The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1901, Page 6

B TUESDAY..................DECEMBER 31, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Propi Atdress All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. . Telephone Press 204 . N FUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS Teleph. Deliyered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. | Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: 217 to 221 Stevensom St. e Press 202. BAlrS CALL (ncluding Sunday), one yea .$8.00 P41 ¥ CALL (ncluding Su:day), ¢ 1-onths. - 3.00 DALY CALL «(ncluding Sunday), 3 months 1.5 DATLY CALL—By Single Month. . 85 SINDAY CALL, One Year. . 1.50 WEEI1LY, CALL One Year. - 199 wostmasters are aunthorized to receive subscriptions. fumple coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in crderiig change of address should be perticuiar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order s iusure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. GAKLAND OFFICE. . .....1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Wanager Foreign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Chieago. (Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2618.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: © TARLTON. = Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ST UPHEN B. SMITH. .30 Tribune Builiing NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murrsy Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Cc.; Great Northern Hotel; Freuout House; Auditorium Hotel WASHMINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montzomery, corner of Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 MeAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin open until clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner open until § o'clock. 109 Valencia, open untll § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2300 Filimore, epen untll § 5. m. AMUSEMENTS. At Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—A Lady of Quality.” California—*“Black Patt! Troubadors.” T ittle Red Ricing Hood.” The Two Sisters.” y afternoon and Vaudeville. lay Hall—Piano Recital Saturday afternoon. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By McBride & Co.—This day, at 11 o'clock, Restaurant, 524 Pacific street. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. at rsuance of our endeavor to present the issue nunicipal ownership fairly to the people, in ler that they may be under no illusions, we given the history of the failure of the public it in Toledo, Ohio. den Rule Jones,” Mayor of Toledo, and one of ading advocates of public ownership, in a com- on to the Toledo Bee gives his version of re. He says of it: “The Toledo natural failed as a municipal enterprise for the fol- reasons: because it was an immoral as well nbusiness-like proposition for the city to enter s business after it had granted two franchises private corporations to carry it on; and b f the hindrances and limitations that city offi subjected to in the name of law, which place wiho are charged with the management of city at 2 disadvantage with managers of a pri- B torporation. This is not because plans have b«n_@g by corporations to get advantage of the Detple, but because the people have voluntarily ham- pered themselves: because we are yet lacking in an ideal that involves social success. We elect a man to ol and glorify him as little less than a god, but sooner is he elected than we begin to apply &ps of restraint and manifest our distrust. te require him to take an oath, next we re- m to give a bord for the faithful performance Then after passing these ordeals we sur- Lim with every known hindrance and limita- on law to contract his liberty and cripple his s as a public servant; and because of this and childlike conception of government 1 gas trustees were as helpless as babes y discovered that the supply was giving out; ¢ managers of the private corporation with they were competing were free men and exer- cised their best ability to so manage their property that it wouvld become a success. This is fundamental- the reason why the Toledo natyral gas plant led, and I repeat that it in no sense proves -the ailure of municipal ownership, but it does prove the failure of municipal government.” A careful reading of this discloses just what the alian Commission on government railroads report- ed—that government is a political institution purely, and cannot be adapted to the transaction of business. Mayor Jones wants such adaptation., He does not mean that municipal government is a failure in con- ducting the civil, political affairs of the people, but that it is & failure when it goes beyond its police duty the which # and embarks in business. J | | privaté telephones. The two principles and their antagonism were never more plainly apparent. This expert in munici- pal paternalism desires the adaptation of government to business, by removing all the checks and balances which are necessary to government as a political in- stitution. There must be neither oath, nor bond, nor legal restraint on the free will and action of the pub- lic officer. He is not even to be as much controlled as the director of a private corporation, but is seem- ingly to be entirely irresponsible. The theory is beautiful in its iridescerce, but is it not a rainbow? There appears to be a.decided Northward migra- “Jtion of negroes from the Southern States seeking centers where there are more opportunities for Jabor and better wages. As a result there are npw more negroes in Massachusetts than in Delaware and al- most as many in Pennsylvania as in Missouri. It is believed that if these early experiments in migration prove successful the negro population may eventually be so diffused throughout the country as to cease to be 2 “problem” to any section. Less than twenty-five years ago there was not a telephone in the world, but now, according to the | Electrical Review, there are no less than 2,278 717 telephoncs in use and the companies owning them have an invested capital of $470,000,000. In addition \ there is 2 capitg] estimated at $150,000,000 invested in It will be seen that the “hello - girl” is doing a big business. