The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1901, Page 4

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Grand Opera-house—*‘Carmen.” Calfornia—*Devil's Auction.” Tivoli—*Little Red Riding Hood." Central—*‘The Silver King.” “harley’s Aunt: anice Meredith.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. HOLIDAY SEASON IN TRADE. OR the next fortnight trade will probably be dull throughout the country. This is the sea- son when the retailer has the field pretty much aler is taking stock. The F himself the who! latter will not report much activity until the middle of January, and perhaps not then, if the weather But as a rule the latter part al in general business. The present year, however, as previously mentioned, has 1al conditions, and we have had a ale trade almost up to close of the 3 'n now the jobbers are doing a good deal more than in former years at this season, and reorders for clothing and other winter more numerous than ever be- As for the retail holiday trade of the country rge it is extremely heavy, though the recent cold wave oughout the West has naturally restricted jisposed to travel miles across presents. and other luxuries with -the thermc down to 10 and 20 degrees Perhaps the cold weather had some- » do with the falling off in bank clearings last week, the gain over the corresponding week last year The failures 263, proves unpropitious. of January sees a revi 2 reversed the u phenomen: *are probably People are not to buy t country oliday elow being only 6.6 per cent. were The s - quiet, the exceptions being wool and woolen goods, boots and shoes, coal and other important recessaries of the season. The d steel trade keeps up its rapid pace, with all producing and manufacturing sections reporting general activity, firm prices, and orders running far into the coming year. Cars continue scarce, how- ever, 1 complaints on this account are as numer- ous = any time during the past two months. But in spite of this impediment to transportation the rail- roads are reporting an increase in earnings over the corresponding period in 1900. street is still more or less unsettled, the gyra- ns of Amalgamated Copper keeping speculators and estors on the ragged edge. Copper has been cut a good deal of late by sellers, and lead and tin | 1ave be mpathetically affected. Talk of money stringency, which does not seriously materialize, has so affected the ket though as a rule when quo- tations decline one day they recover the next. Pow- criul intcrests are behind the market, and they see to it that the general list of stocks is maintained at rly steady prices. “There are too many vast enter- prises under way at the moment to permit any seri- ous decline in Wall street if it can be avoided. The Ic market remains about the same. The business has been favored by excep- weather 2l d the shopkeepers are reap- ng a Christmas harvest. The wholesale trade, as far 2 ations go, is as brisk as at any time during the past six months Lines that were neglected in the early fall are now remarkably active, and some merchants are reporting the best December trade they ever had. The season continues to extend bril- liant prospects. the barks, both in city and country, are reporting plenty of loanable funds in their vaults, collections are good, and there are no failures suffi- ciently large to cause comment. Whatever may be the signs elsewhere, there are certainly none unfavor. able in our neighborhood. Prosperity still abides with us, and is expected to for an indefinite period to come. Even the chronic croaker has gone out of business and his hoarse voice has not been heard in the land for a long time. e T ——— According to the statistics of the New York Journal of Commerce the fire losses of the United States and Canada up to December 1 amounted to $150.874.050, =0 it is evident we have had a pretty hot year of it in some localitie {er since the Guildhall speech made by the new Pfince of/Wales the British papers have been speak- ing of his abilities as a statesman, and not one of them has been so disloyal as to suggest that some one clse wrote the speech. How would it do for the House to challenge the Senate to a football match and rush that Philippine bill through the Senatorial center before the middle of January? | | | | | | | [ to the country. ARMY AND NAVY DISSENSIONS. OLLOWING closely upon the censure pro- F nounced upon Rear Admiral Evans by the Secretary of the Navy comes the censure upon Lieutenant General Miles by the Secretary of War. Extending over the whole period from the first act of censure to the second ran the controversy over the conduct of Rear Admiral Schley during the San- tiago campaign. Thus there has been disclosed to the country and to the world a condition.of affairs in the highest ranks of the army and the navy which is discreditable to a service whose honor