. Ginner— L% e ‘What is the regulation golf Sinnickson—The regulation golf bawl is, “Fore!"—Catholic Standard. ““Who wrote the song, “Where Did You Get That Hat? " “I don’t know, but it must have been a verse-a-tile man.”—Pittsburg Chronicle- Tclegraph. Sarah Bernhardt says the idea of her playing Romeo to Maud Adams’ Julfet was a joke. Only half a joke. It is ad- mitted that Maud Adams can play Jullet. —Louisville Courfer-Jaornal. Z T!ea;h"_"hnny' who were the 600 re- erred to in the line: “Into th, death rode the 6007 R Johnny — Why, er—ah—oh—why—they were dentists.—Baltimore American. “What did you say the sinking fund was for?” asked the new director of the treasury. “To meet the floating debt,” lled the 5 o latter.—Pittsburg Chroni:le—'!‘el?";aph. Passenger (running to the barrier)— Guard, have I time to say good-by to my wife? Guard—I don’t know, sir. How long have you been marrfed?—London An- Phillie—Yes. swers. hand lng‘ “What luck?" “I got the next thing to it—a cuff."— Yonkers Statesman. ‘Willie—So you asked for her night? First Lady Passenger—If that window isn’t opened this minute I know I shall die. Second Ditto—Who opened that window? If it is not shut I shall die, I'm sure. Philosophical Gentleman — Conductor, please keep that window open til] one of these ladies dles; then shut it and give the other an opportunity to quit this vale of tears.—Tid Bits, “Semething seems to trouble you,” she said as he dropped the book publisher's anncuncement. “What s it?"" “I've been speculating,” he replied, “on the size of the family to which ‘Eliza- beth” belonged. * ‘Elizabeth’?” she repeated. “What ‘Elizabeth’ " “ ‘Elizabeth’ the letter writer, of course. The mania seems to run in the family. We're now getting her moth:r s let ers, and I am wondering where it will all enq.”"—Chicago Post. Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—————— Special Inlwnn::’n supplied daily