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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY.’ DECEMBER 4, 1903. P ds you vour ft should letting thé body turn t right angles to their former same time bend the the sligh Al t of ¥e and rise ais will t body fo opponent’s blow will or glance shoulder on hrow the up- ward and to miss e you 1y lessly along your left Duck to the Side. Avoid the common fauit and aw he mus- to \d back twisting your body stiffiy wardly les, sho n easily you to directly enable to former blow pe positic recover after and mit your passes. de you can The forward trend of 1 1end force to the blow two' ducks and da til they ey are im- in ducking rself open n lead pponent into he other is bring his our bod P over er After v wreful u do 1 portar « will jure his the er ruse and you . should be used as a coun- get back out of v when there seems of success. Your 1 of much practice stened by the blows incident 6n not a few mistakes, must be your guide as to when to duck and when not to. ¥ R Feinting is a feature of boxing - - i DY — £ which 'serves a good purpose and is wearing to the nerves of the man on whom it is tried. To feéint, in the ordinary accepta- tion of the term, means to convey the false impression that you are about 10 do a certain thing in order to draw away attehtion from your real purpose. This definition applies equally well in boxing. Did you éver notice how a jurer goes through a lot of seem- ingly useless motions? These motions «re not really useless. They serve to _distract your attention and to epable him to prepare his real trick unnotic- ed by eyes that are taken up in fol- jowing his more overt gestures. When lie suddenly. ceases these gestures and springs the trick he has been prepar- ing all the time it strikes his audience us miraculous. Yet if it had not been for his seemingly extraneous antics eversbody might have divined the secret of the trick. ¥very man, when he becomes some- what proficient in boxing, can invent a dozen good feints. Here are a few which will serve as a groundwork: INSTRUCTIVE ; D) ] | tive the | your oppo- | hook for | — Start to lead with your left for your sparring partner's face. He will in- stinctively raise his right arm to guard, or will in other ways seek to avert the | blow. only far enough to create the impres- sion that you are about ‘to lead. Then | swing, hook or lead straight with the right. If you do this quickly enough and make your objective point what- ever part of his body seems -most un lland. Or feint with the right and then lead with the left, Here is another feint: Start to lead is head; then change the direction | ur blow and with the same hand strike for his heart or wind. Inversely, feint for the body, check the blow, change ‘the direction of the hand and iead for the face. 't to swing or hook with your left ht for your opponent’s body. | Check the course of the blow, let it ribe an upward circle and land on his jaw. This latter feint requires great speed, but is one of the most effective of them all. Lower both hands and arms with a sudden gesture. When they have drop- ped about six inches, lead for the face with your left. Your opponent will, unconsciously, lower his guard in imi- | tation of this first gesture of yours (I don’t know why he will do this, for dest gesture is quick enough). Your blow thus passes above his lowered guard and lands fair and-square on his un- protected fz Of course swift ac- tion alone will permit you to do this successfully. In our next lesson we “clinches” and “in-fighting. take up Old-Time Automobile. BY MALCOLM McDOWELL. | (Author of ““Shop Talk on the Wonders of the Crafts.”") by Joseph B. E Enthu automobilists—and al- most every ‘“‘driver” of the horseless vehicle is an enthusiast—have ventur- ed the opinion that nothing but the lack of uniformly good roads prevents the automobile from making the loco- a second-rate motor. This rather large claim might provoke a derisiv smile but for the recorded fact that had it not been for the bad roads of England just one hundred years ago there might not have been any loco- motive. The automobile and locomo- tive are self-movers—the one runs on comon roads and the other on rail roads—and the automobile is the fa- r of the locomotive. 'he original locomotive was an au- tomobile—a steam carriage, designed » run on common I and turn- It was design®and construct- ed by a couple of coal-mining engin- eers revithick and Vivian—and was the first high-pressure steam ‘“locomo- tive” ever operated. There had been | several medels of low-pressure steam | “road-wagons” made before the Welsh engineers put together the little | steam runabout which became the ori- ginal of the modern automobiles and | locomotives. It was a compact little affair with a single cylinger and a fly- les.) (Copyr wheel and it was tested—so one ac-| count reads—on Christmas day 1802. But the litfle machine was only suc- cessful in that it proved the practica- bility of using high-pressure steam for propelling a vehicle. Just one hundred years ago this | month Richard Trevithick was com- | pleting a { mover, which he placed on the tram | rails of a coal mine in Wales in 1804. This wds the first Jocomotive in that it was the first automobile to be placed T But when Trevithick was building it he intended running it on . turnpike, but the roadway was in ad condition and he tried it on rails