The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRA ISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 20, 1902. » THURSDAY JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Propriclor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager TELEPHONE Ask for THE CALL. Che Operator 1.ill Connect You Witk te Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (ineluding Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunda:), § months, 00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. o DAILY CALL—By Single Month st SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. = WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All Postmasters are wuthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded ‘when reguested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure @ prompt end correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE........ 1118 Broadway STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 1902. Month of October, October b3 October 60,935 October October 61,800 October October 1 71, October October October October October October October October October October October October October October October October .1,931,365 Total....oov. ETATE OF CALIFORNIA, - CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO—ss. On this 18th day of November, 1902, persorally eppeared be- fore me, William T. Hess, & Notary Public in and for the City end County aforesaid, W. J. MARTIN, who being sworn ac- cording to law declares that he is the Business Manager of the San Francisco Call, @ daily newspaper published in the City and County of San Francjsco, State of California, and that there were printed and distributed during the month of October, 1902, gpe million nine hundred and thirty-one thou- sand thrse hundred and sixty-five (1,931,365) copies of the eald newspaper, which number divided by thirty-one (the num- ber of days of issue) gives an average dally circulation of 62,302 copies. W. J. MARTIN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of Novem- ber, 1902 W. T. HESS. Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- cisco, State of California. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. ESPITE the shortness of the coming session D of Congress the advocates of a bill increasing the powers of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission intend to urge the passage of such a measure as soon as Congress meets. The executive commit- tee of the Interstate Commerce Law Convention, which was held in St. Louis in November, 1900, has already begun operations, and as it is backed by more than 2 hundred commercial and manufacturing organy izations it will undoubtedly have a potent influence in the campaign. The measure has long been under consideration by the country and by Congress and is already well ad- vanced toward enactment. At the last session of Con- gress hearings on the subject were held by committees of both houses. Two bills were presented, one known as the Nelson-Corliss bill and the other as the Elkins bill. The former was preferred by the representatives of the commercial and manufacturing associations of the country, but the latter was the favorite of the Sen- ate Committee on Interstate Commerce; It was there- fore agreed that the latter bill should be amended in some particulars and accepted by both parties. That is the situation as it stands now. The amended bill is in the hands of committees of each House, and ac- cordingly nothing is now needed to be done except to induce Congress to take action. The revised bill has seven sections. The first pro- vides that any definite order ma\i; by the commission shall become operative after thirty days’ notice thereof to the carriers concerned. The orders are subject to review by the Circuit Courts of the United States. Appeals may be taken to the Supreme Court, but the appeal shall not stay the order of the Circuit Court. Section 2 authorizes pooling by legalizing arrange- ments between carriers for a division of traffic or earnings, but all such arrangements are subject to the supervision of the commission. Section 3 provides that any carrier refusing to obey an order of the com- mission shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $5000 for every day’s continuance of the violation of such order, Section 4 declares that any act of an agent or officer of a carrier corporation that con- stitutes a misdemeanor wunder the interstate com- merce law shall be held to be 2 misdemeanor by such corparation. Failure to observe published tariffs or any evasion of them subjects the carrier to a fine of not less than $1000 nor more than $20,000 for each offense. Section 5 provides that in any proceeding for the enforcement of statutes relating to interstate com- merce all persons interested may be included. Sec- tion 6 authorizes the commission to appeal direct to the Circuit Court to inquire into any case of a sus- pected violation of published tariffs or the orders of the commission, and the court is required to give such hearing summarily. Section 7 provides