The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1902, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. = A COMMERCIAL CRUCIBLE, RADE just now being subjected to a T trying test of its stability and is showing itself as steady as a rock. Tight money in® Wall street, the great coal strike in the Middle States and the fuel shortage are enough to depress almost any- thing, but they seem to produce very little effect on general business. The monetary stringency con- tinues almost exclusively confined to the operators and speculators of Wall street, the effects of the strike are not perceptible five hundred miles away from the center of the disorder, and thus far the fuel shortage, while serious along the Atlantic seaboard, has not caused many factories to close down, as was apprehended several weeks ago. The chief appre- hension, in fact, is for the comfort and health of the people during the cold weather, now rapidly ap- proaching, rather than for any damaging effect on general business. is While the money market is working easier in- New York, itz will probably mot return to normal condi- tions for weeks yvet. The banks have contracted their loans and proposc to keep them contracted until the weak elements get thoroughly weeded out of the market, which will take some timé. The borrower now must show pretty good collateral if he expects | accommodation at his bank, and even then his de- mand is likely to be scaled a certain percentage. The lending institutions are doing just what they did a couple of years ago with the industrials, and the re- sult will be the same. When things-get settled again the financial atmosphere of Wall street will be clearer than it has been for a year, and the stock market will be on 2 much sounder and healthier basis. The street has been heavily o6vercapitalized and overbought, and the ineyitable liquidation has occurred, just as every posted man not a dreamer or enthusiast knew that it would, sooner or later. The only wosder is that it was delayed so long. These bull movements, when everybody rushes in to buy, no matter how high quotations are, and when the market is full of sanguine speculators who see a pot of gold at the bottom of every rainbow, always cofe to an end, and it is usually violent, as in the present instance. That there have been mo failures of any consequence is surprising, and it is due to the re- markable solidity of general trade throughout the country. All sections of the country are sending in cheer- ful repdrts. Prices are high, but the public are still paying them without murmur. Fall jobbing is fully up to previous expectations, and the spring demand is reported better than usual at this time of the year. The holiday demand is already springing up in some parts of the country and promises to be brisk. The general plane of values, according to Dun’s in- dex number, has advanced 4.1 per cent during the past month. Prices for cereals, cattle, hogs and cot- ton have receded somewhat owing to increased sup- plies, but provisions generally are higher, crude. and illuminating oils have advanced, tobacco has moved up on indicated shorter yields, and flour is meeting with 2 large demand in the Northwest. As no com- plaints are being received from the. textile trades it is naturgl to infer that they are in satisfactory condi- tion. The statistical condition of trade continues good. The bank clearings showed a gain last week of 23.5 per cent over the same week in 1901, and the aggre- gate clearings exceeded $2,600,000,000, the largest volume of business for a long time. The failures numbered 245, against 231 last year, and none of them were sufficiently large to attract attention. The rail- way earnings in September were 0.6 per cent larger than during the corrésponding month last year. Conditions ‘on the Pacific Coast are uniformly cheerful. Being a producing rather.than a mariufac- turing community, we are therefore chiefly dependent for our prosperity on the prices of farm products, and as a rule they are much higher than usual, with rapidly diminishing supplies. = This includes wheat, barley, corn, rye, hay, feedstuffs, beans, canned and dried fruits, hops, wool, wine and wine grapes, rai- sins, muts, butter and eggs, and, in fact, almost everything produced on the farm. This being the case prosperity is with us as a matter of course. e —— St. Louis received Miss Helen Gould with enthu- siasm, but ever since she advised them to,permit no “Midway” shows at the exposition the people of the city have shown 2 disposition to speak of her as a woman of beauty and money rather than of good sound sense. 