of the coal mine tramway. At the World's Fair in St. Louis next year the centennial of the loco- motive is to be ceremoniously celebra- ted, but it will be seen that the same | | on | day day machine was—an automobile or a lo- comotive. The first quarter of the last centlury developed an automobile craze much more virulent than the “devil wagon” furor of to-day. The modern chauffeur who has been haled into police courts and fined by country Justices may find large comfort in knowing that the first automobilists were prosecuted, perse- cuted, stoned, jeered, taunted, fined, prohibited and had a hard time of it all around. ; In the 1820's and '30's steam carriages to run on common roads became such a fad that the directors of toll roads and the stage coach companies became alarmed. They slipped a number of lit- tle bills through Parliament permitting | toil roads to levy prohibitive tolls on steam carriages and wagons. Thus in 1831 Mr. Guerney, who built and oper- ated several steam carriages, was charged £2 and 8 shillings for his steam carriage on the Liverpool and Prescott road; the ordinary toll for a loaded six-horse stage coach was but 4 shillings. On other turnpikes the steam carriages were compelled to pay from five to seven times what the huge lumbering stage coaches were required to pay. But notwithstanding persecution, fail- ures and bad roads, the steam carriage was improved and grew in popularity so that in 1838 eighteen steam coaches and drags for carrying passengers were built or building in London and its vicinity. Private steam carriages which made from fifteen to twenty miles an ‘steam coaches between large cities, transporting thousands of passengers, were established. £ Some of these early automobiles car- ried an amazing steam pressure in their boilers. The ordinary pressure was from seventy to 150 pounds to the square inch, but it is of record that some of the “cracks” run by their titled owners carried a steam pressure of 300 to 400 pounds to the square inch. The chauffeur of to-day, who, in his gaso- line ard racing car, equipped with ev- erything that is up to the minute, drives his automobile seventy to eighty miles an hour, is properly tagged “reckless.” But what would you call the man who, with a crude, untried machine, forced his boiler to carry 400 pounds pressure to the inch to reach the unprecedented speed of twenty miles an hour? Let your left travel toward. him | rded the chances are that you will| but | he'll do it nine times out of ten if your | Jthe glory of our jurisprudence that a Chinese coolie is as high-pressure steam self- | .n be as well called “autdmobile | —it's a toss up which Trevithick's | hour were common, and many lines of | qoing fater. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - . . . . . . . . Address AllCammmatms to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager | Publication Office.... .Third and Market Streets, S. F. FRIDAY. THE OBSERVANCE OF TREATIES. HE proposition to include the Japanese in the Chinese exclusion law brings up a vexed question. The subject illustrates the change and swing in public opinion. When the Burlingame treaty was made with China the principal interest in its favor was mani- | fested in California. The Chinese were then regarded | with favor here and no obstruction was offered to their coming. Though the immigration under it was not large, for lit is doubtful if we got to exceed 250000 Chinese here from the beginning of that immigrations the stress and strain of hard times preceding 1879 caused them to be felt as a dangerous increment, and we attempted by va- | { rious devices in our local laws to restrict a further in- | flux of that element. But the constitution makes a treaty | | the supreme law of the land, and the Supreme Court held that local iegislation could not set the Burlingame | glrcaly aside. It was pointed out that the only way to | restriction was by amending the treaty. Since then it “has been amended or substituted three times, but each | time certain treaty rights have been preserved for the | Chinese. Those who were here under any of the trea- ties were permitted to register, in evidence of their right to be here, and laborers returning to China are still per- mitted to return upon evidence of certain qualifications of family or property: No one is exactly sure that the present exclusion law conforms to the treaty, and the Supreme Court, in a col- | 1ateral proceeding, indicated its purpose to pass upon the constitutionality of the law by bringing it to judgment | on the “most favored nation” clause of the treaty. It is| remembered that when this last exclusion law was be- fore Congress Mr. Gompers strongly advised that it should not include the Japanese. Those people, there- fore, have been coming in without restriction, other than that imposed by the general immigration laws. It is | now regarded as demonstrated that the Japanese are a | far less desirable element than the Chinese, and we have | the singular result of an evident rise in favor of thc} Chinese by reason of the contrast between them and their island neighbors. | The enforcement of the Chinese treaty, by preserving | to the few Chinese here the rights it gives them, raises | an issue that applies to other treaties as well. The un- awful expulsion of Chinese from Colorado, and the same | acts at Tonopah, in Nevada, accompanied by robbery and