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Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (Including Etindar), 1 Year .....18.00 DAILY CALL (Including: Sunday). « Months $4.00 DAILY CALL — By Single Month ; 75c SUNDAY CALL. 1 Tci: .....52.60 WEEKLY CALL, 1 Year .SI.OO FOREIGN S D* 11 ?" $8.00 Per Year Extra pncTirpi Sunday $4.15 Per Year Extra POSTAGE I weekly /. ....SI.OO Per Year Extra i . - Entered at the United States Postoffice aa Second Class Matter ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW and OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. V-. AN editorial in the New York Independent on the subject of the Hetch Hetchy grant reads curiously like a brief prepared in the office of the Spring Valley water company. As might be expected, it does not stop at misrepresenta tion of the attitude held by th,e people of San Francisco and their aims. . The argument is chiefly based on the favorite contention of the local water company that there are adequate nearby sources of supply, if only these were fully developed. Proceeding on this assumption, the Independent goes on to say : It is a sufficient condemnation of San Francisco's proposed 'violation of the integrity of our fairest national park to know that not necessity, but comparative cheapness and the reduction of the city's taxes, were .-. . the motive power of the project. The amazing misinformation printed ' .-. on the dodgers which were distributed to catch the city's vote shows .. that some promoters of the project were not troubled by scruples about . the truth. The leading San Francisco dailies conducted a campaign of , misrepresentation from the start, boldly asserting, in one, case: "The question is not whether this is right, but whether we can get it." Appar ently municipalities as well as individuals can play at the game of "grab." This is a strange note of vituperation to be introduced in a ; controversy concerning water supply, and it is, moreover, an essential misrepresentation of the attitude and purpose of the .people of San Francisco. The Independent carefully omits to specify the source .of its quotation, "The question is not whether this is right, but whether we can get it.*' If any such sentiment was propounded at any time in the course of this controversy it was assuredly not .representative of San Francisco opinion. It is a discreditable act to indict a whole city on the basis of an anonymous declaration. , The Independent is likewise judiciously vague on the subject of "the amazing misinformation" conveyed in dodgers circulated to : influence, votes. It is easy to make offhand accusations* of this sort, .but the practice is no credit to a semireligious paper unless proof is gh-en. No such proof is offered by the Independent, and we do If memory serves, the only misrepresentation of facts uttered in that campaign was contained in "literature" circulated by the Spring Valley water company, which employed every resource 01 ! dirty politics to defeat the proposition. No doubt the Independent has had access to all that "Jiterature." The evident purpose of the Independent, judging from its tone of vituperation, is to import an element of passion in this discussion and to create feeling against a measure designed to provide an adequate and unpolluted water supply for the needs of a million people, whose numbers will doubtless be doubled before there is question of its use. The matter is not pressing at all, because under the terms of the grant the Lake Eleanor supply must be exhausted before the Hetch Hetchy will be needed and that contingency can not arise for at least twenty-five years to come. When it does arise it is not in the least likely that congress or the national administration will be deaf to the demand of a great community for ; one of the prime necessaries of life. In the meantime the matter : should be treated without making unworthy appeals to prejudice and passion based on misrepresentation. An Unworthy Appeal to Passion HP* HE Chicago Tribune is the latest to exploit the hot season { war scare. It is, of course, Japan that figures as the bogyman;, The Japanese want the Philippines, and the islands are infested with their spies. - These emissaries travel over the country selling sweetmeats and . taking notes. It is the same old story with which we • are familiar. None of the details is omitted. We learn, for example, that a Japanese fjeet