The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1903, Page 18

THE SAN FRANZCISCO CALL, SUNDAY DR. XILMER’S SWAMP-ROOT. THOUSANDS HAVE - KIDNEY TROUBLE AND DONT KNOW 1T To Prove what Swamp-Root, tl;eiGrea: Kidney Remedy, Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of * The Call” May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail Weak and unheaithy kidneys arc responsible for more sick- ness and suffering than any other discase—therctfore, when, through ncglect or other causes, kidney troubis is permitted to | continuc, fatal results arc sure to foilow. { Your other corgans may nced attention—but your kidnzys | most, becaus: they do most and need attention first. | If you arc sick or *feccl badly,” begin taking Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp=-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, be- causc as soon as your kidheys arc well they wili help ali the other organs to health. A tria! will convin:s anyoae. The mild and 1 Eilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney and biadder remedy, is soon realized. It stands the hest for its wonderful cures of the most distre: Root will set your w @nd the best proof of this is & trial. ney, bladder and uric acid diseases, poor digesticn, when obiiged to your water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation in passing, brickdust or sedi- ment in the urine, headache. backache, lame back, dizziness, sleeplessness, ner- vousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney trouble, skin eruptions from bad blood, neuralgia, rheumatism, diabetes, bloating, irritability, wornout feeling, lacx of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complex- ion or Hright's disease. uble. All =ymptoms strength and power | panies soon made the fees nominal. i such matters In any way. imediate effect of Dr. | test its virtues for such disorders as kid- | 4 i ! Postoffice as a letter-carrier, dly myself along. Even my mental capecity was giving out, and often I | wished to Gle. It was tben I saw an advertise. ment of yours in & New York paper, but would e paid any , had :t not £ood conscience I d’ Ewamp-Root to all eufferers roubles Four members of my been using Swamp-Root for fowr ent kiduey disemses, with the same good Wi meny thanks to you, T remain, Very truly yours, ROBERT BERNER. ve a sample bottle of this remedy, Swamp-Root. sent postpaid, by which you may EDITORIAL NOTICE—If you have ier troubie, or if there is a trace of | You may h famous kidne free by mall | Dr. Kilmer, the eminent If your water when allowed to undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twen- ty-four hours forms a sediment or set- tling or has & cloudy appearance it is evi. cence that your kidneys and bladder need immediate attention. Swamp-Root is the great discovery kidney and biad- der specialist. Hospitals use it with won. derful success in both slight and severs cases. Doctors recomm it to their m tients and use it in their own famill because they recognize in Swamp-Root the greatest and most successful remedy. Swemp-Root is pleasant to take and is for sale the world over at di ts' fn botties of two sizes and two prices— cents and $1. Remember the name, amp-Hoot. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., oa every bottle. the slightest symptoms of kidney or t in your family history, send at once to i | | | i Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y., who will gladly send you by mail, imme- rithout cost 1o you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and a bock contain- the thousands upon thousands of testimonial ietters recelved from ‘:}1'\( r_-‘ruu- to say that you read this generous vday Cal i ahomey” Not a Success. ARMENIANS ARE ACTIVE. 5 Shipps’ . haa ) Fussia Makes No Attempt to Re- strain Raiding Bands. : CONSTANTINOPLE, May 16.—The e i itie : disquieted at ot ppe of bands of coming from ricts of Bayazid and a, and are adopting rigor- 1o guard the frontier. The nians cross in small parties in the riiood of Bayazid and thence their way to the Sasun Moun- | the ¢ re they are safe from pur- s alleged here that the Rus- | w authorities of Karis, Asiatic aware of the movements of . but they do not intend | It believed that the these bands indicates a tivity on the part of the an committees, who are un- | to be anxious to take advan- possible complications arising from the Macedonian situation, in which the to interfere. appearance f EEOER N, Mercantile Field. ey case the clatms of the Armenians will stered in the | Y€ Tevived and the same advantages or of the | E%ined by the Macedonians from Euro- K nging to the rich. | PeAn intervention will be demanded for,| rac The Prince's irkish Government has notified Bulgarian exarch that Gerassimos, | op of Strumitza, Macedonia, has removed, and has invited the ex- to sppoint his successor. The ex- | AT . however, refuses to recognize the | Nt IRt crity of the Turkish Government to | ind severed | Témove the Bishop, and has advised | was quite a | Gerassimos, who is practically a pris- | e of tae ac- | ON€r in his own house, to remain firm. | cident ne bled death before | It is alleged that Bishop Gerussimos is | b & | a supporter of the Macedonlan move-| - | ment, but it is also sald that the | ADVERTISEMENTS. are brought by the jealous s prisons of Macedonia are over- ing with Bulgarians. the Turkish authorities hoping to thereby paralyze ction of the M=azcedonian Commit- N WOMAN'SBREAST ANY LUNPIS CANCER Any lump or sore on the lip, face or any- | ., - g pain uctil almost past cure. | . 