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AUCTION SALES.

THE elegant fixtures of the newly fitted drug store 1920 Webster st., near Santa Clara, Alameda Tuesday, June If, at Il a. n.. comprising in part ' elegant nickel show shelving. finished white and gold 4 window show globes, linoleum. etc., will be sold as a whole or in lots to suit. J. A. MUNRO. Auctioneer 1517 and 1519 Park st.. Alameda.
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e., Port Townsend. Seattle, Tacoma, Everett Anacortes and New Whateom CWash.), 10 8. m, June 5, 10, 15 20. 25. So. July. 5. and every fifth day thereafter, connecting at Seattle with this company's steamers for Alaska and G. N. Ky, at Tacoma with N. P. Ky. at Vancouver with c. P. Ky
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 For San Diego. stopping only at Port liar ford etSan Luis Obspo). Santa Barbara, Port Los Angeles and Redondo Los Angeles), Il a. m., June 4. s. 12, Is, 20, "A, 2S July 2, and every fourth day thereafter.
 For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan. Altata. La Paz, Santa Rosa lia and Guaymas (Mex). 10 a. m.. June II. July 2.
 For further information obtain folder.
 The company reserves the right to change without previous notice steamers, sailing dates and hours of sailing. 1. TICKET oFTICE-4 New Montgomery street tPalace HoteD.
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OCEAN TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Steamers leave Broadway wharf, San Francisco.
 For Alaskan ports, 10 a. m., June 5. 10, 15. 20, 25, 30, July 5, transfer at Seattle.
 For Alaskan ports (from Folsom-street wharD, 10 a. m.. June 5, 26, July 1T, August 4. %, transfer at Portland, Or.
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One wicket fell for 22 runs; for 27; for S3: { for Y; for 11s for 137; for 159; for 16S;
PACIFIC CRICKET CLUB.
BOWLING ANALYST.

One wicket fell for 1s runs; for Ss 8 for 40; for 65; for 60; for 65; for 69; for 79; for 79; 10 for 79.
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Near this is the fine art building. already
half completed. Mr.. Haynes tells me that
the exhibition of American pictures will be
very large and that many of the finest
paintings owned in the west will be loaned
to the exposition. ia There are some choice
ar. collections in st. Paul, Denver. st.
Louis, Kansas City and Omaha, and many
pictures which have never been shown to
the public will ha-here exhibited. Choice
pictures have been loaned by the Chicago
Art Museum, the Detroit Art Museum the
st. Louis Art Exhibit, the St. Louis Art
Museum and the art galleries of other
cities. Mr.. Haynes tells me that one of the
directors will scour Europe for the purpose
OF having good representation of foreign
ert, and that the best foreign artists will
be asked to send specimens Of their work.
The Different States.
I am told that all the states west Of the
Mississippi will participate in the show.
State buildings are already going up in that
part Of the exposition grounds which lie
opposite the park occupied by the main
buildings. The Nebraska building Is al
ready finished and other buildings are
about to be erected by Illinois. Iowa. Mon
tana, Colorado, Wisconsin, Utah and South
Dakota. The Illinois building with Its ex-
hibits will cost $4,000, and Of this $4,000
will go into the building itself. The plans
nave already been made and the struc-
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Why Poets Are Thin.

From the indianapolis News.
Originally, of course, the accident of
genius occurs everywhere and in all sorts
of bodies, big and little, thin and fat. The
point to discover is whether that particular
phase of genius, the poetic, whether in it.
self or in its practice. tends to fairness. 1t
is easy enough to see why our opera singer
grows adipose. He or she has not to I'M
dergo labor, other than exercise of the
lungs for operate singers do not act. They
do not even WELD a pen or tramp round to
publishers. And then the traditions of the
opera are Italian.
They all eat well, and those singers who
are not Italian perhaps grow fat from ini-
tation. Poets, of course, cannot grow fat
in this way; they do not love one another
well enough to meet very frequently They
do not even feed together. Beyond this,
similar conditions ought to produce similar
results.