of fishermen is engaged taking soundings in Manila bay under pretense of fishing. Why they should spend time and money taking soundings is not explained, when they could get all the information needed* "down-to the 'most exact detail by paying 25 cents for one .of the hydrographic charts issued by the government for the. use of mariners. It is the same old story that was exploited in this neighborhood; when it was printed as a tremendous sensation that Japanese ; fishermen iwefe taking soundings in -Monterey bay. ' .". ...;.. It takes mpnev, and a lot of it,- to fight a modern war, and as Japan is a poor country it becomes necessary, in order to make a war theory look plausible, to provide -'the sinews somewhere, some how. Accordingly this ingenious theorist Has discovered a myste rious hoard of $150,000,000 which the Japanese government has in store somewhere in Europe. That is a respectable f sum, ; but it would be only a drop in the bucket of a war with the United States^ If Japan wants the Philippines, as may be the case, it would be much cheaper to start negotiations to buy the islands. We do not know whether the United States would care to sell, but if; a bargain of that kind could be concluded the price would hot be a tithe of the cost of a war with this country. Such a war, would never stop until the last Japanese warship was captured or sent to the bottom. The Hot Weather War Scare PRESIDENT TAFT is occupied; with consideration of plans for a civil pension list to provide for superannuated employes in the federal classified service. It is an admitted evil that the 1 ' service suffers from overloading with, men who are really past their work and yet are carried on the rolls ,out of motives of humanity; Again, the matter is seriously complicated *by the remarkable increase of the cbstfbf living. -These. considerations unite to make a. problem of grejitSdifficultyi -Nobody disputes the fact that pensions would be a^ great thing: for the clerks and for the good of the service, but the question; remains 1 how to. provide this relief without adding, enormously, to the 'cost of government. It is not at all Hkely that congress would sanction wiy such increase of the payroll. y) Theobvious suggestion is that' these pensions should -come, from a contribution* fund levied on the salaries of the clerks in service. \u25a0BWBMBSCSbHHttMHnfIOSMMfIHIBHHAIBIHtt^SMnni>^BBMMSH#!!OMdBHSV)fIHO^''\ '*'-. 'X-"-.' '•" , .*" \u25a0 . ;' - : Dead wood in the Civil Service EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL Kansas' Answer to Cannon following the method by which municipalities provide for their super annuated policemen or other employes. But this plan does not suit the active men in the civil service at all and they will warmly resist any proposal to pare down salaries which, they insist, are already inadequate to meet the cost of living. This objection is' met by a proposition to increase salaries Ton condition that the clerks will do more work, with the understanding that the additional pay shall be applied on therpension fund; It is urged that, the super annuated men having been weeded out, the remaining force .would be able to give more service and better service. It is altogether an interesting theory, but it fails to take into account the complications that politics sometimes introduces even in the classified service.' But something must be <. done to get rid of the dead wood in the N August 22 in Chicago will begin before the interstate commerce -commission the most important railroad hearing in the history of the country. This is the controversy, between " ||the shippers and the railroads, turning on the question whether existing rates are sufficiently high to - afford a reasonable return on the investment, and further it involves the consti . tutionality of the power to regulate rates con ferred on the interstate commission by the recent legislation of congress. It is, in fact, a controversy that must go to the root of the. matter in all its phases. Thisis a dispute that must take years to settle in all its bearings, but the early hearings before the commission will be concerned wholly with the facts as they bear on the question of a reasonable return. The arguments on either side are thus roughly summarized: For c the railroads — ' Increase in the cost of living; increased wages and cost of equipment warrant increa_sed rates. •, The agitation