The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1901, Page 6

" THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1901. 6 " - Th . SATURDAY. +esss222. DECEMBER 14, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 B e PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, “5 Ce-t:l Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cen: Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), obe year.. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), ¢ months. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order um-mmwammpnmwlm(mkm 1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Maneger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicage. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2613."") NEW YORK (ORRESPONDENT: 4 €. C. CARLTON. ...ccccvvuevensse..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........20 Tribune Building NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoris Hotel; A. Breatano, 81 Union Square: Murray Hl Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Premont House; Auditorfum Hotel MWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1408 G St. N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—i’T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open unt!] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAlister, cpen until 3:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until $:30 o'clock. 1941 Miseion, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, eorner BSixteenth, open untfl § o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open entll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. porner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until 9 p. m. ristopher Jr. ‘A Royal Rogue.” Orpheum—Vaudevilie. Grand Opera-house—""A Wite's Peril.” California—*"The Cowboy and the Lady.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and AN UNWISE COUNOIL. ROFESSOR COUNCIL imparts lore to the P students of the Alabama Agricultural and Me- chanical College. We have not at hand the catalogue of that able institution, and therefore are not prepared to say whether he teaches the proper method of ringing the rooters of the primitive pigs of the region, which exist on the roots of the forest and fatten on its oak mast, or whether he instructs in the proper tone in which the milky mother of the herd is to be called “So, boss,” and made to “hoist,” in preparation for the bi-daily manipulation of her dugs. However, no matter what the line ‘of learn- ing he pulls in the college, we discuss him in his more exposed, public and prominent role as a teacher of wisdom in ethnology, politics and etiquette. Incident to the recognition of Professor Washing- ton by President Roosevelt there has been a renewed agitation in a certain section of the South of the fear that the “damnigger” is going to walk away with the birthright of those proud people. We notice that the sense of desecration of the ite House mahogany by having Washington’s black legs under it has not caused any of the Southern Senators and Represen- tatives to decline President Roosevelt's invitation to dine with him, and perhaps sit in the same chair oc- cupied by the negro, eat from the same plate, maybe, and with the same knife and fork, wiping their chaps on the same napkin. Senators Pettus, Mallory, Fos- ter of Louisiana, and Clay, and a large number of others, have accepted the same hospitality that was enjoyed by Washington and have not been asked to resign by their constituents. What the consequences would be if Professor { Council were invited we are not able to predict. Of course he would decline, but the form of his declina- tion must be contemplated through smoked spec- tacles or some other medium to protect the eye from the lurid language in which it would be, couched. This opinion of Professor Council is based upon a recent delivery that has brought him into the fierce focus of publicity. Until a few days ago he was as unknown as was our vermiform appendix until the surgeons opened an abdominal flap and detected it in the act of at- tacking the rest of our insides. But he is known now. He has publicly laid down three propositions on the sectional and race issue and thereupon challenges all comers. These are: “1. That the ‘only pure Anglo- Saxon blood to be fcund in the United States is in the South. 2. That this pure Anglo-Saxon blood wilt rule by the ballot, if possible, but by the bullet if 1 > . of tilling the Alaskan soil and getting from it enough in the way of food, to enable any considerable popu- lation to live there and enjoy that climate. The report says that market gardens are now found near Skagway, Dawson and Eaglé and at various points in Central and Southern Alaska. It is added that along the banks of the great rivers there are vast tracts of arable land. Hay can be cured in the val- leys to the north of the Coast Range, but along the southern coast the frequent rains render the drying of hay a difficult matter. In that region, however, the silo has been used with success. In fact, such experiments as have been made in the way of agri- culture or market-gardening in Alaska have been so successful as to lead the Governor to recommend an increased appropriation for an extension of the ex- periment stations. X It will be seen that Governor Brady’s