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?v THE OTHER J SThe farmer looks discouraged, He hates the rake and hoe; .He wants to try the city, Where money seems lo grow; The other fellow gets the grain, And leaves for him. the cob, So in his heart he covets The other fellow's job. The business man is worried. Both ends will scarcely meet; Last month he lost a million Upon a. deal in wheat; He looks with longing to the farm, And drops a tearful sob; It seems to him like heaven? The other fellow's job. fftaFTfte ! Minute It was decided definitely in the tiny sitting-room upstairs between bedrooms. Mrs. Torrey put it into its first words, but it had been brewing in all four minds. "We must go to housekeeping," Mrs. Torrey said. "George, we will!" "Mary, you're a jewel?shake hands!" was Mr. Torrey's reply. He had been waiting for this a weary while. Across the table two studybooks were slammed down. "Mama, honest? Oh, that's good!" from Maurice. "0 goody!" from nine-year-old Alan. The entire family, then, had been waiting. "Yes, we've boarded long enough. I think we've been pretty patient. Now we'll rent a house and I'll make you three boys some popovers! And you can bring your friends, George, and the boys can entertain theirs sometimes. Why, it's nearly four years since we came East, and here we are in a boarding-house still!" "Well, it sha'n't be so any longer," said Mr. Torrey. "We'll go to housekeeping to-morrow!" Mrs. Torrey smiled leniently. "'That's like a man," she said. "If we find a house in three weeks we shall do well." She was a small woman; an air of fragility sat upon her becomingly. Her big husband, adoring her without disguise, resolved to shoulder the responsibility of moving. It was six o'clock the next night when the four Torreys sat down at their end of the long boarding-house s tea-table. There was subdued jubilation in George Torrey's face, but he ate his supper without disclosing the cause of it. It was not until he got into' the sitting-room upstairs 1 that he broke forth. "Well," he said, rubbing his hands together genially, "I've engaged a house. Didn't take me long, either." "George!" But his wife's tone escaped him in his self-gratulatory mood. He beamed at his wife and the boys impartially. "Yes, I had it all down fine inside of fifteen minutes. Takes me to go house-hunting! I hadn't been on the car two minutes before I ran plump on it in the advertising column in the Times: 'To be let?pleasant Tiouse, nine rooms, sunny, convenient, good neighborhood' ? everything there in black and white, you see! "Here's luck!' I said to myself, but Deuer was to xoiiow. i giauteu um of the car window, and there I was on the very street?yes, pretty nearly opposite the very number! Took me about three winks and a half to stop the car and hunt up that house! It suited all right, and lefore another ten minutes I'd engaged it, and to-morrow we'll " "George!" Mrs. Torrey's tone was now impressively noticeable. It was -distinctly calm and clear?but noticeable. ThereXwas patient tolerance in that one word?there were pity, kindness, affection in it. Mr. Torrey .stopped rubbing his hands together. "George, you are exactly like a man?but, there, I suppose I knew it when I married you.. But I never ^ o V? ni rl I a an oro tri n o* o autau iv j wui u home for your family in fifteen minutes! That proves your sex conclusively enough! You never thought of closets and back yards and exposures and pantry shelves, of course." The tone was gathering gentle sarcasm now. "Or whether the windows faced to the south, or?anything. My dear, engaging houses is a woman's work. It never occurred to me that it was necessary to say so. I have cut out some advertisements in all the papers I can find, and to-morrow I shall make a little beginning. Of course it will 'take considerable time?more than fifteen minutes," she concluded, in a fine climax of irony. "But, Mary"?Mr. Torrey was recoveringslowly. Jubilation had given placc in his honest countenance to surprise, chagrin, disappointment, meek acceptance. "But, Mary, I've engaged the house " Only a rare presence of mind tripped him up there, on the verge of adding that he had paid down a month's rental to "bind the trade." "I think I shall try the one on Liscomb street first, and work gradually downtown," remarked Mrs. Torrey, musingly. She was sorting over some little newspaper cuttings as she mused. There was in her face and attitude the air of a general on the eve of a great campaign. There