The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1902, Page 6

. THE SAN. FRANCISCC CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1902. THE PARTY'S DUTY. TEMPORARY EXECUTIVE ' MANSION AT CAPITA GOSSIP FROM L.| LONDON WORLD = = L HE Republicans of California understand that it is not The Call speaking against OF LETTE RS SATURDAY..............0...... AUGUST 9,100 Governor Gage. The written record is talking, and testifying. If this paper werefo o ———= » JOH}] D' ;F;RECRELS Proprietor. | merely asserting that what the record shows, existed, we would blame no man 5 5 4 3 : . ! | I It was announced the other day that ! | Andrew Carnegie had presented John { | Morley with the library of the late Lord Acton, which he recently purchased, but I learn that Carnegie merely offered the library to Morley. At the time of Lord Acton’s death the library ran to some- ! thing like 100,000 volumes, of which the | majority bear upon secular and ecclesias- | tical history. The local national history of | | France, Germany and Italy is fully rep- resented, and the history of the papacy 1and of French Protestantism forms an important part of the collection. It is a library which can hardly be surpassed in i {any public institution, but it is question- | | able if the ecclesiastical tone of the great ! | collection harmonizes with the personal tastes of Morley. There is another point for consideration. The housing of such a great library will in the estimation of | librarians cost something like £20,000 | (8100,000), but then Morley, if he accepts | the gift, will for more than one reason regard it more as a trust than a private | possession. But should Morley hand over | the gift to any university the question of expense will form a serious bar to its acceptance. It may be that, foreseeing such an embarrassment, Carnegie has provided against it in some way. | The book sale season, which was brought to a close this week, has been | rather.a remarkable one. Since January | prices have been realized by old and rare | books and manuscripts which certain old- | fashioned connolsseurs have churacterized | as little short of mad. Not a few of the for standing out against it as a merely personal opinion, grounded in the variety of motives which may underlie a personal opinion. But the case does not rest on any such opinion. It is in the record, in the shipping receipts, which show the shipment by the War- den and from San Quentin prison to the home of Governor Gage, of large quantities of valuable property, manufactured in the prison, of material bought with public money, billed to the State and paid for by the State. If the Governor have any explanation, let it be forthcoming. He has toiled to close the courts against this testimony and has compelled us to submit the case, primarily, to the people for trial. The record states facts. 1 ¢¢sess A1l Cemmupiesticns to W. §. LEAEE, Xanager. TELEPHONE. tllk for THE CALL. 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But then the Republican party would have justifiably blamed us with its defeat and its loss of the executive power in this State. - Even had we, knowing these things, kept silent after his nomination, does any one suppose that the political opponents of the Republican party would have failed to find and disclose these offenses? Our duty runs to the Republican trusteeship of California, and we have discharged it. The matter cannot be hushed up by saying that other Gov-|. ernors have always had souvenirs and curios of prison manufacture, for there is no evi- are authorized to receive bacriptions. Bample coples Wwill be forwarded when requested Mafl subecribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt &nd correct compliance With their request. VAKLAND OFFICE..............1113 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Funager Foreign Advertising, Marjuetts Building, Chissp. (long Distance Telephone ~‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: K. C. CARLTON.........c0vz0se..Herald Sguare XEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Ualon Square: Sturray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel MASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. (ERANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open 1 til $:30 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open tntll 9:30 o'clock. 633 | McAlister, cpen unttl 9:30 o'clock. g 80 o'clock. 1941 Mieslon, opem untll 10 o'clock™ 2261 p arket, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1088 Va- [ deocia “cpen until ® c'elock. 108 Eleventh. open untll 9 o'glock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open untl! § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, epen untl! 9 p. m. —— > FOR GOOD ROADS. OR one reason or another the good roads F movement, which was advancing so vigorously in this State a few years ago, has seemingly lost headway and has hardly movement enough to at- tract attention. In the East, however, it is still a sub- ject of widespread interest and appears to be pro- gressing with a fair degree of rapidity. One of the curious features of the later develop- fments of the movement is that some of the Southern States are doing more work in the way of road im- provement than the richer and more thickly settled States of the North.. The Southern people of various localities have found that they can attract Northern