The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1902, Page 6

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Field Greater Minstrels. he Serenade.’ ‘Brother John. *“The Christian.” Sherman-Clay Hall—Concert. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. e A SAN JOSE EXAMPLE. ITIZENS of San Jose have a beautiful city ‘ to be proud oi. if they would govern it right- and a golden future immediagtely before them, if they would make good use of the opportuni- ties of the present. It is in their power not only to advance their own interests and the welfare of the city, but to sct a good example of civic patriotism and energy that would benefit the entire State. It appears, however, from reports that a considerable mumber of them have 1o such patriotism, but are in- different alike to needs of the present and the promise of the future. While they may be proud ‘of their city, they 2re snot ambitious to make the city proud of them, and instead of setting a good example to citizens of other places they prefer to be pointed to “s 3 warning. The reports from these conclusions are drawn are not thefreports of critics, nor of reformers. They come from the registration office. A city elec- tion is soon to take place in San Jose and those who wish to vote and have a voice in determining who shall administer the zffairs of the municipality must register. The report says: “There are about 33500 voters in the city lim and although registration for the city election, which occurs May 19, has been in progress about two months, only 3500 voters have registered. This leaves at least 2000 yet to register.” That the corrupt or corruptible elements of the voting population have registered goes without say- ing. To them 3n election is a matter of business. They have bossés to serve and schemes to support, and they are duly sent to the registration office so that none may fail on election day. To the better clements of the people a city election is also a matter of business, and of very important business at that, but they do not deem it so. It is apparently to them 2 trouble and a vexation. They prefer to have noth- ing to do with it. They do not register. When clection day comes the bosses will round their gangs to the polls without missing a single vote, but the leaders who 2re striving for honest govern- ment will find many a good citizen lamenting that he cannot respond to the appeals made to him, and mourning that he cannot cast a vote for honesty be- cause he neglected to register. -Then if the gangs carry the day and a corrupt government be imposed upon the city the negligent ones will be heard criti- cizing, croaking, growling and complaining about boss rule. Having made no effort to save the city from such domination they will quiet their con- sciences by talking loudly of reform and good gov- ernment. The example of these negligent citizens of San Jose comes 25 a timely warning to the people of other cities of California. There are a good many elections of ome kind or another to be held this year, and for every oné of them registration is neces- sary. The citizen who does not register cannot vote, and he who cannot wote counts for nothing at the polls. He is a political nullity in his community, no matter how prominent he may be in trade, the pro- fessions or in society. This is a government by vot- ers and not by dignitaries, and from a political stand- point no man counts as a good citizen, or even as a citizen at ali, unless he registers, Over and over again, with each succeeding elec- tion, an opportunity iz offered to the better elements of the people to clect competent men to office, but again and again the registration reports show that thousands are indifferent to the right of suffrage, and when the votes are counted after election the results show that those who neglected to register were not those who make up the gangs of the bosses. The story is an old one, but it can never be repeat- ed too often so long as good men neglect their po- litical dutics. The San Jose example should be a warning to San Francisco and to the State at large. which Canada has a statesman by the name of Gourlay, who, in a recent speech in Parliament, said: “If it becomes necessary to fight the Yankees we will be ready to fight them in twenty-four hours, and after six months of it we shall capture their capital and an- nex their country to Canada” That is a very good challenge, but of course we cannot accept until Can- gda whips Great Britain and makes a reputation in wur class. | MISTAKES ABOUT THE STATE. NE can hardly read anything that appears in O the East about California without encoun- tering evidence that the State is but little understood by those who have never visited it and by those who have seen only part of it. 3 Sojourners in San Francisco in the summer, who have come by steamer