The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1902, Page 6

The ifiinc Call, THURSDAY...................AUGUST 14, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Lédsess A1 Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE, sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS, . . ‘Market a .217 to 221 Steve: Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 mon! DAILY CALL—By Single Month. All postmasters are rized to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subseribers in ordering change of eddress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order Lo insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. VAKLAND OFFICE.......c0:s0++1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marguétts Building, Ohiesgs. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618"") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B, SMITH........30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: K. C. CARLTON .Herald Square STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of July, 1902. July 1. 60,115| July July 2 60,770/ July Juiy 3 0,160 July July 4. 61,320 July July b 60,530 July July €. 1950 July July 7. July & July 9. 10. 11 70,010 | 12 601490 | 13 ! 14, Total. . STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO—ss. On this 12th Gay of August, 1902, pereonally appeared before me, William T. Hess, a Netary Public in and for the City and County aforesaid, W. J. MARTIN, who being sworn according | to law, @eclares that he is the Business Manager of the San | Francisco CALL, a daily newspaper published in the City and | County of San Francisco, State of California, and that there were printed and distributed during the month of July, 1902, one million nine hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and forty-five (1,914,645) copies of the said newspaper, which pumber divided by thirty-one (the number of days of issue) gives an average daily circulation of 61,759 copies. W. J. MARTIN. Bubscribed and sworn to before' me this 12th day of Au- gust, 1902, W. T. HESS, eeees. 1,914,545 Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- «eisco, State of California, room 1018, Claus Spreckels bldg. GREAT BRITAIN'S LIMIT. CCORDING to a writer in the Fortnightly A Review, Great Britain, with the treaty of peace at Pretoria, closed the last war she will ever fight for conquest and the expansion of her empire. The argument upon which he bases the conclusion is that the whole earth is now virtually divided among the strong powers, and Great Britain can hardly hope to find further fields for conquest with- cvt coming into confiict with one or more of them, and furthermore the empire she has now under her control is larger than her people can well maintain. To add to it would simply hasten the hour of disso- lution. Thus he says: “Three centuries after Eliza- beth, let us say cf the expansion of kngland—it is finished.” Reviewing the present condition of world politics, he notes but one imperial problem to be solved—that of China—and in the solution of that he says Great Britain will play but a minor part. He points out that British Governments have begun to halt, hesi- | tate and withdraw before the aggressions of Germany | He dismisses the sug- | and the advance of Russia. gestion that the Orient can be ruled by the “concert of Europe” or any sort of “areopagus of the world,” and declares that if the partition of China should ever be undertaken the United States would have to take upon itself the duty and the burden of sup- porting Anglo-Saxon rights as 2gainst Russian .dom- ination. Even on the Indian frontier, he argues, Great Britain can go no farther and says that those who now urge that Great Britain place herself in permanent opposition to Russia in that part of the world by seizing Southern Persia will find less and Jess support from the nation. The cause of the halt of the empire, he argues, is o be found in the increasing biirden which imperial defense imposes upon the British race. At the pres- ent time there are about 40,000,000 Britons at home and some 10,000,000 more in the colonies. That comparatively small number are now governing more than 12,000,000 square miles of land and over 400,000, 000 people. To rightly perform the imperial task would require the joint efforts of Great Britain and the United States, and no such combination is likely. Thus the British, with a slowly increasing popula- tion at home and in the colonies, have all and more than all of empire they are capable of defending and maintaining. They can carry conquest no further. The argument sounds well, but it overlooks the law that there must be either growth or decay in everything that lives. There can beg no such thing as standing still, either for nations or for individuals. The conquest of the Transvaal will itself have conse- Jquences that will compel either an advance or