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Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the coast. ——— G —— A MOUNTEBANK COMMISSION. NE of the salient features of the scheme of O the corporation bosses embodied in Assem- bly amendment No. 28 is the restriction put upon the eligibility of citizens to hold office in the ion provided by the scheme. The restric- tions constitute something approaching the virtual exclusion of almost every property-owner in the They reveal an evident intention on the part of the schemers to attainable only to political job or to men who are willing to perjure them- r the sake of holding it. The clause in question says: “The commission shall be deemed in continuous session, but may sit at any place or places in the State and at any time as it may determine necessary in the conduct of its | The Commissioners shall be qualified { electors of the State and of the district from which they are elected or appointed, and shall not be inter- ested directly or indirectly as stockholder, or cred- itor, agent, attorney, or employe, or otherwise in any of the corporations, companies, or business over which they have charge, as herein provided; and the act of the majority of the Commissioners shall be deemed to be and shall be the act of the commis- sion.” It is to be borne in mind that the commission is to supervise and regulate railroads; transportation com- panies comm State from a seat on the commission. make the office hunte selv, business. common carriers, banks, insurance compa- nies, water, gas, electric light and power companies, telephone, telegraph, sleeping car and express com- panies. The exclusion cgusc therefore debars from the office any person who is in any way either di- rectly or indirectly interested in any one of those cor- porations. From what class of men would Gage be likely to draw his appointees to the commission un- der that clause, should the 2zmendment be carried? It will be perceived that the amendment makes the commission a sort of mountebank board having authority to wander up and down the State holding a session wherever it chooses. No citizen fortunate enough to have money invested in the stock of any corporation over which the commission has jurisdic- tion is eligible to become a member of it. On the other hand, there is nothing to prevent some giant corporation procuring the appointment of three of its henchmen to the commission for the long terms of six, eight and ten years, thus obtaining unlimited power to discriminate against all rivals and even- tually get control of 21l public atilities. A significant sentence of the amendment declares: “The commission shall, from and after said appoint- ment of members, have exclusive jurisdiction and power.”, That means that three men will have a power over the great corporations and their rela- tions to the public which can be curtailed neither by the courts nor by the Legislature. When it is recalled that the three men constituting a mzjority of the commission are to have not only this high power over the public and the corpora- tions but are also to have unlimited power to make appointments of clerks and employes in every county and every municipality of the State, it will be seen that if such a2 commission is to be established at all it should be composed of the worthiest men of the State. And yet the scheme of Gage and the bosses is to put all that power into the hands of men who will almost certainly be chosen from the ranks of the job hunters and tax shirkers who make up the following and the support of the political machine of the Southern Pacific Railioad. B S The delegation of distinguished Frenchmen who have come as the gudsts of the republic to attend the unveiling of the statue to Rochambeau has been well received, but there has been no splutter over them as there was over Prince Henry. Possibly it will not surprise the people of California to learn that there are more fraudulent rascals at San Quentin than appear on the record. Cuba has started with a non-partisan cabinet, and accordingly we may expect renorts of a ruction in the Government any day. 1 | Philippines, by pointing to the burning of SECTIONAL LYNCHING. g NE section of the Union cannot accuse the O other of a mongpoly of lynching. New Eng- land has the best record, but the North is not free of the blemish. It is' to be regretted that so little philosophy is shown in Congress when such subjects are under discussion. 