'S | and never fought one another. THE SIXTH DISTRICT. i ¢ 7 HILE every Congressional District in Cali- W fornia, and indeed every county, has im- portant industries whose welfare is_largely dependent upon the maintenance in undiminished vigor of the protective system, the Sixth District is especially notable for such industries. In the coun- ties forming that district the protected industries en- gage so large a part of the capital, the energy and the labor of the people that a candidate standing avowedly on the Democratic platform demanding a tariff for ‘revenue only would have hard work to carry a single precinct. The consequence is that the Republican nominee tor Congress in the district has to meet a campaign of evasion and dodging, and were it not for the intelligence of his constituents might have a difficult fight on his hands. Fortunately the protected industries of the district have a strong and resourceful champion. The Hon. James C. Needham is still a young man when com- pared with most of his colleagues in the House, but he is by no means an unknown man. He is now serving his second term in Congress and can point to an honorable record of useful work performed in the interests of his constituents, his State and the na- tion. Moreover, what he has done is but a guarantee of what may be expected from him in the future. He has now been in the House long enough to es- tablish himself among the workers of that body. ' The leaders of the party know him to be energetic, re- liable and patriotic. He does his committee work as faithfully as the more conspicuous ‘work on the floor, | and has in that way made himself influential among his colleagues and an important factor on the Repub- lican side of the House. > Mr. Needham came very near being a pioneer and a native son at the same time, being born in-an im- migrant wagon at Carson, Nevada, while his parents aere making their way to California. His early life was passed on a farm, and there he learned the les- sons of sturdy independence that have so deeply and distinetly marked his character.’ Ambitious' of a higher .ducation he worked his way through school and college and then fitted himself for the practice of law by a course at the great law.college of the Uni- versity of Michigan. Afterward he settled at Mo- | desto and there developed into the leader whom the people have already twice chosen to represent them in Congress. Mr. Needham stands for all the great policies" to which the Republican party is pledged. He has been faithful in guarding the industries of his constituents against foreign competition. He has sustdined the administration in establishing peace in the Philip- pines and extending cur trade to these islands and the Orient generally. He is a firm advocate of the policy of internal improvements and has been instrumental lin obtaining important appropriations for his dis- trict and in other ways advancing its welfare. The clamor now made by all forms of the free trade element of the country in favor of reciprocity ren- ders it important that ‘California should have faithful and firm champions of protection on guard at the na- tional capital. No district in the State can afford to take chances ‘with a new man on such an issue. It is safest to re-elect a man who has been tried and found not only faithful but competent and efficient. Outside of the stand of Mr. Needham on questions that divide the great parties of the country he has an- Iother claim upon the support of his constituents in the very fact that he is an experienced member of the House and therefore will be much more service- able to his constituents even upon non-partisan mat- ters than a new man could possibly be. The great mass of legislation at Washington is of a character on which partisan considerations have no effect, and yet many of the bills included in the mass are of high importance to particular constituencies. It is there- fore a matter of prime concern to every district to ‘have in the House a man who not only knows its in- terests but has sufficient influence to successfully de- fend them. Representative Needham has those quali- fications in a high degree, and merits the support not only of his fellow Republicans but of every indepen-, dent voter in the district. g ¢ e —— e —— It is stated that an American lecture bureau has offered Dewet, Delarey and Botha an aggregate of $2500 a night for lecturing, but just how the money is to be divided or how many lectures are to be given is not stated. Still it would seem the generals can earn enough to pay them for the trouble of com- ing to see us. THE GIANTS OF OLD. CIENCE has had so much to say in contradic- tion of popular ideas of ancient narratives that it is gratifying to find one scientist who up- holds the good old stories and maintains that in the ancient days there were giants and that they lived for many centuries in good health and undiminished vigor. This scientist is not widely known to fame, but he will doubtless be famous before long by reason of his doctrines. He is a- Russian physician and his name is A. A. Piasetski. The doctor says there is no reason for doubting. the literal accuracy of the statements that-there were giants of old. , Bones discovered in the depths of the earth show that in former ages animals were of enormous size, far exceeding‘in strength any that | now live, and it is reasonable to infer that men of old were proportionately larger, stronger and more vital than men of to-day. g He ther goes on to say that in those days “men led different lives. They lived under the smiling sky; needed no buildings to shelter them and undermine | their vitality; there was food in abundance on every hand, to be had practically without exertion. The trees were laden with fruit; the rivers teemed with fish, and the meat of onc animal sufficed for- weeks, Again, the use of fermented liquids was totally un- known; by egrly mankind, and consequently alcoholism with its evils was