The poet does not do any great physical
labor unless he produces his poems on the
Greeba castle method by the consulting of
countless volumes. His work consists of
sitting at u desk and writing what has
come to him during the night or on top of
an omnibus, or wherever it may be. Physi-
caliy it does not appear to be wearying
work. Poets ought to get fat but they do
rot; and the only conclusion 1 have come
TO is that mental work keeps the body
thin just as readily as muscular labor.
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Which one might naturally suppose would
be- interesting. The house is a small ore
and of the TWO rooms on the ground floor
the one in front is used as q store room for
candy and other supplies. Here | saw bar
rels Of gum drops and figs, together with
sacks of sugar and other materials in the
raw. The room behind is the candy work
rcom- When they are at work inside the
blinds are kept shut, and the front door
locked to discourage the curious and in
sure the work being uninterrupted. When
l entered the work of candy making was
going on at full blast The contents of q
large kettle. which had been boiling on the
stove. had just been emptied out on wide
block OF marble, and two Greeks were en-
erGetically working II with their hands,
while another was attending to mixture
on the stove. Great disorder prevailed in
the room, but the Greeks seemed to carry
on their work cleaniy. IS well as expedi-
tiously. In the backyard barrels which had
been empted of their contents were piled
Up in wild disarray. and clothes were hang
ing out in the air to dry. On the table in
the back room two or three decks of cards
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AN AUDIENCE OF THREE.

How ArtemuS Ward Escaped From an
Awkward Situation.
From the New York Times.
Before Artemus Ward went to London,
where the English fell in love with him
only to mourn his premature death among
them, he had conquered the respect and af-
fection of his own countrymen by his
quaint and kindly humor. The itinerary of
one of his tours led him to a town in CEN
| trail Pennsylvania. 1t was about the mid
die of January. The day of the lecture
came, and with it early came Artemus. Be-
| fore noon a tremendous snowstorm broke
| over that part of Pennsylvania and ragged
! furiously all day and night There are some
persons yet living Who remember that
| storm, and how regretfully, in view of its
savage ferocity, they gave up the idea of
hearing Artemus Ward. All special trains
were abandoned. When the lecturer APP
! peared on the stage that night and looked
| about him. in all the large theater he saw
| only three men, each in the seat his coupon
called for; all three, as it happened, being
| far to the rear.
The three men looked lonely and uncom-
Portable AS one of them said afterward
! they did not think there We're enough of
! them to dc justice to the occasion, and they
| felt the awkwardnesS of the situation and
| wondered what the outcome would be.
| Keeping that solemn face of his at its SOL
|
| and reckoning to the three men, said:
| Come up closer, gentlemen. 1 want to
| speak to YOU He had to repeat this invi-
| tation before his auditors understood that
| he meant what he said and mustered cour-
| age 20 so forward. When they had taken
seats together in the front row, Artemus
said: There now, that's more sociable."
| He paused n moment and went on:
| Gentlemen, you are entitled to see my
! show and hear my lecture, if you are SO
| disposed. But l understand that under
| Meath this hall there is an excellent cafe
and 1 suggest that We spend the evening
| there, Won as my guests
| Though reluctant to fOrego the show and
| lecture. as they saw Artemus had no mind
| for them, the three agreed to his PROPOSE
| ton. the lights were turned out, and the
| little party descended to the cafe. where for
hours they made merry, and whence one
| of them at least was most reluctant to
| start for home. He says he never had a
| more enjoyable time in his life, and that if
| Artemus Ward was not at his best then his
best must lave been past all whooping
| For the stories he told and the way he told
| them made them forget time and circum-
stance and completely banished any linger-
ing regret for what they had not received
| upstairs.
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A FOREST OF LUMBER.

