The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, | |and awaited developments. | I ] | a short time ago effected a clever cap- | {ture in this way. He noticed a man, | | pipe in mouth, walking up and down | |a street in the West End of London Iond continnally striking matches 1o bligh( his pipe. Strangeyto say, how- | ever, no smoke emanated from the | pipe, and, thinking something was | | wrong, the detective concealed himself | A few ! minutes later the man struck another | | mateh, and in a trice a boy about 12 | |vears old came out from the front| dopr of an unoccupied house, bearing on his shoulders a sack with sticks of | wood protruding from the end. The detective “smelt a rat” and at | | once detained the lad, in whose sack, under the wood, was found over £4000 | \werth of jewels. The untry squire” ! lendeavored to make his escape and et - 5 YR 6 —% | the boy protestad that he had never 7= , seen him, but it was afterward dis- Beats Uncle Russell. jcovered that the bucolic gentleman | Sponial CileeipaiiBenin; w well-known ticket-of-leave man. As a general rule old penal servi- HEADQUAHTERS OF THE CA tude men are the founders of thieves' § HENRIETTA STREET, [ | “schools.” Realizing that, as they are GARDEN, LONDON, July [too well known to the police, their conspicuous example of longevity and | Chances of uing a felonious | robust health combined with untiring devotion to business, Sir Andrew Lusk, whose photograph’ is here shown, AIRS AT THE AGE | A EW LUSK, A MAN OF AT AFF. “ i called the Russell Sage of In fact he is several years aan the famous American finan- and confidently expects to cele- ninety-fourth birthday next It was only a temporary the other day from the annual meeting of the General Assurance Compa of which he has been the chairman for the last quart¥r of a cen- tury. He is head of the well known London firm of Andrew Lusk & Co., but like many other men here, re- markable for intellectual vigor ingold &ge, he was born in Scotland. As long | &go as 1873, when he was a sprightly fellow of sixty-three, he was elected Lord Mayor of London 4nd at the ex- piration of his term of office the usual honor of knighthood was conferred upon him. For twenty years—from 1866 to 1885—he represented the borough of Finsbury in Parliament. It will be recalled that Russell Sage was for a brief period a member of Con- gress, but found that he could not at- tend to both business and politics at the same time. Sir Andrew, perhaps because he was not quite so anxious to keep piling up more money than he could spend, managed to do it. Un- likke Russell Sage, too, he does occa- sionally allow himself a holiday, but has never indulged In the luxury of a country residence, making his home al- ways in London. School for Burglars. It has long been known that the modern thief or burglar trains chil- dren very carefully for nefarious work. Only the gther day a trainer of young jthieves was sent to prison, and such cases are continually cropping up. Most ingenious are the methods practiced by “professionals” to'teach their puplls the art of burglary. Mere youngsters make excellent subjects; &nd as it is obviously of importance mnot to make 2 noise when “burgling,” the lads are now taught to slide face downward on the balustrade. It has been discovered that, in order to ao- custom them to this mode of descent, special spiral-shaped balustrades are sometimes constructed, and before the pupil is pronounced “finished” he must be able to slide Gown a varlety of these balustrades “like greased light- ning.” Another common practice among the “burgling” fraternity is that of getting orders to view empty houses frofl various house agents. A num- ber of clever burglaries are worked this way. Dressed up as e country squire, the “master” visits numbers of house agents, gets orders to view certain houses, generally in terraces, ne there, if he has a plan of the interior of one house, he has a “key” to the whole terrace. He accordingly looks over the L.ouse, gets a plan of the interior, and quits. A few days afterward his pupils enter the empty house, and making their way along the roofs, enter whichever house has been se- lected. In the meantime the “squire” yatrols the house outside, looking re- #pectability personified, and when the «oast is clear he signals, usually by striking matches, so that the boys in- #ide know whetner they can safely | come out with the spoil. One match means “all's well”; two matches | | king, which caused him to be | ul manner are very ht, they huve perforce to procure | understudies. by enlarging on the ruing from burglaries and pocket-pick they have little diffi- cnlty in getting hold of boys with evil | propensities. Weeks and weeks are ! | then spent in instructing the novices {in their new The initial les- | | sons are geners fevoted to the art af picking pock . when the pocket is Ladies’ dresses, | made at the back of the skirt, offer | | Mttle difficulty, but before the pupils | are aliowed to try their hand in earnest they have (just as in the days! gin, the Jew) to satisfy their “at home,” and experiments ! t of all made on female accom- who decide whether the bud- is sufficiently pro- plices, ding pickpocket ficient to launch out in “public life.” | | Tie