Thanksgiv- ing exuberance was not without something of reason to justify it. It may be a long time before people will go to Alaska for an equable climate, but there seems every assurance that it may develop into a country where a high degree of the comfort of civilization may be maintained. At any rate, it must be gratify- ing to the pioneers of the Territory to know that their Governor is a boomer and not a pessimist. He is not going to give Alaska a black eye either in an official report or a "l'hanksgiving proglamatione S e — The British War Office complains that while there is no difficulty in getting recruits for the war in South Africa very few of them know how to shoot, so if they are accepted by the army they are of no use struction. The consequence has been a movement for the organization of rifle clubs among the peo- ple, and ere long the average Briton will know a gun when he sees it and also what to do with it when he gets held of it. AN IRRIGATION PRECEDENT. RESIDENT 'ROOSEVELT'S cordial in- P dorsement of the policy of providing irriga- tion for the arid regions of the country, wherever such irrigation can be economically main- tained, has had the effect of bringing the issue into the domain of practical politics. It has been under discussion a long time and several tentative meas- ures have been enacted by Congress for dealing with it. The prospects are that it may no® be soon taken up in a comprehensive way and a scientific plan devised for redeeming millions of barren or until they have been through a long course of in- PATENT OFFICE IN POSSESSION OF MODEL OF FIRST TYPEWRITER 4 OF R. T. P. ALLEN OF KENTU! IT IS A ROUGHLY CKY. AMONG THE MANY INTERESTING ORIGINAL MODELS TO BE FOUND IN THE PATENT OFFICE AT WASH- INGTON IS THAT OF THE FIRST TYPEWRITER. MADE AFFAIR, THE INVENTION — s necessary. 3. That when the negro undertakes to | Semi-barren acres. HE model department of the United States Patent Office world was done by hand, is Elias Howe's model < the séuing - Srsne Y e step over the line separating the two races he will | Senator Bard is quoted as saying that at present in Washington is illuminated here and there with the machine. The visitor uncons y ecreation Fark—Bassball hirt, “Stitch, Stitch, Stitch,” and words of the song of the sl o g Central Park—Vasco Ball Game. original médels of the very great Inventions. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. In one of the cabinets is to be seen Morse's originai step from life to death.” I model of the telegraph instrument, fashioned by his own It is news that the Anglo-Saxon is prevalent in the the chief difficulty in the way of providing for irri- thinks of the agony of that stitching in the days gation is a difference of opinion on matters of detail when it was all done by hand. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen—Monday, December 16, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery street. TARIFF STRIFE IN GERMANY. R with much more heat and bitterness than such controversies ever excited here. In fact, the German agitation zpproaches the fervor that marked the free trade movement in Great Britain when for a time the demand for a repeal of the corn laws came near to breaking out into something like civil war. The German cpponents of the Kaiser’s tariff scheme are not talking of insurrection, but nevertheless they are disp EPORTS from Berlin show that the tariff con- troversy in that country is being carried on an antagonism that threatens to array class sought to obtain it partly by an increase of customs duties. He himself has in zll probability no preju- dice in favor of one kind of duty rather than an- " other. He has always held himself carefully aloef from parties, and therefore it is hardly fair to hold him responsible for the schedules of the tariff that kas been submitted. His Chancellor has doubtless drawn up the bill as best he could to obtain the sup- port needed to carry it through the Ilegislative bodies. In doing so he has conceded so much to the agrarians that he has zroused the intense opposition of the workers in the cities, who perceive that higher duties on agricultural products will mean an in- creased cost of bread. Their fight, therefore, is the same that the British factory workers made against the corn laws. It is a cry for food. The bitterness with which the debate is carried on was shown by a recent incident in the Reichstag. Herr Bebel, in opposing the bill, denounced it as a “hunger tax” and argued that its direct tendency is toward a reduction of the working people to starva- tion. Warming to his theme he appealed to the sen- timent of his hearers and told a pathetic story of a dying child in Berlin who said, “I will be glad to get to heaven because there is no hunger there.” The pathos was spoiled by a shout of mocking laughter irom the agrarians, and one of them said the child’s hunger was doubtless cue to the fact that her parents spent their money on beer rather than bread. That meant of course that the agrarian landlords have no sympathy with workingmen and are not to be moved by tales of starvation. Those stories, how- ever, have 2 profound effect upon the working classes, and it will be seen there is an antagonism of sentiment and sympathy that is decidedly dangerous. Free trade was carried in