was ncroism, too, as or one who foresaw personal sacrifice and discomfort. ' She sighed a little foreseeingly. "Well, I'll?well, go ahead, go ahead, my dear!" George Torrey laughed out in the sudden relief of tenderness. He had realized suddenly what a little thins Mary was, and how dotermined her chin was, and how she loved campaigns. Women were queer, but one of them was dear. "Go ahead, and find a place with all the windows to the south and all the closets right!" "That's what I am planning, dear," smiled gsntly tho small woman. "There is the right place for us somewhere, and I shall not spare time or pains to find it. It will very likely take a lot of hunting and trailing up and down stairs, but I shall uo my ucsl. Thus quite as suddenly as the fifteeff minute house had been engaged It was snuffed out of existent*, so ^ _ .... FALLOWS JOB. ja ti The doctor notes with cnvv j The lawyer's bouncing roll, And wishes he had studied With Blaekstone as his goa.'; ^ The cleric is far from satisfied, t; He sees the artist's daub. a And cries. "Oh. how much better!" The other fellow's job. h 'Tis quite the style to grumble Ana sigh for other stars, ^ To wish we were transported To somewhere, even Mars: c' And if we reach the Happy Land ? This thought the joy will*rob, y For some will surely covet The other fellow's job. ?Commercial Telegraphers' Journal J' R b I o By Annie a y Hamilton k Wav Donneu- s or far as the consideration of it as a * Torrey residence went. L "Found a southern exposure yet?" Mr. Torre}' asked, with unfailing po- g liteness. each dav. when the little ? a familj- assembled for the evening. t( And it was becoming noticeable that s) the answers lacked variety and originality as much as the questions. g "Not yet," was the invariable re- Q. ply. h It had not occurred to the determined little house-hunter to look at jr the house which Mr. Torrey had en- q gaged. She had not given that an instant's serious thought. q The very ridiculousness of the in- w cident robbed it of importance, and a] made it a thing only to be laughed at. Men were such funny creatures! Here had she been systematically C( searching for a house for almost a e. week, and a man took fifteen min- S) utes! M It was presently a full week. Mrs. jj Torrey was very tired. She nodded in her chair evenings, and her husband repented of his teasing. He s, j made frequent resolutions to tease n no more, but the bantering little ^ query slipped between his lips before he knew it with persistent regu- ci larity. ij "No, I haven't found any southern q exposure?or northern exposure, or y eastern or western!" she flashed back n f . P 1 aio-htK nio-hf- i f V> nrtneiHorohlo ui^uv ?iiu vuukjiuviuuiv ^ spirit. "And I've been to forty-three r( places! It's the work of a lifetime, ^ I do believe! Of course there are places enough, but just when you're trying to think over one will do, you n open a closet door, and it's too small, ?the closet, I mean,?or else you g can't find any closet door when there w ought to be one. There was a place p on Cabot street that I came near de- \ ciding on till I saw the china-closet, and a place on?oh, I don't know what street, but it would have done very well except for the drawers where I should keep my tablecloths. I wasn't going to fold them again. d And the boys' room in one house was ^ too small, and so on, forty-three times! I'm discouraged, but"?here u spoke the chin?"I shall begin again w Monday morning." w On the following Thursday Mrs. ^ Torrey's tired face was the one to ^ show jubilation at the boarding- 6 house tea-table. The lines of weari- ^ n Ann + r\ i 1 r\ /I Pf O r* 1 Af f in f A ll uc3o Li aiicu uu auu ? IUOO iu iuc evident elation. It bespoke success. b The "three boys" scented popovers t( in it. It was hard work to wait for ^ the family assembly upstairs. "Found a south?well, well, don't * keep us waiting, mother!" Mr. Tor- u rey began, as soon as the door closed c behind them. "You've something up your sleeve?needn't tell me!" a "Yes, I have," she laughed. "And P it's a house! 0 George, boys, I've ^ found the dearest little place!" "Not everything?exposures and * closets and drawers and everything?" & Mr. Torrey demanded, unbelievingly. n "Exposures?drawers ? closet** ? 