The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1905, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McCNAUGHT.....coccencesnsse wvee.. THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO ...JULY 10, 1905 PUBLICATION OFFICE.... THE TRADE SITUATION. HERE was not much feature to trade last week. It was Fourth of July week, which is always a dull one and in the height of the usual summer lull, when many mills of the various manufac- Still, the showing was excellent. The bank clearings gained 47.1 per cent over _]e_xst year, Cincinnati and Cleveland alone out of the forty-five first cities and towns on the list showing a loss, and these so small as to be almost no loss at all. The gains of the largest cities were heavy, such as 654 per cent at New York, 34 at Boston, 23.1 at Philadelphia, 70.4 at N_ew Orleans, the latter being due to a sharp advance and excited trading in cotton, 17.6 at San Francisco, 14.3 at Chicago, 21.9 at Pittsburg, and so on. The aggregate clearings, however, fell off to $2,144,- 861,000, against the recent normal of $2,500,000,000. The failures were away below the average, being 160, against 206 last year. The railway earnings continued to exhibit their steady gain, those for June being 6 per cent over last year, the fiscal year showing an | average of 7 per cent over 1903-04. Trading in Wall street was heavier last week than during the preceding week, the daily sales running up to an average of about 1,000,000 shares for the week. The market for both railway and i trial shares held steady as a rule, some advancing and others ing, there being no general tendency, either up or down. The ] interest and dividend payments, as already mentioned, ex-| ceeded those of July, 1904, by $5,500,000, and it is remarked that most of this gain was immediately reinvested in those securities which returned such satisfactory results during the year. Of this increase the railways and industrials each contributed about $1,000,- 000, railway interest payments about $2,750,000, and industrial in- terest payments about $500,000. Money continues plentiful and easy at moderate rates of in- terest. A feature of-the season is the increased independence of the | Western banks in the matter of supplying funds wherewith to move | the crops. Up to the past year or two the New York banks had to supply all of these funds, which caused a stringency in money, last- | ing several months, but the calls upon New York are now lighter, | the Western banks carrying sufficient funds to move their cereal crops. Still, much of their surplus money is deposited in the New and its withdrawal therefore exercises more or less on the New York money market. | The expenditures of the Government during the fiscal year just | closed exceeded the income by something under $25,000,000, but | even this is a better showing than that made by the preceding fiscal | year, when the deficit was $45,000,000, though the latter included the i payment for the Panama canal. The net showing, how- tes improvement durlng the fiscal year just closed. The feature in staples during the past week was the excitement and advance in cotton, owing to the Government report showing a crop condition of 77, or a coming crop of about 10,500,000 bales, | against 13,000,000 for the preceding year. The cereal markets have | ar, but devoid of excitement, although there were sharp in wheat at Chicago on several days, owing largely to black rust in Northwest. Wool continued very firm | brisk demand all over the country at high prices. Increased ‘ 1 tures close down for inventories, repairs, etc. York banks gul of the des was noted, and leather continued firm and in good with B 1very. ecial feature. On this coast the weather was the feature. It was the hottest ever known in July, according to the Weather Bureau, and on Fri- | day temperatures ranging from 100 to 115 prevailed throughout the State, except at San Francisco and Los Angeles, and these two | points were not far behind. Of course such weather as this inter»l fered with business more or less. Hay baling, threshing, potato | digging and vegetable gathering were discontinued in many dis- | i and a large quantity of fruits and vegetables was spoiled by | burn, while general lassitnde and an indisposition to transacti business pervaded mercantile quarters. he wheat and barley markets developed great strength and | made material advances, owing to poorer returns from threshers than expected, which led to a sharp reduction in the estimates of the volumes of these two important crops. They are not turning | out as well as anticipated before the threshing machines went into the fields. These threshing returns are wonderful disillusionists sometimes, and there is no disputing them. Their exhibit is con- clusive and final. Estimates of the barley crop have been cut from 700,000 tons to about 500,000 tons, and most conservative wheat handlers are now figuring on a crop of only