ought to be above reproach. The very existence of such dissension is itself an evil so great that it matters little upon which side most of the blame rests. It is inevitable that the pub- lic will take sides in these controversies. We may be sure that while some persons will approve the ac- tion of the Secretary of War in censuring General Miles there will be others who will approve the ut- terances of the lieutenant general and regard the cen- sure pronounced upon him as a wrong done to. his honor. These partisan differences of opinion will tend to subject the army and the War Department to a popular criticism which will not always be fair, and which will certainly tend to weaken the esteem in which both have been hitherto held throughout the country. For a long time past there have been frequent re- ports of dissensions in army and in navy circles at Washington, but while these reports have been in- directly confirmed by circumstantial evidence they have hitherto been denied or evaded by the higher officials of the Government. There has been a care- ful and considerate effort to keep them hidden from the public and to prevent them from blazing into open scandals. That cloak of decorum has been withdrawn by the Secretary of War. In pronouncing censure upon General Miles the Secretary throws aside all pretense of an existence of harmony and says frankly: “The present facts are that for sev- eral years there has been unfortunate and bitter con- troversy in the Navy Department—a controversy generally deplored even by the participants as tend- ing to bring the service into disesteem at home and abroad and to destroy those relations of mutual con- fidence and friendship among naval officers which the interests of effective service require.” That statement from the Secretary of War em- bodied in an official censure upon the lieutenant gen- eral of the army is the most significant that has been made in any document bearing upon the Schley controversy. It is an express declaration from the highest source that the Navy Department is torn by dissensions which so far affect the minds of officers of the highest rank as to prevent them from cor- dially co-operating to render the service effective In the light of that statement many facts brought out in the Schley court of inquiry take on a new meaning. It will be useless for high offi- cials at Washington to any longer make denials of the existence of jealousies and antagonisms which, | however petty in themselves, have proven sufficiently serious in their results to justify the Secretary of War in saying they “destroy those relations of mu- tual confidence” which are necessary to effective ser- vice. Such being the condition of affairs, it becomes a duty of the administration to take steps to remove the mischief-makers from the positions they now hold. That such jealousies did not bring disaster and | something of disgrace upon the country during the | | longer resistance is but a useless waste of life. late war was due solely to the weakness of our foe, ‘What would happen should we be involved in a haz- | ardous struggle with some first-class power, with one set of officers trying to prevent another from achiev- ing success? The story is an ugly one. The country is ashamed of it. Such dissensions disgrace the service in peace and endanger the republic in war. Something more than censure is needed. The men who cause them should be dismissed from the service. — Among the fetes proposed for the coronation of King Edward is one providing for a grand proces- sion of floats from the Tower to Westminster, like that which was held when Elizabeth was crowned, and if carried out it is believed it will be made the most splendid feature of the celebration and one of the finest spectacles in history. KITCHENER'S SIDE OF IT, O much in the way of criticism has been pro- S nounced in this country and in Great Britain itself upon the tactics of Lord Kitchener in South Africa that it is interesting to note a review of the situation as presented from the stand- point of Kitchener himself. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Pretoria, presents us with such a view. It shows the encouraging side of the British campaign and presents what will probably be the argument of the Ministry when called upon at the meeting of Parliament to give an account of the wa sed command after the retirement of Lord Roberts Kitchener found all the towns of the country safely garrisoned by British troops, but the country itself was overrun by the Boers, who oper- ated in large commandos and were active and dan- gerous throughout the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. Kitchener’s first move was to capture or break up the more formidable of the commandos. For that purpose large sweeping movements were if- stituted and a vigorous pursuit of the swift-moving Boers