The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1902. 3 1 all.| . 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. i 4 é€rees A1l Communieations to W. LEAKE, Mazager. | TELEPHONE. = s { Ask for THE CALL. The Operator-Will Connecti" You With the Department You Wish. i W 5 S ] PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. | EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 te 221 Stevemson St.| Delfvered by Carriers, 15 Cenix Per Week. Single Cople: 5 Cent Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL ¢ 2 DAILY CALL (i DAILY CALL DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL, One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters mre authorized to reccive subscriptions, Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. i Mail subscribers ordering change of address shouid bhe particular to b Y AND OLD ADDRESS in order | to insure & prompt =nd correct compliance with their request. | OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNE! Manager Foreige Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chisago. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open | 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. | until T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUNMER. ; Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail te their new ! sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is vepresented by m local agent in | all towns on the coast. —— > — | THE COMMERCIAL SITUATION., YEAR ago zbout this time the Western | A States were suffering under a long period of unprecedented hot and dry weather, when the crops were shriveled up and destroyed and the farm- ers in half a dozen States lost millions of dollars. This year nature, in restoring the equilibrium, has | swung to the other extreme, and for several weeks it has rained with hardly any intermission from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard, rotting the grain and vegetable crops in many sections and doing much mischief in all sorts of ways. The imnre- diatc effect of these protracted rains has been to ma terially cut down business in the Western States, by <diminish'ng the retail distribution of goods, cancel- ing reorders and checking the usual fall demand for sverchandise. The have benefited the Gulf States, rctably Texas, where the cotton crop outlook | is reported much improved, but the upper tier of | States has had altogether too much and wheat and oat fields are reported under water, with the wheat sprouting in the shock. All this is affect- ing business in New York, especially as the Atlaatic seaboard cities are reporting a poorer retail trade, with less patronage of summer resorts, owing to the ccol, damp weather. rains moisture Aside from the adverse influence of the weather, hewever, Hus throughout the country continues i satisfactory basis, with no disquieting The stzples are apparently as active as cver. The grain markets rule firm, owing largely to the damage dore by the rains. The railway earnings for the first ha'f ©of the 'year are the largest ever known, showing a gain of 5.7 per cent over the correspond- ing pericd in 1901 and 187 per cent over 1900. Trade in dry goods, boots and shoes is reported as good as it ever is in midsummer. Lumber is quieter in the | East. but stocks are low all over the country and the markets everywhere are quoted firm. Build hard- active demand, while the iron and vrable to promise prompt delivery 1, owing to pressure of previcus orders: There has never been such a building eratin the United St Cotton goods are mors active, while raw wool and woolen goods are selling ff | briskly. Leather, however, aiter a long period of firmness, is reported quieter and hides are again weakening. Provisions are quieter at Chicago, but packers maintain the high prices without difficuity The livestock markets everywhere are high and but lightly supplied and hogs a few days ago touched the highest yuotations for the year. on a sound signs ware contin steel mills 2 «i structural As mentioned last week an enormous amount of | money is now being bursed by the Government end private corporations in payment of interest and | semi-annual dividend:, thus increasing the actual cir- | culation of funds throughout the country. The trans- fer of this money produced no serious derangement in Wall street. but it is noticeable that since the dis- bursements there has been less demand for invest- ment bonds. The public are still shy of speculating, which is a good thing, and the Chicago and New Yerk Exchanges continue in the hands of the profes- sionals, who do not care to operate heavily when the public are not in the game. The monkey needs the cat's paw to draw his hot chestnuts from the coals, The West is calling on New York for funds to move the ciops, and this demand will be active for the next fcw wecks. Foreign exchange has advanced to the gold exporting point and Paris is calling in its cred- its. Otherwise the money market is in its normal condition and presents few noteworthy features, Viewed the commercial situation throughout