The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN 'FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1904. RVEYORS BLVE 1N TIE CARGO flpru»om'nires of Under-| writers Busy With Dam-| aged 1 rmf:ht on the Pacific | Steamship - Queen Coast CROWDS ON CRAFT AT SEATTLE DOCK | Captain of the Vessel Gives| Very Generous Praise. to.| the Officers and Also the‘ Engineer’s Department SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 29.—Marine surveyors representing the underwrit- ers to-day began vestigation of the | dameage to the steamship Queen re-| sulting from the fire aboard her while | &t sea Seturday morning.” Though the ames is plain- ng im detall the | r cargo, amount- | general freight, | and watér, par- | It is roughly es- 20 per cent of the the saloon deck i tons of ged by fire a will rm»nbv be com- w ith its.conclu- of zhfl underwriters | - he Pacific Coast which owns the - respecting the ad- Ford of the Pa- ip Compeny stated en would be re- nothfng would be eyvors had con- The steamship the’ Queen’s place isco run. labors sy & Fran ke dock, |- people all ould get 1. hase re- ors and still at. the »d with ed speclal {neer's de- , third and nd the Mother of Twins. ent - for Charl of Bristol pike a fine pair ned Joseph eparations for 1 can be com- ee .brothers, but them for play- r Jr., the eldest, the young- vears his from H & native tov last from < i > childre: ¥ e nior M Ri ter n 40 ye of eg g ture of hap- exgressed his work on his uld live. The and strong.—Hart- w wage ques- ir last United momiste Francais ¥ basis they are con- side t nelusion must be that America ages a e highest in the we t even if movement of s t now less rapid than s e upward te . 1 high s the economic gulator of of labor. This r in the United on the basis of ctremely productive nd progressive capital, t | - 2 159 | | porfunity. to-explain why such’ permits |‘point and the Y- street leveé for. a cou- -'paying the contestants a percentage’of WIFE ACCUSES THE HUSBAND Lawsuit Filed in the Ore-’ gon Metropolis by Spouse; of a Well-Known Resident FLOODS MELT STRONG LEVEES Waters Cut Through Banks of Sacramento and.Inun- date Lands Near New Hope oy SHE TELLS OF THRE&TS,MOI\I’LEM\L 18 FFARED Court . at Portland Issues Injunetion That Prohibits | a \Ieetmg of the'. Couplej Grand Island" Is Safe, but - Bad- Reports Come From _Antioch Farming Districts it i Ll '_ pectal Dispatch to The Can. PORTLAND, Or., Feb, 29. —Alleging | of the Sacramento River broke fifteén that her husband, M. J. Delahunt, has | [ miles north of New Hope at 3 o'clock been cruel, Mrs. Mary Delahunt fo-day ‘this morning. . Sixty thousand acres filed suit against him for divorce=Dela- | north of the Mokelumne River were in- hunt is well known among commercial | Undatéd. The flood waters carried travelers. The couple were married on ! every levee before them. They poured | January 2, 1883, in San Franicsco, but into the Mokelumne River, raising that have resided here for some years. In Stream until It burst the banks on the “er complaint Mrs. Delahunt says that South side, ‘flooding 7000 acres In the her husband has frequently threatened | New Hope district. It Is the most dis- to beat her and that he recently drove | 8strous flood in the northwestern part her out of the house. She went with ©Of this county since 1881. . her two children to the house of a| While all danger of the flood has neighbdor and has lived there since, re- | | passed so far as Stocktom is concerned, fusing to return to her own home. | the country to the east and northeast The Delahunt residence is a fine|!s Dot so well off. The Tyler Island suburban house valued at $15,000. Mrs. | levees have broken and the water is Delahunt asks for a third interest in all | pouring through gaps which it will be the real estate and for $200 a month ali- | impossible to close. mony end for her attorney’s fees. She‘ From Ryer Island comes the report also esks for the custody of the chil- | that the water is up to thie top of the dren, and wants the .court to order embankment, with prospects of Delahunt to set aside a sum of money 'overflow at the first high tide. Grand in addition to her alimony for their Island is considered safe. It is not be- _ STOCKTON, Feb. 29.