was begun. Those operations, it is said, have been entirely successful. The Boers have been scat- tered into small bands and are far less dangerous than they were. That phase of the campaign, therefore, is declared to have ended in the success of the British When he as ¢ system of tactics was begun where there were no longer any large commands of the Boers to fear. For the purpose of dealing with-the scattered bands the large movements of the British were aban- doned, and in place of them was substituted the pres- ent tactics of establishing blockhouses at points of vantage all over the country. Here, too, it is claimed success has been -attained. The correspondent says: “Whereas the enemy during November, 1900, inter- | rupted the railway line thirty-two times, there has not been in the last month a single break. At the present time over 1600 miles of railway are thoroughly guarded by blockhouses, and it is believed there is little danger of any serious disturbance of the line hereafter.” It is further claimed that the effect of the system has been to convince large numbers of. Boers that correspondent says: “Civil administration is already firmly established. Among the surrendered and cap- tured burghers a strong pro-British party has been formed, which, recognizing the hopelessness of the Boer cause, is determined to do its utmost under the new government to further the prosperity of the country. * * * What now remains to be done is The- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23 1901. simply to wear down the Boers still in the field by constantly harassing them.” It is a significant fact that even this sanguine presentation of the British side of the case does not venture to predict an early closing of the war. It seems to be the opinion at Kitchener’s headquarters that all the Boers who will voluntarily surrender have already come in, and that nothing more in the way of gain to the British is to be expected from any further weakening of the Boer forces in that way. The patriots who are now in the field are described as “desperate men, who will fight hard before they are captured.” The correspondent says: “In the opinion of those best able to judge, the end of the war is dis-- tinctly visible, but it is useless to expect it to be fin- ished by any sudden coup.” That statement we may accept as the most encourag- ing view of the war the British Ministry can present to Parliament when it meets. That it will not be ac- cepted as accurate by the opponents of the Ministry goes without saying. The reports from South Africa show an activity on the part of the Boers and a will- ingness to take the aggressive and make attacks upon British outposts which argue anything rather than weakness on their side. It is evident they still hope for victory and independence, and are not fighting like desperate men who have no other ambition than that of continuing to fight for the sake of revenge. B S — THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS O far as immediate results are concerned the S Pan-American Congress may Dbe accounted a futile meeting. It has given its sanction to schemes for a Pan-American bank and a Pan- American railway, neither of which is likely to en- gage the attention of capitalists for many a year to come. It has indorsed several other plans and pro- posals which, like the railway and the bank, will be of little practical value just now. Upon the great and dominant ‘issue of the time, that of providing for a system of international arbitration that would put a stop to the wars that disturb the southern conti- nent and Central America, it has not been able to accomplish anything. The failure in that effort means virtually the failure of the session as a whole. By one of those coincidences which unfortunately are not infrequent in human history, the effort to establish peace among the nations of South and Central America has fallen upon a time when their disagreements are extensive and acute. The situa- tion between Colombia and Venezuela became ¢riti- cal about as soon as the congress was called, and has become more and more threatening ever since. Lately the controversies between Chile and Argen- tina have reached such a degree of bitterness among the two peoples that war appears almost inevitable. | In Argentina the people have begun assembling in mass meetings, denouncing further negotiations and clamoring for war. The rivalries of the larger States have stirred the smaller ones. War between Colombia and Venezu- cla would almost certainly involve Ecuador, and a fight between Argentina and "Chile would set the Peruvians marching to regain the territories which they claim Chile unjustly, withholds from them. Something like a general conflagration of war is therefore imminent throughout Latin America, and under such conditions the delegates to the congress {at