about 400,000 tons, or about 30,000 tons more than 1904, which was a very short crop year. ,If these estimates prove correct it means good prices for both wheat and barley during the coming year. . Other conditions on the coast, such as the domestic and foreign trade, money market, real estate and building operations, etc., con- tinue flattering, and the end of the current prosperity is not yet in sight. l ern dndustry, Richard T. Ely, professor of political economy in the University of Wisconsin, bases the chief hope of escape from’ evils resultant on rapid advance in productive methods upon an increase of institutions to meet the new social needs which have arisen. He believes that a survey of industrial history and present industrial life shows that it is futile to try to suppress the large or- | ganizations of capital and the large organizations of labor. He points out that there is a certain psychical type of man corresponding to every phase of our industrial evolution. , It is only a part of humanity that is adapted to meet successfully a change of conditions. Unless special preventive measures be taken a period of rapid progress leaves behind a relatively larger number of this class of crowded-out workers. The big problem of our age then is the creation of institutions which will enable society to deal in the best way with the different elements in the commu.nity as they are divided by mental and moral characteristics. . The idea of institutions for such purposes is not new, but Ely shows more clearly than others the value of the extension of the principle. Civilization must create institutions to serve the needs of classes of men with widely varied capacities. The professor be- lieves “the movement is destined to continue, as it is an inevitable | outcome of that mighty struggle for equality of. opportunity, which | is shaping human history.” It is not only for the less capable that | institutions are gdesirable. The most gifted and industrious are | liable to meet With accidents which in a competitive society will ruin their fortunes, for there are limitations to what can be accom- plished in insurance by private effort. The solution has developed further in Germany than elsewhere. It is said now to be generally acknowledged in that country that the risks of industry should be borne as part of the cost of pro- duction, and that this must be provided for by general laws. Speak- ing of the need of other institutions, Ely touches on dynamic sociol- ogy when he says “an attempt must not simply be made to meel the needs of a class of low average mental traits and moral charac- teristic, but also, as far as possible, to raise each class to a higher level.” ston reporting liberal orders for footwear for fu- icago provision market continued quiet and s BENEFICIAL INSTITUTIONS. N a study of social problems developed by the progress of mod- | hours munching popcorn, reading inter- | suggested by Chief Edward Schultz, who | believed that she could do the work as | for life is all ahead of them. | was telegraph operator here in the Hotel | he didn’t want to lose it. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1905.° FAIR NETTIE PAYNE IS ON THE POLICE FORCE , AND SHE LIKES HER JOB, TOO. 1SS NETTIE PAYNE of Butler, MP&. is engaged in an occupation ‘which, so far as known, is not fol- lowed by any other young woman in the country. She is desk sergeant on the po- lice force in that city, says the Phila- delphia North American. Miss Payne does not wear a uniform, nor does she smoke nor swear while on duty—or off it, for that matter. Indeed, since her tenure of office began *“No Smoking" signs have been placed in con- spicuous places on the walls of the po- lice headquarters, and the use of the weed by visitors is strictly tabooed. For several. hours each night Miss Payne is in entire charge of the force. Seated at a desk In headquarters from 7 P. m. to 5 a. m., she receives the hourly telephone reports of the patrolmen as they go over their beats, and marks the time of the calls on a big report sheet, | which is the record of the faithfulness of each officer. | Simultaneous with the appearance of Miss Payne as sergeant, a new police system was put into force. Now, if there is a call for police assistance from any part of the town, Miss Payne turns a button, which flashes a red light hang- ing from an arm at the top of a thirty- foot pole over the town building. It can be seen by the Main street ‘‘squad” and from many other parts of the town. Every policeman calls up headquarters the moment he sees the red light, and is informed By Miss Payne of the nature and location of the trouble. Formerly Miss Payne was a seamstress, employed at a garment factory which recently removed from the city. She likes her new work very much, she says. It is very dull all alone in headquarters some nights, she admits; but there is always the fascinating possibility that something might “break