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Boys Wear

Boys Domet Waists ........... 100
Boys Percale Pleated Waists. go
Boys Fountleroy Waists .............. 39c
Boys Knee Pants OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100
Boys Heavy Cottonade and Jeans
Knee Pants =. ..-.............. 25c
Boys Blue Cassimer Knee Pants.... zoe
Boys Knee Pants Suits............... Toe
Boys New Spring Suits ................ s15o
Boys All-Wool Kersey Pants, new
FOR M =. So. - s - @ ssss
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Sterling SiiNerWare s advancing. Marcy
win sell you. this week. at old prices.
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SEE THE NEW BLACK SATIN cAPES at
$1,000
Shirt Waists

New silk Shirt Waists, very latest
style, good material and best make at,
100 dozens of Fine Percalc Shirt
Waists, laundered, made in the best
manner and the latest style goods that
are worth 81, for. Observation-Disclosures.
New style Red French Percale La
dies Numbered Shirt Waists, very
stylish, ..............-..........
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League Practice Games.
At Acknowledgement, 10; Atlanta, 4.
At observation-disclosures, 16; Nashville 8.
At Misunderstanding, 10; Washing
ton, /.
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New Corsets

New COrsetS
Don't fail to inspect stock of new
Spring Corsets. All the new shapes, all the
best brands and all at the lowest prices.
Boys Domet Waists..-................ 1oc
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Emperor William to-day accorded long
audience to managers Goldberger and
Kuhnemann and to architect Bruno Schmitz
in regard to the plans for the Berlin expo
sition of 1895. His Majesty manifested the
liveliest interest in the plans submitted, ex-
pressing the highest satisfaction with the
proposed organization of the exposition He
addressed numberless questions to the man
ayers and the architect, promising to make
early and frequent visits to the exhibition
According to the advices received here
from Bremen, the gross profit of the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company during
1894 were $37S rs, compared with Sf94s.S25
in 1895. This balance will be devoted to the
depreciation account, for which another ST.
LOUD VIII nave to be written of the re-
serve fund.- The unsatisfactory state of the
industries and commerce of the United
States Is given as the reason for this re-
duction of the revenue. The prospects for
1893 are not encouraging owing to the loss
the Elbe this loss having to be reckon d
with next years accounts. The most re-
munerative undertaking OF 1894 appears to
have been. the North German Lloyd's I'M
perial mail service. from which there have
been excellent returns.
There is much satisfaction among the I'M
naturalized veterans of the American war,
residing In Germany. because of the receipt
paneai Of the law Which srsnensed tb 20 ' a
lowances for some years.
ambassador Runyon dined ambassador
De SzogyeEy-Marich, of Austria, Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Macchi. the European representative
OF the cotton states international EXPOSE
ton. who is seeking Europe's participation
in the exhibition at Atlanta. this year, is
nom in Germany. The government is en-
couraging the idea far as possible, and
efforts are being made to induce nanufac-
turers ard other business houses to take
part In the exhibition.
An unusually large number OF German
Americans. about hundred In all. visiting
here. who have been arrested charged With
evading military duty prior TO their ernigra-
ton To the United States. have claimed the
intercession of the American embassy since
ian. |. Of this year. This week. two broth-
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that at all compare with the Lynch child
ren-Fred, Grace and Irene.
They are still of very tender years, yet
there is practically no instrument known
with which they are not familiar, and
from which they cannot extract all sorts OF
sweet sounds.
The youngest, Irene, is a black-eyed,
black-haired little miss, and it is little
short of wonderful the way in which she
plays the cornet. One would hardly think
that such small pair of lungs could pro-
duce such volume and purity of tone.
Grace and Irene do very pretty musical
act in which the first named is blindfolded
and led to a piano. Over the keys is
thrown light cloth, yet in spite of this
handicap she keeps perfect time to the
sisters cornet or bells, as the case might be.
The brother is an accomplished violinist,
destined to become great performer.
On the violin, mandolin, guitar and
other more difficult instruments the Lynch
children are perfectly at home. 1t would
be hard to say which of the three is the
most finished performer, for they all work
with such heart and soul.
These latest musical wonders made their
first bow to the public at the Alcazar Mon
day night. 1t was remarkable that they
gave not the slightest evidence of stage
fright but to the contrary played like old
timers. They have already had an offer to
go East, though their parents are unde-
cided just at present what they will do.
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money. There is absolutely no demand
for ranch property now, though the direc
tors believe that the building of the Valley
road will bring lot of bidders into the
! field, with the result that real estate will
make sufficient advance to pay them for
their long wait. The bank has on hand
now only about $40. 900. or enough to pay q
dividend of three-quarters of l per cent.
Of course the directors will not think of
declaring a dividend under 5 per cent,
which means that there must be at least
SIS, 600 on hand.
About the 10th of August a dividend of
Is per cent may be declared, though this
depends entirely on the compromise they
are now endeavorlng to effect with the Pa
citic Bank. It will be remem Dered that
the PEOPLES Bank holds mortgage on the
Pacific Bank building for 100000, though
Bank went under. II the compromise can
be made, and the directors of the Peoples
Bank think such thing highly probable,
the building will at once be sold, and they
hope to realize enough to warrant divi-
dend of at least Is per cent at the time
mentioned above.
Of the 81, SOC, 900 due depositors it is I'M
derstood that trust company holds near
ly $3.50, 900. The remainder is still held by
the original depositors, except few thou
sand dollars disposed of in the excitement
incident to the earlier days of the wreck.
A few believe that the deposltors will ulti-
mately be paid in full, though majority
would be willing to take considerably less
than this if settlement would be made
right away.
The Bank Commissioners have levied an
assessment on the various State banks for
their pro rata of the expenses of the COM
mission. The assessment this year is 8
cents and 6 mills on each $1,000 deposited
The money subject to taxation amounts to
1888, 595, 257 II. This does not include
banks in liquidation or those about to go
out of business. Private and National
banks are also excluded from the above
amonpt
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HOM|AG PIGEON SERVICE.
Forecast Official Harmon Saws
That He Will Give 1t
a Fair Trial.
HOW THE BIRDS ARE TRAINED,
"A Fancier Tells OF the Flight Of the
Swift Winged Mes
SengerS.

