The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1902, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until 9 o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until 9 p. m. — - —— A WEEK OF MERCHANDISING. T was a merchandise week last week. There was l nothing going on in Wall street to attract atten- tiog, the crop situation showed no changes suffi- ciently pronounced to affect values and the week was | confined to buying and selling groceries, dry goods, | etc., in the old-fashioned way of our forefathers. And | a very good and safe way it was, too, it may be re- marked in passing, when failures were fewer than | now, when nervous prostration had not become part i | of the programme of the average business man, and | when, if men did not get rich as rapidly as they do now, they had a2 much more comfortable time in get- ting there. The business of the country, as indicated by the bank clearings, gained 20.2 per cent over the cor- responding week last year, but with half a dozen large | and important cities, among them Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Minneapolis, on the wrong side of the exhibit. The aggregate clearings fell below $2,- 000,000,000, for the first time in weeks. But the fail- ures made an exceptionally good showing, being only 133, against 169 last year. The staples, with hardly an exception, -maintained their plane of values, though more or less irregularity was apparent. The iron and steel trades do not seem to be in quite as brilliant condition as for the past two or three years, as the new business is hardly up to its previous volume and liberal importations of for- | eign material have cut down the premium heretofore | paid for prompt delivery. Whether we ascribe it to | the fuel shortage or the scarcity of cars, it is.certain | that importations of iron and steel into this country | are steadily increasing. Still, no complaint on this | score has yet been heard, and much new business, especially in railroad equipment, is reported placed as far ahead as next year, so the business is not suf- fering. Hides and leather have got so high that the demand has been checked, and at the close both mat- kets are quoted quieter, though prices are maintained. | Footwear is in quick demand and prompt delivery is requested, indicating that stocks have run low. Cot- ton is advancing, as it is now generally admitted that | the crop will fall below expectations and perhaps be- low normal requirements. Provisions are hesitating at Western centers and reports from Chicago say that the packers are holding up the markets and that were they to withdraw their support prices would give way, A similar condition prevails in other lines of trade. It is becoming marked in Wall street, where such a reliable authority as Henry Clews, who knows about as much of financial New York as any living man and | who represents the solid conservative element, does not hesitate to say that the stock market is being held up by the huge monied interests, who cannot let the market go down yet, and that conditions there are | largely artificial. He advises the public to enter the | arena of that latter-day coliseum with a careful step and a watchful eye and to make themselves scarce at the first signs of any disturbance among the animals. He says: “Take your profits on the hard spots and be «careful about going in too heavily on the weak ones.” Out here in California we are- going along pretty much as they are across the Rockies. We are doing = first-class business in a2lmost every one of our varied lines. Our collections, like theirs, are good, our fail- | ures comparatively few and small and our stock of ready cash the largest in our history. Not for many years has it been as easy for solvent borrowers with | average security to get accommodation as:it is to-day. For months the banks have been full of money and they now welcome the solid borrower with a cheerful smile. It is true that our forage crops, such as wheat, barley, hay, etc., are turning out lighter than expect- ‘ed, but the prices are improving to balance this de- ‘crease, so the equilibrium is maintained. Some of cur dried fruits are low, but that is largely the fault “of the grower himself in not keeping posted on con- ditions East and abroad and insisting on at least a portion of his rights regarding prices for his output. Our wines bid fair to meet with a good market this | year and our livestock is bringing about as stiff prices as the public purse can stand. These are bright days jor the agricuiturist 2s a rule and the merchant and general public are enjoying the fruits of his prosper- jty as expressed by an active trade and good prices. London has 2 prophet named Baxter who has fora {old marvelous and tersible things to happen to the world between 1906 and 1929, but as he does not pre- dict anything