1 WILL CIVE $1000 If 1 fail to CURE the CANCER Tt Turkish yesterday, was announced troops to-day that the entered Ipek, Albania, and not on May 8, as pre- Loving Cup for Prosecutor Folk. | ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 16.—A committee | | of eight prominent business men waited | = % on Circuit Attorney Joseph Folk to-day or Tumor. No Knife or Pain. | and presented to him a solid sflver loving cup purchased with contributions from NOT ADOLLAR NEED BE PAIDUNTIL CURED it is the only infallivle cure ever dis. | D€ People of 8t. Louls. The spokesman e -“Best book on cancers ever printed | of the committee, in making the presenta- went free with testimonials of thousands cured | tOn. said the cup was given as an evi- | whom Jyou Can see. A small lump in b breast will poi- | son the glsnds in the armpit where cure is often possible. Tu 30 years Thave | cured more cancery; | than any other doe- | tor living. Why | experiment with | the swindling X | Ray or home treat- | ment until past cure? Investigate my absolute guar- antee. 120 page book sent frec. | DR, AND MRS. DR. CHAMLEY & CO., | “STRICTLY ms‘:““s‘— m’;a‘m’: some one ‘WITH CANCER ' dence of the hearty approval by the la abiding people of St. Louls of Folk's course in prosecuting lawbreakers. . ————— To own a ranch that shall be the equal in every respect of the one that is owned by her old friend, Colonel Cody (‘“‘Buffalo Bill”) is now the great ambition of Rose Coghlan, the actress. For many months past a number of cowboys and well known ranchmen have been at work transforming the immense tract of land !in Northern Montana that Miss Coghlan bought about a year ago into an ideal ranch that shall be lacking in nothing. Several thousand cattle are graging there now and within a short time Miss Cogh- lan undoubtedly will be one of the largest individual owners of livestock in the en. tire West. . JMAY 17, 1903. “INVESTIGATION WILL BE PURSUED RELENTLESSLY,” PAYNE DECLARES Postmaster General Replies in Detail to the Formal Charges Against the Administration of the Department, Filed Yesterday by Seymour W. Tulloch, Former Cashier of Washington Office ASHINGTON, May 16.—Post- master General Payne made an extended statement of the Tulloch charges to-night. He sald, as to the charge that vhysicians were carried on the rolls of the postoffices without authority. that there had been fifteen or twenty such cases in the United States. This was a matter of administration policy, he said, and entirely within the province of the Postmaster General, but that he him- sell last autumn restricted the employ- ment of physiclans to postoffices whose revenues aggregated $1,000,000 a year. “Mr. Tulloch,” continued the Post- master General, “‘says the trouble com- menced in the Cleveland administration under Postmaster General Wilson. He in- stauces the purchase of a file case by the salary and allowance division, which was paid for out of the Washington postoffice fund under orders of Mr. Shepard, then | chief of the salary and allowance divij-| sion. This may have been irregular, but certainly the Government was pot cheated. Mr., Tulloch makes assertions regarding the department calling on its minor offictals to be bonded by bonding corporations, but ends this charge by say- ing that the competition between the com- He refers to the house to house letter box plan in Washington, and speaks of a let- ter of commendation for the scheme writ- ten by Postmaster General Wilson, but the letter does not show that Mr. Wilson had any interest in the scheme. He re- fers to the return postal card scheme of the Economic Postage Assoclation, which was never adopted, and Insinuates: “We are unprepared to find Mr. Wezavers and Mr. Machen recommending them.” NO JUNKETS TO CUBA. “Mr. Tulloch refers to the salary and allowance division of the department, without whose approval nothing could be done, saying the ring consisted of the head of the division, the First Assistant Postmaster General and the Postmaster General. Well, those officials were the only ones who had anything to say about He says that some may, was carried on two payrolls, but the laws specifically provide that an | employe can draw from two payrolls if properly authorized, if his aggregate sal- does not exceed $2500. He says an- other man, borne on the rolls of the lecal was em- ployed in the free-delivery division. That was irregular, but the Government got the service. Mr. Tulloch mentions al- leged junkets of officlals and employes who went to Cuba and Porto Rico to in- stall the postal service there. Now, how does Mr. Tulloch assume to pass on the question whether these gentlemen sim ply went on a junket? He refers to a man who was appointed to a place in Porto Rico, but who got drunk in New York on the way. Well, once in a while a Postmaster defaults and gets drunk and is dealt with according to his desert. Mr. Tulloch has made the statement that the Cuban administrative troubles, al- Plaw’s Hammer Record Goes. NEW YORK, May 16.