The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1903, Page 4

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SPRECKELS, Proprietor The San Francisco Call. e ————————————————— T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new addresses by motifying The Call Business Oflice. 2per will aiso be on sale at all summer nd in represented oy = local agent im all towns on the coast. = TRADE WEARS A ROSIER ASPECT. I omplexion the business situation I anged rather abruptly last week. The pes- mism which has given trade a rather bilious veeks was succeeded by a rosier as come ect, especially noticeable in Wall street, where the ca .' ridation which the week opened was owed during the latter half by lively buying and 2 buovant and rising market zll along the line, com- | ng railroad shares, mines and the industrials. articular cause for the reaction, ex- the statement of Lord Rothschild in an there was no feeling of distrust in financial conditions in America; that vas buying our securities and that other ! powerful interests were doing the same. < and speculators were affected by thi nd at once rushed in to buy. London sc heavily, the London stock Liverpool cotton market imme- in sympathy with the announcement d position, and these conditions, of ed reflex action on this side. freely said in Wall street that great capital- weriul banking interests long on the bear y arrayed themselves on the buil that the market had become largely oversold; rent business conditions and large rail- ified an advance, at least in the that the recent heavy buying had v face on the situation. It was pointed out at for over cight months vaiues had persistently t stocks were now low enough to fair measure of confidence. The t timid people, who had been ong, or at least had held aloof from were now getting their courage back g what they had sold during the recent these conditions had their effect and a t feeling pervaded the whole situation open { the tha confined to the New York stock market it ts efiect upon the country at large, ere it any other season of the year there might becn 2 sensibie raliy in all branches of trade. it 3t 18 pretty hard to produce increased activity in and v ine, when everybody is either out of town or pre- paring to go. Still there was some effect, and the meling in trade circles was much better than for a umber of weeks There was 1 fluctuation in the staples, | however. Dry goo cre firmer, with prices ad- 2ncing aud production falling off, owing to the ompulsory closing down of an increasing number of P Leather and hides were quoted strong and : e except where hampered by a strike. The production of n was reported larger than ever and the celing was firmer, though buying is confined to immediate necessities. Hard- vhich r a long time has been active, is Lumber rules firm, but is deranged by labor s. Reports from the winter wheat belt be- came less favorable during the week, rust being re- ported n the Middie West, with an area of a million i acres submerged in the flood districts. he railroad carnings fell off, owing to the floods, but Failures for the nd 2 halfi o t are still ahead of last year's. week were 215, against 162 for the corresponding week last year. This is the poorest showing for a g time. The clearings of the banks showed a gain ol 17.2 per cent, with all important cities, except St. Lovis and Minneapolis, exhibiting an increase, With the exception of the Eppinger failure there was nothing new in the local markets during the veek. The bot spell of the preceding week did but little damage to the crops, and was followed by ex- ceptionally good weather, so the harvest conditions n about as before. Business is quiet, of course, it always is at this time of the year, so nobody cemplzine. It is a question, however, whether the »olume of trade has done more than make the normal ncrease attendant upon the growth of the popula- tivn. There is certainly an absence of the fever “hich has characterized business for the past four or five years. But ghat meed disturb nobody. . hiange from pessimism to optimism was | THE LIMITS OF TRUSTS. W HEN in 1899 the movement toward large and larger industrial grganizations resulted in the formation during that year of such = | combiaations with a total capital in excess of $2500.