at all as happening in the United States there is reason to believe he is crazy. N_wly every- t!ungfl;)t happens at all in the next thirty years is going to happen first in this country and reach the rest of the world only by indirection or back action. | House this year. | litical situation. E the Democratic Congressional campaign committee has been unexpectedly success- ful in raising money for the canvass. The chair- man of the committee, Mr. Griggs of Georgia, is comparatively unknown to national politics, but he has been shrewd enough to obtain the assistance of some of the strongest Democratic capitalists in the East and as a whole the com- mittee is a formidable one. It therefore behooves Republicans to take Leed of the situation. Despite the divisions in the Democratic ranks, the lack of an issue and the lack of a leader there is danger they may capture the House of Representatives. The present House consists of 357 members, of whom 198 are Republicans, 151 are Democrats and eight are classed as Silverites or Populists. The Re- publicans have, therefore, a majority of forty-two. The next House, whose members are to be ‘elected this fall, will contain 386 members, being an increase of twenty-nine. Of the additional members New York, Illinois and Texas will have three each, Minne- sota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will have two each and Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missis- sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington and West Virginia will have one each. Of the new men the Democrats are said to be sure of ten, so that there remain nineteen to be fought for. Moreover, a good many seats now held by Republi- cans were obtained by slender majorities and they have no sure thing of maintaining their existing strength. If the Democrats and Silverites, in addi- tion to the ten new seats given them in the South under the new apportionment, can carry twenty-four more they will have a majority in the House and thus be able to prevent the enactment of important meas- ures and seriously hamper the work of the Republican administration. ) It will be seen that there is nothing in the situation to justify any great amount of optimism on the part of Republicans. There are some seats which the party is sure of holding, but in virtually all districts in the North and the West there is going to be a hard contest. Democracy will be backed in the fight by the Free Trade League and will not suffer from a lack of money in any district where it has a chance to win. Some time ago Senator Vest stated that it would profit the Democrats nothing to obtain control of the His argument was that a .Demo- cratic House could accomplish nothing since the Sen- ate and the administration are in the hands of the Re- publicans, while the fact that it was Democratic would enable Republicans to throw upon the House the responsibility for the defeat of any legislation the people desire. His conclusion was that it would be good politics for the Democrats to make no effort to carry a majority of the seats in the next House, but devote themselves exclusively to the election of strong men in a few districts, so that. while remaining in a minority they would be able to profit by Repub- lican mistakes and formulate an issue for 1904. For a time it seemed likely such tactics would be pursued. A change, however, has come over the po- The activity of the Free Trade League has brought the tariff issue once more to the front, and under various names of tariff reform, tariff B R' EPORTS fromeNew York are to the effect that i revision and reciprocity the issue has been given a prominence which threatens to make it the chief sub- ject of partisan controversy for the next two years and the point of struggle in 1904. To achieve that result the various factions of tariff tinkers are eager to get control of the House. Hence the success which Chairman Griggs has had in getting money in New York, Boston and Chicago for the Congressional campaign. It is strange that after the recent experience with free srade the Democratic party should be willing to | again make a Presidential fight on that issue, but it is to be borne in mind the party has now neither a leader nor a programme. It is natural, therefore, that | it should grasp at the plank the Free Trade League holds out. Thus the country is confronted with the menace of another tariff agitation, and if the present House be carried by the Democrats hardly anything can prevent the precipitation of that issue. Our in- dustrial welfare and security are therefore dependent upon Republican success. The party to whose legis- lation our present prosperity is due is called upon to sustain it against the renewed attack. A Democratic House would be powerless to enact any kind of legis- lation, but it would have a very dangerous power to excite alarm and uncertainty throughout the business world. The fight for the House is therefore one of tigg chief issues of the campaign 'and should be made vigorously in every district. 