"The subject of using carrier pigeons for
transmitting weather reports from the
Farallone Islands to this office" said Fore
cast Official Harmon yesterday, sis still
being considered, but the date when the
idea will be put into operation has not yet
been determined. 1t will be an expert
ment, but do not see why it should not
be success. AS you understand, the
birds cannot be taken to the islands and
let loose with the expectation that they
will fly to this Office. They will have to be
trained, and that takes time"
While Mr.. Harmon was conversing on
this subject he was visited by Edward 6.
Koenig of 1925 Jackson street, who for a
number of years has devoted himself to
the raising of homing pigeons. Mr.. Koenig
said: "The CALL has announced that this
department is to use carrier pigeons to con-
yey messages from the Farallones, and
thought would offer you any assistance
you may require in the matter
What would be the cost of furnishing
say SO pigeons for experimental purposes ?"
asked the forecast official.
Birds" replied Mr.. Koenig "are worth
IS a pair, that is birds that can be relied
upon. but then there are some that have
records that are worth $35 pair
Being asked the time it would take the
flyers to cross from the islands to the City,
and being told that the distance is about
30 miles in an air line, Mr.. Koenig answer
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ed that the birds would come home in
| twenty minutes.
'But you reckon as to flights by land"
suggested Mr.. Harmon.
"Oh no." added the bird-fancier, sit
makes no difference if the birds travel over
land or water Some time ago l gave to
the captain of an outgoing vessel, basket
containing some pigeons, to be set free
when about 20 miles out at sea. This
however, he failed to do, and did not re-
lease them until he was off Point Arena,
lbs miles away, and the birds came home"
Mr. Koenig, then explained how the
pigeons have been trained. He said that
he would like to have his dove cote on the
roof of the Mills building, because it is
such an attractive building. The birds, he
said, must be such as have never been out
of the cote, and must be kept for two
months at least at the place to which
they are to return, so that they may
familiarize themselves with the place.
They may at the end of that time be taken
half way across the bay and set free. The
next day they may be taken as far as
Sausalito and freed, and then the distance
increased every day. The birds, he said,
never forget their home-they always re-
turn to it. AS an instance he cited the fact
that last Saturday strange bird entered
his cote, and when he examined it, discov-
cred by the ring on it's leg that it was one
he had sold to E. P. Sheel of Clay and
Walnut streets, in June, 1898. 1t had been
kept in captivity for two years, and when
released returned to its original home. It
was but six weeks old when sold.
Mr.. Harmon said that some years ago
the signal service had made experiments
with pigeons in the East, and that results
had been very satisfactory, and as it had
been a success there, he could not see why
such service would no be successful here.
In fact it would prove great advantage.
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DECLARING A DIVIDEND,
The Peoples Bank to Pay
DepOSitors Another Install
ment Soon.
EFFORTS TO COMPROMISE
Depositors to Be Paid IS Per Cent
If the Pacific Bank Building
Is Sold.