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER SAN FRANCISCO WATER SUPPLY. ITHIN the last few years medical science Whas demonstrated that one of the great- est causes of sickness and the dissemina- tion of germs of disezse. in cities is the use of bad water. Take for illustration the city of Portland, Oregon, which formerly took its water from the Willamette River and exhibited a large death rate from typhoid fever. Through the energy and public spirit of her citizens this source was abandoned for a stream haying its rise in the snows of Mount Hood and taken from a point above the chance of pollu- tion, thus securing an ideal supply of the softest and purest water, than which there is not a finer in the world. Since the intreduction of this water typhoid fever has disappeared from the city. Seattle followed this example, abandoning Lake Washington in its rear and going to the mountains west of that city, whence it now draws the needed quantity of the best water which is beyond the liability of contamination. Vancouver has a similar supply taken from a glacier lake nestled in the mountains lying to the north of it. This water question now confronts San Francisco and it cannot be put aside. The last three years of drought have demonstrated that the available re- sources immediately tributary to this city have prac- tically reached their limit. Lobos Creek has recently been cut off by the city authorities as unsafe for use, and it can only be a question of a short time before the same course must be taken with Lake Merced, which is already menaced by the growth of popula- tion in its proximity. It is now a serious question whether the time for such actiog has not arrived. Out- side those two places the present supply of San Fran- cisco is above the average for cities of its size, but if the water of Lake Merced is mingled with the rest in use, of course the whole is liable to become vitiated at any time. It is well known that during the last two years the Spring Valley Compary has been severely strained to meet the usual demands upon it. The reservoirs in San Mateo County arc now at a very low point, the lowest for years, and another dry winter will tax the powers of the company to its utmost. These facts are published because every resident of the city is vitally interested in this water question. Every holder of real estate is directly concerned.. It would | be a safe estimate to assert that the residence prop- erty of San Francisco and Oakland would be en- hanced 10 per cent in value the moment those cities had an assured supply of water from the Sierras similar to that of Portland and other cities men- tioned. & Such a supply is available. The serious question is to get the best one. Its selection and acquisition should be accomplished at the earliest possible date; not only that the best may be secured, but that the contiguous property necessary to insure it against contamination for all time may also be obtained be- fore the cost of the same has greatly increased. This is not a matter for political or financial job- bery and the public must take care to suppress any attempt at it. The wrangle lately exhibited between the Board of Public Works and the Supervisors® Committee on Public Utilities proves that the people of the city must look to private enterprise, skill and judgment in this contingency, and not trust such a great enterprise to politicians or their appointees and servants. The columns of The Call will be open for suggestions and discussion upon this subject and it row warns its readers that delay to meet this condi- tion which confronts us may result in grave conse- quences. This paper has no particular location to recom- mend, no individuals whose interests it seeks to ad- vance. If the rich men of this State are not ready to invest in this enterprise, then we ask the men of | capital in the East to come forward with their money as they have done in other instances. There can be 10 question that such an investment would be a good one and its value would increase with the growth of | population. ’ No scheme would be adequate to meet this situation which was not capable of eventually meeting the needs of two millions of people. Let no such mistakes be made in this instance as mark the history of water supply for Boston, New York and other Eastern cities, but rather build broadly and mindful of the needs of generations to come after us. There is no occasion for the sacrifice of any existing property by carrying out this project. In a comparatively few years there will be a line of suburban villages and residences all the way from San Francisco to San Jose. The