tourists and winter visitors by constructing good roads for driving, cycling and automobiling, and they have promptly set to work to provide them. A recent report from that section of the country says that in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina and Ten- | nessee there are now many varying f stretches of roadway m ten to fifty miles in length that are as near perfect as modern engineering can make them, so well graded, in fact, that one may drive over them at a trot every foot of the way. Starting from the tourist centers, the work of im- provement has radiated toward the manufacturing counties. Mecklenburg County in North Carolina has the credit of leading in the work. For the past twelve years the county has employed convicts at road construction and now has over one hundred aniles of macadamized highways so excellent in every respect that persons interested in road improvement gn other States yisit the county to inspect them. An interesting experiment in road work.is about to Le tried in New York for the purpose of testing the | Mteel track highway suggested some time ago by | “General Roy Stone. The plan is to lay two broad, fiat, steel rails of standard wagon gauge along coun- try highways so as to form a smooth and solid track for vehicles. = A recent account of the plans for making the ex- periment says: “The Automobile Club of America has determined to try it in New York City, and Presi- dent Schwab of the United States Steel Corporation has offered to provide the steel for one mile of double track in the city, and the City Engineer is to designate the streets where the tracks shall be laid. The rails, 2 foot wide, are already being made at the mills of the steel trust. They will be located not en- tirely to accommodate automobiles, but partly in ~some streets devoted to heavy trucking. By locating the steel ways on either side of the streetcar tracks, it is expected that they will draw off the truck wagons, which are prone to use the streetcar tracks and delay passenger transit, and so will result in quickening sur- face transit materially. Some of the steel road will be laid in streets devoted to carriage driving, o that it can be tested under varying conditions.” It is estimated that at present prices of steel the *tost of such a road would be about $1500 a mile, but while the first cost would be high it is claimed by the advocates of the system that it would be the cheap- est form of road construction in the long run. The test will of course be watched with interest through the country and may result in giving a new impetus to road improvement evérywhere. Because Austin Dobson, the gentle poet, has been granted 2 pension of about $1500 a year by the Gov- ernment, Labouchere jumps him as if he were 2 wild broncho and needed “busting.” Labouchere declares the grant to be a gross scandal, and yet to outsiders it would seem that 2 Government that makes Alfred Austin a poet laureate ought to give every other poet 2 sufficient income to enable him to live without writ- ing for the rest of his life. =7 One of the leading members of the Democratic “Congressional campaign committee says he would sather see the Democrats elect a few able leaders to the House than to get control of it by a majority of £ommonplace men, and so would the rest of the coun- try; but then neither alternative is likely to happen. The efforts of the Social Democrats in Germany to get stars, crosses, medals and other royal and im- perial decorations taxed as “children’s toys” were doubtiess intended for nothing more than a joke, but it is safe to say the Kaiser didn’t smile when he heard | of it. When McLaurin Jooks over the South Carolina campaign and notes the struggle of the aspirants for his seat in the Senate, he must feel well satisfied to be out of it. His position may be lonesome but it is better than the scuffle (3 Larkin, open until | dence of it. accessible. office? house of Governor Gage. affect the relations of men. except what we have done? What was shipped to Governor Gage’s home is not in the curio class. The articles are of use and necessity, such as every householder has to go into the market and buy. They are the furniture of a house, not souvenirs nor curios. Can any such shipments be shown to have been made to any other Governor? Did Haight, Irwin, Booth, Perkins, Stoneman, Bartlett, Waterman, Markham or Budd ever receive such invoices of property from a State prison, manufactured-by convict labor, of material paid for by the State? If so, let it be shown by the partisans of Governor Gage, who are using the “others did it” apology for him. There are three ex-Governors of this State living and What have they to say to this form of apology for the incumbent of that Let it be remembered that the personality of the proprietor of The Call has nothing to do with the evidence of these acts. He may be esteemed a good or bad citizen, as may Mr. de Young and General Otis. That has nothing whatever to do with the record, which shows by bills and shipping receipts that the law was violated by the manufacture of large quantities of furniture at San Quentin by convict labor, and its shipment to the That evidence is of record and circumstantial. It has no per- sonal motive. It is unaffected by any of the impulses, or prejudices, or rivalries, that It tells its own story and its story cannot be changed, for what is written