over railroad demands is hurting business and should be^ ended by giving the roads what they want. Against the railroads— r fJ The railroads have been wallowing in profits for: two decades and their increase in earnings more than offsets any increase in expenses. . . A rate advance is needed by the roads in order: to support dividends on an ocean of watered stock, and^any general increase allowed will be likely to precipitate another stock watering panic •of the \u25a0 1907. brand. The railroads should be compelled to open their books and prove that they need the money. The alleged increase in expenses is.largely.due to grafting concessions to officials within the management of the railroad corporations: ( Under the recent act of congress the burden of proof is placed en thb railroads to show affirmatively that they are losing money by. the existing rates. In view of the bajancel sheets of the Union and Southern Pacific companies, printed in these columns Monday; this shoujd be;a difficult undertaking. J It need not be disputed! tliat operating expenses, have increased, but \vith all -this the balance shows a substantial growth of the net' earnings and ;a sufficient surplus to continue 1 the present, high Tate of dividends on' stock of which no inconsiderable jpart is water.. There is no to tJeunfair^ to the railrbads^but they will have to prove their case and there must be an end to ; the arbitrary po wee of taxation |; Hitherto The Railroads Put^on the Defensive SENATOR HEISfRYiGABOT LODQE, who is a scholar and a gentleman; isj likewise an; astute : politician, but sometimes (erven /"these overreach: themselves. .Senator 'L^^^is a candidate — | for re-election in Massachusetts, \< and; in reply : to' the charge that he helped AJdrich to impose ;; T f iniquitous increase of the duties; on cotton \u25a0: -goods he pleads that ;I\lassachusetts/ should LL ;"riot reproach him for; being "oyerzealous^ in advancing the; special interests of New England. -As to this plea the\Springneld: Republican, published in Mr. Lodge's state, remarks': Did he help New England, howeyer, in having done what was done? - Evenj'assuming that, high "tariff .protection: is still ; essential ;to;; to; the manu facturing,; prosper} ty\ .and'J progress ,'•\u25a0 oi this > section, was New England Vhelpediby a •performance; which couldlonly; have the "effect of stre^ > ing hostility . t6; the tariff >in otherTparts of .the; country ?7; Does it /pay f or '»"' 6he;sectioh Ho* hoggishrthan^ever.whensother^sections 1 are ' ; angrily? charging^that' it already-had three feet in' the ': swill'": trough; of /. t government" taxing; favors?- . Still looking ";at ' the;*worth'{of^tariff ; protection to : New, England ifrom the Lodge standpoint,,: therchahces' are- -^that "this section will pay; dearly for^that; gratuitous cotton^tariff igrab; of -last year. '\u25a0\u25a0'" It has ("already beenla 'largeifactor'inidevelopihg'rebellibn" iritthe; party of ; protection; and lthe s end :• of « that; is \u25a0 not ; yet. r'vThe^ next' tariff revision is likely; tolbelconducted by/,thel western ; radicals^ arid' thenHt; may,; become apparent that -Mr. Lodge did hia.section'a 5 poor tunriff doing "too" 'much ' <for itat. the last revision. " ; (:The ; cotton^manufacturers^ engaged in. legitimate -business ;in tHeNew^England states . did; not ask; for; an£ increase oflduties^arid saidjtheyvwere quite : satisfied the Vprotertio^tHeyf were 'getting under :th^iDingleyl law, of Senator Lodge marked ;up the duties.. Why ?i \u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0'' ; ~ - ; Senator Bristow answers " this ; question r^ with ijthef explanation thatHhe^adyance^ was made; to ; promote} stock jobbing" and? with^the i^njtioji to float theisecurities^ \yha)ever .the J cause ;|of : ;m6tiy^ prime?necessaries 6i : lifer\x f as ; wholly andefensible^C r ; J : New England Wants the Earth Answers to Queries MOVEMENTS— I. •S. . 