- {000,000, the public became aiarmed and the- trust | problem was a subject of intense and widespread i sion. 1t was feared that the movement would ontinue to advance with great rapidity, and that 2 comparatively short space of time nearly whole of our industries would be in the control or under the domination of a few great trusts, whose power would give them a virtual mondpoly in the Qcommcrcial world. . Id | wi The discussion was carried on with much vigor {and no little exaggeration. Trust conferences were { held in various parts of the country, and some of {them were attended by the foremost men in the nation, Out of them there came a multitude of coun- sel, but very little in the way of wisdom. Then the politicians and the statesmen took up the issue, and party platforms and Iegislation in the States and in *he nation followed fast.” It seemed for a time as if the regulation, if not the restriction and suppresion, of such combinations would become the chief issue in our politics, and the leaders of parties began to maneuver for position in the coming campaigns. Even while the discussion raged, however, public ! anxiety lessened. It was noted that the movement ad reached a culmination in 1809 and was diminish- |ing in strength. In 1900 the total of new combina- tions was less than $1,000,000,000, and from that time on the decline has been notable year by year, until | now some of the largest and most formidable of the trusts have been forced to reorganize and cut down their capitalization in many cases, while in some they have had to go out of business altogether. | From those facts the public has learned that there | are certain limitations inherent in the conditions of industry and commerce that fix limits to the expan- sion of trade organizations. The limitations are the result of the operation of three forces—first, that of ! competition excited by rising prices; second, that of | economic waste that follows when organization un- !dcnakes too much, and third, the force of public ! opinion that deprives the larger organizations 'of | popular patronage when they threaten to become | monopoties. During the period that has elapsed since the high tide of industrial organization in 1899 these forces have been working steadily toward the disintegration | of the threatening combinations. Recently the New | York Journal of Commerce pointed out that, while | the total capital involved in consolidations during | the twelve years down to June, 1002, amounted to | about $4.5 | sented in non-trust establishments in only one year ?and five months, ending June, 1902, amounted to LSs.um.mo.mo. And in spite of all the combinations | that have been effected the number of separate manu- | facturing industries in the country increased, accord- | ing to the census, from 335.415 in 1890 to 512,726 in | 1000, or more than 44 per cent. ‘ Those figures attest the healthiul vitality of the competitive principle in our American lile. When competing establishments can pile up within less than | a year and a half a larger aggregate capital than the | trests have been able to combine in twelve years, it |15 evident that wr are in no great danger of falling | s to industrial or commercial monopolies. | Evidences of the limitations fixed by economic | waste upon industrial consolidations are equally nu- | merous and striking. Within the last two or three | years “quite a number of the most conspicuous of ;such consolidations have had to go out of business | because they undertook too much. In such enter- | prises the machinery of control becomes too pon- Iu'crm's and the general operations too diffused to be uccessfully directed from a single center, so that competing establishments in the hands of able and ‘encrgctic men have performed the work more | economically thar the trusts. | Finally the force of public opinion, unaided by | statutes, has been a potent ally of the competing es- ilablishmems. Investors have not responded readily | to the appeals of the trusts and their stock sells in | many instances at so low a figure as to excite sur- Iprisc. Pierpont Morgan recently complained that { industrial stocks are as yet “undigested,” and the complaint is likely to be ore of long standing. In fact, the investing public has no great confidence in | trust management. and competing companics have {no difficulty in getting capital. Thus by the opera- !‘tiun of these natural laws the industrial problem is | solving itsdlf and within a few years more we shail ! . . ;wouder what we were afraid of in 1899. | | From every part of the United States thanks will | be given that the dreadful floods of the Middle West | are subsiding and danger of further horrors is over. | Nature surely by this time has satisfied her vengeance | upon mother carth. | victi: | WARNING FROM GLASGOW. | DVOCATES of governmental control of pub- A lic utilities have scen their arguments, de- ved from New Zealand and Australia, shat- i tered by the sad results which have followed the ex- | periments in those countries, and now even Glas- gow, of whose success in municipal operation we ! have heard so much, sends out reports of threatened disaster. In that city as elsewhere the experiment | has resulted in developing in politics a powerful ele- { ment that tends to anything rather than good gov- |ernment and threatens to force the community to return to private ownership and operation of street railways in self-defense. The report comes from a prominent citizen of | Glasgow and is strikingly similar to reports from Australia during the recent. labor troubles there. The writer says: “We have some 15,000 workers in the employment of the Glasgow Council, and every | further