11 hnoL- varrfs?nantrv shplves?pvprv- tl thing," recited the house-finder. "At last, after all my work?well, I think p I deserve it! Of course there's the u coal-bi?but never mind that. It's c a darling little house." "Good!" cried Mr. Torrey, heartily. s' "I congratulate you, Mary. Of course ^ you bound the trade?" Ci "Did what?" j1 "Engaged it." ** Ci "Of course I did nothing of the ^ kind. I didn't decide all in a min- g1 ute like that, of course. I'm going ^ to sleep on it." "May never get a chance " be- ^ gan her husband, but relented. The shadows under the small woman's eyes undid him. I i guess u u sua De mere in iae morning all right," he reassured her; i< but she did not need reassurance. v "I think I shall take to-morrow A to rest and think it over," she said, tl calmly. "I don't want to decide too t recklessly. And then day after to- n morrow I'll go and look it all over t again, to make ?ure. It pays to be a prudent." 1 "M-m?yes!" muttered the impru- i dent man who required but fifteen v minutes. "Perhaps so! Perhaps so!" 1 But he remained privately uncon- e vinced. o The next morning but one an ex- t cited little woman appeared at a George Torrey's place of business. ^ "Why, Mary?why, my dear!" that a gentleman eiclaimed, distressed at t once by the palpable signs of trouble, o "I've lost it, George! My lovely a little house! Look out'of the win- c dow?don't look at me?or I shall c cry! It's all to do over again?all? ! d all!" "There, there," he soothed her. "Tell me all about it." And Mary, grown suddenly weak, told all. "Some one had engaged it already f ?it wasn't to be let at all, but the d child didn't know. I suppose I got s my slips mixed, and there weren't a any dates, anyway." 1 "The child? Slips? Dates?" Had Q househunting gone to her brain? * "O dear, yes, how stupid you are! F Can't you understand? The newspap- t er slips I cut out! That one must 1 have been a week or two old. Tlu? t woman said some one engaged the a house a while ago, and she forgot to o tell the child. She was away and 8 she?O dear, the woman was away, i and the child showed me over the c olace and never knew it was ama-zan I Ires . And, O George, we'll board ill we die?I never can begin again! j could never find another beautiful ittle house like that, never! There as tho loveliest set of drawers for able linen. And the back plaza? nd the perfectly splendid great clost?big enough to sleep in?and ooks eveo'where " "Mary, you take the next car home nd go to bed. Don't get up till I ome. Then we'll go round to that -tbat little place I?er?hunted up, ou know. It belongs to me for a ood fortnight yet. I didn't let on to ou, but I paid a month's rent down, [aybe you'll think it's better than oarding, anyhow. Cheer up! We'll leasure for carpets and things, and ave a fine time buying them! You've ot to let me run things now; you're 11 done up." "Yes, yes," she murmured, meekr. "You can do anything you please, eorgc?anything. The fight has all one out of me. I'm ready to board r keep house anywhere." "It's a pretty good little place, now teil you," he bustled cheerfully, etting her under way for her car. Don't you do any more worrying, cave things to me." They went together (that afternoon, he was still too worn and discourged, even after her hours of rest, ) take much notice of directions or :reets, but allowed herself to be led, imblike, by the chearful George. u ? r\T\ tTlO WHV I lie IVCjJC x CUIUIilUCi v/tk ??W^ lore and more charm3 of the lovely ouse she had found and lost. "We could almost have kept house l that closet!" she lamented. "And, George Torrey, the parlor mantel!" "Never mind! Never mind!" said eorge, with splendid courage. "Just ait till you see my house! Here we re." And lamenting still, she suf- J ;red herself to he led in. The rooms were bare, but full of 3zv possibilities. In the one they ntered first lay bars of red-gold anlight from the illuminated west, [rs. Torrey gazed about her listlessr. "George." The listlessness suddenly took tvift wings. "George! Oh, wait a linute?wait right here! I'll be ack in a moment!" She hurried from room to room? lme hurrying back. She was laugher roHiantiv shppnishlv. "Georee! , ? V- w eorge!" she cried. "It's my house! [y lovely little house! Do you supose I don't know the parlor mantel nd the coal-bin and the closet! I scoguize everything now. It's my arling little house!" 'No such thing," he retorted. "I iscovered this house myself?it took le less than fifteen minutes." "And me two weeks! George, I ive up?house-hunting is a man's ork. I might have been making opovers here this very minute!"