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California—*"Devil's Auctiop.” Tivoli—“Little Red Riding Hood.” Central—*The Sfiver King.” Alcazar—*Charley’s Aunt.” Columbia—*“Janice Meredith.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—"Carmen.” - Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. TP VENEZUELAN VIEWS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT follows the pol- P icy of Mr. Cleveland as to the Monroe doc- trine. When Nicaragua in an outbreak of of- ficial barbarism had triced up a British Consul and flogged him on the bare back, England sent a war- ship to Corinto and collected for her representative $1000 for each blow inflicted upon him. If in ad- dition to this she had sent a force inland and burned Managua as a lesson in government, she would have been amply justified. As we have said before, there were found at that time Americans who so little understood what the Monroe doctrine means as to censure our own Gov- ernment for not declaring war against Great Britain for teaching Nicaragua this needed lesson in civili- zation. So there are some of our countrymen who censure President Roosevelt for not protecting Vene- zuela in her theft of the property of German sub- jects. The petty tyrant whko holds the Presidency of Venezuela has been giving Mis version of the Mon-, roe doctrine, and it is intolerable and revolting to any sense of justice. In his opinion it means that the United States is to protect Latin America in com- mitting any outrage, official murder, public theft and spoliation of which Europeans are the victims. If this were the meaning of our primacy of the hemi- sphere we would be in arms to defend a nest of nations each one of which would resemble the Bul- garian brigands who kidnap women and hold them for ransom. It is no exaggeration to say that if President Castro’s view is correct, in a short time the semi-barbarous nations south of us would be captur- ing the Ministers of European countries and demand- ing ransoms of their Governments, sending in an ear or a finger of the prisoner as a means of urging haste. él\rel}‘ there is but littie difference between this and flogging a foreign Consul on the bare back. Let Venezuela and all who put her construction on the Monroe doctrine be warned that we approve of thrashing them into civilization whenever they act like savages. Not only do we approve of Germany sending a fleet to collect $2,000,000 stolen from her subjects by Castro’s Government, but we would take satisfaction in seeing a German land force march to Caracas 2nd burn the capital over Castro’s head. Such punishment would be beneficial to his Govern- ment. In these German cases the victims appealed to the courts of Venezuela, but every judge who decided in their favor was immediately deprived of his office by Castro, put in prison and another was appointed in his place, with orders to find against the foreigners. Americans were treated in the same way, and should be righted by the same means that Germany is using. The United States will permit no conquest of Vene- zuelan territory, but we permit and invite any nation vhose people have been robbed by that Government to go there and thrash it into a decent respect for the rights and the property of others. B — The New York python whose feat of swallowing a crocodile was telegraphed all over the country a short time ago has now distinguished himself again by swallowing a horned lizard. It seems likely he is working for a reputation that will get him a place as a freak in a sideshow where he can have a chance to swallow a bearded woman. According to Justice Jerome there are upward of 130,000 persons engaged in the retail liquor business in New York, but of course that includes only the sellers. There is no calculating the number who engage in it on the other side of the bar, but evi- dently there are enough to keep the liquor moving. After all their condemnations of Russia for op- pressing Finland, of Great Britain for oppressing- South Africa and the United States for taking the Philippines, the Germans are now having troubles of their own, for the Poles under the dominion of the Kaiser are asking lvky they should be oppressed. Kaiser Wilhelm's suggestion that German work- men should do more work and drink less beer may 20t be popular, but if it were adopted it would do more than his new tariff toward helping Germany 0 keep even with American competition. THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL TUESDAY, DE BER 24, 190 THE SCHLEY VERDICT. RELIMINARY comment has been made all P over the country, which represented the first impression produced by the verdict rendered against Schley by Admirals Benham and Ramsay. The first opinions expressed might have been criti- cized as the result of impulse rather than of judg- ment. But now the sober second thought of the country is being uttered and its condemnation of the verdict has the weight of mature reflection. This sober minded judgment so universally condemns the verdict as to frighten the men who procured and rendered it into a quaking silence. The American people will tolerate great big red- blooded mistakes. They will look kindly upon men who offend through a mighty and a manly passion. They will walk backward and cover with a mantle