The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1902, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea uatil § o'clock. 220 Fillmore. epem untfl § p. m. - S ———————————— AMUSEMENTS. “Tnton Bquare: Grand_Opera-house—*Cavalleria Rusticans” and “‘Com- edy and Tragedy.” California—*“Whose Baby Are You?" Tivoli—“Little Red Riding Hood.” Central—*Lost in New York." i Alcazar—*“The Wife.” Columbia—*"Henry VIIL™ Orpheum—Vaudeville. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. . Fischer's—Vaudeville. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. MUNICIPAL WASTE, HE Oakland Enquirer, one of the ablest advo- I ates of municipal socialism in the country, by eading our recent publication of the facts . ¢ municipal light in Massachusetts, is able to criticize us. We said, and repeat, that the two systems are not comparable until public and private accounts in the administration of public utilities are kept by the same system and with equal publicity. For an ex- ample we noted the State commission of Massachu- setts, in charge of the lighting systems of that State, and declared that until like commissions are pro- i elsewhere, over all public utilities, the facts upon which to base a public policy will be lacking. Owur critic calls our attention to the report on this subject by Mr. Carroll D. Wright, the United States Labor Commissioner. The value of that re- port is abridged by its statement that its conclusions are based upon what is learned secretly. Since it was made investigations have been carried on, by-volun- tary public bodies, affecting the municipal water systems of several large cities, which reveal a chaos of accounts and a waste in administration that may have been considered by Mr. Wright and may not, no one knows. In Chicago the City Engineer has recently sup- plemented the Merchants’~ Association in an exami- uation of public water administration. He finds in that city 19,000 miles of water pipes, a large part poorly laid and much of it old and worn out. The result is a To this waste is added that caused by the carelessness of the consumers. The total loss to the city from this source is $200,000 annually. This is by r.o means all the loss and waste incident to the administration of the system. But if # were administered as a private and not a public matter does any one imagine that such waste would- 20 on year after year? The people are the owners of the property. It is administered by their public officers. The waste is their loss, as owners, By calling attention to it an effort may be induced to effect its correction. But the advocates of .municipal ownership persistently treat a reference to it as in- imical to the policy of municipal socialism. The Chicago Chronicle, in calling attention to this waste, proposes to prevent it, as far as caused by consumers, by compelling every one to use a2 meter and a filter. The latter is necessary on account of the pollution of the water, which is safe for drinking only when boiled. The mere fact of public ownership does not purify water. That must be done by the same means that private owners have to use. Providence and San Francisco have the same typhoid rate, one with'mu- nicipal water and the other without. Milwaukee and Detroit, with municipal water, have a typhoid rate of 30 per 1000. Comparing cost of works and price of supply, San Francisco reports cost at $15,000,000, av erage’ price per dwelling $20 per year; but Evansville, Ind., with municipal works costing $500,000, charges $15 per dwelling, and Cambridge, Mass., also with municipal water at a cost of $2,563,248, charges $17. A glance at the supply, cost and water rate of fifty cities in the United States, all but fourteen under municipal ownership, reveals such an infinite variety of results as to baffie conclusions. Therefore we make no conclusions, but publish such facts as can be had out of the chaos. To show the confusion of facts we have San Francisco furnishing 20,000,000 gallons a day at a rate per dwelling of $20 a year, and. Nash- ville, Tenn., with municipal ‘works, furnishing 10,- ©00,000 gallons a day at a rate of $22. 1t is apparent that there is no room for dogmatism on the subject, and certainly no reason for the great expectations which are entertained by the thick and thin municipal socialists. e ———— From Boston comes the sad complaint that the trees in the common are dying by reason of neglect, and as the Transcript of that city says, “Boston Common belongs to the nation; Boston only holds it in trust,” it looks as if we might €xpect a2 move to get the Federal Government to appropriate money to keep the place as a national park. These Boston fellows are very shifty. waste of water. THE CANALS. HE canal question in Congress is materially af- T fécted by the offer to sell the Panama canal and convey all of its privileges and concessions from the Colombian Government for the sum of $40,- 000,000.: At that price it seems a good buy by any- body. g This offer has had an obvious effect upon the Sen- ate, and, despite the vote in the House, will no doubt be a strong factor in the decision of the whole sub- ject.” The Panama route has always found favor with engineers and investors, Indeed it was the first route to which serious attention was directed. More than"a year ago The Call predicted that it was des- tined to figure very largely and might be the means of defeating the machinations of the enemies of an isthmian canal, who were juggling the treaties in the name and pretense of patriotism. i Humboldt, who investigated all the routes, said of Panama: “This, being the narrowest part of . the. isthmus, is the route to which the attention first nat- urally directs itself.