2 T ————— Among the New York papers there are mutterings of discontent with Depew. They intimate that he was never much of a Senator, and since his marriage he is getting to be worthless as a story-teller. pears he is too fond of telling the clever things his wife says. DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE, ASTERN dispatches report that in a recent ad- dress before the University of Chicago Dr. Benjamin Andrews argued that democracy as a social and political organism is now approaching a | crisis through which it cannot pass without undergo- ing radical changes. He is quoted as saying: “De- mocracy of the type which has become familiar to the modern world is passing away never to return. In every. leading country of the world possessing free in- stitutions the party of the people is in despair. There is ground for believing that the last hundred years— the age whiclr free institutions proudly call their own —have been the unhappiest century on record.” Doubtless if we had the whole address of Dr., An- drews before us # would be found that he had quali- fied those statements in such a way as to materially change the meaning they have when presented sepa- rate from the context. Taken as they come to us, however, they represent a certain phase of feeling which is by no means uncommon in the world. We have heard over and over again the voice of the pes- simist complaining that things are bad now, have been bad in the past and are going to be worse in the future. There is of course an element of truth in the state- ments. Democracy is certainly confronting a erisis and it is certainly changing. It has been doing that, however, since ever the human race began. All pro- mress is an evolution and a development. Our social structure will change exactly as former structures have changed, and it is probable the changes will take place more rapidly in the future than in the past. There is, however, no reason to fear that the change will be for the worse, while on the other hand there are many reaspns for the common hope that the new order will be better than the old. There are a few sincere friends of the people who { be at once sent to London as an educator, It ap- | l':['HE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN. | are in despair simply because they are so impatient they wish the world to change in.a day and old evils to be eradicated over night. The impatient ones are always despairing. The great party of the people, however, is very far from feeling .despair. On the contrary, it is doubtful if it were ever more reason- ably hopeful. The masses of the people among civil- ized nations are now better housed, fed and clothed than ever before. They are better educated, better organized and are clothed with larger political powers than ever before. They have a more intelligent con- ception of their rights and their needs and a larger means of redressing wrongs. Why then should they despair? As a matter of fact, democracy faces the future not only with high hope, but with hope based on broad and solid foundations. The past century so far from having been an unhappy one was on the contrary one of strenuous and successful endeavor toward better- Ing the conditions of humanity as a whole. The men of the past found a joy in their struggle for good, even as will the men-of the future. Demdcracy as we have known it will change only to make way for a nearer approach to that fair ideal democracy of which great men have dreamed since the beginning of civil- ization, R ; . ——— When the recent congress of negro businiess men was under consideration at Richmond there was some curiosity as to how the delegates would get along with the “Jim Crow” cars and the hotels. They set- tled the question by coming to town in Pullman palace cars and putting up at hotels owned by ne- groes. It was a clear case of a triumph of business over racial prejudice GAMBLING EXTRAVAGANCES, . ENJAMIN FRANKLIN once summed up the B circle of life in the statement: “Poverty be- gets thrift, thriit begets wealth, wealth begets idleness, idleness begets extravagance, and extrava- gag:e begets poverty.” The round of the circle ap- pedlrs approaching a completion among the richer { classes of New York. The tales that come from that city, from Newport and from Saratoga, concerning the extravagances into which large wealth and idle- ness are herrying the smart set, are hardly to be matched by any ever told of the-most extravagant | capitals of the Old World in their most dissolute days. Prosperity is evidently having its inevitable effects upon those who have obtained it too easily. Gam- bling is running to a height that