The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1902, SATURDAY. ....FEBRUARY 15, 1902 UNIVERSITY DIFFICULTIES. IFE is not all Greek roots and iogarithms with I American universities. True, the epidemic or sporadic check of the millionaire maketh glad JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor = A Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Mansger. MANAGER’S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 e FUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevens Teleph. Press 202. Delivered by COarriers, 15 Cenis Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms hy Mail. Including Postager luding Sunday) DAILY CALL (tnel ), one yeer.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months, n Y CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. PDAILY CALL By Single Mooth. FUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Year. All postmasters are muthorized to receive subscriptions. 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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery. corner of Clay. open until o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. @22 McAllister, ofen until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, cpen until $:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2%l Market, corner Sixteenth, open 1util 9 o'clock. 1008 Va- Jencis. open until § o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open $ o'clock. 2200 Fillmore. cpen until 9 p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Columbla—"In the Palace of the King."” Orpheum—Vaudeville. @ Opera-house— ‘Raglan’s W ““The Sign of the Cros: s Comedy." , Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterroon and Mechanics' Pavil n: n—Juvenile Fairyiand Carnival Sherman-Clay Hal Angelus Piano Player Recital this aft- iano Recital this afternoon. g Recital Monday evenn; aces to-day. politan Hall politan Hai Oakland Racetrack. Feb. 17 AUCTION SALES. 2. G. Leyng—Monday evening, February 1 cehorses aud Stallions, at 721 Howard stre ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS. HE free trade efforts of the Cuban junta con- e with unabated zeal, and profess to be en- ouraged by signs of weakening on the part of s of the Committee of Ways and Means. Cuban Boards of Trade and other commercial bodies explode frequently with cries of distress, predicting ruin and starvation for the island unless sugar, to- bacco and fruits get free entry to our market. Over and over again the plea is made that by sep- Cuba from Spain we were the means oi destroying Cuba’s Spanish market, and she has none left unless she can break into ours. Inasmuch as the island was for twenty years in chronic state of rebellion against Spain and her market, engaged in a bloody struggle to separate from both, there is a far-fetchedness in the accusation that we were guilty of the divorce. Cuba made us weep the fountain of pity dry by her tale of woe. We came to her rescue, and now we are accused of losing her market for her! The statistics give the measure of that market. Cuba sold in Spain from 1891 to 1896 an average an- nually of $6,500,000. In the three years 1894-96 Cuba #old in Spain only 65,872 tons of sugar. In the same years she sold in the United States 2,251,819 tons. Our market is open to her on as good terms as in 1895-06, and if she prospered then, as it is declared she did, when Spain was taking only one ton of her sugar to forty tons sold in the United States, it is somewhat difficult to see why she is to be pauperized by having the same market for forty tons to every one ton she lost by losing the Spanish market. We know with much accuracy that free trade for Cuban sugar means the destruction of our domestic sugar industry. We know that it came into being by protection. We know that it was the first signi- ficant extension of protection to agriculture, and we know that the farmers of many States have profited by it, and that it means the addition of a new crop to the variety by which they make a living from their 1 Extension of protection to them was an T arating iand. economic experiment that has become a demonstra- tion. Why should it be abandoned, to the injury of American farmers, in order that Cuba may be deliv- ered from hypothetical distres Why not consider the interest of the American farmer and make the Cuban the subject of experiment? Why not let Cuba g0 on, organize her government, take the indepen- dence for which she fought and which we gained for her, and wait and see whether she goes over the hill to the poorhouse by losing the chance to sell one ton of sugar in Spain to forty sold in the United States? At present the frec trade proposition is based upon the expectation that Cuba will reciprocate by abating her tariff on American manufactures. Why press such a policy while Cuba has mno government, no agthority to promise anything nor to redeem any- thing? Thé pesmaturity of it is apparent. Reciprocity is between independent Governments. The junta is de- manding free trade and promising reciprocity, but it represents no government capable of making a tariff or doing any other thing