? outh's Companion. Fishing Dogs. Stories of fishing dogs always are iteresting. I remember one of a og which always accompanied his taster trout fishing?went with him 1 lieu of a landing net. The water sually fished was a club length phere the limit for takeable trout ras eight inches, and the intelligent rute, the moment a trout was firmj hooked, would swim out, take it pntlv hut firmlv in his laws, swim ack to the bank, measure it off with is tail, and immediately chuck it ack into the water if it happened i be under the limit size. I have eard of an angler who had a dog aat used to swim across the river 'hen the angler got his flies hung p in a tree at the other side, and limb up the tree and disentangle lem. Then I had a friend who had very clever pointer?who would oint anything?fur, feather, or fin. [e was a first rate retriever, too. One day my friend had him out rith him in a boat pike fishing, when e hooked a most terrific, tantrumly old pike, which lashed and gashed i a most furious fashion. In went le long-legged pointer to retrieve le game. Snap went the vicious ike's wicked jaws as the dog came p, and the poor brute's forelegs were lean bitten off close to the body, i his anguish the dog managed to svim to the boat, when snap went le sharp, horrid jaws again, and off ime about seven-eighths of the dog's ind legs. His master got him back lto the boat, rendered first aid, and arried him to a veterinary surgeon, 'ho treated him so skillfully that the tumps healed beautifully. Of course e was no good any more as a pointr; but he made a first rate dachsund.?Fishing Gazette, London. Heury Clay's Popularity. The greatest popular idol in a politlal sense the country has ever known ras Henry Clay. Only one other Lmerican statesman ever possessed tie quality called personal magnetism o the same extent that he did, and o other ever had a more enthusiasrvorcnnal fnllnwintr He WaS an spirant for President from 1824 to 848, but never reached the goal, le received thirty-seven electoral otes in 1824, forty-nine in 1832 and 05 in 1844, but never enough to lect him. Clay was elected Speaker f the House of Representatives on he first day of his term in that body nd was five times re-elected. He ras twice elected United States Sen,tor, once unanimously by the Kenucky Legislature, and held several ither high offices. If there ever was . popular idol in the politics of this ountry, it was Henry Clay, but he ould not be elected President.?Inlianapolis Journal. Fish as Seed Carriers. Long ago Darwin asserted that resh water fish played a part in tho lissemination of aquatic -plants by wallowing the seeds in one place nd voiding iu some far distant spot. The truth of this assertion has freuently been questioned. Now Pro?, lochrentiue, of Genf, claims to have troved by a series of experiments hat seeds which have been swalowed by fish and waterfowl do reain their germinative power even fter they have passed through the ligestive organs. When planted they1 ;rew up in a perfectly normal manter, if somewhat more slowly than irdinary see?. ? Oesterreichiache IMc^horoi.y.oitiin tr_ V France's P I! J s m>& ItJ& - > '^;. &0a%?w> * -#<*H! am<..?a>.^~ ^ -?h- - CLEMENCEAU IN FRONT OF CIALLY BUILT FOR HIM An Armor For Deep-Sea Divers A novel form of diver's apparat which-we are" told by the Sclent American promises to be of gr value in salvage operations, has b< invented by a Parisian hydrograp engineer named De Pluvy. Says paper just named: "As De Pluvy has had many ye? experience in diving operations th >?; ? Helmet and One Arm-Piece Remo\ is no doubt that the apparatus is practical value. He uses a meta diving suit which is made somew on the plan of the ancient coat-ofmor, being built of light and str< sheet metal having a thickness va ing from 0.2 to 0.3 inch according the position of the pieces. The joi and coupling points are made pressed leather and rubber, an( I special form of hydraulic joint is ( ployed. On the top of the armoi fixed the helmet, which is the prii pal feature of the apparatus, air is not brought to the diver fr the outside, as usual, but the air breathes is sent by a tube into a s cial regenerating chamber contain : v' J Ready for the Descent. certain chemical products which new the suppiy cf oxygen, and the is then sent to the interior of the 1 met by another tube. The air ren ing apparatus is contained in a i of cylindrical chambers attached each side of the helmet. Regulat valves keep the air pressure wit the helmet at the right amount ; always constant,' no matter what depth may be below the surf.' Mounting and descending are effec by a drum and cable worked by electric