Great Britain by a series of bad years that ruined crops and brought something like famine to the people. . In the face of the need of more food it was impossible for the Government to retain the corn laws. What would happen in Ger- many if at the present juncture a bad year should come and the pcople actually feel the pinch of star- vation it is impossible to say. It is certain, however, the agrarians are playing in big luck in having a chance to present their tariff at a time when crops are abundant and food is not scarce in any part of the civilized world, unless certain remote parts of Russia be called civilized. The international effect of the tariff is not likely to be anything like so acute as the domestic effect. There has been much talk of its interference with American trade, but it may prove less hurtful than is feared. Our chief interest in it lies in the reported statement of the Kaiser that if he did not get re- ciprocity he would “get in and smash things.” Well, he is not going to get reciprocity, and if the new German tariff is an illustration of his idea of smash- ing things we need not be alarmed hereafter by any- thing he may say in his moments of exuberance. P The managers of the ceremonies of King Edward’s coronation are said to be trying their best to get rid of a great deal of the afitient tomfoolery that has de- scended with the aristocracy from the middle ages, and as a result 2 good many lords and titled dames have reached the conclusion that the managers are a set of tomiools themselves. South and is found there only. In the Carolinas a considerable part of the early settlers were Gascons. They came from that part of France where an ele- vated imagination and a hereditary habit of lying has made mountains out of mole hills, eagles out of mud- hens, and has turned gray geese into swans. So we have the term “gasconading” to describe that sort of swashbuckling which has come down even to this generation. The two greatest natives of South Caro- lina were Calhoun, a Scotchman, and Andrew Jack- son, of Scotch-Irish lineage. Then the Huguenots peopled the South and gave us the long and illus- trious line of the Bayards of Delaware, the Maurys, * Le Contes and many more. The French Acadians settled Louisiana, in company with a direct immi- gration from France, and gave us Pierre Soule and a distinguished company of publicists and statesmen. The Jews were not behind the rest, and a long pro- cession of them was led by Judah P. Benjamin. But we will call the roll no further upon Professor Coun- cil. In the elucidation of his thesis of three horns he takes occasion to assert the general superiority of the South over the North and its greater skill in handling the gun and his general contempt for every- thing up our way, which he boldly refuses to conceal. It is only the knowledge that his own section will |laugh at the chattering jay that makes one at all pa- tient with his vanity, bad manners and ignorance. But he got his name in the papers, and that was probably the object of his effort. Reports concerning Major Van Tets, the Dutch officer who resented the treatment of the Queen by her husband, Prince Henry, are various. Some say he was killed in a duel by a pistol-shot, others that he was wounded with a sword in a scuffle, while a third report is that he was kicked in the stomach. All agree, however, that he interfered in a family quarrel and got the usual reward. ALASKAN POSSIBILITIES. HEN the time came for Governor John C. WBrady of Alaska to issue his Thanksgiving proclamation last month he began by say- ing: “We in Alaska, in comparing our blessings with those which our friends enjoy in other places, find that we have much for which to be thankful. Some things are so common and constant with us that we scarcely appreciate them—our equable cli- mate and the abundance of rain. The terrible heat of the past summer in the East did not disturb our comfort, but aroused our sympathies for those who had to endure it. Drought and arid wastes we can- not complain of. We have an abundance of grass, and where men have attempted to till the earth it has yielded many fold, and those who have tried it are satisfied that greater things are in store for them.” When the Alaskan gives thanks for his climate and for the abundance of grass and the bright pros- pects of his agriculture we are inclined to believe a joke is intended. However, there is no joke in the Governor's proclamation. He went on to point out that in addition to the equability of the climate, the abundant rainfall, the absence of torrid heats, the profusion of grass and the prospects of good results from the tillage of the soil, the people of Alaska have reason to be thankful because their fisheries are profitable and the mineral wealth is more promising than ever before. Now all of those statements, with the exception of that referring to the climate, are in- dorsed to some extent in the official report of the Secretary of the Interior. When William H. Seward induced the Government of the United States to pay out a large sum of money for Alaska he was ridiculed, and his purchase was made the subject of no end of jesting and sarcasm. In fact, Congress was induced to carry out the pur- chase more out of friendship to Russia than out of any liking for Alaska. Events