murder, and their expulsion from localities in this State. | which has recently occurred, bring out the fact that the FFederal Government cannot enforce the observance of a treaty by direct action. Foreigners who are here under the most favored nation clause in treaties are, like citi- zens, entitled to the protection and subject to the pen- alties of local laws. If they are denied the one or are denied justice in the imposition of the other, their first recourse is to the local authorities. In event of the denial lm‘ justice they have the right of appéal to their own | Government. Such cases, however, do not arise, for it is ; i { | ] I | { | safe in the hands of American courts as any citizen. The expulsion of these people from localities by un- lawful physical force and threats raises another question, that is exactly like the Boxer tactics against foreigners in China, and like the various outrages in’this country against the subjects of Italy. Under existing laws all that the Federal Government can do is to respond in | money damages, as it has in the case of the Chinese in Wyoming and elsewheére, and of the Italians in Louisi- ana. In the expansion of our jnfluence among the na- | tions it may be that some further power of direct action !in the enforcement of treaty rights will have to be de- | posited in the Federal Government, and the whole ques- | tion may come up in considering the proposition to ex- | clude Japanese. We have a treaty of amity and comity with Japan, | {and we have also commercial and extradition treaties | | with that empire. These treaties place her and her peo- ple in exactly the same relations to us as those which exist between the United States and Great Britain or | any other European power. Japanese have the right to come and go, subject only to the immigration laws which {aoply to Europeans. The Government of the Mikado some time ago indicated its intention to oppose and re- sent any different classification of its people, declaring that it would be degrading and offensive to the national spirit. 5 | For Japan this is an unfortunate time to raise th question. {ing her ri | | e In her controversy with Russia she is assert- ght to equality of treatment as a world power influential in the affairs of Asia. Her future depends | upon maintaining this position and her retention of per- | fect equality of right in international matters. This she canghardly do if compelled to submit to what she regards as the degradation of her people. This makes the issue one of extreme delicacy and difficulty, and one of the chief vexations originating in our anti-Chinese legisla- tion. Japan at one time proposed to protect her national | dignity by forbidding the migration of her people to the United States in order to avoid the necessity of what she regarded as formal disgrace by legislation. B — A committee of the Board of Supervisors is investi- gating what appears to be gross frauds in the probate department of the Superior Court as far as this depart- ment is conditioned by the County Clerk's office. If these accusations of dishonesty be proved it is to the highest interest of the entire city, which is most inti- mately concerned in-the administration of the affairs of the dead, that prosecution of the offenders follow quickly and surely to punishmen'. A S —— "LONG WAITING FOR FARMS. ATIENCE is supposed to be essential to success in any continuous undertaking. What a man may not accomplish in the first instance he may succeedin The reward may be all the sweeter for the waiting. This may apply to citizens of Mendocino County, concerning whose persistency the Ukiah Republican Press has something to say. One man located public land in 1876. His wife has just filed a’homestead claim upon it. “In time,” says the Republican Press, “she will be able to call her own the place that she has toiled upon and waited for so many years.” RS ; The lady’s husband was J. F. Cummings, one of the carly settlers of Mendocino County. He located upon the site of the town that bears his name. He improved the property and built a hotel, expending several thou- sands of dollars for buildings. With the other settlers he expected to have the land opened nearly thirty years ago, and to be able to “prove dp,” or make good his title to his home. Year after year passed, but his were unfulfilled in his life. 3 his health, his illness he was advised 1 s:- ician . away. He had a squatter’s title only to the land. He refused therefore to change his place of residence, the penalty of absenting himself being that he would lose the property. Soon after he died. Then the hotel was burned. Mrs. Cummings remained. After twenty-six years she is in a fair way to get title to the:land from the Government. ' : The Republican Press tells of another citizen who “has been waiting fourteen years to prove up.” The ac- count tells also of several who have expended thousands of dollars each in the firm and patient belief that finally they would be rewarded for holding on. Finally the Government has ordered 'the opening up for entry of the lands in question. Five townships in all are now thrown open. The land is valuable for grazing principally, bu: included in the townships are orchards and some tim- bered claims. When the news arrived in Ukiah that the Government had acted, after waiting a generation since the first settlers planted their stakes, there was a rush