a re- treat of the empire in Africa. The construction of the railroad from the Cape to Cairo, which cannot be much longer delayed, will involve the empire in controversies with various tribes along the route and cut of them will surely come the necessity of the exercise of some sort of sovercignty over the whole territory through which the road runs. Furthermore the situation in China is not of a sort that will permit Great Britain to remain passive and leave it to the United States to prevent Russian domination there. The recent treaty between Great Britain and Japan is an evidence of the imperious nature of British interests in the Orient, and the impossibility of sur- rendering them: without fighting. « Finally there re- mains the question of the final settlement-of the Ottoman empire, and there, too, we find Great Britain in a position from which she dare not recede and in which she cannot stand neutral. Doubtless it would be a beneficial thing for the British taxpayers if they could stop where they are, but the law of consequences will not permit them to do so. They have gone too far upon the road of empire to stand still now. They must either advance or make way for others. It will not be permitted them to stand still and block the a %, THE RESULTS OF THE PRIMARIES. bosses will go to the State Convention and Railroad directed by Herrin, and in alliance Normal schools and the charitable asylums. but they will be divided in the support of will have but a minority of votes, but that | in the seeming victory of the primaries. It elected are opposed to Gage, but they are as yet united upon no programme. - ‘UT of the primary elections there has developed asituation highly encourag- ing to genuine Republicans, but none the less containing elements of grave dan- ger. It behooves the true leaders of the party to look at the situation fairly and to note the evil as well as the good. tory and-unless care be taken defeat may yet befall it in the State Convention. The situation is just this: Genuine Republicanism and, honest politics have triutmphed in the counties, but the combined bosses have elected a formidable body of supporters in San Francisco, Los Angelés and Sacramento. The delegates thus gained will be reinforced'by others of the same stripe elected here and there from the country-districts ‘| or the smaller cities. Tt will be therefore Honesty has not won an overwhelming vic- with a considerable following the combined begin to trade for votes. It is to be borne in mind that the combination which has won these partial victo~ ries in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento will be fully as potent before the con- vention as it hag been at the primaries. It is a formidable machine. While it operates under the name of Governor Gage, it is really a combination of all the corrupting forces in Cali- fornia politics. At the head is the bighly disciplined organization of the Southern Pacific with the railroad are the Federal brigade led by Lynch, the State machine operated by men of the Mackenzie stripe and all the profes- sional political bosses of the State. The combination is led by men of long experience in politics, who are without scruples as to what means they use to obtain votes. They have money and cunning and discipline. They are making a fight for the spoils of offiée, and under Gage’s administration those spoils include every State institution, not excepting the They are therefore playing for big stakes, and will play the game by every trick and device known to their experience. When the State Convention assembles it will present this condition of affairs: large majority of the delegates will have been elected in opposition to the Gage machine, A three or four candidates. Gage and his bosses minority will be for him first, last and all the time. Those votes will be subject to the bosses absolutely. They can be traded as Herrin chooses. They will carry out any programme dictated to them by their bosses, and con- | sequently they constitute a dangerous force i the hands of an unscrupulous manager. > | Many a time in American politics has an astute boss gone into a convention with a shoe- 9 string, as the saying is, and come out with the scalps of honest men dangling at his belt. 750 | A similar triumph will await Herrin and Burns and Gage in this fight if the supporters of honest politics do not at once organize for the protection of honesty. Let any intelligent man study the situation and he will see the danger that lurks is true that a large majority of the delegates Now the assistance of the Federal brigade, the State machine, the railroad gangs and the Demo- | l Gage faction has a good voting and trading strength. That strength was gained by the | cratic push in the cities, but none the less it has been gained and must be reckoned with. The adroit political tricksters who were clever enough to