loose.” In the'meantime, the fair desk sergeant whiles away the esting books or doing fancy work. The appointment of Miss Payne was ENERGETIC WOMAN POLICE SERGEANT OF BUTLER, PA i) | well as any man. The objectlon was raised that she would not be able to re- spond in person to the calls for police services. The chief overruled this argu- mment with the common-sense reply that such qualification was not necessary in a desk sergeant, for, while he (or she) wasl | PRETTY ROMANCE OF DOT AND DASH, ENDING IN BELLBOY WILLIE FINNIGAN MAKING KATHERINE BOWERS HIS BRIDE out responding to one call, others of more urgency might come in with nobody on hand to receive them. The force of the argument was appre- clated by the Police Committee of the City Council, which appointed Miss Payne. g T was a romance of the dot and dash. I And now winsome Miss Katherine Bowers, just turned sixteen, is the wife of William Finnigan, who owns to eighteen long years. Best of all, the mothers are mollified, the law rests con- tent, and the police, who almost killed the romance, beam in a fatherly way above the young couple. They are in Philadelphia, both working hard to make the money to build a home of their own, “Katie” Bowers, as they called her, Belvedere, one of the largest and finest ! hotels between Philadelphia and Palm Beach, sags the Baltimore correspondent of the New York World. ‘“Willie” Fin- nigan answered to the call “Front!” at the same hotel so acceptably that he made his §20 a week. They met The good looking youth caught the fancy of the pretty brunette, who clicked her keys so smartly in the teTegraph office; as for young Finnigan, he took a great deal more than passing notice. Just then the hotel management inter- fered—of course, no course of true love ever ran smooth. Willie was called up to the desk and frankly informed that if he | persisted in going to the telegraph office | when he should be seated on his bench | to answer bells the Belvedere would have to do without him. However, his place was a good one, and So Willie Fin- nigan disconsolately clung to his post of duty and kept religlously away from the clicking instrument at the other end of the foyer. At night he had hi® only chance. He improved his opportunities then, and when pretty Katie slipped a copy of the Morse code in his hand, and told him to learn it, he started In so zealously that in a week he had the alphabet of the dot and -dash well enough to write it down letter for letter. USE THE MORSE CODE. They didn’'t know it then, but they know it now at the Belvedere. Willie and his sweetheart corresponded regularly in the Morse code right under the eyes of the watchful clerks at the desk. And more, too. When Willle was idling on his bench and Katle sat disconsolate ay her key her undaunted lover could send her | little love messages by tapping apparently | aimlessly on his bench with a pencil. Nor did they have to confess their sweet secret either, for «ne hotel people found it out when it was too late—when ‘Willie and Katie had run away and were married. The porter chanced to sweep out the telegraph booth making ready for Katie's successor. On the floor he found sev- eral notes written all in dots and dashes. They were handed to another telegraph operator—an unromantic man who read and smiled. ‘Willie had written his notes behind the ; marble pillars and had sent them to his Katie by one of half a dozen of the blue- coated messengers which were at her | disposal. Here they are, and the bride- groom has frankly owned up to them now that they have achieved him his happi- ness: Dear Katie—You are the sweetest sweetheart any one ever had. I am so glad you and I are going to theater to- morrow. Every time I pass the hall I want to go right in. You are all the world— There, I've got to answer the desk. WILLIE. Dear Katie—My sweetheart, I wish we could be together again, when I could L NOW THEY DON'T SPEAK. Mrs. Borem Wright—I called on you yesterday, but you were out. You're always out when- ever I call, Mrs. Cutting Hintz—That's the omly way I can avoid being fn, you know. Mint officials expect the new $20 bills to be unusually popular. We can- not see how they can be more Popular than the old $20 bill. With most of us a bill’s yopularity depends upon its denomination.—Washington Post, —_— When Russia has the fine new navy built she has been talking about, her wisest course will be to take it into the Black Sea and dam up the outlet.— Kansas City Journal. K WATERING TROUGHS. Sam—Is yo' goin’ to any ob de waterin’ places dis summer, Jim? % Jim—Yaas indeed; Ise got four hosses toe attend toe. $ THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. 