stands. Cross-examination cannot break it down. By the rules of evidence a document is the first and best evidence of the fact it discloses. Secondary evidence of a fact that is docu- mentary is not permitted in the courts, if the document itself can be had. If these shipping receipts had been picked up on the street by a wayfarer, brought to the notice of the “proper officers and verified as duplicates of the shipping- books of a transportation company, they would constitute the testimony on which the Warden of San Quentin could be prosecuted for manufacturing in the prison that which the law forbids him to make, and the State would have the right to pursue the illegally made property, for which it had paid, even into the parlors and bedrooms of Gov- ernor Gage, and recover and sell it for the public account. That is the situation upon the face of the incontestable record. Spreckels, Mr. de Young and General Otis think about the Governor, or their opinion of each other, or the opinions of others about them, do not enter into the matter at all. When we discovered this record and the evidence of these forged and sophis- ticated bills and accounts, and of this mischarge of mahogany, rosewood, ebony and oak to the jute mill, and of the illegal manufacture of this material into furniture and the shipment thereof in large quantities to the home of Governor Gage, what were we to do What Mr. The defenders of the Governor and the prison management are losing time by at- | tacking us. They should be coining a plausible explanation of those shipping receipts, con- sistent with the Governor’s honor and his sense of official propriety} THE ATTACK ON EKNOX HE personal attack on Attorney General Knox, .T in a public restaurant, by three wealthy and well-known men, is an extraordinary occur- rence. It is the first time a member of the Presi- dent’s Cabinet has been physically assaulted, for reasons inhering in the discharge of his official duties. The account of the affair is to the effect that previously to the encounter words had passed be- tween the parties in z discussion of the Attorney General's rigid enforcement of the anti-trust laws. In that discussion much feeling was developed, which was the next day manifested in an exchange of blows. 1f any one think that such trusts and combinations as are obnoxious to the laws which the Attorney General is enforcing can make headway against the law and those who administer it, he is making a capital mistake. The President takes an oath to faith- fully execute the law, without fear or favor, and this President Roosevelt is doing through the members of the Cabinet, who are his executive officers and occupy with him the highest and most responsible 'place in the Government. Attacks upon the Cabinet are upon the President, and the assaulting party might just as well have physically attacked the Presi- dent himself. It needs no more than the announcement of such an assault to increase popular sympathy with the President and bring more support to his enforcement of the law. The people of this country will not per- | mit any long defiance of the law or assumed supremacy to its enforcement in high or low. They will at once assume, and rightly, that persons who assault Cabinet officers in the interest of any body of men, no matter how important their relation to the iridustries of the country, are assuming supremacy to the law, and its enforcement will be backed by the resistless power of the whole people. It is the duty of every man to obey the law and respect its administration. When the impulse to this duty ceases anywhere, there is a failure of good citi- zenship which will be rebuked by the people. Kipling says that every Erglishman should be taught to shoot as carefully as he is taught to read, and bases his conclusions on the ground that since | the British race does not know how to make itself loved in Europe it should at least learn how to make itself respected. It seems in fact that the only thing the poet learned from the war in South Africa was a liking for it and a desire for more. One of the Vanderbilt automobiles collided the other day with an apple cart, and now the machine is laid up for repairs, the Vanderbilt has paid for the Lapples and the cart is pursuing its usual vocation. SOUTH CAROLINA GUNS, HE South Carolina Legislature, in an endeavor T to either limit gun fighting or make it more fatal, has enacted a law that no man shall carry a pistol less than twenty inches long. Weapons of that longitude weigh four pounds, and the chivalry of that State justly complain that they are oppressed by being compelled to defend their honor ands count votes with such heavy artillery, when a barker weigh- ing a few ounces will do just as much in proving the other fellow a liar, and will count as big a majority as the legal columbiad they are required to carry. The vice of carrying concealed weapons is by no means confined to South Carolina, and allowing only such arms to be carried as are too large for conceal- ment and too weighty to be carried at all may prove a very efficient means of putting an end to the practice. It is somewhat creditable to the South Farolina Legislature that it recognizes the habit and its consequences as a stain upon the commonwealth and desires to prevent it in the future, and other States may well follow the example. Let the per- mitted weapons be so big that