gain it at the primaries will be clever enough to use it at the convention. Itis then up to the leaders of honest Republi- canism .to devise a joint system of protection against further trickery. If they unite they will win. is the only way to victory. If they remain divided they will almost certainly lose. From the first The Call has given this warning to the party. Long ago it announced that the whole Democratic push would be swung into line with the rail- road push to vote for Gage delegates to the State Convention. those early statements were tfue. Now comes the final warning of danger in the conven- tion. The opponents of boss politics must get together at once. They must unite. That Events have shown that IRON AND STEEL TRADE. N increase in the value of our imports of iron and steel manufactures accompanied by a de- crease in the valuge ef our exports of such goods presents to the pubfic'an interesting commer- cial problem for solution. It is the more interesting | because the increase of imports and decrease of ex: A | ports occur just at a time when the organization of | the great steel trust in this country gave grounds for a general expectation that we would continue to in- | crease our exports and advance steadily toward the ’conquest of the world’s market for such goods. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in reviewing | !the trade for the fiscal year just closed says: “For ! many years prior to 1901 the exports of iron and ‘ steel had steadily increased while imports had stead- ily decreased. “Exportations of iron and steel manu- factures increased from $12,000,000 in value in 1880 to $121,000,000 in 1900, while imports of iron and steel decreased from $67,000,000 in 1882 to $12,000,000 in 1899. In 1901, however, the exports of iron and steel fell to $117,000,000 and in 1902 to $98,000,000, while the imports of iron and steel increased to $20,000,000 | in 1900 and to $27,000,000 in 1902. Thus the exports of iron and steel in the fiscal year just ended are $23,000,000 below those of 1900, and the imports of iron and steel are $14,000,000 above those of 1899, the total imports of iron and steel for the year 1902 being greater than in any year since 1893.” By way of explaining the cause of the change in the course of the trade, the secretary of the Iron and Steel Association says in his annual report: “In 1899 and immediately preceding years the iron and steel industries in Europe were exceptionally prosperous; there was an active demand and prices were high. In the years just prior to 1809 the prices of iron and steel in the United States were lower than they had ever been. Under these conditions we naturally found opportunities to dispose of our surplus iron and steel products in neutral markets, and even in the home markets of our European competitors. But these conditions have materially changed; the European demand and European prices have declined and the | home demand upon our own iron and steel works has greatly increased, while our prices have advanced; hence sharper competition in neutral and all foreign markets and increased foreign competition in our own markets.” The significance of the situation should not be over- looked by the American people. It has a pertinent bearing on the demand of the free traders for the re- peal of all tariff duties on goods manufactured by trusts. Such an alteration of the tariff is of course advocated by them only as a first step toward the overthrow of the protective system altogether, but that fact is not universally known and as a conse- quence a good many persons who are not thorough free traders are induced to favor the project. It is therefore well to have them take note that even the greatest of our industrial combinations is not sure of a foreign market, nor could maintain itself in the home market without protection. Europe in fact is adopting our improved methods of manufacture and continues to have the advantage of cheap labor. Removye protection from the home industry and our workingmen would soon feel the dire results of the cheap labor competition. The secretary of the Iron and Steel Association puts the truth tersely in the. statement: steel industries as well as for all other domestic manufacturing industries, our home market must always be our best market.” o — e There .are now 099,446 pensioners on Uncle Sam’s list and before the close of the year the old man may decide to make it an even million for the sake of simplicity of calculation. It seems not to matter much now what a man is pensioned for so long as he A gets the pension. “For our iron and [ THE METRIC SYSTEM. EPORTS from London announce that at the R final meeting of the conference between the Ministry and the Colonial Premiers it was de- | cided that there should be preferential trade among | agreed upon, that Australia should increase her con- tributions to the imperial