present great need of those’ now living along that stretch of country is an adequate supply of good water. The Spring Valley Company can meet that demand and in so doing find use for all it has to furnish. A moment’s reflection upon the subject tends to make every resident of this city wonder why it has been permitted to lie dormant so long. It can only be explained upon the theory that the business of everybody imposes no obligation upon any one. There is nothing which is more conducive to the comfort and enjoyment, aside from considerations of health, than an abundance of pure water such as the mountains of this State furnish of the very best quality, fresh from living, perpetual fields of ice and snow. There can be no comparison between such an article and the catchments of rain impounded in artificial reservoirs which are constantly being pol- luted with mud and other foreign matter and choked with growths of weed and fungi. The matler of a few millions of dollars should cut no figure in a case like this. The one aim must be to get the best supply at any cost. For every dollar so spent the value of our property would be en- hanced tenfold, to say nothing of the health and pleasure resulting from its use. The Spring Valley works have sufficed, in a way, for their day, but they are only a patchwork creation at the best. With the rapidly increasing growth of the city let us be mind- ful of the demands which that growth entails and prepare in good season to meet them. { In his surprise party attack on a British force on Christmas eve Dewet seems to have captured enough of the enemy to put a British soldier in the Christ- mas stocking of every man in his command. AN APPALACHIAN PARK. TR ~ ROM the well nigh universal support given by F the press of the East to the plaa for establish- ing a great national park in tae Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, it seems likely that a bill providing for such a park may'be enacted at this session of Congress. The benefit: resulting from the natignal parks in the West are recognized, and very naturally the Eastern people desire a similar large park on their side of the counrry. Professor Shaler of Harvard has vecently ' given strong support to the advocates of the park by point- ing out in a scientific way the advantages that would result from it. It is proposed that the Government condemn and purchase not less than a thousand square miles of the mountain lands: The lands are comparatively worthless for ag*;i‘culture at present, owing to their inaccessibility to markets, and conse- quently the cost would not be great. They are, how- ever, sufficiently near the populous States of the | East to render them available as recreation grounds for thousands who are unable to come West to enjoy the wonders of Yellowstone Park and the beauties of Yosemite. The region has an attraction for scientific students of forestry from the fact that it is in the very heart of the broad leaved forests of Eastern America, and where as Professor Shaler says: “A greater num- ber of the hundred or so important trees attain their full growth than in any other equally extensive field.” In fact he argues that the region was the original birthplace of these kinds of trees, and that from that district they spread over the world. He says: “That in this district the varicties of the group ate more | plentiful than elsewhere may be due to the fact that | here they were nurtured and have here attained their characteristic qualities.” At this juncture in our affairs whatever tends to preserve American forests and to interest and edu- cate the American people in the value and usefulness of forests deserves the support of Congress.” An Ap- palachian park would undoubtedly help” to accom- plish that education. It is to be hoped therefore that it will soon be provided. P A statisticiagn who has been figuring out the chances of an American boy in politics estimates that cach boy has one chance in 30,000,000 of becoming President, and as the chances diminish with the in- crease of population it will be seen that the aver- | age boy would do better to stick to business and let politics alone. ) A CUBAN EOUNTY. HE Cuban tariff isslue increases in interest and T assumes shapes not foreseen in the beginning. Since General Wood discovered our obliga- tion to make the Cubans permanently prosperous, the arguments put forth by the junta have been en- tirely worthy of that highlysremarkable premise. In the symmetrical development of this country our policy has been tc make production ‘and manu- facture go hand in hand. When we were part of the British colonial system the policy of the mother country prevented the planting of manufactures here. She wanted to do all of our manufacturing and com- pel us to be an agricultural and pastoral people. In retrospect it is remarkable that the fighting men in a population of three millions, with no manufactures, nn powder mills, and without the means to even make gun flints, should have achieved independence in a contest with a matured manufacturing country like England. But they did and took to heart the memory of their struggles by beginning at once to protect the foundation of manufactures. This policy, founded in the patriotic memories of the Revolution, has been applied to one industry after another, vntil we have a development of manufactur- ing power and skill excelling that of any other na- tion. But