The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1902, Page 4

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HE condition of the New York money market T has been the overshadowing feature of trade during the past fortnight, dwarfing everything else. It has been a stubborn knot to split. It has remained stringent when it should have yielded to the usual methods employed to ease it, and has sud- denly eascd off when those who were trying to steady it were becoming disgusted with their poor success. It has resemblied the cruising of a cranky yacht, with too much tophamper, in a stiff breeze and a choppy sea. It has been a good market for the lender, for hough flighty it exhibits no serious symptoms and everybody considers its vagaries merely tramsitory, hence lenders and money speculators all over the country have been drawing exchange on New York to reap the harvest of high rates. San Francisco has sent a good deal of money to New York for loaning purposes during the past week and our local ex- change on that city has been fluctuating considerably in consequence. The cause of this temporary stringency in New York been frequently explained of late. The principal caunse is the sending of large blocks of funds to the great West to move the heavy crops there. It has not left the country, nor will it, but has simply been shifted from one American pocket to the other. Tt will get back to where it belongs, like a stray hen to its roost, when it is no longer needed in the West. It may take five or six weeks for it to make the round, b¥t it will all get back, and in the meantime ii the Treasury Department does not interfere too ircely the heavy money lenders will make large pro- fits by accommodating the pressed speculatorsin Wall street from day to day. There are not wanting those who hint with a grin that these same heavy lenders have helped the stringency along with a sly push now and then for their own ends. The banks all over the country are beginning to talk about overcapitalization of industries and are scrutinizing credits in industrials precisely as they did a couple of years ago, when they weeded out so many inflated and topheavy corporations from Wall street operations. They have been doing this at stated in- tervals for some time back, and it is a good thing. There are many oversanguine and overbold men in business and unless somebody calls them down they are likely to come to grief and drag innocent parties down with them. It is in pursuance of this restrain- ing policy that the New York banks are contracting their loans on collaterals at the moment, and while the policy will keep money more or less tight and bigh for some time it will be a fine thing for the mar- ket in the long run and prevent serious consequences later on. The condition of our money market has lately been attractifig 2 good deal of attention from abroad. M. Raffalovich, the cminent French economist, at- tributes the current high prices of stocks and the gen- eral buoyancy of the market to the following five rea- sons: Four or five successive good harvests, expansion of national bank currency, large industrial and com- mercial profits, the energy of our great financiers and the large profits made by banking interests in railroad reorganizations since 1893. He thinks that the United States has not yet reached the crest of the wave of prosperity, but he, too, like the New York banks, takes occasion to warn Americans against overcapi- alization, the excessive issue of new securities and the reckless floating of all sorts of new schemes, many of which are on the “get-rich-quick” plan. So much for money. As far as general trade is concerned the showing last week continued excellent. There was the same lively demand for all sorts of goods, the same cheerful reports from North, East, South and West, the same growl from buyers over the failure of manufacturers to insure them prompt deliveries on their ordérs, and the same complaint from mills that they could not accept all the business offered them owing to scarcity of cars or fuel or raw material or something of the sort, all these conditions belonging exclusively to periods of pronounced pros- perity and never encountered when trade is dull or times are hard. We are still doing a great business al] over the country and there was probably. never an era in the United States when the people had so much money to spend nor when they spent it so lavishly. In fact, the way we have been throwing our dollars zround during the past year or so is making Europe stare, has e — If the prite of coal continues to rise a good many fellows who are talking so much zbout it now will have to get in, saw wood md»ny_ nothing when winter comes. ’ N 2261 | ‘FRA CISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 190 | THAT INGLESIDE ORDINANCE. HEN the Supervisors meet to-day they will W once more be called upon to confront the request for a license to carry on bookmak- ing at Ingleside racetrack. It is an old question and one upon which no further argument should be need- ed at this time. Hardly seven months have passed since the same Board of Supervisors rejected a simi- lar petition and received the approval of every ele- ment of the people whose approval is worth having. Since that time no}‘hing has occurred to change pub- lic sentiment on the subject, and the people therefore trust that to-day as in the past the board will show itself