every man who feels that his honor needs defense vi et armis will be com- pelled, like the feudal knights, to employ an esquire to pack his murdering kit for him, and testiness of temper and murder for inconsequential acts will be less frequent. South Carclina is just entering upon a heated political campaign, in which personalities are as numerous as compliments at a tea party. Her Sena- tors have cuffed each other in the Senate, and the blood of her politicians is as hot as a Yuma after- noon. If they must fight, let them do it with fists, or compel them to use the field artillery authorized' by law, and election day may find the candidates all alive and able to;go and vote, The ability to back up an appeal to prejudice with a gun is responsible for much loose language and reckless personal attacks in politics, and when this no longer exists there may grow a habit of smoother and more polite speech. ¥ Senator Tillman, in his apology to th'e Senate for the affair with McLaurin, naively admitted that his home training in the politics of his State had not fitted him for observance of the courtesies of the Senate. This is an admission that the domestic practices of South Carolina do not fit her statesmen to shine in polite political society outside the State. This has no doubt stung the pride of her people and she is desirous of getting in shape to tutor her public men in the proper attitude in which to sit, and their feet off the desk and their hands out men’s hair. It is to be hoped that Texas will follow her ex- ample and assist Senator Bailey in keeping cooler, to keep of other E? WSS SN THREE-STORY RESIDENCE, A BLOCK DISTANT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, WHICH IS TO BE HEADQUARTERS OF PRESIDENT WHEN HE IS IN WASHINGTON UNTIL NOVEMBER NEXT. % o from the White House to No. 22 Jackson place, just a block away. Furni- THE headquarters of the United States Government have been transferred turé and documents have been moved there, and for the next four months the executive establishment will occupy this new domicile, both for busi- ness and residential purposes, when the President is in Washington. For the greater part of the time, doubtless, he will be at Oyster Bay with his family, but the Roosevelts, when they return in the autumn, will dwell in these temporary quarters, which were selected by Secretary Cortelyou. The house faces the west side of Lafayette Square, and is the property of Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend. PERSONAL MENTION. J. M. Fulton of Reno is at the Califor- nia. Dr. E. J. Hennessey of Napa Is at the Grand. W. Kuhn of Stockton is at the Ocel- dental. Trainor Coffin, an attorney of Reno, is at the Grand. S. L. Blodgett, Sheriff of Kern County, is at the Lick. Oscar Robinson, a merchant of Colusa, is at the Grand. James Faley, a merchant of Red Bluff, is at the California. John M. Vance, a hotel proprietor of Eureka, is at the Lick. A. L. Hobbs, a well-known resident of Fresno, is at the Grand. F. H. Newell of the United States coast survey is at the Occidental. Count de Kerchore of Belgium is at the Palace. He is touring the world for pleas- e P Agent H. ssistant General Passenger . R.A Jsudah. who went to Tahiti for his health, is expected back in the city next Tuesday. —e————— One of the Queerest of Diners. Paris is par excellence the city of gour- mets and cranks, and many a story con- cerning them has added to the gayety of the nations. Here is one of the latest, told by a well-known French waiter: One of the regular customers of a famous Pa- risian restaurant used to be a short, thin, shy and shabbily dressed man, whose name no one knew, but who gave out that he was a butter dealer, for which reason he was called the butter man at the restaurant in question. He ate next to nothing, but his soup tureen, filled with a soup specially prepared for him, was always put before him. He took a few spoonfuls, and had it taken away. Next came a whole fillet of beef, from which he cut the tiniest slice. Then fol- lowed four quail or a large chicken, of which he ate one mouthful, together with two lettuce leaves and one radish. His dessert was four grapes—never a single one more—and a cup of coffee. A bottle of the best claret and another of the best champagne were served with the repast, but he only wetted his lips with a drop from them and let them go. He took two of these meals a day, and the price for eack meal was 120 francs. But this was not all. Every time the butter man got up from his extraordinary meal he gave 40 franes to the head wait- er, who put his food on his plate, since the guest did not like to handle spoons or dishes; 20 francs to the walter, 10 francs to the woman cashler and 5 francs to the porter. Thus each meal came to 200 francs. The head waiter of the restaurant often aid slight errands for him, buying his cigars, etc., and took them to the Grand Hotel, where the butter man lived. The little old man would then open the draw- er of a wardrobe filled with heaps of bank notes of from 100 franes to 600 franes in value and with an enormous mass of gold pieces. “Pay yourself,” said the owner, and the head waiter did so, putting the bills before his patron, who never deigned to look at them. One day the mysterious millionaire went away and was never seen again. —_——— ‘How the Biograph Film Is Made. The making of biograph film is an elab- orate