3 During the debate on the Philippine bill the official record of military eruelty in the islands was met by a statement of lynch encrmities at home. ~There does not seem to be wit erough in Congress to make the obvious answer. Those who defend the Herod order of General Smith in Samar by citing the burning of negroes in the South seem to be unaware that they are putting the army on a par with a mob. That style of treatment will neither prove nor disprove anything. Statistics show that about tliree hundred lynchings a year occur in this country. Thousands of men actively participate in them, and thousands more sympathize with those guilty of them. Our armies are drawn from the people, and it may as well be admitted that the spirit which commits lynch mur- der or is in sympathy with that crime is not exor- cised when men get into a uniform and make war upon a distant and defenseless people. The lawless and savage spirit is not confined to any section of the country, but is found in all. It is extremely doubtful if a Federal statute would do any good, even if constitutional, which we ven- ture to doubt. Lynching seems to be related to the morbid sequences of war. War is not Christian. The clergy may preach that it is until doomsday without changing the fact that every precept of Christianity is violated in war. Settling great ques- tions by killing people becomes necessary because Christianity is not made the general rule of indi- vidual and national life. A distinguished clergyman of this State in a recent sermon vindicated the Chris- tianity of war by declaring that if it is right for a policeman to arrest a man it is right for an army to apply the larger force needed to overrun a whole country. This is a strange perversion. The police- man is necessary only because the spirit of Chris- tianity has not become the rule of community life and the law of social action. If all men were Chris- tian there would be no policemen, and if the nations of Christendom were Christian nations there would be no war and no armies. War being in the world because the world is not Christian, it is perfectly nat- ural that morbid.efiecfs appear among the sequences of war. The disregard of danger to self and the dis- regard of life, which are necessary in war, finally work a ferment in the masses of a warlike state, and there follow a disregard of law and a disrespect for life. ) Statutes, State or Federal, will not remedy the matter. The cure must be moral. Instead of preach- ing war and glorifying bloodshed, let us preach peace on earth and good will toward men. Let members of Congress cease vindicating the infliction of human misery, the murder of prisoners and children, in the human beings at home by mobs. Let there be less vaunting | of military prowess and averment of our own ability to whip the world in war and more determination to lead the world in the arts of peace, in respect for law and regard for human life. There are worthy things | in this world worth talking about besides armies and navies, and vocations that require as much courage as soldiering. We by no means detract from the sol- dier, but we insist that he is necessary in the world not because of Christianity but because of the lack of it. X To put an end to lynching and to bring that dis- graceful record to a close an appeal must be made to the moral sense of the people. It is a fact of evil portent that as our country grows this evil grows with it. It is wonderfully increased by the presence here of two unequal races, as no doubt the horrors of war in the Philippines have been augmented by two unequal races coming in contact there. But | whatever its cause the cure of lynching lies in a higher moral sense and a more profound respect for life and for law. e e Visitors to Madrid during the coronation festivi- ties say the finest part of the fiesta was the proces- sion representing the triumph of agriculture, and if the Spaniards will make their farm work equal to the spectacular display they will find it will yield them more than all the tolonies they lost in the late war. D posal to insert an educational test in the im- migration restriction bill a good deal of opposition to the plan was developed: The argu- ments of the opposition were to the effect that a great many good people cannot write nor read, while a great many bad people can do both, and con- sequently it would be an act of injustice and of folly on the part of the United States to demand that all intending immigrants shall be able to read their own language. One of the leading opponents of the test was Gen- cral Grosvenor, who argued that it would not ex- clude anarchists. He is quoted in the dispatches as having said that Luccheni, who ‘assassipated the Em- press of Austria, spoke three languages; that Bressi, who killed King Humbert, was educated; that the assassin of President McKinley was an Ameritan and the product of American schools; that Guiteau and Booth were men of education. “They could all have come in under the educational test,” said Gen- eral Grosvenor. “Most of them could have taken chaifs as professors in our universities. You would keep out the honest but ignorant man, but you would let in the educated criminals who come to plot against the institutions of our country.” That any one of the anarchist assassins or that most anarchists could take chairs in our universities is of course too absurd a statement to be worth re- futing. General Grosvenor is a man .of light and leading in the nation and has a reputation to lose, which he will surely do if he make many more such assertions as that. It is to be noted only as an evidence that when an orator gets excited on the floor of the House he will say anything. Setting aside all the extravagances of statement, the argumgnt remains weak and futile. Tt is well known that many educated