8., Sulsun. What are the moon's -movements? .The. moon always presents, the same face to: us, as is evident from the^per manency of the various markings on Its surface. This circumstance proves that with respect to the 'earth she re volves on an axis; and the time of rota tion is exactly equal to the time of revolution around the earth, • viz.. 27. J2166 days. The moon's- axis ' is not perpendicular to the plane of her orbit, but deviate* therefrom by an angle of about 6 degrees 41 minutes. In conse quence of this fact, and of the inclina tion of the lunar orbit to that of the ecliptic, the poles of the moon lean al ternately to and \u25a0 from tHe earth. When the north pole \ leans toward the , earth •we see somewhat more of the region surrounding it, and somewhat- less when it leans the contrary way. -This displacement is known by the name ot libration latitude. The moon's mo tion on her axis Is uniform, biit her angular velocity In her orbit is subject to slight .variations <by reason of the form, of her orbit; hence it happens that we sometimes* *cc a little more of the eastern or westernV edge at one time than at another.' "This phenome non is known as' libration in longitude. MARTIAL. I*A.W— Subscriber. City. What Is martial law and who has the power to-de clare it? . It is the law administered by ~the military power of a government when It has superseded the civil authority in time of .war or when the civil au thorities aire unable to enforce the laws. Strictly it is that military rule which in time of war : is con/erred in relation to -persons and things within •th« scope* of active military opera tions.- This means Ithat civil law is suspended, and \u25a0 all • government jis un der military .regime. ..\Whor shall > de clare martial law has never been bet ter, answered than when the. duke of Wellington : saiJ: "It ,is the will of the commander in chief." NIGHT GLASS— S.. City. What Is the pHn dple.of what is known as "night" glasses, and Is it true that one can see as plainly with them as in the day? •'.= : " \u25a0 \- A night glass Is simply a small terrestial telescope, or spy glass, ' or dinarily in the. form- of >a ; large opera glass,, with; an unusually 'large' lens in the end toward V the object to' be viewed, * which ; serves concentrate a large amount' of light and: so .render objects 'seen at ' night ) much", more dis tinct ;than^when ? viewed by either "the naked -eye ..or ah. ordinary spy j glass. Nothing: seen 'through \u25a0•& night glass, even* ln the; clearest night, can appear as distinct as In daylight. '"• HANDKERGHIEF— Subscriber, Oakland. When did the handkerchief first come Into '\u25a0 nse 1? •» \u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0 : \u25a0 • From i a ; historical study of the pocket handkerchief, '.Jit '• appears /- "that ' man kind |is Indebted : to Italy; for its j intro ductlon^The^us* > of ? the!: handkerchief was unknown 1 - In ; society >until :the :flrst half of - the sixteenth < century.- 'About the ' year:; 1540 : .a: Venetian -^ lady * first conceived ! the ; happy^ Idea . of carryingn g a .'fanaletto,'. and' it was not Uongi before herlexample was followed; throughout Italy.- .The handkerchief - over the 'Alps into - Francej- where -its '; use was 1 immediately- adopted ; by - the lords and ladies of 4 the. court of Henri II." " DRAWING .-\u25a0-': POWER— City Reader. City. .What I is ' the drawing power of a horse .on - ra rious kinds* of parements? :\u25a0\u25a0 •\u25a0'; '- :\u25a0. , ; : Rudolph \u25a0•Herring, : a celebrated', en gineer, 1 * in one of his "papers' says: 'If one horse \ can ? draw . a - load' along, iron rails on i a level \u25a0 plane It . will * take one and" two-third horses ; to 'draw, it \u25a0 o^as-' phalt' pavement: 'three and one-third on the: best ißelgian; pavement; ; five : on the ordinary } pavement,''! seven ! on "good cob blestories^ 13 ron '\u25a0: bad .^cobblestones/ 20 on ; an earth -road and 40; on" a sandy, road." •".• - .\u25a0*'''-\u25a0 \u25a0 • TAXES^-A? M., : City.' " . If - for any reason " the holder - of ' a - piece \u25a0 of . real : estate refuses " to i pay taxes."',. what -.will :- be i the -penalty? What 'is theilaw?:^-;-:. '-;.;-';\u25a0' ''; -\u25a0':':.%\u25a0 - '\u25a0 * \u0084\u25a0..,- . i.;..lt l\wlll : be sold .;.by thel authorities. This .department has hot ; .the • space to publish a the r i law,; but you , may see It in: the: free: library.; r " ; YEEBA iBUBNA ISLAND-r-S. lR.,VCity. By what means may an ordinary citizen who wishes tOiTisitYerbaßuent island reach it? ''.T- ; '..?>' By, fowboat?; steam" launch oof"government!r f "govern ment! launch/; upon^ obtaining -' permis sion! at: army headquarters. ; s" PIANO^-LL; sCity.; : I^ want { to^ know: if vft^is proper for a young. woman who Is a good pianiste to .sTOlunteer; a ; selection i when iTisltors call? . \u25a0\u25a0;>,?