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v THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER INSTRUCTIVE,STODIE S “Clinch’” in Boxing. trol of transportation facilities. Geo- ohical conditions, convenience in operation and the necesity for eco- |nomics all require that the different | railroad systems shall be brought into RBY T PAYSON HUNE. (Athietic Expert New York Evening World Author of “‘Muscle g, etc.) Copyrigh by Joseph B, Bowles.) You remember the old catch ques- tion, ““What would happen if an irre- sistible force should collide with an immovable body ?’ one has answered, “There be nothing left to happen.” n boxing the answer i A h *“comes in handy’ - »xing crises. If two and are at such or both can- void punish- mar or dazed, he ing. If to land his own time inition of a clinch, per- of seizing an oppo- * -+ FIRST CLINCH. i e o nent in from using his arms The first of th is the simple arm clinch. Let us suppose your up- He is clos near a wa carried on by | | entir [in all of New England; | set of such a way as to prevent him | | should dominate the Eastern railroad | trol ¢f the Chesapeake and Ohio ‘and k and too your opponent 10 be sure of ma ffective stey Throw fe both your rms with gloves Place the palm of each han his biceps (right | hand on his le s, le hand on his right biceps) as low down toward the elbow joint s nossible Do not grip him with yvour fingers doing this, byt simply let your thumb and fingers go around his ceps in the same gesture your fingers would em- | ploy in 1 up some ob t as large s his arm Stiffen yc you do , hold- ing him bac keeping his bi- ceps by his i prevent him from leading. Then f rce him backward un- til you are in & re sidestep - { i SECOND CLINCH. e after thus blocking further immediate attack on his part, get cut of reach and on guerd in the easiest possible manner. 8 Sk A more frequent clinch occurs when one or both men are rushing, -when they get tangled in a mix-up or when each, is afraid to step back for fear of receiving a blow while doing so/ As a natural result the man thus hard pressed throws his arms about his ad- versary in such a way 2s to preclude punishment. The left arm holds his opponent’s right arm pinioned, and his right arm cr hand forces back the oth- er's left. The face should be ciose to the antagonist’s body in order to avcid a short arm blow in case one of the pinioned arms should be wrenched free. In clinching never yield to the temp- tation to “hold” your opponent. In other words, don’t grip him with either hand. That is not allowed. When you place your hands on his biceps do so without contracting the fingers. Never be guilty of the unfairness of holding him with one hand while hitting him with the other. I have seen boxers do this unconsciously. It is a foul, and the man ‘who does it should jose the decision. In like manner never catch { | | Cincinnati, Chicago and S{. Louis and your sparring partner's glove between your arm and your body when he leads, nor hold it there while you hit with your other hand. This is sometimes | done in the excitement of a mix-up, but there is nc excuse for it. ,That sort of work, when done intentionally. stamps its perpetrator as a man not worthy a “square” boxer’s notice. About Railroads. BY EARL D. BERRY. (Former Railroad Fditor New York Times and ew York Sun.) (Copyright, 18 by Joseph B. Bowles.) After a rec trip of inspection | over the extensive railroad properties controlled by his family, George J. Gould remarked to a newspaper re- porter that the tendency of the times was toward concentration of the con- harmonious relationship. While this | may mean larger profits to the capital- | sts who engage in great projects, 1 also affords greater protection against | adverse circumstances, which for m vears prevented the stockhold- of many railroads from getting any | ofits at all. Collis P. Huntington | a few years before his death that if he co have the management of all the railroads in the United States he would be able to save half the cost | of operating them and pay the stock- holders 50 per cent more in profits. | ¢ s = The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion recognizes the propriety and e :ncy of grouping the railroads in presenting its annual reports of the ex- t and results of railroad operations | this country. Th are ten in number, bear the question of ownership. geographical. They ar The first takes the second, | the Ohio and Southern New third, York and Indiana, Pennsylvania; Michigan; the fourth, West Virginia, | Virgin 1d the Carolin the fifth, | Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala- bama, Georgia and Flori. the sixth, | Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Illi-| | Iowa, Minnesota and part of both | otas the seventh, Montana, | ing, Nebraska, part of the Da- | and t of Colorado; the| Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, | Indian _Territory and the ninth, Texas, Louisiana and part of New Mexico; the tenth, | 1 of the Pacific st States, with | ho. exico. Utah, Arizor in the fiscal and part of New ear ended June ). 