that all existing laws relative to testimony in cases arising under the “Act to regulate commerce” shall apply to any case under this act. It is to be noted that the executive committee of the Interstate Commerce Law Convention expressly disclaims support of the section authorizing pooling, and in a circular letter on the subject says it will “maintain 2 neutral attitude” in relation to that fea- ture of the bill. That some more effective method of dealing with interstate commerce problems as affected by railroads is needed has long been evident.” Year after year the commission has reported to Congress its inability to enforce the-law under existing conditions. In the meantime every merchant knows that undue favors are granted by the roads to certain parties to the injury of the public. Not only are individuals dis- criminated a2gainst but whifle cities are injured by being deprived of their just rights as shipping point’sA The evil is one of great magnifude and affects the whole country. It is high time some remedy were provided. The revised Elkins bill may not satisfy everybody, nor wholly satisfy anybody, but it is bet- ter than nothing, and there ought to be a resolute public opinion fo urge its’ passage this winter. S ——— NAppficatinns for divorce are\increasing so rapidly in ew York th-at th_c lawyers think of raising the price of legal services in such cases 50 | eaten ’possum and bear meat off a ‘tin plate with A FREE COUNTRY. ‘ ments of European monarchs among the people | and those of the President of the United States |in contact with a frece people. The President is neither the father of the people nor their ruler. He is | simply one of them. His station is greatly dignified, for he is the executive of the greatest of the nations, and his power as such is'higher than that of any monarch. But his highest titie, after all, is that of a citizen of a | free country, with the same responsibility to its laws as any other citizen, A glance at the movements of foreign monarchs | discloses them proceeding in state, and even in periods { of recreation, surrounded by armed guards. The so- | called visits of the Czar to republican France are mere travesties of sociability or friendly intereourse, for the monarch of the north/was ‘closely guarded and hurried irom point to point, affording the briefest j Ipossible exposure. R But the President of the United States visits ‘his private residence the same as any other Gitizen, reg- isters as an elector, takes his place in'line at the polls, votes in his turn, mingles with his neighbors and is one of the crowd. If he choose he‘joins in persuasion of the doubtful voter, and is ready to do his part in cheering the result when the count is finished. In. his period of recreation he enjoys himself as does any | gentleman of similar tastes. Monarchs go after tame game, and are assisted by skjlled and watchful hunt=- ers. But the President does his own hunting and brings down his own game. With his pack of dogs in a Colorado wilderness he chases mountain lions, and finishes the savage animals with his hunting-knife at close quarters when use of a rifle would endanger the dogs. S 2 He has just been taking a vacation-in the -forests of Mississippi, where, attended by two guides and with a negro cook, he has camped in ‘the wqods,‘ THERE is a great contrast between the move- | iron knife and fork, and has tramped the trail, follow- | ing the dogs, in search of game. His journey to'the forest was marked only by the respectful assemblage of the people at railway stations, whom he greeted in the most informal marner, as if they were his neigh- bors and friends. Rugged, vital and adventurous, he typifies the citizenship of a free country, and feels as safe with his fellow citizens as they do with him. = « His vacation over, he emerges from the wilderness and, proceeding to Memphis, stands on the scene of events of the Civil War, among a people then hostile, and will be as safe as in his office at Washington. He will take part in the formal honors paid by his townsmen to the Vice Governor of the Philippines, and will be as welcome as if he planted cotton in Tennessee and votcd\ regularly for Andrew Jackson. His administration is in no danger of overthrow by revolution, for it is entrenched in the -constitution, which all obey. He is simply charged with the faith- ful enforcement of the law. That obligation is in kind the same as rests upon every other citizen of the re- public. All are responsible for enforcement of the law, and they enforce it by obeying it. His part dif- fers from theirs only in degree. His responsibility is merely greater than others’, and the people, realizing that the difference is only in the measure of the bur- den, respect him as he bears it well. It is true that we have lost three Presidents by vio- lence. But it was the act of individuals of distorted and deformed morality, and was the result of just such characteristics as make fnen murderers under other circumstances when the ‘victims selected ~ have in- curred their enmity for ~wrongs, ‘real