- The shortest distance across in a straight line is less than thirty miles. The Chagres River is navigable to within fifteen miles of ‘the Pa- cific Coast.” In the esrly discussions of the subject Panama held first place and the Nicaragua route second, and it is probable that in the judgment of engineers they still stand in that order. ITu building any canal the source of water supply must not be lost sight of, and this supply is abundant by either route. The Darien route is now brought forward as de- serving of consideration." We do not know whether it has ever been subjected to survey or estimate. According to Humbcldt's report it is lacking in water, though it has some interesting features and enjoys the distinction of having furnished an all- water route between the two oceans as early as 1788, Humboldt said of it: “This route is by the river Atrato and a small branch emptying into it higher up, called the Quito, which empties into the main stream 410 miles from its mouth, the town of Quidbo being near their junction. - The Quito approaches very near to the waters of a small river’ emptying into the Pacific, named the San Juan, be- tween the sources of which and the Quito is a small ravine called De la Raspadura, through which, it will not be an uninteresting fact in the future his- tory of this subject, a canal communication : be~ tween the two oceans has already been made. A monk of great activity, Cure of the village of Novita, employed his parishioners to dig a small canal in the ravine De la Raspadura, by means of which, when the rains are.abundant, canoes loaded with cocoa pass from sea to sea. This communica- tion has existed since 1788, though unknown in Eu- rope. This small canal-of Raspadura unites on the coast of two oceans, two points seventy-five leagues distant from one another.” Mr. Radcliffe reported to Congress in 1838 upon this Darien route by the Atrato that it was entirely unsuited for a ship canal and much inferior to the other routes*for any sort 6f communication by rea- son of the great distance between the two oceans and want of depth in both rivers and the lack of harbors at each end. Therefore this Darien route is more likely to re- main ‘an interesting topographical feature in the his- tory of the canal discussion than to be seriously considered as a feasible route. > Mr. Radcliffe’s report put the Panama and Nicar- agua routes forward as the only ones worthy of con- sideration, and of these the Panama found the most favor in his judgmept. Congress should understand one thing. The coun- try is not prepared to champion one route against the other. What it wants is an isthmian canal. If it be true that the Panama can be finished quicker and cheaper, that is what the people want, for they expect that Congress will at this session see to it that we are to have a canal. T — Mayor Low of New York announces that his ad- ministration is to be one of economy and publicity. He purposes to let the people know what the heads of departments are doing and why they are doing it. Among other things he will permit taxpayers to inspect the lists showing’ the taxation of all personal property, so that each man may see exactly what his neighbor is paying. The programme has been re-- ceived with a great deal of applause, but it remains to be seen how the play will satisfy expectations, ——— ITH the new year there comes the necessity TAX-SHIRKING CORPORATIQNS, \A’ of giving renewed attention to problems of taxation. In a short time assessments will be made of the value of property and of the. share which each citizen will have to bear of the burden of public expenditures. A certain amount of money is required for the maintenance of the city, county and State. That amount must be forthcoming. If one man shirk his taxes another must pay them. Therefore it is to the interest of all that each in proportion tp his means pay his rightfyl share of the general taxa- tion. The shirker is to some extent 3 defrauder of all. He cheats everybody, and not infrequently he resorts to ‘perjury and sometimes to bribery or something like it to carry out the fraud. Of all the tax-shirkers in California the Southern: Pacific Company has been guilty of the largest frauds, and its offenses have been the most flagrant. In times past the State Board of Equalization has done something more than wink at the practices of the corporation. The assessments of the value of its property in the State have been of a kind to generate suspicion that the board actually aided and abetted the road in shirking taxes and in shifting them upon what the road is mortgaged for, and only about one-eighth’ of the actual value of the property. Tax-shirkifig in a small way will doubtless continue forever, for it will never be possible to get rid of petty frauds, but gross offenses openly and flagrantly committed we can get rid of. It is time to put an end to the tax-shirking of the Southern Pacific cor- poration. The Board of Equalization can make a fair