\u25a0 If; she'iis;>a?"go6d7./piani6teUtl l wouM nbtwbeilmproper.VJtOi offer^to ; play. ; : for the s company: ; ,^; ; : V .; v ; GOLDEN GATES PARK— P. C." J.V City. '% When was Golden Gate park laid out? . -. r tlnUß74r^.::^v'' ; :'^-;-V>'V^.^ ; ;:>^^ A DATE^Snbscfibi»r,^Woodland— On "Vha't : day of theweek dld^Auguat 13,;1883.->fallt!- ,:v; - \u25a0". \u25a0': '•\u25a0'".'•> :v: v ' '. ; . * \u25a0 "*^ -, .' BAT AND BALL TO SETTLE FEUD Rival; Railroad Men Will Fight It Out on the Diamond THE bitterness that has existed be tween the members of the railroad fraternity located in the Flood building and those in the^. Palace hotel and Monadnock building and vicinity, and which hag nearly resulted in clashes, in various instances, is to be settled on the baseball diamond. A challenge has "gone forth from the offices of the New York Central calling upon the professed ball players from the "rural district" ©f the Flood build ing to congregate a sufficient number of men to constitute a ball team and to march out upon the baseball field and do:battle for a table d'hote dinner? In the challenge the Flood building aggregation is taunted In an unmerci ful manner. Comparisons of the Flood building players as "a freight train" to the Twentieth Century limited," and "a cruel exhibition of slaughter." have brought forth an answer from Eddy and -.Market streets, accompanied by cartoons of the Monadnock coterie from the pen of Clyde Colby. "If you desire to make any showing." reads acceptance, "we would, sug gest that you eliminate the names of Fred Blanch,, Jack Foster, Sam Tate, T. F. Bowes, Harvey Htfff. T. B. Wilson. W. H. Grimmelman, R. A. Murry, F. L. Nason, M. U. Fitzglbbon. -J. F. Simmons. C. L. Brown, Max Podlech, 'Chub* Burr, Harry de Turk and W. G. Burkheiser." The entire aggregation of the chal lengers Is named. Attached to the ac ceptance are the names of such stars in the baseball firmament as Jack Inglls, Roy Bishop, Arthur Dahlln, Sam Booth. Charlie Miles, George Nave. Billy Web ster, Bode Smitii. P. W. Sherwood and W. H. Batturs. From all appearances the referee will be a steamshipman. The regular monthly meeting of the state railroad commission will.be held this afternoon at the offices of the com mission in the ferry -building. Routine business is all that is scheduled to come before the commissioners. A Western Pacific instruction train te to leave this city for Salt Lake Wednesday morning. Stops will be made at every station on the road, and tickets, literature, ticket cabinets and other paraphernalia will be distributed to the agents, with instructions as to their use. , - : : v> W. S. Cornell, tourist agent of the Pennsylvania lines, -with headquarters at Philadelphia. *ls in the city in charge of a party of 22 easterners. The party will remain in this city several days, several nearby side trips being planned. John R. Gray, traffic manager of the Chlco and Butte Valley road, whose headquarters is at Chico, is in the city for. a few days arranging traffic mat ters with the lines that connect with his road. ?»/'-^.--rv.;-.--': The Northwestern Pacific is exhibit ing a large painting of Sonoma county scenery in its Market street office win dow. The painting, which was "exe cuted by S. T. Daken and represents a scene at Guernewood heights, is valued at $3,000. Is^SS l^ The Western Pacific has leased of fices in Oakland at 1168 Broadway for a term of five years. E. O. McCormlck, vice president, in charge ;of traffic of the Southern Pa cific, who has been spending a few days at' Santa Cruz, is expected to return this morning. KISSED BY THE SUX Gee whiz, Do you know what sunburn i»? Have you 'been out on the salty wave That rolls in from the sea While you let your boat Go fast or float As you shouted out your glee? Away . from the city, With its high, hot walls, To the great wide, open "Where the sunshine calls. Have »you stretched your length upon \u25a0the' 1 sands Where the briny billows run, And laughed 'to dry, Beneath the . sky," Your white; skin in the sun? Have you been' away. To the ' flelds^of hay, To- the hills and shady streams," And with ry> care Of what you wear, . Lay down to sun kissed dreams? Oh. say. . •. \ How many In this town today Have been doing it that way? And" how many tender skins cry out In anguish at a touch? How many cans of vaseline \u25a0Would' not behalf too much :~ To sooth© the pain Of Misses and Misters All bloated and red With assorted blisters? One little dream of sunshine Away from the heat and 'the din- Of .the sweltering^town, and there fol lows " A; nightmare of sensitive skin; : One little lingering sun kiss On* arms'^ or j necks or backs, And there follows a blister - that feels .