the naked errors of a great man fallen. “But they will not endure the meanness of small men in big places. The testimony was read and the verdict has been read. From beginning to end it is a record green with jealousy, red with petty revenge and sodden with the sordid ambitions of small self-seekers. “Mean- ness” is written over it as often 3s the words “one dollar” on the face of one of the old red dog shin- plaster bank notes. The American people will have none of it. The pupil of 2 flea’s eve is not small enough to hold their estimate of the men who wrote it as their decision. Nor are all the skies, on their blue concave above us, big enough to write the American approval of Dewey for his manly and generous judgment. We do not believe that the Navy Department can resist the consequences. It has adjudged and paid to Sampson and the captain of his ship tens of thou- sands of dollars for the ships taken at Santiago, though Sampson and Chadwick were below the hori- zon from the scene of that battle, and never saw its smoke nor heard its guns. And Schley has been paid as his share of the prize money the paltry sum of $3334 and his brave fleet captains even less! It is too rank. The people want to lift the lid off the department and see what makes the stench. They want to quicklime the carcass of official spite and petty meanness and put it out of mind, smell and sight. They are not building a navy to be manned by a foul combination of avarice and meanness, nor main- taining a naval school to graduate heroes like Schley to be humiliated by creatures like Benham and Ram- say and the envious officialdom of the department. The majority verdict is set aside by the people. The opinion of Dewey is their opinion, and they demand that the parasite Maclay, officially employed at $2 43 a day to write naval history, He dismissed, his book ordered out of Annapolis, and that the department officials who indorsed it be punished by expulsion from their offices. Let none of them imagine that this is a passing breeze. It is a gale of popular de- mand and will blow until it besoms the combination of mean spirited conspirators off the official roll and into private life, where they can be exposed to the well seasoned and permanent contempt of the country. A weaithy colored planter in Georgia invited a number of prominent white people to dine with him. They accepted the invitation, and while the host did not sit at the table with his guests, but acted as di- rector of the waiters, there has been none the less a whole lot of talk in Georgia about the incident, and the conservatives are wondering how long it will be before colored hosts will feel at liberty to sit down with their guests. THE REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. ENATE BILL 1025, which was introduced in S the Senate on December 5 by Senator Frye of Maine, is a measure which not only com- mends itself to the general public as being eminently ust and proper, but it is of particular interest to the commercial community of the Pacific Coast. The object of the bill is to promote the efficiency of the revenue cutter service by extending to its commis- sioned officers the bencfits of the laws relating to the retirement of officers of the army and navy who have { become incapacitated for active duty on account: of age or physical disability incurred in line of duty. The plea that the revenue cutter service is strictly civil in character is an idle and specious one. It is quite true that in time of peace the service is under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and i that while so placed it exercises certain civil func- tions; but the exercise of those functions under a civil department of the Government no more makes the officers of the cutter service civilians than does the employment of army officers to arrest criminals and fugitives from justice make of thein policemen or deputy marshals. In the performance of its duties under the Treas- ury Department the cutter service is called upon to enforce every law for the protection of the Govern- ment in maritime affairs, to assist vessels in distress, and to afford every protection possible to legitimate commerce. Its officers are required to undergo a rigid system of instruction not only on subjects re- lating to navigation and seamanship, but are com- pelied to pass examinations on gunnery, the hand- ling of men under arms, surveying and all other sub- jects of a military nature which form a part of a naval officer’s education. In addition thereto they are re- quired to have a thorough knowledge of constitu- tional, international and revenue law. Upon the completion of their ~ourse of study they are required to pass very rigid examination in all these branches and are then commissioned by the Presi- ! dent in exactly the same way as are officers of the army and navy. In time of war the cutter service at once drops its civil character and is transferred by existing law as a body to the naval establishment, where it becomes subject to the rules and regulations governing the navy and is compelled to perform the same duties as are required of naval officers and men. Since, then, these officers are compelled to perform duties which necessitate exposure to the same risk of life in the defense of