The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1902, Page 6

The s Call. TUESDAY........cc0eeee....DECEMBER 9, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1902 : CARED FOR BOTH BLUE AND GRAY AND IS OLDEST WAR NURSE LIVING A LAND COMMISSION. HE President in his brief reference to the public land question cffectively summarizes the situa- tion. He insists, as do all his wise countrymen, that wherever the public domain will sustain homes by agriculture, with or without irrigation, that shall ;“nu All Communicotions to W. S. LEAKE. Manager | be considered its best and noblest use, and that it TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL The Operator Will Connect You With the 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 (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL Oncinding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (ineluding Sunday), 3 months. 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BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 631 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1341 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2201 Market, corner Sixtesnth, open until § o'clock. 1006 Va- lencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock 2300 Fillmore, open until § p. m. = AN ELASTIC CURRENCY. UT of the monetary situation of the coun- O try financial experts derive mew arguments almost daily 1in favor of immediate reform in our currency and banking systems. For a long time past the situation has been actually critical, and the Secretary of the Treasury has been more than once compelled to go to the relief of the money market in order to prevent the occurrence of a stringency that ght have precipitated a panic. The danger point in the situation has passed for vear. reform be instituted | but unless some the call the crops. Ii we are wise we will profit by the les- season and not expose the busi- the country to like dangers in the year to We have had ample proof of the need of an There is no longer any dispute on t. There remains then nothing more than Congress to agree upon a suitable measure of rm and enact 1t at sons of the past me rency ef once President recommend any specific measure of* currency m, but he clearly pointed out the need of it by saving “Interest rates are a potent factor in busi- € and n order that these rates may be - » meet the varying needs of the seasons separated communities, and to pre- vent the recurrence of financial stringencies which in- | usly affect leg ate business, it is necessary that cre should be an element of elasticity in our mone- tary system. Banks are the natural servants of com- and upon them should be placed, as far as ticable, the burden of furnishing and maintaining rculation adequate to supply the needs of our drversified industries and in our domestic and foreign nmerce, and the issue of this should be so regu- d that a sufficient supply should be always avail- the business interests of the country.” Secretary of the Treasury in his report to Congress naturally gave the subject more elaborate tment than was possible in the message of the He declares our present system of basing of national bank notes upon bonds to be and goes on to say: “The reason for the toward contraction is apparent. Govern- mds are scarce, and those outstanding are large part by trust estates, savings banks and e companies, and are not available for circu- . - = The frequent purchase and re- tirement of bonds render the amount available for n gradually less, while a rapidly growing ropulation, additional banking facilities and expand- g iation merce able for The imper ment b I therefore believe the time has arrived vhen it will be necessary to adopt one oi two poli- cies—either the Government debt must be perpetu- ated as a basis for national bank circulatiom and ad- ditional bonds issued as occasion may require, or some other system must be provided.” Such statements from the Secretary of the Treas- ury would be important at any time, but they have in this instance an added gravity from the fact that they accord with the lessons we have just been taught during the crop moving season. The country rich an absolutely safe currency. is We have a rapidly in- reasing’ population and a commerce that goes for- ward with giant strides, It is therefore an absurdity to put our banking and currency systems upon a basis which, as the Secretary says, tends to contraction, The session of Congress is to be short. Con- gressmen will put this question aside if they can. It < therefore the duty of the country to urge action, We have just passed through a period of danger and have emerged without harm. Tt is known that the danger will recur next fall, but it is by no means sure that we will be again able to pass it without a panic. The safcst way is to remove the cause of danger, and that can be done only by a scientific revision of our rrency znd banking laws and the establishment of them on 2 sound and adequate basis. A New York minister after preaching the gospel for seventeen years has abandoned the pulpit to be- come an auctioneer, and perhaps in the end we shall have him on the vaudeville stage. In this country there is an opportunity for every man to rise. — Senator