men are rascals, but that fact does not prevent an educational test from being one of the best possible protections against undesir- able immig}'fltion. Other tests of course should be united with it, but it fills a place in the exclusion programme that no other restriction can do so well. An educational test sets a standard by which we can exclude the horde of immigrants coming from regions where the people are so illiterate they are un- THE EDUCATIONAL TEST. URING the dcbate in the House on the pro- . e - . " fit to become American citizens, while it leaves the way free for people from the great enlightened races where schools are common and the mass of people !havc been taught to read and to write. One 'of the | serious evils of later immigration is that it comes more and more from Southern and Eastern Europe and is composed of people whom long ages of despotism and oppression have prevented from making progress like the peoples of Western Eu- | rope. It is highly desirable to check that inrush in | some way. An educational test affords an easy means | of providing the check. If any man desire admit- tance to the bnitcd States he could obtain it under the test by learning to read his own language. If he be too lazy or too stupid to do that, there is no wrong done in excluding him. Xy It is said the compietion of the dome on the Fed- eral building at Chicago is delayed because there are but fourteen men in the United States who can do “steeple jack” work at such a height, and all of them are engaged. - Other workers are occasionally tempted by the high wages offered to essay the task, but they soon abandon it. In fact, the work is so much higher than the pay that it will have to wait until one of the fearless fourteen is ready to under- take it. Tan alternative proposition to the Nicaragua canal by tentative negotiation of the Panama route is being vindicated. The Martinique volcano has exhibited the risk of puéting this great and costly work within reach of possible volcanic action. The Nicaragua route is within reach of volcanoes that have shown pernicious activity in historic times, | and a close study of the country, the direction of lava flow and the likely course of a shower of ashes and stones will be required before that route can be decided to be absolutely safe or unsafe. This sort of examination was not heretofore regarded as neces- sary, because the attention of men had not been called to this phase of the matter. If it shall appear that the route is unsafe, and that no such danger lurks on the Panama " route, that alternative will greatly facilitate the completion of the work." — THE CANAL. HE. wisdom of President McKinley in securing resuming activity no prediction can be made. Science stands silent in the presence of that awful force which bursts through the crust of the earth and destroys all on its surface. Only when the eruption begiris can anything be known about it, except that what has happened once will happen again. But the period is uncertain. Science knows about the stars, but not about volcanic recurrence. The ephemeris of a planet and the orbit and return of a comet are cal- culable, but not the outburst of a volcano. It will be an interesting result if all the horror at St. Pierre shall after all save from destruction one of the greatest works of man for the benefit of all the | world by inducing such location of the canal as shall protect it. The matter will be discussed in Congress, and it will be the first time in the world’s history that a great pariiament has debated such a question. We may expect that the lite_rature of volcanoes and the great convulsions of nature will be much enriched. been J. Pierpont Morgan has talking business again with President Roosevelt. - This appears to be one of the cases where we cannot commend the ac- tion of a man for attending strictly to his own busi- ness. The business of Mr. Morgan is essentially and dangerously the business of everybody else: DIPLOMACY AND RELIEF" WORK. EPORTS from Washington are to - the R effect that some of the diplomatists at the capital are engaged in discussing the international aspects of the relief supplies for- warded by. the United States Government to Martinique and St. Vincent. It is stated that immediately upon getting authentic information con- cerning the calamity, the President ordered relief to be dispatched to the two islands without waiting to communicate his intentions to either the British or the French Government. In short, the President is said to have acted as if it were an American issue strictly, giving no attention whatever to the foreign elements in the case. The discussion of course is purely academic. It is not at all likely that either Great Britain or France will make any protest against the action of the Pres- ident. On the contrary, each of them will most cor- dially thank him for it. An invasion that carries prompt help to a stricken people is not subject to the ordinary rules of diplomacy. It is greeted with grati- tude by those to whom it brings relief and with ad- miration by the humane in every part of the world. Notwithstanding the improbability of