\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.•like:: '\u25a0 .' ' ."• -;;•;-;. - \u25a0 :> It i.was chuckf ul of red hot tacks. . Gee whir, Do you know what sunburn is? Well. \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'".-. ' Ain't it hot stuff ?* ' • —New York Times* f rPERSOrNS IN THE NEWS , CHABLE3 A. LUTZ of TTaahington, A._H. Peck iof'r 'Wilmington rand ;. Charles E. Seoflrtd of . Santa «Croa are among the.recent arriTSis at - "the? Manx. •: • * '. \u25a0: • • JA3TEB WHITAKZKiof Galt v who is interested In a number of real estate propositions In that district. Is "at the Stewart with Mrs..Whltaker. •w = : ' "' ; \u25a0 '- v *\u25a0'-.'-*'- .-'-••\u25a0\u25a0 MRS. EMMA A. STTMMERS, who ha* made a ~* fortune ia JnTestments In ' on ' properties, is at the " St. = Francis, registered from Los Angeles. v .* .\u25a0\u25a0 V'• '" '• -• * '\u25a0'--" -" V : j, <j. HOBEBTS, a ; banker *of . Madera; Elmer H. Cox and Joseph" E. : Terry, who' hare large 'timber' lnterests.^ are gnes at fhe; Palace. -'" \u25a0 «;.-"•"" - . • •-\u25a0•-:'• EENIBT WILTSE, m* mining engineer, who has interested himself la oil. is at the St. Fraacls. "-\u25a0.'\u25a0". •'" " ".\u25a0•:-'-" •\u25a0' :.:' •"\u25a0.."\u25a0 OXrTE&'f M0H0800, ; a 'theatrical man I of ; Los -Los Angeles/ 1» staying at the St. Francis. . -.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0:\u25a0 ; ./\u25a0"_ r" *• \u25a0":';\u25a0' *'\u25a0 L ~ • \u25a0. - £. '\u25a0 B. 0K08S. : a * real . estate ' operator': of Pacific : Grore.is at the Palace rwith'Mrs.^ Gross. 1 :•'"• ""' • '' • • '." ".'..- f. ~. A. iA. ", TBEOlDGO, '.;. manager j^ of <the St. John " mines : of ; : Valle jo. Is the Stanford.' DAVID BISPHAM, the .well known opera singer. --CiS'a'guest'at'the'StJiFTancls.T : ' *'\u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0';* -~- : -?"'-'.'\u25a0 '. \u25a0'\u25a0' '* \u25a0\u25a0' '•'- ::': :' • OEOEQE/A. "•; BTTSE, a. broker . of Pitrsburg, . is : ." registered =at * the • St.' • francis. : '" '- i'-: '\u25a0\u25a0'.'\u25a0''' .'\u25a0' - /*,•\u25a0'\u25a0•'.'\u25a0•'. DRijE.^A: BBTAOT'of-Los" Angeles Is at. the ' Palace with \u25a0 Mm. Bryant. .* *: \u25a0". A. B. SHOEMAKER, a real man. of ] Mc-^ , "-' . deato, • is " at \u25a0 the Stanford. .-\u25a0\\ \u25a0 ' \u25a0 - . ; '" " . . AUGUST 9, 1910 WOMAN'S VANITY PUT ON ANKLES Pale Gray Hose Make' Up For Lack of General Air of Elegance MARY ASHE MILLER ARCHAEOLOGY. French literature., baseball batting averages, sociol ogy, deep- water fishing. Spanish art. classic dancing, how best fe> grow orchids and the like are all very well for those who want to study for study's sake, but for genuine delight no form of scientific research can afford such an amount as the investigation of the human document. There, should be a chair* for the "proper study of mankind" — as. Pope says — in every college. It is a merciless pursuit and a cheer ful way of gratifying socialistic and democratic proclivities. No one Is safe from you — the word is your victim if you can get near enough. But prepare to have your faith in your judgment undermined? You may think you have "sized up" some one quite correctly, when something occurs which will unravel all your theories. You can not arrive- at being a Sherlock Holmes in a six weeks* course. • In congruities are as rampant as germs. Manifestations of qualities are "so — well— disposed in spots, one might say. But therein lies' much of the Joy of the study. A well developed "freak" disposition is as interesting as a mys terious disease to the physician or a fascinating weakling: to the reformer. Opposite me in a streetcar the other day sat a little woman whom life seemed . to have slapped in the face since childhood's earliest hour. She was small and skinny, with a dreadfully unfashionable leanness. Her hat looked as though it belonged to last year. and she had made an unin terested effort to cheer it up with some flowers bought at a fire sale. Her col lar had no bones in It and was not even pinned positively^ Her hair needed every attention from shampooing Vo plain combing. Judging by her nose, powder wa3 not included in her vocabu lary. Her tailor suit was a pitiful