or fancied. Those crimes were not chargeable to any popular dis- content or set enmity to the Government and its head cherished by the masses of the people. As the President mingles freely with the people, they are ready to protect and defend him against violence. They need no captain to ordes them, no file of sol- diers to iead them. Instinctively they resent even an expression of disrespect fqr the President, and the rarely occasional crank or man of evil temper or preju- dice feels this and knows that his greatest danger when committing an overt act against the President is from the people. In this the people of the whole country, North and South, are one, and wherever the Presi- dent goes, formally or informally, his safety is not in guarding regiments and trained soldiers, but in the respect of the people for their institutions and for him as their executive. —— The United States Fish -Commission distributed nearly a billion and a half young fish during the last fiscal year, so if the beef trust gets too rampageous it future we can go fishing for a living with a fair chance of getting a bite. THE GOOD OF STOCK SHOWS, HE American Livestock Show has just been T held at Kansas City. It has been much written about in the Eastern press. It furnished an op- portunity to show the evolution of animals by care- ful bre;ding. The mule hoof hog of Arkansas, that has no split in the hoof, was shown alongside the chubby Berkshire and giant Poland-China as evidence of the transformation that may result from careful selection. In like manner the Texas steer'was shown as the primitive form of cattle, and the Hereford and other fine beef breeds as its evolution. But breeding is only part of it. The best animals need more than that to get from them the highest value. Only within a few'years has any study been made of the artificial ration required by animals which have to be provided with food other than the natural foragé. The Agricultural Department at Washington took this matter up, by order of Secretary Wiison, and the various Western stations of that department, in connection with the bureau of animal industry, have rapidly pushed the investigation. Various State Agricultural Colleges have followed this lead, and stock-raisers have also taken up practical experiment- ing. All this points to economy in feeding to secure the best results. Secretary Wilson was present. at the Kansas City show, and in an interview said in response to . the | question, “What_is the main value of a show like this?” “To teach people to breed better beef. With beef at 8 cents a pound on the hoof, how are our poorer people to get it if the price gontinue te rise? It is to the best interest of everybody that the farmer should learn how to get the most beef out of the feed he gives his cattle. Here is the object lesson, Here is the ‘school where he learns. Those steers are of the finest ever produced. How were they bred? How were they fed? . The farmer wants to know. The | farmer ought to know. If I were running a show of this kind I wouid not give a man a premium .until he filed with the secretary for the benefit of the public every animal exhibited. Then the newspapers ought to print it and let the public know. how these things are done. These shows are for the education of the ecuia? terested, and especially from™ San Francisco. a detailed account of the breeding and feeding ‘of | That is practical common sense and develops the use of such exhibitions. While Secretary Wilson re- sponded to the interviewer he stood before an eight- months old Hereford calf that had just been sold for | $4000 cash. That price had been paid because the animal was worth it for breeding purposes.- Between | that and the price of a “pennyroyal” calf of the same age is a vast difference. ' The average between the two values, or much less than the average, may be ob- tained for animals by a great many stock-raisers if they know how to do it. Secretary Wilson is doing his best to instruct them, and his suggestion that the practice and experience of every breeder be made pub- lic for the general benefit will get out of stock shows and fairs their highest value and usefulness. A movement has been started in New York to have a bank founded by woriten, owned by women, man- aged by women and officered by women; and prob- bly".j.n the end it will be busted by women. It is go- ing’to'be a daisy. . ° i el e — " OUR CIIRUs FAIR. ITHIN a few days the Citrus Fair which is Wb’eing—‘arranged to - illastrate the winter glories ‘apd beauties of Northern California will be open,”and there is every assurance it will be worthy of the object 'fo which. it is devoted. As a | part of the work undertaken by the promotior com- mittee it ‘merits liberal support from all counties’in- This city is"!h':' ‘metropolis of the Pacific Coast in a broad sense, but in"a particular and _épacial sense it is the metropolis of Narthern California. - It is through the cnergies of the State that'the city lives and thrives, and the progressive men of the city ought therefore to be ever