which governments may do. Wiit till Cuba has 2 government. Wait till we see whether losing the sale of one-fortieth of her sugar to Spain puts her in rags and tatters. Wait till the American farmer is heard from on the subject of a protection policy, of which he bears all the bur- dens and from which he gets none of the profits. Meantime let experience deal with the woeful future predicted for Cuba. ———— The offer of the Brooklyn physician to submit his body for vivisection has stirred up the District Attor- ney, who announces that if the vivisection be under- taken he will arrest every man concerned in it, and if the doctor should die he will try to get the operators convicted of manslaughter. Thus we have 2 nice js- sue between law and surgery, and we shall see whether any of the would-be vivisectionists are will- ing to make martyrs of themselves in the interest of science. Great Northern Hotel; the heart of the faculty and causeth the student body to carmine the campus, and commencement comes and goes in great radiance. The alumni meet and dine and put garlands on the brick or marble brow of Alma Mater and call the roll of great men suckled by her. The graduates go forth in the fond belief that the world is a great pie, and, using their dip- Jomas as a knife, they will cut a slice therefrom that is just their size. But they find many at life's pie counter, and with pick and spade some chip at it; others use the sword and some the pen, and still others try to carve a piece with a poker hand, ard the graduate must needs compete with many in a field that he expected to occupy alone. Down South there has arisen a form of university trouble that is peculiar. The trustees of the Agricul- tural University of Florida found necessary the occu- pation of a part of the ground that in its period of disuse had accommodated the public as a by-way, a cut across lots. The people resented the reclama- | tion of their own by the trustees, and to emphasize their resentment fired the house of the president at night, nearly cremating his family and destroying the | cherished relics amd scientific and artistic collections of a lifetime. The fact that the president was from the North probably accounted for his selection for Fadmonitory purposes instead of the trustees, who were residents. The fact that the president had noth- | ing to do with the land in dispute nor its disposition | did not figure with these promoters of public rights. Another case of neighborhood discipline has just occurred in Tennessee. Away down at Sewanee, in | that State, the philomathic heart is turning ever, be- | cause there’s where the Southern University stays. In its developmental period the washing for the fac- | uity and students had been done by the people of the | neighborhood. As it could be done by women it re- | leased the bread-winners from responsibility and they {could hunt, fish, talk politics, Iynch niggers and | drink red liquor. Sewanee by this means had jachieved a “leisure class,” which was highly appre- ciated, by itself. But the Southern University aspired to wash its | own linen; and constructed a laundry, with all the | modern improvements, for that purpose. Then { Sewance's leisure class arose with torch in hand and | burn he laundry to the bitter end, and notified the ! not to build another, but to continue let- wash to the neighbors. | universit | ting out The faculty and trustees of the Southern Univer- | sity ruminated over this wash business—chewed the . so to speak—and decided to wash out the indig- another laundry. When this purpose became the leisure class of Sewanee served notice on nity { know :{[11(' university authorities that not only would the | new laundry be destroyed if built, but if the intention | to build it were not at once abandoried all the build- ings of the university would be blown up or down, as | the case may be, with dynamite. | The officers concluded the time had come to be ob- | durate, and so they obdurated, publicly and defiantly. | But they had not counted on the persistence of the | leisure class of Sewanee. With them it was a ques- { tion of having to go at work to support their wives { instead of being supported by them. | They met the obdurate university a trifle more than { half way by notifying its officers that they would kill | them all. A skull and crossbones committee visited the vice chancellor and steward of the institution with a foot rule to measure the shortness of their shrift, and steward and vice chancellor stood not upon the order of their going but went at once, and are not any more forever up to this moment in Sewanee. The other professors are in a sort of siege, and the laun- dry is not going up. The anti-laundry people are described in general terms as ‘“‘covites,” white, but semi-civilized. The situation they have created is complicated by the peo- ple of Tullahoma, a near-by town, where civilization has its outward and visible signs in a newspaper and opera-house, who declare that they will defend the laundry vi et armis. And there the situation stands, in statu quo. The university is short one laundry and two