1801, there were 1015 operating | ailroad companies in this country, embracing nearly 196,000 miles of Bt e g | Less than a dozen men now practi- cally control all of this railroad mil . Twenty years ago nearly every road of importance h.d a different | owners, and the controlling in- | were in most cases antagonistic | use of the sharp competition for | traffic. Concentration of control finally | became a necessary means of self-pro- tection. After more than one-half of the largest railroad companies in the country had passed through insolvency road preservation. Much progress has | been made I the way of consolidation | combination, and the lines of con- | re being drawn more closely each It is interesting to note, how- | that while the control of railroad | s has passed into the hands few, the ownership of rail- | res is steadily becoming more | diffused. Almost every railroad company reports this year an increase n the number of its stockholders. ’ . . was the vivania Railroad pany’s ~rel . A. J. Cassatt, by way, who fi tock up, with W, K. Vanderbilt and J. Pierpont Morgan, the ouestion of community of interest nong the railroads. When the United | iles Supreme Court declared all rail- v traffic agreements to be illegal these three men undertook to bring all | of the trunk lines operating between | icago and the Atlantic seaboard into | onious relationship in order to pre- | t rate cutting and secure economies | in operating expenses. It was mutually agreed that the Pennsvivania Railroad | and the Vanderbilt-Morgan interest | situation. Jointly they purchased con- the Reading and Jersey Central rail- roads., W. K. Vanderbilt merged the | Lake Shore, the Michigan Central, the Canada Southern..the Lake Erie and Western, the West Shore and the Bos- ton and Albany into the New York Cen- tral svstem. Control of the Cleveland. the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroads was also vested in the New Ycrk Central. Mr. Vanderbilt further- more bought a large interest in the Lackawanna svstem. o @ w The Pennsyilvania bought the Long| Jsland Railroad and the Western New | York and Penusylvania and secur=d a dominating influence in the Norfolk and Western and the Baltimore and Ohio. Mr. Morgan, besides his large in- terests with the Vanderbilts, obtained control of the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the Chicago, Indianavolis and St. Louis and two or three other roads, including the Great Southern Railway system, which absorbed the Mobile and Ohio. Thus three men became the controlling force of all of the principal railroads in the Bast. These roads are comprised in the Interstate Commerce Commission’s firet four groups, which operate 103,470 miles of line, more than half of the entire railroad mileage in the country. The aggregate capital stock of the rail- roads in these four groups was on June 30, 1801, $2.518,110,159, and in that year these roads paid $303,093,019 to em- ployes. Mr. Morgan's activities also extend west of Chicago. He reorganized the Northern Pacific and with James J. Hill formed the great northwestern railroad combination, including the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. These roads are a part of the Inter- state Commerce groups six, seven and ten. They represent an aggregate cap- italization of about $600,000,000 and in- clude 19,420 miles of line. $e E. H. Harriman is at the head of one of the largest railroad combinations yet formed. A few years ago he was only known in Wall street as a minority stockholder in the Erfe. Turning his attention westward, Mr. Harriman first obtained control of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and the Kansas City and Southern. He secured a dominating in- fluence in the Iilinois Central and soon afterward took full control of the Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line. The subsequent purchase of the Southern Pacific by the Union Pacific gave Mr. Harriman control of 22,302 miles of line with an aggregate capital stock of $677,100,000. The Gould m&e:nm fiel;eeu during years, and George J. Gould has plans under way which will give him an independent line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - . . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office.... e Ceesengieenae e, @ ceeesseeeceon... . Third and Market Streets, S. F. - o os TUESDAR: .. Josibauitstons o i os 5o mlh s el - . - 7 Bt s o T L gl oo, - DEQEMBERY 8 9805 THE COMPTROLLER’S REPORT. HE annual report of Mr. Ridgeley, Comptroller of T the Currency, is of interest far outside banking circles. The season of moving crops is now ad- vanced into its last stages, and business men have noticed that its work has been accomplished without the usual extreme disturbance of currency conditions. For the first time in a great many years the Secretary of the Treasury has not been called to take any extraordinary measures to prevent a currency stringency, and perhaps a panic, in order to move the crops to market without imperiling other business. The cause is probably found in the Comptroller’s re- port. It shows that duringethe past year the number of national banks increased by 441, with a net increase of | $106,501,053 in resources. This is due to the liberal pro- visions of the amended law, permitting banks to organize with a less sum of individual capital. But this does not tell the whole story. It is completed by the farther showing that national bank currency in September last reached the highest point in its history, being then $421,222,489, or 55 per cent of the maximum that might have been issued. This shows a possible currency from that source of about eight hundred millions, and we are warranted in believing that the amount issued sufficed { for the currency needs of the country, or it would have i been increased. The Treasury, omitting its usual extraordinary aid, adopted the policy of encouraging the organization of new banks and inducing an increase in their issues. But it is also pointed out that activity in the organization of new banks caused such a demand for bonds, as the basis of their circulation, as to advance the premium and, be- | ginning late in September, there was a palpable move- ment in the other direction by the deposit of currency to redeem bonds, in order to take advantage of the higher premium. This is the defect of the system. It is exactly the defect that causes such propositions as are embodied in the Shafroth bill, which we have already noticed. It makes the volume of currency depend, not upon 'the needs of the country, but upon the premium on bonds. The Shafroth proposition, in its main feature, is not new, since it was proposed long ago to issue a bond, as security for bank circulation, fixed at such a rate of interest as would hold it at par, but prevent a premium. With such a bond deposited to secure circulation the i banks would have to look for profit upon the use of their maximum amount of currency, and not to the fluctu- ating premium upon their bonds. The Comptroller admits the necessity for greater flexibility in our currency, and renews his recommenda- tion that it be met by permitting ‘the banks to emit currency above the amount covered by their bonds, that is to say, upon other valid assets. This system hassthe advantage of having been tried by long experience in thg Scotch and Canadian banks. If kept under stern official supervision and within proper limitations, it would solve the problem in a particular in which it is not solved, even by the favorable conditions that eased the moving of this season’s crops. | a few men took up the problem of rail- ! “d " Seed time has its currency needs as well as harvest, but we hear less of them. They press hard upon the rlanter, however, in the rate of interest he has to pay remote from the money centers. That rate decreases his profits and is the means of multiplying mortgages. If a proper asset currency were permitted, he would be able to make such economical use of his credit on short loans as to avoid the mortgage, which once placed is apt to stay for a long time and to become, in hard times, the sad means of losing his estate. Congress and the financiers need to learn that the grower of crops and live stock is a part of the whole business body. He is a business man, and has exactly the same right of access to the loan fund of the country as the manufacturer, the merchant and any other class of businesé men. The Comptroller’s report shows that loans and dis- counts reached their highest, in the experience of the banks, in the first half of September, when they amounted to $3.481,446,772. At the same time the deposits were $3863,512,112 and the reserve was $850,762,184. In the financial history of the country we have never before had a banking system that exhibited so much essential service to the people, with as little loss and risk. It shows expert and honest management of the loan fund and if, with equal safety, the element of flexibility is added to it, securing more equal distribution and cheap- ness in the use of individual credit, the system would be as perfect as banking facilities can be mada. It is cause for congratulation that the speculative fluctuations in securities, with all the loss by