have proven that Seward builded wiser than he knew. Alaska is really a rich country in its way and is worth many times over. the price that was paid for it. In fact, it is stated by the Secrétary that from the Nome district alone the output of gold this season is estimated at $7,000,000, just about the amount that Seward paid for the whole vast region. The productiveness of Alaskan gold fields is, how- ever, by no means so interesting a story just now as that portion of the report relating to the possibilities among those who favor the policy on general prin- ciples. That of course might have been foreseen. The discussion up to this time has been almost wholly academic, and every one interested in it has felt at liberty to devise his own scheme for carrying out the project. Now that the time for action is at hand it is necessarily difficult to harmonize conflicting views. Among practical statesmen, however, that difficulty will not be insuperable. In fact, it ought to be possible for the irrigationists of Congress to get together on some bill at this session and press it to a vote so that the people may understand who are for it and who are against it. If any precedent were needed to demonstrate anew the value of irrigation carried out on a large scale it would be found in what has been accomplished by the British in Egypt. In a recent report on the sub- ject Lord Cromer states that since 1885 the govern- ment of Egypt has expended over $35,000,000 on pub- lic works connected with the Nile. That is an enor- mous outlay for a country so poor as Egypt, but the results prove it to have been one of the most suc- cessful achievements of British rule. It has had the effect of doubling the cotton crop and adding up- ward of $25,000,000 annually to the income of the people. Basing conclusions upon the results thus obtained by improved irrigation facilities in Lower Egypt, the British are sanguine that an even larger proportional benefit will be derived from comprehensive irrigation along the Upper Nile. It is proposed to dam one of the Jakes which form the sources of the Nile and so create a huge reservoir to draw upon at need. Sir William Garstin, who has charge of the en- gineering problems involved in the scheme, states in a recent report that a series of dams aud canals can be so constructed that the completed work will not only provide irrigation for millions of arid acres, but will also drain extensive swamps, and, finally, im- prove the navigation of the Upper Nile as well. The accomplishment of three such important benefits by a single scheme of improvement will certainly rank among the best things the white man has yet per- formed in the task of improving the condition of in- ferior races. What Great Britain is doing for the poor people of Egypt the United States can certainly undertake to do for the benefit of its own people. Modern engineering is quite equal to any task the policy will impose upon it. We cannot afford to let Egypt beat us in the work of turning the desert into a garden. s i The Immigration Restriction League is busily en- gaged in the task of educating Congress up to the point of adopting a thorough educational standard as a requisite for admission of immigrants, and as pub- lic opinion favors the idea it is quite possible we may have such a standard provided at this session of Con- gress. Rt S ] It is now fairly certain that none of Kasson’s re- ciprocity treaties will be ratified by the Senate, but the Commissioner can find consolation in the fact that he held a high position, did a good deal of din- ing with the august diplomats of Europe and will get a good salary for havirg had a high time. —_— The automobile that won the endurance race from New York to Buffalo last September has been re- cently used to open up a snow-filled road, and the farmers along the way have now a respect for the machine that is said to be something immense. b 1t is now reported that Bryan is willing to become a candidate for the Governorship of Nebraska, and should he fail to get the nomination he is willing to run for Congress. In fact, he seems willing to do anything that will give him a chance to talk. When Lord Kitchener sent Miss Hobhouse back to England he doubtless thought he had got rid of her, but he was mistaken. She is going to sue him for damages, and he will have to follow Boer tactics and keep out of the way. —_— It is said to be much easier to select an appropriate present for a woman than for a man, and perhaps that is the reason why the course of Christmas giving runs mainly in the direction of the ladies. —_— With every wise woman the motto of the season is, “Shop early and avoid the rush.” hands. erence in the visitor, and even a certain low beings the world over. PERSONAL MENTION. Harry McEdwards of Nome is at the Palace. H. B. Hall, a mining man of Mexico, is at the Lick. W. E. Mills, a mining man of Quincy, is at the Lick. B. J. Storey, a at the Russ. D. C. Clark, a resident of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. . C. Tinkham, a lumber dealer of Red Bluff, is at the Grand. Dr. A. M. Ritchie, a physiclan of Pa- cific Grove, is at the Grand. T. B. Kay, proprietor of the woolen mills at Salem, Or., is at the Russ. Henry E. West, a rancher of Biggs, is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. E. S. Valentine, a real estate dealer and insurance man of Fresno, is at the Lick, Major Frank J. McLaughlin arrived from the East yesterday and is at the Palace. Charles B. Harris, United States Con- sul at Nagasaki, arrived from the Orient yesterday and is at the Occidental. ———————— Postage on Christmas Edition. The great Christmas edition of The Cail, issued December 15, 1901, con- tains 70 pages and will weigh 17 onnces. The rates of postage on this edition will be as follows: Domestic.....5..........5 cents Foreign. 