utes. The grounds are upon broad pla-
teau, lying along the Missouri river, so
that you see the buildings you come in
on the railroads. There are something like
2UO acres in the exposition grounds proper,
with additional territory on the opposite
side of the road One of the most beautiful
features of the grounds is a wide lagoon
running through them from one end to the
other. This has been made by eXcavating
the earth and walling the sides of the pit
with boards. The lagoon is, Judge, about
400 feet wide at one end and less than this
at the ether. 1t was covered with ice dur
ing our visit, ard hundreds of boys and
girls were skating to and fro upon it. The
boarded walls are to be hidden by staff. so
that they will look like marble, and orna-
mentcd with electric lights Transforming
it into beautiful waterway, upon which
gondolas. canoes and other boats of va
rious kinds will ply from one building to
another. At the eastern end of the canal
the ground will be built up in terraces.
adorned with shrubbery and flowers, end
ing in a great stairway, crowned by a
kiosk. There will be number of grottoes
built here, lighted with electric lights, in
which the blue grotto of Capri and Mann
moth Cave will be reproduced.
Work Done.
Along this grand canal or lagoon all the
main buildings are located. Many of these
are almost completed. The manufactures
buildings is still a forest of rafters and
other kinds of lumber. The framework.
however, is UP as high as the roof and a
portion CT the Ioof has already been put on
There were perhaps a hundred carpenters
at work on it during my stay, and the
sound Of the hammer was to be heard In
every part of the grounds. This building
covers several acres. 1t will. when finished
look much like one of the Chicago worlds
fair buildings and will be finished in the
same way.
The agricultural building is almost com.
pleted, and all of the buildings with the eX-
ception of the government building are well
| under way. There are. judge. at least hall
a dozen great structures already ready fol
roofing, and 1 am told that the work will
be rapidly pushed in the spring. The gov.
eminent building. for which Congress has
appropriated 100000, is by no means far
advanced. The foundation has been dug
but little more than this can be done be-
fore spring. This building wild be at the
head of the lagoon. 1t will cover about
three-fourths of an acre and will be a beau
tiful structure of the Ionic style. 1t will
have a DOME which will be capped by a
figure representing liberty enlightening the
world. The figure will be lighted by cleo
tricity and the torch in the hand of the
statue will be IT'S feet above the ground
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push in the west than ever before. There
Is undoubtedly revival of business The
hotels are full everywhere. I find it hard
to get good accommodations on the sleeping
cars, and the army of commercial travellers
is greater than ever before. 1 was told in
st. Paul that the jobbers there had never
done so much business as they are now do
Ing. The Chicago merchants are expecting
IL heavy spring trade, and at Omaha, Dem
yer and Kansas City have found the peo-
PIE alive and most of them making money.
The basis of the prosperity has been the
big crops. Here in Nebraska Senator Chas.
r. Henderson tells me, 35,0Oo,OOO bushels
OF wheat were produced last year. and the
corn crop now On hand amounts to some
thing like 5OO,OO0,OOO bushels Senator
Henderson says that the agricultural prod
Icts of this state last year will foot up
something like SJO0,OOO.O0O or a capital
value of about 5000 per family In this he
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worth of hay every year The packing in
.terests are very large. The center, of the
packing industry is moving westward. Oma-
ha, Kansas City ard St. Joseph now kill
enormous quantities OF live stock and new
hacking houses ARE ipeirg built here and
a'so at St. joseph. 49,. pr 49,
= LAS to minerals. the west produces $780,
00O,808 worth of gold and silver year, and
its production OF. copper and other minerals
amounts to more than. that sum. Why,
some of the richest coal fields of the coun-
try are in the west Colorado claims to
shave more coal than Pennsylvania. There
is coal in Montana and Utah. and we pro-
duce now something like ~, coo, eco tons an
nIally in the trans Mississippi states. We
have good iron,- and there will be great
manufacturing rcenters in some of the
western sections in the future"
"How about the mortgages, senator?'
"A great many of the farm mortga ges
have already been paid off, and another
year or so of good crops will put Nebraska
and Kansas square with the world. The
terrified banker Of the east need not be
afraid of the west. Our people will pay
all that they owe, and If the present con-
dition continues we will be soon sending
money east to loan. This is the grainery
of America, and, long as the people
Of the east want to keep themselves fat
they must pay us for our corn, wheat ard
neat. We have in Texas the greatest of
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includes the packing products, of which
there is an enormous amount in Nebraska.