Two months ago the depositors of the
defunct Peoples Home Savings Bank re-
ceived notice that the directors had de-
clared a dividend of 5 per cent, and that
the same would be paid on presentation of
the deposit books.
In view of the fact that the Peoples
Bank had nearly 81, SOC, 900 on deposit and
assets of the face value of nearly 1900, 900,
a 5 per cent dividend was considered
very insignificant sun. Many of the large
depositors presented their account-books
at once, fearful, it seemed, that even this
small amount would come up missing
when applied for. The smaller depositors,
however, were content to call for their
dividend as the opportunity presented it
SELF the result being that the bank had
innumerable callers every day. De-
mands are confined almost entirely to two
figures, though an occasional deposisor
| comes forward with a book calling for
something over $780,
The affairs of the Peoples Home Saw
ings Bank are in as good condition now as
the day they went into liquidation though
that is eminently unsatisfactory to the de-
positors. A majority of the mortgages
held by them on property in Southern
California have been foreclosed, though
this action has brought them in no ready
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small to be assessed for the cost and it
would be impossible to get the money from
Congress.
The following was submitted from the
Richmond District improvement Club:
To the Honorable, etc.-SIRs: At a meeting of
ton held Wednesday. May %, it was re-
solved to call the attention of your honorable
body to the condition of Clement street, for
merly fine street but utterly DESTROYED
by the .sutro Railway Company. We there
fore ask your honorable board to compel
the Sutro Railway Company to at least
leave the street in as good condition as they
found 1t. We are informed by the foreman of
the fire-engine company of our district that on
account OF the ruinatiOn of the street it was
only on certain points they could cross in case
OF a fire north of Clement street, and thus
leaving the most thickly settled portion of the
district almost without the assistance of the
ire company. Therefore we pray your board
will act in the matter.
Upon this the committee makes the fol-
lowing report:
mend any action in the matter, however
hagrant may be the violation. The only course
TO be taken will be to appeal to the party hav-
ing the franchise. and there can be no question
but that he will have an examination of the
street made by the experts acting under his
direction, and, if he is satisfied that the state
ments are correct, he will use his power as the
executive of the City to compel the Sutro Rail-
way Company to comply with the obligations.
In regard to the resolution introduced
by Supervisor Spreckels at the last meeting
of the board and referred to this commit
tee, requesting the Superintendent of
Streets to notify the Mayors office each
day what inspectors are detailed on street.
work and sewers, with their Names
addresses and where they are To-
Gated, the committee will recommend
indefinite postponement for the reason
stated that "any information desired by
the Mayor which the Superintendent of
Streets can afford will be readily given, as
all information is given to the public
There is no necessity for the board to pass
this resolution when any citizen can OBJ
tain all information on application at the
This is practically the language of the
superintendent of Streets, used when the
resolution was read. Upon this statement
the report was made,
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CHADBOURNE AND COLE,
Employees of the Harbor Com
mission on the Anxious
Seat.
Rumor That the Cole Men Are to
Be Displaced by Colnon and
Chadbourne.