—The ‘east bank an| education. Delahunt’s income is quoted | lieved that the Staten Island levees in the complaint as being not less than will hold out the day. $5000 a year. —_—— Mrs. Delahunt sald that her husband SACRAMENTO NOT UNEASY. after driving her out of the housé had 3 s sent word to her that if she sued him R’'yer Is Falling and Levees Protect for & divorce he would kill her; and the the City. .r‘ou‘rl a'ccordm‘glg- issued :: inj(:nc:xi: sganME‘\TO. Fohe 30— Wb Bacris forblading -Delahunt to »e h o ss. mento ‘River is steadily. falling, regis- speak to his wife during the progress.| ... 59 feet at noon to-day. So fir a0 A A | as Ssacramento ts concerned this fact is S " GRANTIN % ! of merely .passing interest, for there OEERES SRS IIRG has nev el)' b‘;e'n a ?Ime during the pres- ent high water that the least. fear from: flood has ‘been fel( Pacific Athletic A“Od‘“"“ Calls At- | | the city- offet absollite protection. tention of Board of Supervisors - siter.which-has inunddted * _“to Existing ‘Ordinance. - | thé country south ‘of the city limits is The Pacific Athletic’ falling steadily. The-watér which has titioned the Board of Sup its ult!mate outlet into' the Mokelumné -terday "to defer acuon on 411 a-ppllca- River had beén held in check by i tions for amateur boxing permits until ural udge riortheast of Freeport, W ich the organization has been given-an ‘op- | caused a steady ‘rigé .between that’ | 7 The bagl should not be ‘granted. The petition;’| ple’ef days. This ridge has been topped| which was referred to thé Police Com- | and’the’backwater will'not go higher. h\t(lee is. signed by E. Linch, T."L| The water which escaped through ‘the = ‘and’; Edwards bieak reached the vicinity: of | New ane yesterday and last.night be- Recenr]x some of the clubs giving |'camé troublesome. thése contests grossly violated-all &ma- the Mokelymne was already at its teur rules by giving the contésts out- ‘ughofit and the added water from" the {sidé:of :their own gympasiums and by Bdwards break caused great alarnr. { row, a well-known grain broker and a | | home; 416 Forts The. levees abuu(‘ ot that. cit. GRAIN BROKER CALLED FROM LIFE’S SCENE — WELL-KNOWN POLITICIAN i AND BUSINESS MAN WHO | | DIED IN OAKLAND. & — George P. Morrow, Prominent - in Business and Poli- tics, Passes Away. ———— |-postal clerks on a northbound train | Miss., was part of a plot to rob the ;Pnrla. a negro, who boarded the train | Paris, the negro charged with the kill- SHOOT CLERKS T0 ROB TRAIN Officers Learn the Motive of Negro for the Attack on| ‘Two Express Méssengers| SEVERAL IN THE PLOT LN O }iloodhounds Track * : One _to Hiding Place, Where He -Is Found With the Booty cording to reports recetved by the of- ficials of the Alabama Great South- ern Railroad the shooting of two to-day,” two miles north of Meridian, train. The shooting was done by Jim in the Meridian yards as it was pull- ing out. Before it was under good ! headway Paris entered the postal car | and opened fire on Clerks J. T. Stock- ton and A. J. Bass, killing Stockton instantly and wounding Bass in the arm. e negro then selzéd a package of registered letters and jumped off. In leaving the train he fell and had | one leg crushed under-the wheels, but managed to drag himself three miles. | Bloodhounds were secured at Meri- dian, the train having backed to that | place. Their scent led to the capture of Paris. Several of the registered let- | ters were found in his pocket. He was taken to jail at Meridian. The railroad officials say three or four negroes were involved in.the plot to rob the train, though only one of them | appears to have ‘entered the postal car. MERIDIAN, Miss., .Feb. 29.—J. P. ing of John R. Stockton, a mail clerk; 3 OH\I’AA\'D Feb.. 29. —George R !