officers, and the cause of higher culture is in danger. Well may the collegian cry out for one hour of the student body of Harvard or Yale to put the Sewaneese under that discipline for which they are celebrated. One initiation into a Greek letter frater- nity would teach that leisure class enormities of which it never dreamed, and make its native barbarities look like the sport of babes and sucklings. A Massachusetts tramp declared in court that he would rather go to jail for three months than to saw wood for two hours, but probably the winter climate had something to do with the decision. Sawing wood is warming while it lasts, but it cannot keep a man out of the blizzards fiom now until spring, and that is what three months in jail will do. REGULATING A NUISANCE, AN FRANCISCO is not the only city where S high fences and billboards constitute at once a nuisance and a menace to the community, nor is it the only city where a difficulty has been found in suppressing the evil. New York is nearly as badly off as ourselves in that respect, and is now looking for relief to the State Legislature, where a bill has been introduced which undertakes to provide a rem- edy by subjecting out-of-door advertising to taxa- tion. The Call has repeatedly directed attention to the success of the taxation method of regulating the evil and eliminating many of its worst features. It has been tested on an extensive scale and for a long period of time in France, and has been found to work well in every particular. Should the New Yorkers, therefore, adopt the proposed measure they would be entering upon no untried experiment, but upon a policy whose expediency has been demonstrated by practice. According to recent reports the French Government not only keeps the stmpets of its cities and the landscape of its rural districts free from the more ‘hideous of advertising posters and lettering, but it raises at the same time an annual revenue of which it permits. According to the reports that come to us the New | York bill is designed mainly to prevent the disfigure- ment pf the country by offensive advertising such as has now become so prevalent throughout the United States. It does not undertake to forbid such adver- tising altogether, but seeks to make it less flaring and | obtrusive by imposing upon it a tax at the rate of { one cent for each two square feet of surface occupied. It is provided that one-third of the revenue is to go {10 the State and two-thirds to the county where the advertising is displayed. It is to be hoped the hLill will be adopted and the { efficacy of the plan demonstrated by an American +erwmple. The measure has many good features Te 3,000,000 francs from the advertising of the kind. provides a check upon a’'serious and increasing evil, it tends to free cities from the dangerous nuisance of high inflammable fences along the principal thor- oughfares, and finally i€ provides a ‘desirable addition to the revenues of the eommunity by a tax which, so far from being burdensome, will be positively bene- ficial to the public. Moreover, it will be a tax which cannot be shifted nor evaded, for billboard and.pos- ter advertising is too cénspicuous to be overlooked even by the most dim-eyed of tax assessors or col- lectors. Should New York adopt the bill other States will be sure to follow the example. In the meantime it is for San Francisco to decide whether she will be a follower or a leader in a movement so beneficial to the public. The present high fence ordinance has been declared invalid. A new one must be enacted. Why not try taxation? BRITISH ARMY SCANDALS. DEVELOPMENTS which have followed the demand in Parliament for an investigation of the charges made against the War Office in connection with the purchase of horses for the urmy in South Africa threaten to precipitate upon the Brit- ish public a scandal of vast proportions.. There are rumors and reports of frauds in more things than in the prices paid for horses, and while these are doubt- less exaggerated, as stch rumors generally are, it ap- pears that a thorough overhauling of the War Office is something like a matter of necessity if the interests The Liberals have not made as yet any very vig- ‘orous efforts to get exact statements from the Min- istry, but they have managed to bring about disclos- ures which tend to the conclusion that scarcely any kind of supplies have been obtained for the army on strict busineds principles and with due regard for economy and efficiency. It is charged that speculat- ing contractors have obtained contracts from the Government tpon terms which enabled them to make | thousands of pounds by reselling them, and in some cases the charges set forth specific instances of such frauds. A ‘specimen case is that of the contract recently granted for supplying meat to the army. Members of the opposition in Parliament questioned the Ministry on the subject, but the questions were evaded. An investigation was undertaken outside the House, and the result has been a statement that it can be proven that the contract was sold three times. The first con- tractor is alleged to have disposed of it