3 HAD ARIED IT OFTEN. The Critic—What do you find the most difficult thing to com- pose? The Musiclan (absently)— The baby. « THE REASON. Cholly—Why do you think . your sister loves me? . Bobby—'Cause she sald you was a lobster, and I know she . loves huuT g - { be. o s talk with you. You are my all. I wish we could go away from here. We will some day. WILL. Dearest Katie—I'm so proud of the cuff buttons. I hope you like my diamond Ting as much as I like your cuff buttons. It seems a pity you have to hide your | ring. WILL. One fine afternoon the pretty telegraph operator closeu her desk after a day's work and said “Good-by!” to the night operator who succeeded her. “I'm going to be married to-morrow,” she aid. Nobody believed her. When she arrived next morning everybody said, “I told you so!" but—- ‘ve resigned,” announced Miss Bow- ers, with proper dignity, “because I'm going to be married to-day.” “'Willie”? Finnigan promptly left hotel and came back in an hour. “I've got the license all right,” he said, with the due dignity of a bridegroom-to- ‘Now we'll go out and get married.” And, sure enough, they did. Then they discovered that there were no trains which would get them into Phila- delphia until long after midnight. “We'll, stay here at the Belvedere,™ announced the ex-bellboy, not at all non- plused by the fact that both had been employes there. b And stay they did. The room was $ a day, but that didn't bother the bride- groom one bit. Nor did the §3 breakfast the in the morning. Then they took the train | te Philadelphia. And now trouble began. Katie hadn’t come home from her work the night before. When it ot to be mid- night her mother, Mrs. McCaghey—she married a second time after the death of Katie's father—grew very much alarmed. So she went out and telephoned to the Belvedere to see if Katie had been there to work the day before. “Katie's been married to Willie Finni- the answer over the wire, me to Philadelphia on their honeymoo; Mrs. McCaghey went at once to break the news to Katie's,new mother-in-law, who broke at once into bitter tears. “And he was all the support I had!” scbbed Mrs. Finnigan. “Lot’s see {if they're really married,” suggested Mrs. McCaghey, the practical. To the courthouse they went. there on the marriage license book in the big, round writing of Clerk Henry was the record of the license. “That’s wrong,”” announced Mrs. Finni- gan. “Willie's only 18; he isn't 21" “Then I'm going to have him arrested,” fairly shouted Mrs. McCaghey, ‘he's perjurer! If he'd told me his right age he couldn’t have married my Katie with- out my consent.” WILLIE GOES TO JATL. Now the determined Mrs. McCaghey started after Willie. All day she tried to get his Philadelphia address, but nobody knew it. But-Tuck was with her. Next morning there came a charming little letter from her daughter. A Baltimore detective took the next train for Philadeiphia. By noon Wiiliam Finnigan, bridegroom, ex-bellboy and writer of the Morse system of love-let- ters, was in the Philadelphia jail, while his bride of a day wept at home. The charge against him was perjury, and the bail was $5000. Four years in the peniten- tiary stared the youthful bridegroom in the face. All of which would have been a very, very sad ending to such a pretty little romance. the Baltimore Grand Jury must indict ‘William "Finnigan, alleged perjurer, be- fore he could be extradited for the fel- ony. It turned out that on the Baltimore Grand Jury there were graybeards who had done the same thing when they were hot-headed young men. “Send a boy to prison for marrying the girl he loves?’ remarked one of the jur- ors, “not if I know myself.” Others chipped in similarly, and Mrs. McCaghey, appalled at what might hap: pen to her daughter's husband. reiented. So word was sent to the Philadelphia po- lice to release Willie, as the charges had fallen through. Katie was there when the cell door opened. “I knew it, I knew it!"" she cried. Next day both of them started out to look for positions. Willie got a good place in the Markham Club at good wages. As for Mrs. Finnigan, she is too good a telegrapher and stenographer to be out of employment long, and now she, too, has a better place than she had in Baltimore. Each week her share goes into the savings bank toward the nest- egg which is going soon to be the start- ing of their own little home. Mrs. McCaghey has visited the bride; Willie's mother has forgiven hym. And so this romance of the dot dash ‘ends with all's well, just as all romances should end. Special information supplied daily to business hot and public men by the | Press Clip] “ykuru\r ( . o{ms» ‘fornia stres Telephone Main 1042, * Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- G - = Yes, | But it didn't ena there. First | OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS [ By A. J. Waterliouse. E DIDN'T think. Through all his day He mooned around in hapless way, And ever to his friends did seem | Half in a daze and half in dream. He never opened his mouth a bit Except to put his foot in it, And when he closed that trap he then Forgot to take It out again. | He'd strive to sit upon a chair | When, -oh! that seat was lacking there, | And cnce he sat so very hard His spinal column was much jarred, Because he didn’t think. He didn’t think. 