Hale of Maine is evidently one of the statesmen who believe in standing pat, for he says: “There will be no tariff tinkering this winter, nor next winter, nor the winter thereafter, unless Congress loses its head.” 1 al similar emergency will be repeated next year when | nade upon New York for money to move | ] Roosevelt in his message to Congress suggest the need of an ever-increasing cir- | We have abundant wealth upon which to base | shall be rigidly reserved for that purpose. He sees that the homestead commutation and the stone and timber entry laws, clamored for as in the interest of actual settlers, have from the beginning been made the instruments of fraud, as they were in- tended _to be by their promoters. It may be said that in%tead of promoting settlement of the public domain they have retarded it. They have raised all along the frontier a class of frauds who have used their prized “land rights” for purposes of illicit specu- lation. They have practiced tactics inimical to the legitimate livestock interests on the arid ranges and have used the law to block the livestock industry and to so damage it as to make necessary their removal by buying them out at blackmail prices. These frauds, to the Eastern imagination, have figured as the oppressed “actual settler” crowded out by the cattle barons, and have promoted to a damag- ing extent the prejudice against the range interests, until those interests, from this and other removable causes, are so far curtailed that the production of beef thas been thrown back to the costliest source of pro- duction, to the injury of the consumer in high prices. In effect the President, by impeaching these misdi- rected land laws, recommends their repeal. As a sub- stitute he proposes that all lands available for agri- | culture or that may be made so under the opera- tion of the national irrigation law, shall be reserved | for the homebuilder who intends to live on his land | and by its tillage. He then affirms the approaching exhaustion of the public ranges, suitable chiefly or only for stock- raising. He declares that the stock ranger on such lands is the analogue of the homestead settler on ag- | ricultural fand, and proceeds to properly differentiate { the conditions of the two, declaring that we must !recognize the fact that the stock ranger cannot live | on an arca suitable to the agricultyral settler. He has been a cattle man himself and knows whereof he | speaks. The idle dream of cutting the arid range into ’homestezd tracts of 160 acres each and expecting a ranger to live on the less than twenty head of cattle each of such tracts would support has no place in the experience and knawledge of President Roosevelt. What the domestic consumer and the beef export trade of the country need is the most economical production of beef, and this can only be secured by permitting and protecting the use of the range in ‘large grazing tracts. As we have oiten explained, and as the observation of all sensible Western men verifies, this policy is also in the interest of the | settler on irrigated lands in the arid region, where the most profitable use of irrigated land will be in | the production of winter feed for stock raised on the summer range Therefore unless the summer range is protected from its present rapid exhaustion, the set- tler on irrigated land will never pay out on his obli- gation to the Government .for his land and water, | which is estimated at not less than $15 per acre, and the scheme of national irrigation will be a failure. The symmetrical development of the arid West de- pends absolutely upon the vigor of the livestock in- terest. This must be taught to the country, which has been inoculated with a sodden prejudice against | Western range men, who are treated as land pirates | and conspirators. As we have heretofore said, the Agricultural De- | partment has reached a proper degrec of knowledge of these subjects by investigation: Its conclusions have been known in bulletins and in the reports of the Secretary. But this spread of knowledge has made but little impression upon Congress and the people, and has been largely nullified by the invec- tive treatment of the subject by the Secretary of the Interior. All these facts seem to have impressed the President that more is needed in the shape of added means of public education upon the subject. There- fore he recommends that Congress authorize the ap- pointment of a commission to expertly consider the question and report legislation that will save four hundred millions of acres of grazing land from total exhaustion and disuse for any purpose. It is to be hoped that Congress will at this session give such authority and leave the appointment of the | commission to the President. The people of this sec- tion have confidence not only in his integrity but in his knowledge of the subject, and the range men will | gladly accommodate themselves to whatever issues from a commission which he appoints and instructs. | Things are happening fast in Virginia just now. | The negroes are starting suits to test the suffrage | laws, the Legislature is debating a bill to restrict kiss- {ing, and a man of local prominence has been ar- | rested on a charge of stealing thirty snakes. Even ! Kansas couldn’t beat that. REMOVING A SKYSCRAPER, ONSTRUCTING steel skyscrapers has now become so common a thing in all parts of the United States that even in comparatively small cities the erection of a new one occasions little or no remark. New York, however, is to give the C { | i skyscraper down. In that city a steel constructed building crected in 1898 is no longer adequate to the needs of the day and is to be torn down to make room for a lofty structure to serve as the home of the New York Times. In commenting upon the removal of the old edi- | fice the Times says: “An interesting feature of the work to which builders look forward is an examina- tion of the. steel heams to see if there is any rust. | Some critics of the new method of construction have | declared that rust would inevitably follow the erec- tion of stecl beams, cating into and weakening them. As a preventive the beams are treated with a paint that is supposed to be waterproof. Steel structures that are much older than the Pabst building have been examined in Chicago for indications of rust, and not in a single instance, it was said, has there been found any cause for alarm. The ends of steel beams, when exposed, were found to be as sound as on the day they were put in. Corrosion cannot proceed withou. moisture and air, and, with good painting and good covering, it has been said, there is no reason why the iron and steel framing should not be protected from both, and . that proper care during the making of the material and immediately afterward can prevent an initial corrosion.” Another interesting feature of the enterprise is the announcement that it will now for the first time be possible for any one tb buy a skyscraper ready made, | as the contractors assert they could re-erect the | building in another part of the city, or in any other | city, for that matter, by taking the steel structure | down piece by piece and numbering it, so that it i could be readily put together again just as it stands in New York. There may be big possibilities in that phase of the work. The skyscraper that is no longer adequate to the New York pressure might be re- moved to a small city and in that way alarge economy might be practiced in our rush for new buildings all over the country. In the meantime whatever be the fate of the old building we trust that our contemporary, the Times, will have a high and soaring prosperity in the new one. The Chicago correspondent of Zion’s Herald has disturbed the Thanksgiving season by writing to his paper: “God loves Chicago. The coal famine has not disturbed us much, because the weather has been summer. - To-day it is exquisite in temperature and calm in atmosphere. These days are full of content. We have had some marvelous sunsets—symphonies in color. It'is a joy to live in this age of sane optim- ism.” There is a disposition on the part of the coun- try to look upon a belief that God loves Chicago as an evidence of anything rather than a “sane” optim- ism, and that statement confirms it, O port of the Secretary of War is the disserta- tion on the influence of titles in the army and the bad effects which flow from bestowing upon an officer the title of “commanding general.” The dis- sertation is not a side issue in the report, but a part of the argument in favor of creating a general staff, and may therefore be counted as a valuable contri- bution to the literature of psychology from an ex- pert. 3 The Secretary desires that there be established a general staff to supervise all military - affairs and “make intelligent command possible by procuring and arranging information and working out plans in detail, and making effective execution of commands S——— INFLUENOCE Of TITLES. NE of the most interesting features of the re- of the part they are to play in the general scheme.” As a part of the plan he proposes that the officer now known as the commanding general of the army shall be designated chief of staff. In support of his proposal the Secretary says: “The change of title from ‘commanding general of the army’ to ‘chief of staff’ would be of little conse- quence were it not that the titles denote and imply in the officers bearing them the existence of widely dif- ferent kinds of authority. When an officer is ap- pointed to the position of ‘commanding general of the army’ he naturally expected to command, himself, with a high degree of independence, following his own ideas rather than the ideas of others. We cannot ordinarily expect an officer placed in such a position and thus endowed with what purports to be the right and title to command, not to stand up for his right to really command and not to regard any attempt to interference.” The argument goes on to maintain that if the officer | were known as chief of staff he would not have such a high and mighty idea of himself and would be more amenable to regulations from the War Department. Attention is called to the fact that there has always been friction betweea the War Department and the | down to this time, with one exception. That excep- tion occurred when General Schofield took command. The Secretary embodies in his report a letter from Schofield saying: “When I became the commanding general I addressed to the President a