The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1901, Page 6

6 Che—olnnCall. vessrss...DECEMBER 11, 1901 WEDNESDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Mazager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telep! Press 204 B et PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOM:! 217 to 221 Stevemsom St. Tele; Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. § Centx. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: "0 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months. 2.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months 1: All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Semple coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in orderiag change of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. DAKLAND OFFICE. +...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KBOG'EII Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicags. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2613.”) NEW YORK (ORRESPONDENT: . G CARLTON..cccovvesnsnnsesss . Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.. +++30 Tribune Buflding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sberman Mouse; P. O. News Co.: Great Northern Hotell Fremont House: Auvditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St. N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—&T Montgomery, corner of Clay, epen untll $:0 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 3:30 o'clock. MeAllister, open until §:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until 980 o'vlock. 181 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, Stxteenth, open until § c'clock. 1096 Valeacia, open o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. Tweaty-second and Kentucky, open untl § o'clock. Filimore, open until § p, m. Orpheurn—Vaudeville. Chutes, oo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Fischer' s—Vaudeville. 2] H. Umbsen—Monday, December 16, Real Estate, at 34 Montgomery street. By J. J. Doyle—This day, at 11 o'clock, Horses, Wagons, etc., at 327 Sixth street. SR MRS. STANFORD'S WORK. Y the transfer to the trustees of Stanford Uni- B versity of property estimated to have a value of $30,000,000 Mrs. Stanford has virtually completed the task which passed into her hands upon the death of her husband. The University at Palo Alto is now founded and endowed with a wealth ‘which is believed to exceed that of any other insti- sution of learning in the world. Moreover, much of she endowment is in the form of property which will augment in value with the development of the State and the increase of population, and consequently the university will have many years of growth before it reaches the full measure of the gifts the founders have bestowed upon it. Under any circumstances the actual transfer of so large an endowment into the hands of trustees of an institution designed for the general good would be 2 notable event. In this case, however, there is something more than a mere transfer of wealth. The deed of gift represents the completion of one of the most difficult duties an American woman has ever been called upon to perform. It was no slight task that fell to the lot of Mrs. Stanford when Senator Stanford died. She was called upon to take charge of 2 vast property, to arrange with lawyers for the settlement of the various questions involved in the probate of the will and the distribution of the es- tate, to guard her interests and those of the univer- sity in all the complications arising out of the rela- tions of the Southern Pacific Company to the Gov- ernment and to its creditors, to manage the business of the extensive farms and vineyards of the estate, end, finally, to provide funds at all times for the maintenance of the university without sacrificing the funds and properties designed for the permanent en- dowment. All of those duties Mrs. Stanford has performed not only with a noble fidelity to the wishes of her husband and a devotion to the welfare of the uni- wersity, but with conspicuous success. She has done something more than save the estate. She has in- creased its value, and the endowment is much larger than was at first estimated. In carrying out the great task intrusted to her Mrs. Stanford not only met every difficulty of labor or of finance without shirking, but frequently made great personal sacrifices - for the purpose of - ac- complishing the noble end she had in view. That she had able and faithful counselors and advisers at 2ll times is to be conceded, but those advisers did not always agree, and in many a crisis she was com- pelled to rely upon herself alone and to act upon her own judgment. The credit for final success belongs, therefore, fully to her, and it will be cordially given by 2ii who have any knowledge of the labor by which it has been attained. California’s good fortune is nowhere more strik- ingly shown than in the process of events by which at this early stage in her history as an American State she becomes possessed of two of the foremost universities in the world. The future of each insti- tution is assured. For the present Stanford is richer than the State University, but in the end the latter will derive from taxation and from