while this growth has been taking place our rural industries have begun to suffer. Grain has been our great staple crop in the North and cotton in the South. The farmers need a greater variety of crops to get the return from their land deserved by their labor. They have claims upon .the policy and the party of protection that cannot be safely ignored. They are not deceived. They know that real pros- perity must be general, not limited. and partial. They have seen the golden stream that flows from the planting here of new manufacturing industries, by protecting them. They have seen tin and plate glass, buttons, silk, and other varieties of manufacture | added to our Americar list and made to prosper by protection. They have seen these give work at high wages to tens of thousands of men, and produce weaith for the capitalists who embarked in them. They have seen these interests highly organized and watch- ful lest Congress lift the protecting hand of the gov- ernment and expose them to foreign competition. From all this the farmers have learned a lesson. If wealth come from a variety of manufactures, it must come also from a variety of crops. If it is not well for a country to carry all its manufacturing eggs in one basket, the same rule must apply to its agri- culture. In order to diversify agriculture there must be protection. The cnly diversification possible has been found to be in the production of sugar, tobacco and rice. The latter is confined to narrower borders than the other two. cover an extensive area and occupy millions of acres of land now used in adding to the grain sur- plus which keeps down the price and reduces the profits of farming. The farmers have tasted the sweets of diversified | agriculture fostered by protection, and they have felt the benefit of the diffused prosperity that has result- ed. They are now asked to surrender this general and increasing prosperity in order that a few score sugar planters in Cuba may be suddenly and greatly enriched. The many are asked to give up their gen- eral gains in order that the few may gain unduly. It is a cold-blooded propdsition ®f the junta and its organs. It is accompanied by the threat that unless we destroy three of our own important agricultural industries Cuba will annex herself to us and as a parasitic zddition to cur body politic d‘estmy them in spite of us. The people will have something to say about fu- ture annexations and this threat will not at present alarm Americap farmers. That it has somewhat dis- quieted capital is seen in the proposition that instead of admitting Cuban sugar free we pay to the planters a bounty out of the treasury! 3 The proposition is a.remarkable incident in the whole remarkable situation. It is so.rankly and ob- viously unconstitutional that there is no danger’of its adoption, but that it i made at all is evidence of the widespread and increasing anxiety caused by the operations of the junta. s Let us shift the point of attack to another part of our protected system and see how it looks. Suppose some benevolent person, anxious to insure the pros- perity of aliens, should propose that we close our American tin, plate glass and silk mills, by giving free admission to Welsh tin, and French plate glass and silk! Would such a proposition find any advo- cate in Congress outside the small company of free traders? And suppose again that as an alternative it should be proposed to pay the Welsh tin makers and the French manufacturers of plate glass and silks a bounty out of our treasury, would it be tol- erated for a moment? - This country was doing very: well. before the Spanish war changed the status 6{ Cuba, and it will continue to do-well after Cuba has received the independence we promised and General Wood is recalled from the palace of a Governor Gen- eral to the quarters of a soldier. The American people do not take their economic policy from generals in the army, and it is well that this be understood now, in order that the example may not spread. { Beet sugar and tobacco may | 1, 1901, |JOHN BROWN + A CLUBHOUSE FOR OHIO G 'S OLD HOME BECOMES ‘ OLFERS | ¢ ORIGINAL OUTLINES REMAIN s | SIMPLE HOME ONCE OCCUPIED BY JOHN BROWN. | AND IS NOW BEING USED AS A HEADQUARTERS BY THE PORTAGE GOLF CLUB. UNCHANGED. IT STANRS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF AKRON, OHIO, THE STRUCTURE'S on”—is being used by a golf club. they could have their sticks kept after the day on the links. Members of the club have endeavored of the blacks. lines remain unchanged, although it wa: Club made it their permanent home. Brown lived there, and his room in the still has an old-time air about it. is the celonial room of the house, and it | ach. VERMOUTH—Subseriber, City. Ver- mouth is composed of white wine, white | raisin syrup, alcohol and essence of ver- mouth. ’ NEWSPAPER ROOM—R. G., City. The | newspaper room of the San Francisce | Fres Public Library closes at 8 o'clock lin the evening. THE ESCAMBIA—C. F. S., City. The British steamship Escambia foundered outside of the heads of San Francisco on Mogday, June 19, 1882, THE SANTA FE—P. S, City. | ta’ Fe Railroad Company owns all the tracks over which its cars run between | Point Richmond and Bakersfield. DINNER A LA RUSSE—H. K., City. | A dinner a 'a Russe is in the manner of | serving. Al the food is placed on a side | table and the carving and the serving is by the waiters, and not by the host or hostess. GOLD