the City of Mexico have found themselves unable to do anything of immediate value to the cause of peace or the promotion of industry and trade. Fortunately the value of earnest effort in right di- rections- is not to be measured wholly by imme- diate results. Something has been gained for the welfare of Latin America by the mere fact of bring- ing their delegates together in a common congress to discuss measures for mutual good. This congress is the result of that called by James G. Blaine to meet in 1889, and from it there will be sure to come another congress. By degrees the people of the rival states may learn to look to these congresses with a confidence which will give them strength to act firmly. It may be many years before there is formed in South America a public opinion sufficiently wide- spread and resolute to sustain a joint congress - in any pronounced programme for the pacification of the continent, but in the end that much to be desired sentiment may be formed. The people of the United States are nur indifferent to the Pan-American situation. We are aware of the immense benefits which would accrue to the people of South America as well as to ourselves by the es- tablishment of peace and the promotion of American trade. The influence of our Government will there- fore be steadfastly directed toward helping the peace party. The completion of the interocean canal will give us a more immediate and direct interest in their affairs, and consequently augment the value of our efforts for peace and prosperity, We may look upon this congress, then, as but one in a series that is to be prolonged far into the future. It will not be wholly fruitless. Bad as is the outlook now, its results may be found good when their value is measured by the influence they exert in shaping public opinion and molding it in the direction of general peace and in- dustry. 3 Since our Government has announced that Germany may forcibly collect her claims upon Venezuela by seizing custom-houses and collecting duties but shall not under any circumstances despoil Venezuela of a portion of her territory, it might be supposed the Venezuelans would look upon us as friends, but it seems they do not. Reports from Caracas are to the effect that since the announcement was made the semi-official papers of Venezuela have quit attacking Germany and are attacking us for “assuming sov- ereignty over Venezuelan territory.” Such is grati- tude. y Some anxiety is being felt over an alleged plot of anarchists to blow up Auburn prison in revenge for the execution of the slayer of President McKinley. It is very evident, if the reports be true, that a few more human rats of the assassin stripe want to die. —_— Ii Miss Stone had been really earnest and cute in captivity she might by this time have got those Bul- garian bandits so thoroughly converted they would give her a big reduction on her ransom as a Christ- mas gift. ' _ The Sampson papers are- insisting that in his minority report Dewey exceeded the instructions given the court of inquiry, but all the same he did no more than come up.to the expectations of the country. French diplomats are of the opinion that the Boer war has upset the finances of Europe. It would be interesting, if not edifying, to know what else Eng- land thinks the South African struggle has done to ner. e Bebel, the leader of the socialists in the German Reichstag, wants to send the proposed German tariff bill to Hades.. Perhaps he thinks that its authors might go after it and relieve an awkward situation. THIS FISH, IT IS SAID, GROWLS AND SNARLS 4 | | OUTLIVE THEIR USEFULNESS Three old monitors—Catskill, Mahopac and Manhattan—are to be soid. They were built in 1863-64 and have long putlived their usefulness, as their general construction, engines, guns and armor are &bsolete. The Catskill and Manhattan parficipated in several bombardments and engagements, and carry the scars from Confederate Brook and Armstrong projegtiles, in which, however, the Montauk, another monitor, has the distinction of having been hit forty-six times. The Catskill had its captain, G. W. Rodgers, and assistant paymaster, Woodbury, killed in the sec- ond attack on Fort Fisher, August 17, 186. The Mahopac was completed too late to render any service. Since the close : of the Civil War all the monitors have been almost constantly tied up at the na- vy yards, a source of expense in the mat- ter of repairs and care-taking, but no se- rious attempt was made to preserve their usefulness until the recent war with Spain. New boilers were put in the Ma- hopac and Manhattan, the cost of which, with overhauling of the old trip-hammer engines, aggregated over $210000. It wa a sheer waste of money, as the speed of these vessels does not exceed six knots, ¥ 5 —% | and their guns and armor are forty years > ti) . They will now be sold FRENCH NATURALISTS ARE ENGAGED IN STUDYING A FISH FOUND | | ?g:“(’;:’ g:;u[emo(;sths o By 5o IN THE QUEENSLAND RIVERS THAT RESEMBLES THE SALMON, | | (50, B0 " 0 00 which the Navy De- BREATHES DOUBLY AND MAKES A SNARLING NOISE. partment may realize one-tenth of the t 4 | money expended since 1898 unless the boil- £ 9 been atodus” this question h Its fl the Burnett or Dawson salmon. es salmon, and hence it is regarded s Paris museum is less than three feet. as much as is usual in the case of fish. noise like snarling at mnight. Paris museum, and I can purpose of breathing. 