steadfast for the right. Surely it is not necessary to go over again the argu- ments which led to the enactment of the ordinance forbidding bookmaking at the Ingleside track. They have been repeated during the long course of the con- troversy, again and again, until every one is familiar with them and a restatement can add nothing to their weight. We all know what has been the result of licensed bookmaking at Ingleside. The criminal events that transpired while bookmaking went on at Ingleside roused the press, the pulpit and the public against the cvil. While those offenses were fresh in the popular mind and the sympathies of the people with the suf- ferers and their families were still keen enough to be felt vividly the opposition to the bookmakers had in it something of the fervor of a public indignation. The people were roused. Their protests were em- phatic and resolute. Perhaps they are not so forcibly expressed now, but the sentiment which inspired them remains, and to-day as in the past the moral ele- ments that make up the best life of San Francisco are arrayed as firmly as ever against the proposed license. The plea that the petition is for the purpose of ob- taining a license for racing is invalid; it is an imper- tinence that deceives no one. Racing can be carried |on at Ingleside under the present ordinance. The bookmakers are asking a license to carry on gam- bling. That is all there is to their petition. When the Superviscrs come to calmly review the course of this whole fight on the part of the book- makers they will find that the petition now presented is a request,that they stultify themselves and blot their own record. They are asked to set aside their | own votes given amid public approval seven months ago. They are asked to do this wrong to the public { and this hurt to their own reputations, without befg furnished even a single argument that will serve as an excuse or a palliation for their action. The people of San Francisco and indeed the peo- ple of California generally are not opposed to horse racing, nor to anything that tends to legitimate sport and to the encouragement and the promotion of | horse breeding. They are opposed, however, to | licensed bookmaking, knowing to what it tends. The ‘opposition to the proposed ordinance, then, springs | from no spirit of excessive puri(anis'm nor from a de- sire to establish morality by statute. It arises from a desire to prevent statutes from being used to pro- mote immorality. They object to license bookmak- ing because that would put gambling under the pro- tection of San Francisco law. We repeat, the issue is made up. The argument has been exhausted. The Supervisors know the sit- uation thoroughly well. They know what is asked of them and what the people desire. They cannot per- | manently harm the city, for should they grant the or- dinance it can be repealed later on. The only perma- nent harm they can do is to themselves. We shall know by their votes to-day what value they put upon their public record, their pledges and their good repute. Democrats of the State are deeply concerned over the desperate straits in which the State Central Com- mittee of the party finds itself before election. The disturbed ones should console themselves in the knowledge that the troubles of to-day will be as noth- ing to those which will come after election. BEAUTIFUL CITIES. SIGNIFICANT evidence of the increasing A demand for municipal improvements and the A adornment of cities throughout the United States is furnished by the tone of the press in com- menting upon the death of Alexander R. Shepherd, who was once known as “Boss Shepherd” of Wash- ington and widely denounced as a boodler and public plunderer. Shepherd had a passion for improving streets, planting trees, laying out parks and adorning cities. When in the course of his career he found himself in control of the government of Washington City, he set about carrying out his ideas on a great scale and seemingly without regard to cost. Washington was | then about as wretched a looking capital as could be | found in the civilized world. The magnificent public buildings worthy of the most splendid cities rose their magnificence and spoiled their effect. The un- paved streets were dusty in summer and muddy in | winter. The wide avenues devoid of trees were without either beauty or magnificence. ~The parks were eyesores instead of places of delight. Shep- herd paved the streets, planted the avenues with trees, beautified the parks and almost literally lifted the city cut of the mud. When he was forced to quit the government he had expended vast sums of money and left the city in debt to the amount of $21,000,000. On that showing Washington howled, and the rest of the country howled in sympathy. The boss was denounced as a robber. His improvements were looked upon as political jobs. He was .accused of stealing for himself or his accomplices a large per- centage of the millions that passed through his hands, and in the end was almost driven to leave the country. He went to Mexico, where he lived up to the time of his recent death. It is said that in a smaller field he continued his work of beautifying what was around him, and in addition to developing a large mining property he made his little mining town one of the beauty spots of Mexico, a showplace of which the whole surrounding province is proud. sentiment on the subject of municipal