prompt and'ready to co-operate in every movement tending to build up any section of the in- terior. . . Among the notable features of the exhibit will be the flowers placed ‘on display for the double purpose of decorating the fair and manifesting the floral rich- ness of our fields, gardens and conservatories at this season of the year. Hardly anything will more for- cibly impress-the Eastern tourist with the mildness of our winters than”the flowers which will profusely adorn the exhibition. To that display it is to be hoped the contributions will be large, varied and con- tinuous from the opening to the close, so that it may be of sufficient brilliance to excite the admiration of all who see it. Of the success of the fair as a whole there is no question. No similar area in any other part of the globe can make such a display of native resources and rural industries as that which is to furnish the ex- hibits for this’ exposition. We may reasonably ex- pect the fair to achieve a national reputation and to be written of and spoken of in the East as a new reve- lation of the marvels of California. To assist in at- taining that end all should unite and work with vim and determination. We have started out to make the fair an illustration of Northern California, and in such an enterprise we cannot afford to fail in any fea. ture. 4 e S —— 2 The voters of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, came very near electing a woman to the Legislature, despite the fact that she would not have been per- mitted to take 'the seat had she been elected. The vote is referred to by the Boston papers as a sample of Hampshire humor, and it cértainly is funny. D for failing to ‘elect Coler. The Demaocratic papers of hi§ own State are not letting him eat a biscuit without a spider in it, and ‘his nights at Wol- ferts Roost are robbed of their peace, for he cannot roost high enough to get out of hearing of the buzz of denunciation that hums like a swarm of hornets whose nest has been clubbed. As if this'were niot enough Mr. Bryan hops on to him with both feet for losing New York! We like to treat Mr. Bryan as the author of all the amusement, and most of the strenuosity, in American politics since 1896. - A man who has been twice a candidate of one of the great parties for the Presidency is invested with a certain sort of interest, and properly receives a certain quality of respect. Therefore it is that we are somewhat pained to be unable to indorse Mr. Bryan's vigorous kicking of Mr. Hill for losing New York, though it adds to the gayety of nations, As a loser Mr. Bryan is the champion of the world. He has lost two Presidential elections, four Con- gresses, his own State, and in this year's election every Northern State but one that his party carried in 1896 and 1900. In fact, he has lost everything but his voice. He was like a beacon light on the moun- tains of Colorado during October, but lost the State in November. He made a lightning progress through Nebraska and gridironed that blizzardy common- wealth with his checkered eloquence, and, after all, his Governor was defeated and the Republicans elected their man, though his name was Mickey. Mr. Bryan’s career as a loser justifies his acceptance as his motto, “Excelled by all; equal to none.” Yet he girds at Hill and roasts his evéry and individual rib and declares that he has a millstone around his neck and is also doing duty as a millstone around what is left of the party’s neck. From the steady and what ‘Mantalini would call “demnition grind” of Mr. . *BRYAN ON HILL. 3 AVID B, HILL is getting a sound trouncing B.ryan let him beware lest he be known as the party grindstone.' Certain it is that he has held the party’s nose to the grindstone until its smeller is destroyed and all issues smell alike to it. Hill never retorts. At least he has not been known as a retorter. But if he assume that habit we can anticipate with pleasure the retort he could make upon his Nebraska tormentor, Local authorities seem-inclined to think'that the alleged criminal traffic in voc?es at the Almshouse is worth the distinction of an / investigation by the Grand Jury. This unexpected enthusiasm for decency on the part of the powers that be is at least encour- aging.- If any of the malefactors should be caught and convicted the town might suffer from nervous | shock. —_— Statesmen of Germany are inclined to believe that they are in a position o institute a tariff war against us. As we are engaged in just such a war among ourselves Germany may find that we are well armed” Fid Santa Rosa, is among the arrivals at the and equipped to lock horns with somebody else. might divert our attention from éurselves. Russia has annexed Finland all right,-but the Finns refuse to be congenial. Some are leaving the coun- try, some are refusing to pay taxes, and others are beating the stuffing out of Russian officials whenever they catch them by moonlight alone. > After all the reports of Weyler's power in Spain it appears he is to be dropped out of the Cabinet and probably out of official life