9 cents —_————————— merchant of Bonanza, is Imitates Sumatra Spots. Even if Connecticut has lost the art of making wooden nutmegs, it still possesses similar ingenuity in other directions. In the efforts of the tobacco growers of that State to drive the Sumatra wrapper leaf from the market they have evolved a means of artificlally producing the lizht brown spots that are found in the Sumat- ra leaf, and which is one of the char- acteristics that give it popularity with smokers. * For many years experimenters were try- ing to produce these spots in the domestic leaf, but any preparation that was strong enough to spot the leaf was strong enough to burn a hole through it, anf"spoil it. Now a spotting fluid has been discovered, and plants still standing are sprayed with it. The man who does the spraying takes a bottleful of the yellow caustic potash mixture, inserts in the neck a metal plug with the spraying attachment, and starts down the tobacco row, giving each plant a dose as he passes. And thu; Connacttl- acco with Sumatra tobacco spots lcsu : tx-oe‘l:nan'ecl for the market and the smoker. —_————— “Why don’'t you put on your hat, my boy?”’ remarked the summer boarder. “Don’t you know you're likely to be sun- struck?” “Yes, I know, but if I go hame with wet hair an' dad ketches me there'll be a son struck, anyhow.”—Philadelphia Press. f— ONE DOLLAR FOR 5 CENTS WHAT is it? The best story that Bret Harte ever wrote! The name? “The Convalescence Jack Hamlin.” Where can you get it? In the great Christmas edition of The Call—out next Sunday. Will the price be extra? No, only the same 5 cents, but there will be enough cxtra features to make this edition well worth a dollar. ——e v 7 ' L of The model is very crudely made, but it inspires rev- auses to think of what the telegraph has done for the ad- ‘pla:cement of the world, and what a slow universe this wouid be if we did not have telegraphic communication with our fel- In another Cabinet, inspiring the same sort of reverence, and bringing thoughts of the days when every bit of sewing in the sort of awe, when he cordingly granted. Howe's first sewing machine is almost as crude as Morse’s telegraph sounder, but in both cases the model operated exact- ly as described in the specifications, and the patents were ac- Not a whit less nteresting is the model of the first type- writer, the invention of R. T. P. Allen, a Kentuckian. It is still more roughly made than the models of the telegraph and vention. sewing machine, but it proved to be quite as important an in- % 33 0 e ol ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A DAY IN JANUARY—O., Oakland, Cal. The 29th of January, 1878, fell on Tuesday. CITY HALL—V. C,, Sacramento. The cost of the City Hall, San Francisco, was BLOCKADE—S., City. The blockade of the north coast of Cuba between Cardenas and Bahia Honda and of the south coast, port of Cienfuegos, was ordered by Presi- dent McKinley April 22, 1898, PRIVATE SCHOOLS—A. O. C., City. In the classified portion of the city directory, in the back part of the book under the I dresses of private This department cannot advertise such. LATIN PROVERB—Subscriber, City. “‘Quod male fers assuesce; feres bene,” is Latin from Seneca, and means: “Accus- tom yourself to do that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well”; that Is, patience and resignation will lighten every difficulty. PLANETS—Constant Reader, City. The planets that are visible at this time are Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus in the west, Mars is visible at about 6 o’clock and Neptune is seen in the constellation of Taurus. No one living at this time will ever again see so many planets at one time, MINT PARS—Enq., City. Mint pars are between countries using the same stand- ard metal. When one country has a solid metallic standard and the other a weak metallic standard or a depreciated paper currency, the depreciation must be al- lowed for, to get at the real exchange on a specie basis between the two countries. HOW TO PRONOUNCE GRAU-W. B. of this city writing to this department gives the following as a way to pronounce the name Grau: As his own little frau Could not say the name Grau, ‘Thus spake her calamity howler: Take one letter from grout Or take two from ground Or three when you call me growler. STOCK COMPANY LIMITED—Ena., City. In a limited stock company the lia- bility of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he cannot be called upon to contribute be- yond the amount of his shares. In Great Britain a company formed for profit must. if the liability of its stockholders is limit- ed, have the word “limited” as the last word of its name. BREAKING OF THE ROPE—Sub- seriber, City. In several of the European countries, notably France, England, Italy, several ‘of