the world is apparentiy ali right., The money markets of the world are as well balanced as they ever are in these modern days of active and enormous exchanges, and the international ment of merchandise is in normal condition, 2re no serious signs of disurbance anywhere. Conditions in California show no change, Business continues good, with easy collections and no failures worth talking about. Crop prospects, in tihe aggre- gate. could hardly be better. We are still under the fizg of prosperity and profusion. as a whole move- There | | our dried and canned product. | thoroughly reliable form of labor. | #ble to depend upon it. | much more labor than at seed time. i problem. THE LABOR PROBLEM. VIDENCE comes almost daily from the rural districts of California that the labor supply is inadequate. - The fruit crop is probably the E {largest and finest ever produced in the State. but a it will be lost for lack of labor to pick ! { and pack it for market. large part of This is an unjortunate situation, for the Eastern iruit crop is light and in some localities is enti-ely lacking. This means, of course, an enlarged demand for our iresh fruit as well as a larger consumption of Evéry pound grown this year would find a buyer in some form if it were put in condition for use. But there is not labor enough in the State to har- vest this crop. The canners and driers will miss pro- fits they might make out of the great producticn, the transportation companies will lose tonnage which they ought to carry and the owners of orchards and vineyards have the annoying cxperience of seeing the fruit of their trees and vines rot after all the expense of pruning and cultivation, because the labor to pre- serve it is not presentiat any price. The fruit industry of this State has a great problem to solve. It is an industry that requires a mobile and The requirement is greatest at harvest time, say from June 1 to No- vember 1, in deciduous fruits and from November 1 | to the last of May in citrus fruits. Eventually, when the citrus fruit belt now being planted from Porter- ville to Oroviile is producing, the labor employed in the vineyards and deciduous orchards will about all be required in the citrus orchards from the close of one deciduous season to the opening of the next. But even with that constant employment it must be mobil® and entirely reliable. Heretofcre the fruit planters have found the great- est. mobility and reliability in the Chinese. The Ja- panese are inferior to them in reliability and white la- bor in mobility. But the Chinese in the State who kave served this purpose are being superannuated, and being old can no longer render efficient service. The exclusion law cuts off a fresh supply. The Ja- | panese come without restriction and in increasing numbers, but lack the useful qualities of the Chinese. | They are not as faithful to their contracts nor as or- derly and industrious. Fruit is perishable property. It must be harvested and handled the day it is in condition. Its ripening juices do mot wait. The failure of a picking and packing gang to report Monday morning in condi- tion to work or a strike in-midweek means an irrep- arable loss. If white labor were available and mo- bile and reliable the problem would-be solved. So far no considerable fruit region in the State has been It is not a matter of wages, for as high as $2 50 per day and “found” has been of- ered and no takers, though the railroads and high- were full of white tramps pretending to look for longer cheap, but gets wages higher than were ever paid on Eastern farms. The labor problem is to be always with our fruit growers. It is an industry that requires ten times as much labor in harvest time as is needed in the other seasons. This will always be so. It was ever the case on grain farms. In harvest there had to be Machinery has more nearly equalized seed time and harvest in that | respect, and grain farming is not in need of a ‘great’ | amount of mobile labor. | ways necessary on California fruit plantations. But it is going to be al- Fruit will never be picked and packed by machinery. Grain can wait somewhat for the harvest, but there is no margin for delay in fruit. When it is ready the labor must be ready and steady and skilled in a greater de- gree than is required of any other form of rural labor. The problem is up to the employers, to the owners of orchardd and vineyards. The time for them to study it is when they are being pinched and their crops are rotting. * Suffering from a condition that { ought not to be, they should study it and decide for themselves by what means it might have been averted. Conditions for them are never going to change, so that they will get along with a less mobile or a less reliable form of labor than they require now. Where are they going to find it and how induce it to come? Can it be secured’ in sufficient volume to carry the deciduous and citrus harvests and move forward from one’month to another the year through? The loss by lack of such labor this year is to be great. Let | those who suffer discuss the ways and means by which a similar sacrifice in the future may be averted. The politicians of San Jose have donned their warpaint and teachers in the public schools are the first victims of their spite. Some day somebody will make this kind of warfare a crime under the law as it isin morals.’ D experts sent by the Prussian Government ed the United States for the purpose of investigating railway construction, equipment and management. The visit of the committee was noted h intéTest throughout the country, as it was be- fieved the report would throw some light on our railway problems that would be of value to us as well as to the Prussians. At any rate it was felt that it would be of advantage to learn what foreign ex- perts thought of our roads, and accordingly the pub- lication of the official report has been awaited with considerable curiosity. ' It appears that our expectations on the subject were vain. Frank H. Mason, United States Consul General at Berlin, states in the current number of Consular Reports that the report of the committee will not be made public by the Prussian Govern- ment. The statement is authoritative. Minister von Thielen, chief of the Prussian Ministry of Railways, has, however, given Mr. Mason some information concerning the nature of the report and of the differ- ences which exist between Prussian and American railways. He states tha.t the. conditions of railway operations in the two countries are so diverse that while the Prussian experts have learned a great deal from their study of the American system, the Govern- ment will not be able to adopt it to any considerable cxtent. Large freight cars carrying from forty to sixty tons, which are so economical in the United States, are pronounced unavailable in Prussia, where the amount of freight is much smaller, the distances rela- tively short and the need for individualizing ship- PRUSSIAN RAILWAYS. URING the year 1000 a committee of official { ments so general as to be a controlling factor in the The Prussian freight car cannot he aq- vantageously made of a capacity larger than thirty i tons, and that will be the maximum of the future so far as can now be foreseen. As to passenger cars, the report says three Pyll- man cars of standard American pattern were bought 3 and taken to Prussia, butalthough they were ad. : Neither Chinese nor Japanese labor is any | mirably built and ran® with remarkable smoothness, they are not liked by the public, as the Prussians | prefer cars with small compartments which accom- modate from six to eight passengers, and in which, when the train is not crowded, a certain degree of privacy can be obtained. i In concluding his report, Mr. Mason says: “The Prussian railway system is the property of the state; | 1t has been slowly developed from small beginnings | into an organization which pays above its operating icxpcnses not only the entire interest on the Prussian i debt, but turns an annual surplus of many millions |into the pubtic treasury. That the rates for freight | and first-class passenger fares are very high—so high, indeed, that the former constitutes a heavy handicap on agriculture and many inland industries—is un- questionable. German miners and manuiacturers look with envious surprise upon the economies of railway freight in America, and their mai’ hope for the future is in- the extension and improvement of the inland river and canal system which is advocated | so urgently by the Imperial Government.” —— The Grand Jury of this city has risen in its dig- | nity, unwound its machinery of thought and decided i that the Board of Public Works is seriously in need of reformation. In other words, the Grand Jury must have accepted somebody’s suggestion to wake up. HILE the total vote cast in this city jn 1901 THE DUTY OF REGISTRATION. W was 53,740 there were registered this year up to July 2 only 19,170. That is not much | more than one-third of the population that voted in an off year and probably is less than a third of the number who will wish to vote this year. Something like two-thirds of the voters have, therefore, yet to enroll themselves or lose the privilege of exercising | the franchise. Meantime registration for the primary elections closes on August 2. Less than a month remains in which that large number of citizens must | get themselves registered in order that they may take part in elections that lie at the very foundation of our whole system of nominating c#hdidates for office. It is an old story. It has to be told over again and again every year. While the bosses get their heelers and followers on the register without fail, the men who under our democratic system are relied upon to nominate good men and elect worthy legislators and executive officers neglect the duty of registra-. tion until the last moment, and sometimes until too | late and the franchise is forfeited. The law provides every facility for registration. The main office is open not only during the day, but in the evenings. At present there is mno rush or crowd. Every applicant for registration finds an offi- cial ready to attend