altogether, so we may next expect to hear he is writing his memoirs and will solve the mystery of the Maine, _ ; g ! LAUREL HILL CLUB'S He'ladies of Laurel Hill Club held - their semi-annual social day yester- day afternoon and the club rooms ‘at 1620 California street were thronged with the clever members and their guests. The rooms were prettily decorated with foliage and every comfort was provided for those present. An interesting literary and musical programme was rendered. Mrs. Thomas W. Collins, president, opened the entertainment with an able address, in which she appealed to the women not to give up the sentiment of the old es. The other interesting numbers wer& as follows: Vocal solo, selected, Miss Beulah George; recitation, Mrs, William H. Culver, “‘Songs of Seven” (Jean Ingelow), with m 1 accom- paniment by Miss Alice Grey; vocal solo, se- locted, Mrs Edith Ralph Collins; paper, “The Unsolved Problem,” Mrs. I, Lowenberg; vocal duvet, Miss Beulah George and s, Edith Ralph Collins, ‘“The Messenger,” by Professor Pasmore, At the close of the programme dainty refreshments were served during an in- formal reception. The afternoon was de- lightfully®spent. . . Miss Helen Dean was guest of honor at a pretty luncheon yesterday tendered by Mrs. Samuel Buckbee. The decorations were unusually attractive, one table be- ing in pink roses and the other in vio- lets. Candelabra were shaded in pink. Thre tfavors were artistic water color sketches. Among those present were: Mrs. Horace Pillsbury, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss Emlly Wilson, Miss Gertrude Josselyr, Miss Pearl Landers, Mrs. Fred MdNear, Mrs. Walter Martin, Mrs. Gus Taylor, Mrs. Lau- rance Scott, Mrs. James Follis, Mrs. Will Tay- lor, Miss Carrle Taylor, Miss' Edith McBean, Miss Cora Smedberg, Miss Grace Spreckels, Miss Genevieve King and Miss Ethyl Hager. »ecwr b The Tuesday Night Assembly was well attended, notwithstanding the bad wea- tner and other things on the tapis. The young people danced to their hearts’ con- tent and the affair was quite informal. Among those present were: Miss Gladys Merrill, Miss Yettie Du Bois, Miss Edith McCabe, Miss Ethel Parker, Miss Geourgia Spieker, Miss Deal, Miss Helen Dick- ens, Miss Eleanor Warner, Miss Helen Davis, Miss Reed Hutchins, Miss Zelda Tiffany, Miss Edna Hannigan, Miss Norma Castle, Miss Mathews, Miss Edith Bull, Miss Kathleen Bull, Miss Daisy Cartwright, Miss De Laveaga, Miss Amy Gunn; Harry Bates, Joe King, Joseph Rosborough, Ernest McCormick, Emery Tick- por, Willlam Huff, Dr. Hill, Dr. Sumner Hardy, Dr. William Moore, Dr. Harry Allen, Dr. Reuben Hale, Dr. Percy Gaskill, Will Sherman, Albert Robertson, Willlam Collier, Oliver Dibble, Dr. Homer Cralg, Louis Dough- erty, Mr. Clauson, Elliott Polter, gins, Mr. Young, Fred Bain, Robe liam Harrison, Walter Bates, Df. nolds, Willlam ‘Bacon, Dr. Jdseph Staulder, Dr. Wilson, - Mr. Young, Emery Elliott, Wil- liam Walton, Dr. Philip. White. The patron- esses are Mrs. William Manning, Mrs. Stephen Castle, Mrs. George Birkmaler, Mrs. S. Pren- tiss Smith and Mrs. W. E. F, Deal. e e . A charming reception will be held this evening at the rooms of Elder & Shep- ard, 238 Post street, which will. be one of the most attractive days of the first ex- hibition of contemporary art in bookbind- ing by the Bookbinders’ Guild of Califor- nia, which has been recently organized for the purpose of making a feature of | art binding on the coast instead of com- mercial tendencies. The charter members and those actively interested are: Mrs, Sidney Armer, 8 Uranus_street, San Francisco; Miss M. B. Britton, Hotel Pleas- anton, San Francisco; Miss Edna_A. Bowman, 480 North First street, San Jose; Miss Lucinda N. Butler, 630 Kearny street, San Franclsco: Miss Edith Chesebrough, 3508 Clay street, San P GIFTED VOCALIST WHO SANG YESTERDAY AT LAUREL HILL CLUB SOCIAL. 4 — - Franclsco; Miss Anna C. Crane, 639 Kearny street, San Erancisco; Miss Ella Demipg, W street, Sacramento; Charles Frederick Eaton, Santa Barbara; Paul Elder, 238 Post street, San Francisco; Mrs. C. H. Gllbert, Stanford University; Mrs, Katharine Hooker, 325 West Adams wtreet, Los Angeles; Miss Marian Hooker, 325 West Adams street, Los Angeles; Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, Pleasanton, Cal.; Miss Octavia Holden, 639 Kearny street, San Fran. cisco; Miss Anne Hadden, box 995, Palo Aito; Miss Leda Klauber, box BB, San Diego; Miss Alice Klauber, box BB, San Diego; Irving Lundborg, Oakland, Cal.; Miss Margaret Mee, 1894 Broadway, San Francisco; Miss Charlotte 1. Mytton, 827 West Tenth street, Los Angeles; Miss Clara Rice, Ross Valley, Cal.; Miss Loulse Schwamm, 1111 Ellis street, San Fran- clsco; Morgan Shepard, 238 Post street, San Francisco; Mrs, Ida M. Strobridge, Artémisia building, Los Angeles; Mrs. Anna C. W. Seott, 546 IndiAna street, San Francisco; Mrs. R. J. Taussig, 2540 Vailejo street, San Francisco; r, Harry L. Tevis 1316 Taylor street, Saa Francisco; Miss M. F. Williams, Stanford Uni- ; Miss Margaret Willlams, 1015 Scott street, San Francisco; committee of exhibition —Paul Elder (chairman), Miss Octavia Holden, Miss Lucinda N. Butler. R The nineteenth annual commencement of the medical department of the Hahne- menn Medical College of the Pacific will be held at Golden Gate Hall, 625 Sutter street, this evening. An excellent pro- gramme will be rendered. N Mrs. Charles J. Wilder and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Burt, will give a reception this afternoon in honor of Mrs. Charles R. Lioyd of Berkeley. NEW EVIDENCE IN THE CHICAGO - TEMPLE CASE cHICAQO, Nov. 19.