\lor-. prominent clubman and politician of ' -this city, died- enrl\' this mornlng at.his ninth street; dftef, a'l bri f illness. ~Decease(l was a nativé of | A \\hero hl‘ was 1n busi-‘ change “and \'he Fham] ce the - been prominent ]’)olnlclan .and was on | the. organizers.of the Repablica ance of Oakland,%f which he- was alst twice elected president. . While - never The flood- plane . op himself an aspirant- for any office; | | Morrow took a deep’ inferest’ in | potitics and was an untifing campuign. er inbehalf of his friends. - A special t6 the -Bee; from. Walnut’ (hn recéipts,- in one instance amount- Grove; at moon states that the.cross-! ng to $§1300. The clubs were expelled | levee "on the Crawford-Clark ranch’ anm the ‘association and they are now -near there went out at 2 o'clock .this applying for boxin, permits, {sranting of which .would be-in_con- ! of the. ith an existing ordinance passed ! preak. b the board. Clarksburg carly. this afterncon stated “The Lincoln Athletic Club was | that Grand and Merritt islands’ weré granted a permit.to hold an amateur ! 511 nzht and that the Ligbon district js boxing contest on Friday evening, 'safe. The river at the locations named March 11. " The club one of those’| was falling ‘and thie backwzter from expelled from the Pacific Association. | the Yolo Basin is at a standstil].. A Bl Tiotsaaa? A special message to the Bee, from Sy gl s St i U Rio Vista, at noon ‘was to the effect ~rnes z % s 5 that the water in the river at that hour Magistrate Crane in the Jefferson Mar- | wag an inch higher than it was during backwater from the Edwards A messagé from ket Police Court, charged with the 1ar- | the figoa period of 1902, but the levees ceny of $400 from the firm of B. Alt- | in that locality were reported to be in- | man & Co. \\'hvr_\ Wurn's ® Was | tacts Rain was falling at that place called Magistrate Crane ask:_' and great uneasiness was felt lest the )o you smoke cigarettes? rain should be general throughout the “Yes,” Wurn replied. 4 upper valley. Y “Cigarette smoking is the 'direct| Raiircad trafic has been reopened {cause of crime,” Magistrate Crane s2id. | petween this city and Oroville. 9 befuddles the brain. To the complainant, who ed the firm, the magistrate said: The best thing yvou can do is to get | up a petition in all the cities of this | country for the United States Govern- ment to prohibit the sale of cigarettes. Jinety-nine per cent of the criminals brought before mé are eigarette smok- ) b ers. It weakens the will power. In|is Withstanding the flood. There are, thirty years there will be no statesmen however, two large cracks in the cross- left in the United States *if the use of | levee on the upper division on Mayber- continues.” — New York ) 'V Slough, through which the water is pouring. The levee between the cracks —_———— has begun to settle and water is boiling | The Power Behind the Crops. under it between the fissures. A force | The colored man, the old mule and | °f Men is at work strengtheding the Snow the is ten feet deep at Summit, in repre- mountains. se - 3 ANTIO(‘H LEVEES YIELD. Waters Are Highest Known in Thirty- Six Years. ANTIOCH, Feb. 29.—Sherman Island cigarettes Times. the rone harness may not be a very | €Vee With bags of sand. About 200 up-to-date and attractive outfit. but, A acres are under water. They are try- just the same, it is the combination | I8 to get a dredger, and hope to have Thich 15 mostly to be credited with | one at_this danger point to-night. Mr. the production of the most valuable UPham, one of the principal owners, crop in the country next to corn. If | Says that it looks pretty blue, but he it were not for this hard times outfit | hopes that the levees will hold out. To- the world would have to get along JAaY the water here was higher than it e shirt and go to bed while it | has been for thirty-six years. The riv- “Although, Mr. Morrow ivas-boin_ | SF!! Francisco. and carried 6n hts bu ness in thdt city, he has lived- ‘nearl “all his life ih Oakland. . He studied in" ! graduate of lhe ('nhersl!) ‘of Califor- ! nia. The deceased was a son of the late ‘L,mrng Morrow,” a . pioneer hay and grain merchant of San Francisco, and at’the time of his death, which was | caused .by brain’trouble, was 46 years {of age. He leayes a wife, Nancy J. Morfow, “and two children, a son, | George W. Moriow, aged 21, and a ! daughter, Rachael M. Morrow, aged 18, | The son is now in Nevada and ar- rangements for the funeral will not be made until his return. San Jose SAN JOSE, Feb. 29.