pins, said a detective to the writer, are generaily removed in this | way: Working in pairs, the thieves | wait their opportunity, and in a busy thoroughfare they pretend to g by a few paces in front of their * As he approaches one ac- complice ks away, but before he has gone far turns round and hands his friend a paper or something of the at the same time stretching across the owner of the pin, apologiz- ing the while for being so impolite as to do so. It is while stretching across that the pin is removed, as the object handed is held between the first and second fingers, while the tie pin is | removed with\the third:and fourth fingers. Only a short time ago a policeman actually saw a man steal a tie pin; caught in the act, the thief. loudly protesting his innocence, struggled with the constable, but was taken in charge and searched. To the police- man’s surprise nothing was found on him, and he was ultimately released. After the day’s work the policeman changed his “mufii” and to his sur- | prise found the pin, the cause of all! the trouble, in his own pocket. The i(hief had placed it there during the | struggle; his days of liberty were, however, numbered, for a few weeks | later he was arrested for burglary and in the course of his trial he confessed | that since he was eleven years old he had been a pupil of a well-known ticket-of-leave man.—London Daily Mail. 200¢ “quar [ Liberia’s New President. The United States maintains a Min- | ister to Liberia. He is Rev. Ernest Lyon, a Baltimore man. The other day, Minister Lyon reports, Liberia sol- emnly inaugurated a new President named Thomas Barclay. Liberia's con- stitution is easy and permits the coun- try to be governed by people born upon foreign soil. Barclay came to Liberia in early childhood from Barbadoes, in the West Indies, and even as an infant showed surprising ability In politics. | It is told of Barclay that, being with | his nurse and some other children near | his age one day, some candy was about to be distributed, when it was discov- ered that there was one plece too-few | to go round. Whereat Tommy instant- 1y had a magnanimous solution for the | problem. “Let the youngest be served | first,” he said proudly, planting his Iit- tle hand upon his infant bosom. But when the candy came to be attacked it was discovered that by a calculation of incredible rapidity Tommy had per-! ceived thdt the youngest was himself. Later on, when he had got to be Sec- retary of State, he performed the re- markable feat of maintaining a balance in the treasury of the republic. For the probity and skill thus shown a grateful people made him President. And it is safe to say that Liberia is heartily and | unanimously glad that Barclay has the job. For while there are only 25000 English-speaking negroes in the coun- try, the rest of the population is com- of ,000 native and sa m hhckl.w Still uberl: as m- republics go, is surpri ly well or- dered. For, while numerically small, the descendents of the original settlers | from the United States are still su-| preme in power. Revolutions are mm-' paratively few and business booms.— Boston Transcript. 5 : Chicago Shellfish. Ex-Justice Jullus M. Mayer is very fond of things that come out of the sea, and while In Chicago recently=at the Republican convention he sought to indulge his tastes in one of the well | known urants there, says the New i York After a survey of the ; menu, he called one of the waiters and ordered a portion of Little Neck clams. “Very sorry, sir,” sald the waiter, “but we're out of clams.” “Bring me a nice brolled then,” said the Judge. “There isn't a lobster left,” sald the waiter. “This is very annoying,” said Judge Mayer, taking another survey of the bill of fare. “Let me have some soft- | _“We're out of soft-shell crabs, too,” looking lobster, replied the waiter, rather “Then why do you keep these things the bill?” Have you any shellfish at &2 ‘he demanded. humor. Bntkenthgmoct . SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. 1904 THE: SAN FRANCISCO CALL {JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . « .+ o « + « » . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager ..Third and Market Streets, §. F OUR ISSUE WITH TURKEY. HE Sultan has persisted for years in putting Americans under the ban in his empire. The position and privileges accorded to Europeans, in respect of residence and freedom in business and pro- fessional practice, have been persistently refused to Americans. This has resulted in the outlawry of our countrymen in Turkey. If they were located there they were subject to intolerable exactions and restrictions, enforced not by the mob but by the Government. Our Minister, after suing for an audience with the Sultan for two years, was finally given a hearing in which he was treated with conspicuous contempt and discourtesy, and thdugh a time was fixed for an answer to his re- quests it has been permitted to expire and the Sultan remains silent. No Government, and especiaily not ours, can submit to such treatment. No matter how small American interests may be in Turkey we have the undoubted right to demand and enforce equality with other nations. To submit to humiliation, oppression and inequality at the hands of the most rotten