at once. The whole business can be completed in a few moments. No man is | required to take much of his time from work or pleasure to attend to this duty. There is, then, no | good excuse to be given for neglecting it. As the date for the primary elections draws near there will be a rush and a crowd. What can be done with ease now will entail some trouble then. Those who wait, however, will have none but themselves to blame for any inconvenience that may result. The issues involved in the primary elections are important. If the bosses and their gangs capture the primaries it will then be too late to make sure of the noniination of good men. The time to act is now. Remember, that every voter must be registered and that registration prior to this year avails nothing, There is to be a complete new registration. Attend to it. Local city officials are discussing the expediency of buying a cemetery for the burial of the- indigent dead to reduce if poscible the horror which attends the last scenes in the careers of the city's unfortu- nates. Whoever spoke of these outcast beings as indignant dead was wiser perhaps than he knew. EDISON’'S NEW BATTERY. HILE asserting that many of the state- W ments concerning his new storage battery have been “erroneous and unauthorized,” Edison, in the current number of the North Ameri- can Review, affirms the substantial truth of all of them by declaring a belief that “the final perfection of the storage battery” has been accomplished. A true storage battery, he says, must be a perfectly reversiblg instrument receiving and giving out power like a dynamo motor without any deterioration, and he maintains that his new battery fulfills that require- ment. He has tested it and says “there are no signs of chemical deterioration even in a battery which has been charged and discharged over 700 times.” With a battery containing twenty-one cells and weighing 332 pounds, placed in an automobile which, with the two men who gperated it, weighed 1075 pounds, the vehicle was made with one charge to run sixty-two miles over country roads containing grades as heavy as twelve feet in the hundred. The average speed was something over eleven miles an hour, and at the end of the run the vehicle was making 83 per cent of the original speed. The same vehicle being run to the limit of the battery with one charge came | to a stop on the eighty-fifth mile. With reference to the results likely to follow the [ use of the new battery Mr. Edison says: “I think the storage battery carriage will come ultimately within the reach of the man of moderate means. * * * With an initial outlay of $700 and up- ward the storage battery automobile can be used once a week at a cost of a fifty cent charge, or twice for a dollar; and so on, the cost of use being met as it is incurred and so ceasing to be the bugbear that | fixed charges must always be to the householder of moderate income.” ! The new battery has successfully stood four tests and is now being subjected to the fifth. Should it stand that Mr. Edison says the problem will have been solved. 'Nothing will remain to be done except to put our highways in condition to make use of the new vehicle. e — | London is having something of her coronation show after all, although the King is not yet out of death’s shadow. It is sometimes well to feed the people for a day to make them forget the destitution of a year. — Society at Newport amused itself the other day by giving a dinner in honor of a monkey, who was chief guest. The monkey, it is said, displayed no signs of disgust until it became drunk. The Czar is having some trouble with his people, the correspondents inform us. It is interesting to observe, however, that it was the people, not the Czar, w?m received the bullets. San Francisco has received recently a guest who should have been met with distinguished honors. He is eninently a good Indian and a live one; J A \ NU THREE FOR 1 MIDABLE CRUISERS ARE ADDED TO BRITAIN'S F LEET o e I | ! i ES o THE FIRST BRITISH SUB-MARINE TORPEDO BOAT, CONSTRUCTED BY VICKERS, SONS & MAXIM.' AC- CORDING TO PLANS FURNISHED BY INVENTOR HOLLAND. THE ILLUSTRATION 1S REPRODUCED FROM A SNAPSHOT TAKEN JUST AS THE VESSEL EMERGED FROM THE WATER. ES 1 z L = s = HREE armored cruisers—Good Hope, Leviathan and King Alfred —have been turned over by the contractors to the Admiralty with- in the specified time of delivery. The two last named have passed through successful trials and are now fitting for service at the dockyards, and the King Alfred was delivered June 8 at Ports- mouth. The latter ship was laid down August 11, 1889; the Good Hope Septem- ber 11, 1899, and the Leviathan November 30, 1899, while the Drake, built at Pem- broke dockyard and begun April 24, 1899, is still farthest from completion. They are identical in all particulars and are of 14,100 tons, 30,000 horsepower and 23 knots speed. The average estimated cost of the contract built ships, exclusive of guns, is $4,873,000, and that of the Drake $4,819,500; while the completed cost of the six armored cruisers building for the United