SAVING MACHINE—S., City. | Edison the inventor is creditéd with hav- ing invented an apparatus calculated to save gold in mining the same. You may | obtain information about the same by ad- dressing a communication to him, Menlo | Park, N. Y. THE CONSTITUTION—Sailor, Oakland, Cal. The United States frigate Constitu- tion was built at the Boston navy yard in 1797 at a cost of $302,71S. Her tonnage | was 1576 and she was rated forty-two guns. A modern battleship, such as the Indiana, costs $3,063,000. SOLDIER'S PENSION—S. L., South Branch, Or. An enlisted man in the Unitsd States army who has served thirty years in the regular army is en- titled to be retired on three-quarter pay, according to the rank he holds at the time he makes application. UNION LABOR CONVENTION PLAT- FORM—R. S., Spenceville, Nevada Coun- ty, Cal The platform adopted by the recent Union Labor Convention was pub- lished in_The Call of September 7, 1901 This department has not the space to re- produce it. BUDDING ORANGES—J. E. 8., Large, Cal.” For information in regard to the best time for budding oranges and the manner of doing so, communicate with the State Board of Horticulture at Sac- ramento, or the Experimental Station at the University of California, Berkeley. | A LOST STEAMER—C. F. F., City. Without knowing the name of the vessel it would be impossible to ascertain when a vessel which Daniel Webster while at Norwich refused to board on account of a storm foundered. The biography of Dantel Webster does not mention the in-| cident. IN THE PHILIPPINES—-S. L; South Branch, Or. Volunteers who are sent to the Philippines to fll the quota in the regular army rg.maln with the company to which assigned as long as the company remains there, unless his term of enlist- ment expires before the company is or- dered away. NATIONAL GUARD-—A. S8, City. To join the National Guard of California the applicant must be a citizen of the United States, between the ages of 18 and 45 You can obtain exhaustive information in relation to entering the guard by call- ing at any armory and having a talk with a company captain. . TESLA—A. G., City. Nicholas Tesla, HE home of John Brown—he whose “soul goes marching It stands just on the outskirts of Akron, Ohio, and the Pertage Golf Club bought it as a headquarters, where just as it was when *“‘Ossawatomie” planned for the freedom The building is a wooden frame structure, cause of the simplicity. of its architecture. s deemed to make a few improvements and additions before the Portage The interior is practically the same as it was when John This apartment will be used | by» the ladies of the club as a reception room. furnished it very appropriately with antique pleces, and the tiled mantelpiede has been allowed to remain unaltered. This is paid to the memory of the first owner in the shape of a large engraving of John Brown, which hangs over the man- | of Sacramento, is among the arrivals at The San- | house, front of the building in order, and rest Two shade trees planted by John Brown stand just outside the” gate, one on each side of the walk leading up to fhe The broad piazza, b which extends along the entire and across the end overlooking the links, is a recent addition, but as the entire house has been freshly painted this modern porch dces not lend a distracting air of to keep the house provements. newness to the quaint old building, as do most so-called im- Ohio is a favorite home of golfers, and there are many fine imposing be- Its original out- necessary clubhouses within the conflnes of the State, but none excel and few equal the Portage Club in extent and beauty. which it has the additional clubhouse in Ohio with a history. Besides interest of being the only golf Aside from the tinge of romance given the place by the fact front of the house They have by the Indians many Delaware Indians. the old Western is here that tribute mento, is at the Palace. V. 8. McClatchy of the Bee is at the California. W. M. Burckhalter, a merchant Truckee, is a guest at the Lick. T. C. White, the well known banker of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick.~ | W. P. Harkey, a prominent rancher of Yuba City, is a guest at the Russ. | C. Motzer, an extensive rancher of Point Reyes, is a guest at the Grand. W. R..Spalding, a lumber dealer of VI- salia, is among the arrivals at the Lick. A. Diepenbrock, a cigar manufacturer | Sacramento | of the Grand. G. L. Kennedy, a merchant of Tahiti, is up from the island on a short business trip. He is staying at the Occidental. E. O. McCormick, general passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, will return from the East day. Sol Bloom, formerly treasurer of the | Alcazar Theater, but mow a successful music publisher, is here on a short va- cation and is at the Palace. H. J. Small, superintendent of motive power for the Southern Pacific Company, with headquarters at Sacramento, Iis down here on business and is stayirg at the Palace. R SR Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The following Californians are in New York: Frem San Francisco—B. Hill, at the New Amsterdam; H. P. Bancroft, at the Imperial; H. C. Breeden and wife, at the Holland; F. B. Hort and wife and Miss A. Webster, at the Union Square; A. L. Meyerstein, at the Savoy; A. J. Moreland and Albert E. Raymond, at the St. Denis; G. Randall and wife, Miss F. Randall and Miss J. Randall, at the Everett. From Los Angeles—F. M. Ashley