for £10,000 to parties who sold it afterward for £40,000, and those It is to be noted that-do-not-join in expenditures of the or, as the Saturday swindled on -a very Beers group for a still larger sum. that even conservative journals the cry of fraud admit that the Government have been wasteful, Review puts it, “We have been large scale.” The Liberals are not making as much use of these disclosures as might be expected, but there is a prob- ability that their lack of vigor is due largely to a de- sire on the part of the King to have 2 harmonious Government and Parliament around him at the time of the coronation. "Almost everything that is done in Parliament shows the influence of a strong power tending to peace and quietness. The' Liberals have oppeosition to the Government, but they have declined to take advantage of the openings nfade by the Irish Nationalists. In short, Liberals as welt as Conserva- tives seem to have decided to let/this session of Par- liament glide along as smoothly as possible to the end.” Sooner or later, however, there will be a reckoning between the people and the War Office. Parliament may postpone the issue and try to avoid disclosures that would lead to a scandal, but the public mind is evidently becoming excited over the revelations that have been made by the press. If the facts are not made known by official investigation it is quite likely some enterprising newspaper will take up the mat- ter and bring them to light. Too much has been already made known for the question to be put by altogether, and when once the coronation is over we shall doubtless find public sentiment forcing the Lib- erals to take up the fight or to abandon the field and let the leadership of the opposition pass into the more vigorous hands of the radicals. A of disease germs have been found in the Capi- tol by Architect Woods than. exist in the average bacteriological laboratory. He has secured the bacteria of lockjaw, tuberculosis, typhoid, in- fluenza and many other diseases. The House has produced twenty-three germs of various kinds to seven found in the Senate Chamber.” Here's a pretty howdyedo. Why should the Rep- resentatives produce twenty-three germs for every seven produced by the Senators? Is it a mere ques- tion of the numerical superiority of the membership of the lower house, or is there some deeper law’ in operation? One speculator on the subject says the germs are a survival of the Civil War, when the basement of the Capitol was for a time used as an emergency hospi- tal. A patriotic people will not accept that, theory. The war has long been over, and all of its germs are gone. Moreover, a soldier germ would not in- juriously affect Congress. It might prove beneficial CONGRESSIONAL GERMS. WASHINGTON dispatch says: “More kinds veteran germ in his blood. If it injured his health it would at least give him a claim for a Civil War pension, and it would be cheaper for the Government to pay him that than to pay him a salary as Congress- man. It is not likely, however, that any germ has come down to this Congress from the old days when sick and wounded soldiers lay in the basement of the Capitol. There has been too much whitewash used about that building every year and at nearly all sea- sons of the year for any bacteria to have lived and propagated through all the long period that has in- tervened since that bygone time. It is more likely that the germs came from Washington itself; that the door of the Capitol was left open one night and they blew in; or else that they were taken there by Congressmen themselves, or sent up in petitions, or generated by spontaneous creation. As for the lock- jaw germ, it may have attained its admission by a special providence. What could be better for the country than a prevalence of lockjaw among the members of both houses for the next six months? A writer in Harper's Weekly says Prince Henry is “one of the pleasantest royal gentlemen in the world. He is very good-looking and they say he has a clean, sweet mind and a cheerful spirit.” After that there can be no further hesitation.” Let him come in. | The Darien canal project is not making so m;xch finss as Panama and Nicaragua. but it is young vet. of the army and of the treasury are to be conserved. | parties transferred it to Cecil Rhodes and the De | not only neglected to take the lead in making a sharp ] to almost any man in either House to get a good war | PRESIDENT AND MRS. ROOSEVELT WORSHIP AT DIFFERENT CHUI}CHE_S | OME wandering comment caused by reason of the fact that President Roosevelt attends one church in Washington sa York Commercial 2 c and c; sons, and attemted to tinge the hade of sensational- church is democrat- | i | Roosevelt another | | | { lc; Mrs. Roosevelt’s aristocratic, ete. The | simple fact is' that cach attends the | church of his and her preference, and that | s all there is to matter. | churches are small. The Presi- | e German Reformed, the | Rev. John Schick, n or, is, ft true, | auite democratic. the Pres'dent’s church all strangers | o'clock to be admitted, are all free, the church is crowded by that time. At the other only