1 hav stify that i hours on many a night.” itself readily to confinement. first fish that appeared on our globe. | PERSONAL MENTION. F. S. Gregory of Yreka is at the Dr. | Lick. | * & B. shater, M. D., of Salinas, is at the | Russ. W. E. Gerber, a banker of Sacramento, is at the Palace. C. L. Neumiller, a merchant of Stock- ton, is at the Lick. Dr. F. J. Shaw of Seattle, | guest at the Grand. | Dr. D. P. Cameron of Mountain is registered at the Palace. J. W. Drysdale, a mining man of Ma- | dera, is located at the Lick. W. J. Kennedy, a New York business man, is staying at the Palace. Barry D. Hilliard, a well-known club- | man of Boston, is at the Palace. | James Whitaker, a merchant of Galt, {is a recent arrival at the Occidental. H. M. Hoyt, a Spokane attorney, is at | the Palace accompanied by his family. Willlam Pridham, manager for Wells, Fargo & Co. at Los Angeles, is at the | Patace. 8. C. Lowe, resident manager of the Pasadena Gas Works, is registered at the | California. | Dr. C. A. Clinton has fully recovered | from an illness which confined him to his | home for two weeks. | R. H. Beamer, member of the State | Board of Equalization, is registered at the | Lick from Woodland. | H. de C. Richards and G. F. Down | mining men of Sutter Creek, are regi | tered at the Occidental. | Wash., is a View Mr. and Mrs. Selby Oppenheimer re- turned yesterday from their honeymoon trip and took apartments at the Califor- nia. James A. Yerrington, a Carson capital- ist, is at the Palace, having recently re- | turned from Buffalo, where he had charge | of the Nevada exhibit at the Pan-Ameri- | can Exposition. Appreciates The Call’s Aid. | | | 1 Editor The Call: T have been requested by the executive board at its meeting this afternoon to thank you officially for your forget the able and long continued as- sistance of The Call in behalf of the league. If we succeed—and who can doubt it when we take into consideration the patriotism and generosity of Californians —1 shall insist that due credit be given to The Call for its magnificent efforts in behalf of justice to our honored dead. Re- spectfully, W. W. STONE, President Lincoln Monument League. San Francisco, December 21. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. 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Townsend's. * —_— ——e———— Townsend's famous broken and plain mixed candy, 2 Ibs 25c. 639 Market street.* L e e Time to express Townsend’s California glace fruits to your Eastern friends. * ——— Thousands of fire-etched boxes to select from at Townsend’'s, 627 Market, Palace.* —_————— Useful Xmas presents—finest eyeglasses, A French naturalist who has studied the ceratodus says: Queensland declare that this fish frequently raises itself out of the water for the purpose of obtaining a fresh supply of oxygen, and that it also often makes a Now, I have carefully watched the specimen in the not, however, sound resembling growling or snarling, though I have stood near it for several CIENTISTS are now studying with much interest a very remarkable fish in the Museum of Natural History in Paris. dus,” or “baramunda,” and it is mainly remarkable because until a short time ago it was suwusvd to be extinet. It is provided with a double means of respiration: breathes through the lungs like most of the bactrachians, and it can also breathe by means of branchiae, after the manner of an ordinary fish. naturalists were doubtful whether animals provided with double sets of respira- tory organs ought to be classed among fish, but since the discovery of the *‘cer- et at rest, for now it is considered absolutely certain that animals of this type are genuine fish. i This singular fish is found in Burnett, Dawson and Mary rivers, in Queens- land, being known to the natives there as baramunda and to the colonists as It is known as the “cerato- in other words, it For a long time indeed, looks and tastes like that of a great delicacy. In size it sometimes attains to six feet in length, though the specimen in the Its head is slightly depressed, and in com- parison with its body is rather small; its lower jaw is not prominent; its eyes ! are small, and its body is covered with thick and large scales. of a brilliant orange color and its body does not taper off toward wue tail quite The stomach is “The