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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
BOARD EQUIPS
A BALL TEAM
Directors Are Stopped
by Auditor Baehr in Unwar-
ranted Expenditure of Funds

Right upon the heels of the discharge
by the Board of Education of a num-
Der of mechanics that have been en-
ployed on necessary repairs TO the pub,
lie school buildings comes the discov-
cry by Auditor Baehr that the same
board has gone into the business of
equipping football teams connected
with the high schools.
Yesterday there was presented to the
Auditor for his signature a demand in
the sum of SIT drawn in favor OF Fred
Barthels and covering certain articles
CT wear for the Lowell High School
football team. Baehr thinks that this
is preliminary to the equipping of the
Polytechnic High School and Mission
High School football teams by the
board.
BartheIs is a pupil in the school
named and is captain Of the football
team. Baehr was somewhat surprised
that a demand should be made out in
favor of the pupil named, and on In
vestigation found that the firm name
on the bill for the supplies had been
cut from the bill and in that shape
it had been pasted on the official de-
mand.
Upon further inquiry Baehr learned
that the football supplies had been
bought. from Gantner & Mattern by
Barthels and the demand was then
made out in favor of the last named.
The bill was approved by Directors
Woodward. Mark and ROncovieri and
specified the following articles as hav-
ing been furnished to the team:
September If padded Jerseys at g T5sIe 50
September A padded st Jerseys at 81 IS ii 90
October IL pair football snoes.......... 80
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 90
No sooner had the bill been sent from
the Board of Education than Barthels
appeared at the Auditors Office for the
purpose of securing 1t and having 1t
cashed at the city treasury. When
questioned by the Auditors deputies
Barthels said that he had ordered the
goods upon the direction of Directors
Mark and Roncovieri- Mark is chair
man of the High School Committee.
and as such supervises the expenditures
of the high schools. while Roncovieri
is chairman of the Supplies Committee
and has similar but more comprehen-
sive powers.
Auditor Baehr declined to give the
demand to BartheIs and declared that
he would withhold payment on the
ground that it is an illegal expendi-
ture Of school moneys. Considering
that the Board of Education is con-
tinually complaining that it has not
sufficient funds to ruin the School De-
partment properly, Baehr thinks that
an expenditure for football supplies is
unwise and unwarranted, and he states
that he will positively refuse to audit
such a demand CT any of a similar
character.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
Petitions i'm InsoIrencr.

Petitions in insolvency were filed in
the United States District Court yes
terday as follows: Robert F. Frazee.
brass polisher, SACRAMENTO. liabilities
1888, no assets; Frank Calm. clerk in
the Emporium, San Francisco, HabiI-
tiles $13,726. no assets liabilities hav-
ing been contracted in Chicago be-
tween 1890 and 1908; George A. Da-
Wis, merchant and matchmaker.
Campbell. Santa Clara County. uabil-
tiles $704, assets $21O.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

for $3.50 rs. He alleges that he gave
the company that amount to purchase
stocks on a margin for him with the
understanding that when he demand
ed the return of the money 1t was 10
be refunded. Recently he asked tnat
the cash be restored to him and MS
demand was refused, hence the suit.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1.-THE annual
banquet of the Chamber of Commerce
was held this evening. Speeches We're
made in response to toasts by George
". Marston, Will H. Holcomb, L. A.
Wright, z. Wineburgh, DR.. p. c. Re-
mondino, Simon Levi. Victor z. Shaw
and Hon. NJ. L. Ward.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
MIX Below standard.

Health officer O'Brfen yesterday
ordered warrants to be taken out for
the arrest of Phil vogel, owner of a
bakery at 2933 Twenty-fourth street,
and F. M. Lund. resta urant keeper
at 215 Grant avenue, for having in
their possession milk below the stand
o.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
VIII Hold Flower show.

The regular monthly meeting of the
State Flower Association took place
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. ]. L. Mar
tin WAS in the chair. 1t was decided
10 hold the annual spring flower show
in the ferry building on March "A, 25
and 2e II will be entirely devoted to
a display OF bulbOus plants.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
Hnsband is Wife,s Ward.