navy, and that'the use of the metric system of weights and measures should be | adopted throughout the empire. | The first two articles of agreement are not likely | to have much effect. It has been found impossible to arrange for free trade between the mother country and the colonies and the efforts to provide for prefer- ential trade are not likely to amount to much unless indeed Great Britain herself should adept a general system of protection and thus put herself in a posi- that would be worth something. That, however, is not at all likely from present prospects, for the Brit- ish people have already revealed their opposition to the duty on corn even though laid as a war measure | for the purpose of providing a revenue for imperial defense. So, too, the Australian contribution to the navy is not likely to amount to much. That newly organized federation is having sore straits to main- tain itself and is not going to have any money to vote for battleships for a long time to come. There remains the agreement upon the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures throughout the empire. That will have its effect all over the world. The great nations of Europe have already adopted the system. Great Britain and the United States have been the only powers of note who have held to the old medieval confusion of weights and measurements. So long as both of them stood together the old system was able to hold its own against the new, but now if Great Britain swing the weight of her empire and her commerce on the side that is already taken by continental’ Europe, it would seem that it can be a matter of but a short time be- fore we shall have to follow the example. The advantages that will result from the adoption of a uniform system of weights and measurements throughout the commercial world are too obvious to require statement. Even if the metric system were not in itself more convenient than any other system, the very need of uniformity would be a potent argu- ment in favor of the adoption of it since it has now become the only thing approaching an international standard which we have. It happens, however, that in addition to the argument for uniformity there are others almost as good to be urged in favor of the new system, among which not the least is the fact that it is a decimal system and therefore much more con- venient for purposes of calculation than any other. The adoption of the system has long been under consideration both in the United States and in Great Britain. In neither country, however, has much been accomplished. Now it seems the British are to make a move. We will surely have to follow. e —— London intended to give Lord Kitchener the free- dom of the city in a handsome gold casket, but when Kitchener heard of it he requested that the gift be changed to a service of silver plate, and now rumor has it that he is going to marry and is fixing up for the occasion. Chairman Griggs of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is known in his native Georgia as Jim Griggs, but up North they have managed to twist it to Grim Jiggs, and now the country will have to study him to find out which name he is living up to. The most popular lecturers at the Eastern Chau- tauquas this year are Senator Hanna and William e Bryan. The combination seems queer, but it shows that Americans like to hear both sides. | : 5 | the various parts of the empire so far -as can be | tion to give her colonies advantages in her markets | | O CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1902. EQUALIZERS ARE DELAYING WORK ON YUBA DAM AR The work upon the first of the dams to ke constructed on the Yuba River as a part of the great system of debris im- pounding works, that has received the ap- proval of the National Government and the government of the State of Califor- nia, is being delayed by the State Board of Equalization. For one month the Cali- fornia Debris Commission, consisting of engineers of the United States, has been waiting for the State Equalizers to ap- prove the plans and specifications sent by the commission to Sacramento and to ‘Washington. The National Government, which 1s supposed to be very slow, promptly put the seal of approval on the plans and specifications and authorized the commission to at once advertise for bids ‘for the work to be performed as a beginning. The papers went to Washing- ton and to Sacramento at the same time, but no response has been received from the State capital. The large sum of money set apart by the State of Califor- nia and he Washington authorities to pay for the work is available immediately upon the approval of the contrects to be made, but rothing can be done until the State makes a move. to approve what has been recommended in detail. No explanation is offered for the lack cof promptness on the part of thé State | Board of Equalization. No communica- tion has been