improvements has changed, and the change has been due in a large measure to the influence exerted by the improve- ments he worked out at Washington. No one of his present critics condones his extravagances, but all unite in declaring the real value of the work he ac- complished. Washington City has become a capital of which the whole nation is proud, and justly so, for it ranks to-day in point of beauty and magnifi- and seems destined to become at a time not far dis- tant the most superb city on the globe in everything except magnitude of population and industry. ‘We have become an artistic people. We demand something more than our predecessors of the past | generation. We desire beautiful as well as prosper- amid squalid and dreary surroundings that marred, Since Shepherd retired from Washington public* cence with the stateliest capitals of the Old World,' 1 < ous cities, and are rapidly working toward the achievement of the desire. The Shepherds of the fu- ture will not be “bosses.” It will not be necessary for them to resort to corruption or to boss politics | to carry out their plans, for the better elements of the people will support them. Nevertheless in all time to come Americans will do justice to the man who beautified Washington. He was the leader in a good cause, and for that much will be forgiven him. A —— Many Americans on the Yukon, it is said, intend to become naturalized British subjects that they may take part in the government of Dawson. The British authorities are entitled to sympathy because of this unexpected adyantage to us. Men whose horizon ends at their noses do not make good citizens. THE FIGHT IN THE FOURTH. HETHER the voters of the Fourth Con- ‘W gressional District are to have anything. that even in the trite political meaning of the word can be called “a fight” depends upon how many voters in the district are willing to set aside a Representative who has been tried in office and found worthy merely tc make the experiment of send- ing to Congress a gaudy candidate whose gayety is shown by the fact that after he had been indorsed by the Democratic convention in the district hean- nounced in his organ that the indorsement had been forced by himself and that he didn’t care whether he received it or not. The House of Representatives is not a good arena for a display of the kind of oratory that unfolds like a peacock’s tail and means as little. Good oratory ad- dressed to the common sense of men commands a hearing there as everywhere, but the House has little patience with the man who talks for a reputation. Such a man promptly gets “leave to print” and his remarks go unheard to the unread pages of the Con- gressional Record. The Represeéntative who in the House is to be of use to his constituents, his State and the nation must be a worker, a man who can talk reasonably to rea- sonable men and make himself welcome and accept- able to the great majority of his colleagues on the floor. Most of the work of the House in these days is done in committee rooms, where there is no field at all for spectacular effects and where the worker must be content to come down to the ground of sober common sense and achieve results by honest work and steadfast application to the duties imposed upon him, Representative Kahn as an orator is gecond to none among his colleagues from this State and ranks high | among the ablest ‘debaters on the floor of the House; | but his oratory is backed by genuine argument, and, moreover, it is always followed by faithful work in the committee rooms. He has won an honored place in the House, has a seat on important commit- tees and is well on his way to further promotion. He has never been neglectful of his immediate constitu- ents and his services to the district have resulted in distinct benefits of a high order. In addition to that, however, he has taken a prominent part in national | legislation and ranks among the most effective of the younger leaders on the Republican side. California has now learned the value of re-electing experienced men to the House. Except where the ‘redistricting of the State under the new census com- pélled changes the Republicans have renominated all the present members of the House. Should all of them be returned by the people we shall have a dele- gation of men of experience who will secure for Cali- fornia her rightful prestige in the great council of the nation. It is reasonable to expect they will pe returned, for it is certain that no constituency could gain anything by setting aside an experienced man of known worth for the sake of electing an inexperi- enced man whose worth is very problematical. The chief issue of the time is the maintenance of existing prosperity while advancing to the solution of the new problems that have arisen in the field of politics. Our prosperity is the outgrowth of our con- ditions, ard those conditions are very largely the re- sult of Republican legislation. Any reckless changes in legislation made for the purpose of trying political ex- periments will surely bring disaster; the disasters may easily become as heavy as those that were pre- cipitated upon the country during the last Demo- cratic regime. It is, therefore, in the highest degree important to retain in control of national affairs the party that can be counted on to maintain the legisla- tion upon which prosperity is based. The reasons which impel the people of the Fourth District to re-elect