letter in which I pointed out to him what had been the result of my study and experience and saying that the only way | was to abandon entirely, which 1 did during my seven | years of service, all pretense of being the command- ng general and to content myself with acting as the Eand the President. The result was that perfect har- | mony prevailed during my time.” Aiter commending the tenor and the tone of that letter the Secretary sadly remarks: “Everybody is not as self-restrained and as sensible as General Scho- field, and the best way to secure from others the same kind of good service that he rendered is to give the officer from whom it is expected a designation which indicates what he is really to do.” Doubtless that wisdom is as good as any ever uttered by Solomon. Give a man a high title and he | will surely mount a high horse. The rule, however, i may apply to the War Department as well as to the {army. The Call has no intention of interfering in the family quarrel nor of pronouncing judgment on an issue that is for military experts to decide; but it is worth while. pointing out that if titles be the cause of the row, peace might be assured just as well by designating the head of the War Department not Secretary of War, but “chief clerk of the military | burean.” . Dr. Joseph Parker, the famous London preacher, | whose recent death has been deplored by Americans | almost as much as by his own people, was evidently | no great lover of life as it is, for among his noted | sayings which are now being recalled is this: “To- | day it is not true that ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’; on the contrary, he who pays the piper must take whatever tune the piper likes best to play, and | be thankful that the trombone is not thrown at his | head.” At a dinner of St. Andrew’s Society in New York | the other day Mayor Low captured the crowd by saying that the chief factor in the development of the city was the Scotch element in the population, but he made things all right by adding that if he had been addressing a St. Patrick’s day dinner party he would have attributed everything to the Irish. It is a good thing in a reform politician to know how to say the right word at the right time. — It is announced that when the Empress Dowager of China received the ladies of the foreign legations a short time ago she refused to exchange presents with them or even compliments. She admitted them to her presence, asked them questions from a written list in her hand, and then.dismissed them before they could question her. It was a very imperial proceed- ‘ing, and the foreign ladies were no doubt highly hon- ored. 2 —_— The recent announcement that the Sultan of Tur- key had appropriated money for the purchase of 108 rapid-firing cannon and 220,000 rifles may be taken as evidence that he intends to keep even with the Chris- tian nations as far as he can, The statc. - t ¢hat in the bankruptcy proceedings of John L. Sullivan the largest creditor is a brewery will come as a surprise to the public. It was believed a distillery would have the place of honor. A Porto Rican mob is said to have gone through the streets shouting “Abajo con Dooley,” and it is un- derstood the mob meant that Dooley’s name should be Dennis. | possible by keeping all the separate agents advised® control his action or limit his power as unjustifiable | commanding general from the days of General Scott | | chief of staff of the army under the Secretary of War | o o MRS. SARAH YOUNG, NOW LIVING IN IOWA, WHO WAS KNOWN NORTH AND SOUTH AS “AUNT BECKY.” AND RESPECTED BY HER SOLDIER CHARGES. DURING THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN MRS. YOUNG WAS A NOTED NURSE AND WAS ADMIRED EE—— Sl T noted war nurse llving. Anne Young. ap In the homes. their lives In the cause. ident Harrison, had found her opportunity. Tracy ough knowledge of her duties, the soldiers. PERSONAL MENTION. A. J. Lang, a brewer of Seattle, is at the Lick Railroad Commissioner E. B. Edson is at the Occidentah Dr. E. W. Biddle of Healdsburg guest at the Lick Ellas D. Gardner, an insurance man of Red Bluff, is at the California | Mayor G. W. Harvey of Marysville is among the arrivals at the Grand. | _A. M. Allen, a real estate dealer | Monterey, is registered at the Grand. T. J. Fleld, a well-known resident of Monterey, Is among the arrivals at the Palace. J. H. McGraw, editor of the Streetcar Men's Journal, is at the Palace. He Is touring the coast for pleasure. X George K. Hooper, assistant manager of the Occidental, returned yesterday from a two months' trip to the Hawalian Isl- ands. Captain Wollseiffen of the German army is at the Palace. He served with the allied troops in the Boxer war, and s en route to Berlin, of James Agler, manager of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific, leaves to-day for an ingpection tour. He ex- pects to be gone two weeks. Al R CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—~The following | Californians are in New York: Frem San | Francisco—F. Bushnell, at the Albemarle; Miss Cluff, Mrs. T. Denigan and Miss Denigan, at the Empire; M. A. Boyle and A. L. Hudgings, at the Holland; R. L. Dunn, at the Imperial; Y. J. Gilbert, at the Navarre, and J. J. Gottlieb, at the | Grenoble. From Los Angeles—C. W. Neely, at the Navarre; A. Buchanan, at the Gilsey; W. G. Chanslor and wife, A. McDonald and B. H. McDonald, at the Holland; Mrs, Ben Coulter and Miss F. Coulter, ,at the Albemarle, and W. D. Wilson, at the Im- perial. From Sacramento—Mrs. T. E. Lynch, at the New Amsterdam, and 1. Bliger, at the Union Square. L CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- day: At the National—R. L. Lincoln of San Francisco, C. L. Wrightson of Santa Barbara and H. H. Garfleld of Redlands; at the 8t. James—Ervin 8. Chapman and | wife of Los' Angeles and R. H. Beck of 8an Joee; at the Ralelgh—C. H. Sherman, Mrs. A. W. Eislleshutz of San Francisco; at the New Willard—Mr. and Mrs, P. E. Bowles of Oakland, W. W. Douglas of Sacramento and F. R. Sprague of San Francisco. ————e Contests Election of French. The election of Frank Frénch as Sen- ator of the Twentleth District was con- tested yesterday by W. J. Kenny, the Union Labor party candidate, who was defeated by French, Kenny, who recelved 2177 votes as agalnst 2228 recelved by French, claims that French's election is fllegal because, he alleges, French spent large sums of money to insure his elec- tion. ————— Prunes stuffed with apricots Townsend's.' Christmas, pair hglt eyeglasses, 20c to T6c. Look out for front of barber and gro- cery, 81 Fourth street. . —_—— Townsend's Clll;arml glace ‘{run and candies, 50c & pound, in artiatic fire-etcned . A nice present for Kastern friends. g‘;l.lrku qt.‘.pl’llleu Hotel building. * —_———————— - Bpecial information supplied daily to bueiness houses and public men by Clipp! reau len’s) fpn'r.n.!'l llz:t.n T?l‘:phom( finn Uot™ When Sumter was fired on Anne Graham was a girl of 17; her two brothers and many of her friends had enlisted ard Anne longed to be a man that she might enter the ranks with the boys who marched so bravely away, leaving a great | When the news of the wounded filled the | papers Anne decided that if she couldn’t fight for her country | she could at least care for those who had so bravely risked Two years after Sumter was fired on the One Hundred and Ninth New York Volunteers was organized in her town, with | Benjamin F. Tracy, afterward Secretary of War under Pres- at the head of the regiment knew | knew of Anne's ambition and also of her skill in a sick room. He immediately secured her a permit to join the regiment as a regular army nurse, and she proudly marched to the front with the One Hundred and Ninth Volunteers. Anne went into the work heart and soul and with a thor- which soon won for her the | admiration and respect of the surgeons and the devotion of She served during the remainder of the war | from the Wilderness to Petersburg, caring as tenderly for the “rebs’” as she did for the men of the North. the gray had reason to reverence the name of “Aunt Becky.” Mrs. Young tells an amusing story of how the sobriquet of the hospital captain whom she corps, who was sitth name ‘hat will last Anne Graham for family weill, significance, the Young, a carpenter English In Canada whom “Aunt Becky health. Both the blue and | i G FHOTC AN the Civil War. The ANSWERS TO 7QUERIES. PEACOCK—Nimrod, City. The female of the genus peacock lays but few eggs. FLOWERS—Lena, City. In the lan guage of flowers the sentiment of the quaking grass is agitation. PERCH—Nimrod, City. The female perch deposits her eggs in long strings united by a viscld matter. TURKEY—Nimrod, City. The turkey hen lays from twelve to eighteen eggs, and these are hatched in about twenty- eight days. ASSOCIATIONS-W. W. R., Callahans, Cal, This departmont does not express any opinifon as to the reliability of any association, firm or individual. NOT GOOD ENGLISH—J. I. C., Sacra- mento, Cal. It is not good English to say “1 made him feel like he was disgraced time and again.” It s proper to say “I made him feel, time and ‘again, as if he werc disgraced.” CHINESE SOLDIERS—C. S.. City. Ac- cording to the explanation given by the editor of the Chinese newspaper pub- { lished in San Francisco, a Chinese soldier salutes a superior officer by kneeling and bowing his head. The same salute is given by Chinese citizens to a mandarin. THE BIBLE—W. A. T., City. The long- est verse in the Bible Is the ninth of the clghth chapter of Bsther, ninety-one words, and the shortest the thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh chapter of St. John, two words. These are the number of words in the King James edition of the Bible. FACE PAINTS—K., City. that is used by minstrels for “blacking up” is known as ‘“nigger blac] It is composed of the finest lampblack beaten Into a stiff paste with glycerin, and ap- plied with a sponge. This is sald to be superior to the old-fashioned black made of burnt cork and beer. The white face paint used by clowns is made of oxide of zine, of bismuth and plumbate of alum- ina, which Is mixed Into a paste with al- mond oil and perfumed with peppermint ofl. The black CONSULS—G. M. B, Santa Rosa, Cal. The United States Consuls in Peru are: Theodore Steilman at Chiclayo, William B. Dickey at Callao, Eugene Meler at Mollendo, G, W. Chase at Suleverry and W. Raldinl at Trembez; in Paraguay, John N. Ruffin at Asuncjon, and in Ura- guay, Benjamin D. Menton in Colonia, Albert