thin?, a characterless gray, selected for durability — horrible word — rather than with a thought of adding to the artistic Joy of tha world — and it needed pressing to cheer it up. Her shoes were best described as commonplace — Just shoes they were — kid, with patent leather tips and narrow little shoe strings tied In a safety knot- It was not poverty that gave her th* toneless depressed air, though — she had no air of absolute want. It was as though life lacked some spring of Joy ousness. She •was looking out of the window and X studied her shamelessly. Finally I decided to my entire satis faction that vanity was what she needed. Her life was probably .bu3y and she had not that delight in her appearance which would make her seize the time to make herself a more pleasing object. , * Then I had one of the shocks of my life. > The little drab figure moved her fe»t and I saw Kir stockings! • You would finish my description of her clpthes. I suppose, by putting on her — metaphorically — ordinary heavy black cotton stockings. Nothing of the kind. They- were pale but decided gray^Misle thread with a silky finish and frivolous open work and embroidered dots. Nor were they- "hand me down,", in herited sort of stockings — they were new and evidently purchased with an eye to matching the paler gray stripe in her stringy tailor suit. t As I stared, too dazed to move my eyes, she turned and noted my fasci nated gaze. Sbe positively blushed with pleasure and returned my shame faced grin with a friendly little smile. But. was it not worth weeks of re search to find a woman with all her vanity concentrated on her ankles? THE LV\ KEEPER'S DAUGHTER Beside the highway stood an inn, And In the Inn. the keeper: The worthy keeper of the ir\h ' Was what you'd call a sleeper; But he possessed a daughter .rare. And she was wide awaker— . The lads for miles would drop in thers But knew not how to take her; And by the. way she got. their fare ' She proved a clever faker. » Now, whether she. was In the Inn 'It. really never mattered; When she was absent, guests were thin, Without the maid they scattered. And truth to tell, if in the inn He stayed without his daughter. So' out*. was .he, though he. was In. . He .quickly went and sought her; He could go out and still be- in. If in he left his daughter. AS EPICIIAM OX EXPERIKVCE A New York jurist once eaid to Sen ator Platt: "M"y son wishes to marry a chorus grirl. Give him some good advice, won't you?" OSJB * "No," said' Senator Platt. -Advice Is worthless^ We learn only by e:tp«ri« ence.^y^gfifcff^MßßWßfti Here he smiled sadly. "And experience." h« said, "la, alas, a comb for a bald head." — Louisville Times. . - .' ' \u25a0 .- . . the Atrreoß ofhasiiet School Inspector^ — Most arauslnjr thing - happened today. I was ques tioning the class and asked a boy. •-•Who wrote- 'Hamlet* ?"" and he an swered tearfully, "P-p-pleas*, sir. It wasn't me." , ; Village (after loud. and pro longed laughter): Ha! ha! That's good, and I suppose the little devil had done it all the time.— London Tatler. EZVrKK E. JO2TES, an «H oper* tor ot Bakers- Held, returned from tie 'east, yesterday, and \ar BUylng at the St. rranci*. W. ; r. KTOUEBaiGHT, «D^w«m M from 5e- Tada City. Is at, the' Palace, accompanied br Mm. Engtebrlght. ' \u25a0 . : \u25a0 •\u25a0•. \u25a0 :'•'. . a A..M. AHDZRY, general manager of the Vir ginia and Truckee railroad, to a guest at the St. Francis. \u25a0 . . \u25a0 '. • • • W. -..W.-.KOEOA*. a railroad inspector of N ew 'York. Is at the Colonial. »>";•»*'' ~, . • '/ • . \u25a0*.• W. K. PHZLPS,'an automobile agent from Hart ford^ is at the Stewart. \u25a0'- .\u25a0\u25a0-'\u25a0•"\u25a0\u25a0•.-.\u25a0• :•.. • E.K. MAaXDT. an .Implement d%alex <rf New M. BEEDZB, a pubUaher of Lo» Angeles, la reg * istered • at" the - Pake*. 8. . F. LYTLE. a lumberman of Hoqulam Wash. , is at the St. Francis. ' '* \- ' 5'- \u25a0.'.- " '• * :-'\u25a0•\u25a0 * ..'• 3>8.C.:y.- EVANS of Modesto and Mrs. Eros are at the Turpln." - .• .- \u25a0-•*.•• "' f; \u25a0-'-•"•'.:. -\u25a0-.•.. W.;KEE©., an, automobile man of Lob Angeles, is at the Colonial. ••*;• , . '\u25a0:', * '"'•' '\u25a0 '*"'".* "' : P. B. ELLIS, a ' merchant >f Carson, to •tajlns "V at: the Stewart. '" .- - .-.„, - . - ' ; •"'\u25a0 : r '~' v v-.' * • ;-.-;• i Z~ £. PEJTCTOYER, a rancher of Saa Jose, is •! ;.^ the ; Belmont. r i,\*-? c w: ;SHAiraOK, -state "printer. Is at tb» - Palace. . :