natives of does raise itself out of the water for the at any time heard it make any The ceratodus lives mainly on fresh water shellfish, and apparently adapts The museum authorities in Paris are very proud of their specimen, not only because the ceratodus has so long been regarded as extinet but also because in the opinion of competent scientists it is one of the @ il e @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. MARRIED IN SECRET—A Subseriber, Portland, Or. other. A woman who married in secret could undoubtedly inherit property left her by her father, but the fact that she was married would have to be mada Ign‘own When the matter came up for pro- ate. CHOSEN FRIENDS—Subscriber, Wea- verville, Cal. There is no such organiza- tion at this time as the Order of Chosen Friends, it having gone into the hands of a receiver on the 13th of December, 1900. Since then a number of the councils of that once organization have continued business under the name of the Home Friends, CASINO—E., City. In the game of ca- sino should a player build up a ecard to a certain denomination and his opponent decline to build 1t up higher, he, the first player, may not alter his build, but must take it with a card of the same denomin- ation. If A holds big casino, nine, five, and ace, and there is a four on the table he may bulld a nine by placing his five upon the same. If B does not build it higher, A cannot take his ace and make it ten, but he must take it with his nine. RENTING A HOUSE—Rex., Callahans, | Siskiyou County, Cal. In renting a house in a city where there is a supply of water for the inhabitants the matter of the pay- ment of water rates is a question of ar- rangement between the landlord and the prospective tenant. In some cases the rent is so much, water included, and in others the rent is so much, the tenant to | pay for the water. If a party buys a lot he would have a right' to dig a well on his premises, also to build a cistern. CONGRESS—W. H. S., Alameda, Cal., and W. N. T., Crockett, Cal. The reason ent Congress is called the s that it is the fifty-seventh e the first opened, March 4. 1789. Each Congress is for two years and commences in the odd years. There may be a number of sessions of a Congress, if specially called and such sessions are designated by their number in the term as for Instance Fifty-fifth Congress, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, and so on, but there must the number of the Congress and add the product to 1789; the result will be the year in avhich the Congress closed. To find the number of a Congress sitting in any given year subtract 1789 from the year; if the result is an even number half that number will give the Congress of which the year in question will be the closing vear; if the result is an odd number add one to it and half of the result will give the Congress of which the year in ques- ways have been devised f6F the cure of stammering, such as drawgng, singing, interpolation or elisions of [Ztters, speak- ing with the teeth closed or with the tongue pressed to the roof of the mouth, sniffling, whistling between words, beat- ing time to utterance, stamping the foot, jerking the body, forks on the tongue, pebbles in the mouth or tubes fixed be- tween the organs, bands compressing the larynx and other devices, but they have not proved satisfactory. The cure is not within the province of surgery. The hab- it of stammering can be counteracted only by cultivation of its epposite habit of cor- rect speaking, and this can be acquired only by due regard to the process of speech, the relation of breath to articu- 3 Persons who secretly mar- | Ty have to let the secret out some time or ers are taken out and utilized in other vessels or shops in navy yards. . PRI Improyements have been made in the French 'submarine boat Espadon, of the Narval type, by which she can be im- mersed and raised with dispatch. Recent trials have taken place at which the boa reached a depth of twenty-six feet in less than eight minutes and came to the sur- face in eight seconds. P The Lansquenet, a seagoing torpedo boat in the French navy, is to be sold for the price of old metal, after a brief exist- ence of eight years. She was bullt in 1893, 1s of 138 tons displacement and at- tained a speed of 26 knots with 2800 horse- power. The boat has been laid up for a long time owing to inherent defects in machinery, and there are a number of others in the same fix. v 8 One hundred and thirteen torpedo-boat destroyers have been built and completed for the British navy since 1382. They wer; built by fourteen firms, of which Lai Brothers constructed 13, Thornycroft and Palmer each 16, Thomson 12, Hawthorn and Fairfleld 9 each, Barrow 8, Doxford 6, Yarrow 5, Earle 4, Elswick and White 2 each, Hanna 2 and Thames Tron Works L Two of the above boats built by Elswick, namely, the Viper