shrinkage that has occurred since midsummer, have had no percepti- bie effect upon the soundness of the banks. This is due to official supervision and proper business caution, which have joined to cause the banks to margin all loans on collateral so widely that even the enormous shrinkage that has overtaken good collateral and bad has not im- paired that kind of security. By an emphatic decree of the highest British tribunal women are barred from practicing as attorneys in English courts. It is becoming more evident every day that our British cousins are studying our affairs so critically and sympathetically that they iraitate not one of our glaring vices. If we cannot show them wiat to do it is at least gratifying that we can point out to them what not to do. R THE LADY AND THE GUN. EADERS of Monday morning’s paper must have been struck that the ladies held the center of the stage, gun in hand. ‘It began with an Iowa lady, living, in Des Moines, with the florid and quite florid name of Klinkenbiel. Old Klinkenbiel clinked the cannican too much, was sent to the incbriate asylum and madam detached herself from his name by divorce. Escaping, he attacked her at the midnight hour. ‘Whereupon, gun in hand, she elected herself to the police force, arrested him as an escape from lawful durance, and marched to the police station; on the road he resisted and she promptly shot him for resisting an officer. Under the law, any one can arrest a person found committing a criminal act, and the party making the arrest has all the rights of an officer. Therefore, Mr. Klinken, and the rest of it, must take his leaden medicine. His Spartan ex-wife said that she wouid have killed him in the path of duty if it had been necessary to bring him in. The next lady before the footlights and shooting was one who lacked the training in war that is acquired in matrimony, She is Miss Roxburg, a telegraph operator in a railrcad signal tower at Thacker, in West Virginia. An outlaw in that interesting region climbed into the tower on felonious purpose bent, and she perforated ‘him 4 . . L neatly with four holes with her revolver. As a tower operator a man was killed within a fortnight by an out- Jaw who got into the tower to rob him, we make no effort to conceal our approbation of Miss Roxburg. | We recall no past occasion on which two of the gentler sex have vindicated their title as defenders of morality and law, as did Mrs. Klinkenbiel of Des Moines and Miss Kate Roxburg of Thacker. May ladies never burn powder with less provocation or less skill, for neither of them got a scratch. President Eliot of Harvard has determined to protect his student charges from the ravages of indigestion and dyspepsia by closing a coffee house that has lived twenty- five years of a bilious existence on the campus. The learned president seems to have overlooked an ordinary precaution in not seeking to determine if the over-eating be mental and not physical. Stuffing in college is a com- mon complaint. T the crop, have organized with the intention of seeking direct contact with the growers of Cali- fornia and Oregon. The president, Mr. Francis, says they want to see if the producers out here have been completely sewed up by the wholesalers, who have so | long had them in clutches. Those who have started an investigation into the market conditions of our fruit have been led to suspect that the producers feel under some sort of duress, for it has been very difficult to secure any information from them that will aid in improving their condition. It may well be that a strong jobbers’ association will cause the unlocking of much information that now seems to be locked up. . The avowed purpose of President Francis to investi- | gate here suggests, as a natural thing, that there be made at once a Producers’ Association that covers the whole State, and affiliates every grower, with facilities for knowing correctly the condition of the crop at various stages in its growth, and able to estimate the output of FRUIT JOBBERS AND GROWERS. HE Eastern fruit jobbers, the actual distributers of admit that there was no law gentle drunkenness a misdemeanor. the lonesome street. the call the bluecoat ran upon an ex- cited young cried: * . Berkeley's Minutemen. Over there in classic Berkeley they turn their plowshares into swords and their pruning hooks into edged weapons with a facility which is be- wildering. Their policemen forsake the furrow to wield the fasces upon the first call from outraged justice. Under the efficient direction of A. L. Bolton, manager of grounds for the University of California, there has been organized a valiant band of min- utemen to patrol the college campus and preserve the classic dignity which broods over the hallowed sanctuary of wisdom. Ready