the gifts of liberal citizens an endowment that will exceed even that of the great institution at Palo Alto. They will never have any rivalry other than that of a generous nature. Like Oxford and Cambridge in old England and Harvard and Yale in New England, they will mu- tually advance one another by inciting a healthful emulation in all lines of endeavor, from athletics to scholarship. In that consciousness the people of California may congratulate one another upon the munificent foundation of Senator Stanford and upon the fidelity and efficiency with which Mrs. Stanford has brought it to realization. A New Yorker who, it is claimed, was caught cheating at cards has sued his accusers for $100,000 damages to his feelings. It would be interesting to know what damage he did to the purses of his THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1901. BRITISH USE DUMMY SENTINELS THE PHILIPPINE DECISION. HE minority of the Supreme Court which dis- I sented from the Porto Rico decision now ac- cepts that as the law of the land, and, unexpect-_ edly to the majority which delivered it, applies it to the Philippines. In this application Chief Justice Fuller is joined by Justices “Brown, Harlan, Peck- ham and Brewer; Justices Gray, Shiras, White and McKenna dissenting. It will be seen that Justices Brown held the balance of power, as'he did in the Porto Rico case. This decision is said to have been hailed with mad delight by the commercial classes at Manila, those philanthropists leaping to the conclu- sion that it means free trade with the United States. There is nothing in the decision to justify this exul- tant expectation. The court decides that the Philip- pines are domestic and not foreign territory. Up to this time we have collected Dingley duties on their importations to the United States. But the Dingley tariff was made to apply only to importations from foreign countries. As the Philippines are decided not to be foreign, we cannot apply to them a law made for foreign goods only. But that does not at all mean that they are to have free trade with us. The court has already settled in the Porto Rico case that Congress may pass a tariff law applying to do- mestic territory, and Congress has acted upon that authority. It will act upon it in regard to the Phil- ippines, and that speedily. All the duties heretofore collected here and in the Philippines will have to be refunded. But hereafter a tariff wall against them will be built as high as the protected interests of this country feel to be necessary. There is no question of sentiment about it. It is practical business. Be- coming part of our territory has made a political, not a physical, change in the Philippines. Their produc- tion is just as inimical to ours as it was before. The sun is vertical still. The land is tropical. Its only possible labor is serwile. These conditions inhere in physical causes that neither politics nor prayer can budge, and the sooner our people comprehend this the better will it be for all concerned. Information and vigilance are required to prevent to this nation consequences like those that come to the small boy who eats unripe fruit. A bill is already before Con- gress to admit Porto Rico as a State. We have seen a few Porto Ricans in California, en route to the plantations of Hawaii. They were representative citizens of that tight little island. The idea of their equal fellow-citizenship with us is repugnant. Very speedily there will be a statehood proposition for the Philippines. We don’t want our birthright ‘divided with them. The Filipinos and the Porto Ricans are the fruit of a conquest we did not intend to make, and the {ruit is unripe. It will never ripen into American ideas of government. To parrake of it as a statehood dish means the gripes and pains that al- ways follow such experiments. Let us put statehood for these islands away, and let us put between them and our producers a tariff that will protect us. The free traders and sentimen- talists will talk about our obligation to those peo- ple. We are under no obligation to injure our- selves. The Porto Ricans and Filipinos are not hurt by a tariff against them. It takes not a banana off their tables, nor a nipa leaf off their huts. They are not clamoring for free trade. Those who do are the exploiting classes from this country and else- where, who want free trade that they may make a fortune before the climate makes their livers declare war and strike for the temperate zone. e e ———— At King Edward’s coronation a great many of the ancient privileges of aristocracy are to be abolished. The man with the hereditary right to carry the King’s bow and arrows is not to be permitted to make use of it, the hereditary champion who chal- lenges to single combat any contestant of the King's right is also to be deprived of a chance to show him- self, and, saddest fate of all, the woman who has the ancient privilege of scattering flowers before the King is to be shut out. The coronation is to be an- cient in scme of its ceremonies, but not too ancient. D the Saturday Review .advocates a German- British “friendship” for the purpose of hold- ing the United States in check, while the Spectator favors the formation of a