—Columbia de- feated Princeton in their annual dual ck meet on South Field this afternoon 'b';u score of 58% to #%. Columbia had things pretty well its own way through- out. Princeton was never once in the lead. Columbla won the mile, half- mile. 22) yards, 100 yards, quarter-mile and broad jump. Princeton was succebsful in the hurdle, shotput, high jump, ham- mer-throw, two-mile and pole vault. J. R. de Witt of Princeton threw the ham- mer 165 feet 9 inches, breaking the col- legiate record of 165 Leld by Albert Plaw of California. ———————— Where We Get Our Perfumery. The Commissioner of Street Cleaning in New York City, Mr. Woodbury, has been explaining how the municipality derives a revenue from every bit of street sweep- ings and refuse collected In New York, and he is proud of the good results from the city's incinerator and ‘‘digester. Now, what do you suppose,” he sald, trequently clogs up our sifter? ~Why, hairpins! Do you know we sell tons of them and get quite a revenue from them? And what do you suppose came out of the ‘digester’ the other day? Two one-doliar bills. After the refuse is sifted,” he con- tinued, “it goes Into the ‘digester’ and later on is covered with oil. The top is skimmed off, and what do you think we do with that? Why, that goes to Holland or France and comes back to this country as perfumery.’ ——————————— Many cheap chocolate sweetmeats con- affin wax, which has a tendency when eaten to bring on appendicitis, states the chief inspector of foods and drugs for the county of Durham, England. ADVERTISEMENTS. Spring Medic;;; There is no other season when good medicine is so much needed as in the Spring. The blood i$ impure, weak and impoverished—a condition indicated by pimples and other eruptions on the face and body, by deficient vitality, loss of appetite, lack of strength and want of animation. Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pills | Make the blood pure, vizorous and rich, create appetite, give vitality, strength and animation, and cure all eruptions. Have the whole family begin to take them to-day. Hood’s Sarsaparilla rm-ll:lo cure and keeps the promise. Purely vogetable, mild and reliable. Causes rr(efl. dlnmo:] complete absorption and v (he. mary S N disorders of the 'or cure all of Liver, Bowels, Kid: Blad regularities, Sick Headache, stipation, Internal Vi by mail. scera. a _box. or RADWAY & CO., Ne ork. feet one-half inch, | ready known, were nothing compared to Porto Rico." There has been only one case of wrongdoing of one administra- tive in Porto Rico, and that was a clerk in the Ponce Postoffice, who defaulted about 33000. The Government got what it {could, and this record prevented this man’s getting into the army later on. The letter mentions the auditing of ac- | counts in Porto Rico. The administra- tion of affalrs in Porto Rico, during the time mentioned, was on an emergency plan, and, like all such matters, might have taken some time to get in smooth- | running order. NOT CIVIL SERVICE PLACES. “Mr. Tulloch refers to appointment of laborers, charwomen and cleaners as eva- slons of the civil service law. These places are not in the civil service. © He says that they either performed no duties at all or often did work along lines not authorized. We are now investigating a charge that three women carried on the rolis as charwomen performed no service. “Mr. Tulloch says that the finance | elerks drew more money than they ought to have drawn under the law. Most of these men weré employed under an emer: gency appropriation for Porto Rico. We will investigate this matter. It is aiso charged that most of the postoffices in Porto Rico were in arrears at the time of Mr. Tulloch’s removal. We had to employ | natives there and some not natives, and, | n view of the conditions that confronted | us, is it likely that we woéuld have had an administration as smooth and clear as in the States? “I want to say here that any irreguiari- tles complained of in the Washington postoffice were investigated at the time by postoffice inspectors. who made a re: | port to the Postmaster General. They tor defrauding of the Government. Ex- | Postmaster General Smith and Postmas- ter Merritt of this city state in their let- ters to me that they corrected the evils complained of as soon as their attention was called to them. PROMISES FULL INQUIRY. “All