Augusta Rowan, wife of J. M.
Rowan, was appointed guardian of
husbands person and estate yesterday
by Judge Hunt. Her bond was fixed
at $1,000. Rowan's estate consists of
stocks and bonds worth $4,000 and
several valuable mining claims in
Alaska.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

HONOLULU, Dec. 1.-The Supreme Court
Of Hawaii to-day decided that It had no
Jurisdiction in elsetion contest cases and dis
missed the petition Of the Home Rule party
for recount OF votes cast at the recent county
election
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
To-Day's Toy List.

Ring Toss. 25c ard 45c-
SOC Table CroqUet at 35c. -Four ralIsts
wicket. balls and tape; all put Up in dove
tailed boxes.
Ten Pies. 6-irch ones OF hardwood, striped
and vanished. 15c set. Others at 25c
40c and T5c.
Doll Oak Extension Tables. with extra Ieaf
stands 10 inches high. measures 1O15x1S
inches; pic
Doll Chairs. red and white enaneIed. gilt
trimmed Zoe.
Boys Baseballs, full size, sewn with heavy
linen thread.
Boys Soldier Suits. IN which there Is a
cap. gun and knapsack. 25c. Others at
SOC. 6Oc 95c and as high as 81 So
Horses. covered with real skin, stand on
wheel platforms, 25c. 45c, T5c, 95o and
81 35.
Buy toys to-day.
And II YOU can come in the mornings
ahead OF the crowds. II you were here Ia
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
For Christmas Gifts.

We have on exhibition a lne line Of
framed pictures. showing all she new ef-
fects in Flemish, Old Dutch and ebopr
frames. with tinted mats to match: all
the newest pictures in Copley prints. pla-
tinum. sepia and water colOrs. Good
goods and moderate prices. Sanborn.
Vail & Co. 741 Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

Murine Eye Remedy. A home cure for
Eye troubles. Never fails to win friends
Used for infant and adult. Murine
doesn't smart. Druggists and opticians.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

Spectator Wants Money Back.
S. S. Gaitskill sued the Central
Grain and Stock Exchange yesterday
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

Piso's Cure-40 years on tho market, and
still the best for Coughs and Colds. Druggists
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
HALE'S


Others besides Rae Hoffman will say that to-day when they
what big ready Christmas this when they how
satisfying every doing without strain the
purse (Is good well good goods
that makes the people think of Hale's frst
Aside from this there special Christmas sights to at
attention to-day
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

NEW YORK. Dec 11.-Tweive hundred
passengers sailed from this port to-day on the
steamer la Champagne and $50 on the Lain
making the total number returning 20 Europe
during the Christmas rush nearly $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

The best way to pray for the poor is
with. .your- own basket aud store
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
Christmas Perfumes

Doubly desirable now; not only
the fragrance within, but the Christ
mas air that surrounds each of them.
Some are put Up i'll little Christmas
baskets, others in plush boxes.
Even little wicker baskets with bottle OF per-
fume for Ice.
bottles OF very choice perfumes in lit
tie boxes. 20c.
Or Triple Extract put up in half-ounce bot
ties, two of them in a box. soc.
Here are little cases with three bottles OF Tap
pans popular perfumes, S1.5O.
Atomizers are right next to the per-
fumes. csc to $3.50.
Then come Powder Jars, 25c
to $500 Beautiful Bohemian
glass affairs with decorated cell an
luloid tops.
Then look at these Mirrors for
Christmas giving Hand mir III
rors. Csc to So. Triple ones. 40c, ~
soc. 65c TO $40. Here's one with -
an easel back for him" to use
when shaving. 75c.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
Buckles Novel Ideas.

Here they are in settings with
ornaments for the back; a buckle
with a dainty angels head as we'll
as chain and pendants, soc.
Here's one design in two pretty
leaf shapes, another like pond lily,
75c.
Those set in jewels, topazes,
amethysts and turquoises, are $I:oo.
Those in gun metal with rhine
stones and coral settings, $2.5o
Pretty buckle with two hand
some topaz ornaments and gold
baclc $500.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12
HALE'S.
Open Tonight
Pretty Belts and Buckles
Ard Every Night tin Christmas.
Christmas styles are here.