approaches mania. A few days ago the dispatches brou it information of the establishment in a fashionable quarter of New York of a gambling-house whose sumptuous decora- tions are to make those of the gambling places at Monaco look cheap. A single staircase leading from the reception rcom on the ground floor to a gambling room above is to cost $30,000. The most skillful artists in the city are to beautify the walls and ceilings with paintings, and the furniture is to be worth a fortune. It is to be noted that the news Teports announce quite openly that the place is to be a gambling house. There is no attempt at conceal- ment, notwithstanding the fact that the city is sup- posed to be under the control of a reform adminis- tration. From Saratoga come similar reports of excessive gambling. One authority quotes expert gamblers as estimating that upward of $2,000,000 a day is wa- gered on horse races alone, and, though such esti- mates appear unreasonable, other experts present figures to show that the bookmakers alone pay in the aggregate as much as $10,000 a day for the privilege. Among the patrons of the racetracks and the gam- bling rooms are all classes of people who have money to burn. Julian Ralph in describing Saratoga says: “I, who am familiar with what passes as fashionable dissipation in nearly every corner of the world, have never before seen such publicity and promiscuousness in these follies, have nowhere élse known gambling to begin close upon breakfast and be carried on, in varied fields of chance, until after midnight; ~have in no other place found young maidens, new brides and family domestics risking bets side by side with the heads of families. And never before or elsewhere have I seen fathers and mothers teaching the tricks of gaming to callow children or fathers looking with smiling faces at their sons besidé the faro tables in a gambling resort.” It has lcng been kncwn that the proportion of men and women who can stand up well under the blows of adversity is much larger than that which can resist the temptations of prosperity. Doubtless therefore a good many of those who are now squandering their wealth in the extravagances of Newport and Sara- toga and New York will be better off when they have been reduced to poverty and forced to go o work again. The evil will lie in the extent to which they will drag down innocent persons with them. There is going to be a heavy reckoning somewhere and some time for the reckless indulgence in gam- bling now going on, and-all experience proves that too frequently the reckoning is exacted by blind jus- tice not from the gambler only, but from his parents, his wife or his children. The folly and crime are his alone, but the disgrace and the ruin fall upon his fam- ily, from the oldest to the youngest. A British parliamentary paper giving statistics of the merchant marine of the kingdom gives the total number of masters and men employed in the service in 1901 at 225,443. By reason of wrecks and other sea dangers 1025 seamen lost their lives. It is noted, however, that the Joss of passengers during the year was only twelve, which, when the large number of passengers_by British ships in all parts of the world is taken into consideration, is a record of which the merchant service may well be proud. —_— A New York syndicate has been organized to man- ufacture wine, whisky and other liquors in the form of compressed tablets that can be carried in the pocket and converted into a drink by simply dissolving them in water. Itis even probable that good results might be obtained by swallowing a tablet dry and the tri- umphs of the coming wireless age may be celebrated by drinkless drunks. In reviewing the recent “young negroes’ congress” at Atlanta a writer for the Independent says that while there were over 5000 delegates to the congress “the saloons of the city took in not an extra penny on account of the visitors.” Clearly the color of that gathering was not red. There is one consolation the country can gather from the victory of Tom Johnson in the Democratic camp in Ohio, and that is to be found in a contem- plation of the wreck of the McLean gang. It is said that Wu Ting Fang has become so thor- oughly Americanized that he can understand an American joke, and if the report be true he should FOREIGN BATTLESHIPS SWIFTER THAN OUR VESSELS OF LIKE e CLASS X OF THE SAME TYPE. NEW. BATTLESHIP MAINE, THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE UNITED STATES NAVY, THAT COME?E;:EL? THE SPEED REQUIREMENT OF EIGHTEEN KNOTS, BUT IS NOT AS SWIFT AS EUROPEAN V battleships built between 1890 and 1900, all of which exceeded their contract speeds by 547 to 1.449 knots on their trials. In 1898, when the Maine and her sister ships, the Missouri and Ohio, were designed, the Navy Department was eriticized for liniting the speed of these vessels