—Captain Edward Williams, the former manager of the Ma- sonic Temple, who returned to the city yesterday after having been three weeks hiding, following the Masonic Temple tax scandal, took the stand to-day as the witness for the State in the trial of Presi- dent James H. Gormley for conspiracy. He testified that he had entered into an | arrangement with Luke Wheeler and a man named Storm, presuming them to represent the County Treasurer’s office, to secure a receipt in full for the temple taxes, amounting to $26,770, for $20,000, and that he had done so with the full knowl- edge and consent of President Gormley and of Director Rush of t..e Masonic Fra- ternity Temple Association, then its sec- retary and treasurer. “I sald to Gormley,” asserted Willlams, “that the County Treasurer's office had offered to give me a receipt in tull for the thxes for $20,000. Gormley asked if I had said anything to Dr. Rush, and if I had not, to speak to him. I conferred with Dr. Rush on April 16 or 17 and went im- mediately to see about the details. He wanted to know how it could be done and asked: ‘What does Gormley say? I said: ‘I don’t know. I first want to know if you as treasurer wish me to do this.’ -1 said it was a very general practice to fix taxes for reduction. ‘Do you want this done? He sald: ‘Yes. The matter was then thoroughly discussed with Gormley. Gormley asked if there was enough money in the treasury to pay the taxes n.nd/nld if not to borrow some.” 2 ‘Willlams then testified that he had nothing to do with the drawing of the money for the $20,000 check. It was given to him a day or two after the conversa- tion detailed above and he paid it over to Luke Wheeler and received the tax receipt in exchange. The payment, he said, was made in his office in the Ma- sonic Temple. He was not satisfied, he testified, with Wheeler’s explanation .of his- ability to secure the receipt for that amount and Wheeler agreed to bring one |: of the principal officers of the County Treasurer’s office over. He appeared later with a man whom he Introduced as Storm, who said he was authorized to make the arrangement and that it was done by rearrangement of the personal property taxes. Peter Storm, who is presumed to be the man in question, was an employe of the | County Treasurer's office at that time, but has since committed suicide. Wil- liams declared that he received none of the $20,000 himself. “How much was Wheeler to get?” he was_asked. “Nothing. I suppose it was a matter of legitimate business with him.” “Who was to get the $20,0007 “Mr. Raymond, as I understood.” The' witness testified that he believed and still believe that" the receipt given him for the Masonic Temple taxes ema- nated from the County Treasurer’s office. PERSONAL MENTION. ’ Bob Fitzsimmons and wife are at the California. ‘Louis Kahn, a grain dealer of Oakdale, is at the Palace. . William M.. Junker, proprietor of the Hotel Paso Robles, is at the Palace. J. H. Einhorn, a dry goods merchant of California. President Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line, after several days spent in the city, left last evening for Salt Lake. Manager James Agler of the Southern Pacific left last evening, accompanied by his secretary, Robert Montgomery, for an inspection of the lines in Nevada. Infant Shelter Building Fund. The Infant Shelter building fund com- mittee appreciates the generous manner in which the public has responded to its appeal for help. The committee feels as- sured that if the contributions .continue it ‘will be able to erect a modern build- ing, which is badly needed. The subscrip- tions up to date amount to §$197150. LIFE-SAVING . SERVICE MAKES FINE RECORD ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—The general superintendent of the Life Saving Service has rendered his report for the year 1902. It ‘continues to show most gratifying re- sults of the work of this humane organ- ization. The number of accidents to ves- sels within'the scope of the operations of the service during the year was greater than ever before, with the exception of the years 1898 and 1901, yet the loss of life was very small. . The number of lives lost from documented vessels—those of five tons’ burden or over—was only nineteen, while six were lost from smaller craft— saifboats, rowboats, etc.—making a total of twenty-five—a\ number far below the average. The amount of property imperiled was greatly in excess of that of any previous year in the history of the service, owing to the unusual number of large vessels in. volved. No less than fifty-four vessels of over 1000 tons’ burden—of which number thirty-three were steamers—suffered dis- aster. The loss of property, however, was comparatively light. 