States navy will approximate $5,- 500,000 each, including armament. The American armored cruisers are practical- ly of the same type and size as the Brit- ish ships and have a displacement of 13,- 680 tons, but only 23,000 horsepower and a calculated speed of 22 knots. _ Experiments made in fitting the torpe- do-boat destroyer Star with bilge keels have given satisfactory results and all the boats of that type in the Brit sh navy will be fitted with bilge keels, which will check the rolling to a great extent with- out appreciably reducing the speed o» in- terfering with their maneuvering. The British torpedo-boat No. 60 broke her main shaft last month while fifteen miles out at sea. Mr. Lyne, gunner in command, made “all sails” with awn- ings, etc., and reached Saldanah Bay In six hours. This experience may lead to providing all torpedo craft with sufficient canvas to overcome the otherwise serious results of a complete breakdown of the machiriery while at sea. Sir Francis Evans advises the British Admiralty to invite designers outside of the navy to submit plans for vessels of war. The London Engineer calls atten- tion to the fact that outside of Elswick and Barrow there are probably no naval architects competent fo design a warship. In July, 1885, Charles Cramp expressed somewhat similar views, stating that there were hardly four in the world—of which two were in England and none in the United States—who could design a ship of war. He has probably modified bis views somewhat by this time, for there are now several skillful designers in. our navy; but it is a waste of time for others not in the navy to attempt that kind of work. It is much more of a specialty than that of yacht and steam- ship design, and in the isolated cases ‘where a non-naval designer has made a success of it the plans were simply bor- rowed and reproduced with slight and immaterial changes. & e e Japan owns the fastest and most effi- clent destroyers in any navy. The latest additions are the Asashio (morning tide) and Shirakumo, built by Thornycroft of Chiswick. The order for these two boats was given November 16, 1900, and the Asashio hoisted the Japanese flag on Feb- ruary 20, 1902. The contract called for 31 knots speed with 7000 horsepower and the trial developed an average of 31.038 knots and 7500 horsepower during three consec- utive hours. The boats are of the usual destroyer type, 216 feet 8 inches in length, 20 feet 9 inches beam and 333 tons dis- placement on a mean draught of 6 feet. The British destroyer Albatross, also MBER OF DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTIONS Tabulated Statement That Is of Political and General Interest in California. HE Republican State Convention will assemble at Sacramento in the last week of August The Democrats will meet at the same city in the first week of September. Apart from the conventions for the nomination of State of- ficers, there will be Congressional, The following table shows the number of Democratic District conventions. Rallroad Commission and Equalization and Republican delegates from each county and the Assembly distreits, arranged according to counties, and the Congressional, Railroad and Equalization dis- tricts, with total number of delegates from each district: STATE CONVENTIONS. Delegates. | Delegates. | Districts. i v COUNTIES. Democrat | Republican | Assembly. 36 T | 4652 2 1 11 T T 1 1 12 7 % 8 1 [ 3 2 ‘|Contra Costa. 9 11 23 Del Norte . z 2 2 o SR 19 17 60-61 5 2 12 10 20 2.3 4 2 27 11 8 | 86 5 5 62 5 3 12 3 3 i &5 26 67-75 5 4 25 8 8 21 5 3 26 10 1 6 [ 4 25 4 2 1 2 1 11 onteray 10 10 5 - s 0 15 10 2 5 10 11 T 9 10 19 3 3 5 .| Riverside . 7 12 s Sneramento 23 23 17-19 San Benito 5 t 58 San Bernardino 13 18" kg ‘|San Diego ... 14 19 79-80 San Francisco. 126 177 28.43 San Joaquin . 17 18 B2 _|€an Luis Obispo. 10 s % 6 H 1 9 10 64 2 37 55-57 9 11 B4 11 8 1 3 i H 8 9 - 13 15 » o 2 13:14 | 5 25 H | 4 3 T 8. g 3 3 S 2 9 2 ] 7 5% 8 9 - 2 8 16 L) H 3 636 520 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. RAILROAD DISTRICTS. Democrat | Republican Demecrat [ Rooeid DISTRICTS. , | Delegates. | Delegates. Detosnies | Eauhiica 11 15 e = 3 331 hel 191 408 83 121 EQUALIZATION DISTRICTS, &1 ki 2 o Democrat | Republican Eighth . 98 104 DISTRICTS. Delegates. | Delegates. *Note—Fourth Includes Assembly Districts 126 > 28,20, 30, 31, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. Fifth in- 137 L clides 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 88, 50—San Mateo 157 1 and Eanta Clara. 266 o ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A DAY IN MARCH-Subscriber, City. The 18th of March, 1878, fell on a Monday. LIQUOR~T. B., City. There is a law in California that prohibits the sale of iquor to a common drunkard, and the sale of liquor to such is a misdemeanor. 1f a woman has a husband who has be- come a common drunkard and she should [otify a saloon-keener hat to sell him liquor on the ground that he was a com- mon drunkard, that would no doubt be censtrued into a notice sufficient to put him on his guard, and if he sold liquor to the husband after such notice he would most likely be liable to prosecution, It is a felony to sell liquor to 28 n.eye 16 q a minor under ———— ‘Within twenty miles of City Hall Park, New York, there are more than 4,000,000 peaple, or more than one-t country’s entire popullnu“.'