'Twas his excuse Whenever he had ‘“raised the deuce” | With fair penates. lares bright. He let the coal oil flow one night. Next morn there was a lake, alas! | His wife then said—but let it pass. | He didn't think; you bet she did, And never once the fact she hid. Her eiocution was so strong He went out doors to nurse his wrong | Aud soothe the anguish in his breast— | Thin sat down on a hornet’s nest, | Because he didn't think. | One day—he hadn’t thought of it— | He wrestled with grim Death a bit, | Then wandered to the realm of shades, The dells of silence, phantom glades. | They passed him on above, below, | And still he journeys to and fro. | “It's mighty tough,” Saint Peter sald, -, | “He had a body and a head, But, through an oversight, no doubt, Someway they left his thinker out.” And so he roams, though not to blame, And 1 will still maintain the same, Because he didn't think. SOME WORLDLY DEFINITIONS. FOOL is a man who differs with us | in opinion. A wise man is he who agrees | with us The unpardonable offense is the nom- payment of that bill you owe. A thief is a person who steals less than $50,000. A trust is an arrangement that the Al- mighty in His beneficence and all-wis- dom makes to permit a few men to pocket the earnings of the many. (For | further particulars inquire of President Baer.) A practical politician is one who loves | the people for what there is in it. A hero is a brave man who remalns | enshrined in the hearts and affection of | the peoplg—if he stays dead. A liar is just one of us. Reputation is what you are able to fool folks into believing that you are. Character is what the Almighty knows that you are. Pretence is a psychological bomb that is likely to explode at any moment. Marriage is a condition that does not exist in heaven because it is the divine will that that should be a land of eternal peace and happiness. A fish is a cold-blooded creaturs that is several pounds heavier if it drops back into the river than it is if you pull it to land. Virtuous disdain is the feeling you have for another sinner when you yourself | have not been caught at it. Corporal punishment is bodily pain you inflict upon your (Child because he is too much like his parents. THEIR AFFECTING PARTING. [RST sweet young thing—Mabel has a bird on her new hat, and a hor- rid man talked of arresting her. ¢ Second sweet young thing—What for? | “For crueity to animals, of course.” | “But the bird was dead, wasn't it?" ‘es, but have you seen Mabel's hat?” | e ““Well, the man couldn’t help thinking how the bird would feel if it were alive and realized that it was set on such a ! looking thing as that. Well, good-by, dear. I must go.” *Good-by, darling.” “Good-by, sweetness. Don't forget to sec Mabel's hat” “Oh, I wouldn't for anything. Good- b “Good-by." “Good—what did Mabet say?” “She said the man was a brute. Well, I really must go. Good-by, dear.” “Good-by, darling. Is that all she said?” “No, she said she was entirely com- petent to run her own aviary. Good-by.” “Must you really go?- I wish I had been there. Good-by." “Well, good-by. She said that—" (N. B.—The editor notifies me that my space is limited and that I cannot expect to complete a report of the parting of | two sweet young things. But what does it matter? The most of you have wit- | nessed something of the sort before now.) SONG OF THE ELFIN. HIMMER of suniight and sigh of the | breeze, And breath of the blossoming clover, And a wee little elfin that swings in the trees And sings to me over and over: “A right true heart on a right true way, And a right true love to heed us, And what need we care how we roam or stray, With a right true God to lead us?” And I say to myself ‘'mid the gleam and | the shine: | “The song of the elfin shall yet be mine.” ' Aripple of silver where wavelets play, Each grecting their latest comer, And the elfin that sings in the tree alway The song of the joyous summer: “A right true heart on a rignt true way, And a right true love to heed us, And a cheer is our own through the night and day, With a right true God to lead us.” O Thou who hast made all nature Thy shrine, May the song of the elfin yet be mine. N the passing of Will S. Green, the State of California lost a citizen whom it could ill afford to spare. Trutk- lers we have in plenty, time-servers, place-hunters, tricksters, and we would do well without them. But this man was none of these. He stood straight and strong, and held no dalliance with wrang. The right, as it was given to him | to see it, he spoke and wrote and acted. FHuman he was, but his humanity was of the type that is so closely allled to @ivin- ity that we know not where the one ends | and the other begins. He was one o Calife 's good, true, helpful men, and than this there is no higher praise. So rest him well. The storm is o'er; He sees the harbor lights m, Upon that hidden, tranquil s! His peace be