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. INSTRUCTIVE .STUDEEAS ] BY /NOY MEN_AND Marriage Makes W ealth. | A. VANDERLIP. Secretary of the best business investment | i Matrimonial “hange for 11 quotation. man to be alone™ for But well-nigh chief k ount’'s sake. practical of them can ivantages. A 2 pay day, or medicines, or rakes | What does he do instances he banks it. B3 — — & w schemes wealth? Jle men who ary is ne which to Ila up | Iy make wealth | in bank | beget more | passion, filling | would bave | The miser | hospital ward The average earn a sufficler is content to bis name com- one of the or invention. A glance in business rea , Schwab, Russell | the Rocke- throng of 2 ld—all 1d form a fairly he claim that s of matrimon; oung man for life routine ammeled young man expenses 1 hold o a safe job | mestic yok when a richer but less certain offer beck- | ons—in theory, 1 ? man should rise to ux ights of wealth and powe But he not. And fact is er thap t /] y The o » that a family is a drag and not = on a man's energies is there- fore false There i= one class of single man who works harder and more successfuily than do his other single brethren, and lays by | _money. He is the man who is “saving up 10 get married,” and In no er security could he place his surplus earnings with such certain knowledge of rich returns. In the Treasury Department at Wash- ington there was a young man in whom I took great interest. I observed on sev- eral successive pay gays he laid aside a goodly share of his Small wage. *I work harder for this portion of my pay,” Bie sald to me one day, d enjoy it more than all the rest of my zalary put together. You sce, it's part of a fund.” “For the paying off of a mortgage on your parents’ home, perhaps?’ I haz- arded “No, sir,” with a happy but somewhat embarrassed little lJaugh. “A fund for my wite.” . * “For wour wife!” I echoed. thought you weren't married!” “I'm mot,” be replied. “But I shall be some day. And I dont mean to start my wedded life penniless. When I meet a woman whom I wish for a wife I don’t want to have to ask her to share a nest isn't at least partly lined with greenbacks.” He had hit upon the true philosophy. When an improvident boy with $8 a week and nothing laid by marries an equally improvident girl, poverty is a certain se- quel, and wiseacres shake their heads and © : You may carve it on his tombstone, you may cut it on his card, “But I man married is a young man That “'a young | on hard work and enterprise are reared | (Qust as the schoolboy seldom lays by | part of his weekly allowance unless for [1¥ tones | other things mechanical would have been quite as badly ‘“‘marred” single as wedded. Marriage made no dif- The man who is married has something tangible for which to save his money. It may be only a pair of drdwing-room cur- tains, or a new dining-room table, or it | may be a house of his own and a compe- tence to insure the woman and children he loves from financial distress in case of his death. This last named incentive is one of the strongest in the world, and, I think, ore of the hollest, 1t leads the erstwhile spendthrift to And on economy rests the whole structure of wealth. It makes him no more content with the salary that once | seemed ample, but nerves him to harder | work, to new lines of enterprises. And every improvement and every invention | the world has ever known. The average man must have some par- ticular object for which to save money. tne purpose of buying some article dear to vouthful hearts.) And what object so | real and so desirable as the happiness and well-belng of those he loves? Your eccentric ““flower-to-flower” man is seldom a success in life. Nothing so quick- | down these tendencles and stcadles a man's every effort as does mat- | rimony. Many 2 man has been drawn into drunkenness and other dissipations for which he had no natural bent simply be- cause he was lonely. Such men do not make good financlers. Marriage, by re- moving the cause, removes the disease, and the erstwhile man about town be- comes 2t last of real use in the business community. . s e The little home, the woman in whose.| pure eves he is a hero and can 6o wrong, the children whose joyoue shout wers the click of his latchkey in the door—if thes ’ m a trinity e : : £ o % S e o o o ey s | #ion and put the profit infh thiey hands, which had earned it. iness m. acle from on high could urge him on. his same trinity do more to save the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1903. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL‘I S R0 SRt T BB SES S s ) | A SRR PR B TR R T S JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor - . . « . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication OIS, ... .5 x .o ossess son sefasasossans @ eiveeeeseess eev...Third and Market Streets, S. F. MONDAY DON'T WASTE VOTES. VERY business man, employer and working man in San Francisco knows that the industrial future of this city is to be profoundly affected. by the election of Mayor. The taxpayers have voted to endow schoolhouses, parks and other public concerns, with nearly $18,000,000, S s s wia NOVEMEBER: 2-1903 Judge Hoffman’s Rebuke. “I don’t suppose that any of you boys remember old Judge Hoffman of the United States Circuit Court,”” sald an ex- balliff of the court the other day while he the expenditure of which is to be inaugurated and its ultimate benefit to be determined by | was eating lunch with a number of young lawyers. ‘“Well, he was a fine old man, the manner in which the Mayf)r electefi to—rnorrow will. use his power and by t.he degre_c Of. Dlasinteas | i Taat: R teier: experience and personal integrity he will bring to the discharge of his duty. Bring the situation home | when he did he usually said something that would make the unfortunate lawyer to yourself, you voter who reads this. Suppose that you had $18,000,000 of your own money to invest | who aroused his-ire feel pretty cheap. “The ineident I am about to relate hap- for the improvement of your personal estate and fortunes, and were seeking guidance and counsel in|jeneqquite a few years before the Judge's doing it, and your choice were limited to Schmitz, Lane and Crocker, which would you choose? You|feath I know perfectly well that, granting their integrity to be equal, you would choose the business man, Crocker, and would do it not intending any reflection upon the character of the others. Diminish the sum to be invested down to the share of the $18,000,000 which every taxpayer jdeath. I was the bailiff of the court at One morning there was a case up for argumers. The lawyer for the plaintiff was a bright young fellow who knew his business. He also knew the Judge, and In presenting his authorities he did not occupy any more time than was absolutely necessary. The opposing must invest through the tax on his property, and whether the share ibe"tens, or hundreds; or thot-1 X8 o0 tieE Hooteey e oot by sands of dollars, his decision would be the same. From this view of it no thoughtfid man can escape. the way, he is still practicing, but he was not very well acquainted with Judge Hoff- If a voter make choice uninfluenced by that view, then he is controlled by sentiments that are not Cen-| man, and becanse of this lack of knowl- | edge he brought upon himself one of the tered in the public welfare. He is influenced by considerations of class, of partisanship, the hope of | hafiest rebufts I ever neara the Judge personal aggrandizement, or by prejudice. If the question were put to any audience that listens to hand cur “In offering his authorities the older Sehmitz or Lane, all who are influenced by proper civil motives would shout their preference for | lawyer did not follow the example set Crocker as agent and adviser in such a purely business Mayor Schmitz for a shorter time, have lived on politics. have to. His living has been made in business pursuits and what he has, ifm by his young opponent but made a . . h transaction. Mr. Lane for some time, and lengthy talk on each point of reference. Mr. Crocker never had and will neve which 1lifts him above any submitted in about twenty minutes occu- r He had quite a number, and in conse- ! quence a case which should have been i pled the entire morning. The Judge was sordid motive in public life, was accumulated by his own exertions. It was won in fair business. He twisting about in his seat during the en- has no dollar that belongs justly to another. | tire proceeding and T could see that some- thing was about due. “It came when a jackass, which every The testimony comes from all the wide borders of the State that his expert busiriess faculty hasts,; bout noon used to wake the echoes integri f business houses do all | : i i i ntegrity of business houses than do all | 4 po e made no record of action beneficial to business or to the interests of others. the lews and police forces and prisons ever ated. Where the single man ma: fall into financial temptation, the married | man will think twice before he brings shame on the woman who adores him and disgrace on the children who look on him as a god. The statistics showing the vast preponderance of single over married men in prisons will substantiate this. In s, too, of hardships and {ll for- tune such vicissitudes are robbed of half efr sting when shared or soothed by a good woman Marry. It is the best business inve: ment that has ever come within my ex- perience. Uses of Compressed Ar. " BY MALCOLM M DOWELL. (Author of » Talk on the Wonders of the Craft.”") Just now the wires and pipes are fight- ing ch other. Electricity and com- pressed air are keen rivals for supremacy in the industrial field, and the “rooters’ for the condensed atmosphere are -jubl- lantly declaring: that compressed air has scored the most points. - They exclaim, *“Without compressed alr there would be mo automoblles, for' thé'{ections, which horseless vehicles cannot run without | pneumatic tires.. Were it not for com- pressed air raflroad trains would be| cbliged to crawl along at twelve miles; an hour, for fast trains require the safety | and control of automatic air brakes. | “We admit that the electrical current is superior to compressed air in the mat- | ter of operating trolley cars and trans- mitting powey over long distances, but in and operative, | where the two are competitors, com- pressed air has its frisky rival beaten.” All the claims of the compressed air men are not based on facts, but it is unquestionably true that in almost every machine shop, foundry, stone cutting es- | tablishment, raflroad shop, naval yard, | quarry, mine, boiler shop and industrial | plant of any importance in this country | one can hear the clicking and snapping | of air compressor valves and the trem-| ulous noise of the pneumatic tools. Pneumatic tools are operated by air which has been compressed until, in its effort to break through its metal bounds, | it exerts a pressure as high, sometimes, . as 3000 pounds to the square inch. The or- | dinary working pressure, however, varies | from forty to one hundred pounds. When | it is compressed to this degree, air is a vivacious, mobile and exceedingly elastic | spring. It is quite easy to comprehend | the marvelous flexibility and wonderful | responsiveness of this aerial spring when one watches the chisel point of a pneu- matic hammer in the hands of a stone | worker and is told that the hammer is making sixty strokes every time the clock | ticks—3600 biows a minute. The blows a so rapid they cannot be distinguishe They sing a trembling note, but there is| no sound of sucecessive blows. Some of these pneumatic hammers "ook | like monstrous revolvers, for they have; pistol grips with which the workmer steady the tools. A flexible rubber pip screwed onto the cylinder of the hammer, leads to the supply main which runs back | to the reservoir or air receiver. In this re- ceiver the air is stored up by the air compressor, which is.opetrated by steam direct or by a bejt from a stationary en- gine or gasoline motor. The compressor is a force pump, which sucks the air in with one stroke of its piston and jams | it into the receiver on the return stroke. Suitable check valves prevent the air from popping back from the receiver to the compressor cylinder, so that every stroke of the compressor's piston makes the air more compact until the desired pressure is reached and held. That which makes compressed air pop- ular with men of the crafts is the fact that it operates hand tools. The pneu- matic hammer is hammer and tool in one. In its barrel-shaped casing is con- tained a little air engine with cylinder, piston, iston rod, slide vaive, exhaust valve, throttle and packing. The piston rod holds the tool and the blows are de- livered ty its in-and-out movements. . e s A pneumatic hammer, used for driving rivets an inch and a quarter in diameter, weighs about twenty-five pounds, strikes 620 blows a minute and uses up twenty- five cubic feet of free air a minute. The hammer used by sculptors and stone workers for carving is eight inches long, weighs three and a half pounds. strikes 3660 blows a minute, using five cubic feet of free air doing it. The big riveting ham- mer has a stroke nine inches long. The little pistol grip stone hammer has a striking movement of but half an inch. The riveting hammers work under a pres- sure of 100 pounds to the square inch; the little stone hammers use air sixty to sixty-five pounds pressure. 1. a recent test an air drill bored fifty- four holes fifteen-sfxteenths of an inch in diameter through three-quarter-inch steel boller plate in one hour and ten minutes. This same work by.hand would take eig.. and one-balf hours. L Pneumatic tools are used for heavy and light cutting and riveting, for dress- ing granite and other building stone, for carving marble, chipping metal, cleaning castings and, in short, for doing anything that can by a man m 4 ham- Wi A1) | be the case business ought to improve from now on. The To vote for either is to throw away a ballot, if the man who casts it have a just idea of the Lane is folly, for it is a vote to strengthen Schmitz, purpose for which a Mayur is elected. To vote for and the Mayor stands condemned by those who w civic duty is laid upon his conscience as a high duty, or should be, and he may discharge it well to-% morrow by selecting a Mayor just as he would choose a man for adviser in his personal business. | benefited his fellow citizen. He has not been a selfish accumulator, disregarding the rights 6f othess ik Peehiiothon, commaiiad fol e, | The grapegrowers Iook at this contest from their far vineyards, and send to their fellow citizens of this | said the Judge, there s an unequal con- city their warm approval of Mr. Crocker, because he organized their industry, savéd it from destruc- Has anybody heard of any business; . then nothing short of a | achievement of that kind by either Schmitz or Lane? No. They are politicians, good politicians no | doubt, but they are occupied in pointing with pride to themselves and viewing each other with alarm, | | test going on here. Bring that jackass in here or put this one out.’ " An American Citizen. A gang of longshoremen, having com- pleted their noonday meal, were engaged in an argument respecting the patriotism of Americans who had emigrated to this country from forelgn lands. A Swede and a German outvoiced ~the others, and ere partisans of his first candidacy. Every man’s finally took the center of the stage while MORE CHEERFUL ASPECT TO TRADE. HERE was some improvement in trade conditions I last week, and the depression which marked the preceding two or three weeks appeared considerably modified. Cooler weather stimulated retail trade, and the jobbers reported more movement, chiefly in winter clothing | goods, such as woolens, footwear, etc. Industrial activity is also reported improving, many plants lately idle an- | nouncing a resumption to-day. The Eastern wholesalers and jobbers likewise send in more encouraging statements of the condition of trade in that region, while in the West and Northwest the crops are moving much more freely, and this has communicated a Perccpliblc animation to col- re lagged. The textile mills still report business lagging somewhat, though their reports are more reassuring than for some weeks back. The condition seems to be that the fall trade.is at last fairly under way, and that the recent dullness was largely caused by the backwardness of this autumnal movement, rather than by any intrinsic decrease in business. - If this bank clearings emphasize these more cheerful reports, as the decrease last week, compared with the corresponding week last year, was only 12 per cent, with the majority of the leading cities on the right side of the exhibit, instead of the wrong side, as heretofore. New York shows a loss, of 21.5 per cent, though that is undoubtedly caused by the sharp falling off in the volume of stock speculation and in the decreased valuation of stocks. The shrinkage in trading in Wall street was pronounced last week. On Friday the volume of business was' only 168,500 shares, the smallest day's business of the year. There was not much inclination to operate on either side, both buyers and sellers appearing indifferent. Values of shares weakened, owing to a rise in the rates for call loans, caused by shipments of funds to Chicago, New Orleans and St. Louis, the remittances to the two former cities being to move the crops, and those to the latter city being to fur- nish ready funds to sustain zhcyfmancial market there, as well as to supply the cash for the crop movement. St. Louis was more or less disturbed by a run on several banks, but, as in the case of Baltimore during the preceding week, the disturbance was shortlived and immediately checked by the announcement of the institutions concerned that they had plenty of funds to meet all demands. It is noteworthy in this connection that whenever the banks of any city find themselves in a temporary corner and de- ranged by the sudden demands of depositors, the great financial interests of New York at once rush the necessary cash to that city and thus relieve the stringency. This is an excellent plan, as it immediately checks the panicky feeling and restores confidence. It is quite a modern pro- ceeding and on the improved lines of current financiering, and saves many a tottering institution, to say nothing of restoring public confidence. Wall street itself is a tame place at present. It is thought that the excessive liquidation of the past year has been practically completed, as current liquidation is mo- mentary, being confined to a single day, and then on a much smaller scale than heretofore. The election excite- ment, too, has affected trading more or less, as all lines of business, both legitimate and speculative, always languish just before elections. As the country will have a Presidential election mext year we may therefore expect more or less dullness from now on, especially if there be much talk of possible tariff legislation. There is not much new to report in the staples, Quota- tions are not fluctuating much at pregent, and while the gen- eral tendency in prices is toward a lower level, as already, mentioned, it is so gradual and smooth that it is almost im- perceptible. The ifon and steel market, which is generally considered one of the best barometers to trade, is quiet; but there is no further decline to