from the north and departed by the same means for the south, have tales to tell about the cold July here, the brisk winds, the sealskin coats and parasols carried by the ladies in midsum- mer; and, by comparison, of the clement weather and caressing zephyrs of the south. Whereupon they proceed to conclude that Northern California is touched by the polar isotherm, while the southern part of the State enjoys a northerly curve in the equa- tor. : An exploration of the whole State would show them it enjoys a commion climate and a community of productions throughout its whole length. South- ern California has had a ‘monopoly, however, albeit not of physical conditions. These are not due.to man and he deserves no credit for their gexistence. The monopoly of the south is to the credit of her people. They created it and deserve to enjoy its fruits. It is a monopoly of enterprise, a monopoly of a common purpose, promoted by a common en- ergy. In this they are deserving of all praise and our sincerest flattery of their achievements is in the form of our determination to imitate them. They know what they want and they seek it in company. When a rope has to be pulled on, they all pull.. One does not take hold and.cry, “Yo heave ho!” and all the rest cut his line or try to beat his hands until they drop it. All take hold and they raise such a chorus oi “Yo heave ho!” that it has come to be heard around the world. Everybody gees, or wants to go., to Southern Caii- fornia. The stream of winter travel there has grown to be a flood, which cverruns the capacity of hotels facter than they can be built, and no one ever heard jof a visitor that escaped the enchantment of that sec- tion of the State. Under such circumstances it is no wonder that hundreds of thousands of people think that, having seen Southern California, they have seen all there is of the State. that they have seen more that is enjoyable, charming, | conducive to pleasure and useful to jaded nerves and wheels run down than can be found in any other | country in the world, but they have seen only a small part of it and only a fraction of California. This State long ago passed into a figure of speech. One of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, deliver- ing the address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh Univer- sity, desired to find a material antithesis to illustrate the value of education, and he said: “In place of education, if offered the wealth of California, which should be chosen?” % Let us extend the monopoly of Southern California enterprise until, like a beneficent octopus, it grasps the whole State. Then real knowledge of California will be spread abroad. We want to get, the whole commonwealth into literature. Italy enjoys her pres- ent profitable reputation because from ancient days until now her clement climate, her sunny skies, her olives, oranges and vines have been in literature. She was accessible from the damp and foggy climate of the British Isles and from cold Northern Europe, and their poets have stng and their artists have paint- ed the charms of Italy for fifteen hundred years. Now the harp and the brush are celebrating California, und it is well. But, turning to the present day and practicalsside of it; the swrong impressions that are abroad should be corrected. The latest that has come under our observation is an Eastern magazine article on irrigation, written by Colonel Chittenden. Searching for a figure to char- acterize the impolicy of opposing irrigation because of the land it would bring into action, he says: “We might as well object to the vast fruit production of Southern Californi This carries the impression that Northern California produces no fruit. As a matter of fact, of the 83,729 ten-ton carloads of fruit and fruit products-exported by this State last year 48,450 carloads were from Northern and 35,279 from Southern California. But of the Southern export 30,208 carloads were citrus fruits, leaving only 4981 carloads of miscellaneous fruits. Orange culture in Northern California covers a vast stretch of country from Porterville to Oroville, but ié in its infancy, so | that Northern California exported only 2088 carloads, but she sent to market 46,362 carloads of miscella- neous fruits. It is evident, then, that Colonel Chi tenden ‘should have said “the fruits of California,” |and refrained from an incorrect division of the State. Northern California simply has her eggs in mote bas- kets than Southern California and that means a va- ried and profit-promising basis for her prosperity. Discussing municipal government in New York | Bishop Potter said recently thaf at one city election ! he made an inquiry and found that along both sides | of Fifth avenue from Washington Square to Central | Park only thirty-eight residents remained at home to lvote. The rest had gone off