and corrupt of Govern- ments is intolerable. There is but one course to pur- sue and that has been taken by Secretary Hay, in order- ing warships to a Turkish port, and if necessary to menace Constantinople itself. { We have abundant precedents, created under ‘all ad- ministrations. When Austria refused to deliver Martin Kozsta, who had only declared his intention to become nerican and had taken the preliminary steps toward American citizenship, an American man-of-war menaced the Austrian consulate and shipping and compelled the delivery of Kozsta. This was before the days of cable | communication, and the action was taken upon the order of Mr. Ja and was ckson, the American diplomatic representative, subsequently indorsed by the Secretary of State, and is an incident in our history that is the pride of our people. Their pride is no less invested in the demand that Americans shall be legally the equal of men of other nations in the empire of the Sultan. It is surely a strange thing that Abdul Hamid, who holds his position as a European ruler by virtue of the rival ambitions of other Continental nations which he treats with craft and indifference, should yet grant to their nationals equality which he denies to Americans, whose country has no desire to interfere with his posi- tion or the integrity of his empire in Europe, Asia Minor or Africa. While it is true that only the Congress of the United States can deciare war, it is also true that the Presi- dent can use the force of the nation to protect such American rights as are denied by the Sultan, by mak- ing a naval demonstration and even by proceeding to the extreme of throwing shot through the palace and seraglio of the Sultan. If Turkey remain obdurate and continue an insulting and defiant attitude, the same American pride and seatiment that would have de- manded war against Austria to enforce the rights of Martin Kozsta will demand that Congress take the most extreme measures againist Turkey in the present controversy. It would be a conflict which Europe would regard with complacency, for it might well end with the destruction of European Turkey, and the solving of the problem of the “Sick Man,” which has been the despair of the Continental powers and Great Britain. No American is so insensible to the dignitx_ of his country as to refuse approval of vigorous action in such a situation. When Secretary Hay sent his ultimatum to the Sultan of Morocco in the case of Perdicaris, de- manding “Perdicaris alive, or Rassouli dead,” he struck the universal chord of American feeling. We will not be treated with contempt or put under the ban of in- equality by any nation, and least of all by such organized iniquity as Turkey. The Sultan has so long enjoyed immunity from the Continental powers and has reduced lying to so fine an { art that he has become proud and puffed up with the idea that he can do as he pleases with a nation so dis- tant as the United States. The sentiment of modern Governments and of civilization demands that the na- tionals of one country shall be cafe and equal in all other countries. The subjects of the Sultan come here and find absolufe equality of right. They have mobility throughout our borders, can engage in business or the practice of a profession, and are amply protected by our laws, being under no ban on account of race or religion. By the treaty of Smyrna, negotiated for the United States by Commissioners Rhind and Offley and Com- modore Biddle, and by Mohammed Hamed for Turkey, it was agreed that “Merchants of the Sublime Porte, whether Mussulmans or Rayahs, going and coming, in the countries, ports and provinces of the United States, or proceeding from one port to another, or from the ports of the United States to those of other countries, shall pay the same duties and imposts that are paid by the most favored' nations, and they shall not be vexed by the exaction of higher duties; and in traveling by sea and land, all the privileges and distinctions observed toward the subjects of other powers shall serve as a rule and shall be observed toward the merchants and subjects of the Sublime Porte. In like manner Ameri- can merchants, who shall come to the well defended countries of the Sublime Porte, shall pay the same duties and imposts that are paid by merchants of the most favored friendly powers, and they shall not in any way be vexed or molested. American merchants established in the well defended states of the Sublime Porte, for purposes of commerce, shall have liberty to employ semsars (brokers) of any nation or religion in like manner as merchants of other friendly powers, and they shall not be disturbed in their affairs, nor shall they be treated in any way contrary to established usage.” That treaty has been systematically violated by Tur- key and observed by us. Turkey must now keep faith or take the eonsequences. A charming personality in the death of ex-Senator Vest of Missouri. He belonged to a rapidly disappearing lchoo‘ of rhetorical statesmen. Person- ally no member of the Senate was more popular, and but few had equal gifts of charming oratory. But an analysis of his characteristics places him in the ranks of the rhetoricians, rather than with the constructive statesmen. He always attracted