piece of municipal expansion adds to the number. Many of these workers are organized and | are exercising more and more political influence in |the return of their own crecatures to the Council. | The candidate for their support is not the man who | will look after the interests of the city, but those who will promise most to the employes of the Coun- {cil. The best interest of the city is a secondary con- sideration. In fact, these workers cannot see the {city's interest except through their own, while the { more vigilant of them work for the return of can- | didates who will assist them or their friends to cor- poration jobs.” g Such appears to be the inevitable result of g0V~ ernment operation of business enterprises wherever tried on an extensive scale. We have seen it ex- emplified in this country in the postal service. In Victoria it was carried to such an extent that the railway employes in combination with other labor unions virtually undertaok at one time to dominate the legislative branch of the Government. It is easy Xzo-fmsce that the evil already visible in Glasgow (will increase as the number of municipal empioyes jincreases. Unless some way could be found to pre- 000,000, the increase of capital repre-| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JU ivcnt politicians from premising jobs in the municipal | works, or an increase of pay, for votes the evil will | be always associated with governmental operalion‘ of | business enterprises of all kinds. Every experiment | has resulted in much the same thing in that respect ‘!;mrl it behooves intelligent men to profit by the | { teaching. ! ‘f Local Democrats are preparing for the November | campaign. In the proceedings thus far taken there | | seems to be mothing out of the ordinary except that | there has not been even a single suggestion of blood- | shed or even a riot call to police headquarters. ey Doy A MISSOURI BOOM. HILE the Cleveland boomers in New York | and New Jersey are making the welkin ring ' with the old song, “Four More Years of | ; while the small but indomitable band of | ‘!Massachusetts Democrats are steadfastly beating lhef i tom-toms for Olney; while the South talks gushingly | of Gorman and admiringly of Parker: while : | | Grover the | | Bryanites talk of nobedy, but hur! defiance at_all— | the “Democrats of Missouri who have not leit the State on account of the Grand Jury are busily en- ! | gaged in discussing the coming St. Louis Exposi- | tion in public and sawing wood in private. They | have found a way. they think of making the Presi dential campaign and the grand exposition work to- gether harmoniously and gloriously for the good of Missouri and the benefit of her statesmen. Their scheme is to let Cleveland and Bryan wear | each other out, then sidetrack Olney as a “has been,” E Parker as a nobody and clear the field for the nomi- | nation of Francis of Missouri, president of the ex- | | position company, as the Democratic candidate for | | the Presidency. 3 One of the Missouri boomers puts the claims of | | Francis in this way: i State; he has held a Cabinet portfolio; he is rich. | Governor Dockery will join him in his ambition in | return for Francis’ aid in helping the Governor to; succeed Senator Cockrell in the United States Sen- | | ate. Senator Stone may be brought to join this duo} |in aiding the ambitions of both. From the Bryan‘ | wing of the party Francis can lay just claim to sup- | | port. While he was originally a Cleveland Demo- | crat, he was too strong a party man not to support | Mr. Bryan. He did everything he could to aid the | Nebraskan's candidacy. And to complete his clever | amalgamation of the two forces, I doubt not that[ | Mr. Francis will arrange for a Bryan demonstration | | in St. Louis ‘equally as good’ as that served up to| | Mr. Cleveland. When the $1,000,000 State building | is dedicated will be the ideal time for Mr. Bryan'to | | i iha\c his inning. This will save the opening cere- ! mony to be conducted by President Roosevelt and ‘avoid any suspicion of partisanship in connection with the exposition.” The showing is much better than can be made for ‘.Parkcr. and since neither Cleveland nor Bryan can | hardly be hostile to the Missouri man, his candidacy |is perhaps as promising as that of any other yet mentioned. It will be noted that in the presentation of his claims it was not overlooked that in addition | to having been a Governor and a Cabinet officer, he is rich. It appears, too, that he knows how to make the exposition serve his purpose well. Perhaps after | all then when the Democratic convention meets no | delegate will be heard say 'ng to men of the East or | the South, “I am from Missouri and you'll have to{ show me,” but from 2 Justy lung. will ceme the yell, | “T am from Missouri and T'll show you.” —ee | The negro fiend of Oakland, who must answer to the law for another's life, says drink prompted him to the commission of his dreadful crime. He can hardly be blamed by trying to