—Mark S. Stone, a well know nurseryman of this | county, died at the O’Connor Sanita- | rium from an overation for appendi- tis.” Deceased had been 11l about a ! week. ta County, this State, and was 39 years of age. For a number of years he conducted a nursery Stone was never married. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Stone, a brother and sister survive him. The remains will be taken to Martinez for interment. y & —— Prominent Tennesseean Dead. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 29.—Col- ! onel Jere Baxter died to-day after an iliness of five weeks. Colonel Baxter as one of the most prominent citi- | spicuous part in its military and civil annals. B — Passenger Had the Worst of It. “This dispute about heated trolley cars,” said a man who reads the pa- ! pers, “bring to my memory a queer incident of a few weeks ago. It was during the first few days of the cold ! found. He was a nativé of Contra Cos- | in this ecity. {zens in the State and played a ton-‘ the serious wounding of John'A. Bass, another mail clerk, and the robbery of | the mail car of the Alabama Great | Southern train, which left this.city this | morning for Birmingham, Is in the county jail, which is guarded by three companies of State troops. Paris’ was paptired early to- day, hloudhuund. following a. blosdy -trail wn. with' bits_of registered letters to a ‘negrvp cabin.’ where Paris was -A -special session of the court “Has-been called 1o: {ry the prisoner.” It "l thuugh! that miore, than one person ! ‘was implicated in_the robber) and .the | negré family in whose (abin Paris was | ahtured has been placed under arrfiqt 'DINNER GIVEN - IN HONOR OF 1 MRS L. M. HAW ! A charming dinner was giveni im the the | morning. This was due to the pressuré | the publié achools of' this city and is.a PAIM Sarden of the Palace-last night | by Mr. -and Mrs: Joseph S. Spear Jr. ;in honor of Mrs. L. M. -Shaw, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, and her daughters,” Miss Enid and Miss Emma * Shaw, who are on a shorf visit _to the Pacific Coast. . | The table, set amid the palm\ was exceptionally pretty in its garlanding —fruit blossoms in rich array lying upon the cloth, tied, with pink and blue | silken streamers. Bouquets of violets lay at every place, while pink and sil- | ver shades sent forth a roseate glow. 4 of Besides the guests | were present Colonel F. Mrs. Stratton, Colone honor there | Stratton and | ohn P. Irish and Mrs. Hamilton, Chauncey St. John, Frank Daugherty, Judge Samuél P. Hall, Dr. Blue and Mrs. Alexander | Sharon. Next Thursday afternoon the emi- nent Shakespearean reader, Marshall Durragh, will appear before the Chan- ning Auxiliary, in the Unitarian | church, in his clever interpretations of | the bard of Avon. | The lecture and those that follow | promise to receive the attentions from | society folk they so well deserve, and it will be distinctly bad taste not to ! have attended at least one of the three i talks. 'Twere better form to wear your last year's hat than not to be seen at | some of them. T e Commander Reginald F. Nicholson and wife left on Sunday for San Diego. | In his popularity Commander Nichol- {son is ably abetted by his wife, in | whom are centered the qualities that | make toward hospitality. Pk a0 | Mrs. J. C. B. Hebbard entertained a coterie of friends at luncheon on Saturday, which added fresh laurels to the popularity of the hostess. The BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 29.—Ac- |, | marry me and I took her to San Fran- { | be considerably with © 4 prise always awake to | was being washed.