an audience on the floor and in the Senate galleries when speaking on any subject. He was always interesting and received the applause of his opponents, as well as of his supporters, But, after all, his was the genius of opposition and THE DEATH OF SENATOR VEST. MERICAN public life loses a picturesque and liancy and keen and cutting sarcasm and exhaustless . plete ecarthly bliss. the case, this appears to be a very reckless presentation not of construction. He could oppose with great bril- | of conditions. To the lay observer it is Sully’s creditors, of equal power in sup- port of anything. When the administration of his own party was in power his genius for opposition led him to antagonize it, even upon issues which it was later demon- strated that his better judgment approved. When Mr. Cleveland found it necessary to strongiy intervene to save sound money and the public credit, Vest attacked him with unexampled force. Announcing that he and the President had “reached the parting of the ways,” he led the party revelt which destroyed the President’s leadership and put the party finally in the hands of Mr. Bryan, to be inoculated with every dis- ease of political heresy, from whick it has not yet re- covered. Later on, Vest in many expressions antagonized Bryan, carrying into unofficial party leadership the same spirit of opposition that led him to oppase the President. But in 2ll this career of opposition everything in ‘his party and out he created but few personal asperities and was a general favorite with all his colleagues. His methods did not satisfy the business aspirations of his State, and it came to be thought that Missouri required a Senator more in touch with actual things. It is doubtful if she succeeded when Stoue was elected his successor, for Stone is a man of visions, all bad. The sorrow for the passing of Vest is genuine and is not confined to the public men of his own party. Towns are springing up as if by magic in the Rose- bud reservation of South Dakota, where a vast area has been opened by the Government for settlement. It is unfortunate that the settlers, sturdy of purpose and honest of intention, were not allowed more time before the shadow of the municipality and its strange exactions fell upon them. To flee from the city to help build an- other is hardly what these pioncers planned for in their rush to the reservation. THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. ARIE CORELLI, the greatest living woman writer, begins a powerful series of articles deal- M ing with live topics of the social side of life in The Sunday Call Magazine to-morrow, the first arti- cle being entitled “The *Decay of Hospitality.” The two succeeding articles will be entitled, “Why American Girls Are Popular in England” and “The Palm of Beauty.” No one could be better qualified by keen in- sight and long experience to discuss such matters in a thoroughly entertaining manner than Marie Corelli whose books have been translated into every written | language and whose name is a household word through- out the civilized world. With the article to-morrow will appear a fac-simile reproduction of a hitherto unpub- lished manuscript in the handwriting of the authoress with her signature. . Another strong series, but in a lighter vein, which begins to-morrow, will be from the pen of the ever- popular Edward W. Townsend, the creator of the in- comparable Chimmie Fadden. The series by Mr. Town- send, who is one of the many successful writers of the day whose early training was received in San Fran- cisco, will deal with the chastening experiences of “Reu- ben From Beetville,” who arrives in New York bur- dened with considerable more money than sophistica- tion. to bring these two prominent features more into equili- brium makes amusing reading. “Dr. Xavier” runs through the second of its four installments. This story will be completed upon August 28, and will be followed by “Anna the Adventuress,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim, the well-known English writer. Other fiction features embrace a full-page story by William Allen White; “The Homecoming of Colonel Hucks,” a charmingly told story of an old-fashioned couple, with illustrations in three colors by J. A. Cahill; “Giovanni and the Princess,” the leading story upon the storiette page, and two storiettes, “The Letter Robert Wrote” and “A Fool and His Money.” A | In the women's section are three up-to-date pages of fashiod: “What to Wear in the Fail Days,” by Augusta Prescott; “Unique Wedding Gifts for Brides,” contain- ing hints on many odd but very acceptable presents, and a page on “Simple but Effective Portieres,” by Madge Moore. There is also a page on the philan- thropic work that Oakland women are dning,‘and many shorter articles and items, Reports from Berkeley indicate that the College of Commerce is advancing rapidly in popularity and influ- ence in the University of California. In practical edu- cation this college should hold high place in the esteem of university men. A wide and-constantly broadening field of lucrative activity is opening in San Francisco for graduated students in commerce. The Golden Gate has become the avenue for vast trade. PIRCt T AR s The newly elected President of the United