the German states and Spain, there are laws that a man condemned to be hanged, should the rope break after he is launched from the scaffold, is free. The theory of such laws recognized the interposition of Divine Providence for the rescue . of an innocent man, and when the rope- broke the legal authorities as- sumed that the Almighty declared the in- nocence of the condemned. In the case of a lost note the owner may ficlent or he must bring himself within some of the excepted cases where indemnity is not required. Thus, if a note is not payable to bearer and has not been indorsed, or has been indorsed specially, or where it is clearly shown to have been destroyed, or when it has been traced to the maker's custody, a recovery may usually be had without tendering indemnity. C‘IZ'R.H;SI’DI%N'I"Bt S‘A‘I;AR! — Subscriber, V. the act of Congress of Septem- ber 24, 1798, and again on February 18, 1798, the salary of the President of the TUnited States was fixed at $25,000 and that of the Vice President at $000. That of the President continued the same until March 3, 1878, when it was raised to $50,000, at which time U. S. Grant was President. The salary of the Vice President was raised to $8000 in 1853, to $10,000 March 3, 1873, and January 20, 1874, it was again reduced to $8000. The constitution of the United States says: “The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a head of schools, you will find the ad-| schools in this ecity. | practically fixed under all circumstances | A LOST NOTE—Curious, Oakland, Cal. | recover onwtendering to the maker a suf- | indemnity in some form against | any future claim upon the lost instrument, | compensation which shall neither be in- lor W] C:fifl e Mo T hall hive pions the periad A CHANCE TO SMILE. Young Woman (in open street ear)—I don’t see why some men are bound to smoke every moment they are on a Car. Old Woman (loudly)—Oh, let "em smoke, poor fellows. I s'pose their wives won't let ’em smoke at home.—New York Weekly. “Your cook sits on your front piazza every evening.” “Well, we like the back porch just as well, and, of course, we never say any- thing' to hurt the cook’s feelings in the hot weather.”"—Chicago Record-Herald. Urban—Why, old man, those chickens of yours are regular gamecocks.' What makes them such fighters? Suburban—I'm sure I don’t know, un- less it comes from feeding them scraps.— Detroit Free Press. “Is Michael a card player?’ asked the little one, as the gardener turned away. “Not so far as I know,” replied her mother. “Why do you ask such a ques- tion?” “Because he's always saying, ‘Whist, now.’ "—Washington Star. “Fred’s bride has a very plain face, don’t you think?” “Yes, but she’s an odd girl fers to wear it that way.” Plain Dealer. “You should be thrifty and lay some- thing aside for a rainy day,” said the man who gives advice ad libitum. “Mister,” said the Kansas farmer, “you talk like a blame theorist. What we peo- ple need to do is to lay something aside against a drouth.”—Washington Globe. “No,” said the impecunious ome, “you can't believe all that you see in the news- papers.” ‘“Are you prepared to specify?" the other man asked. “I am. I saw a statement in the finan- cial columns that money was easy, but when I tried to negotiate a loan I found that the reverse was true.” “You misunderstood the paragraph, It didn’t say that people were easy."—Judge. hat’s good counsel the new preacher gave us,” said the deacon. “Which is?"” “Love yer neighbor while he slee; watch him wh Constitution. The Moon Is Receding. , b ile he wakes!"—. tlu‘ut Scientists say that the moon is receding farther and farther from the earth, and will continue to recede for countless ages until the terrestial day is shorter than the lunar month. Millions of years ago, when the earth was a molten mass, it revolved around its axis once every five or sit hours. The moon then was a part of the earth, but in time was broken off and be- came its satellite. As the motion of the earth @ecreased and the day became longer, the distance of the moon became greater. Our day i5 mow twenty-four hours long and tbe moon is 240,000 miles away. As the length of the terrestrial day Increased so did .he distance of the moon. The two quantit! are conmected by inexorable equations. one varies, so must the other. Whenever the rotatidn time of a planet is shorter than the period of revolution of its satel- lite the effect of their mutual action Is to accelerate the motion of the satellite and to force it to move in a larger orbit—to increase its ‘distance, therefore. ———— Choice candies. Townsend's. Palace Hotel.* e e . Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's, * ———————— Thousands of packages of Cal Glace Fruits now ready for shipping. Time now to send East. Townsend's, 639 Market street, Palace Hotel. . ——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —_—— Even the woman who is a_chro; . goin Bunter doesn’t select & husb::cd 5’.‘.,’., s reduced. - ——— “The Overland Limited,” via Union Paeific R. R., I3 the only train making connection in Chicago with the fast Express Trains leaving Chicago in the morring for New York. By this Route you can remain In San until 10 a. m., reaching Chicago six quicker than on any other Limited train runs Every Day in the Year. D :m;zwk. Gen. Agt., No. 1 Montgomery ‘