those who | come after 11:15 o'clock, when it is sup-. posed alt the pew owners have taken their | seats, are admitted. ; The President is of the Dutch Reformed | fatth, but his church not being represent- | t come before il for as the seats ed at the caplital, he attends the German Reform. He is a constant and punctual Sunday ' morning attendant, but he at- tends at no other time. He leaves the south front of the White House at twenty | minutes to 11 sharp. He is generally ac- | companied by two or more of his chil- dren, and sometimes by friends he hap- pens to he entertaining. The little church is a crude affair. It was established twenty-three years ago as a mission to the capital, but it was thought several times it would have to be abandoned. Tts average membership until recent years was but thirty-five. Under the present pastor it grew to number 100 | communicants. Mrs. Roosevelt does not, like her hus- {band, shine alone at her church. St. [ R O 2 ) EXTRA PAY—A. M. S., Martinez, Cal. All volunteers who during the Spanish- American war served in a foreign coun- try were allowed two months’ extra pay. All who are entitled to such should file application with the War Department at ‘Washington, D. C. ANSWERING A LETTER—A. B. C. D, Oakland, Cal. If you saw ‘“‘the advertise- ment of a lady who wanted a gentleman correspondent” and you answered it with stamp inclosed for a reply, and have not had the letter returned to you, it is like- ly that the lady received your letter, but did not desire to correspond. DETECTIVE AGENCY-D. D. D., Oak- land, Cal. 'This department does nof in- dorse or vouch for the rellability of any individual or firms and for that reason cannot advise you if a certain detective agency in Milwaukee is a reliable con- cern. Suggest that you direct a letter of inquiry to the Police Department of that city. . PREFERABLE CORNERS—A, S., City. The most preferable corners within Devisadero and Webster streets, Golden Gate avenue and Post street, are for resi- dence purposes the northeast corners, for they receive the morning and afternoon sun and for that reason command a higher price. For other purposes corners [ are valued according to conditions. HOFF'S REMEDY-T. O., San Rafael, Cal. This department has not been able to find any account of the medical world having been electrified by any remedy for the cure of consumption by a Dr. Hoff at any time within the last ten years. Some years ago Dr. Koch presented to the med- ical world a discovery for the cure of that disease, being the injection of virus, which he fully explained. PAID UP CAPITAL—P. M., Santa Rosa, Cal. If a number of men organize a cor- poration with a stated amount of capital and so many shares and the shareholders pay up the full amount of the stock, the treasurer should have in his hands or un- der his control the full amount of the cap- italization, less possibly such sums as he may have been authorized to pay for the necessary expenses of the corporation. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY-K. H, City. One dealer In old coins offers for 5-cent fractional notes of the first issue, with perforated edges, like postage stamps, 25 cents for 10-cent ‘hotes of the same issue, 40 cents, and for 2i-cent notes of that issue 50 cents. For the same with straight edges 50 per cent premium is of- fered, a 5-cent note with the bust of Clark commands a premium of 5 cents, the same with a red back a premium of 15 cents and a 25-cent note with the bust oi Fessenden and “25 on solid bronze commands a premium of $225. These premiums are offered only for new and ‘arign notes. 3 PERAGASY (3, LIRs.Roos EVE LTS GHURCH— = CHURCHES ATTENDED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE PASTORS. YHE PRESIDENT AND» WIFE AND MAN REFORMED; MRS. ROOSEVELT'S IS THE ENGLISH CHURCH. | MR. ROOSEVELT'S IS THE GER- 5 Johm's ¢ Church has always been known as the President’s church. It is also known as the English church. More than half the country’s presidents and nearly all the members of the British embassies have worshiped there. It is the chief senatorial and cabinet religious rendez- vous. The many outsiders and strangers who flock thither generally have to wait until the communicants are in their pews. The church is situated on Sixteenth and H streets, just across Lafayette square from the White House, opposite Secretary Hay's home and a block from Senator Depew’s mansion. The interior is rich — and elaborate. The vested choir and the mighty organ are in contrast to the vol- unteer singers and the melodion at the President’s church. The Rev. Mackey-Smith, the rector of the echurch, {s very wealthy by in- heritance and gives over his salary to works of charity for the Washington poor. He lives In a fine home on Sixteenth street near Massachusetts avenue. Sometimes the children attend church with Mrs. Roosevelt. They will be left to decide for themselves as to what church they will become members of. These two churches are a Sunday sight for visitors. g e B S e e ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES. :|GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF. LETTERS