He tells me- that the farmers are learning
how use their crops. They do not sell
their corn. they did in the past, but
manufacture it into pork by feeding it, SO
that they get a big price per bushel for it.
l was told in Denver that the banks had
more money than they knew what to do
with. Senator Henderson says that the
bank deposits here in Omaha will approx.
mate s20,OoO,000, and learn that a similar
condition exists in Minneapolis and St.
Paul
The Great West.
Until within few years the west has re-
lied on its corn, wheat and meat to pay
the greater part of its expenses. Now the
farmers are diversifying their crops. An
immense amount of money is going into
sugar beets in Nebraska. Utah and Colo
RADIO. There is a sugar beet factory at
Grand Island and another at Norfolk, in
this state, which are producing thousands
of tons of sugar every year. Claus
Sprecklcs has established immense fac
tories in California, and the sugar makers
believe that the day will soon come when
we will make out of beets the hundred
million dollars worth of sugar which we
now import from other countries. l am
told that we have better land for raising
such sugar than can be found in Europe,
and that factories will soon be established
in many parts of the United States. The
beet sugar industry will be shown at the
exposition. Another industry which prom
ises to be worth much to Kansas and Ne
braska Is the utilization of the pith of the
corn stalk for various manufacturing pur
poses. They are now making pasteboard
something like linoleum out of this pith.
1t is used for other things and there are
factories which make from it packing to be
placed letwecn the outer ard inner walls
OF our war vessels. This cornstalk pitl
sucks up water like a sponge. 1t swells
the moment the water touches it, and a
hole made by cannon ball will be soon
corked up by the swelling produced by the
water flowing in.
I found Senator Henderson at the general
offices of the Burlington railroad He is,
you know the counsel for this system west
of the Missouri river, and he has / do not
know how many thousands of miles of road
under him, including connections with all
great states of the west He is thoroughly
posted or the condition of the west, and
during the chat he gave me some striking
figures showing the status of the trans Mis-
sissippi region Said he:
1.-The people of the east do not under
stand us. They have no conception of the
extent Of the western country nor of the
business We do here. 1 believe New York
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THE BICYCLE AND THE TROLLEY.
Statistics of the Falling on of Rail-
road Travel.
From the Electrical Engineer

Statistics of the Falling on of Rail-
road Travel.
From the Electrical Engineer.
That the habit of bicycling tends to cut
down the use of street cars has long been
known, and occasional estimates have APP
peared to the less of revenue thus in
f1icted on trolley companies. The subject
has just been specifically investigated by
Major I. B. Brown, chief of the bureau OF
railways. of Pennsylvania, who had noted i
general falling off in the income of street
railroads throughout the state.
TT cannot be assumed, he says, that
this decrease in revenues is due to the le-
pressed condition that has existed the last
few years, on all sides there are signs
of improvement that ought to have swollen
the receipts of the street railways from
operations. The cause must, therefore be
attributed to something else. In all prob
ability, the use of the bicycle by business
people and pleasure-Seekers is the prolific
source of the reduction in the receipts of
many street railway companies. In cities
where favorable conditions do not exist for
the use of the bicycle-where the hills are
steep and not easy of ascent or descent
the railway companies have probably not
been affected by the of the wheel to
so great an extent: but in cities like Har-
risburg and many others it cannot be gain
said that the bicycle has become a most
SCTlOuS cOHpetllCT Oh the street RUNWAY.
The fact remains, however, that many
more persons travel the streets of Har-
risburg, for instance, on bicycles than pa
tronize the cars
AS proof of this view, he cites figures
from observations made in Harrisburg dur
ing October on two days by no means
favorable to wheeling. The time daily
was from I am. to @ pm. During that
period COTS persons passed a given point,
Of whom 1852 were in the cars and 4, lis
were riding bicycles. We must confess
that the showing is a bad one, on the sur
face, but October Is rather favorite
month for bicycling, and, on the other
hand, 1t Is well known that the street
railways, even more than steam roads.
reflect the average conditions Of prosperity,
SO that two days next October or in nor
mally active seasons of trade and industry
might find a large percentage Of increase
in the patronage of the cars.