States of Colombia took his uneasy seat of office the other day, and strange to relate in these days of political surprises, absolute quiet marked the event. When the Colombians can't be teased into at least a riot over the induction of a new chief executive we must conclude that national spirit, is sadly lacking in that hysterical vigor which makes these volatile South Americans so picturesque. Occasionally, though not often, the humdrum of life supplies an incident that meets the demand of com- One such happened the other day when a negro lad was accidentally locked for three days in a freight car loaded with watermelons. If that wasn’t happiness without a flaw it is difficult to suggest what would be for the dusky prisoner. While the nations are formulating rules and regula- tions to define the character of contraband of war, the Russian sailors are merrily pursuing their predatory way and the sea is as dangerous almost as the land from the operation of marauders. Thus far national definitions seem to be subject to the opinion of Russian interpreta- tion as a final court of judgment. ~ —_— Facts and figures demonstrate the interesting condi- tion that the United States produces more beer than does Germany. It is equally interesting that the Gov- ernment reports of American exports fail to show that we send any appreciable guantity of the beverage out of the country. Nor do the brewers indicate that any of it is being wasted at home. —_— It is reported that Sully, the New York cotton king, deposed from his unstable throne in the pit, is in trouble Taking into serious consideration the facts in not he, who are in trouble, with very little prospect of ¥, The description of the various incidents tending ! | the examination, and when after Miss | With my neck all raw and blistered lAfm' from the oppressive silence, “A Lady of High Culture. A ‘Los Angeles school teacher, who recently spent a few days in this city, tells an amusing story about a colored girl named Lizzie Young, who was as- signed to her class. It appears that Miss Blank, the teacher, a few days after Lizzie came to school reached the conclusion that |- the colored girl, though nearly 18 years of age, was not far enough ad- vanced to remain in the class to which she had been assigned. This conclu- | 8lon was forced upon the teacher after |she had examined Lizzie as to the studies she had pursued before coming to | to Los Angeles. “Lizzie,” said Miss Blank at the opening of the examination, “what books did you use?” * “Jes’ like dese, ma'am,” sald Liz- (of cruelty calling for the intervention zle, pointing to one of the California [of the S. P. C. A., but as a matter of State series. Now Miss Blank knew that “books Jes’ like dese” were not found out of California, and as Lizzle came from Louisiana she became suspicious. “Of course,” she said, ‘““you have studied arithmetic, Lizzie?” “Lot, ma’'am,” responded Lizzie L S - e HAD DB SPINAL wWE hé BABY YES. MA'AM, GITIS IN CLASS. - - with a wise shake of her kinky head. “Fractions?” “Yes, ma'am.” “Interest?"” “Yes, indeed, ma'am.” “Lizzie’s ‘ves, ma'am” came with exceeding regularity during the rest of | Blank had received a vigorous ‘“yes, ma’am” to her question, “Did you ever study geography and grammar?” she arked: - “And cerebro spinal menin- gitis “Yes, ma'am. We had dat in der baby class.” Back to Town. Back from my summer vacation, In the noisy old town once more, Away from the vicious mosquitoes And the chiggers that sting and bore, And my nose as red as a beet, I find that the city is welcome And that life in town is sweet. Back from my summer vacation, Away from the worms that ecreep, And the gnats that crawl down my neck- band, . And bother me while I sleep, Afar from the flies and the spiders And the June bugs that biff and pelt, 1 am glad to get back from the country And the loneliness I have felt. Back from my summer vacation, And the soggy old stuff to eat. ‘Where a restaurant meal is a pleasurs And a table d’hote is a treat, Where there's something to do besides grumble And something to do besides wait, Where I get my papers each morning And they're never a whole day late. Back from my summer vacation, In the good old town once more, To the rush and the rout and roar. In the city there's something doing, There's joy in the meet of might And the soul expands with the struggle And grows in the shock of fight. —Chicago Chronicle. Euidence of Cleanliness. ‘When the late ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed was in California, says the Youth’s Companion, he visited the Lick Observatory, on Mount Hamilton. It was a wonderful November day, full of gold and the bloom of flowers. Mr. Reed logked down at the gorgeous landscape 4000 feet below, and, turning to one of his hosts, said: “Colonel, this looks too much like a special display got up in honor of the occasion. Tell me what a typical win- ter day in California is really like.” The Californian thought at once of a day In February, so warm that after a morning bath he had lain in a ham- mock outdoors, smelled the roses on the trellis and listened to the trill of the meadowlark among the almond blooms. He. began to describe it eloquently: “Thirteen years ago, on February 22, I took a bath—"" He