to 18| knbts, and it was pointed out that Eu- ropean naval powers required not less than 19 knots féx similar ships. How- ever, the contracts were given for 18 knots, and, as the Maine's trial indicates, there was no excess over the contract. In the five battleships contracted for a year ago the tons displacement, horsepower and speed have been decreased to 14,948, 19,000 and 19 knots, agalnst the corresponding data of the Maine of 12,300 tons, 16,000 horsepower and 18 knots. The new ships have 47 feet more length and relatively less | beam than the Maine, and with finer lines the anticipated speed of 19 knots will no doubt te reached. But in the two battle- ships authorized by the last Congress the speed has again been reduced to 18 knots, indicating a retrogression in planning of warships in our navy, while all other foreigu naval powers are steadily increas- Ing the speed of successive additions to their fleets. England has built and on the stocks twenty-three battleships, ranging in speed from 18 to 19 knots; Germany is building four of 19 knots speed; Italy has four afloat with speeds of 19 to 20.1 knots and two under construction which are to steam 22 knots. Japan has five battle- ships with trial speeds ranging from 18.5 to 19.2 knots, and Austria is bullding two ships of 10,000 tons ta steam 19 knots, mak- ing a-grand ‘total .of forty-one. foreign battleships with® speeds exceeding the | latest addition to our navy. Some excellent torpedo practice was made last month by the torpedo-boat flo- ! tilla near Coddington Cove, Newport, R. I. The flotilla was composed of the De- catur, Bagley, Barney, Biddle, Shubrick, Thornton and Stoclkton, the first named leading the attack. The target represent- ed a battleship 500 feet in length, and the boats passed it at a distance of 500 yards ANSWERS TO QUERIES IRON BEDSTEAD — Subscriber, City. This department has not been able to dis- cover when iron bedsteads which are so generally used came into general use, but the first record of such a bed is to be found in the third ehapter of the book of Deuteronomy, cleventh verse, ‘as follows: | “For only Og. King of Bashan, remained of the remnants of the giants; behold h's bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nifie cubits was the length of it and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."” WEIGHTS—V. R. Troy weight is used - by jewelers for weighing gold, silver, platirum and all precious stones except the diamond, and is the welght adopted by the Mint. The apothecaries’ weight is a subdivision of the troy pound into ounces, drachms, scruples and gralus. It is used In com- pounding medicine and is the official stan- dard of the United States Pharmacopela. | and others, City. The following is the apothecaries’ weight compared with troy weight: L‘P.O:.DowhoGr. 1 pound 1 %unce - 10 0 1 drachm 2 12 1 scruple. 20 One pound avoirdupois as compared with troy. weight is 1 1b, 2 oz, 11 dwt, 1§ grains. WEIGHING CATTLE-W. N, City. The weight of cattle by measurement in the absence of scales is at best only *‘guess work,” as no two animals weigh alike, accurately, according to measure- ments. A rule for ascertaining weight by measurement which is said to be as good as any is to find the superficial feet of the ammal by multiplying the girth from Jjust behind the shoulder blade to the root of the tail. Thus an ox girthing 7 feet 9 inches and measuring 6 feet in length would contain 7% times 6, or 46% super- ficlal feet. For cattle grass fat the fol- { lowing is given'as the weight per super- ficial foot: Girth less than 3 feet, 11 pounds; girth 3 to 5 feet, 16 pounds; girth 5 to 7 feet, 23 pounds; girth 7 to 9 feet, 31 pounds. Thus a steer as per above mea- surements should weight 7.5 by 31, or 1441 pounds. Under this rule it ig usual to deduct one pound in twenty on half fatted cattle. from fifteen to twenty pounds on a ccw having had calves, and if not fat an equal amount. FIXTURES—1129 F. A., City. The legal definition of a-fixture is “a thing fixed in a greater or less degree to the realty; arything annexeéd to the freehold, that is fastened to or connected therewith.” The The crulser Baltimore, which has been | undergoing repairs and alterations during the past two years, is nearly ready for | service. She was first commissioned Jan- | uary 7, 1880, and her completed cost was | $1,976,729 35. The repairs and alterations to date approximate $1,000,000, or about 30 per cent of the original cost. Her for-| mer main battery of four 8-inch and six | 6-inch guns has been taken out and re- placed with twelve 6-inch and six 14- pounders, and a larger number of smaller | guns in the secondary battery have been | added. | el e | The engineer force in the British navy, | officers and men, is short of,its number | allowed. * There is a deficiency of ten | fleet, staff and chief