_ weth i built by Thernyeroft, is the only boat ex- ceeding the speed of the Asashio, but the English destroyer, built in 1898, is 11 feet longer, 27 tons greater displacement and 40) horsepower over the Japanese boat. The first vessel built in Japan for a foreign government was launched at Kobe . last month from the yard of the Kawasaki Dock Company. The vessel was built for the Chinese customs ser- vice and is of 700 tons. One interesting fact in this connection is this—that while the Chinese Government contracted for a steamer of 600 tons, the builders vol- untarily inereased the size to 700 tons for the same cost and thereby obtained a bounty allowed by the Japanese Govern- ment. It is within the bounds of possi- bility that Japan may become a competi- tor in the world's shipbuilding in the near future, for the notion that its peo- ple are simply imitative in their work is shown to be incorrect by the rapid de- velopment of many industries. Its young men sent abroad ®r education in various branches return to their native country well equipped to teach those at home, and this is especially the case with engi~ neering, military and naval students. Ja- pan has men and money to inaugurate enterprises hitherto monopolized by Eu- rope and the United States and the ad- vantage of low wages. The daily pay of a shipwright in Yokohama ranges from 40 to 45 cents a day, and with the same machine tools to work with as the Euro- pean or American workmen who receive from §1 to $4 a day is able to turn out work probably as good and at an absurd- ly low cost according to our standards. The steamship combines and the ship- building monopolies of the United States and Great Britain may have a formidable competitor in the “little brown men" of the Orient. L] PERSONAL MENTIO! Miss-Jean Read of-Stocktorn is a guest ' at the Occidental. John Rogers, a mining man of Redding, is registered at the Lick. Dr. Warmburg of Seattle is among yes- terday’s arrivals at the Lick. ‘W. H. Nichols, a fruit grower of Court~ . land, is registered at the Grand. Isaac Minor, a merchant of Arcata, ar- rived yesterday and is quartered at the Lick. T. R. Mintern, a well known horticul- turist of Stockton, is registered at the Palace. A. C. Barker, an instructor of Eureka, is visiting the city and is registered at the Grand. Frank Dulmaine and E. K. Smart, min- ing men of Grass Valley, are registered at the Grand. Willis' H. Coon, a prominent attorney of Rcchester, N. Y., is registered at the California with Mrs. Coon. Mayor M. P. Snyder of Los Angeles reached the city yesterday on a political mission and made his headquarters at the Palace. E. C. Carbonneau, a pioneer capitalist of Dawson, arrived in the city yesterday after a business trip to the East and left for the north on the evening train. George W, Simon, a leading dry goods merchant of Chicago, is registered at the California with Mrs. Simon. They will teur the State before returning to the East. Thomas D. McKay, representative of several railway and steamship lines in the Orient, with headquarters in Yokohama, arrived from the East yesterday and reg- istered at the Occidental. McKay will leave for the Orient within a few days. — A CHANCE TO SMILE. “‘Have you got any corned beef?" asked the guest. “All 1 know about it,” said the con- scientious waiter, “is that it looks like beef, and it's corned. Wish some?"—Bal-~ timore American. “Which season do you prefer,” asked the friend, “summer or winter?” “It all depends,” answered Mr. Strius Barker, as he unwound a muffler from his neck. “In summer I prefer w.nter and in winter I prefer summer."—Balti- more American. ‘Wife (at 2 a. m.)~Oh, Hiram, you've been drinking again. When will you come to see the error of your ways? Hiram—Walt a minute, m'dear. Every- zhingsh goin’ ‘'rounds’ fast—error m'waysh be ’long pretty zhoon—be zhure t'zhee it when 'tcomes.—Batavia News. “Mamma, does little black girls go to hevu ‘‘Yes, dear,” replied the mother; *“of course they do.” Lulu was quiet for a time; then she said aloud, but apparently to herself: k"D:lodn:hss‘. thfy must be offul bizzy eepin’ their wings bl Tk Piata Tovmatsr T e O % Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's.* —_— Townsend’s California Glace fruit and mr;tzl.es."&?‘cma ;;?und.tlr; unénth: fire-etched A e present fo: 639 Market st., Palace n%:.."é.?fi?ufl"‘-" —— Speclal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 . —_— First Country Scholar (sizing up the new teacher, critically)—He don't look much like a scrapper! Second Country+ Scholar (wisely)—No; but that's the way it is In all the story- books—an’ when you try tew lick him you find he's a champeen with his fists!—Puck. ——————— Quality makes price. Were Bu; Vanilla - Extract no better than other its price Would be the same. Once tried always usedy | N