to the local land office of the United States. In a short time more than a score of settlers, each of whom had | lived more than five years on the land claimed by him, made their filings. > . There must be something very attractive in Mendocino County climate and life that induces patience and per- sistency like this. The entire transaction is an excellent advertisement for Mendocino County, as it is indubitably shows in what estimation the land is held by those who have had opportunity best to know it. e e The long, uninteresting, expensive and apparently fu- tile campaign of alleged cleanliness instituted by the Board of Health in Chinatown seems destined to a sum- mary and inglorious end. The Board of Supervisors has announced that it will vote no more money for cleaning the coolie quarter unless a detailed, itemized account of expenditures be supplied. T of the body of school teachers who were recently in attendance at the proceedings of the Sacramento County Teachers’ Institute. What especially attracted the attention of the Union was the fact that there were about twenty women teachers to one man teacher in the assemblage. This leads the Union’s writer-spectator to remark: “It is particularly noticeable that of young men there are almost none. The male teachers, for the most part, appear to be survivals of an earlier era, and it would scem that pretty much all the recruits in the teaching profession are women.” The Sacramento women teachers would seem to be a very comely lot and gifted with high intelligence, for the Union says that “looking at it critically as an as- semblage and comparing it by the tests of appearance, personal manners and the look of interest and atten- tion, one is bound to concede that this body of teachers compares favorably with the professional assemblages of a few years back. Judging by the formal papers and the discussions upon them, there would seem to be no doubt that thesstandards of the teaching profession have been considerably advanced in late years.” 3 This is not all that the Union found to admire in the women teachers. The purely feminine traits gained the customary tribute of male approval: “Almost every face in the réom‘ bears satisfying marks of intelligence and intellect. The well nourished physique speaks of the advantages of California climate, and the superfine raiment of most of the young women speaks for financial liberality of the communities to which they are FEMINIZING THE SCHOOLS. HE Sacramento Union has made a critical study | attached and of the excellence of the Sacramento stores, where most of them do their trading.” But, having spoken in this flattering manner, the Union raises a protest concerning the feminiz_ation of the schools. Incidentally the ground is laid for a discussion of great interest. “Women, it is said, are natural teach- ers. They are certainly the teachers of young children; but we very much question if !e;ching in its advanced forms—in at least some of its advanced forms—does not call for the masculine mind, the masculine method, the masculine mood. We question if our educational sys- tem would not be very much strengthened by such re- organization as would divide, at least, its duties between. men and women. We find it difficult to conceive of a suitable system of education for girls in which men should be the sole teaching element, and we are as litgle disposed to concede that an effective system for boys may be wholly administered by women in the class- rooms."” Possibly the Union may change the current of af- fairs, but it is very doubtful. Especially-will this prove a reasonable conjecture when, according to the Rev. Dr. N. D. Hillis of New York, women are now engaged in 145 branches of business, ‘and “women in fifty years will know more than the men.” ’ | —— T s e The town of Cumana, in Venezuela, which in its highly spectacular career has been destroyed six times by earth- quakes, is fearful that it is destined to another shake- in Venezuela and ever heard of Castro. FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION. I nia State Fruit Growers will hold council in Fresno for four days, commencing with December the fruit counties, specialists from the two universities and members of the State Horticultural Commission to down. This certainly shouldn’t worry anybody who lives HE twenty-ninth annual convention of the Califor- Thither there will journey expert horticulturists from deliberate upon the condition and present “needs of one the | 8 Dreamin’ en d “He Laughs Best.” The following is & new one on Peter Martin: Andrew McCreery, the capital- ist and father of Lawrence McCreery, the celebrated polo player, was down at Burlingame a short time before the Martin wedding. The gentlemen men- tioned were seated at a table in the Burlingmame clubhouse playing whist. mond ring, and Martin, wishing to have a joke at the expense of the keen old gentleman, said: “'Mr. Creery, that's a fine ring you have.” “Yes,” said Mc- Creery, “it ought to be; it cost $800.” Martin asked to see it and the ring was handed over. The others, thinking to distract Mec- Creery’s attention, passed the stone from one to the other and finally back to Martin, at the same time turning as the diamond had sides. They suc- ceeded for a time, but finally MeCreery sald: “What about that ring, Martin?” The latter, who had been trying again to pass the stome to some one else, dropped it quietly to the floor and winked knowingly to the waiter, say- ing: “Why, didn’t I return it? I cer- tainly haven't it.”