that indicates any wrongdoing in the Postoffice Department or in the Washington postoffice, involving loss to the Government or the integrity of an official, will be investigated by Mr. Bris- tow, but T am not going to investigate a stump speech or the question whether the postmaster of Washington should be a Washingtonian or whether Mr. Tulloch should have been removed. ter had a perfect right to remove Mr. Tulloch. Much has been made of the statement that Comptroller Tracewell called off one of the men from an {nspec- tion of the Washington postoffice accounts because it was alleged he was reaching what might be called ‘pay dirt.'” Comp- troller Tracewell in his letter to me says that the inspection had been fully com- pleted before the man was taken off and that his report already in and all in- formation wanted had been got. Mr. Tracewell says he himself inspected the New York nostoffice accounts. “Now, once for all, T want to say that this Investigation of the affairs of the Postoffice Department will g0 on to the end and will reach into every place and STAIRERS AGREE 0 ARBITANTION {Citizens’ Alliance Re- Jjects Proposition of State Board. DENVER, May 16.—Although the num- ber of strikers in this city was increased | of business are serlously crippled, the labor situation has changed for the bet- ter, inasmuch as there are now Indica- tions that arbitration will be agreed on. The general executive committee of organized labor to-day ‘accepted the offer of the services of the State Board of Ar- bitration subject to the following stipu- lations: “First—That eleven employes now locked out by the Candy Manufacturers’ Assoclation and the Transfer Men's As- soclation be allowed to return to work by the members of such employers’ assocta- tions. “Second—That the differences between employers and the grocery clerks, van drivers, bakers and any other crafts hav- }JB PIERCE'S REMEDIES. swim in shackles. AMAN CAN'T s i of his winning a race, but a question of being able only to keep afloat. The man who is suffering from malnutrition is like the ‘flellt:dred swimmer. His stomach and its alli of digestion :l:g‘::tri- tion are diseased. It is not a question with him of winnin, in the race for bulfi ness but of simply keeping up “flgfl' any circumstances. henever disease affects the stomach it is affecting also the blood and the health of every or- the body. nutrition and nutri- tion is the life of the body and every nogi: % Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of stomach and other organs of di :flm(lnlm- S:m. rlft pu fi; t::: :‘o::l and enables e perfect nuf e body which means perfect health. «For six 1 I eutfered with in fioulldngl?vgry::d" koers wl 2 n our count 0 e e sell, Faq., of Woolasey, Priace wiliiam Co., Va. oy with m; ach and back for time, and after taki a *cart-load ' of m;! from three doctors I do a day's The Common Sense Medical ¥ found some irregularities, but no robbery | The postmas- | in every direction where there is reason to belleve anything wrong may be found. The Investigation will be pursued relent- lessiy. Any talk of the hewspapers to the contrary is pure gratuity. Any thought of hushing up the investigation is a pure gratuity on the part of the person who | furnishes such information. 1 am not the man who is disposed to turn tail oa | such a matter. I have gt the maa to go after the facts.” THREE PAGES GERMAIN. Postmaster General Payne in an earlier statement said this afternoon: ‘“The great bulk of the irregularities of which Mr. Tuiloch complains was the re- sult of the Goverpment taking over the postal service of Porto Rico. Mr. Tulloch | refers to troubles caused by the payment | of the Porto Rican accounts through the | Washington Postoffice and makes some | other insinuations, as the promotion of | | letter box schemes, etc., but there s no | | evidence—nothing but words. All that will be of anv service whatever to the| department in looking up matters in con- | nection with the Investigation is com- | prised in three pages. The bulk of the | statement, however, consists of an ac- counting of his own grievances and of comments of his own removal. letters bearing on his removal, extracts from newspapers published in various parts of the country and deals in glit-| tering generalities criticizing former Post- master General Smith. He refers to vouchers and payments of certain people ! which he clalms to have been illegal and makes a pretty severe attack upon the Commptroller of the Treasury. He makes some reference to the allezed smothering | of the examinatlon accounts of the local | postoffice, but offers no new evidence or | documents to substantiate his allegations, merely relating to certain people, certain | vouchers and certain accounts. ! “There are no particularly new points except in explanation of what he has heretofore said in a general way. I am | greatly disappoinicd that the document will not be of a~y help to us. Mr. Tul- loch incloses a