for some kind of amuse- | ment. |ing of public spirit, and it is time for prominent citi- | zens to start a reform movement among themselves. E brightly and gave us a day to be remembered for its serene beauty, came to the people on the wrong side of the Rockies with about every form of storm that is known to the Weather Bureau. The ! old proverb that if March come in Yike a lion it will go out like a lamb was refuted this year in that sec- tion of the Union. Coming in like a lion raging for destruction, the whole month poured down upon the | East torrents of rain that flooded wide regions of country irom Maine to Louisiana and lashed the waters by winds that in many cases amounted to ter- rific tempests. Not a week went by without bringing a report of some catastrophe caused by floods or winds, and Easter Suuday became a day of something like terror by reason cf the fearful disasters that took place in so many houses of worship while the services of the day were going on. For mote than a week preceding Easter the weather of the East had been unusually stormy and severe. Reports from New York City told of great windstorms around that region, during which homes, barns and churches were blown down, cattle killed and many persons injured by the falling walls of buildings. From the Mississippi Valley and from the Southern States reports came of rising rivers, farms and towns swept by swiit rushing waters apd many AN EASTER CONTRAST. ASTER, which dawned over California so people drowned. Over Western Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio the storms seem to have been at their worst, for the destruction in that region included in its sweep not only ordinary buildings, but big struc- tural bridges of steel. A % While all that rage of the elements was under way in the East the people of California were enjoying a, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESD. It is true that having seen | San Francisco hardly makes a better show-. sky been more in harmony than with us on that da\y of festival. Living in the glow of the sunshine and the beauty of the flowers, it would have been difficult for us to comprehend how the breezes that blow so healthfully and pleasantly here could be akin to the destructive elemental forces that wrought ruin, wreck ‘and death over the East. e —— " We have been told that the organization of self- governing municipalities is progressing rapidly in the Philippines, but the Mapila Critic reports that the other day Governor Johnson of the province of Isabella sent word to the various ‘“presidentes”: “You will please have the municipal council pass at once an ordinance prescribing the attendance on all days of stidy at some public school of all children between the ages of seven and fifteen who are not enrolled within some private school.” Whether it be wise to force education upon a people who do not wish it is a question, but the power of a Governor to command a municipality to enact any ordinance he desires is certainly not' American. I pressions of some of the Southern Congressmen upon the pronosition to investigate the basis of representation in that section. .They treat it as no- Lody’s business whether they have fifty or sixty more Representatives and more electora! votes than they are entitled to under the constitution. If they have been; <o ingenious in eliminating the*negro vote that it will stand judicial tests, that is their business. But the constitution says that when the negro voter is denied that right all negroes shall be removed from the basis of representation, and that is the business of the whole country. The South again desires to be let alone while it treats the negro as unfit for repre- sentation in the Government, but uses him to in- crease its representation in the Government. That is the question, and the only question, involved. Mr. Bellamy of North Carolina, while discussing the river and harbor bill in the House, and, charac- teristically, trying to increase the appropriations therein for his State, took occasion to discuss the pregro question. It is interesting that he, like all of | them, admits, unconscious that it closes their case THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO. T is both amusing and amazing to read the ex- express purpose of depriving negroes of the ballot. He is quoted in the Record as saying: “For nearly la third of a century a black cloud, the menace of negro domination, has been hovering over the South. And just at this period, when we are about to peace- fully settle the racial question, when peace and con- tentment are prevailing throughout the Southland, when our people had begun to study the great eco- nomic questions of this country rather than partisan politics, when the sunlight of hope had begun to disperse forever that black cloud and solve the race question peacefully