assessment if it tries, and a resolute expression of public opinion will probably induce it to try. . —— — The unknown person who sent Admiral Schley a piano for Christmas is reputed to be an admirer df the hero, but he may.have been an enemy. There is no telling .what ‘kind of discord a new piano may make in a:quiet family. THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION. ‘ proval of all who have visited it. Cordial commendation comes from Northern tourists as well as from Southern men, who would naturally commend the enterprise from sectional patriotism if for'nothing else. It'is proving to be something more than an attraction for win'ér travelers and holi- day seekers. It has served to demonstrate the enter- prise of South Carolina and her sister States of the South and to exhibit the advance that has been made by the negroes despitc thé adverse conditions under which they have had to work. The showing made for South Carolina industries is remarkable even in this epoch when the whole South is advancing. Statistics gathered by Senator McLaurin show that in 1890 there were 2382 indus- trial establishments in the -State, with a capital | of $29,276,261.- The number of employes was 22,784, and the amount paid in wages was $5,474,739. value of the product of these industries was about $32,000,000, In 1900 the number of industrial estab- lishments in South Carolina was 3762, an increase of 57 per cent over 1890. The capital invested was $67,356,465, an increasc of 130 percent. The wage- earners had more than doubled in number since 1890, and the amount paid in wages had risen from $5,474,~ 739 to $9,455,900. | Gratifying as-is the showing thus made by the manufacturers of the State, the feature of the exhibit which has attracted. most attention is the showing made of the work of colored men. A capacious building was set apart for the negroes in order that they might present the whole of their varied indus- tries and achievements in a compact form. The dis- play in the building covers the Jndustrial, mercantile, professional, educational, social and religious work of the race in the Seuth. -All reports agree that the exhibit is a notably fine one -in every department. One report speaks with’ particular- commendation of the exhibits made by the negroes in forestry, archi and photography. . / Stimulated by the success of the white people; in establishing and operating mahufactures, the negroes are eager to venture upon like enterprises. In an address delivered in the negro building Professor Miller of the South, Carolina college for colored students said: “I can locate a cotton factory in tide water Carolina and operate it with negro hands and make more money on - the capital invested than has been or can be made with white hands in the coun- ties of Anderson, Richland, Chester, Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee, York or Union, and cotton factories have always paid in the counties named. I have studied the conditions surrounding the factories in Upper Carolina and know for a certainty that the conditions for making money in cotton factories with negro labor in Lower Carolina are superior to those in Upper Carolina, where white labor is employed.” It is mcre than probable that an appeal of that kind will find capitalists willing \to back the move- ment for establishing factories with negro laborers. Certainly the fact that the orators of.¢he colored men are talking business instead of politics and are look- ing for the advancement of their race through work rather than legislation is a significant feature of the time. As expositions go in these. days that at Charleston is but a slight affair, but it may have an effect of far more value than many a more preten- tious one. THE YEAR OF PROSPERITY. ACTS and statistics compiled by the American FAgriculturist show that the year 1901 takes rank as the most prosperous in history for the Amer- ican farmer. It will be remembered that it was a year of frosts in the spring and of droughts in the summer. Nearly . every section in the Union suf- fered more or less from one blight or the other; and nearly every crop was injuriously affected. Nome the less the good overbalanced the evil. Where there was a short crop there was a high price, and where the price was not high the crop was big enough to make up for it. $150,000,000 more than that of the previous year, and the values of other crops on which detailed esti- mates are not given are said to be equally gratifying. The shortage in coru was made up by the rise in price; apples have been high, and of potatoes it is said prices were so high that the short crop probably re- turned more money to the growers than any other potato crop on record. Finally, it is said that the livestock. of the farmers represents nearly $250,000,- Goo more than it did in the previous year. . These good results came as the culmination of a series of good years. A summary of the compilation made by the Agriculturist says: “The cereals— wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley-—raised in the United States during the past five years represent a others. Such havirig been the case in thé past, it is worth while to make a strong effort to obtain jus- tice and fair dealing this time. The Call yesterday pointed out that when the State Board of Equalization completed