their country as naval officers, it is hard to conceive by what system of logic they can be de- nied equal privileges of retirement and promotion, The cutter service has participated in every war in which the United States has ever been engaged, and its record of service for over a hundred years is one of which its officers may be justly proud and are nat- urally anxious to maintain. . At the present time, however, the service is laboring under the lack of proper legislation. The higher grades are clogged and promotion almost at a standstill by the presence on the active list of a score or more of superannuated officers whose lives have been spent in the service and who are now too old or feeble to do duty. The junior officers are therefore called upon to perform double duty without any extra compensation as a re- ward and do not even have the assurance of promo- tion as an incentive to urge them on. 1 This condition of the service is disheartening to a those who are already in it and discouraging to the youth of the country who might otherwise desire to enter it as a life profession. The commercial interests of the Pacific Coast, now in process of rapid expansion in the new fields which have been opened to our merchant marine in the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, demand the same sort of protection as has been hitherto af- forded at home. It would doubtless prove a danger- ous and expensive experiment for the Government to change the method @i affording this protection and guarding its own interests by adopting a system dif- ferent from that which the experience of over a century has proved to be a most successful one. It is to be earnestly hoped nothing will interfere to prevent the passage of the bill by the present Congress. By its enactment a long-deferred act of justice wiil be done a most .deserving ‘branch of our public service and will enable it to extend its opera- tions to our new possessions, A curious story comes from Chicago to the effect that for the purpose of evading the school law which prevents them from getting the use of the labor of their children, some of the foreign born residents of that city are getting the little ones married before they are in their teens. An extreme case in which a girl of 12 was married so as to exempt her from attendance at school has aroused the authorities and they are now trying to see what they can do about it. e —— THE CHRISTMAS TRADE. P to this time the holiday trad®. of the city has U been conducted under conditions that are well nigh ideal. The purchasers have been liberal, the merchants have displayed a store of Christmas goods never before equaled, and the weather has been everything that is lovely and delightful. There is now a menace of rain, if that can be called a menace which while spoiling the holiday charm of the season would none the less be a benefit to the State. Fortunately most of the Christmas shopping is over and should rain come those who have to meet it while doing their shopping would have none but themselves to blame for being too late. " Rain or shine, however, our California weather is never bad enough to interfere with any business in which men and women are earnestly interested. At worst it is never more than disagrecable. We have no blizzards nor cold snaps that compel people to stay at home through fear of freezing to death. We ean do our shopping gayly and hold our Christmases merrily in any kind of weather that ever occurs under the genial skies of California. The trade of the scason is expected to break all records. We have had a year of prosperity and we are at peace among ourselves and with all the world. From Washington come no reports of legislation likely to injure or even disturb any industry of the country, for it is now deemed certain at the capital that all the dangerous so-called reciprocity treaties that menaced some of our important domestic inter- ests will be defeated. Consequently we can look for- ward to a year of ccming prosperity greater even than that which we now enjoy. All conditions of the time and all prospects of the future therefore com- bine to stimulate the Christmas feelings of liberality and generosity. We can remember in our giving all of our friends and the poor as well. The one- thing to be done, then, is to go about the shopping of these closing days of the season with a genuine cheerfulness that nothing can disturb. The motto of the shoppers should be: Don’t rush, don’t crush, there is room enough for all, time enough for everybody and more Christmas goods than any one can buy. Governor Taft has an undoubted right to present the work of the civil government in the Philippines in an attractive light, but when he says “the military disaster in Samar has created an unfounded feeling of uneasiness concerning the condition of the people of the rest of the archipelago” he is going a little too far. Something like the wholesale massacre of an American troop by men who had shown every evidence of friendliness is about as good a founda- tion as “uneasiness” could have. STILL. HARPING FOR SILVER. ONGRESSMAN LITTLE of Arkansas has ‘ introduced into the House of Representatives a bill providirg for the free coinage of sil- ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. He is