Harbor Commissioner Daniel Cole went
up to Yuba County day before yesterday.
He is expected to return to-day, but if he
does not get back on time there will be
fear and trembling among his appointees
on the water front.
Commissioners Colnon and Chadbourne
did not hold regular meeting yesterday,
but there is widespread impression justi-
fed by observation that they connubiated
and took general inventory of Cole
scalps.
The Cole men are now convinced that
Chadbourne has cast his fortunes with the
administration at Sacramento and will join
his fellow Commissioner Colnon in lifting a
Cole scalp whenever the opportunity
occurs.
A friend of Chadbourne, in speaking of
the reported detection last night, said !:
s'Chad is now getting even. For long
time he was on the board between Bassett
and Cole, and neither one of them ever
paid any attention to his recommendation
when the pie was given out. Now
he sees an opportunity to even up with
doesn't care for politics in the commission,
| but is the kind of man that will help a
friend without inquiring whether the man
in need of assistance is Democrat or Re-
publican"
A close friend of Commissioner Cole,
whose name is withheld by request, was
| seen last evening. He said he did not I'M
derstand that any immediate raid was to
be made on Coles appointees.
1.-The next important change to be
| made is that of Chief Wharfnger,"
he said s'Mr. Boobar, the incum-
| bent, is Bassett appointee,
and according to the rule which has
usually been observed by the board in
| making appointments. Commissioner Col
| non should have the right to name Boobar's
successor"
At Southern Pacific headquarters, where
pretty close watch is kept OF waterfront
| proceedings, Chadbourne's course is being
observed.
Among the politicians who are inter-
ested in holding the places already secured
for their friends there is more than little
alarm. Some Of them declared that Chad
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A CENTURY OF WAR.

The Fearful Cost in Blood and Money
to France.
A highly interesting story of what 100
years of war have cost France in human
life has Just been made public by DIR.
Medicine in Paris, and is found in the
Lancet. When the revolution broke out
Frances effective army was only 10000
men, For the wars waged during ten
years, in Belgium, on the Sambre, the
Meuse, the Rhine, the Alps, the Pyrenees,
in the Vendee and in Egypt, there were
called out 100000 At the census made
in the ninth year of the republic there
remained of these only 1888. In the
killed and in dead by disease the wars of
the first republic cost France 2, 122, 402 men.
From 1901 to Waterloo 3,157,39S men
scarcely sufficed to fill the blanks, which in
an incessant war against com bined Europe,
France incurred at Austerlitz, Jena,
Auerstadt Friedland, Saragossa, Eckmuhl,
Essling, Wagram, Taragona. Smolensk,
Moscow, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Leip-
zig and Waterloo.
Under the restoration Louis Philippe and
the second republic, in spite of the war in
and the taking of Antwerp, France passed
through comparative calm. The army
mum ered about 213, 74s, and the mortality
averaged % per 1000. In 1885 COM
menced the epoch of the great wars-the
Crimea, Italy 1S62-66), China 1860-61),
Mexico Q862- 66) and the disasters of 1870.
In the Crimea, out of 300, 1858 men, 95,615
succumbed; in Italy, out of 200, there
died 1868; in China, $50, and in Cochin
China 4S per 1000. The second empire cost
France about 100000 soldiers. Accord
ing to DR.. Langneau's Topographic tables
the century from 1875 to 1895 witnessed the
death in battle or by disease of 5000. 900
French soldiers,
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HAD TO DO SOMETHING.
If He Couldn't Lick the Boys, Then Hs
Would Lick the Trustees.