and delicate process. First is man- ufactured a celluloid ribbon of the re- quired width and transparency, coated on one side only to an invariable thick- ness of one one-thousandth of an inch. It is sensitized in an immense dark room in an absolute dust-proof factory. The emul- sion consists of a solution of bichioride of mercury floating on great glass tables 100 feet in length. When dried the film Is wound on spools in boxes, and no gleam of light must strike it until, at the proper moment, it is held behind the camera lens for one-seventieth part of a second every two inches of its entirety. Even then it must be guarded from stray beams until developed and fixed in the biograph fac- tory. In taking the Sharkey-Jeffries prizefight a strip of film over seven miles long was used, at a cost of $5000 per mile. On this film were 198,000 pictures of the two pu- gilists pounding each other for twenty- five rounds. This was the first moving picture ever made by artificlal illumina- tion, and 300 arc lights covered thé ring to make the record. The cost of lighting alone was $10,000. —_———— “That's Mrs. Giltedge-Bonds, the promi- ment society leader,” sald the man in the crowd who knew. 1 ““What's she in half-mourning for?” in- quired several voices. ‘““Three of her six former husbands are dead,” said the man; whereupon the Qelicacy of feeling—P) Icrowfl expressed great admiration for her ‘hiladelphia Record, ANSWERS TO QUERIES. JOHN I. SULLIVAN—K., Sacramento, Cal. John L. Sullivan was born October 15, 1858, BUILT OF BRICK—E. M. City. The Palace Hotel in San Francisco is a brick structure. COIN QUESTIONSPersons desiring | Information in regard to the value of coins will receive answer by mail If such will, with the query, inclese a self-ad- | dressed and stamped envelope. MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY RULES—J. S. 8., Mayfield, Cal. In match, Marquis of Queensberry rules, it is a foul for either contestant to use foot or knee. To kick or try to trip an oppo- nent is a foul. ASSESSMENT-B. E. D., Lower Lake, Cal. Until a patent has been issued by the United States, the title to the land re- mains in the United States and cannot be assessed for State or county purposes, but the improvements thereon can be. THE PHILIPPINES—C. A. J. A resi- dent of this city desiring to become fa- miliar-with trade in the Philippines and its possibilities should read periodical lit- erature obtainable in the periodical room of the Free Public Library in the City Hall. EUCHRE—P.,, Menlo Park, Cal In playing a lone hand In euchre, if a player takes five tricks, he scores four points; if he takes three tricks, he scores ono point, | and if he fails to take three tricks, he is euchred and his opponent takes two points. AUTOGRAPHS—M. L. M., Richmond, Cal. Autographs of presidents of the United States are valued aceording to the demand of collectors for such. If you have such, try to find a purchaser by of- fering them through the advertising de- partment of The Call. BALDWIN THEATER—L. L., City. The last performance at the Baldwin Theater in San Francisco was on the night before the destruction by fire of that place of amusement, November 23, 188. The play was ‘‘Secret Service,” with Willlam Gil- lette in the leading part. ENGINEERS' UNION—F. W. H., Santa Rosa, Cal. An association of stationary steam engineers desiring to join the American Federation of Labor should communicate with E. Rosenberg, Emma Spreckels building, San Francisco, who will furnish all information desired. KEEP HER OUT—Anxious Reader, City. If a certain party calls at your house and you “treat her very nice” and then she, behind your back, makes fun of you to her friends and talks about you, you have a right to sue her for slander if what she says amounts to such. If not, you have the right to refuse to admit her to your house or recognize her. PETER JACKSON—A Subscriber, City. The first fight that Péter Jackson engag- ed in after his arrival in San Francisco in April, 1888, was at the Cremorne, in that menth, with Con Riordan. His next fight was with George Godfrey, before the Cal- ifornia Athletic Club, August 24, 1883 Godfrey was the first man he met before a club in the United States. PEACE—P., City. A peddler who cries out his wares certainly has a right to transact his business and call out his wares if he desires, but in so doing he is not privileged to interfere with the peace and quiet of others. If he should cry out his wares in front of a church while the congregation was at worship he would undoubtedly disturb the worshipers and would be liable to prosecution for dis- turbance of the peace. SCORE IN CRIBBAGE—O,, City. Hoyle lays down the rule that “should a player mark fewer points than he ought his ad- versary cannot add them to his own score,” and adds: “It is a vulgar error to suppose that if G, having to score eight, marks but six, H, his opponent, can take the two points and add them to hig own score. We think it is the more nec- essary_to speak decidedly on this point, inasmuch as it is a case of frequent dis. pute. It is surely penalty quite sufficient that G should lose the two points he might have taken without his being pun- ished in addition for what may be termed his unthinking generosity—anglice, ‘his folly.” —————— A showman to the jungle went And caught a flerce young gnu; Said he, “T'll teach him to perform And sell him to the