absent. Marital life was the natural ‘condition, and apparently offspring -were . equally divided between males and females, ‘so that neither sex had a preponderance. There was no vice nor prostitution nor violation of natural law. * To all this must be added the entire freedom from the diseases - due to congestion and the sundry other evils of dense population. There was no rivalry, no anxiety, 'no' struggle for life, and no tax upon the nervous system. Death could come only from violence or old age.” Truly we may say the giants were happy. The stories that represent them as crucl, ravenous and forever hungry must be false. They lived in peace They might have been Populists, but they certainly were not Bryanites. | There is, however, another side to the story. Tt js good to live with no tax on the nervous system, but at the same time such a life would be very dull, Per.- < centuries of life. Az we ceflin;t'b.e ‘giants if+" haps in our short lives we see more, think more, feel the grape was not among’the fruits. eaten THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 190 CTROLYSIS MENACES SAFETY ‘would, fet us content ourselves with the thought that we wouldn’ tury without a fight, a frolic or a political campaign? ', When David Bennett Hill was asked recently if he were a candidate for the Presidency he replied, “No i baldheaded man was ever elected President of the United States.” Now™ David~is* bald, and he knows it.. .., o Pa A FLOURISHING CUMMERCE.* STATISTICS of the Treasury Burqat‘x show that our flourishing ' condition at home;maxiife#ts itself abroad in the form of an expandifng and for August shows that exports of manufactures have increased more than $2,000,000 as compared: with August of last year, and about $12,000,000in the eight months. ending with August, 1902, as compared. the corresponding eight months of the - preceding year. . 3 s While our exports of manufactured goods: thus increased there has been also'a notable.increase in the quantities of raw material importedifor manu- have industry, not content with working up home prq “ucts, is ncw ‘reaching out for the prodycts’ of |other lands and bringing them to our shops for. the em- ployment ‘of Americar labor and the énrichment of Americau homes. 3 3 ; The summary shows that the value of imports of articles in a crude condition which: enter. into the various processes of domestic industry = increased * $2,000,000 in August, 1902, over August, 1901, and for the eight months show an incredse of $28,000,000 over | the same period of last year; " while articles wholly or partially manufactured for use: in manufagturing show an increase of $5,000,000 in the lefig‘hfz months, making the total increase in importations of manu- facturing ‘materials in the eight months ‘ended with August $33,000,000, as compared with the correspond- ing eight-months of the preceding year. Another instructive feature of the August com- mercjal showing is that there. has been an increase of |$19,£,ado in the value of manufactured articles and luxuries-imported as compared with the correspond- ing eight'months of last year, and at the same time a decrease of $17,000,000 in the importation of food- stuffs. The report'goes on té ay: “This decrease in the importation of foodstuffs is"in sugar, which'alone shows a decrease of about $24,000,000 in importations in the eight months ended with August, thus indicat- ing that in other classes of foodstuffs there has been a net increase, since the total reduction in that class the value of sugar imported is largely due to a 're- duction cf cost in foreign markets, the total quantity of sugar imported being 2,394,010,219 pounds in eight months ended with August, 1902, against 2,808,226,008 poundsin the corresponding months of last year, while the value of the sugar imports during eight months of the present year is $38878872, against $62,564,021 in the eight months of last year, the aver- age value per pound, therefore, being in the eight months of 1902 1.6 cents and in 1901 2.2 cents.” When the figures contained in this report are taken in connection with others showing the increase of de- posits in the banks, the augmenting revenue of the Government, the diminishing expenditures, the in- crease of money in circulation and the enlarged de- mand for nearly all kinds of products, they constitute a striking array bf reasons why the American people should. continte to- intrust the control of the govern- ment-to the Republican party. Neither sun, nor so'i‘l, nor skill, nor labor, can assure the continuance of the prevailing prosperity. were we to turn over the government to'a set of men who would disorder our fiscal and our monetary system, spreading apprehen- sion everywhere and :paralyzing both industry and commerce. = i We are prosperous under the joint ‘operation of sound money and a comprehepsive system of protec- tion. We can expect to gain nothing from a change, and it is the part of wisdom to let well enough alone. " *WAGES IN EUROPE. Y the New York Commissioner of Labor Sta- “tistics, Mr. McMackin, there has been recently published a bulletin giving a quarterly review of labor conditions in that State. In-the course of his review the Commissioner points out that the in- crease of immigration to this country from Europe is