British alliance with Rus- sia for the purpose of checkmating Germany, are not surprising. In fact, the relations between European nations with respect to “world politics” are now so complicated that abler diplomatists than those who edit London reviews are unable to determine in what direction their most important interests lie and what alliances would be most profitable to them. 1f the Germans be really eager to gain a foothold in this hemisphere, as the recent appropriations to maintain German schools in Brazil seem to imply, they would be wise in forming any kind of alliance that would help them, for certainly they cannot deem themselves able to single-handed set the Monroe doctrine aside. Great Britain, however, would be about the last nation in the world to assist in any such German scheme, for she has much to lose and noth- ing to gain by conflict with the United States. Fur- thermore, in the present state of feeling between the people of Germany and those of Great Britain a “friendship” is hardly attainable by the wisest di- plomacy. Gefman dislike of American trade competi- tion may be keen, but it is ngt bitter; while the an- tagonism. to Britain because of the war against the Boers is almost strong enough to force the*German Government into active interference on the side of the Boers. While affairs on this side of the globe and in Africa tend to prevent any kind of alliance or agreement as to joint action between the British and the Germans, the situation in Asia renders such an agreement al- most imperatively necessary. At the present time Germany and Russia are rivals for the possession of railroad terminals on the Persian Gulf. The Rus- sians are extending their Central Asian railways southward to the gulf, while the Germans have a con- cession from the Sultan for a railway from the Bos- phorus- eastward to the limit of his dominions, and the road must have a seaport on the gulf or be com- paratively valueless. Great Britain also desires to extend her Indian lines westward to the gulf so as to connect with the German lines and thus form an all rail route to India through Southern Asia as an offset to the Siberian road. In that part of the world, therefore, British and German interests are identical, and both are opposed to Russian interests. How, then, could Britain and Russia form an alliance against Germany? Finally, the aggressions of Russia in Manchuria are formidable to Germany and Great Britain alike, put much more to the former than to the latter. It might be that the Czar and the Kaiser could agree upon a Chinese policy, but it is not likely that Eng- land and Russia could agree. On the other hand EUROPEAN ALLIANCES. ISPATCHES from London to the effect that and the British as there is between each.of those na- tions and the Germans. The British have no agri- cultural products to export nor have the Russians any manufactured goods, so they do not conflict in trade. Each of them, however, has a conflict with Germany, where the agrarians are trying to keep Rus- sian wheat and rye out of the country, and the manu- facturers are trying to exclude British goods. The complexity of the situation has its advantages. it compels all parties to keeia the peace. A war be- tween Germany and Britain_would give Russia a free hand on the Persian Gulf, and both the warring na- tions would be virtually shut out of all Asia between the Euphrates and India, while a war of either of those powers with Russia would give the other a free hand elsewhere, with results disastrous to the fighting pafties. £ As for curselves, we need neither seek an alliance with any power nor fear one. stood during our years of comparative weakness, and thére is no danger it will be cet aside now. It looks as if the world were to have a long period of peace between the great powers. War would involve pos- sibilities of disaster not in battle alone, but in empire itself, and the risk is too great for any nation to undertake. The concert of Europe is evidently booked to give a continuous performance for many a year to come. T ——— Theré may-be nothing more than a coincidence in the fact that the chaplains of both branches of Con- gress are blind, but it looks as if the members of each House had decided that it is safest not to have a chaplain who could keep an eye on them. A CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION. AVING adopted the Braunhart resolutions H concerning the proposed amendment to the constitution providing for the creation of an extraordinary commission with something like a uni- versal power for regulating corporations, the Board of Supervisors is now in a position to begin at once an agtive campaign of education on the subject. The committee appointed for that purpose should imme- diately get into communication with city and county governments throughout the State in order that a combined effort may be made to bring to public at- tention the evil nature of the scheme embodied in the proposed amendment. Should the amendment be carried the people would be at the mercy of a commission appointed by Gov- ernor Gage but dictated by the corporations en- gaged in the management of what are known as pub- lic utilities. The commission would be composed