sent forward urging action. In the meantime the rainy season is ap- proaching. The floods every year bring down debris that shoals the channels of navigable rivers 4nd makes the mainte- nance of levees on the islands more aiffi- cult. The purpose of the retaining works, as explicitly set forth by the Government engineers at the inception of the proceed- ings, is not to facilitate hydraulic mining, but to do what is possible to improve navigation. In that view of the case the earlier the improvements are begun the earlier the Government will be abie to put the navigable streams in good shape. This will be good for the lowering of freight rates by making competition by the river route feasible, but it will not help the railroad people, who now have the control of the movement of freight in the Sacramento Valley. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. W. J. Downing of Suisun is at the Lick. ‘W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. Dr. J. Newton Shively' of Philadelphia is at the Palace. W. P. Lynch, a mining ville, Is at the Lick. 1 J. M. Walthall, District Attorney of Me- desto, is at the Lick. Thomas Derby, a mining man of Néw Almaden, ic at the Palace. Fred C. Finkle, chief hydtaulic enginear of the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. J. Stanley Orr, traveling passenger agent of the Harriman roads, whose home is in Cincinnati,-is at the Palace. C. C. Sroufe, superintendent of the Tuc- | scn division of the Southern Pacific, is at | the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Robert E. Montgomery, chief clerk to Manager James Agler of the Southern Facific, has returned to work after an enforced absence caused by a sprained ankle, —_— e HONORS IN GREAT BRITAIN | REQUIRE LARGE INCOMES | Men Who Have No Fortune Are De- barred From the Peerage of the Realm. Willlam = Pitt" once .recommenced to George Jif that any man with an income | of $100,000 a year should be made a peer if he €0 Jesired. It would be possible, according to an| English paper, to support a peerage on an | income much less than that. Indeed,/ | many a peer of recent creation, as well as | of arcient date, is able to maintain his | dignity with great success on $50,000 a | | vear, or even less. But the unavoidable |initial expenses which a peer is called | upon to defray total up at the very least | | close on $4000. | | First of all, there are big fees to be | paid. There are five grades of nobility— | | baron, viscount, earl, marquis and duke. | The fee of a baron is $730, of a viscount | §1000, of an earl $1250, of a marquis $1560 and of a duke—the highest rank in the peerage —$1750. Part of these fees goes to the na- tional exchequer and part to support the College of Arms in Queen Victoria street, | | by which all questions of arms and her- | aldr: are decided. It is a singular fact that when Welling- ton took his seat in the House of Lords| for the first time, on June'28, 1814, he was a baron, a viscount, an earl, a marquis | | and a duke all rolled into one. These dig- | | nities had been conferred upon him from | | time to time in their ozder by distinct grants for his services during the long war with France, and it was only when, on the overthrow of Napoleon, the last and highest patent of nobility was be- stowed that he was able to take his seal in the House of Tords. The combined fees which Wellington had to pay for the man of Oro- A peer must wear the robes of his rank in the peerage on his introduction to the | House of Lords. These robes are made of scarlet cloth slashed with ermine, the wearer’s rank in the peerage being denot- ed by the number of bars of white fur which traverse the robe back and front. A duke displays four bars of ermine, a marquis three and a half, an earl three, a viscount twe and a baron one. Each robe costs between 3200 and $250. Then there is the coronet. The occasions are rare upon which peers are called upon to wear their crowns. They will, however, be displayed by the nobles assembled at the coronation of the King in Westmin- ster Abbey. The coronet of each rank of the peerage consists of a cap of crimson velvet turned up with ermine and sur- mounted by a gold tassel. It is in the de- sign of the coronet’s outer circle of gold and silver that the various orders of no- bility are distinguished. A baron's coro- net has a plain circle of gold surmounted by six silver balls. The circle of gold in a viscount’s coronet is jeweled, and there are twelve silver balls. From the jeweled circle of gold in an earl's corfnet rise eight points, also of gold, upon each of which there is a silver ball, and between each point, close to the circle, is a gold strawberry leaf. The coronet of the mar- quis has a row of silver balls, placed not on points, but on the circle of gold, and between each is a gold strawberry leaf; and a duke's coronet has a wreath of gold strawberry leaves over the jeweled circle of gold. The goldsmith’s charge for mak- ing a coronet ranges from 450 guineas. Among other expenses of a peer are a fee of %50 to the College of Arms for a grant of arms, a tax of two guineas a jear for displdying these armorial bear. ngs on his carriage and a further tax of about §5 a year for engraving them on his g{lvate note paper.