motor. At the same time " SOL The Imperial Hunting L r^mwrrmm?m ' , Built a'uout one hundred years a BC&ule." :. ' . ; . j '... rr ' t rime Minister. HIS HENHOUSE, WHICH WAS SPE[ ON THE AMERICAN PLAN. I cable serves to carry the current US( which is needed for the respiratory iflc apparatus. The diver communicates eat with the surface by a telephone, and 3en a number of wires run from the arhjc mor up to a set of colored lamps, the showing how the different parts are j working. There are many advanlrs'! tages to be secured from the new apere ! paratus, and we expect to give a more j complete and illustrated description j of this interesting device. Mr. De Pluvy has personally been able to go vV; down to a great depth, and during g? the 115 descents which he has alii ready made with the new diving suit I?I he reached deptns varying irom iou M; to 300 feet. This far exceeds the f? depth to which an ordinary diver can ? so." m i | Knife Polisher. m i Every woman welcomes the addiig| : tion of little accessories which help ?4 i to make her household duties lighter ^ j and less irksome. The daily polish% 1 ing of the knives may be a small matjjp ! ter, but with the assistance of the H j knife polisher shown here it can be | accomplished in one-quarter the time ?? ' it ordinarily takes. This little kltch, en appurtenance is made of sheet Polishes Both Sides. | metal, bent to form a pair of parallel i plates about an inch apart. One I plate is longer than the other, and is attached to the edge of the table or J in some other convenient position. Secured to the inside of the plates are pieces of flannel or similar cleaning material. After the knives have been washed and dried, to put on the finishing polish they are inserted between two pieces of flannel and given a slight rub back and forth. Incidentally, both sides of the knife are polished at the same time. The int ventor is a Canadian.?Philadelphia Record. ? Change in China. re- Kaleidoscopic bewildering change air is the outstanding characteristic of ael- the political prospect of China at the ew- present time. "Let him that thinketh >air he standeth take heed lest he fall" to is, in the China of to-day, a thoroughing ly worldly wise and eminently practihin cal piece of advice.?Shanghai Merand cury. the ice. According to the most reliable reled : i-orts there are 202,000 Sunday an schools in the world, with a total enthe rollment of 26,000,000 pupils. ITUDE," /"vrlrio Woa?< 5flTttonrt CI .?? V fTl ^ 11V wugv iiwui , go, and formerly known as the "CarlsNow ljttle used. y ! j , MSy'-i'-i" iil'?.% & 'n- - *>' .iii A , BITS'! NEWS' WASHINGTON. Maurice Francis Esan is to be minister to Denmark. ^ Justice Day, of the Supreme Court, has been appointed arbitrator in con xroveray over manogany concessions in Nicaragua. President Roosevelt plans to make E a trip down the Mississippi River next fall In order to study the work of the Inland Waterways Commission. j Navy Department was informed o! the death at Santiago of Ensign Brisbin, who shot himself. Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson became chief of the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, succeeding Rear Admiral George A. Converse. Oscar Hammerstein signed a contract to build a house and establish grand opera in Washington.' Surgeon General Rixey is preparing to appeal to Congress for betterment of the medical branch of the Navy. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. General Carlos Roloff, Treasurer oJ Cuba, died at Guanabacoa, Cuba. Business at Santiago de Cuba is paralyzed owing to a general strike of workmen In support of the 'longshoremen's demand for an eight-houi day. The sisal Industry is becoming an important one; about 1000 acres hav? ing already been planted in Hawaii A jury in the Federal Court at San Juan, P. R., rendered a verdict of $3000 against H. W. Dooley for slandering C. F. Stokes, a surgeon in the United States Navy. Brig.