largely due to industrial dépression there and prosper- ity here. ~ Most of later immigration, as is well known, has been from Southern and Eastern Europe, where the conditions of labor dre permanently bad, so that immigration from those sources goes on steadily | at a fairly constant rate. We may expect, however, a large increase in the immigration‘ from Northern Eu- rope during the coming yea#, for there is now in that part of the Continent 2 period of hard times for wage- earners. Statistics of wages are periodically gathered by the German Government for use in the administration of the state system of workingmen's insurance, and the Commissioner cites some of the official reports "to show why we may expect a considerable immigration from' Germany and neighboring countries dui'ing the coming year. The reports show that in Germany the adult male laborer nowhere earns more than 87 cents a day (Bremen); in Berlin he receives only 72 cents. In the thirty-three principal cities he averages 68 cents; in the smaller cities he averages 52 cents, and in the agricultural districts the rate ranges from 70 to 25 cents a day. I Belgium ‘the prevaili'ng wage of coa] miners seems to ‘be about $1. Of some 72,000 | miners 5800 receive upward of $1 50 a day, and nearly the same number under, 70 cénts a day, while 31,000 receive between $1 and $1 50. Almost exactly. one- half of the miners are classified as earning $1 and up- "ward. i o g 2 It would not be fair to say that any considerable body 6f Americans ‘would like to see American labor reduced to such wages, but free-traders, would not hesitate to compel American workingmen to com- pete with that poorly paid labor, and the competi- tion would surely tend to bring the two to an equal- ity. Protection is the only guarantee of the Ameri- can wage rate and the Americdn standard of living. | It is not for nothing that the workers of other lands ‘come to us. They expect to find good wages, and | when they are.deserving they obtainthem. Tt is the duty of the Government to see to it that none but the deserving are admitted. The American standard of wages should not be lowered by the competition of ;fiéap!abor either abroad or at home. . Scarcity of coal and the high price of beef are not the only things that trouble New York housekeepers, for late reports say there is an extreme scarcity of cooks, and employment agencies announce they can- not begin to supply the demand.” With, no coal, no more, and rezlly live more than the giants with their | beef:and no cook the Easterner might just as w we' ’shut‘up his kitchen and come West. % : il if we could: What is the good of a cen-'| increasing foreign trade. The summary of commerce |- facturing, purposes, showing that our manufacturing. i is but $17,000,000. This reduction of $24,000,000 in ! ' OF THE CRUISER SAN FRAN CISCO* , IN 1888-9, AND COST $1,428,000. X SAN FRI 5 DISE: RILS HER CRUISER SAN FRANCISCO, REPORTED TO BE SUFFERING FROM A SHIP DISEASE THAT IMPERI ¢ " USEFULNESS. - THE ‘CRUISER IS AN UNARMORED VESSEL WITH A SPEED OF 181 KNOTS, WAS. BUILT I —— - LECTROLYSIS is menacing the safety of several ships in the navy, notably the cruisers San Francisco, Brook- lyn and Columbia. Eleetrolysis is an insidious ship- disease, the ravages of which are frequently not dis- covered until the materials affected become disintegrated &nd crumble to a powderlike mass. the disease has been contracted at her berth at the New Yok navy yard, where the ilithy water impregnated with electricity and other destructive agencies has seriously injured the inside . bottom and valves under water. The other two ships, how- . ever, have been in active commission for a number of years and no fntimation until a month ago has been reported of the electrolysis symptoms. - The navy regulations regarding the care of the inner bottom of ships are explicit, and if complied” with would largely reduce the fatal results of electrolysis, which is due primarily to bad wiring, insufficient insulation ard neglected inspection. The senior engineer on a warship is held responsible for the proper condition of the double bot- tom under the engine space, boiler-room and coal bunkers, and | the executive officer is charged with looking after the com- partments forward and aft of the engineer’s domain. In ad-. dition, a board of thr2e independent officers are supposed to make a quarterly inspection of all compartments. . Judging from past experiences these important regulations are often complied with in only a perfunctory measure, for the inner bottom 15 contracted in its space, is filled with drain and other pipes, and is a place of bad edors and destructive to the clothes and skin of the inspector. Yet there is no excuse for the neglect of the engineer to perform his duty, while there is much to be said in exoneration of the executive officer, whose duties are so mulifarious as to make it 2 physical impossi- bility to personally perform them all. There is reason to believe that electrolysis is only enother term for accumulated dirt and neglect. - The disease does -not appear -to have attacked ships of other navies, not even in the Russian navy, where electric- ity is used to a much greater extent than in our nayy vessels. Secretary Moody's ideas regarding: the methods in the navy