report, though there is no longer any rush to order goods ahead, and the cash buying is restricted to the immediate needs of the pur- chaser. The labor situation continues unsettled, restricting building operations more or less everywhere, though it is not as acute as for some months back. Briefly, trade conditions show a perceptible improvement, and there is much less pessimism abroad, while the feeling that prosperity is stili to prevail for some time to come seems to be increasing. o s e — . An Armenian was arrested in Boston a few days ago on the extraordinary charge of political murder. Can it be possible that he is suspected of being in collusion with the friends of Franklin K. Lane? ~ ~ IS RUSSIA PARAMOUNT? ROM recent outgivings it is apparent that Russia pro- F poses to dispute the sovereignty of China over Man- | the roof-raising response, “but I vill bet | churia. This will be presented in such form as to attack the interests of the United States, by denying China’s | right to make with us a commercial treaty opening the Manchurian ports of Moukden and Antung to our trade. If China’s sovereignty over the province of Manchuria is the others listened. “It is the Chermans who make the best citizens,” said the one. The other protested vigorously. “Vat recht have you to talk,” shouted the Teuton “ven you have nit been na- tionalized?"” | “Bud I vode on election days,” replied the Scandinavian. - “Dot ist der vay mit you frauds,” was four bits dot you don'd know der Ameri- | can national tune shust der same.” The Swede dug into his jeans and pro- duced four dimes. The size of the wager was diminished to the required pro- portions and the coin was placed in the hands of the foreman. “Now begin dot tune,” said the German, complete and unimpaired, it is her right to make that treaty. | giin an expansive smile of confidence. No doubt if Russia had only China to deal with, she could | But she has to deal with the That Russia has no $overeignty over Man- She | the Teuton stopped him mournfully with: bully her claim to success. United States. churia, cognizable by the law of nations, is evident. joined the other Western powers, including the United States, in occupying parts of China for a base, while His adversary arose from the plank on which he had been reclining and, with arms akimbo, roared: ‘Ven dose belts go ting-gerling-gerling, all shoin—" but I *“Das ist recht. I did nit tink you knowed it. Give him der eighty cents, the | Mr. Boss: he vins" united armies marched upon Peking to rescue the im-l The Dead Speak. prisoned legations of the nations they represented. That was at that time the sole reason and éxcuse for the presence | of a single Russian soldier south of the Yalu River. When the legations had been rescued, and Peking had been made | safe ‘for the teturn of the Emperor and the Empress | gmy. Police Officer Tommie Naylor walked into an undertaking parlor down near the water front, where all that was earthly of old Michael Brannigan rested tempor- The friends of his halcyon days on Dowager, who had fled to the south, the representatives ! this earth had assembled to do honor to of the powers, including Russia, agreed to evacuate the; territory they had occupied for the temporary purpose that men, women and even little had been accomplished. They all kept this agreement ex- cept Russia. She stayed in Manchuria and greatly increased The purpose of this her military force in that province. his memory by holding a wake. Around the room was seated a motley throng of children. The silence was awesome. Officer Naylor walked up to the bier and removed his helmet. “It's sorry I am to see you in such a tight box, Michael, old man,” said Nay- became apparent when she presented to” Li Hung Chang or. a treaty to sign, which practically dismembered the Chinese The Russian army was there to coerce China | Li refused, and the representatives of | Russia brutally invaded his bed chamber and kept up their threats and importunities around his death bed, but the Empire. into such a treaty. “Sorra the day that ye'll be gettin' there | yoursilf,” came in a muffled voice {rom the coffin. The stampede of the mourners was fear- ful. Lower Broadway looked as if a gen- eral alarm for fire had been rung in. It cost the proprietor of the undertaking shop just $14 30 for general repairs, stout old man would not purchase a peaceful death by| And Naylor is thinking of getting a surrendering his country’s sovereignty over Manchuria. Then followed another promise to the Western powers that Russia would keep her word and leave Manchuria, at This new probation was used in trying to | a date fixed. enforce upon China the extraordinary demands of last spring, about which the Russian Foreign Office did the worst | position at a theater as a ventriloquist. Estimaie of Champlain. In Harper's Magazine for November | Henry Loomis Nelson gives a word-pic- | ture of the career of Champlain, the ex- | plorer. Here is his estimate of his char- point blank lying ever known in civilized diplomacy. After acter: she failed she fixed the 8th of October to keep her word and evacuate. That date is gone by a fortnight, and instead | of sending troops out of the province she has sent more in and has reoccupied Moukden and Antung, and denies China’s right to open those ports to our trade. treaty awaits ratification by the Senate. fications are exchanged an American merchant ship should | ness. be cleared for Moukden, convoyed by a fleet of our war- ships. 