—New York Mail and Xpress. —_——— Elephant Does Good Farm Work. James Cahill of Virginia is probably the only person in the United States who has in regular use upon his farm an elephant, which is used for farm work. With the swaying beast hitched up to a plow he ! can turn more ground than any of his neighbers with a team of horses, and when it comes to hauling logs the ele- | phant will walk away with ease with logs which the best teams of his neighbors cannot move. The elephant eats little the work of one, is ganuglnmi docile and | intane-year five patents of nobility amounted to $6230. |. more than a horse, and does many times | FAVOR MAKING BIG EXHIBIT AT CiTY OF OGDEN Al] the countles in the Sacramento Val-, ley, from tidewater on the south to the mountains of Skasta County, and from the Coast Range to and including the low- er foothills of the Sierra, are about to unite in placing at Ogden a collective ex- hibit, to be permanently maintained, for the purpose of advertising. to all trav- elers who come through from the East the resources of the valley counties. Rei cently an investigation has been made o the advisability of this plan. A compar- atively small exhibit has been maintatned for some time at Ogden through the ef- forts of the Sacramento Chamber of Com- merce, and with the co-operation of the California Promotion Committee, which pays a certain sum each month to keep the products before the tourists and home- seekers. A building has been constructed for the use of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce collection of fruits, cereals, minerals, etc.; fllustrative of the wealth of Sacramento County. On the structure, which is directly beside the tracks of the Southern Pacific Company and adjoins the raiiway depot at Ogden, is a painted inscription announecing that the products of the Sacramento Valley are there ex- hibited free. An account of the number of visitors has been kept and it is found that 300 per diem is not unusual. In addition to ex- hibits, literature of a descriptive sort is on hand and is distributed freely to those who make inquiries about Sacramento County. The diregtors of the Sacramento Valley Development Association will meet this month and a recommendation will be made to take hold of the show in behalf of the entire Sacramento Valley, and there iIs no. doubt that this will be adopted, so those who ought to know as- cert. Travelers will have an ‘opportunity to learn all about the Sacramento Valley through this plan while they are journey- ing over the Sierras and will have plenty of time to think over what is offered to them in this State and to compare it with what is contained in the States of the East. The Southern Pacific Company is favoring the enterprise at Ogden and has supplied some exhibits. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. LOOPING THE LOOP—A. B. A., City. This department is informed that the track in which a cyclist loops the loop is not grooved. P CONSULAR REPORTS—J. W. E, Napa, Cal. Consular reports may be ob- tained by you through the Representa- tive to Congress from your district. Ad- dress a communication to him. ‘WEDDING SUPPER—A. 8., City. The rules of etiquette say that at a wedding supper the host sits at one end of the table and the hostess at the other, he with the bride at his right and she with the groom at hers. LABGR DAY—E. G. S, Livermore, Cal. September 1 is a legal holiday (Labor day) in all the States and ‘Territories and the District of Columbia, except Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota and Oklahoma. MINT MARK—N. B, City. The initial “C” on a five-dollar piece of 1243 does not, as vou suppose, indicate that it was coined in the Carson City Mint, as that mint was not established until 1870. Coins ssued out of that mint have the letters ‘C..C.”” The one of 1343 was coined In the Charlotte (N. C.) Mint. CALIFORNTA JUSTICE—J. F., St Louis, Mo. The telegram from a San Ra- fael, Cal., correspondent to the effect that the State Board of California State Pris- on Directors “had pardled Maurice Cav- avaugh, a weak-minded young man serv- ing a long sentence for a trivial crime, snatching a bag of peanuts from a child,” is not in accordance with the facts and not “a sample of California justice.” At one time Cavanaugh was sentenced for stealing a horse and wagon. Subsequent- Iy he was arrested for robbery for snatch- ing a satchel from the hands of a woman who was walking along the street. He was admitted to bail, and while awaiting trial on the charge of robbery he com- mitted petty larceny and was again ar- rested. He was convicted of robbery, a crime which in this State may be pun- ished by imprisonment for life, and on January 11, 1895, he was sent to the State prison at Folsom for twenty years. He was subsequently transferred to the pen- itentiary at San Quentin and from there paroled because of 1ll health. ————— “O’Brien siz he hos bin carryin’ th’ same stick iver since he hos been on th’ force.” ‘“How long hos thot bin®' “Sfv. intane years.” Bedad, ut must be a siv- locust.”