its work in 1901 the Southern Pacific Company’s railroad lines in this State were assessed at $10,500 per mile, and the Cen- | tral Pacific Company’s lines were assessed at $17,408 per mile. The unfairness of such a low assessment of the property is shown by statistics given in Poor’s Manual. The figures of the manual brought down to June 30, 1900, show that the total mileage owned by the company at that time was 7865 miles of line. The gross earnings for the entire system actually owned by the company averaged $8106 66 per mile and the net earnings were $2194 84, even according to the figures of the company. ‘The debt averaged more than $29,117 per mile, the total capital stock then being $197,832,148 and the bonded debt $31,176,500. It is well known that where real estate is mort- gaged in California the mortgage is assessed at its full value. That is the burden placed upon the prop- erty of citizens generally. The Southern Pacific Company, however, was permitted to shirk by far the larger part of the taxation it should have borne had its property been assessed on the same rule. The assessment- of last year was only about one-fourth of | value to the farmer of $6,250,000,000, or an increase of nearly $1,000,000,000 over the preceding five years. Cotton-growers have netted $400,000,000 more for the last five crops than for the previous five. Taking 1806 as a fair basis of values during the late agricul- tural depression, nine staple crops for this year rep- resent an increase in value of more than $700,000,- oco. Livestock is worth $1,000,000000 more than then. During the last five years agricultural exports have been $938,000,000 greater than for the preceding five years, a gain of 30 per cent.” That makes abrave showing for the closing years of the old century and the first year of the new. We are now starting a year that promises to be more prosperotis than even the fat years that have just closed. In California the prospect is exceptionally bright. The fruit crop was severely diminished last year by the disastrous frosts of the spring, and as a consequence there is hardly any dried fruit held over. The coming crop, therefore, will have a good ma-ket awaiting it. The high record of Jast year, then, will doubtless be broken by that of the year which now opens. The expansion of this country is a long way from reaching the limit. 1 | ——— We shall know before long now whether Mayor Schmitz is going to lead the municipal orchestra or play second fiddle. S . — ‘ HARLESTON'S exposition has won the ap- The " tecture, machinery, scientific apparatus, bookbinding_ The wheat crop is estimated to have been worth WOODEN SHOVEL, A CENTURY OLD, o 1901. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GROUND-BREAKING AT THE SITE OF THE ST. LOUIS WORLI'S FATR DECEMBER 20, A WOODEN SHOVEL MADE IN A SINGLE PIECE, SUFPOSED TO BE 10 YEARS OLD AND FOUND BURIED IN THE FLAT RIVER LEAD DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI, WAS USED BY DAVID R. FRANCIS, PRESIDENT OF THE FAIR, AT THE CEREMONY, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE OFFICIALS OF THE EXPOSITION AND A LARGE CROWD. oy ANSWERS TO QUERIES. VOCABULARY—S., City. The vocabu- lary of an ordinarily intelligent person is about 4000 words. % PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON-S., City. The area of Philadelphia is 129 square miles, that of London, England, NOT IN. THE CALL—C. W. 8., City. : The article descriptive of the training of trees into the shape of birds was not pub- lished in The Call. MUSSEL SLOUGH-—Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. The trouble between tie rail- road-and land owners at Mussel Slough occurred in May, 1880. DAKOTA, 8., City. Dakota is the In- dian for E pluribus unum and means many in one. It was used by the Indian specifically- to designate the many tribes that were under the government of one chief. DISTANCE OF SHOT—Subscriber, City. A rough rule to determine the carrying distance of a gun is that at its angle of greatest effect it will throw a shot for a distance of one mile for each inch of its caliber. JUDGMENT-B. W, City. A judgment in the State of Washington runs for six vears and may be renewed for six years at a time indefinitely by commencing an action on the judgment. ‘WEATHER—Subscriber, City. San Francisco is so situated that along the water front it is liable to a severe biow from the southeast. At any time there may come a storm, particularly from tke west, that may do damage. INDIANS—E. F., Angels Camp, Cal. At the United States Land Office in this city it is stated that a Digger Indlan, or any other Indian who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his in- tention to become such, may take up a mineral claim and hold real estate. TO PLAY CARDS—Novice, City. If you desire to learn how to play a num- ber of games of cards you should consult some professional card player, or go to a book store and purchase books that will give you the rules for playing any game you may wish to learn. GAUGE AND CALIBER—Hunter, City. Caliber and gauge in firearms are not synonymous. A thirty-two caliber rifle is one whose hore is thirty-two hun- dredths of an inch in diameter. A twelve gauge shotgun is one of the bore of which is just large enough to take a ball weigh- ing twelve to the pound. ’ ROBINS—A. S., City. There s no