paused to arrange his account of the roses and the meadowlark. Mr. Reed broke the pause, ‘““Well, Colonel, he sald, In admira- tion, “you do know something about cleanliness out here, don’t you?" A Dog by Pneumatic. The London Daily Mafl of July 28 contains an interesting item upon unique tests made there of the em- clency of the pneumatic tube system. It says: “Taking the squirming little dog firmly but gently with the left hand, the operator dropped him carefully into the yawning mouth of the big cylinder. Then, closing the breech of the case with a dextrous movement of his right hand, he pushed the cylin- firlntothc:.uchho. A touch of a lever and tube and dog disappeared from view. 24 . m_mmm»m.u fact it was one of the many interest- ing experiments made recently at the first demonstratfon of the Batcheller pneumatic tube system at Ranelagh Leodge, Fulham. “In exactly twenty-five seconds the cylinder and dog were blown out of the returning tube, having traveled in that period 800 feet. “On his release it may be recorded that the little dog wagged his tall and evinced those signs of canine satisfac- tion which humanity usually asso- ciates with a contented mind. “Not only dogs, cats, mice and guinea pigs enjoyed the novel sensa- tion of* ‘looping the tube,’ but the em~ periments extended to the transmis- sion of every kind of fragile article. “Eggs, teacups and glassware were sent along the tube at the rate of forty miles an hour and came through the ordeal unchipped. The tubes In use were eight-inch tubes, but twelve-inch tubes are to be used for the proposed’ London system.” Social Revolution. There has been probably no greater social revolution in the last half cen- tury than that which has affected the custom and circumstances of smoking. Before the Crimean war, says the London Express, no well-bred man would think of being seen In the day- time in a fashionably frequented part of London with a cigar in his mouth. Nowadays a fragrant Havana, if not an emblem of aristocracy, is regarded anyhow as a proof of means. Twenty years ago a visitor in a lady’'s drawing-room would as soon have thought of spitting on the floor as of puffing Turkish tobacco: to-day it Is an open question whether the hostess or her guest is the first to ha re recourse to the contents of a cigarette case. At the ponderous and protracted banquets in vogue during part of the last reign. to insuit the “after din- ner claret.” by the suggestion of smoking would have constituted a far graver offense than to undervalue the champagne by diluting it with seltzer water. In these present days in private houses, at regimental messes and even at “festival” dinners, coffee and cigar- ettes trip up the heels of the “savory.” The other evening a distinguished for- eigner, as he complacently lighted a mammoth cigar, said to his host: “On the last occasion when 1 had the honor of dining in this house I was your father's guest, and he begged me during dessert not to hesitate to g0 into the square outside if I would lke to smoke; and, so far from being taken aback by the suggestion, I con- s'dered him a very liberal-minded man for even recognizing such a require= ment on my part.” Answers to Queries. NAVAL ADDRESSES —A. 8. M, City. If you will call at the U. 8. Na- val Pay Office in the Phelan buflding you can obtain the addresses of such naval officers you desire, A HOME—E. O. 8, City. The large brick building on the north side of Lake street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, {s a Cathollc institution called The Home for the Aged. It is to be conducted by the Little Sisters of the Poor and will be a home for the aged poor of any religion who may be un- able to pay for a home in any institu- tion. It cost about $200,000 and the ownership vests in the Archbishop of this diocese, who is a corporation sole. USE OF LETTERS.—Subscriber, City. The following is said to be the proportionate use of the various letters in the English alphabet, as given in a table based on the experience of print- ers: Capitals—S, 1194; », X, 4 Lower case—e, 1000; t, 770; a, 728; 1, 704; s, 680: o, 672; n, 670; h. 540; r, 528; d, 392; 1, 360; u. 296; c, 280; m, 272; f, 236; w, 190; y, 184; p, 168; g, 168; v, 158 b, 120; k, 88; j, 55; q, 50; x, 46; z, 22. DRAW POKER—A. P. P, Alameda, Cal. In the game of draw poker the eldest hand has the privilege of making & bet before the cards are called to be dealt. This bet Is usually limited to a few chips and is called “going blind.” The blind may be doubled by the player to the left of the eldest hand, and the next player to the left may at his op- tion straddle this bet, and so on, in- cluding the dealer. The age or aldest hand alone has the privilege of starting the blind, and if he does any player re- fusing to straddle debars those after him from doing so. When the age de- clines to go blind he is sometimes per- mitted to delegate his privilege to the next player: this, however, must be agreed upon previous to beginning the game. By eldest hand or age is meant the player immediately to the left of the dealer. ————— Townsend's California Glace frults in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_——— Special information supplled daily to Hornia street. Telephoue Mata 1048, &