of five members holding office from two to tep years. One of the members would retire and a new one be elected every two years, but the Gage commission would have power for full six years before it would be possible for the people to have even a chance of clecting a majority of the members. Moreover, the | amendment is so framed that comparatively few citi- zens of property would be eligible to the commis- sion. It is provided that the Commissioners shall not be holders of stock in railroads, water, gas, express, electric or telephone companies, or any other of the corporations whose rates are to be regulated by the commission. Thus the choice of Commissioners would be limited to but a small proportion of the prosperous people of the State, and hardly any but professional politicians would be eligible. The Call has repeatedly directed attention to this measure, because it is one whose menace to the peo- ple cannot be too often pointed out. Virtually it would deprive municipalities and counties of any ef- fective supervision of the corporations controlling public utilities. Local government in that respect would be annihilated, and the proposed Stat: :om- mission wculd have exclusive authority. It is right and proper that the present local author- ities of cities and of counties should take an active part in the campaign of education on the subject, but the matter should not be left wholly to them. The issue is one of concern to every voter in the State, and all who take an intelligent interest in pub- lic affairs should co-operate in the effort to make cer- tain its rejection at the hands of the people. It must not be supposed that a scheme so patently evil will defeat itself. It is well known that a con- siderable number of voters pay but little attention to constitutional amendments unless they refer to some issue that has long been a subject of popular discus- sion, and consequently it is easy to foresee that the evil of this amendment will not be understood unless it is clearly pointed cut. The defense of the scheme by the railroad organ in this city shows that the Southern Pacific corporation is backing the amend- ment. What further warning can be needed? The campaign of education should be undertaken sys- tematically as soon as possible and continue until the defeat of the project is assured T — While Populism in every other part of the Union seems to have gone glimmering through the mist of things that were, there is still enough of it in Kansas to make a noise, and just now it is clamoring against any further fusion with Democracy. A proposed amendnient to the constitution of Georgia designed to restrict negro suffrage has just been voted down by the Legislature by an over- whelming majority, and so on that phase of politics the South is not to be solid. Something appears to be radically wrong in the administration of the affairs of the local .Board of Public Works. The board has not recently com- mitted any act in direct violation of its line of public duty. - After all the discussion as to the best tactics for Democrats to pursue in Congress, the matter will probably result in leaving each one free to make his own kick in his own way and at whatever he pleases. ‘We are to have something like $100,000,000 of sur- plus in the national treasury this year, but as every Congressman has gone to Washington' with a rake they will probably be able to get away with it. However much economical citizens may be dis- turbed over the surplus in the treasury, they can find consolation in the thought that the Democrats will not have a chance to monkey with it. It looks now as if there would be enough anti- anarchist bills introduced into Congress to apply one to every anarchist in the country and fit it to the needs of his particular case. . Wachter of Maryland has made a bid for fame by introducing a bill forbidding the cadets of West Point and of Annapolis to engage in football matches; but it is easy to see his finish. 1t is noted that Croker's Democratic Club in New York has reduced the annual dues from $50 to $23, so it seems the election must have hit them where it there is no commercial rivalry between the Russians | hurts most. The Monroe doctrine v AND GUNS TO SNARE THE BOER_§ THE RAILWAYS IN THE TRANSVAAL ARE GUARDED BY A SERIES OF BLOCKHOUSES, AND NO BLOCK- HOUSE IS CONSIDERED COMPLETE WITHOUT ITS DUMMY SENTINEL, TO WHICH IS OFTEN ADDED A DUMMY GUN. THE GUNS ARE EVEN MORE WONDERFUL TO LOOK AT THAN THE SENTINELS, BE- ING CONSTRUCTED OF ANY ODD BITS OF WOOD THAT ARE OBTAINABLE.