and Cobra, have been | lost. The most successful builders appear | to have been Laird, Thornycroft, Yarrow | and Palmer, which have built a number | of destroyers for foreign navies with uni- ifnrml)' good results. The Bachante, a 12,000-ton armored | cruiser, built at Glasgow for the British s at this time making her steam which consist of the following se- Eight hours’ preliminary trial; [ i | | | i | | ries: thirty hours’ coal consumption trial under one-fifth power: thirty hours’ coal con- sumption under four-fifths power, and | closing with eight hours under full power. | The guaranteed speed is twenty-one knots | with 21,000 horsepower for eight hours. The keel of the Bachante was laid Febru- ary 15, 1899, and she is intended to be com- pleted next spring, making the period of construction about three years. Torpedo boat No. 108, built by Thorny- croft for the British navy, had her steam trials November 23 and averaged 25.46 knots during three hours with 2783 horse- | power. The boat is of 180 tons displace- ment, contract speed 25 knots, and will cost complete with armament $112,000. Somewhat similar boats in the United States navy are the Rowan of 152 tons and 21.074 knots speed, built at Seattle two years ago at a completed cost of $196, - 503, and the Nicholson and O'Brien of 174 tons and 26 knots. The two latter were built by Lewis Nixon at Elizabethport, | 3., at a contract price of $165,000 each, and | were recently accepted by the Navy De- | partment. B et The recent discovery of frauds at Se- bastopol were made in a curious way. contractor had agreed to furnish coal to the Black Sea fleet at $7 25 per ton, and in the hope that the price would fall he al- lowed several months to pass without de- livering any part of his contract. Prices continued to rise and he applied to Rear Admiral Theodosieff of the station for cancellation of contract and return of hig deposit, which = were refused. Finding himself in a tight place, he determined to betray the officials who with him had de- frauded the Government in previous con- tracts. In a letter to Theodosieff he ex- plained prior methods and named, among others, Staff Captain Gaviloff and the secretary of the Naval Supplies Depart- ment at Batoun, whom he had bribed. He then fled the country. The accused offi- | cers were tried, convicted and sentenced to banishment, imprisonment and forfeit- ure of all property and personal and eivil rights. ndly editorial of to-day. The article | be a session each year. No trouble need | 2 e breathes in every line the Christian spirit [ be feared by any who desires to know the | The first contract for war vessels given | shown by The Call in its discussion of | vears covered by a given Congress if the | to private builders in Japan was signed | public affairs. Personally I shall never | following simple rule is.observed: Double l!ast month, when the Kawasaki Company at Kobe agreed to build two first-class | torpedo-boats for the Japanese navy. The price is about $200,000, equal to that paid for similar boats in England and Ger- many, but with this advantage—that the money Is circulated where it is raised home industry is developed and a costl and hazardous voyage of 14,000 miles is made unnecessary for delivery of the ves- sels. . | For the first time ke s o TSR tion will be the first year. B et L Tt mifl(fl'tetnava(!l hismr[s; dies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* g < 1 u o L untry turned out a Choice can STAMMERING—B. City. Numerous | the machinery necessary for a war vessel of Ttalian material and manufacture. The | credit for this achievement is due to A saldo, Genoa, where the Turkish armor: ship Messoudich has been rejuvenated, r cc‘lvltug new machinery, boilers and arma- men 1 ~ late sounds, the positions of the tongue and other oral organs in molding the out- | ward stream of air, and by patient ap- plication of these principles in slow and . watchful exercises. The lungs constitute Glfts. a pair of bellows, and the mouth, in all its varying shapes, the nozzle of the bellows, | _— The passage of the throat must be kept | open-and the breath expelled by means o¢ FINE FUR ascent of the diaphragm. not by down- ward pressure of the throat. All sounds originate in the throat, and all efforts speech must be thrown back behind the articulating organs, which must bs kept passive, vielding to the air, always open. ing to give it exit and never resisting 1t | by ascent of the tongue or of the jaw, The head must be held firmly on the neck | to give frec play to the attached organs, The great principle must never be lost sight of that speech is breath, and that | while distinctness depends on precision and sharpness of the oral actions, fluency 1 depends on the unrestrained ergasion of the material of speech—the air = breathe. 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