forever, we are startled and awakened by another effort to interfere in our do- mestic concerns, stir up sectional strife and bitter- ness, and tear the gaping wound ajfresh.” Now all that is very fine, but it does not touch the issue. The constitution says that the much dreaded black cloud is the sole condition upon which negroes shall be counted in the basis of representation; “thg sunlight of hope” W when gets into business it transacts \ the cloud and the apportionment at the same time. If only white men are permitted to vote in the Southland, then only white men can be counted in the basis of representation. The North proposes no interference in the domestic concerns of the South, but it does propose to take cargq of its own interests, lwhich depend upon its equality in this Government. The position of the Southland is the grossest, most despicable and sinister interference in the domestic i concerns of the North. Tt is a denial to every North- ‘ rn-man of his proper constitutional equality with every Southern man. This cannot be obscured by all the tropes and metaphors and hypocritical heroics that can lcad the air with sound in that section. 1f it is sectionalism for the North to insist upon its equal rights, so be it. It does not propose to take from the South a single right that belongs to it un- der the constitution. "It could not do so if it wished. But the South proposes to hold on to a right of which the constitution specifically deprives it, and the unconstitutional enjoyment of which degrades the equality of the North. Mr. Bellamy continued: “Right here, in passing, let me say if we are not disturbed in the peace and security that now prevail and never throug_h negro domination again have our treasury squandered and cur taxes made more burdensome than we can bear and our people become demoralized, that we will feap rapidly to the front and become the greatest manu- facturing State in the Union.” Go on leaping; no one wants to stop you, Mr. Bellamy. But you can't deprive nearly half your population of representation and continue to count it in the basis of representation, because that is for- bidden by the constitution. g The Crumpacker resolution may not pass now. The issue may not be joined. But when all the Northern people have a chance to understand that “the Southland” is enjoying representation based on 2 negro population that is forbidden to vote, and that the constitution requites that the ballot and the ap- portionment shall ge together, then such a resolution will pass, for the North has too much self-respect to accept the degradation of such inequality. The issue applies to all men in the North, and it is a melancholy spectacle to'see Northern Democrats with faces shining with pleasure in apparent enjoy- ment of being reduced from equal citizenship and ]shorn of their equality as citizens. It was hoped that the Northern “dough face” had ceased to appear in our politics. N — There has been organized in New York an associa- tion known as the Burr Legion, with the object of vindicating the character-of Burr and furnishing him with a good reputation, and while the work when done will probably be labor in vain, it is perhaps bet- ter for idle New Yorkers to do that than to play ping pong. g Several officials of this municipality have filed an emphdtic protest against paying the premiums on the bonds which protect the city from the acts of dishon- est officers. An opinion on the matter from ex- Treasurer Widber might prove timely and valuable. Dr. Edmund J. James, president-clect of North- westerst University, is evidently planning to' win a iche in the temple of twentieth century martyr: He says that co-education is-losing ground in the great ‘American institutions of learning. 5 ——— The incorrigible local youth who tried to kill him- self the other day because he was to be placed in an h institution where he can do no harm deserves sincere | {day of Arcadian -w:d.‘nu:. Rarely have nf&md | sympathy. !;Ie should have succeeded. L adversely, that their new franchise laws are for the electric -car: fliled with passengers. THE GERM " _TO THE PRESIDENT THIS IS THE GOLD BRACELET PRESENTED TO MISS ROOSEVELT BY PRINCE HENRY AS A GIFT FROM THE KAISER IN APPRECIATION OF HER ACT IN CHRISTENING THE ME KAISER, WHICH IS MOUNTED AT THE MIDDLE OF THE CH. MONDS. PERSONAL MENTION. Edward Graves of Washington, D. C., is among the arrivals at the Palace. A. E. Eisen, a vineyardist of Fresno, Is speading a few days at the Grand. C. M. Wells, ex-Fire Commissioner of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. George B. Katzenstein, a fruit shipper of Sacramento, is among the arrivals at the Palace. H. M. Porter, a_well-known resident of Denver, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. ' George Parsons of New York, accom- panied by his family, is tourlhg the coast. They are at present at the Palace. S. D. Rosenstock, a well-known shoe manufacturer, who resides permanently at the Palace Hotel, is seriously il M. E. Dittman, a mining man of Red- ding, i¢ here on a short business trip and has made his headquarters at the Grand. b R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, March 31.