—Rockford (Iowa) | €'s are full of floating debris. The s, and finally | Register. | levees on the Tyler Island and Sargent e e | tracts have given way and the fertile r r which is really sal, 1 y ¢ be surprised if| Seamless welding of iron and steel |land presents the appearance of an in- n s ghould become the |is done in Birmingham, England, by | land sea. all the world.—New | the use of acetylene and oxygen in'a e Comn blowpipe. | Victims of Names They Bear. { Many people go through life the vic- tims of their parents’ Jack of judgment in naming them; but few are afflicted as was an individual who Nlved some | years ago in Augusta, Me., and whose’ | tombstone in the cemetery attests the | burden that he bore. The tombstone ARE YOU EAMILIAR says: “Here lies Ansel O'Gansel Anselo WITH Ganselo Chandler White Huntoun Watson. Weep not for me.” Scarcaly less burdened was Mrs. Henrietta DINNERWARE? IF SO YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THE QUALITY | Tineratta Tingtong Terio Thompson of Wisconsin, formerly Henrietta Terio, which was the actual name of a resi- | dent of Oshkosh a decade ago. and Sara Ann Gridley Hatch Holmes Pan- ken Raymond Waterhouse of Nan- tucket, whose relatives were all re- membered at her christening. To have escaped such a fate as that any plain John Smith should bless his stars!—Boston Transcript. —_——— Beating the Old Country. Of photographs, chromos, drawings and engravings the United States sells Canada $250,000 worth, as against $40,000 worth coming from England. And the sum spent by Canadians on English Bibles, prayer-books, psalm and hymn books has diminished by a _alf in the last five years, while our own exports across our northern frontier have ex- actly doubled in the same time. —_————— The Danish Co-operative Egg Ex- port Society, with 30,000 members, sold last year $4,380,000 worth of eggs, principally in London. OF THIS HIGH-GRADE SET CF JOHN MADDOCK & SONS’ “ROYAL VITREOUS” 103 PIECES $16.6 Cobait Blue Patte-n —Festoon £hape. EXTRA PIECRS CAN BE HAD IF WANTED TAKE A PEEP AT OUR bUSH STREET WINDOWS Mmmmhmm@ l22—l32 snap and instead of taking my even- | decorations were red—the color of the ing exercise—that is, walk home from hour—and the name-cards were little the-office—I would ride home on the | gems of wit; each one bearing some car. | clever skit. “I sat near the front door of the! The following ladies were enter- SON T0 GUARD SIRE'S WEALTH Heir to a Vast Estate in Portland Meets With ©Ob- stacles on Love's Highwa)_' COIN DECLARED IN PERIL| Elderly Man's Affeétion for a Young Woman Said to Have Cost Him Many Thousands’| Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or, Feb. "23.—Al- though F. D. Love Is 53 years old, his | own son has been'appointed as guar- dian to prevent his father from dis- sipating his fortune. Love, who has| three grown daughters In Oakland, Cal., is one of the heirs to the Cap- tain Love estate here, valued at near- ly $100,000. He realizes that he has made mistakes. and admits that he might do so again. He expresses satis- | faction that his son has been ap- pointed to take care of his property. i “I took a young lady as a friend,” said Love to-day, “when she was | homeless. I spent’ large sums of money on her and now she spurns me after trying to rob me of my money and real estate. She promised to cisco four months ago. There I spent at least $5000 on her and deeded her a house and lot. Then she got me to go into the saloon business in San Fran- cisco with her brother, but he lost money for me.” I scarcely can believe that she would treat me so. ————————— Boy Wanted Full Instructions. | “During one of my visits through | the country districts,”” said the profes- | sor, “I happened to reach a small vil- lage where they were to have a flag | raising at the schoolhouse. After the | banner had been ‘flung to the breeze’ | there was an exhibition of drawings which the pupils had made and of the work they had done during -the year. 