. A pretended search was made, and the waiter finally found the ring on the floor and returned it. MecCreery quietly thanked him. Then Martin spoke up: ‘“That’s a valuable find, McCreery, and a five would prob- ably be about right for the waiter.” McCreery acquiesced, but said: “I have no small gold—have you a five, Mar- tin?"* Martin chuckled and handed the amount to the waiter and the incident was closed. As time passed and Mec- Creery did not refer to it, Martin gen- tly reminded him of the transaction. MecCreery said: “What five? Why, you had $5 worth of fun out of me, and you surely don’t expect to have the fun and the money also, do you?’ And the five is still “coming.” Shadows of the Past. Some Chinese workmen were remov- ing earth in the rear of the Chinese Consul's house the other day to make room for some ngeded improvements. Suddenly they wficovered the grave of a thousand and one buried joys. There in a pit beneath a pile of rubbish were hundreds of champagne corks in ail stages of petrifaction from long ex- posure to the elements. The Chinese were at a lpss to account for the presence of the corks and for the nonce there were some who had suspicions ot the convivial tendencies of the respected Consul from the Flow- ery Kingdom. But it was an old-timer who solved the mystery. In the good old days of, the sixties the present home of the Chinese Consul was the palatial residence of F. L. Pioche, than whom there never was a more open-handed entertainer and genial host. The fame of his table spread abroad in the land and those who were fortunate enough to dine at his board felt that they had not missed the opportunity of their life- time, But years ago Pioche came to a tragic end and now there remain of all his past grandeur only the corks. Footprints in Stone. A voung mother with her little three- year-old by her side was watching the | workmen putting down the cement sidewalk which led from the garden to the rear of the new home. She was a romantic young mother, and as she watched the care with which the work- men smoothed out each layer of the soft stuff which was to remain endur- ing for years, the familiar old quotation from her schooldays ran through her head: Lives of great men ail remind us, We can make our Jives sublime, And departing leav hind us Footprints on the sands of time. When the workmen had departed she took off the baby shoes and stockings of her little son and gently placed the tiny warm feet on the soft cement. The little fellow shivered and begged to be taken away when he felt the slimy cold touch of the cement, but the fond mother gently pressed the little feet down into the stone, =o that in years to come the imprint of the child’s foot there on the cement would recall his babyhood. The cold touch of that cement brought on pneumonia. The little tod- dler died. Now through all the weary years there are left only theose two baby footprints in the cement. Dreaming of Christmas. L It's hard ter keep him quiet w'en you tuck him up in bed— s He a-hearin’ er de reindeer des a-runnin’ on de shed; E En rezfilen on dat piller is his 1i']l curly Dreamin’ en dreamin’ er de Chris'mus! IL It's hard ter keep him quiet, w'en de evenin’ shadders creep, En you tell him 'bout de sugar plums, en say he'll git a heap! He wakeful ez a watchman w'en dey rockin’ him ter sleep— reamin’ er de Chris'mus! —vAtlanta Constitution. The Cardinal's Hat. The presentation of hats to the new Cardinals by Pope Pius X at his first of the greatest industries of the’ State. Most of the| consistory recalls the circumstance live questions of fruit-growing will there be elaborately | that the red hat was first given to Car- discussed. 3 Few people beyond the State and not a great number dinals by Pope Innocent IV at the first council of Lyons, held in 1245, to signify that they should always be within our borders know what a great part is played in | ready to shed their blood in defense the fruit industry of California by this association. Nur- | of the church. Bayle, however, in his tured under the auspices of the State Horticultural Com- mission, and drawing its membership from leading pro- ?::: ducers in every one of the many diversified interests; the | the solar or holy city, Sunday be- society plays the part of the fostering mentor of the con- | longing to Christianity, and Cardinals, stantly increasing business offruit production.. Forth- therefore, coming’ speeches upon co-operation, fruit markets and marketing, scale insects and homcn!tunl legislation illus- trate the wide scope of the association’s province. ~ With the excellent example set them by San_Joa- quin County in preparing already her exhibition for the World’s Fair, one of the firgt duties of the convention should be that of deciding upon a campaign looki toward a complete display of California fruits at the ex- position. There should be evolved some general plan of co-operation among the iruit growers, so that the best it we have and all that we have.in the horticultural e may find the prominent place which it deserves. “Pensees sur la Comete,” gives a dif- t reason for the color. Cardinals red, he says, because Rome is use the color of the sun. _ Where Is the Sun Going? There is a popular notion that the planets in our solar system revolve about the sun. This is only half true, points out Professor Harold Jacoby of Columbia University, in a remarkable article in Harper's Weekly of Novem- ber 28. The sun, like the planets, says Professor Jacoby, is in motion, as are also the so-called “fixed” stars; and, reasoning from_this basis, he discusses the fascinating question of the desti- nation through space of our solar sys- ok out for 79 front of tem. It is not generally known among e,:.