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco—Dr. Spaulding, Dr. F. P. Topping, R. H. Hug, at the Park Avenue; H. C. Whyo, at the Herald Square; J. B. Harrold, at the Manhattan; A. Stillman, ‘W. M. Stillman, at the Hoffman. Los Angeles—L. Isaacs, at the Cadillac; F. W. Worcester, at the Broadway Cen- tral. San Jose—C. F. Fleming, at the Astor. Rl Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, March 21.—The follow- ing Californians have arrived at the ho- tels: - From San Francisco—H. H. Johnson, Mrs. J. Bullman, at the National; Charles Nelson and wife, Mrs. Wheeler, at the Shoreham; C. S. Young, at the Arlington. From Los Angeles—B. E. Green, L. H. Green, at the Arlington. N>w York Honors Many. Referring to the visit of Prince Henry, a correspondent of the New York Times calls attention to the fact that it is not the first time the freedom of the city of New York has been bestowed upon a Bu- ropean of royal rank. And he corrects the statement that the “last to receive this freedom was the Marquis de Lafay- ette in 1824.” He shows that the Marquis received this honor in 1784, and that it was his son, George Washington de Lafayette, who was honored in 1824, He gives what he belleves to be a correct list of the per- sons to whom the freedom of the city has been tendered, as follows: 1784—Governor George Clinton, General ‘Washington, John Jay, Marquis de Lafay- ette and Major General Baron Steuben. 1791—Major I'Enfant. 179%—Alexander Hamilton. 1812—Robert Fulton, Captain Hull, Cap- tain Jacob Jones and Commodore Deca- tur. 1813—Commodore Bainbridge, Captain Lawrence and Commodore Perry. 1814—Commodore Macdonough, General Brown and General Macomb. 1815—Captain Charles Stewart. 1819—Andrew Jackson. 1824—George Washington de Lafayette. 1829—Martin Van Buren. 1832—Commodore Patterson. 1847—Generals Taylor and Scott. 1848—Commodore Matthew C. Perry and Frederick Jerome*(a seaman, for conspic- uous bravery). 1850—David Cook (under similar eircum- stances). 1854—Robert Creighton and Edwin J. Low (for a like cause). 1861—Major Anderson. 1862—Thurlow Weed (in spite of the veto of Mayor Opdyke). 1863—Rear Admiral Farragut: 1864—Vice Admiral Farragut and Captain Percival Drayton. 1866—President Johnson. The dates given are the years when the resolutions were passed. The actual pre- sentation was usually deferred until the distinguished individual visited the me- tropolis. In Van Buren's case this was more than three years. It will be noted that thirty-six yvears have elapsed since this honor has been conferred on any- one. No such interval can be found in all the list, the next longest, 1795 to 1812, be- ing less than half as long. —_————— Force Wasted in Winks. A man with a mania for figuring and not enough to do to keep Him out of mis- chief has been making calculations re- garding the manner in which the life of the ordinary man, who both works and plays, is divided up. ‘When such a man has reached the age 0f.60 he will have spent his time as fol- lows, according to the statistician: Twen- ty Years in sleep, three years and nine months in ecating; seventeen years and six months In working; seven years and six months in the pursuit of pleasure; six years and three months in walking and other exercises; two years and six months in making bis tollet, and six months in doing absolutely nothing. The item for tollet he subdivides into seven months shaving, eleven months washing and one vear dressing. * Persons mathematically inclined can find the flaws in these figures—if there are any; most people will be content to take them on faith. This remarkable dissecter of human life by the mathematical pro- cess has also discovered, he says, that the average man speaks 11,800,000 words a year and shakes hands 1200 times, thereby using up energy enough in fifty years to 1ift 2500 tons. The amount of force a man uses up in winking is truly appalling. Our Statis- ticlan calculates that the average man in a single year opens and shuts his eyes no less than 95,000,000 times, and in doing this _uses force enough altogether to raise an Con- sequently in sixty years he develops off the track. This is the moderate, aver- age, sober, respectable man, mind you, ‘not the frivolous person who winks at all the pretty girls he sees. The “wink new. enough force to wink sixty trolley cnrs'f er” developed by a flirtatious man ! probably is enough to run New York's subway system. " X! —————— | i AN EMPEROR AIN, 1S SURROUNDED BY TWENTY-ONE DIA- 'S DAUGHTER - TEOR. THE PORTRAIT