any notice being taken of the point raised by the diplomatic ex- perts, it is said the act of the President is unques- tionably one of great significance. It demonstrates beyond a doubt the supremacy of the United States in this hemisphere and the interest taken by our Gov- ernment and our people in all that concerns the peo- ple of any part of the hemisphere. One diplomat is quoted as saying that if we can of our own motion without the consent of a foreign Government send relief to an island controlled by that Government when the people are afflicted by a calamity of nature. ; we could also send relief should the people be op- pressed by the Government itself, as we did in Cuba. That seems like a far-fetched argument, but there | may be reason in it. At any rate it sounds a good deal like the Monroe doctrine of the future. It is said that the German Emperor intends to send the Crown Prince on a visit to us. If this thing keeps up much longer we will begin to wonder whether our European friends look upon us as freaks' or just plain everyday good-natured and entertain- ing human beings. Curiosity sometimes leads peo- ple a long way. ‘ Oakland authorities are s6 afraid of their jail that they are fearful that the flimsy structure may col- lapse and kill some of tle inmates. The ominous contingency that some of the prisoners might escape to ply their trade seems not to have occurred to the powers that be. _ The writers of farce comedy, versatile, eager for subjects and situations, seem to have overlooked a field which fairly bristles with opportunities for fun, The farce vévriters might turn with immense profit to the Central American republics and their revolu- tions. 3 A DS A local rascal caught with \“knockout” drops in his ~pcnsse,ssion says he had the poison for medicinal pur- poses. It might not be a bad proposition to force a dose of his own medicine down his throat. Senator Morgan is still shouting for Nicaragua or nothing, and has evidently made up his mind to die in that ditch or not dic at al’ i As to the possibility of the Nicaraguan volcanoes | NEW “BAGGA ELECTRICITY OPERATES GE SMASHER” AERIAL “BAGGAGE-SMASHER"” RECENTLY INTRODUCED IN ENG- LAND, AND WHICH DISPENSES WITH THE SERVICES OF THE IN- DIVIDUALS WHO HAVE LITTLE RESPECT FOR TRUNKS, ETC. Lz N aerial “baggage smasher” has superseded the old time handler of A trunks, and trunks, parcels and miscellaneous baggage are now ‘whisked overhead_and shot hither and yon without touching the floor. The system . was introduced at the famous Victoria Station, in Manches®er, England, and has been inspected with some admiration by practical railroad men from all parts of the earth, The tracks upon which the carriers are slung are charged with electricity, exactly like a trolley wire of a. surface railroad. Numerous switches and turnouts make it ® PERSONAL MENTION. T. J. Field, ‘Mayor of Monterey, is at the Palace. * -Charles Webb, a miner of French Gulch, is at the Lick: F. Kohler, a Sacramento merchant, is at the Occidental. L. B. Doan, a prominent. attorney of Bakersfield, is in town. H. J. Llewelling, a fruit grower of St. Helena, is at the Lick. ' John A. McIntire, a mining man of Sac- ramento, is at the Lick. F. E. Dowd, an extensive fruit grower of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Lick. 8. W. Wilcox, a wealthy sugar planter of Honolulu, is a guest at the Occidental. E. S. Barney, a . mining man, with claims in Amador County, is at the Pal- ace. E. Carney, a railroad contractor, whose headquarters, is at Santa Barbara, is at the Grand. A. W. Simpson, a well-known lumber merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Occidental. Dr. J. A. Bainbridge of Lathrop is a guest at the Grand. He is accompanied by his wife. L. T. Hatfleld, a: well-known attorney of Sacramento, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. C. L. F. Duhain, manager of the Japan Daily Advertiser, published at Yokohama, is at the Occidental. P. Dueber, a Seattle merchant, i here on a short business trip. He is regis- tered at the Grand. Judge Frank H. Short, a- well-known attorney of Fresno, is in the city on legal matters. He is at the Palace. Frank B. Miller, chief miller of the Sperry Flour Mills at Stockton, is at the Russ House, accompanied by his wife. P. C. Drescher, a praominent business man of Sacramento,, is here on a short business trip. He has made his head- quarters at the California. General Manager A. G. Wells and Pas- senger Traffic Manager J. J. Byrne, both of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los Angeles, are registered at the Palace. H. R. Dering, assistant general passen- ger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, and C. W. Forrester, Western superintendent of the Star Union line, are among the ar- rivals at the Palace. S e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, May 27.