Mr. Kahn are therefore many. Personally he is an experienced and faithful repre- sefftative of his district. Politically he ‘stands for sound money, public improvements and protection to American interests and American labor. He is in sympathy with the administration of the Government and has the confidence of the leaders of the dominant party in the House and in the Senate. No sane man can vote against such a Representative for the pur- pose of trying an experiment. It would not be sur- prising, then, if Mr. Kahn’s vote this year should in- clude not only all Republicans and independents, but a large number of Democrats as well. Political orators who write out their speeches and commit them to memory ought to be careful to re- vise them at the moment of speaking, for they are liable to go off the wrong way. Thus a Connecticut candidate the other day thought to make a good be- ginning to his speech of acceptance by saying: “Gentlemen, I have carefully read your platform and pledge myself to suppert it.” It happened, however, that in the shuffle he had been nominated before the platform had been reported, and accordingly his pledge brought a “ha ha” instead of wild enthusiasm. The worthy women attached to the households of spme of our worthy army officers have discovered a new scheme to make themselves ridiculous. Women who have no more birth than was absolutely neces- sary for existence are tickling their ears with “my lady this” and “my lady that,” and the rest of us sneer. It is unfortunate that the males of the species do not serve under another flag—that of England, for example, -where “ladies” are cheap. It seems a practical impossibility to induce the Board of Public Works to perform the duties ex- pected of it by the community. The gentlemen of the board probably feel that they performed work enough in securing their appointment and labor enough in holding it. A marine who had stolen $50,000 in loot from China was caught the other day purloining a gentleman’s pajamas. To tell a man like that what to do would be like leaving a razor where a monkey could find it. The infernal Boxers are in arms again,.and in the same breath we learn that China will never be able to resist the encroachment of the white men. This ought to be a good time, then, to take the tip, | HOW GREAT BRITAIN AND A ARE STRENGTHENING TH 3k MERICA EIR NAVIES o BRITISH BATTLESHIP OCEAN THAT RECENTLY EXCELLED THE WORLD'S RECORD FOR GUNNERY PRAC- TICE. THIS WAR VESSEL, ACCORDING TO AN EXPERT, I8 THE MOST EFFICIENT CRAFT OF HER CLASS IN THE NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN. e e i steam trials, and, great success. HE King Alfred is the last of the four 14,200 tons armored cruisers bullt for the British navy to pass through its like its predecessors, The performance of these ships is re- is proving a e ———————— ered ships in an uncompleted state, and after passing through their steam trials the vessels have been turned over to the dockyards to receive their fittings and equipment, which in- volved much delay and considerable expense. the advocates for a change that such yards as It is argued by Elswick, markable on account of the severe trials, the absence of aecl- dents and a realization beyond the calculated speeds. The ships are identical in all particulars, excepting propellers, with which experiments as to pitch have produced different re- sults. The hulls and machinery of the four ships were laid down a8 follows: Drake, at Pembroke dockyards, April 24, 1899, machinery by Humphreys, Tennant & Co.; King Alfred, by Vickers, August 11, 18%9; Good Hope, Fairfleld Company, Glasgow, September 11, 1899, and Leviathan, John Brown, Glasgow, November 30y 1899, The date of trials and results of eight hours’ continuous runs, under full power, were as fol- lows: T Coal NAME OF SHIP. Mo. or! Horse-‘ Speed [Slip Per| Pounds Trial | power. | Knots. | Cent. |Per HF. Good Hope... .| Feb. 31,088 | 23.05 | 18.5 1.92 Leviathan f May | 31,692 | 23.25 ) 18.7 1.94 June | 30,557 | 23.05 | 18.0 .| Sept. | 31,156 | 23.465 | 16.8 The most gratifying result of these trials is the fact thal there were no interruptions; they began with a thirty hours’ run, under one-fifth power, started on and completed another run of thirty hours, under four-fifths power, and winding up with eight hours, under full power, all accomplished within eight days. The contract called for 30,000 horsepower and 23 knots speed. The ships are fitted with forty-three Belleville boilers, which in every instance gave satisfactory results and only need careful attention to maintain the power developed on their trials. . . The success of the latest giant armored cruisers of Great Britain directs attention to what is being done in that line in the United States navy. same general type, but slightly smalle and details of which compare as follows the principal data DATA. British. American. Displacement, tons. 14,200 13,680 Dimensions, feet. 500x71x26 | 502x69.54x24.08 Horsepower . = 30,000 23,000 Speed, knots. 23 Coal, normal, tons. 1250 Coal capacity, tons. 2500 Armor_belt, inches 6-5-4 Main batter: 2-9.2; 18-6 Complement . 