There has, been a steady demand for several works that are already popular, and also with the expiration of the copy- right in several works of Darwin an in- creased demand has been experienced. J. Murray's cheaper reprints have been eSpecially in request. b The ‘“three decker,” as the three vol- ume novel used to be called, has been dead for many years now, but it is rather curious to learn how Its death has affected the publication of latter day novels. It was a great boon in many ways to the public and the libraries. So far as the author and publisher are con- cerned, I learn from an obliging pub- lisher, the departure of the old ‘“three decker,” instead of hclping cheaper edi- tions of their books, has damaged their sales to a very considerable extent. The three volume rovel quickened the demand for a book in tnis way. Several books were published for which there was a very great demand among readers, and libraries were forced to buy large quan- tities of copies. Then a lady wrote a portentously serfous novel which a stctesman belauded. The result was that there was not a library subscribcr in the country but wanted to read it, and that without any delay. The libraries ‘“kicked” on realizing the influence of the power that issued the edict, which ‘was the death knell of the three volume novel. What has been the result? The pub- lishers are feeling it now very badly. The state of affairs from their point of view seems to be growing worse rather than better. cheaper editions now wait until the libra- ries are shedding their surplus stocks, when they camy buy sccond-hand coples. The publisher also ld that there are only three authors mow whose could be published at a profit in two- shilling form, and that he had just printed a first edition of three thousand copies of a novel which a few years ago would have run into ten thousand. Another new monthly comes out. An- other goes to sleep. “THe Country” is the namé of the newcomer, which is ex- pected to make its bow early next month. It is to deal in a literary man- ner with the life, industiy and sports of the country, and all rural matters in gen- eral. Messrs. Dent & Co., who are bringing it out, have gone to Words- worth for a motto with which to adorn the new monthly: “‘Come_igto the light of Nature be your teacher.” “Of party politics, the stage, wars, fashions, the stock markets, and so forth,” the editor will say in the preface, “the magazine will have little to do. Chatter about the private lives of indi- things; let viduals will be studiously avoided. Of the subjects which remain we shall deal The people who used to buy | novels | PERSONAL MENTION. H. L. Shannon of Redding is at the Lick. ‘W. D. Tillotson of Redding !s at thy Grand. W. G. Kerchoff of Los Angeles is at the Palace. C. C. Belding, a mining man of Orovills, is at the Lick. C. J. Titus, a banker of Mountain View, is at the Palace, C. M. Hartley, a fruit grower of Vaca~ ville, is at the Grand J. A. Yerrington of the California Truckee Railroad Is at the Palace, ol Captain J. N, Patton, U. S. A., stationed at Mare Island, is at the Oecidental. Dr. Keifer, a well-known physiclan of Los Angeles, is at the Grand with his wife. H. Z. Osbourne, United States Marshal of the Southern District of Californ: at the Palace. 61 e @ with those which in some way are con- nected with rural life.”” In the first number the honorable Mrs. Earle is to contribute an article on “Unfamiliar Flowers.” The Marquess of Granby is down for “Midwinter Musing.” ‘‘Notes from the Royal Gardens” will be con- tributed by John Dunn, the head gar- dener of Windsor. The monthly maga- zine that goes to sleep is the poor little ‘“Thrush,” which piped for about a year. Though many of England’s best poets have sung the public would not listen. The scheme to erect a memorial to the author of “Lorna Doone” in Exeter Cathedral has been entirely successful. A sum of £200 (31000) has been sub- scribed in this country toward sculptur- ing a bust of Blackmore, and, when the American contribution has been received it is intimated the list will be closed. The engagements are announced of Miss Ellen Thorneyecroft Fowler and her sister Edith. They are the daughters of Sir Henry Fowler, M. P. The literary career of the first named lady is well known, but Miss Edith also has begun to win fame as a novelist. Miss Ellen Fowler has become engaged to Afred L. Felkin, M. A, of the Royal Naval College, Eltham, while Miss Edith s to marry the Rev. W. R. Hamilton, vicar of St. George's Chureh, Wolverhampton. Miss Margaret Warrender, who is at present engaged on the life of the late Lady John Scott, is the composer of the world ous song, “Annie Laurie.” —_—— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.® —_—————— Cal. glace fruit 0c per Ib at Townsend's.* ————— Townsend's California glace fruits, e a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends, 69 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * ————————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men b: the Press C“{P‘"l Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- Zomery street. Telephone Main .