shiit the responsibility for an almost unparalleled horror in the State. e THE KAISER'S LATEST. ! A conductors of the various singing societies of Germany the Kaiser said, “Gentlemen, 1 ad- | mire your achievements, but you are on the wrong path.” It was a well turned phrase and formed the proper climax to a speech devoted to an exposition of how cleverly the German choral societies are doing the things they aught not to do. The lesson is per- haps as applicable in the United States as in Ger- | many and is worth noting. | - The admirable part of German vocal work con- sists in the technical skill which it develops under | even the most unpromising circumstances. As the Kaiser said, “I am astonished that laborers who are | all day in bad air, coal dust and heat, have exhibited vocal qualities here which can be heard only with admiration, and must cause wonder at the study ex- pended and the nights of sleep sacrificed in order to attain this height of technique.” The skill thus attained has, however, been devoted to what the Kaiser regards as bad ends. Instead of teaching their societies to sing the folk songs of Germany, or the genuinely human melodies of. any land, the efforts of the conductors have been directed toward producing vocal gymnastics rather than true songs. The Kaiser put the case in this way: “We have | already reached in instrumental music the acme of in- tricacy. That may be characteristic, I admit, but it is not beautiful, and when this style is carried into song it exceeds the limits of the human voice.” With his usual directness oi speech and with the high inanner that his position at the head of the | empire and the army permits him to take, the Kaiser went on to specify certain evils of such methods of singing as illustrated in the exercises he had just heard, and said: “I can only say that if a single one of you had sung Mendelssohn’s ‘Yon Beautiful For- cet,” it would have been a real relief to us.” That is perhaps the best speech the Kaiser ever made. Had it been addressed to an American audi- ence it would have been greeted with applause. Re- cent German music is, in fact, more intricate than melodious. It may be brilliant and it may be char-! acteristic, but it is not beautiful. The people of the United States have, of course, to follow the develop- ments of music in Germany as well as elsewhere, and accordingly the matter is of some concern to us. If, therefore, the Kaiser can manage to suppress a cer- tain kind of vocal hysterics that are practiced under the name of German music we will have a more cor- dial welcome for the statue he is ‘going to give us of Frederick the Great. T the conclusion of his recent address to the ——— In a simple act which has passed almost without casual comment Cuba has given another illustration of her ability to govern herself and enjoy the privi- lege of freedom and its responsibilities. She has sentenced one of her most prominent citizens to a long term of imprisonment for an outrage upon the | law. President Castro has captured another rebel army. It was certainly about time that somebody made a move in the little game of hide and seek in which our Venezuelan friends find so much innocent diversion, ¥ 4 “He has been Governor of his| | E 15, 1903. 'BRITISH ADMIRAL IN THE MATTE TY EXPERIMENTING R OF PRESERVING COAL , s I REPARATIONS for the experiment of preserving steam coal by im- mersion in water were begun at Portsmouth dockyard May 16. Twenty- one tons were taken from one pils-and divided into three lots—two of ten tons and one of one ton. One of the ten-ton lots is to be further subdivided into two tons and put into five perforated cases which will be sunk into water. The other ten-ton lot is also to be apportioned into ton piles and placed on dry land with tarpaulin coverings as a protection against the elements. The third lot of one ton is to be tested thoroughly with refer- ence to its qualities and the data thus ob- tained will form the basis for future com- parisons with the submerged and land- stored coal. After a lapse of twelve { months one of the cages is to be raised and with one of the shore coal piles trials carried on in order to ascertain the merits or defects of the two systems of storage, and upon the results of which further trials of the remaining lots may either be abandoned or be still further carried out. : The British armored cruiser Leviathan has been docked to be fitted with improv- ed propellers, such as in the case of the Drake and Good Hope gave excellent re- sults. The blade area has been increas- ed from 79 square feet to 110 square feet with which the Good Hope attained a speed of 23.5 knots with 27,000 horsepower, against 23 knots with 31088 horsepower using the old propellers. The Leviathan is to serve on the China station but is to undergo many alterations and improve- ments before her departure. The ventil- ation system is to be changed and the gun ports in the lower deck are to be closed up and ‘the ‘guns placed on the upper