reported to have declared that he has no idea that the bill will be passed, but he hopes to be able to force a debate upon it, “to keep the party record straight,” and de- termine how many members of the House calling themsclves Democrats are really true to the Chicago platform. While Mr. Little is making that play at Washing- ton, Mr. Bryan is doing something of the same kind in Nebraskas In the current number of the Com- moner he publishes a long editorial on “Bimetallism,” and in another column of the same issue he com- ments favorably upon the statement of a correspond- ent that Senator Jones of Nevada is wrong in hold- ing that “the increased output of gold has accom- plished what bimetallism would have accomplished.” Thus the former silver leader refuses to admit that silver is dead. Like the Arkansas Congressman he wishes to keep the party record straight, and so far as the Commoner can do it the thing will be done. Meantime there is trouble over the question else- where. The other day Boss Croker of Tammany was interviewed in New York concerning the politi- cal outlook of the party, and when asked about free silver, he answered: “The silver question ought to be dealt with by the National Committee. Let those who framed it take cdre of it. We have nothing to do with it.” In view of the fact that Bryan closed his campaign in 1900 with the famous utterance, “Great is Tam- many and Croker is its prophet,” the contemptuous reference to those who framed the silver question for the Democracy is rather unkind. It was perhaps a shrewd move, however, to “pass the buck” to the National Committee. It is now up to those gentle- men to soothe Bryan into keeping still and seeing to it that Mr. Little doesn't get a hearing for his silver bill on the floor of the House. i It is a grewsome story of home-seeking that comes from Oklahoma to the effect that every road leading from Guthrie.to the newly organized county was lined on the opening day with prospective settlers, many of them without money and without food. It was bitterly cold, numbers were severely frozen as they waited on the roadside, and several perished. It seems strange that persons in such condition should ~| have joined in the rush for lands, but a chance of getting something for nothing tempts all classes, It was a cold day for St. Louis when she broke ground for her grand exposition, but doubtless she has steam enough to warm herself up and keep ! moving. 3 THIS AMERICAN GUN' DISCHARGES FIVE HUNDRED SHO TS A MINUTE o+ ol H THIRD BATTERY, OF BROOKLYN, OF THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD HAS RECENTLY BEEN EQUIPPED WITH RAPID-FIRE GUNS THAT EXPERTS PRONOUNCE TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE OF THEIR KIND EVER INVENTED, OUTCLASSING THE GATLING GUN. o+ o NE of the greatest and most United States Government. minute. O gued to them. when in action. instructive automatic rapid fire guns in the world is now possessed by the It discharges 500 shots a The first military organization to be equipped with these new field pieces is the Third Battery, New York National Guard of Brooklyn. Twelve have just been is- The cost of the set, including carriage and tripod mount, was shoulder rest to fac! extreme range is 3500 ing continues as long The machine is fed by a belt holding 250 up until the belt of ammunition is ex the operator. Just above is an extended rod having a curved ilitate the aim and steady the hand. 0 yards. A 30-inch caliber i as the trigger is at any angle and can be made to sweep the roofs of hoyses the most effective and valuable weapor and tree tops or down an incline. $34,000. At the first battery test of the gun 250 shots were iired na'f‘e&-“‘2‘..“5’”:\1z’.f’r’Aafi?"i.’,‘fiu?a";'x,;;.‘v“"&-‘ :‘x'.)([;fiii(fl‘xni i:“\ in 82 1-5 seconds. The gun weighs forty pounds and is JCTCGH “oaces are utilized in ring. The Joageq viold eainle: mounted either on a steel tripod or a two-wheel carriage get clogged in the barrel. Military expe iy s type ever de- One of the legs of the tripod has a sort of a bicycle seat for signed. PHONOGRAPH FOX TRAP.| ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Elmer Skillings, a Maine fox trapper.| THE RIO—R. B., Madera, Cal. The| “Look at the stuff that goes to wasto who became a wonder In that line so sud- | steamer Rio de Janeiro was inside the |in the grocery business,” said the lounger denly that there has always been great | heads when she foundered. in the store, “and think of the small mar- | wonder at his success, has finally told the o | #1n on most of the goods. Where does tha secret by which he lured the sly foxes | HANGING OF RUNK-—S., City. John | profit come in?" | into his traps. Runk, found guilty of the murder of | “The profit,” said the impatient man | Skillings, who is a farmer in a sparsely | Police Officer Coots, was hanged on the | with the b: et on his arm, “comes from | settled district, purchased a phonograph and some records, for his own amusement and to entertain his fellow farmers at the grange meetings. He has an ingenious mind, which suggested an attempt to get on record the noises of the poultry yard— that of the pullet which has just laid an | ess, the crowing of a cock, the quacking of ducks and the discordant note of a guinea fowl. He bought