OF /THE f . o gl SOME- ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS —t CHICAGO—A. 8., City. In 1863 the pop- ulation of the eity of Chicago was 334,210, BRIGHAM YOUNG—A. S., City. Bris- ham Young dled on the 20th of August, 1877. THE RIO JANEIRO—L. M. W., Oak- land, Cal. The number of lives lost by the foundering of the Rio Janeiro was 122, A QUARTER—J. B., Ukiah, Cal. No premium is offered for,a quarter of 1305. Such can be purchased from dealers for 65 cents. CHATSWORTH PARK—S. M., San Mateo, Cal., Chatsworth Park is in Los Angeles County, distant 49 miles by rail from San Franciseo. MRS. ROOSEVELT—N. M., Hickman, Stanislaus County, Cal. President Roose- velt was married to Miss Edith Kermit Carow of New York in 1886. DENTAL SURGEON—C. C. G., City. A dentist in the United States army is known as a contract dental surgeon. He is not a commissioned officer. His pay Is $150 and allowances. NURSES—Sub, Berkeley, Cal. Mrs. McKinley had more than one nurse, 0 Miss. Hunt, who attended her during her illness, has a right to say that she was Mrs. McKinley's nurse. SALARIES—A. O. S, City. The salary of the Treasurer of the United States is $6000 per annum; that of the Controller of the Treasury $000 and that of the Registrar of the Treasury Is $4000. THE WOODWARD BROTHERS— Point Arena, Cal. One of the two Wood- ward brothers who shot and killed Sheriff Ricker of Casper, Wyo., is named Charles and his brother is named Harry. FOR THE BOERS—H., Yuba City, Cal. If you desire to join the Boer army-you will have to go to the Transvaal at your own expense and officers will enlist you it they think fayorably af your offer. AUTHOR WANTED—A. S, City. This correspondent wants the name of the author of a poem called “Old Ace,” the first line of which is, “Whatpleasure can compare?’ Can any of the readers of this department furnish the name? CENTRAL PACIFIC—A. 8, City. If by the question, “When did the first train run east over the Central Pacific Railroad?”’ you mean the time that a train carried passengers to the eastern limit of the line, then the answer is May 10, 1869 PATENTED LAND-F. H. G, City. If a man has taken up Government land, has complied with all the requirements and has obtained a patent to the land from the 'United States Government, that, unless there should have been fraud prac- ticed, in which case the patent would be set aside, guarantees to the settler all the right that a deed does. HOTEL—E. W. 8, City. If you desire to adopt the English pronunciation in speaking of hotel and drop the h, it is then proper to say ‘‘an 'otel,” but if you adopt the American pronunciation and re- tain the h, then it is proper to say “a hotel,” under the rule that a should be used before a consonant and an before a vowel. RESIDENCE—Subscriber, Cloverdale, Cal. A man may have a héuse that is part in one county and part in the ad- Joining county, but he cannot claim a legal residence in two counties at one and the same time. If he does not want to move the house, which, as in the case cited, is standing across the county line, he would have to make his home on either side of the county line and claim resi- dence in the county chosen. SEWER ASSESSMENT-—Sub., Vallejo, Cal. Unless a city, as such, makes sewer improvements it cannot have property sold for delinquent assessment and give a title through a court to the property. It is the usual custom for a city to let a contract, and the value of the work per- formed becomes a lien on the property, and if not paid the contractor commences an action in a court of competent juris- diction, and a deed issued upon judgment in the case is valid, provided ail the requi- site conditions by the contracter have been complied with. HIP, HIP, HOORAY—J. A., City. Hip, hip, hooray, is another form of hip, hip, hurrah. This is probably ome of the oldest and most common of excla- mations. It has been observed that hurrah is one of those interjections that men seem to have adopted in- stinctively. In Indla and Ceylon the Mahouts and attendants cheer on by their. continued repetition of Uh-re-re. The Arabs and camel drivers in Turkey, | Palestine @nd Egypt encourage their ani- mals to speed by shouting Ar-re-ar-re. The Moors in Spain drive their mules and horses by the cry of Arre. In France the sportsmen excite the hounds by the cry of Harehare, and wagoners turn their horses by crying Harhaut. The herdsmen of Ireland and Scotland shout Hurrish- hurrish. It ls said by the author of “The Queen's English” that the people of Charnwood, Lelcestershire, when they de- sire to hail a person at a distance cry, not Hello, but Helloup. This. he imagines, 1s 2 sound of the times when one said to an. other “A loup, a loup,” or, as we would say, wolf, wolf. Hurrah, again, accord- ing to Mr. Libre, is derived trom the Sfa- vonic, Huraj (to Paradise), which signi- fles that all