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were piled up in a heap. card playing being
one of the favorite amusemerts of the
Greeks.
Pulling Tnhy.
After the candy had been worked for
awhile on the marble slab the whole mass,
which must have weighed twenty-five
pounds. was thrown over a large iron fork
and pulled. Pulling lump Of candy Of
this size is far from a parlor amusement.
ard those VINO have occasionally labored
With a piece of molassos taffy no bigger
than ones thumb can imagine what it
n.rst be to pull twenty-five pounds In one
piece. The two Greeks took turns at pull
irg, spelling each other every few seconds
Several kinds of candy were to be made be-
fore they turned in that night, and they
were obliged to work hard and fast.
The Greeks make all their own bum
bum and Chung candy. They also make
peanut taffy and candied almonds. One Of
the most popular brands seems to be their
mixed pink. white and chocolate candy.
which is often to be seen in great piles On
their carts. This is a pulled candy. but
its texture is soft rather than brittle on
account of its being boiled in milk.
Just at present the candy business is
very dull. The big time for that passed
with Christmas. and many who were SELL
ing candy at that time have now taken up
the fruit trade for u change.
Where do you buy your fruit?" I asked
of one of the men pushing around we'll
loaded cart.
Sometime I buy fruit kere-sometime
in Baitin:ore-wherever i get it cheapest
in spring it cost too high herein summer
it cheap-now it cheap
Bananas ard other fruits are sold at
auction by the commission houses on
Louisiana avenue to the push. cart men.
The latter are always on the lookout to
lay in a stock in trade cheaply, and will
deal in whatever kind of fruit they can
set at good rates frcm the Wholesale
houses. Just now they are principally ham
ding bananas.
No Women Among Them.
One peculiar feature of the Greek set
Elements in Washington is that no women
are to be found there. Among the Italians
there seem to be about equal number
OF men and women but the Greek colonies
here are made up entirely of young men,
who keep bachelor hall wherever they hap
pen to be. Out of the 1900 or $4,000
Greeks in the United States it is said that
there are not more than 100 or $50 women.
The Greeks here naturally hold allegiance
to the Greek Church, although no organ
ization representing that denomination eX-
lists in Washington. Some of the down.
town churches Of various denominations
are maintaining Greek Sunday schools,
where the scholars are taught English and
brought within the influences of American
life and ideals. The number Of Greeks at
tending these now is not large. however.
During the Graeco-Turkish war the
Greeks here were much interested in the
struggles of their native land, and six
teen Of them left in body to take up arms
in her behalf. Most of them, however ex-
press no desire to return there to live.
No, like it in Americans said one. Il
don't want to 90 back to my country. There
too much difference. If man is poor he
Here not that way. l don't care to go
back
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and Boston are the most provincial cities
of the United States and that our EXPOSE
ton will be an eye opener to the rest of
the country. Think OF it, More than one
fourth OF all the people of the United
States live west of the Mississippi. We
have about twenty million people and we
are by no means poor as is commonly
supposed. The assessed valuation of the
property held by the trans-Mississippi
states aggregates more than six billion
dollars. This valuation is not more than
cne-fourth of the actual value, SO that We
have all told real and personal property
worth at least twenty billion dollars, an
average of one thousand dollars per CAPT.
ia. We are fast becoming great manu-
featuring section. Missouri, Kansas. Ne
braska Colorado, Utah, California, Oregon
and Washington are rapidly growing as
manufacturing states, SO that the products
of our factories and mills now amount
to more than a billion dollars a year."
Rich Farmers.
your chief products are, however,
agricultural, are they not?"
''They are both agricultural and mineral,
but the agricultural far exceeds the min
eral. Our corn crop is annually worth over
two hundred million dollars. 1t exceeds
the annual gold output of the world by
number of millions Our wheat crop
amounts to something Ike 100000, 600 BUSH
els year and We make about $l50,O00,OOO