some blank rec- ords and secured all the novel results he wanted. Then another idea came to him. He ex- | changed his Instrument for a much finer and larger one, and after a number of trials obtained a fine record of the cluck- |ing of a mother and the peeping of her | brood of chickens. Then he went into the woods, dug a large hole, partially filling it with brush, and arranged the phonograph in the hole, | so that by means of a long spring and a self-returning mechanism of his own in- vention the record would run continuous- ly for nearly a half-hour. A powerful resonator made the sounds nearly as dis- tinct as the original. The apparatus was completed with an alarm clock arrange- ment, so that the instrument could be set {in operation automatically at any hour | desired. The effect was startling, when suddenly there would be heard, appar- ently from a heap of brushwood, the ex- cited clucking of a mother hen and the answering peeps of her brood of chickens. Skillings surrounded the place with fox traps and set the machine to begin opera- tions several hours after sunset. It worked to perfection. The first time it was tried two foxes were trapped. From all appearances they were rushing in upon the supposed defenseless brood, for- | getting their usual cunning. The scheme worked again and again until nearly all the foxes in the vicinity had fallen’ vie- { tims of Skillings” genfus. —_—— Work o: a Single Bullet. One of the most remarkable shots ever reported was made by the late Dr. J. B, ‘Welch of Hudson, Mich. Welch was hunting antelope in Monta- na, and was surprised one morning to ses a herd of animals appear upon a ridge some 400 yards from camp. At the first mcvement they scampered aw Welch ran to the top of the ridge and saw that after going a short distance directly from the camp the antelope had turned aud were running so that their broadside was exposed. They were nearly a quarter of a mile away, and Welch did not expect to hit when he opened on them with his high power rifle. His astonishment may therefore be im- agined when on seeing one drop and ‘go- ing to the spot he found three dead ante- | lope, each shot through the head. The three had been running side by side and one bullet had potted the trio. ————————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend’s* —————— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's. * L A A A Thousands of pounds of California glace fruits ready for shipping. Townsend's. * e Townsend's famous broken and plain mixed candy, 2 1bs 25¢. 630 Market street.* s DL 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.* —_—— Special information supplled dally to business houses and public men Ly the Press Clipping Eureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, - ———— Two-pound handsome fire-etched box of California Glace Fruits, express charges prepaid to Chicago, New York and East- ern points, $1.3. Time to send now. Thou- sands of packages ready. 639 Market st, * —— e H ‘When a woman has no excuse for being jealous she comes dangerously near being perfectly happy. *The Overland Limited,” via Unicn Pacific R. R., is the only train making connection in Chicago Wwith the fast Expre:s Trains leaving Chicago in the morring for New York. By this Route you can remain in San Francisco untll 10 a. m., reaching Chicago stx hours quicker than on any other Limited Train. This train runs Every Day in the Year. D. w. Hitchcock, Gen. Agt. No. 1 Moncgomery si.. —e—— Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Best LiverMedicine, VegetableCure forLiverllls, Biliousness, Indigestion, Constipation, Malaria. —_— Philadelphia was the first city to issue a ;irecmry. the first edition coming out in 7 —_———— Romeo and Juliet in Chinatown. See the Christ- mas Wasp illustrating Cosmopolitan Ca'ifornia.* 26th of April, 1878. FITZSIMMONS AND CORBETT—V. A. D. When Fitzsimmons and Corbets fought at Carson City, Nev., the former! weighed 160 and the latter 185. FREE LIBRARY—Subseriber, Colma, Cal. For positions in the Free Public Library of San Francisco, file application with the secretary of the library. TRANSPORT SERVICE—G. F., City. For positions on the United States trans- ports make application at the office of the | Transport Servicejat Folsom-street wharf. TRADE DOLLARS—A. J. S., East Oak- land, Cal. Catalogues announce that trade dollars of 1875 or any other dates are worth but what they welgh as old | silver. AUTHORS' CARNIVAL — City Sub- scriber. The authors’ carnival was opened in the Mechanics’ Pavilion in this city at the corner of Eighth and Mission streets on the 20th of September, 1880. | EL CAPITAN-ALAMEDA—A. 8., City. The collision on the bay of San Francisco between the ferry-boats El Capitan and Alameda, during a fog, occurred on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1879. CITY DEED—A Subscriber, City. If| you are in doubt in regard to the advice | given you relative to a city deed on cer- tain property you had better call at the office of the City and County Attorney for | information as to what the city deed i3 | RED MEN'S HALL—A. O. 8, City. The Red Men's Hall, on Post street, which | has been sold and will, in time, be torn down to make room for a Scottish Rite Hall, was dedicated on the Sth of Janu- ary, 1876. The cornerstone