are considerably at’varlance with the traditions and customs to which thé older officsrs and notably some of the Chiefs of Bureaus still cling with tenacity. On board ship, for example, the auxiliary machinery is placed under the control of three distinct bureaus. The Engineering Bureau has charge of the motive power, the Bureau of Ordnance controls dynamo en- gines and the Bureau of Constructicns takes care of the ma- chinery operating capstans, steering gear and ventilation. This apparent incongruity is a survival of the period when there were as many officers and as few ships -that it was a scramble for obtaining some sort of resemblance of employ- ment, but. now that conditions are reversed other and better business methods are required. In the British navy every kind of machinery on toard -ship is under the charge of the engineering department and a similar national method will no doubt be adopted in our navy in the near future. The story that the American frigate President is a drill- ship in the British navy is again being published in English papers and copied in Eastern journals. It alleges that the ship was captured January 14, 1815, by three British vessels, after a stubborn fight, taken to England and is now, after an existence of eighty-seven years, serving at the West Inda docks as a drill ship for blue jackets. The fact is that the ship named the President is the fourth In the British mavy of that pame since 1648, and was bullt in 1830. The American frigate President captured in 1815 was so badly cut up in the fight as to last only a few years and was never utilized for any purpose. A French frigate named Presidente was cap- tured by the British in 1506. She was of an improved model and became a valuable acquisition to the British navy, In which she retained her original name up to the time the pres- ent ship was built, wien the old Presidente was broken up. There are no Yankee ships in durance vile in the British or any other navy. SRR 9 sh battleship Montague of 14,000 tons and 18,000 hog;;os-:lr“ has gone through her preliminary: trial, but was unsuccesstul at the full-power run. The four-fifth power trial on September 7 gave an average of 13,652 horsepower and 17.¥ In the case of the Columbia: : 14 knots speed during thirty hours, but. the .full-power run o sixteen hours on September 15 had to be abandoned after eight houts, owing to leaking boflers. The horsepower averaged 17,658 and the speed 18.77 knots, falling. short of 18,000 horse- “power ‘and 19 knots as calculated, Hitherto eight hours Hhas Joen the . regulation fullpower trial, and. by increasing. it, to sixteen .hours the motive power is put to an unnecessary severe test. ~Workmen on the battleship King Edward VII, building at Davenport dockyard, are making overtime. ~The keel was laid March 12 this year and 2000-tons of material has already been worked into the hull. The launching is expected to take place next March. A “diving bell for placing naval moorings at Gibraltar is ready for operations. It weighs fifty tons, can be worked at a depth of forty-two feet and is fitted with electric lights and telephones. The strength of the torpedo fleets in the principal navies is more imaginary than real. France is credited with the larg- est number of 32 destroyers and torpedo boats. Of this total thirty-two are destroyers, of which twelve have been bullt since 1899 and twenty are building. Of the 288 torpedo boats, ninety-five were built between 1877 and 138 and may be con- sidered as obsolete. One hundred and thirty-two were bullt between 189 and 1900, and sixty-one have been built or begun since 1900. England has 130 destroyers dating since 1882, of which nineteen are bullding, but probably not ene-half "of those afloat came up to the requirements under the most fav- orable conditions. Of the 199 torpedo boats in Britain's navy, 176 were built prior to 18% and are therefore practicaly use- less, leaving fourteen buiit since 18%0. and nine under construc- tion which are useful boats. Italy has only thirteen destroy- ers, all bullt or laid down since 1398, and of 134 terpedo boats 11 were built prior .to 18%0. The Reviata Maritima asserts that only two boats out of this large number are serviceable, and strangely as it may seem, these two boats were built in 1386 o008 i ‘A_ clever and successtul trick was played by the submarine boats against the battleships in the maneuvers 6ff Chésbours last month. The rule lald down was that if a submarine came to the surface at a spot toward which the particular warship attacked did not have a gun aimed, the submarine could claim to have torpedoed the ship. The officer in command of the submarines issued to each boat a bottle which, when floating in the water, closely resembled the sighting apparatus on the top of the submarines conning tower, and these bottles were sent adrift during the maneuvers. Immediately one appeared a heavy fire was opened upon it by the nearest warship, “whereupon the submariae. would rise on the other side of the ship and’claim to have sunk her. The officers of the ships were highly indignant at the trick, and-it is proposed to have new maneuvers, the suomarines to use dummy torpedoes with detonators at the nose, so that there shail be no mistake if a vessel is really struck. The