“:m&:; vest ey&i"mm 1 McCreery senior wore a beautiful dia-’ the conversation in as many directions | laymen that¢ astronomers have found it possible to détermine approximately the position on the sky of the apex of solar motion, or, in otker words, that point toward which our solar system is at present traveling. It Is the constel- lation Hercules. “We are obliged to assume that our path for the moment is a straight line, but we mean that ‘moment’ which commenced about 1750, Wwhen the first star catalogue of modern precision was begun, and which will end long after present geflerations of men have passed away. So mighty is the orbit In question that many centu. ries must come and go before we can hope to detect the orbit's curvature.” The article js fllustrated by some unu- sual astromomical photographs. Decline of Book Trade. “The decline of the book trade” Germany has been a fruitful topic g: the German press of late. One writer lP an exhaustive’ argument accused the (.r—rman» people of falling away from t‘hp habits of their literary fathers and Iikke Americans, taking more interest lr; k{\xsln@ss than in literature. The Ber- liner Tageblatt in a recent issue, under the head of “The Germans as Book Bu.)'ers," Quotes Herr Grunow, the Leipsic publisher, whe characterizes the criticism of his fellow Germans on the score of neglect of literature as “empty and nonsensical trash.” “A public,” ke says, “which will spend a half million marks in a few weeks for |® novel, and in the same length of time several millions for Bismarck's ;'Thnuxhts and Recollections,” is not a bookless publie.” The publisher gives the names of a number of books ich were s0ld in great numbers and of the standard works which are con- stantly in demand. ‘“The old, thread- | bare complaint,” he says, “ omes orig- inally from the authors whom no one likes and from their publishers, who can find no market for their wares. But the fact should not be overlooked | that the German fs a ready hook buy- | er. Every Christmas table demonstrates that fact, and it s well known that there are few men so poor that they do not have a little money to ex | e xpend for books.” e From St. Louis. The stalf work on the California building at the world's fafr has been nearly finished. Plasterers are at work on the interfor and it is confidently pre- dicted that the handsome structure wiil be finished within thirty days. The building is a replica of the Santa Bar- hara Mission and its eost s $20,000. India will have a pavillon at the world’s fair. A site 150x100 feet in area has been allotted to this country. On it the Tea Growers' Association of In- dia will erect a reproduction of the fa- mous tomb of Etmad-Dowlah at Agra India. In the pavilion the nuocluiol; will serve tea and ecoffee to demon- strate their value. Fifteen or twenty natives will be brought over to make and serve the beverages. The contract for the erection of the Mississippi building at the world’s fair was let recently for $15,000. The struc- ture will be a reproduction of “Beau- voir,” the home of Jefferson Davis. R. H. Henry, the executive commissioner, obtained from Mississipp! lumber firms the donation of shingles, siding and lumber to the value of $5000, so that the total cost of the building is $20,000. Bishops and Autos. That titled gossiper about things in general, the Marguise de Fontenoy, finds the English Bishops and auto- mobiles do not mix. He says: “With regard to automobiles, T may mention that the new Lord Bishop of ‘Winchester has aroused a good deal of comment by using a motor car for his episcopal visitations and pereg- rinations. He has considerably scan- dalized some of the old fashioned peo- ple thereby, who do not consider it to be in keepind With the ecclestastical dignities of the Bishop of so import- ant & see as that of Winchester to go racing about the country in a machine that ‘snorts like a dragon and smells like the devil.’ But the Bishop is up to date, declaring that he finds the motor most convenient for his official tours, and declines to allow himself to be influenced by any adverse com- ment.” Banking Figures A writer in the current number of the Werld’'s Work gives tne following sta- tistics upon banking: The total banking power of the finan- cial institutions of the United States I8 $12.434,721,178. The deposits in the savings banks amount to $2,750.177,200 and the number of depositors is 6,666,- 672. Of the banking power of the Unit- ed States nearly one-half is in New York and the other Eastern States. Of the aggregate of loans made by the natioral banks on Seotember 15, 1902, amounting to $3.280,127.480, the amount outstanding in the banks of New York, Chicago and St. Louis, the three cen- tral reserve cities, was $877,934,942. —— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bidg. * pstmhameis Saemie e Special information supplied daily to ot nhol;gm ;mu“ e 8) ."cin-. Press Clip (Allen’ b B Grat™ Toleghens. Mata o O oel.