Zoo.” > This man was very much surpriseq, And quite delighted, too, For, lo! each quick and novel trick The new gnu knew! . =8. Nicholas. | rarest of these treasures, as usual, found their way to America. Undoubtedly the | most remarkable sale was the disposal of Caxton's “Royall Book,” - dated 1487, | which fetched the record price of £225 | (811,125), exceeding by £125 (3625) the pre- | vious record price paild for Caxton’'s “Ja- son,” in the Earl of Ashburton’s library, which was a far more interesting speei- men of Caxton’s work, considering that it is deemed to be the first book printed in the English language. Never before, either, has such a price been gained for a third follo Shakespeare as £775 (33875), | the sum of £435 (32175) being the pre- vious record. A second folio Shakespeare brought £69 (33450). In this case the ad- vance may be indicated by stating that a larger example previously fetched £435 ($2175). A copy of Eliot’s Indian Bible, which is known as a work valued at £1 12s. (8), sold for £370 ($1850). The only other ex- ample known in this country is in the British Museum and is in a_very imper- fect state, having been rescued from a grocer’s shop, where it was being twisted into. bags. Not the least surprising price among other big ones was that given for Perking' “Merry Devill,” which, when last seen In an auction-room, in 183, was knocked down for £14 (370, and which now changed hands at £300 ($1500). Another record was established by Shelley's “Adonais,” printed with rude types of Di- dot at Pisa, which in 1886 brought £4 ($210), but was considered ~ worth £210 | (31350) by the latest purchaser. | Sir Conan Doyle, I believe, volced the | teelings of literary circles when, the other day, he drew attention with it is sald his characteristic modesty to the omission from the corenation honor list of the ' names of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Every one recognized the fitness | of knighthood conferred on Conan Doyle | and Gilbert Parker, but there is & general “teelln‘ that the Order of Merit, which |had G. T. Watts among its first recip- | lents, might also have been conferred om the two great masters of niedérnt English imaginative - literature, Meredith and Hardy. A CHANCE TO SMILE. | ‘“Alas,” sighed the poor woman, who §hld Jjust closed the door on the deputa- | tion of charitable folk who called to show her how to make a cooling, cheering des- sert from the remnants at a seven course dinner, “Alas, the rich we have always with us.” Reépining because thcre seemed to be no | place to live where the committees could not hunt Her up she called her little boy in and sent him over to Mullaney's for | another can of foam. Baltimore Ameri~ | can. “My son,” sald the poor mother, ““wears ; the blue.” | *“Anh, my good woman,” said the phil- anthropist, “here’s a twenty-dol for you. And do you never feel anxious | at thinking of the brave lad daring the | dangers of the tented fleld; and er—er— what regiment does he belong to?” | ‘“Regiment?” asks the thankful woman, tucking the twenty away: “he fs & mes- senger boy, kind sir.”—Baltimore Amert- can. It chanced one day that the multimil- liendirs who never gave away any of his wealth met the multimillionaire who had given away fortunes. “Why do you do it?"” asked the former. “Partly that I may earn the respect of my fellow men,” answered the lattes, “and partly that I may earn the grati tude of posterity.” “Huh!” grunted the other. “Posterity’s | gratitude can’'t do you any good;, and your fellow men think youw're a blamed fool."—Chicago Tribune. They met again at an evening party. The young woman, however, swept past him with superb unconsciousness of his presence. “Miss Lickladder,” he sald, encounter- ing her purposely a few moments later, “I am glad to see you are not a vivisee- tionist."” “sh “Don’t you see? You cut me dead.™ Then, with his head stiffiy erect, young Spoonamore strolled to another part of the room.—Chicago Tribune. Recently a Duluth min: ““gu the law had occasion to visit a living in the West End. He wanted to see the man of the house, but, as he was not in, he sat down and waited in the kitchen. A young girl, apparently about 12 years old, was busying herself bread. The officer watched the proceeding for some time, When he remarked: “Don't you go to school?” P “No; I stopped school some time ago.” “I should think that a girl of your age would want to get as much education as possible before taking the responsibility attending household duties.” “Yes, maybe.” “But why don't you go to school, -| then?” “Well,” she stammeded, “because my husband thinks I had better stay at home.” Then the officer looked out of the win- dow, and the conversation came to an end.—Duluth News-Tribune. ——— s P, Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's. —————e—— ‘Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c. Note 81 4th, front barber, grocer. * —_————— Townsend's California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etchsd boxes. A nice p it for Eastern friends. mx)nnm st., gl?« Hotel bullding. * Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali+ fornia street. Telephone Main 142 * An owl's wisdom isn’'t due to the fact that he stays out all night.—Chicago News. —_———— Many causes induce gray hair, but Parker's Hair Balsam brings back the youthful color. Hindercorns, the best cure for corms. 1Scta.