'The teacher recited fo them ‘Thhl .anding of the’ Pilgrims,’ and after | she had finished she requested each | pupil to try and draw from. his or her | imagination a picture of Plymouth Rock. . “Most of them went to work at once, but one little fellow hesitated and at length raised his hand. .* ‘Well, Willie, what is it?" | the teacher. B asked ‘Please, ma'am. do you want us to draw a hen or a rooster?’ "—Phila- | de ]phla Press; ¢ ———————— Cost of Leap Year. The fact that this is a leap .year | carries with it an effect apt to be | ‘overlooked, which is that the annual | expenses of governing the nations will increased by the in- clusion of the extra dav. This comes home with the greatest force to those Governments which have the largest armies to feed and provide for. The French Budget Commission, now .sitting, is met by the fact that the one day will add to the expenses of the | War Office for 1904 a sum of nearly | ! 800,000 francs, which will be expend- | ed in rations for the men and forage | for the horses. When all the various | state departments are separately con- | | sidered, the tolal sum runs into sev- eral millions of francs.—London Tit- Bits. | —ee———— The English Co-operative. Wholesale | Society has 1,392,399 members and ‘| and Mrs. Irish, William B. Hamilton | does an annual business of $89,500,000. | nounced an international The similar Scotch society does $29,- 500,000 of busines: BODY 1 FOUND ON THE BEACH Remains of a Man Picked Up on Mare Island May Solve Mystery: of G. H. Booth MISSING FOR TWO WEEKS Brase, Ldgal He Leaves Black Diamond in a Duck Boat and Friends Believe He Was Drowned VALLEJO, Feb. 29.—The body of an unknown man was found on the beach back of the marine barracks on Mare | Island this morning. McDonald's un- dertaking wagomr was sent over for the body and it was brought to this city. Under date of February 19 Coromer McDonald received a letter from W. C. Croxon of Black Diamond saying that George H. Booth of the Sacramento River Packing Company had left Black Diamond in a duck boat on Sunday. February 14, to cross the river to Col- linsville, and had not since been heard from. The boat was afterward seen floating bottom up .in the bay, and Croxon asked the Coroner to notify him if ari unidentified body was found. Cor oner McDonald telephoned Croxon at 1 o'clock this afternoon, and the latter will come to Vallejo to-morrow morn- ing to see if the body is that of Booth The body had only a pair of shoes and belt on when found. and it is possible that the man iried- to swim ashore when the boat capsized. ——— e —— Archaeology in Greece, A French archaeologist has pre- sented thé sum of 50;000 franes to the French School of Archaeology for con- tinuing the excavations of the school in Greece. The new Minister of Edu- cation, M. Staes, who is a native of and wmember from the island of Kythera, is taking steps to have fur- ther exploratiéns made at the bottom of the channel near that island.' It will be remembered tha was from here that, during M. Staes’ former tenure of office, the famous statue, variously known as the Hermes, Per- seu or Paris of Antikythera, was fished up. It is believed that other treasures might be recovered by divers, so that much interest attaches to M. Staes’ efforts to come to terms with a company which is accustomed to such work.—New York Commercial Adver- tiser. . ——e————— Daniel on Negotiable Instruments. Senator Daniel of Virginia is a dis- tinguished lawyer and author of one | of the standard law textbooks—"Dan- ijel on Negotiable Instruments.” He used to give lectures in a law school, and one day he explained how he came to write the book. He said he was in his office some years ago when a man came in and sight drafts carry three days of grace. He didn’'t know. None of the other lawyers knew, and it took a visit to the bank to find out. He then deter- mined to write a comprehensive work on all negotiable instruments, and he did so. As the Senator was finishing a young man in the c¢lass said: “Sen- ator, do sight drafts carry three days of grace Daniel hemmed and hawed, looked confused, and finally | said: “Upon my soul, young man, I have forgotten.”