-Gen. H. T. Allen, organizer and until recently chief of the Philippine Constabulary, arrived in San Francisco from Manila on the army transport Thomas. DOMESTIC. Ex-Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, discussing Theodore Price's Buit against the Cotton Exchange, said the July delivery of splnnable cotton has been oversold. State inspectors accused the infirmary directors of Butler County, Ohio, i>f the misuse of $100,000. , Mayor Busse, of Chicago, removed eight members of the school board tvho refused tn resign. The submarine boats Octopus and kake ended a successful twenty-four aour submergence test at Newport, R. I. With his clothes on fire, John Maloney, a motorman on a Chicago elerated train, remained in his box until he brought his train, crowded with passengers, to a station and averted i panic. Edward Manning, an aged restaurant proprietor at Portland, Mich., was murdered atid robbed while on lis way home. Irving Talley,: a negro, was sentenced at Atlanta, Ga., to twenty rears in prison and to pay a fine of (9000 for raising a two dollar bill to 520. Fire which has raged in the Union Pacific Coal Company's mines at Cumberland, Wyo., for six months has been extinguished. G. G. Richardson, a plantation overseer, and a negro named Lewis were shot and killed during a row at ] a baseball game In Jefferson Parish, La. v 1 J!. H. Conger, Minister to China ? ing the Boxer troubles, and later 1 Ambassador to Mexico, died at Pasa- 1 dena, Cal. 1 Mayor Busse, in an attempt to ] "renovate" the Chicago Tenderloin, J transferred the entire police force of that district, including the captaiD ' and 240 men. Harlow N. Higinbottom, of Chi- ] cago, resigned as trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company as a protest, he says, against present insurance conditions. j An attack on E. H. Harriman, in connection with his manipulation ol the finances of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, was a feature of the 1 address delivered by Charles A. * Prouty, Interstate Commerce Com- ] missioner, before the National Asso- ? elation of Manufacturers in New 1 York City. i FOREIGN. Samuel Lord Morison, the engineer, of New York, died in London. Herr Dernberg was appointed head of Germany's new Ministry for the Colonies. Four pf the men who tried to kill President Cebrera of Guatemala, killed themselves when surrounded by soldiers. The lighthouse on Pointe de la Coubre, at the entrance of the Garonne, France, was undermined by the sea. Lieutenant General Zacharias, vice-president of the International Permanent Geodetic Commission, died at Copenhagen. Six Japanese girls nailed in pine boxes were discovered on tne steam- a ship Oanfa at Victoria, B. C. Two thousand Polish Lancers of i the Guard have been ordered from p Warsaw .to Tsarskoe-Selo, Russia. J. H. Fist, a resident of Portland, Ore;, died at Naples, Italy, from a tumor of the stomach. ^ Canada declines to grant remailing i privilege on second-class mail. p The captain and crew of the schooner Everett Webster, abandoned at sea, arrived from France. They were seven days without food, lashed t to the wreck. j . The nationalist convention in Dublin repudiated the plan for a limited Irish Council, offered by the liberal government. Serious race riots are reported c from Delhi, India, and the agitation h i3 said to be spreading in Madras ii province. v Frank A. Perret, Professor Matteucci's assistant, after visiting Aetna and Stromboli, said he believed stronger eruptions were imminent. ^ Mexico is transferring a whole ?, tribe of Indians from Central Mexico e to Yucatan to relieve the scarcity of c labor there. Chinese officials, at a dinner for Consul General Rodgers in Shanghai, said that the famine relief had healed all breaches between China and the United States. The employes of the Woolwish P Arsenal made a second demonstration in Trafalgar Square to express , their disapproval of Mr. Haldane'a ^ action in discharging a large percent- 1 age of workmen. Gil Bias appealed to the Pope to ? abolish the celibacy of the clergy. J" The native editor of the newspaper India, published in the Punjab, ia J under arrest on grave charges of ex- * cltinjg,disaffection. . 1 r - WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS 1 IH SI FRAUCISCO i >ix Wealthy Men Added to List of Alleged Bribers. NORMOUS BAIL BONOS GIVEN ' % tailway Officials Compelled to Put t Up $500,000?Schmitz, After a Delay, Gets Bonds?Trials Will Keep Courts Busy Two Years. San Francisco, Cal.?The Grand rury indicted six wealthy men on :harges of bribery and attempted >ribery, and returned additional inlictments against Abraham Ruef and tfayor E. E. Schmitz. Frank G. Drum, Eugene D. Sabla, rohn Martin, Abraham Ruef and Hayor Schmitz were indicted on foureen counts, each charging that they, J ointly DriDea lourteen 01 tne eigneen Supervisors in the sum of $750 iach to make the gas rate eighty-flve :ents for 1906, Instead of seventy-five " :ents. G. H. Umbsen, B. E. Gren, rV. I. Brobeck and Ruef were Indicted >n fourteen counts each, charging