L L
Would Lick the Trustees.
Corporal punishment in the schools of
New Jersey is prohibited by law, yet the
boys of New Jersey are no less deserving of
a good whaling now and then than the
boys of other States. Some of the teachers
of the State with old-fashioned notions
condemn this law, but must abide by it,
and such teacher had charge of a country
school in the northern part of the State.
He was strapping big fellow, and it was
blessing to the boys, no doubt, that they
were protected by the law, for they were a
tough lot The teacher did the best he
could with them by moral sausion, but it
was Of little avail, and he finally laid his
case before the trustees, says the Detroit
Free Press.
"Gentlemen," he said, after telling the
condition Of affairs, "those boys have to be
licked"
"You can't do it, sir" expostulated the
chairman of the board.
"Then you will have to assist me in con-
trolling them
THAT'S what you are employed for, sir"
"Then, as have said, they must be
licked"
THAT is against the law, sir" insisted
the chairman.
.lThen, gentlemen" said the teacher,
with vigorous emphasis, somebody must
be licked; and I want to say right here for
your guidance that the next time l have
trouble with them 1 am going to lick a
trustee, and as have trouble about once a
day, each one of you may expect to get it
at least once week. | guess there is no
law against that, is there?'
At last accounts the trustees were look
ing for a new teacher.
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buildings in contemplation for Market
street that the improvement would en-
courage.
Mr.. Bunker also favored it. He said that
possibly some "mossbacks" would censure
the board for creating big tax levy, but
that the great mass of the people would
approve.
Morgenstern said, 'iI'm with YOU"
A resolution will be prepared.
In favor of improving Market street,
from East to Valencia, and to that end
in favor of authorizing an appropriation of
$780, 600 to improve with a good bitumen
pavement this thoroughfare on condition
that the property will defray one
half the expense, which will not alone add
greatly to the rentable value of the prop
erty, but will facilitate public travel"
In discussing the improvement of Van
Ness avenue Supervisor Hughes said it
was most important. It was the artery
leading to the parks and Preside; it is the
only street wherein the military could make
display; it was costing $500 month for
sprinkling now and this expense would be
done away with with bituminous pave
ment. He thought the property owners
here would pay half the expense also, and
if so resolution could be passed at the first
meeting in July giving the property
owners the right to enter into private
contracts. These Improvements and
also tuc Improvements III the pdIkS
should be completed. The method of
spending small sums of money upon them
year after year simply frittered the money
away and nothing was done. 1t was time
the parks were in shape, and he thought
ifthis board did the work the people would
appreciate it. There had been expensive
tinkering going on over the small parks
and plazas for twenty and thirty years.
and they were still disgrace to the City.
The Van Ness avenue matter was re-
ferred to the Superintendent of Streets
with instructions to report at the next
meeting what blocks were not paved, with
an estimate on the cost of laying pave
ment of bitumen on the present macadam
foundation so that the board may provide
for the cost in the next tax levy.
A resolution will also be presented Gin
favor of providing in the next tax levy the
sum of $4,000 in the street department
fund for the purpose of constructing a
sewer through the Presidio reservation
from Locust street and the south line of
the Preside reservation to Union and
Lyon streets for the purpose of providing
an outlet for the Preside Heights sewer. "
This was decided upon as the sewer is
deemed necessary. The district is too
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THE AFFILIATED COLLEGES.
The Committee Has Not Yet Selected
Building Site.

The Committee Has Not Yet Selected
Building Site.
The statement published last evening
that the committee appointed to select
site for the affiliated colleges had made
their choice of lot was somewhat prema-
ture. They have not made selection, al
though several pieces of land have been
favorably considered. Among these is the
4OOx2OO foot block on Potrero avenue Santa
Clara avenue, Sixteenth street and Frank
lin square.
1t is owned by the Spring Valley Water
Company and was formerly the reservoir
OF the old Bently Water Works. The block
is well elevated and commands fine view
of the City and bay. 1t is close TO the Lick
School of Mechanical Arts. John Center
owns property in the neighborhood and
offered the committee gift deed of one
block, but the offer was not accepted, as
the gentlemen did not like the location.
They are expecting that the Spring Valley
Company will set a price on their land
within few days. The offer will be con-
sidered with dozen others that have been
made.