engineers and forty- one engineers and assistants. In the en- gine-room ‘ratings there is a shortage of | 181 mechanics and 529 stokers. The British armored cruisers Bedford and Essex, which recently had thelr steam trials, are to have larger propellers in order to obtain more satisfactory speeds. Electric light and power plants are to be introduced in the Chatham dockyard. The Colonigl Conference has under con- sideration the amounts proposed in ald of the fmperial navy. Australia is booked for a yearly contribution of $1,000,000, Cape Colony $230,000, Natal $175,000 and New Zealand $200,000. The British Admiralty is belng urged to increase the amount of prizes offered for good shooting. During 1900-01 there was distributed $17,655 as prizes, of- which $11,260 was for the best gunnery and $53%5 for good practice with small arms. vt A A river gunboat for service in China | is being built at Schichaus’ yard, Elbing, for the German navy. It Is a twin screw boat, 188.64 feet m length, 31.44 feet beam and displaces 170 tons on a draught of two.feet. It is built of Siemens-Martin steel, with nickel-steel protection on the side .of one-third of an inch, and conning tower of balf ap inch in thickness. The armament consists of one 3.45-inch, one PERSONAL MENTION. Judge D. K. Trask of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Cclonel Willlam E. Daugherty, U. S. A., is a guest at the Occidental. William G. Gosslin, a lumber man of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Palace. W. 8. Cartér, a merchant of Santa Rosa is registered at the Occidental with his wife, H. H. Hewlett, a business man of Stockton, is at the Occidental in company with his wite, J. T. Trafton, a business man of Los Angeles, is at the California, accompan- ied by his wife. Max Fleishner, a clothing manufacturer of Portland, Or., who has been spending bis vacation in this State with his family, left for home last night. D. 8. Hoibrook, a capitalist of Los An- geles, is at the California with his family. J. M. Fulton, a mining man of Reno, Nev., Is staying at the Californja. President W. J. Johnston of the Engi- | ncering and Mining Journal, New York, and Mrs. Johnston are at the Grand Hotel. The Journal has a branch office in San Francisco and Mr. Johnston has come to pay it his annual visi! — i HONOLULU SUFFERS HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE Flames Badly Damage a Block in the Business Part of the City. g HONOLULU, Aug. 26.—Honolulu has been visited by another large fire, this time right in the heart of the business part of the city. On the afternoon of Augubt 23 fire was discovered in the mid- dle of the Hawallan Hardware Company's warehouse. It continued for three hours, extending through the Campbell block, at the corner of Fort and Merchant streets. It was a blind fire and very difficult to locate, smoke issuing from under the floors and through the walls of every of- fice In the block. The tenants moved out thelr furniture and valuables while the firemen tried to reach the seat of the fire by cutting through . roofs, floors and -walls. An enormous quantity of water was poured into the block. b Twenty-four hours later the fire started efresh in a lot of rubbish and refuse, but it was quickly extinguished by a chemical engine. The loss will pwobably reach $75,000, with insurance amounting to $50,- 000. The building {tself suffered consid- erable damage. 1€ Is fortunate that the | fire did not start in the night, as the | whole block would surely have been burn- rule at common law is that whatever is once annexed to the freehold beromes part of it and cannot afterward be re- moved except by him who is entitled to the inheritance. The rule, however, was never inflexible or without exceptions. It was construed most strictly between exec- utor and heir, in favor of the latter; more mainder tude between landlord and tenant in fa- cient as the rule erected for purposes of trade; upon prin- ciples of public policy and to encourage {rade and manufactures fixtures erected to carry on a business have been allowed | 59.79 d'l‘r::lntr:" - Hiberally | between life or entail and re- | DS term anything affixed thereto for the. an or reversioner, in favor of | Purpose of trade, manufacture, ornament the former, and. with much greater lati- | Of domestic use, if the removal can be vor of the tenant. But an exception of | Unless the thing a much broader cast and almost as an- | Which it is afiixed, itself is of fixtures | P2Tt of the premises. ed to the ground. @ i e @ to be removed by the tenant during his | term. The law of California is that a tenant may remove from the demised premises -2t any time during the conttnuance of [ a rattling good - - Ak AT £ HE. rew) battleshlp Maine has|at speeds of17 to 20 knots, firing as they | six-pounder and two machine fl\;'n:, :::l practically a trial speed of | passed. Of the fourteen torpedoes d|s-1 the speed is thirteen k;ng;s.mv:rl“ L Kopov eighteen knots, and meets the | charged only one failed to operate, the | capacity sufficient for ing s v ol requirements of the contract with | others reaching their objective point, and | knots. Her complement is little or no margin. It is some- | eight of them struck the middle u::flon c: flcers and crew. v hat she did not|the target representing the locality o . bt iil'if"?i?