—LONDON GRAPHIC, . - PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. W. Craven of Riverside is at the Grand. W. A. Junker of Del Monte is at the Palace. Marion Biggs Jr., a banker of Oroville, is at the Grand. W. D. Bannister, a mining man of So- nora, is at the Lick. 1 John B. Walker, a young clubman of New York, is at the Palace. The Baroness de Buren of Budapest registered at the Palace yesterday. R. G. Burton, proprietor of the opera- house at Fresno, is at the California. A. Tognozzni, a rancher and fruit grow- er of San Luis Obispo, is at the Grand. S. R. Burke, manager of the Greenback mine, at Grants Pass, is at the Occldental. W. O. Woodbury, a mining man of Car- son City, has been spending a few days in the city. G. Babcock, son of the manager of the Hotel Coronado, is at the Palace accom- panied by his wife, * L. A. Grant, a railroad contractor of Los Angeles, is here on a business trip. He is at the Palace. M. H. McCord, United States Marshal at Phoenix, Ariz., and editor of the Ari- zona Gazette, s at the Lick. Willlam Sproule, freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, left last evening for a short trip to Chicago. James Neill, the popular actor, returned yesterday from Honolulu. He reports having had a most successful season there. ‘William E. Hoyt, general Eastern pas- senger agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail- ‘way, I8 here on a short business trip. He is at the Palace. SRR PR Californians in New Yorlk. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—J. Brophy, at the Ross- more; J. Wand, at the Cadfllac; L. M. Davis, at the Park Avenue; D. Sachs and M. Shiranski and wife, at the Savoy; W. L. White, at the Grand Union; T. C. Allis and E. E. Bush, at the Imperial; J. M. Gamble, at the Hoffman; J. 8. Schweizer, at the Criterion; O. Hoffman, at the Her- ald Square, Los Angeles—L. A. Peters, at the Conti- nental. ‘ Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec.10.—The Hon. John P. TIrish, naval officer at San Francisco, called upon President Roosevelt to-day and had a very cordial interview. The Hon. Joseph Spear Jr., Surveyor of the Port at San Francisco, and Mrs. Spear are at the Shoreham. —_———— Turn Verein Thanks Call. Hon. John D. Spreckels, City—Dear Sir: At the last meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Golden Jubilee Fair of the San Francisco Turn Verein the following resolution was adopted: “‘Resolved, That the thanks of this com- mittee be extended to the Hon. John D. Spreckels for the Invaluable assistance given us by the San Francisco Call on the occasion of our recent fair.” In transmitting this resolution we beg of you a continuance of vour friendship and good will, and remain very respect- fully yours, THE EXECUTIVE COQMMITTEE. JOHN SIMMEN, Chairman. DR. F. FISCHER, Secretary. San Francisco, Dec. 9, 191 Manila Houszkeeping. Domestic life in Manila, it is sald, is free from many of the annoyances of house- keeping encountered in Europe or Amer- ica. For one thing, there are no scrvant troubles, which is enough to make the place a paradise, in the opinion of most women from the United States, at any rate. The houces are not built after Western fashions, because they wouldn’t be com- fortable so. They are built on piles, with a veranda around the upper floor. There are rooms all the way around. As the sun moves certain apartments are left in the shade, and the families travel around the circuit in the day, moving from one room %o the next, as comfort dictates. The rooms are kept clean by the house- boys. The gardener brings whatever water is required for use in the house. The cook lives outside. He has his daily orders over night, and does all of the buying for the table on a fixed sum of §2 cr $3 daily. — 0ld subscribers to The Call are en- titled to the privilege of securing a copy of Cram’s Superior Atlas of the ‘World upon payment of $1 50, the premium rate. New Milk Aduiterant. The dairy inspectors in Minnesota have discovered a new milk adulterant, which is being extensively used. 1t is called ‘‘viscogen,” and is composed of sugar, i!me and water. It has the ef- fect of making the milk appear much richer than it is, as the lactic acid in the milk turns the lime to a thick white sub- stance that assimilates and improves its looks. While it does not injure the taste, neither is it considered injurious to the health. e .| 1s also written filopena, filipeen and phili- ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED-S., City. All gifts received at a wedding should be acknowledged. THE ALTENHEIM-J. P. 8, City. The Altenheim at Fruitvale receives old peo- ple of both sexes of German descent, who are not ill. ASTRONOMY—A. 8., City. As you are 2 resident of this city, suggest that you visit the Free Public Library, where you will find all kinds of works on astronomy. STANDARD COIN—M., City. Standard coin is the term to designate coin that is strictly up to the conditions of fineness and weight required by the law of the country in which coined. MADNESS AND MUSIC—Subscriber, City. It was Burton in his “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 1624, who wrote that ‘per- sons bitten by the tarantula and made mad were cured by music.” ON EQUAL FOOTING—H., City. All applicants for homestead lands in the United States stand upon equal footing, with equal rights and privileges to enter the public lands. “First come, first served.” THE MOON—S8. M. C., City. When the moon is obscured by a mist not of the species called cirrus there is formed a ring around it a few degrees in diameter. There is a popular superstition that such a ring portends rain, but like many su- perstitions about the moon it is not al- ways correct. HER MAIDEN NAME-—Scholar, City. The maliden name of “Mother Goose,” who composed the “Mother Goose” melo- dies, was Elizabeth Foster. She was born in 1665, and in 1693 married Isaac Goose. She