800 Estimated_cosf $4,671,680 $5,439,133 The British cruisers will have taken about three and a half years to complete and the American ships, contracted for in January, 1%01, are due on delivery in January, 1904. « s The battleship Ocean is designated by Captain Scott of the cruiser Terrible as tiile most efficient battléship in the British navy. It recently beat all previous records -at gunnery prac- tice. The target measured 21 feet 4 inches by 16 feet 9 inches, at which her four 12-inch guns fired twenty-five rounds at a range of 1900 yards, and seventeen shots hit the target. With her twelve 6-inch guns 163 shots were fired at a range of 1300-to 1500 yards, of which 117 were effective. The old battleship Ajax, lately used as a depot ship at Chatham, is to be sold out of the navy. She was built in 1885, at a cost of $3,175,690, and cost in repairs and maintenance $449,- 270 up to four years ago, when she was struck off the effective list. The ship was worthless from the sfart and had a speed when new of only 12.1 knots. She was a high roller and erratic in her steering to such a degree as to make life a burden to her officers and crew. A sister ship, the Agamemnon, is also slated for an early sale, after a long and useless existence. The British Admiralty has introduced a change in the sys- ‘We are bullding six ships of the . Thames Iron Works and Vigkers at Barrow have delivered ships complete in all details to foreign governments, and that contracts for the British navy should be made on a similar basis. It would relieve the dockyards of a considerable amount of work, which, under present conditions, is unsatisfactory, and another advantage would be that if the contractor delivers the ship ready for sea there will be no subsequent doubt as to the respensibility for defects which may develop. The British torpedo gunboat Niger has been fitted with new engines and Reed water-tube boilers and developed 6271 horse- power and 20.7 knots speed, against 373{ horsepower and 19% knots when built in 1892. The extraordinary speed of the Drake of 24.10 knots, made last Thursday, against 23.0b kno’s average speed on trial last June, is due to new propellers, with which she was recently fitted. ' The improvement consists in broader blades, the diam- eter being unchanged at 19 feet 2 inches. J o ‘While the Spanish training ship Vitoria was at gun praectice in Arosa Bay recently it was discovered that the shot from one of her large guns reached cnly thirty yards, and the ship returned to the dockyard to ascertain the cause of this ex- traordinary mystery about the gun. . . e During the past fifteen years the following number of battleships have been built or begun by the several naval pow- ers: Great Britain, 70; France, 28; United States, 16; Russia, 18; Germany, 11; Italy and Japan, € each, and Austria, 3. s e s Two ships-of-war were launched September 4, one being the battleship L’Republic, at Brest, and the British armored cruiser Donegal, at the Fairfleld yard, Glasgow. e o s The appropriations for ships of the United States new navy foot up to $206,317,335 from 1882 to July, 1802. Of this amount $184,675,491 has been expended, leaving $44,600.000 avail- able for the ships under construction, including the approprié~ tions made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903. The enlisted force of the United States navy has been largely increased since 1897. To that time the limit was 7500 men. On March 3, 1898, it was increased to 10,000 men and boys, and further raised by law of June 7, 1900, to 20,000. On March 3, 1%1, an increase was made to 25,000, and at the last session of Congress to 28,000. The Marine Corps has also been largely increased. Prior to the war with Spain its strength was 1640 men; it is now 6750. There has been but a slight increase in the number of officers, and the time is not far distant when Congress will have to decide whether the steady growth of the navy in ships and enlisted men does not warrant a corresponding increase in officers. At the present time there are not| half enough officers for the ships built and under construction. Civil Engineer Robert Edwin Peary has conclued to aban- don north pole expeditions and henceforth give his serv- ice to the navy. He entered the service October 26, 1881, and has been regularly promoted, although unemployed so far as relates to navy-yard work proper, for twelve years four months, out of a total service of twenty years eleven months. Mr. Peary reaches the retiring age May 6, 1918. Nothing has been heard of Junior Lieutenant Alfred C. Owen since he obtain:d leave of absence—August 13. The Navy Department is anxious about him and so are several tradesmen to whom the missing officer owed money. Officers ‘with whom he served say that Owen acted strangely some time before his disappearance. He was a frequent visitor at Sherry’s, where he ran up a bill and gave a check for $, which was subsequently returned with the indorsement “No funds.” At a tailor store he ordered thirty-six white jackets, when all he needed was four. These peculiar actions indicats, tem of contracts for ships. Hitherto coi ANSWERS TO QUERIES. MAYOR'S SALARY—S., City. The sal- ary of the Mayor of New York is $15,000 per annum. SPOT VALUE—S., City. What is meant in the commercial world by “spot value" is the value of an article at the point of production. POKER—A. O. 8., City. Whether the opener in a game of poxer can split open- ers is now a matter of agreement or house rules. WEATHER FLAG—G. H. R., City. The white flag with a black square in the cen- ter displayed from the headquarters of the United States Weather Bureau means a cold wave. BREECH LOADERS-O. P. N,, City. Breech loaders were used in