W. Swalm in Montevideo and J. G. Hufnagle In Pyasander. W. R. Finch is the United States Minister at Monte- video for Paraguay and Uruguay, and Irving B. Dudley at Lima the one for Peru. POWER OF ATTORNEY-Winchester, City. A general power of attorney au- thorizes the agent to act generally in be- half of the principal, in other words, the agent is empowered to do what the prin- cipal could do. A speclal power of at- toruey is limited toparticular acts. a power of attorney is executed in a for- elgn country in the language of that country the Intention of the one giving the power is to be ascertained by evi- derce of competent translators and ex- perts, including, If necessary, lawyers of the country, to the meaning of th language used, and If according to the cvidence it appears that the authority shall be acted upon in other countries, the extent of the authority In any coun- try, In which the authority is acted upon, mlml be determined by the law of that country. 4 feeling worked so earnestly | calling her “mother.” per, glanced up long enough to call out: “What is it?" she inquired. “Aunt Becky,” was the repl ““Aunt Bec the war, and “Aunt Becky™ she is called to-day. Shortly after the war Anne Graham was married to David <‘ Besides being an army nurse of wide | Young is the founder of two State sanitary associations, one | iIn New York and the other in lowa. beginning of the Spa HERE resides in Des Moines, Towa, the oldest and most | “Aunt Becky” came to be bestowed upon her. The boys in She 1s familiarly known as | ‘““Aunt Becky,” although her name is really Mrs. Sarah a tenderness for the young girl who to relieve their sufferings, persistsd in The title was given her by a young brought back to life by careful nursing and all the boys took it up. She objécted to the name, being | a girl barely out of her teens, and feeling that the title added too many vears to her life. One day she reprimanded. in a joking way. a young soldier who had used the famillar term. Dr. French of the hospital ng cn a camp chair near by reading a pa- “I'l give you a as long as you live.” and he spoke with prophetic she remained to the end of and a soldier who had fought for the during the Fenian outbreak. This cere- mony crushed the hopes of a certain young Northern soldier " had nursed during the struggle and who | tost his heart to the maiden who had brought him back to reputation, The first had its begin- Y.. when she was a girl at the outbreak of latter was organized in Des Moines at the h-American war. A CHANCE TO SMILE. I understand that it is no longer fash ionable to believe in the orthodox concep- tion of future punishment.”” ““Well,” an- swered the minister, “perhaps it is ail for the best. I sincerely trust that we may be able to make the place so unfashion- { able that nobody will go there.”—Wash- | ington Star. A lawyer living.not far from Philadel« phia got his pecuniary affairs into such an awful tangle that there was a scandal, especially when some persistent creditors found there was nothing to garnishee or Seize upon. A revival was in progress in the church of which he was a member, and one of the congregation arose and in- quired: “Has Lawyer got religion?” “No, I think not,” spoke up another law- yer of the congregation; “that is, uniess it's in his wife's name.”—Philadelphia Times. A young man living on Walnut Hills is a close worker in money matters—that is, he stays close to the shorc with his expeditures. He had the good luck to marry a girl whose parenis are quite wealthy, and is at present living with s wife in one of his father-in !aw’s hous: One day not long since; while discu: ing affairs with a friend, the latter asked “Did the old gentleman give you that house?" “Well—er—no, not exactly,” was the answer. “He offered it to me, but I wouldn’t accent it. “ s o o “Well, made the ed the ‘riend. ered ‘he man who had lucky matrimonial venture, “you see, the house really belongs to me. T'm living in it, rent fres. and 17 et it when the old man dies. If I accepted it now I'd have to pay the taxes.”—Cincin- nati Enquirer. A Lineal Descendant—The fruit that ETOWS on the genealogical tree is general- ly dry, but occasionally has a flaver of humor. A man applied to the Heralds' College for a coat of arms. In such a case it Is pleasant to be able to borrow one from a celebrated ancestor. The man In question could not remember anything about his great-grandparents, and, there- fore, of course, could not mention any basis of a coat of arms. But the official to whom he applied was not easily dis-. cou ° “Have you not done something your- self?” sked. ‘Nothing, T fear.,” sald the man, add- ing as a pathetic antithesis that once, having been locked in Ludgate Prison for debt, he had found means to escape from an upper window. “And how did you get down?" “I got a cord, fixed it around the neck of King Lud's statue and let myself “Just the thing! There you have it— honor enough. Lineally descended from King Lud. His coat of arms Is good Magaszine. enough for you."—Cornhill % NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Sy Ahesaee THE HAIR BRUSH Breeds Dandruff, Which Causes Fall- ing Hair and Finally Baldness. 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