of the build- ing was laid June 17, 1 ABBREVIATION, V. A. D., City. The word December may be abbreviated Dec. or Dec'r., according to the whim of the writer. Both are correct, but the former is the most used. There is no arbitrary rule that the word when abbreviaied should have the last letter preceded by an apostrophe. RAISING A MAN-V. A. D, City. TLE‘ statement has been published that if a | man is placed upon his back upon a tabl: four men, each placing a finger under him, can, under conditions, raise him a slight distance from the table, the .conditions being that the subject shall hold himself rigid and that all, at the same time, shall hold breath during the lifting. SHARES IN A COMPANY-L. L. D., | Campo Seco, Cal. If, in buying shares | of stock In a company you had false rep- resentations made to you, you probably have recourse against the party who sold you the stock, for having obtained money from you by falge pretenses. The question asked does not go sufficiently into details to cnable this department to give a more explicit answer. In case of an attachment the laborer has first lien for wages. NATIVE BORN-P. E. G, City. A child born to Irish parents in the United States is not Irish, but a native of the United States. The nationality of an in- dividual is that of the country in whicia he was born. His citizenship is a differ- ent matter. If a child born of foreign parents in the United States, the parents not baving become citizens of the United States, so desires on attaining majority, he may elect to adopt the citizenship of the father otherwise such child is « citizen of the United States. A PERSONAL MATTER—M. E. C, | Honcut, Butte County, Cal. You ask that certain matter be sent to you, but you neither sign your name, nor inclose a self addressed and stamped envelope. For that reason this department cannot com- ply with your request. The request being of a personal nature the answer will be sent by mail when this department ascer- tains to whom to send it. A person who asks a question ought not to be ashamed | to give true name and address, as It is no sin to seek information. This department never publishes the names of correspond- enta. SOUTHERN ARIZONA—R. H. L., City. Southern Arizona is described as a place which has “a climate of perpetual sum- mer, a balmy air, bright sunshine and an atmosphere of wonderful purity and healthfulness.” That ought to be a de- sirable place of residence for one affected with catarrh or lung trouble. The char- acter of the country is described as “a having only one clerk to wait on thirty- six customers.”—Chicago Tribune. Hoax—I see Rocksie, the gambler, is going ,to retire on his fortune and sell out his place. There's a chance for some fellow with a little capital to get |in the swim. Joax—Ah! Take a dive to get into the swim, eh?—Philadelphia Record. “The biamed bellboy in this hotel is enough to give a man a spasm. G what he did when I told him to I me a ‘horn’ before I dressed? Major Nash—“What, suh?" Colonel Corktight —"He brought me a shoehorn,”—Philadel- phia Record. “I see,” said the boarding-house mis- tress, at the head of the table, “that a Frenchman has just invented a new arti- ficial leather.” “I wish you would try a few pounds of it.” said a sarcastic boarder, who was vainly trying to make an impr a plece of steak with his knife.—Yc Statesman. Missionary (among the Esquimau wish you would tell these people faces are dirty and need washing. Interpreter (reflecting a moment)—I'm afraid I car’t do that, sir. Misstonary—Why not? Interpreter—There isn’t any word for | “dirty” in their language. “Young Mr. Dawdle\has become very industrious since he decided to go into business. His office hours are from $ a. m. to 6 p. m.” Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne; “T un- derstand that he has had to raise his of- fice boy's wages for staying all that time to tell people that Mr. Dawdle had just gone out. but would be in at 11 o'clock next morning."—Washington Star. The man who gave a Chicago hot bellboy $10 for finding 310000 in the soiles linen and returning it to him was from Boston.—Kansas City Times. But not a typical Bostonian.—Boston Globe. With a very slight accent on the “tip,” of course.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. In Retaliation.—“Child,” said the busi- nesslike matror acting as a leader of the visiting committee, turning to the dirty- faced little girl chewing gum in one cor- ner of the room in the tenement-house, “wouldn’t you like to live in a better part of town than this?" “No, ma'am,” said the dirty-faced girl, “but when I get bigger I'm goin’ slum- min’ through your part o' town some day."—Chicago Tribune. “Your Excellency,” said the Grand Vizier, “that French collector is cackling around here.about that little bill again.” ““What sayeth he?” asked Abdul Hamid, moodily puffing at his nargileh. “He voweth that France will selze your realm unless the account be settled.” “Hum,"” sighed Abdul, taking a long draw. “France is a bird, but I hardly opine that she is a Turkey gobbler. [ hardly opine that."—Baltimore Ameri- can. Gifts. FINE FUR SEALSKIN GARMENTS Stylish, up-to-date cut and make— for the Smart Set. Best Goods and Lowest Prices. AD. 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