are they to leap from the plow at the first sign of disorder and hail the offender. But it is only recently that the university police force could demonstrate its efficiency. Not many days ago there wandered into the classic precincts a gentle-eyed old man, who was concealing some spirituous lquors about his person. | So purdensome was his package that | his manifest distress became evident | to one of the hawk-eyed college po- | licemen. Promptly he was taken into custody by the upholder of academic dignity' and haled into the puissant” court of the Town Justice that a charge of drunk and disorderly might | be lodged against him. But long and diligently did Justice | Edgar thumb the ordinances of the‘ town fathers and at last was prone to | in the | making | Then | the light which sprang to the eyes of town of Berkeley that gentle old man with the package was soulful and he shook a day-day to | the hawk-eyed college policeman. | All For a Baby. “Br-r-r-r-r-r-r,”" sharply shrilled | through the foggy gloom, startling Po- | liceman Jim Mulgrew out of his early morning reverie as he plowed through Responding to man. - Stammering, he “‘Quick, officer, come with me.” Following his guide, Mulgrew, with pistol at hand, headed up the long stairway to the top floor of a lodging- e house. 1Into a room rushed the dis-| every section as correctly, approximately, as the crops |heveled guide, the policeman right be- hind. of wheat, corn and cotton are estimable. Such an asso- ciation can be in immediate touch with the jobbers, the distributers, whose business it will be to know, approxi- mately, the demand in every Eastern locality. Then, equipped with such knowledge of the supply and the | demand, the two associations will have the material upon which to base judgment as to prices. About this there is no need of sorcery or conjuring. It is easily within the reach of grower and distributer. When reached it may not eliminate the wholesaler, but it will put a curb upon his rapacity, and check him in pointing to “there” and he saw a mite of a feebly wailing babe. just out of a hospital. nights my wife has been gone all night at her home, care for. months old. necessary attention. officer, help me!" pleaded the unhappy | “There!” almost screamed the man. | a bed. Mulgrew looked | } “What's all this?” queried the po- | liceman. | “Listen,” commanded the man. “I am For three leaving me this baby to The little one is only 2 I cannot give the infant | For God's sake, ¥ Wt man. “My wife is gone and I am the use of methods which have heretofore injured both helpless. )—rhm-, why I blew the | producer and consumer. N whistle. I didn’t know which way to | 2 insi turn.” As we have ceaselessly insisted, the producer canmot “Hard luck, wasn't it.” quoth the with safety to himself be longer content to only pro- duce, and then surrender all control of his property to others and take what they choose to give him. He must study the commerce in his property and be a mer- chant. We have the best and most intelligent fruit pro- ducers in. the world. In all matters relating to orchard and vineyard they are equipped with skill and scientific knowledge. It should be casy to go one step (\1r!her ’ Danforth a few days ago during a luil in the marriage license business. policeman as he reported the case at | headquarters. | A D;'plomatic Cupid. | | “It pays to be pleasant,” said CuDidI | “A| kind word and a cheerful smile to a| man or woman about to launch their| | self.” and be as skillful in commerce. They know all about the insect and fungus enemies of tree and vine, the different systems of pruning and packing and shipping. But when all this knowledge is applied the destructiveness of bug and fungi is as nothing to that wrought by the parties who take charge of the fruit. made in the examination of the affairs of the Porter Bros. Company should spur evéry producer to activity and move them all to meet the jobbers half way. Fifteen armed, bellicose, belligerent and odorous mem- bers of the Mafia were arrested a few days ago in Phila— Nothing has since occurred to prove to the au- thorities that the precious fifteen ever contemplated the use of any weapons of war more formidable to society than a string of vile tongues. The Mafia’s only visible ex- cuse for existence is to furnish a theme for comic opera. A crank called at the White House a few days since and asked the privilege of trying to hypnotize President Roosevelt. Some member of the society for the encour- agement of the feeble-minded should soothe the poor craft upon the sea of matrimony sort of puts them at their ease and makes the task of getting a license—a dread- | ed task to most of them—a simple | matter. Some people call my pleasant | remarks ‘hot air.” Well, may be they| are, but