ne wspaper ciipping regard- ing a dinner given by a former Washing- ton newspaper man to the Postmaster | General and his first assistant and other officlals, but 1 fail to see what bearing that has on the sublect. He also men- | tions & rumor about’the department that a cablegram had come to the department which said, ‘Papa, send a transport here quick; I am sick’; but that is given only as a rumor. An argument is also made that the Washington Postmaster should be a Washington man. | “‘There are some things that, course, on their face look to be wrong and that neeu explanation. All of the | charges refer to matters pertaining to former . ostmaster General Smith's ad- ministration. It to -be inferred that the Comptroller of the Treasury and the Auditor for the T-eesury and the Postmas- ter of Washington will be able to throw some !izht on these matters. ““The bulk of the offenses alleged is that vouchers were charged to the wrong ac- | counts. All of the ftems which were not | allowed by the Comptroller were finally | | audited, except less than $100. We will look into the récords of these matters, of | course.” is Trapshooting in the South. { LOS ANGELES. May 16.—Under the aveplces of the Océan Park Country Club, a largely attended bluerock tournament is in progress at the traps at Ocean Park. Preminent shooters from all over Califor- nia and from Arizona are taking part in the contest. In the first day’'s shooting Clarence Nauman of San Franelsco broke 100 out of 110 birds, his late arrival pre- He gives | | of | ! claim the beauties ADVERTISEMENTS. ~:'als"‘~,‘? J bl Box seat diners New in design and in two finishes. Gelden oak | and weathered ogk. Have cane seats’in box shape and | square spindles in backs. Nothing trasky about them —no danger of them coming to pieces. The kind of chairs that you can assign a guest to with pride. For | the guest chair, either finish, £3.75; for the arm chair, €7 50. White or Arabian colored French bobbinet 54 inches wide at 60 cents the yard. Wide or narrow braids to | match at 30 and 35 cents the dozen. Let us give you a | few pointers in mzaking up your curtains. We have | many suggestions as to desigus, patterns, etc., at hand, | and you are welcome to the ideas without charge. i Every dining room nceds a small buffet or side table | for serving. The different kinds and sizes we show are numerous. One pattern is in three finishes—golden oak and weathered oak at $12.50, and mahoganized birch at $13.50. - flfiamz!@ | i (Successors to California Furniture Co. 7 to 977 Market Street, Opp. Golden Gate Avenne. PRESIDENT ELUDES CROVD. Bl[“N IF : tend visiting the valley at all. They of Wawona satisfy | them and since the President is not go- | ing to be in the valley they prefer to re- main here and join him on his way down. When the President finishes his trip he MAKES GREAT Progress in Imitating to nearly 6000 to-day and many branches | venting bim from finishing his score. The | y : vi h Vi » will be thoroughly famuliar with the ggl;n'::;;as;lfgr x@azhgs was ;hu‘red bY | yosemite Natioral Park, besides having o , 3 ghan an Varien, G Voriic Vevada all of whom broke 106 out of the 120 birds | S¢¢n Glacler Point, Vernal and Nevada | Among the prominent gun experts pres. | Falls and having had a ride down the ent are: C. Nauman, C. A. Haight, D. | floor of the valley. He will see as much Danels, Harry Hoyt and James Mc- of the Yosemite as the ordinary tourist. | S op.on fen Francisco; George G.| His time will not be taken up by specch- arrettson, Ed A. Fano and C. L. Julian | ol e e of San Diego; W. . Varlen bueipe | makins, but instead by neris e e Grove; D. D. McDonald, Prescott, Ariz.; President was very m}m please “’ th J. H Carlisle, Wickenberg, Ariz.; Oscar the courtesies of the stage company In passing his party. Nothing was lacking | Hibbard, Manvel, Ariz.: F. Stone, Fresno, and 8. Yancey of Bakersfield. in making the trip as pleasant as possible he quickest time | @il @ | and 0 U | ————— |Ing differences be One Jackey's Prayer. board for arbitration. = “Third—That on the acceptance of this = Admiral “Bob” Evans tells this o “Among the ‘jackies' of the American proposition by the employers concerned | in the differences we will immediately or- | fleet that did the business at Santiago | der back to work each and cvery work- | was an extremely plous chap—a lad from man now out under contracts now in ex- | Verrgont. We had been telllng him all istence.” along that each day would probably wit- | The Citizens’ Alllance rejected the prop- | ness the long-looked-for battle between | osition that the matters in controversy | the American and the Spanish vessels be submitted to the State Arbitration When he prayed that night he placed | Board for settlement on the ground that ' special stress upon the plca that the ves- the unfons have refused to recognize the | sel upon which he and his comrades-in- | alllance. Several other arbitration pro“lrml were serving might escape disas- posals have been suggested by those who | ter, saying, among other things: are trying to bring the two sides together | ‘* ‘O Lord, shicld us from the shells and and it 1s hoped that some tangible re- | other projectiles of the enemy; but If any sult may be reached. { shells and solid shot do come to our ves- Committees of the Chamber of Com- | sel I pray thee that they may be dis- merce and of the Allied Printing Trades | tributed as prize money is distributed— Councll are also working to bring about | mostly ameng the officers.’ "—New York | a settlement of the existing difficulties, | Times. Ouly a few cases of disturbance were | ————— reported to-day and none was of a serfous | The French authorities rermit no pub- nature. | ilc selling of the Scriptures in Tunis, and ca they have not allowed the Bible Society Will Confer 'With Harriman. | submitted to your | | / | sapph-diamond. | has also been submitted to such a the Diamond. The greatest connoisseurs highly praise J. C. Davidson’s marvelous imitation, the Previous to this inven- tior. science had produced imitation dia- mords that show to a great advantage when displayed under electric lights. This sapph-diamond, however, is demonstrated at Davidson's laboratory and his Kearny- street store without the aid of any arti- ficial lights whatever. It has the exact mathematical and shows the same luster and volu f prismatic fire that js so characteristic of the African gem. It crucial t can be cleaned tes: for hardness that | likc the genuine and still retain fts bril- larey. This gem is cut in sizes ranging | from % to 4% carats each. Owing to the Iimited facilities of the present manufac- ture and lapidary work it will probably be two years before this gem can be pur- chased elsewhere than at Davidson’sstore ————————— When the regular season of Louis James and Frederick Warde ends, with this month, Wagenhalls & Kemper ex- pect to send them out for a brief tour of the large citles In conjunction with Blanche Walsh, Joseph Haworth and half a dozen other stars. The pldys selected are “As You Like It,” “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “The Tempest,” “Mac- beth” and “Much Ado About Nothi This arrangement will give Miss Walsh to play Rosalind her first opportunity Beatrice, Miranda, Helena "and Lady Macbeth, In “As You Like It" Mr | James will be the Touchstone and Mr. In “Mae- Warde the melancholy Jacques. ;9?\:"' Mr. James is to act the title role to Mr. Warde's MacdufT. to resume work in Cochin, China. OMAHA, Nebr., May 16.—Representa- tives of the boller-makers of the Unlon | Pacific and Southern Pacific left Omaha to-night for New York, where, by re- quest of Mr. Harriman, they will meet officials of the two systems. The party inciudes five Unfon Pacific men, headed | by District President Kennedy, and two from the Southern Pacific, and they will '\zvhjolllllled at Chicago by Grand President O Netll. ” Strike Checks Bible Printing. PHILADELPHIA, May 16.—A strike has been inaugurated in the Bible printing establishment of the National Publishing Company. Sixty-five members of the Bookbinders' TUnion struck because of the refusal of the company to pay tne unlon scale. More than 8000 girls are idle as a result of the bookbingers’ strike. —————— Traffic in Stolen Pets. Many fashionably dressed ladies attend- ed at Marlborough-street Police Court re- | cently, when a good dea. of light was rown on the disappearance and reap- pearance of valuable pet dogs. Accord- ing to the nolice, the two men In the ock, Jewell and Skinncrton, mafle a usiness of stealing dogs from well- known people and afterwdrd restoring | them in consideration of a reward, and { on condition that no proceedings should i be taken. The first witness was Miss Violet Wilberforce, daughter of Arch- deacon Wilberforce, whose Aberdeen ter- | Her suddenly vanished ane day in High | street, Bloomsbury, A friends of hers having mentioned Skinnerton, she wrote to saying she heard he was clever at | finding lost dogs, and could he find hers. uently he advised her to write ‘as a fool” to Jewell, who had the ani- mal. “Were you able to reduce yourself to the position of writing as If you were a fool?" asked counsel; and Miss Wilber- ‘hrq with a smile, replied, “Yes."” . Arel which he sald he had bought for £1. was given £8 10s, and another £1 was ‘u-t to Skinnerton.—London Express. opening of our new store. greatly commented upon. In preparing a beautiful our stock. It is entirely new, THE LADIES’ Is on the second floor; the ele ure taking. You are invited A BEAUTIFUL SHOE STORE. £ Many are the compliments we have received since the Its beauty and comfort are store we have not forgotten composed of the best makes of stylish shoes, at popular prices. DEPARTMENT vator runs regularly. All the comforts of home—resting parlor and dressing room. We have introduced a special fitting service for proper meas- to call; no obligation to buy. KAST® CO., 104-108 Geary St.