soldiers who fell fighting val- iantly went straight to heaven, It is evi- dently an exclamation common to many nations, and is probably a corruption of Tur are (Thor, aid), a battle-cry of the ancient Norsemen, though some are of the opinion it is derived from the Jewish Hosannah. The word was former- Iy invariably spelled 2 nounced Hurray. ACHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Passav—Everybody says daughter got her beauty from me. do you say to that? Mr. Witts—Well, I think it was very unkind of her to take it from you. “They say,” remarked the man with the napkin under his chin, “that eatlag limburger cheese gives one an appetite for beer.” “It doesn’t act that way with me,” said the man with the coffee and doughnuts, “When I eat limburger cheese I don’t have an appetite for anything until about the third day afterward.”—Chicago Trib- une. “What brought you here?® inquired the philanthropic visitor at the jail. “Physical instruction, ma‘am,® peplied the inmate of cell No. 2. “How could that be?” “Some of the boys thought X needed mors muscle, and they persuaded me to go to a physical instructor for a course in athletics. He was something of a Bertillon crank, besides, and when he took my measurement he found I was wanted in Louisville for burglary.”—Chi~ cago Tribune. Chureh—1s Dauber, the artist, high in his profession? Gotham—Well, yes; he asks as much as any of 'em for his pictures.—Yonkers Statesman. Nell—Mr. Weston paid me quite a com- pliment at dinner last evening. He told me T ate like a bird. Belle—Well, he's a good judge. He runs an ostrich farm, you know.—Philadeiphia Record. “History repeats itself,”” remarked the gentleman who is addicted to quotations. Whereupon a nervous gentleman arose and retorted: “It wouldn't when I was going to school.” Then the crowd, reminded of school days, looked at the nervous gentleman and smiled approval.—Omaha World-Her- ald. my The courtroom was hotter than the Sou- dan in a sandstorm. The Judge was a wreck, the jury had wilted. “Your honor and gentlemen,” sald the attorney for the defense, “I will indulge in no heated- argument, but proceed at once to marshal the cold facts.” And he won. his case.—Clevelang- Plain Dealer. Little Helen had gone-to ghureh for the first time, and while there they sang the well-known song, “Jesus Is Calling To- day.” When she got home her mother asked her who was there, and she said: “Oh, everybody except Jesus, and he was out calling.”"—Chicago Little Chroni- cle. “Yes, they coaxed the girl from Bos- ton to hang up her stocking.” “Well?” “Well, somebody put one of those long striped candy canes in it." “Yes." “And there wasn’t room for anything else.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ““What’s going on next door?" ““The music teacher is trylng Miss Gur- gle’s voice.” be“wm.t do you suppose the verdict will “It ought to be instant electrocution. But I suppose there are extenuating cir- cumstances.” “What are they?” “Her father's ability to pay for the les- sons is the principal one."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. # —_———— . Unappreciated Art. A story is going the rounds of New York studios just now which deals with the ex- perience of a French artist who is not unknown to fame in his own country and who recently visited New York. He has since returned to Paris, and the story can be told, though the artist must remain naméless. He dined alone one evening at the Hol- land House,.and he was well pleased with his dinner. While lingering over a cordial he decided to show his approval of the meal and service by drawing an elaborate sketch on the immaculate linen cloth which covered the table. A waiter dis- covered him and protested mildly. The Frenchman waved him to one side and continued to draw. It was a Paris cafe scene which he was domg, and he was interested. The waiter went to the head waiter and complained that the artist was spoiling the table cloth. “You must not mark up the linen,” said the lord of the dining-room. “It is against the rules.” “I make you a very fine sketch, to which 1 attach presently my own name,” replied the artist, continuing to make lines. “L tell you to stop spofling the table cloth,” repeated the head waiter. In vain the Frenchman explained that the hotel was welcome to cut out the sketch and have it framed. He said any cafe in Paris would prize such a tribute from his pen and would have it framed for hanging on the wall of the dining- room. As he explained he kept on draw- ing, untll the head waiter could stand it no longer and had him deposited on the sidewalk. The Frenchman was sadly offended. In- deed, if the whole truth was told, he was angry, as angry as he had ever been in his life. He crossed Fifth avenue at the risk of being run down by the stream of cabs. 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