2 The number of disasters to documented vessels was 3%5. On board these vessels were 3424 persons, of whom 19 were lost. The estimated value of the vessels was $9,253,630, and that of their cargoes $5,139,- GOSSIP FROM PLEASANT SOCIAL DAY/ LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS Here is something new for this coun- try. The strike in the bookbinding trace is to result in the introduction into Eng- 1and of books With paper covers, as is the way on the Continent. One leading pub- lisher, driven to desperation by his in- ability to keep faith with his authors and the public, is getting some books which ought to have been clothed with clotn into paper skins. What these are I can- not say yet, but it introduces a change which on its merits has more than once been begun by some writers. To ths British public it is all the same. If some solution of the present difficuity is not feund very soon the autumn publishing is bound to suffer. Indeed, it is suffering already. I cannot, for instance, point to a single work of fiction which has been sent out this week. There ought to have been many. Really, the future of the novel is giv- ing more and more anxiety to the pub- hsher, if he would only admit it. The 6- shilling novel is an ‘institution which one cannot look forward to losing, and the 6- penny edition of popular works has ev dently come to stay, though the experi- ment has not yet been taken up by very many publishers. Messrs. Methuen, Mac- millan, Hutchinson, Ward & Lock and Chatto & Windus are the chief adventur- ers in this direction, and some of these firms have gone deeply into the enter- prise. Publishers are chary of giving figures, but there is no doubt that so far as mere numbers go the sales of the é-penny edi- tions have been very great. Chatto & Windus alone have sold 35,000,000 copies since they have taken up the idea. They are of the opinion that it Is the best books that sell, in witness whereof they point to the sales of “The Cloister and the Hearth,” which amount to nearly 250, 000. Hutchinson finds Miss Fowler's “A Dcuble Thread” sold best among the - pennies, but the publishers seem to think that a medium priced novel between the 6-shilling and the 6-penny will before long have to be put on the market. Curiously erough, the old 2-shilling “yellow back™ has almost died out. Now it is thought it may be revived, and the books in paper covers which are to be given to the pub- lic through accident—namely, the book- binders’ strike—may solve the problem. It is curious that though Barrie’s “The Little White Bird” does not come out be- fore Monday—cloth boards having been obtained for it—a review has already ap- peared. As is well known, advance cop- jes of books are sent to reviewers, but it is considered a matter of etiquette that no review shall appear till the day of publication, yet the public has been treat- ed to a review a week in advance by that eminent litterateur A. T. Quiller Couch. In the course of this rather previous but prettily written review Couch remarks: “You may say plausibly that it was writ- ten by a fairy of fairles, or, better still, that it was written by a contrite fairy for fairy changelings, but I should prefer to call it a book written by a child inside Mr. Barrie for the children we used to be.” People have been wondering who was the author of the interesting serial en- titled “The Disentanglers,” which has been running anonymously in Longmans’ Magazine. Strangé to say, no éne seems to have guessed the truth, but now the secret is out. Longmans’ announce the appearance in book form of “The Disen- tanglers,” by Andrew Lang. Grant Richards announces another anon- ymous soclety novel for early publicatio: it the bookbinders will, entitled “Folly's Quest,” being an incursion among “the quality.” Canon Cheyne is, indeed, indefatigable. Not content with astonishing the critical and horrifying the orthodox \by his “Jerahmeel” theories in the Encyclopedia Biblica, he has’ for publication by Messrs. Keghn Paul a new edition and translation of the Psalms. It would be very difficult count how often Canon Cheyne has tra lated Isaiah and the Psalms. Certainly they have been.rendered by him before. In the Parchment Library it was consid- ered a very beautiful version indeed, and it is hoped the new one wil Ibe as good. @ ittt @ 380, making the total value of property in- volved $14,393,010. Of this amount $12,125,- 220 was saved and $2,267.790 was lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 5L In addition to the foregoing there were 361 casualties to undocumented craft— sallboats, rowboats, etc.—carrying 79 per- sons, six of whom perished. The value of property involved in these instances is es- timated at $174,120, of which $167,575 was saved and $6545 lost. Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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