sweeter than our dream. araa fahest 1 o % 2 OF COURSE NOT. “No,” remarked the young man, with touch of sadness in his voice. It may be that some day happiness will be mine, but at present it is beyond me. There is a girl whom I love dearly. She would have me if I only asked her, but I dare not. I really cannot marry and live on a thousand a year.” His two friends to whom he spoke looked at him in wonder. For a mo- JEALOUSY, LOVE'S GREATEST ENEMY By Angela Morgan. husband's love. “I have no good reason to doubt him, yet I am always doing it,” she says. “This makes me wretchea and him, too. But I cannot help my feelings. I hear so much and see so much of the ness of men that I find it hard to my husband can be any better rest. He says my jealousy lives. I feel that he is beginning his love for me. What shall I do vent this?" My dear woman, it is you who are ing the very affection you want to By your doubts and your susplcions—all of them unfounded, I infer—you are chol- ing up the tender plant of love with weed$ that are sure sooner or later to destroy it. The blindness of human beings in thelr J constant wonder to me. No one ¢an ex- pect to see a plant flourish and be beau- titul for any length of time if it is not properly tended. Every one knows that in order to thrive and blossom a plant needs fo be guarded against destructive insects and Kept free from weeds. Yet what do human beings do with love? They bestow upon it the most harmful sort of treatment and still ex- pect it to flourish and put on fresh leaves. They seem to imagine that love is so hardy a plant it can withstand the rudest handling and the unkindest neglect. A moere mistaken idea of love's real nature it would be impossible to find. Love requires the constant nourishment of faith and trust and absolute confldence for its growth. When it lacks this nourishment . it droops and withers as would any delicate plant. When it is not guarded against destructive Influences it is sure to suffer. In their ignorance human beings wither it with doubt and suspicion and choke it with jealousy, fail- ing utterly to realize that destruction through such treatment is inevitable. There is only one thing for you to do, my dear woman, if you want to be happy with your husband. Be resolute, look the question squarely in the face and make up your mind once for all whether or not you really belleve your husband to be worthy. Decide whether you belleve him to be decelving you or telling you the truth when he says your suspicions are without foundation. This is a question you must decide for yourself and you should lose no time In doing it. There is nothing that will so surely undermine your health, your hagppiness, your peace as the continual suspense and torture that accompany jealousy. If you belleve him true, then put away from you forever your unworthy sus- piclons, If you cannot so regard him, tell him so frankly and come to a definite decision as to the future course you In- tend to pursue regarding him. Better leave him and end his misery and yours than poison the home atmos- phere with your continual distrust and consequent wretchedness. To be absolutely square is the only worthy course to adopt In a matter of this kind. Either your husband is worthy or he is not. Decide, And forever rid yourself of that greatest enemy to love and domestic peace—jealousy. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NEW YORK TO BOSTON.—Subseriber, City. There is a troiley line from New York City to Boston. The distance by rail along that line is 254 miles and the schedule time twenty hours and five minutes. TROTTING AND PACING—A. 8. F., City. A horse trots when his off fore and near hind foot strike the ground simul- taneously or vice versa, and he paces when the legs of a side move in unlson, like those of two riders on a tandem bi- cycle. - BLACKGUARD. blackguard that has been met with is in the “Church Warden's Account” of St. Mary-at-Hill, London, 17-19 Edward IV, where under date 1582, is: “Ttem, received for Ml). Torches of the Black Guard, " What this “black guard™ consist- ed of is not mentioned, but the following seems to show that the mame was for- b Y \ Smooth are bis ana soft his face; Her (Belinda’s) Cupid is a biack ey g it rubs his full In your SACKVILLE,. Earl of Dorset. The name, however, séems also to have been a to a low class in the kitehen of the King. In dar” of state papers there ing entry: “August 17, 1535. Fitzwilllam to Mr. Refusal of the Workmen to w. Two of the than 6d a day. of had been for some time of guard of the King’s kitchen.™ ous circumstances it seems to the duty of these black guards T over and remove from one palace to an- other, when the court changed Its resi- dence, all the cooking utensils and even coal. These being the lowest, meanest and dirtjest of the retalners, were called the black guard. sadder. “Why, simply because I haven't got the thousand.” And the mystery was explained.— Tit-Bits.