—New York Tribune. ——————— So important is the Pasteurizing of milk Heemed by Russia that the impe- tial Minister of Agriculture has an- competitive show of apparatus for that purpose in St. Petersburg next spring. ADVERTISEMENTS. reduction best . examp es in Furniture SALEATSLOANLS There truth of théSe markable, representing an endless variety of the be no possible doubt as to the S. The values are re- for bhall, Parlor, Dining-room, and Bedroom—in Uphoistery, Lace Curtains, down 20 to 50 p:r cent. for illustration: COLONIAL ROCKER— Woo1 sgat. Cathedral Oak ARM CHAIR— Rush seat, high back. Oriental and Domestic Rugs—marked We cite these examples $5.00 to 33.50 $12.50 to 37100 car and when 1 saw the motorman turn his head from the gust at every intersecting- street iny heart went out to him in, sympithy—in fact, I ex- pressed my sympathies to the conduc- tor, and was surprised at the answer that he gave me. He said 1 was suf- fering more from the cold at-that time than was the motorman, and the reason was that the motorman had paper wrapped all about his body, from his neck to the tip of his toes, and that this kept him warm.”"—Phila- delphia Press. b AP AR L The Nose in Japan. In Japan the nose is the only fea- ture which attracts attention. The nose determines thegbeauty or ugliness of the face, according as it is big or small. This is probably due to the fact that difference in noses constitutes | about the only distinction between one Japanese face and another. The eyes are invariably black, the cheekbones high and the chin receding. In Japan tained: Mrs. John 1. Sabin, Mrs. A. P. | Duzer, Mrs. Henry Payot, Mrs. Charles ! Goodall, Mrs. J. M. Litchfield, Mrs. | Byron Mauzy, Mrs. J. Homer Fritch, Mrs. 'H. H. Young, Mrs. A. J. Raisch, | Mrs. Frank Fredericks, Miss’ Alice “ Schroth and Miss Florence G. Schroth. iy S A theater party will be given to- night at the California, where “Sag | Harbor” is the attraction, by William ! B. Gross, general manager of the Herne attractions. The party will be composed of Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw and the Misses Shaw, wife and daughters of the Secretary of the United States Treasury; Commissioner of Public Works T. P. Woodward and wife, ex- Congressman Julius Kahn and wife and Mrs. Prag. Mr. and Mrs. Kahn entertained the same party at din- ner on Sunday night and after dinner a tour of Chinatown was made. ————— - Robbers Make Use of This Herb. In New Caledonia there is said to be a herb which has the rare property” a woman who has a huge proboscis is always a great beauty and reigning belle. There are a few large’ noses among the natives and lucky is he or she upon whom nature lavishes one. In all Japanese pictures representing the supposedly beantiful woman the artist invariably improves on nature by depicting this feature as abnor- mally developed.—New York Times. ———— The office of Premier of Great Brit- ain, as Buch, does not carry with it any salary. of revealing one's secrets. It is known as the daturn stramonium and has white flowers and rough berries, full of dark grainS. They are treated of in the current number of Annals of Hygiene and Colonial Medicine. A person who has swallowed the tea made of this herb will after falling asleep tell where his money is hidden and will also arise and go direct to where his treasure is concealed. Rob- bers often use this tea as knockout drops with which to rob their victims, —Boston Globe. Ladies’ French WRITING TABLE— Solid mahogany. $35.00 to 0ld Misslon EXTENSION TABLE— Top 50 inches by 10 feet. $50.00 to Weathered Oak SOFA— TWI Seat'and back upholstered in Spanish leather. $72. N BRASS BEDS— Finest finish, 3 feet 6 inches. $120.00 to $24.00 $30.00 50 to “5-““ $75.00 (Per Pain You have now the advantage of a large choice from the most exclusive assortment, which of S course will grow less.as the sale advances. Goods purchased at sale can be left here to suit owner’s pleasure, but special price pieces cannot be X« changed nor returned. SLOANLE'S POSThear KEARNY