the United States army as far back as 1817. Nineteen different varieties of breech loaders were used during the Civil War. POSTOFFICE — Enq., Oakland, Cal. Since 1883 the expenditures of the Postof- fice Department of the United States have exceeded the revenue. The revenue ex- ceeded the expenditures in 1865, 1882 and 1883, HANDSHAKING—E. T., City. When a gentleman is introduced to a lady he should be prepared to snake hands with her, but he should not offer his until she extends hers. She is the judge as to whether she will offer her hand or not. MARRIED NAME—B. E., City. There is no law that a woman who marries shall assume the name of the man she marries. She may, if she desires, retain and be known by her maiden name. A married woman takes her husband's name because it is a matter of custom and con- venience. “INGOMAR"—B. A., Oakland, Cal. Baron Munch Joseph Bellinghausen, a German poet and dramatist, was the author of “Ingomar the Barbarian.” He was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1306 and dled May 21, 1871.. In 1845 he was appointed keeper of the Imperial Library of Vienna. He wrote under the name of Frederich Heim. The :;'ase(dlmg) written by him re: “‘Griseldis’ “The King an The Usil), “The Son oF the the Peasant” e of the Wilderness” (1842), “The Gladlator of Ra- venna'' (1857). TURRET OF PRAYER—G. P. C., T e i e ‘worsl near : 3 called the Turret of Prayer and is probe ntractors have deliv- PERSONAL MENTION. E. P. Dunne, a hotel proprietor of Santa Barbara, is at the Palace. Henry Newell, a business man of Salt Lake, Utah, is staying at the Lick. = James See, a mining man of Granite Basin, Plumas County, 1s a guest at the Russ. L. F. Boothe, a wholesale merchant of Spokane, Wash., is registered at the Grand. - A. Lewis and 8. Mitchell, merchants of Visalia, are among the guests at the California. G. Werner, a capitalist of Berlin, is at the Occidental with his wife. They are making a tour of the world. Henry C. Rouse, president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, will arrive to-day from New York City. He has engaged rooms at the Palace. L e e ] ably the one inquired about. It is in a bullding known as the Temple of Truth, under the control of the Holy Ghost and Us Soclety. It is said that since the erec- tion of the Turret of Truth there has never been a second of time when there was not some one supplicating in prayer and that it is the intention of those who attend this form of worship that prayer shall be continuous so long as the turret shall last. LUMINOUS PAINT—G. M., City. What is known as luminous paint is simply some phosphorescent substance used as a coat for surfaces. The phenomenon of phosphorescence has no direct connection With phosphorus beyond the similar de- rivation of name. The luminosity of phos- phorus is due to slow oxidation. But some substances which are called phos- phorescent emit light without oxidation by virtue of a quality of absorption and re- tention of light. The best known of these are a number of sulphides, namely, barium, calelum and strontium. Chloride of calcium and nitrate of calcium show similar properties. Any of these sub- stances, if inclosed in a sealed glass tube, are exposed in the sun light and then car- ried into a dark room, appear at first bril- liantly luminous and retain for a long time the appearance of a hot body cool- ing. Science does not clearly explain this phenomenon, but it has been put to prac- tical use in the manufacture of luminous paint, which is made by taking one or more of the substances named and with drying oil. It is then put in large glass :::el elu'n:! o with sun- light an to the surface to be ma | Tribune it is claimed, aberration of mind. D T T ——— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “You were In the thick of it, were you? ‘What did you do when the ce charged on the crowd?” - “I also ran.”—Washington Star, “He’s de best boss I ever worked fur.* “Wot’s so good about 'im?” ‘“Whenever dere’s a holiday he gives us anudder day to git over it.”—Chi Tri- bune. e ““Yes,” sald the author, “when I started writing a novel I do lose couid‘a;t able sleep over it."” “Well,” replied the critic with gentle sarcasm, “what's your loss is your read- er's gain."—Philadelphia Press. “‘College President E. Benjamin Andrews has had his salary raised to $6000. That' $1000 more than he was getting. He must have made a hit out there.” “That’s a good deal for one hit. Lajole gets §7000, but think of the hits he makes!”--Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I wonder why the King of Spain de- sires to introduce horse racing as a na- tiona! amusement ?” “Possibly,” said the man who doesn't appreciate mioney till it's gone, “he wants the to help the treasury out by putting cabinet into the ring of bookmakers. ‘Washington Star. A T?cher—uow many pounds to the long on? Precocious Pupil-Two thousand two hundred and forty. Teacher—And how many to the short ton? Pregocious Pupil—Depends on the coal dealer.—Puck. “Your husband is a floorwalker in a department store, isn’t he?" “Yes." ':ll'hen kw):y don’t you have him get up and walk the floon with the baby when she cries?” “I can't wake him up. When I shake him l:m‘l tell him what's the matter he mumbles something apout soothing s: in the drug department three aisles d::\:np and then goes to snoring again."—Chelago e. —_—— Frunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* —_—