él'x’vixy‘ 48 the other nine | the engine-rooms of the battleahip. An Austrfan battleship named Beben: berg Is to be launched next month at Trieste, where another of the same type named Arpad is under construction. These two ships are really coast defense ships, but have engines of 11,900 horsepower, cal- culated to give a speed of 18.5 knots. They are of 8340 toms, with nickel-steel armor belts of 8.6 inches and batteries composed of three 9.4-inch, twelve B59-inch and twenty-four smaller guns. . % Three of the largest steamers of. the Russian volunteer fleet have been taken off the line and transierred to the Russian navy at Sebastopol as cruisers in reserve. The steamers referred to were the largest and best of the volunteer fleet, namely: Kherson, 10,225 tous, bullt in 18%; Moskva, 11,700 toms, built in 1898, and Smolensk, 11,850 tonms, built last year. Their speeds range from nineteen and a half to twenty knots. R A The old steamer America, bullt for the Natlonal line in 1384, has been converted into a yacht for the use of King Victor Emmanuel IIT of Ttaly. Her first passage was made in June, 1384, between Queens- town and New York, covering a distance of 2799 miles in 6 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes, a trip which had hitherto cxceeded only by the Oregon. The Anfer- fca, Hke the Oregon, proved too expen- sive owing to heavy coal consumption, and was sold a few years later ta Italy 3t a great reduction of the original. cost, renamed Nord America and rah for some years in the line of the La Veloce Steam- ship Company. Later she wag taken into the navy, serving as a torpedo and trans- port ship under the name of Trinacria, until appropriated by the King. The Trin- acria takes the place of the Savoya, which is too slow and has been converted into a torpedo depot ship. The old America far exceeds'in size any other royal yacht, having a displacement of 9207 tous, against 5480 of the Russian imperial yacht Etandart. Her single screw engines are only 8500 horsepower, sufficient, however, to drive the ship 18.5 knots, and she car- ries 1500 tons of coal. L R s B e a E e Y A CHANCE TO SMILE. It's funny, but there isn't half as much ceremony and red tape to marrying these days as there is to graduating.—Atchison Globe. Strawber—Did anything happen while [ was out? James—Yes, sir. lect a bill.—Life. These isn’t a millionaire in Christen- dom who, has half the riches boasted by the man with a clear conscience and a 800d name.—Exchange. No one called to col- Blonde Bridesmaid—The ushers haven't seated your aunt Maria with the fam Other bridesmaid (sister to ‘the bride No; she only sent a pickle fork!—Life. A good way for a woman to get her husband to do a thing she dislikes is by starting to do it herself.—Washington Democrat. Sammy—What Uncle Sam? Uncle Sam—Political harmony, Sammy, Is any period in politics when there Is nothing doing.—Puck. v Miss Eastside—That is a lovely gown, but haven't I seen it before? Miss Westside—No, I think not; I have orly worn it at a very few smart affairs this season.—~Town and Country. After all, the Czar has one, advantage. In this country when the cook gets dis- satisfied she blows up the entire house- hold, while in Russia she merely sticks & warning under his plate and lets it go at that.—Cincinnati Commerecial Tribune. Asked what he thought of the ocean, on his retufn from the seashore, the Bill- ville citizen replied: “Well, sir, it went further than any mill pond I ever seen, an’ ’peared to be erbout as rough an’ quarrelsome as what the old woman is when I stays out late o nights!"—Atlanta Constitution. Agent—This edition of the Bible 18 thewq very latest. Housekeeper—But surely you can’t im- prove on the Bible? 2 Agent—I refer especially to the Register.” Beside a page each 3 deaths, and marriages we give thre: pages for dlvnree.—Phuukl»hh .Record. is political Harmony, Van Billionalre—Muchcash has {nventcd game to take the place of ping pong. It's played with autes and a barbed wire fence. ‘inn Spendum—That so? How doés it go? Van Billionaire—Oh, you use the autos l.n n’alt.c.;n c:’f racquets, the wire .:me for o any wi ] along for a ball.” If you Tun over —— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's. ——— Reduced—Best reading glasses, specs, 10c to 40c. 81 4th, front barber and grocery. 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