at the Grand Union and W. H. Workman at the Hoffman. From San Diego—G. C. Hendig, at the Hoffman. —_— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- day: At the Raleigh—R. F. Harrison of California, W. H. Workman of Los An- geles, H. S. Edwards and Roger G. Ed- wards of Santa Barbara and J. C. Adels- dorfer of San Francisco. At the New Willard—J. F. J. Archibald of San Fran- cisco. At the National—Miss M. E. Bur- leigh and Miss S. Boyd of Los Angeles, J. Anderson and M. S. Thompson of San Francisco. At the St. James—William Anthony, Charles J. Sumner and G. O. Vernon of San Francisco. At the Arling- ton—Max Farrans of Stanford University. —— —c———— @ lriiiiviiviiiiieieinieieieleieieinil @ cent lamps and the oscillator, combining steam engine and dynamo. HIS researches have created a new field of electrical in- vestigatiaon. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH—C., Bitter Creek, Cal. The department- has no work- ing drawings of the wireless telegraph, nor can it devote the space to give a com- plete description of the system. Such can be found in Fahie's History of the Wire- less Telegraph, {llustrated, to be ob- tained through any first-class bookseller; also in the files of the supplement of the the Cuyahoga to the Tuscarawas Ri ing the clubhouse was once used as hunting grounds by the No more beautiful place can be found in Reserve than the spot where John Brown once lived, and it will always be kept in good shape in memory Scientific American. WEEDS—C. G., City. Tt is said that the following is a good me‘hod to prevent weeds from growing A : circumseribed places: A weak solution of carbolic acid applied with a watering rot to the places affected is a method of preventing the growth of weeds. The solution should not the electrician, was born in Smiljau, gervia, in 1857. He is now a resident ol New York City. He invented the prin- ciple of the magnetic fleld in the appa- ratus used in the transmission of the pewer from the Niagara Falls. He also invented new forms of dynamos, trllll-l ferers.~induction coils, arc and Incandes- be stronger than one part pure ca; acid. to 1000 to 2000 parts . f water, I;?:lrl: carbolic acid is a virulent poison. When applied in too strong a 'solution larger plants may suffer. Very( weak solutions destroy only very small ts and para- sites; also miasma, and e drives away flies and mosquitoes. - that it was once the home of one of the most remarkable figures in the history of the United States, it is noted from the fact that it is right on the old historic portage path made years ago in carrying their cznoes from er. The land sufround- telpiece. of him. T o A e o e o e e e e S e S ; i @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PERSONAL MENTION. A CHANCE TO SMILE. o & ATH—H. E. P. | Edward Sweeney, Superior Judge of| Milkman—Say, you paid me in counter- 1 L;fiiop,LEg;,s an?;:leon I died at St. | Redding, is at the Grand. feit money. ‘Helena May 3, 1821, of ulcer of the stom- B. U. Steinman, ex-Mayor of Sacra- Citizen—Well, you've been bringing as counterfeit milk.—Detroit Free Press. Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, With hair and lime, make morfar Guaranteed to stand. —Detroit Free Press. Foote Lighte—I see the name of a new plece soon to be brought out is “The Spring Roller.” E Sue Brette—Sounds like a curtain raiser, doesn’t it>—Yonkers Statesman. “‘Oh, deah boy, I had such a narrow escape from having greatness thrust upoa “How was that, old chap?” “I just missed being run ovah by Reggy Vandahbilt's fast auto, dpn't you know.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Wayback—And did you chase the trolley cars while you were in New York John? 3 Mr. Wayback—Well, T guess we broke about even. I reckon they chased me just about as much as I chased them,— Yorkers Statesman. Man on Bridge—Time can’t be very vai- uable with you, my friend. I've been watching you for two hours, and you haven't had a bite. ) Man on Bank—My time's wuth too much, by gum, to waste two hours of it watchin’ a man fish that ain't ketchin' nothin’.—Chicago Tribune. Neighborhood Boy (sitting on log, fish- ing)—If you're lookin’ fur a place to spread your grub you'd better stop right where you are. Chorus of Picnickers—Why, there is nothing but pebbles here. We want to find a spot where there’s some grass. Neighborhood Boy—Grass nothin'! When you git your baskets unpacked you'll find you'll -need all them stones to throw at the pigs.—Chicago Tribune. “Why do you speak so that eminent scientist®" “I didn’t mean to speak him,” answered the young man with striped shirt front. “But it does seem pe- culiar to me that a man who knows Jjust when the next comet will arrive and just how far it is to the moon should be so utterly ignorant when it comes to & ques. tion of when it’s time for dinner or what train to take to get to the nearest town.'" —Washington Star, —_——— Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel.* slightingly of slightingly —_———— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's* L ———— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's. + | —_— Your Eastern friend will appreciate box of Townsend’s Cal. Glace #ruit, 'y ————— Extra fine Candles at Townsend's for New Year’s Table. Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruit and Choice Candies, 639 Market sf * f No waiting at Townsend’s. 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