they are appreciated just the | same. | “Why, just to show you that a little pleasantry is good at such times, I'll tell | you a little incident that happened here | some weeks ago. A woman consider- | ably over 35 years of age came in here| and asked for a license. She was ac- companied by a good looking man, con- siderably her junior, and I could see at a glance that he was the man of her choice, though he took no part in the proceedings. In my most pleasant manner 1 asked her her name and the name of the prospective groom and the other usual questions. Then I asked his age, and she gave it to me as 27. ‘And your own? I said to her. | “‘The same,” was her reply. “ ‘Well, well,” I said gallantly, do mnot look it.” “With that I handed her the com- pleted license and the pair went out.| Five minutes after the young man re- | turned, called me over to the end of p the room and, slipping a $5 bill in my | hand, said in a whisper, ‘She told me | Surely the revelations ‘you | his fellow’s addled pate. An army of cranks, inspired by partisan fervor, have attempted and failed to do what he wants to try. e i The War Department is pleased, to announce that Jolo, that glorious possibility of our South Sea dominion, is ohce more happily peaceful. It may not be amiss to observe in connection with this announcement that four hundred more Moros were killed just before the War strong,” Department again “pointed with pride” Dead Moros | MUrmurs eich blade by the warm wind seem to make peaceable subjects of the republic. Three San Francisco youths, bibulously inclined, stabbed a grocer the other day because he refused to give them gratis a supply of beer. It would be a crime against so- ciety to interrupt the manifest destiny of these young men. They belong in a penitentiary to supply literature for and inspire the endeavor of the home missionary societies. D — An Eastern critic, cynical in mood, is of the opinion that a Christian minister, to be successful, must be blonde and blue-eyed, with peach-like complexion and hair parted in the middle. This observer seems to be par- ticularly unkind in his conclusions. We know of nothing in the field of ministerial success that bars brunettes. R S O There is now in a Pennsylvania jail under sentence &f death a man who has confessed to the commission of eighteen murders. What a pity it is that he can be pun- ished for only one of them. In such instances as this so- ciety should have laws flexible enough to provide a scheme of vengeance commensurate with the crime, i r R o e i The Internatiopal Socialist Bureau at Brussels, rising to its hind legs, has issued its. ultimatum to the United States. We must stop Iynching in this country. Perhaps we might be materially assisted in the matter if the Brussels bureau come over and take a hand in the game. We have been harassed by an unnecessary sameness of subjects. : / Cuba started with a demand for $10,000,000 with which to pay pensions to her army of “liberators,” civil and military. She now wants $75,000,000. The Cubans evi- dently share the opinion of the re‘t of us.’ Their liberty was very much more of an expensive luxury than a ne- - by man is Verkhoyansk, above the Arc- | tic Circle, in Northeastern Siberia. The to give you this. The Wheat Song. “tis | “Brothers, brothers, here— Brothers, brothers, O feel the sun,” Whispers the wheat beneath our feet, In the glow of life begun. “Brothers, brothers, the light is good— Brothers, brothers, my sap runs dark down In an endless whispering song. “Brothers, and strong— Bmtheln."bmhm, T'm crowned with Whllpe{s the wheat with its task com- e, Andpthe tale of its labors told. “Brothers, brothers, the earth was dark; Brothers, brothers, the world is fair— But we struggled on and we gained a crown ‘Which each of us may wear.” —Elmer B. Mason, in The Reader. Extremes. TLet those living in California praise God daily upon shawms and lutes for, the blessings that are ours. Read this and be convinced: ““The coldest place on earth inhabited brothers, I'm fair | thermometer there drops to 90 degrees below zero in January, but sometimes rises to 86 above zero in the shade in July, dropping, however, to the freezing point on the warmest sum- mer nights.. The hottest place in the ‘world is in the interior of the Great Sa- hara Desert in Africa, where the ther- me er rises to 122 degrees. The wet- t place is Greytown, Nicaragua, where the mean annual rainfall is 260 inches. The place of least rain is Port Nolloth, in South Africa, where less than an inch sometimes falls in a year.” Jeff Davis’ Wooing. Senator McCreary of Kentucky is an authority on historical incidents of the Mexican war, of which he has interested been an t. Here is a tribute to the courage of Jefferson Davis he is fond of relating, says