1f she is refused entry to Moukden, by Russia, con- Our new As soon as rati- | server. He was an excellent man of_busi- “Champlain is one of the noblest char- acters of early American history. He was | one of the great navigators of a time when a voyage across the Atlantic was taken at the risk of life. tie was a perse- vering and patient worked, a keen judge of men and a careful and accurate ob- He was enthusiastic and inspiring, and had wonderful seif-control. He was devout and religious, but long experience bred in him a philosophical indifference to theological disputes. He had no van- clusions should be tried at once. Our executive recognizes ! ity apd was unselfish and self-sacrificing. the sovereignty of China over Manchuria, and we should fot permit for a moment the attempt by Russia to abridge our right to treat with that sovereignty. Parks, the shamelessly dishonest walking delegate of New York who has the effrontery to say that he was not in the business of blackmail and bribery for his health, will prob- ably find that while the climate of Sing Sing is not particu- He was humane. He was possessed of the mysticism and superstition of his time; not so deeply, however, that he could not meet with conquering ridicule the deeper mysticlsm and the mcre child- ish superstitions of his savage friends. He was not only a good and ccurageous navigator, but he was a brave and skill- ful soldier. Above all, he not only Inspired men with his enthusiasm, but invited their confidence, from the King, nobles and merchants of France to the savages of the woods. In some degree, even as it larly beneficial to his physical health it may be extremely | s o Si¥en 1o Frenuiigen 197 Ui advantageous to his moral well being. At all events his re- moval from the walks of honest men will be a distinct con- tribution to the health of the community. RIS S AN L i turning to American custody and the The American Consul weighted with the massive mission of Uncie Sam's good fellowship and good will to King Menelik has carried with him as tokens of our friendship to the Ethiopian stacks of modern firearms and implements of agriculture. May the untutored mind of the great Menelik have wisdom to know which we use for ornament and which for service. . r———— Mexico has been very kind in her act of comity in re- jeopardy of de- served punishment Kratz, the St. Louis boodler. The other side of the story will be told when Mexico, confident in the virtues of a fair exchange, asks Uncle Sam to smoke out and return to her the horde of pestilential, petty ras- cals that cross our borders from the south. stand the art of politics, he was a states- man; he could settle disputes justly and satisfactorily, and he could administer the affairs of the community under bis charge with the recuisite skill.” Rhodes in Bronze. The government of Rhodesia will erect at the World's Fair a statue to perpetuate the memory of the late Cecil Rhodes, who founded that flourishing British depen- dency. After the World's Fair the statue will be removed from St. Louis and placed in the public square in the city of Bula- way. The statue will be in bronze. Rho- desia will make a complete exhibit of all her wonderful résources at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Titled Monarch. | Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is nine times King, twice a grand duke, on a grand prince and the multitude of the titles as count and so-forth is past enu- meration.” In addition, as of Hun- The gamblers of Portland were fleeced the other day by | gary, he bears the title of “most aposto- lie,” a scoundrel slicker and shrewder than they. It is well for the hosts of righteousness to rise in acclamations of joy. ‘When one rascal cheats another the proceeding is like a prize fight, in which the public is gratified whichever plug ugly wins, and would be better pleased if both were battered which is one of the four honors be- stowed by the Pope.—Baltimore American Good for Maine. THE TOWN i - squash ralsed this year, scratched my name upon it and planted it. The result was a healthy vine, bearing a six and a quarter pound squash, upon tha surface of which my name appeared, clearly out- lined. It was a Southern squash.’ This story has been awarded the annual gold medal for squash stories. The competi- tion has now closed.” Turkish Seamanship. The Philadelphta Ledger has the fol- lowing story to tell about Turkish sea- manship: “The Turk as a seaman s as amusing as he is terrible as a soldler. For every story of Macedonian outrage by a bashi- bazouk, one about the funny antics of his seafaring brother in Islam can be told. “A story that has become a classic among Mediterranean sallors illustrates the Turk's inability as a navigator. “A Turkish steamer with a native cap- tain put out of the Dardanelles, ‘bound for Trieste, Austria. As soon as he lost sight of land the Turkish skipper likewise lost his bearings. “Just then another steamer came up from astern and the Turk made signals that he wished to speak with the stran- ger. The latter, on approaching, proved to be a French tramp. “ “Where are you bound for?" asked the Turk. « ‘Brest, returned the Frenchman. “Tha Turk asked no more questions and allowed the Frenchman to go ahead. The next morning the French captain noticed that the Turk was astern and following in his wake. When the second morning he still found the Turk In his wake his surprise grew. On the third day it was the same, and so on the fourth—the French captain always made out that Turkish steamer coming up astern. “On the fifth day he let the Turk over- haul him and asked for an explanation. By this time they were well down the Mediterranean toward the French coast. ‘Why do you keep so close astern of me?” roared the French captain through a megaphone. “‘I am following you to Trieste,” an- swered the Turk. “Whereupon .ae French captain sent a boat aboard the steamer flying the cres- cent to explain to her commander that he was about 500 miles off his course and to instruct him how to regain it.” - Peril of a Dynasty. Says the Marquis de Fontenoy: *“Very little attention has been given by the press in this country to the se- rious accident to the Princess of the As- turias, who, while riding in an automo- bile with her brother-in-law, the Duke of Calabria, the other day in the neighbor hood of Munich, was upset into a ditch and sustained injuries sufficiently severe to cause concussion of the brain, whieh for forty-eight hours placed her life in danger. She is now on the road to recov- ery. But had she succumbed the positicn of the present dynasty on the throne of Spain would have been imperiled. “The Infantla is not only the eldest sis- ter of the young King, but, likewise, the next heir to his crown, and in the event of her death her little boy, now 2 years old, would become heir apparent and the successor of his uncle, Don Alfonso, as King of Spain, should the present mon- arch die unmarried. Nothing could possi- bly be more fatal to the throne than an- other long minority, during which the de facto, if not the de jure, regent would be, to all intents and purposes, the boy's father, the Prince Consort of the Astu- rias, who, owing to the unfortunate fact that he is a scion of that Neapolitan branch of the Bourbons which is identi- fled with everything that is reactionary and anti-liberal, is exceedingly unpopular among the Spanish people, who are sa strongly prejudiced against him, that the do not hesitate to ascribe to his influens upon his brother-in-law. the young King, every objectionable measure of the Gov- ernment.” Autumn’s Incense. A subtle incense fills the air And mingles with the sighing Of breezes that this message bear: “The good old year is dying." The creeping, duil October haze Grows slowly, surely denser, And through the closing of the d: There swings a smoking censer. A censer heaped with Autumn leaves From green to crimson turning— The vapor a weird pattern weaves The while the leaves are burning. In_airy arabesque it sways ‘While twilight shades are glooming, And all the shadow and the haze The Incense is perfuming. The tang of it is wondrous sweet— It is with Summer scented: It_holds the rustle of the wheat Through days glad and contented: It has a whisper of the rose, And apple blossom’s savor, And June days with their lazy doze ‘Where grasses lent a flavor. And so the censer slowly swings ‘While flelds and_woods are fading, And memories of Summer brings When day to night is shading. ‘The burning leaves with spicy smol Join with the breezes sighing Through golden beech and reddened oak, “The good old year is dying." —W. D. Nesbit, Chicago Tribune, Stubborn Prisoners. ‘The former Boer generals, Dewet, Botha and Delarey, are about to visit Indla in order to persuade the Boer irreccncilae Few of these prisoners are now left im the varfous camps. In Ceylon, for ine stance, there are only five, and it was re- cently suggested in India that the time had come to repatriate them all and keep them in some form of confinement in South Africa until they took the oath— Baltimore American.