—Philadelphia Rec- crd. little trouble, and Mr. Cahill is more than leased with his' experiment. Mr. Ca- ill bought the ale];l‘x‘nnt from a stranded circus proprietor.—Richmond Times. GREAT CHIEFS ARE SELECTED BY RED MEN The session of the Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men yesterday was taken up {n the nomination and elec- tion of great chiefs for the ensuing term. The contests were for the great junior sagamore and for representatives to the Great Council of the United States. The following was the result of the balloting: James Boyves of San Francisco, great prophet; John R. Tyrrell of Grass Valley, great sachem; J. Samuels of San Francisco, great semior sagamore; C. 8. Davis of Angels Camp, great junior sagamore; Porter L. Bliss of San Francisco, great chief of records (re- elected); W. J. Smith of San Francisco, great keeper of wampum (re-elected); John H. Rippe, Edward Connolley and Charles Fowler of San Franeisco, great trustees; "James Boyes, J. Harry Hutaff, Emillo Las- treté and W. J. Smith of San Francisco and Josiah Sims of Nevada City, representatives to the Great Coumcil of the United States. At the close of the election the Great Couneil adjourned to give the represen- tatives an opportunmity to view the pa- I 1 I OUR NEXT ROOK— rade of the Knights of Pythias. During the day the past great repre- sentative to the Great Council of the United States, C. T. Roff, a resident of Brenham, Tex., who is a representative to the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, pald the Great Council a fra- ternal visit and gave the representative a short talk. Altahomos Tribe will give its second an- nual banquet to-morrow night to its drill team and to the great chiefs of the Great Council of the California reserva. tion. Yesterday there were present at the opening of the Great Council of the De- gree of Pocahontas, I. O. R. M., i addi- tion to the other great chiefs the first and second great scouts, Mrs. Crase and Mrs. Ida Wheeler, and the great first and second runners, Mrs. Annie Bliss and Mrs. C. R. Campbell. After the presentation of a number of resolutions and petitions, which were re- ferred to committees to report om the same, the election for great chiefs was held. The following named were chosen: Mina Rew. prophetess; Kate Wilson, poca- hontas; Minnie Betts, wenonah; Annie Bliss, minnehaba; Mrs. E. J. Brazille, keeper of rec- ords. (re-elected, sixth term); Kate A. E. Keane, keeper of wampum (re-elected, fourth term); Mrs. M. Thiele of Camp, Har- riet Janes of San and Berg of Vallejo, trustees. To-day the subject of securing a char- ter, which this great body has been striving to secure for several years, will again be discussed. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Bridget, don’t you think yow can get along without so much company? Im sure no one else would stand it.” “Sure, ma’am, thot's why Ofm. stay- ing wid ye.”—Brooklyn Life. May~I had no idea before last night that Mr. Pilcher was a man of such lofty ambitions and exalted ideals. Maud—How did you come to find it out. May—He proposed to me.—FHarper's Bazaar. “A man,” observed Uncle Eph'm, “is des’ ltke a postage stamp. He ain't no ‘count when he gits badly stuck om his- s’'f.”"—Washington Star. . Employer (to new office boy)—" if anybody should ask you, I'll be back in, half an hour.” New Office Boy (running afterhim)— “Mr. Jacobs, how soon'll you be bmck if nobody asks me?’"—Washington ‘Star. He had asked the Boston maiden for kiss. s “*Oh, sir,”” she cried, blushing, “I have never been kissed in all my Iife.”” ““Well, I suppese somebody has got. to break the ice,” replied the practical young man.—Philadelphia Record. Auntie (anxiously)-Do you think you Have the proper training for a poor man's Capitola wife? Sweet Girl—Yes, indced. Papa hasn't given me any spending money worth mentioning- for years. I always have things charged.—New York World. Humor is the eudemonological pessim- ‘sm which includes within itself a teleo- logical evolutionary optimism, which may cause a realistic, radical and universal reconciliation to appear as possible.—The Kindergarten Magazine. —_——— Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ———————m Townsend's California Glace fruft and candies, 50c 2 pound, in artistic fire-otcn=d boxes. 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