—The following Californians have arrive San Franeis- co—C. H. Hilbert, at the Holland; E. Miles, at the Sturtevant; D. Stoney, at the Manhattan; W. Jaenicke, at the Sin- | clair; R. Johnson, at the Imperial; C. A. Moore, at the Bartholdi; H. Pelz, at the Herald Square; E. B. Rogers, at the Plaza. ' Oakland—L. Taskewa, at the Astor. ‘A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Who is de big guy?” asked the newsboy on the rear platform. i “I don’t know ’is name,” gasped the boy who was trying vainly to crowd past the portly passenger in the door of the car, “but he's de main squeeze, all right."— Chicago Tribune, - B “What's the matter.with Jane Prime's boy—the one that went out to the Philly- pins?” s “Martha Johnson was over to-day an’ she said that Jane said it was nostalgia.” “I want to know! I didn't s'pose 'twas much of anything but jest homesickness.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Dear Child—Oh, Mrs. Bloom, when did you get back? = - i Mrs. Bloom—Bless you, my dear; I was not away anywhere. think so? S . . he I:;.rncmlg—"-l tHougHt ydi were. T m am] you were at rheads with yor }as:c i - oF T yfi- husband .for over — possible to steer the vehicle to any part of the station. The manipulator rides n the car, in a seat slung above the bas- gage, from which he directs the course of the odd contrivance which takes the place of the heavy trucks used in our large stations. The car has a capacity of fifteen hun- dred pounds. In view of the nuisance of baggage men juggling luggage about on train platforms under the present system, the Introduc- tion of a similar device here would prob- ably be hailed with joy ‘by the greatest traveling public in the world. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES—A Reader, Woodland, Cal. The - Sunday School Times is published in Philadelphia. HALF CENT—W..B. M., Standish, Cal. A half cent of 1509 does not command a premium from dealers or coin collectors. LONDON TIMES—J. R. K., City. The | address of the Londor Times is: Print- ing House Square, E. C., London, Eng- land. HOWARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —W. B. Nicolaus, Cal. The Rev. Henry M. Scudder was the pastor of the How- ard Presbyterian Church in 1868, BEALE STREET FIRE—A. F., City. The destruction of the Beale street ware- houses by fire during the anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco was on the 25th of July, 181T. VOCABULARY—H. E. M., Clark, Nev. If a man desires to enlarge his English vocabulary he will find much to assist himdn that direction by studying “Roget’s Thesaurus,” a treasury of English words. SPECIALIST—N., City. The following is the definition_of specialist in its broad- est sense: “A.p:rson who devotes him- self to a particular branch of a profes- slon or art; one who has a special knowl- edge of some particular subject.” TWINS—S., Prattsville, Cal. This de- partment does not know of any ‘stand- ing offer of a reward or present for twins, a boy and girl, born on the anntversary of the birth of George Washington.” May- be some of the readers of this depart- ment do. APPRENTICE—K., Hydesville, Cal. A boy who desires to become a machinist's apprentice must make application in some machine shop, and if there is a vacaney and he shows aptitude, he will be taken on. This department cannot recommend any particular shop. MANUFACTURERS—B. H. J., Oak- land, Cal. There is in the Free Public Library of San Francisco a Manufactur- ers’ Directory for the United States, which you can consult, to learn the ad- dresses of manufacturers of wrapping pa- per and paper bags in the United States. CO-EDUCATION—J., Irvington, Cal In the libraries in either Oakland or San Francisco you will find a number of arti- cles in the magazines on co-education which will give you ideas for a debate on that subject. You can find such articles by consulting Poole’s index and the index of cumulative literature. Fpromise in a first attempt at wri GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS 1t is rare for an author to give so muc ting Ma Har tion as Mrs. Edith Eustis does in jor Manning,” published by Brothers. For some time the announcement that she was publishing this novel has exciteq no little interest in society eircles, for i= becoming popular socially here, as was both pelitically and socially at Wa. ington and New York. She is the wife of William Corcoran Eustis, Third Secretary of the American Embassy in London, and, it will be remembered, is the daugh- ter of Levi P. Morton, formerly Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States when Harrison was Presi- dent. i3 From what I can gather in a brief space of time about how the book is likely to be réceived, it will probably have_a good sale here. One very acute critic says it shows unusual sincerity of observation. What a tremendous number of corona- tion poets there are, to be sure!