hat they jointly attempted to bribe ourteen Supervisors in the" sum of ?1000 each to vote a trolley fran:hise to the Parkside Transit Com- ' jany. Judge Coffey set bail at $1000 m each of the 126 counts contained , & n the twenty-eight indictments. Officials of big corporations ;3js hronged Judge Coffey's courtroom ;o give ball of $560,000 so that the ' , ndicted men may have liberty pendng trial on felony indictments re- , ;urned against them by the Grand fury. {. V Louis Glass, vice-president of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Theodore y. ttalsey, of the same concern, gave ponds in the sum of $20,000 on the charge of bribing two Supervisors :o vote for the granting of a competing telephone franchise in San Francisco. v?aj President Patrick Calhoun, Ap sistant President Mulally, General Counsel Tirey L. Ford and Assistant Counsel William L. Abbott, of the United Railways Investment Company, had each been indicted on four :een counts on the charge of bribing thirteen Supervisors and Mayor Schmitz to grant a trolley franchise under which the United Railways >vas electrified. William H. Crocker, president of the Crocker-Wool worth National Bank and foremost capi;alist of San Francisco, and President Henry T. Scott, of the Pacific States relephone and Telegraph Company, ;vere in court to furnish personal bail )f $560,000 for them* Arrangements, lowever, had already been made with i surety company of New York, yhose attorney handed to Judge Coffey fifty-six bonds for $10,00u i. ;ach. Mayor Schmitz also gave bail for. $20,000 on indictments charging him * . jS with accepting'a $50,000 bribe from rirey L. Ford and a bribe of $3250 !rom Frank Drum, of the San Fran:isco Gas and glectric Company. On the new indictments he must jive bonds for $166,000 n^ore, or $216,000 in all. If he cannot do this 26 will Uttvc iu gu iu yxisuu. Abraham Ruef, Indicted with the United Railroads officials and Mayor, . J 3chmitz, did not appear and offer sail, as he is now in custody. The fourteen new indictments against lim make eighty-seven outstanding la igainst San Francisco's former politcal leader. The aggregate bail offered in the indictments was $750,000. The trial of the alleged grafters Evill keep all the criminal courts here busy for at least two years. SAN FRANCISCO'S IDLE ARMY. VIore Than 16,000 Workers Losing $400,000 in Wages Weekly. San Francisco. ? The street car nec's strike has dragged along all :he week with no material change. Svery day the United Railroads haa lent out a few more cars and operited new lines until now cars are run ' )ver more than three-quarters of the ines. The company has about 800 men imployed, which permits the opera- , ''m Ion of onlv about one-third the usual lumber of cars. Service is also ttopped at 7 o'clock at night because )f the fear of accidents. Every day, < s marked by petty assaults on nonmion car men, by the throwing of ;ricks and stones at cars in certain listricts and by the insults of union ^ 'M lympathizers. Governor Gillett is ready to call >ut the militia if he regards it nectesiary, but no serious rioting has oc:urred. The fear of insult or assault leters thousands from riding on the :ars. The car men's and other itrikes have made 20,000 idle here tnd the loss of weekly wages of the trikers amounts to $400,000. Of he unemployed out on strike 2000 ;re car men, 12,000 ironworkers, .700 laundrymen, 800 brewery worknen, 500 electricians and 500 teleihone girls. .. tfS Suicide in Paris. Charles J. Steedman, of Provi[ence, R. I., who committed suicide n Paris, was buried at the former dace. Murder to Avoid Arrest. To avoid arrest Felix Itson, nineeen years old, shot and killed Town larshall Gregory at Brookslde, Ala. Escapcd Lynching Narrowly. W. R. Fulton, who narrowly esaped lynching by a mob after he iad shot his former wife three times a Wichita, Kan., klKed himself. The roman will recover. Smothered in Sand. Michael Markowltch and John 'outzbat employed in a sand bank a Youngstown, Ohio, were smoth red to aeatn Dy oeing caugm m a ave-in. Baseball Brevities. The Cincinnati Club has turned litcher Chappie back to Scranton. George Stone is beginning to worry iecause he has fallen off in his biting. Big Dan McGann, the Giants' first lagman, is looking for his lost bating ??ve. Manager Griffith, of New York, Is iot so much of a line coacher as in oars past. Mike Donlin is playing first base or Jimmy Callahan's independent, earn in Chicago. Mike has not been, litting the ball safely.