gen- eral law of this State that prohibits the shooting of robins. To ascertain if there is any county ordinance in this State pro- hibiting the shooting of such birds you would have to communicate with the clerk of the Board of Supervisors in each of the fifty-seven counties. POBLIC LANDS—M., Suisun, Cal. There is no public land to be thrown open in the.southern part of the State to settlers. Some land will be open to settlement in the Modoc country and in Southern Ore- gon. Communicate with the land office of the district for information, or write to the general land office at Washington, D, ¢ THE GATE OF TEARS—Subscriber, City. The following quotation ““Like some ill destined bark that steers In silence through the gate of tears,” Is from Moore, “Lalla Rookh” (The Fire Worshipers.) The gate of tears (Babel- mandeb) is the passage from the Persian Gulf into the Red Sea. It is called the gate of tears by the Arabs from the dan- ger of the navigation and the number of shipwrecks that have taken place there. The channel, which is only twenty miles wide, is very rocky. The channel is also noted for being next to the hottest place known. ‘WELL SHAPED BODY—G. A. 8., City. The proportions oi a well formed body are: The height should be exactly equal to the distance between the tip of the middle finger of each hand when the arms are fully extended. Ten times the length of the hand, or seven and one-half times the length of the foot, or five times the diameter of the chest from one armpit to the other should also give the height of ‘| the whole body. The distance from the junction of the thighs to the ground should be the same as from that point to the crown of the head. The knee should ‘be precisely between the same point and the bottom of the heel. The distance from ‘the elbow to the tip of the middle finger sho be the same as from the elbow [ to middle line of the breast. From the top of the head to the level of the chin should, be the same as from the level of the chif to that of the armpits and from the heel to the toe. SHALL AND WILL—A. B. C., City. The correctness of the expression “I do not -think I will go to the theater” is governed by the following: “The radical signification of will is purpose, intention, determination; that of shall is obligation. ‘I will do’ means I propose doing—I am | GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD + OF LETTERS The volume of book business done dur- ing Christmas week has been tremen- dous. In fact, most of the prominent book-sellers agree that this Christmas has been the busiest and best experienced for many years. The sales of numerous pocket editions of standard works have been particularly large. These books seem to have found a special market as inexpensive but most acceptable Christ- mas gifts. The usual post-Christmas lull has now fallen on the book world. How complete it is may be judged by the fact that not a single new novel has been sent out for review during the week. The novels of 192 are now being writ- ten. Of course, it has been known that Dr. Conan Doyle has for some months past been engaged on a reyised edition of his “Great Boer War,” collecting materlals and writing a categorical reply to the charges made both by foreign and native pro-Boers against British soldiers and st@tesmen in connection with the events in South Africa, but it has not been known till now to what use the proceeds of this big second edition will be put. The book—Dr. Doyle calls it a pamphlet —will consist of 60,000 words. Neither the author nor the publishers, Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., propose to make any profit. The issue will be sold to the trade at the bare cost of production; that is, about three halfpence a copy. The retail price being sixpence, the mar- gin of profit is sufficient to induce book- sellers to push the sales. Dr. Doyle is understood to have examined every speci- fic charge and has been able from various sources of information to gather suffi- cient evidence, in his opinion, to meet completely each one. Every public man and every newspaper in the country will receive a copy, and Dr. Doyle has ar- ranged for a translation in five different European languages. It is his intention to send a copy to every deputy, every statesman and every newspaper on the Continent. Dr. Doyle has written twenty-two nov- els, and he is purpesing to issue shortly a complete edition, leaving out all ths work he considers immature, which will reduce the number to fifteen volumes. He began story writing when he was 18, and continued contributing to magazines of the caliber of Cornhill and Temple Bar for ten years, working all the time at his profession of medicine. Most of his early work appeared anonymously, and Dr. Doyle remembers the late George Augustus Sala referring to a story of hig that James Payne had printed in the Cornhill, and saying that, although the author’s name was not at- tached, the practiced novel-reader would at once recognize the hand of Robert Louls Stevenson. @il @ radically, I ought to do; and a man is supposed to do what he sees he ought to do. ‘I shall do’ came to mean, I am about doing—to be, in fact, a mere an- nouncement of future action, more or less remote.”” According to this the sentence ought to be, “I do not think I shall go to the theater.” THE PALACE HOTEL—J. M. M., City. The