deck behind shields. It was tound that the four 6-inch guns placed in half tur- rets on the lower deck directly under those of the wpper deck could not be fought in even moderate weather because they were too low down, and the transfer of about 140 tons weight to an elevation of seven feet above its former position is not likely to improve the seagoing quali- ties of the shin. The British Admiralty {s making in- quiries as to the causes which made the | cost of the Drake, Leviathan, Good Hope and King Alfred largely exceed the esti- mates. The excess in case of the Drake is $113,000; Leviathan, $196,950; Good Hope, $194,155, and King Alfred, $144.02. The Drake was built at Pembroke dockyard and .ae others by contract. . . The German battleship J. built by Schi- chau at Dantzic, was launched May 16 and named Elsass (Alsace). The sister ship K, not yet launched at the same yard, is to be named Lotheringen (Lor- raine). This class of ships, of which three are building and two are to be laid down, are of 13,200 tons, 16,000 horsepower (triple-screws) and 18 knots speed. Their armament consists of four 1l-inch, four- teen 6.7-inch, and twelve l4-pounders, and the estimated cost of each ship is $5.757.- 500. .« . The third programme for the further ex- pansion of Japan's navy aggregates $37,- 500,000, to be expended between 1904-15, and is distributed under the following main heads: Shipbuilding, $31.174,13450; arma- ment, $14.500.656 50; dockyard improve- ments, $4,255,361; increase of personnel and il {1 8 | | lé | { ] | 5 running expenses, $7.569.848. The expendi- | tures under shipbuilding, armament and | dockyards is to be $5,125,000 for 1904-5; $.- | 760,000 yearlv from 1905 to 1914, and $625 000 for 1914-15. The number of large ships to be built Eight of 83.000 tons total displacement, | including two battleships of 15,000 tons each, Three armored cruisers of 10000 each. Three protected cruisers of 0 tons each. | 1he battieships are to be constructed | abroad. The other vesels will be built in | home vards and of domestic material, as the Kure arsenal has been enlarged and can furnish the requisite steel for ship- building and machinery and is also turn- | ing out orunance independent of supplies from roreign countries. I HERLUF TROLLE, ONE OF DENMARK'S FORMIDABLE COAST DEFENSE SHIPS. o tons | The Velasco, a Spanish gunboat partial- Iy destroyed during the battle in Manila Bay, May 1, 139, was raised May 7 last, and s the fourth vesel refloated out of ten that were either put out of action by American guns or sunk by the Spaniards. The recovered vessels are the Isla de Lu- zon and Isla de Cuba, 8¢ 1030 tons: the Re- ina Christina, cruiser of 3520 tons and the Velasco, of 1152 tons. The latter veseel was half buried in a soft ocoze making the work of divers very difficult, but in less than a week after operations had begun the vessel was raised. The Filipino 4 were remarkably expert and active, and the pumps used consisted of one of 2200 gallons capacity per minute and two cen- trifugal pumps of 160 and 1300 gallons capacity. The hull is fairly well preserv- ed and only one shot hole was found. All the vessels are likely to be raised and put in condition for further service. giving the Cavite dockyard plenty of work for an in- definite period. . The numerical strength' of the seven principal navies was given May 25 ina r port to Parllament and includes vesse built, building and to be begun during the present vear. The first of the following tables gives the number af each class as- sumed to be fit for active service, whils the second table is that of vessels which are likely to be completed within the next four years. It will be noted that England is still well ahead of all other navies, and basing ' the effectiveness of the severa navies upon the number of armored ships —exclusive of coast defenders—the stand ing of the naval powers would place the United States fourth in the list, with CLASSES OF VESSELS. Battleships, first-class Rattleships, second- Battleships, third-cl Coast defense ships. Armored cruisers. Protected cruise: Protected cruise: cond - cla Protected cruisers, third-class. Unprotected cruisers Torpedo vesseis. Torpedo boat destroyers. Torpedo boats. . Submarine boats. . thirty-eight battleships and * armored cruisers: |32 123 : 2 . tm 2 | 3 9| 12| 12| &) 13| 18 8| & 1 4.1 3wl FleTod 14 1 P 2! 13! 18 k3 2 5 L) s 2 G i S B9 1 B 8 s| B 10} 5|11 ! el | sf :.fis3 1l b s 3|'m sl 2F el 3l 9 12 14 2% 1 17 | fll 14 85 247! 03/ 145 67 | 132 27 sf s .. 1 | “ais a | 200 | | CLASSES OF VESSELS Battleships, first-clads. Battleships, second-class Coast defense ships. Armored cruisers. ts Torped Torpedo beats. Submarine boats o Ly panen o i ¥ »al — T TTTTTTTTTT———————— L e LB i i e o o S L IR ° PERSONAL MENTION. . Rev. J. Hunt of Sacramento is at the California. J. R. Austin, a merchant of Fresno, is at the Lick. J. Garwood, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. J. A. Black, a business man of Tucsen, is at the Palace. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace. The Rev. Father J. J. Barry of Peoria, i1, is at the Lick. R. J. Passalacqua, a merchant of Val- lejo, is at the Grand. H. C. Burmeister. a grocer of Prescott, Ariz., is at the Lick. Dr. R. W. J. Schimver of St. Paul is a guest at the Occidental. E. 8. Wachhplst, a jeweler of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. C. W. Barrett, a hardware dealer Fresno, is stopping at the Lick. James Ogden, a wealthy resideat of New York, is staying at the Palace. D. H. Steinmitz, a lumberman of So- nora, is registered at the Palace. ‘William 1. Keller, a flour manufacturer of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. C. P. Walker, a business man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. James Feeley, a fruit shipper of Red Bluff, is among the California’s guests. Former State Senator A. C. Voorhels of Sutter Creek is registered at the Palace. C. J. Ludgrgn, a Fresno contractor, is among the latest arrivals at the Grand. ‘W. H. Gett, a member of Sacramento’s legal profession, is stopping at the Lick, P. Johnson, one of the prominent busi- ness men of Angels Camps, ie at the Grand. George L. Paine, a manufacturing jew- eler of North Attelboro, Mass., is stopping at the Palace. Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Poweli of Santa Clara were in the city yesterday and reg- istered at the Grand. Vincent A. Macdonald of New York, who is interested in mining properties in Southwestern Nevada, is at the Palace. Fred C. Finkle, chief hydraulic engineer or the Edison Electric Company in Los EM , 1s at the Palace on his way East. Frank H. Stadtmueller of West Hart- E & of ford, Conn.. one of the best known agri- culturists in the Connecticut River Val- ley, is at the Californfa. Mr. Stadtmuel- ler, who is a scientific farmer, is making a tour of the coast and gieaning informa- tion concerning the agricultural econdi- tions in the various States. He is also greatly interested in mineralogy and is adding to a collection of mineral speci- mens. —————— BLIND EVANGELISTS SING BEFORE LARGE GATHERING Crowd at Y. M. C. A. Auditorium Hears Sacred Songs and a Lec 1 ture by Dr. Wilson. The Rev. Dr. J. A. B. Wilson delivered 2 lecture yvesterday afternoon to an as- semblage that filled every part of the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association. The services began with hymns by the congregation, duets and solos by Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Baker, the blind evangelist singers. They rendered their songs with devotional ardor and their method is per- fectly sympathetic and appealing. The first duet was “The Haif Was Never Told,” followed by a solo, “The Better Day Is Coming,” by Mr. Baker. Mrs. Baker accompanies herseif and husband, and as a pianiste and accompanist proved herself quite capable. The subject of Dr. Wiison's lecture was “The Primal Condition of Regnant Man.” Dr. Wilson said that the primal condi- tion in brief consists of the absolute sur- render to the will of God. *‘Man, woman, everything,” said Mr. Wilson, mov- Ing in harmony with the Creator. e e——— PORTER BROS.’ AFFAIRS SAID TO BE IMPROVED Representativa of the Firm Declares It Will Continue Business Very Soon. SAN JOSE, June 14.—A local represent- ative of Porter Bros. is authority for the statement that the examination of the firm's affairs has been so satisfac (umwmfiuml.‘wlthanuz and that business will be actively re- 4 A,CHANCE TO SMILE. Roe Shelle—~Why did Jenks kil Wis wife's parrot? Did it take to swearing? Newark Branch—Waorse. Tt took te tmi. tating the lawnmower. —Puck. Miss Olde—How did your trousers come to be worn out at the knees? Cinder Sam—By kneelin’ down an’ pro- | pesin’ to pretty ladies like yourself, mum. —FPhiladelphia Record. Gill-That overcoat of t_shabby. Bill. TR AN 111--Guess T can get a winter “Well, it looks as if mmo::dflgu’: taken a fall out of it."—Ye b <o nkers Statss- “1 tell vou,” cried the auther, ing to rise in this world!" The editor eved him doubtfull fiv seconds. and then asked: o oF T8 “BaHoon or elevator? — - e Atlanta Consti “I'm go- “I see that all the St. Louis street cars are to have moral Lt verses displdy in “Are they? That's funny. T supposed alil the boodlers rede In carria; "ot ve- land Plain Dealer. e A teacher who was trying te instrict her ciass about the mysteries of addition and subtraction explained that one could not subtract ér add unless numbers ware of the same denomination, when a littis firlT said: “‘Teacher. can ¢ vou. tal Deac from four trees? —Little (.:.br:nn. $ A Deliberate Deed.—'“What verdict the Coroner’s jury bring in?" Vmfl: man who had seen the Iynching. “Suiclde,” answered Bronco Bob promptly. “He must hzve known per- fectly well that stealin’ a hoss i Crim- son Guich was bound to prove - ‘Washington Star. g Townsend's California gic cendies. 50c a pound. I wis ol A mice present for etched DEIA friends. Market st., above Call bidg. * ————————— dally >