~ No fewer than 1047 have sent in coronation odes for a prize offered by the magazine Good Words. Here is a list which shows the geo- graphical distribution of the ‘poets and their odes: Great Britain and Ireland, §41; Canada, 91; New Zealand, 71; Vie- toria, India, 33; Leeward Islands, 24; New South Wales, 20; Cape Colony, II; Tesmania, 11; Trinidad, 10; Newfound- land, 8; Natal, 8; Queensland, 5; Ceylon, 4; France, 4; Barbadoes, 3; Western Aus- tralia, 2; Windward Isles, 2, and Italy, 2. The United States sends only one-ode, like Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium and some other countries. A committee of lit- erary men is now engaged on the pleas- ant task of judging these odes. King Edward's book-plate, to which I referred some time ago, which is now printing at the Essex House Press, is, [ hear, in great demand—at any rate, so far as the costly coples on vellum are concerned. Five examples of these only are an- nounced to be published at the price of £40 (3200). I am now informed that these are practically unprocurable even. at. tea times that amount. The .Duchess of Neweastle, who is a great authority on dogs, has accepted & book about them which Fisher Unwin .is to publish for her. A book by C. H. Lane, an equally good author- ity, Is to have -the title of “Dog Shows’ and Dogsy People,” and will contaln descriptions of the pringipal dog shows held during twenty years fol- lowing their institution. Lane also gives a series of sketches of noteworthy people who have been dog fanciers. The book. it may be added, will be well illustrated. An ‘album illugtrating the typical ships of the British navy is to be issued soon by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co.: It has been suggested by the coronation and will, it is thought, meet a real want. There is at present, it would appear, no cheap illustrated volume showing by pie- ture and word just what the British navy is. E. N. Hartnall has prepared the yol- ume, not for experts, but for the man in the street. All the ships of the navy, their tonnage, armament and so on, will b2 mentioned, and the type of each class fllustrated. There has been a good deal of curiosity expressed as to the authorship of the series of clever articles called ‘“Musings Without Method,” which has been ap- pearing in Blackwood's Magazine, mor will the identity of the writer ‘be .re- vealed in the volume of articles which he is to issue in beok form shortly. All that the publishers will say is that he is a young man and a well known figure in the literary world. Sir Martin Conway’s account of his as. ¢ent of Aconcagua is pot-to be published unitil the autumn. ThHe same litimation applies t6 Lord Goschén's volume about his grandfather, the great publisher of Leipzig. Indeed, a dozen more important books could be mentioned that are being held over till the autumn season. The book trade remains as dull as it could possibly well be. Publishers are thinking for the most part about sixpenny editions of already successful books. Mrs. Craigie has been recently rather serfously unwell and unable to work. This has happened at a particularly unfortu- nate time, as she is exceedingly busy with many literary and dramatic scenes. Hap- pily, the accomplished writer is now rap- idly convalescing. ‘Anthony Hope has finished another novel, but it may not appear either se- rially or in book form for some i time. Naturaily, it ‘will be published America at the same time as here, w Hope has decided ihat the time has come. } Cal. glacr fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's.* } Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* } ann!en:'rl Cll!::drnh glace S_flfl& 50c a und, in fire-etc! boxes or Jap. bask- m‘nA nice present for Eastern friends. §9 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * RPN AT 2 bt Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 RS e N R No fewer than 61 per cent of German students are short-sighted, states Profes- sor Cohn of Breslau. Rock Island Route Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Rail- ys, and via Los Angeles and El Paso every Sunday and Tuesday, via Southern Pacific and Rock Island Railways, for Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and all points East. For further information address Clinton Jones, General Agent. nd Railway, 624 Market st. * —————— ?? Going to Thunder Mountain PP The Northern Pacific Rallway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewtston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagon roads to either Warrens or Dixle, from which palnts the trails into this district are most accessible. For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER G. A., 647 Market st., S. F. —_— The saving of a few cents on a bottle of Va- nilla Extract will not atone for annoyance of baving dessert “just a little off” in flavor. Always buy Burnett's. 4he standard quality. ———————— The surface of Yellowstone Lake, in the Yellowstone National Park, is 7000 feet higher than the top of the Soldiers’ Monu- ment in this city. It is the second largest body of navigable water in the -world at S0 great an elevation. M Shoes, sides.” You know, the dence. Still we say to where the * in-sides™ ar N WE GIVE TRADING STAMPS. ———— OUT-SIDES AND IN-SIDES. like characters, When buying shoes always remember the “in- sort of a ‘“‘pig-in-a-poke” or “sizht unseen’” proposition—perhaps they are.good and honest —perhaps they are not. comely—its outside appearance begets confi- sented—else your money back or a new pair. Try us for your next pair. LIPPITT & FISHER, have “in-sides.” “in-side’ of a shoeis a A cheap shoe is often you: Buy your shoes e guaranteed as repre- 945 MARKET STREET.