was a member of the Old South Church of Boston, Mass., and dled in 1757 at the age of 92 years. REPRESENTATION—OId Subscriber, City. For Representative to Congress the present apportionment, or ratio, is one Representative for every 173,901 By act of Congress, approved January, 1901, the number of Representatives is fixed at 336, to take effect March 4, 193. When new States are admitted their Representatives are to be added to this number. THE DIMES OF 18%4—E. J. F., Los An- geles, Cal. There were but twenty-four dimes coined in San Francisco during the year 18%4. Each of these bears the sign of the San Francisco Mint—the letter S. The amount of premium such will com- mand depends on how much the individual having one wants on one hand and the amount the one who wants to become pos- sessor of it would be willing to give. MOON AND MAHOMET—A. Y. R., City. The story of the moon and Maho- met is that Mahomet had the moon per- form seven circuits around Caaba, or the holy shrine of Mececa, then enter the right sleeve of his mantle and go out at the left. At its exit it split in two pieces, which reunited in the center of the firma- ment. This miracle was performed for the conversion of Hahab the Wise. SULLIVAN-MITCHEIL—J. M., Jack- son, Cal. On March 10, 1888, John L. Sulli- van defeated Charlie Mitchell in thirty- nine rounds at Chantilly, France. The fight was for $2500 a side, was fought ac- cording to the rules of the London prize ring, with bare knuckles, lasted three hours ten minutes fifty-five seconds. Referee, J. B. Angle; seconds—Jack Ash- ton, George McDonald; umpire, Jack Bar- nett. Sullivan won knock down and Mit- chell drew first blood in the eighth round. LANGUAGES—A. R., City. There are more than 200,000 words in the English language. Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge, edition of 1890, gives the fol- lowing number of words in other lan- guages: German 37,000, Italian 35,000, French 32,00, Spanish 30,000. No one has yet taken the time to count the number of words in the most complete dictionary of each language, and until such is done there will be no accurate list of the numa ber of words in each language. It is esti- mated that the Chinese language is com- posed of 50,000 words, PHILOPENA—Sittle, City. The origin and the orthography of Philopena, a somewhat simple game of forfeit, is un- settled. A person in a party who finds a two-kerneled almond or other nut pre- sented one of the kernels to another per- son, keeping the other for self. Which- ever one of the two parties either receives from the other’s hand any object offered or answers by yes or no a questidn put by the other, or at the mext meeting of the twoe is not the first to say philopena, or fails on any other test agreed ‘upon, must pay forfeit to the other. The word lipine. CLAQUEURS — Theater-goer, City. Claqueurs, or persons hired to applaud in theaters, were first introduced in the theaters of Paris by Mons, Sauton in 1820, He furnished to managers who wished to insure the success of a dramatic plece cer- tain claquers, sometimes as many as five hundred, who were divided into classes, namely: ‘“Commissaires,” those who committed the piece to memory and were noisy in pointing out its merits; “rieurs,” those who laughed at the puns and jokes; “pleurers,” chiefly women, who held their pocket handkerchiefs to thelr eyes at thoe sympathetic parts; ‘“‘chatoullleurs,” whose duty it was to keep the audience in good humor, and “bisseurs,” whose duty it was to cry (bis) encore. A CHANCE' TO SMILE. “Have you read Billigson’s new book?"” “No. But I take it for granted that it can't be clever. No one has yet accused him of plaglarism.—Washington Star. First 'Skeeter—Where's your sister? Second 'Skeeter—Gone, First 'Skeeter—Dear, dear, I heard of it. How did it happen? Second 'Skeeter—She bit a erude magnate.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. hadn’ oil “Willle, I am glad to hear you say you would like to be an angel. What would you do if you were one?” “T'd fly up to the top of that big cotten- wood tree in our yard an’ take my kite out of it."—Chicago Tribune. The man of wealth may distance all the crowd And number thousands under his em- ploy; But he will never come to be as proud In manner as his brand-new office-boy. —Washington Star. Johnny—Look at the elephant moving his great big fins, mamma!™ Mamma—Those are his ears, dear. What use has an elephant for fins? Johnny—Huh! I guess he can use “emi when his head swims, can’t he?—Pitis- burg Press. “He has told me he loved me,” said the fair girl, confidingly, “but I don't know whether to marry him or not.” “Don’t you think he tells the truth?” “I am_sure he does his best to tell the g truth. But, you see, he works in the weather bureau.”—Washington Star. —_—————— Walnut and Pecan Panoche. 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Tan or black, opera or Everett slippers, with patent leather trim- mings, for men, ONLY §i 00, B sizes 5 to 1L OUR STORE thas been enlarged and seating capacity increased. WE WILL BE OPEN EVEN- EGS during the month of Decem- - NEVER MIND THE SIZE. Just buy a shoe order. No present more acceptable. PHILADELPHIA SHOE 0. 10 THIRD STREET. San Francisco.