Baltimore Sun: : . “It was during the Mexican war,” he said. “As you know, Jefferson Da- vis had previously elo with the daughter of . who was then command on the Texan border and not in close touch with the White House, just as Dewey was out of reach by cable at Manila. The American troops crossed the border. The Mex- icans made trouble’and Taylor went ahead and the victories of Palo Alto and Monterey were won. In the fam- ous battle in which Bragg was told to ‘load youg cannon with grape, sir: Davis, who was then under command of Taylor, went ahead and won a not- able victory in a certain part of the field. When he returned Taylor grasped his hand cordially and, after congratulating him, said: ‘Let me tell you, sir, that you displayed better judgment in the selection of a hus- band for my daughter than I did my- Bulling Sauerkraut. Important news comes from Phila- delphia to the effect that there is a strong bull movement in sauerkraut. The sauerkraut bears are on the run, and December sauerkraut is now quo- ted in Philadelphia, the sauerkraut center of the country, at $20 a ton, hav- ing rapidly gone up from $6. This sudden soaring of sauerkraut doesn't appear to be the result of a cormer. It is, according to direct information from the sauerkraut exchange, due to a scarcity of raw material. One of the sauerkraut bulls in an interview with a Philadelphia Press reporter said: “Cabbage has become extremely scarce and the best stock has ad- vanced in a short time more than 300 per cent, and as a consequence the sauerkraut market, which has here- tofore been dull and featureless on ac- count of the mild and open weather, is becoming unusually firm, and West- ern sauerkraut by the barrel in car lots is going up in price, with a prospect of. very high values when the demand is good.” People who have been caught short of sauerkraut are naturally hastening to cover, and there is really no telling how high the bulls will send it before being satisfled. Philadelphians have been pretty hard hit by the slumps in steel and Pennsylvania railway stocks. and it is barely possible that they will try to get even on sauerkraut. If they do the man who has a barrel or two of sauerkraut in his cellar now may be able to purchase himself a titled son- in-law by next spring. Egyptian Shorthand. Shorthand writers should be inter- ested in the recent discovery of a papyrus which throws some light on | the ‘state of stenography in Egypt in the third century. The document found is a contract between a _shorthand school and a man who wished one of slaves to acquire the art. The fee was 120 drachmae, 40 down, 40 at the end of a year and the balance on ;'’sraduation.” How long the course fasted is not stated, but evidently the art of the stenographer was not an easy one, and it was practiced chiefly by slaves. A Memory. ‘When fades the glow from sunset skies, And darkness comes apace, With eyes half weary of the light, Dreaming, again I see thy face, Calm with the peace of thosa that see Through all life's transclent mockery The vastness of eternity. —Everybody’s Magaszine. “Dry” Towns in South. An enthusiastic member of the White Ribbon Band of Hope presents the following interesting statistic: “In Tenenssee on September 1 there ‘dry’ counties and but twelve in which liguor could be sold. In Arkansas seventy-flve coun- ties are ‘dry’ and forty-thres ‘wet’: in Georgia the proportion is 137 to 103: in Mississippi, sixty-five to ten. in ten Southern States the voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots against licensing the manufacture or sale of liquors and in one—South Car- olina—it is a State monopoly. That the South is fast becoming oprohibi- tionist is attributed to the suppression of the negro vote. were eighty-four ‘Answers to Queries. “SPIKE" SULLIVAN—B., City. Ths first fight of Willlam J. Sullivan, other- wise “Splke” Sullivan, was with Dan Ireland, February 7, 1891. He knocked out his opponent In nine rounds. DISTRICT ATTORNEY-W. Au- burn, Cal. A District Attorney is not expected to give legal advice, outside of that which comes In the line of duty of his office, free to all who seek his legal opinfon. FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM-E. J. ‘What motion of the earth. SULLIVAN scriber, City. Sullivan from 1878 to 1396 shows that he met Herbert A. Slade, the Maori, in New York, August 6, 1833, and de- feated him in three rounds. MINTS—J. P., Los Angeles, Cal. The only active mints at this time are the parent mint at Philadeiphia, the at San Francisco and the one at Orleans. What were formerly mints Denver, Colo., and Carson City, Nev. ‘;::nw only United States assay of- #43 ™ gold on pocketbooks, card cases, cameras, trayeling sets, tmfi valises, dress suit other cases or any leather m