most successful submarine boat in the French army up to the présent time appears to be thé Francais. At'a re- cent trial against the turret ship Bouvines, which was as- sumed to be blockading the harbor, the Francals passed twenty feet under the bottom of the Bouvines, lauriched her torpedo, and then turning about dived fifty-five feet again, passed under the ship, giving it another torpedo, and then came :o the surface. * i The Swedish coast-deferse ship Aran has passed through a successful speed trial, the horsepower and speed largely ex- ceeding the contract. The ‘ship is of 30 tons displacement, with a Krupp steel armor beit of seven inches, and carries a battery of two 82 inch, six -5.9 inch guick-firers, ten nime- pounders, two three-pounders and two machine guns. She is fitted with-eight: Yarrow boilers—a type generally ad in the Swedish and Norwegian navies. At the steam trial the horsepower developed was 6500, exceeding the contract by 500, amd the speed was seventeen and a quarter knots, or three- quarters of a knot over the contract. ANSWERS TO QUERIES ONORABLE—J. A. B., City. In the U?ned States it'is customary to address a member of the President's Cabinet Ry the title of honorable. DIME OF 1854.—Subscriber, City. ‘Ques- tions in relation to the value of coins will be answered by mail if the letter of in- quiry contains a self-addressed and stamped envelope. TANDING OF A COMPANY-—P. C., Pstaluml. Cal. This department does not give information as to the standing of any company, firm on individuals. Mercantile agencies furnish information in such mat- ters. NALLY—A. §. T. T. G,, City. In the e Gattiand there are two Drlests by the name of McNally. Oneis John B. Mc- Nally and the other John B. MeNally Jr. at St. Patrick's Church. + BEDBUGS.—P. C., City. Rub the bed- stead In the jofnts with equal parts of turpentine and Kerosene -oil, also the ~racks of thé surbase of Tooms where there may be insects. March and Aprilare the months when bedsteads should be ex- amined to kill the egés. * P PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.—Many Readers, Oakland, Cal. By the law -of 1866 Congress provided who shall succeed, in ease of the inability on thespart of the President and’ Vice President of the Unit- ed States to act. and the officer so select- ed fills the unexpired term." ‘SECOND’ COUSINS—G. G., City, The chjldren of brothers and sisters-are called cousins, eousins german, first cousins or full cousins. Children of first cousins are second cousins and.so on. Often the term second cousin is loosely applied to the son or daughter of a cousin german, more properly called a first cousin once re- SEQUENCE IN CRIB.—~J. T. L,, Paso Robles, Cal. ‘In the game of cribbage to a secuence in play it matters not which of the cards 15 played first or last, provided the sequence can be produced 1 a transposition of the order in which they B i For further information address either | I of law. PERSONAL MENTION. | Louis F. Breuner s registered at the Palace with his wife from Sacramento. Dr. Rulnand Salcher of Vienna, Aus- tria, is a guest at the Palace. James Cronin, .a mining man of Spo- kane, Wash., is at the Grand. T. H. Selvage of Eureka is at the Grand. Thomas W. Patterson, a banker. of Fresno, is one of the arrivals at the Lick. J. C. Bull Jr., a capitalist of Eureka, is at the Lick. ‘W. L. Carter, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Occldental. S. Hanocks, a capitalist of Ogden, Utah, is’at the Russ en route to Los Angeles, where he will establish a banking busi- ness. 3 H. G. Colton, an insurance man of land, Or., is at the California wit wife. J. €. Stokes, deputy Sherift of Eureka, is a late arrival at the Russ. @ irimiiriisimiieilelieleinvieiniviek @ féll. Thus, A leads 6 of hearts, B returns with 7 of clubs, A ‘plays 8 of any suit, and scores a run of three for the se- quence; A then plays a 5 of diamonds and scores a run of four. The play is 6-7-8-5, but by transposition the sequence is 5-6-7-8._ This goes on as long as the con- tinuous secuence can be made. 3 COIN BOOK-H. J.'H, City. Corre- spondents desiring the address of coin dealers and of those who sell books of coin values must send to this department orts his a self-addressed and with letter of inquiry. MARRIAGE—Subscriber, City. . The courts of California have as man and wife th Wwha have lived to- gether for a long period and have been known as man and wife, no mar- thlq ceremony was pox-to'\."mh . ¢ INSURANCE-G. M. B., Cal. The question asked d“ut:a insurance on one t calls for d I opinion, thix department ‘doss not ehve This ar. partment will give the Jaw as found on the books, but will not decide questions 3 in regard to the same property is A CHANCE ‘TO SMILE. Aunt Maria—Why, Johnny! prised! Johnny—What's de matter? Aunt Maria—What are you playing baseball for on the Sabbath? Johnny—Fur 10 cents a side, an’ our side’s winnin’.—Philadelphia Press. “I can't understand your dislike for Mrs. Nexdore,” said Mr. ‘Goodart; ‘“she T am-sur- “You've : got -the ‘lttle’- in the wro place.”’—Philadelphia Press. f Government. Officer—Well, now- that you have perfected an armor for ships that is absolutely ' impenetrable, I presume you have attained the hefght of your ambi- tion. 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