Palace Hotel in San Francisco has a frontage of 275 feet on Market street by a depth of 250 feet. It was designed by J. P. Gaynor, architect, cost 33,500,000, was commenced in 1572 and was opened in October, 1875. SAN FRANCISCO BLOCKS—A. §., City. The length of the blocks on the south side of Market street, from First to Bighth, Is 825 feet each. Those on the north side are of irregular length. Blocks running south off Market street between First and Eighth are 550 feet long, and those running north off Market street are 275 feet long. BETTING ON A FIGHT—H. C., Pinole, €al. If John Hay bet John Ranch that Joe Laring would be licked by the Mon- tana Kid on a certain date and the referee declares the fight a draw, the bet goes with the decision of the referee, unless it was specifically understood that the out- come shall decide the bet, and not the de- cision of the referee. PENSION—M. H. L., Napa, Cal. ‘The divorced wife of a United States , pen- sioner is not entitled to a pension after the death of her once husband. It makes no difference whether the div wife marries again or remains single the chil- dren of the deceased pensioner are enti- tled to pemsion; if the pensioner * was drawing under the old law, $12 for the old- est and $2 for_each other child, if under nd $2. The same provi- ‘made for Soldiers. who fought in - the” SorSeal Spanish- ‘war as exists for those of the civil war. % —————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, fishing and most amuse- : boating, bathing, determined to dos ‘I shall do’ mm,unu.l&hmmcmm — PERSONAL MENTION. State Senator B. L. Langford is at the Lick. T. L. Caruthers, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Lick. W. F. Chandler, a mining man of Selma, Is at the California. E. L. Weber, an attorney of Napa, is registered 2t the Grand. F. W. Smith, a cigar dealer of Spokane, is registered at the Palace. C. E. Tinkham, a lumber dealer of Red Bluft, is staying at the Grand. E. H. Scott, a mining man of Callahan, is at the California with his wife. Whitney Green and B. F. Brooks, oil men of Bakersfield, are at the Palace. General N. P. Chipman is among the arrivals at the Occidental. His residence is at Red Bluff. R. H. Beamer of the State Board of Equalization is down from Woodland. He is registered at the Lick. E. A. Fischer and S. H. Friedlander left last evening for the East to secure talent for their new burlesque show. George Jessen, a merchant of Watson- ville, is in the city on a short business trip and has made his headquarters at the* Grand. —_— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Miss H. Dix, at the Park Avenue; A. Frankel, at the Gil- sey; W. W. Stetthenner, at the Holland; G. H. Dill, at the New Amsterdam: F. V. Braman and wife and W. R. Dailey and wife, at the Ashland; C. McLau and E. R. Smith, at the Plaza. From Los Angeles—C, T, ‘Whitney, at the Plaza; E. L. Hine, at the Astor; B. Jay and A. Tate, at the Imperial. From Oakland—J. A. Allen, at the Park Avenue, —————— Californians in Washington. # WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The following Californians arrived to-day and registered as follows: At the National—J. R. Good- all, A. Moncure, California, and W. L. Norris of San Mateo. At the St. James— A. H. Washburn, Miss Alice. Bruce and F. M. Ashley of Los Angeles. At the Arlington—Willlam E. Savage of Los An- geles, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Leet of California and R. C. Allen of San Diego. At the New Willlard—Willlam Curlett of San Francisco. e A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Why, gentlemen,” cried the after-din- ner speaker, tragically, “what would this nation be without the ladies?’ . “Stag-nation, of course,” murmured the cheerful idiot.”—Judge. Visitor—Why, what is that terrible noise? Is the house tumbling down? Mrs. Uptodate—Oh, no; that's. only Geraldine punching the bag. She's get- ting into training for Ketchum & Skin- en.;'s bargain sale next Friday—Brooklyn Life. “What is the remedy for poverty?” de- manded the lecturer in thunder toges. He paused for a reply, and during the pause a man in the rear of the hall called out, “You might try the gold curel—Detroit Free Press, “Gotham—Is that a fact that the dovern- ment issued an order to the postal author- ities to spell names ending burgh without the final h? Church—Yes, that's a fact. ““Well, it seems too much like aping the English; they always drop their h's, you know.”—Yonkers Statesman. “I suppose,” said the effusive lady who was visiting the Meektons, “that your wife 1s sure that she has the best hus- band that ever lived?"” “Yes,"” answered Meekton, with some- thing like a sigh; “but at the same time I don't believe she thinks that is saying much for me.”—Washington Star. e “Why don’t you make those two tiny children quit fighting?” exclaimed the kind-hearted lady. ““Well, miss,” answered the mother of the infants, “I done tried, but it weren't no use. You see, I done name one of ‘em ‘Sampson’ an’ de yuthuh ‘Schley.” And a white gemman tole me I might as weil give up. 'Case dar warn’ no hope of ’em ever livin’ peaceable.”—Washington Post. ———— Cholce candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel. —_——— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's,* ——————— Cal. 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