Christmas styles are here.
Give cher" new belt.
Or set of new buckles.
Here are pretty belts for SI.oo,
$I.25, $2.oo, $3.50 and $500.
Black satin ones in crush effects.
(SI.oo.)
Black silk Braid ones with pen
dants and cro9heted ornaments
(SI.2s)
Black peau de soies with long
narrow orname2ts for the back.
(SI.5o)
Here arc some beautiful ribbon
belts, soft ones with medallion or
nanents. (S2.oo)
Those laroe chain belts with me-
dallions, co.ored Indian heads, are
$3.50 and $500.
Bead belts in black, white, blue
and black and white. are $I.5o
Those girdle belts with tassels
and animal heads, SI.oo to $1,000.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-12

The Windows-Santa Claus renectcrs-
Then inside the store is the mammoth Brook
lyn Bridge built up there above your heads
with handkerchief Going across IL are the
dOllies with their buggies and automobiles.
some of them walking all OF them nat
ural as life-suggestive OF one Of the Ways
to Christmas happiness.
Then look up in the court at Santa Claus
home, where the iccles are hanging and the
tceberEs are floating in the water Look
again, there Is his cave. There he IS at
work There are the things he has just
made.
But don stop on the main floor. Go 10 the
second noor TO Santa Claus Art Gallery
where there are almost six thousand pen and
Ink pictures the children have been sending
in this Santa Claus contest
On the next floor Is Toyland where tha tovs
and dolls. books and games are spread out
But best of all bring the children
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
CAN MAN LIVE WITHOUT cooKsq

From the New York World.
 Eighty reformers feasted the other evening on ''uncooked food" They are careful not to speak of raw food" be- cause that expression grates on delicate sensibilitles. They eat it raw, however, just the same.
 From all accounts an ordinary person who has not reached higher planes of thought Is not likely to be satisfied with one banquet of ''soup, natural"-celery grated into cream-undressed nuts, salads, non- spirituous egg-nog and fruit juice But it seems that there are four thousand people in New York who have attained the level on which such menu can be enjoyed. It shows what big town this is.
 q learned" said one of these adopts. that natural food began in the Garden of Eden. Cereals fruits and vegetables for me after that" But what about the catastrophe that was brought on in the Garden of Eden by eating a raw apple? If we are going Into ancient history that looks rather ominous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
TIE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
How sour sweet music Is
Securing Depositors.

The Meridian, Miss, Star does not have much faith in the proposition to have examiners for state banks, and in the course of it's discussion of the Cornwell dedication it urges that its true lesson is the need from all bank officials, from the porter to the presi- dent, of heavy bonds for the protec- tion of the depositors. Place the bond of the Cornwell of each institution the controlling man-at the average amount of the deposlts for the past six months, changing the bond every six months as the deposits go up or down. Security companies Issue such bonds, and the Star says 'it would be far bet ter for the bank to pay part of the premium, securing thereby an insur- ance against loss"
 Either every, man in a private or state bank that receives deposits should, according to the Star, be heav- fly bonded for the protection of de- positors, and the bo1d filed in the office of the secretary of state or bank commissioner, or else every such bank should be required to deposit securi- ties equivalent to its deposits.
 "Out of this theft" says the Star, may come some good to future depos- itors, and then the three hundred thousand dollars will not have been spent unknowingly or unwillingly in vain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
THE END OF ThE WORLD.

Simon Newcomb. in May MeClure's.
 Now let me tell you what none but ourselves must hear. You all know that from the beginning of recorded history stars supposed to be new have from time to time blazed out in the heavens. The scientific men know that these stars were not really new. They were simply com monplace stars which, through the action of some cause that no one has yet brought to light. suddenly increased their heat and light thousands of times.
 We have also known that dark bodies many times larger than the earth are flying through space like the stars them selves. Now. my theory is that if one of these objects chances to strike star 1t bursts through it's utter envelope and sets free the enormous fires pent up within, which burst forth in all their fury
 Next December one of these objects Is going to fall into our sun. Now I do not want to frighten you unnecessarily, but I think we may as we'll look this matter in the face If my theory is correct. the light and heat of the sun will be sud- denly increased thousands of times. Should this result follow. can there be any doubt as to the consequences? The whole surface of the earth will be exposed to a radiation as intense as that in the focus of a burning glass, which. you all know. will not only set fire to wood. but melt iron and crumble stone. The flood of heat will destroy all the works of man and every living being that exists upon the earth. The polar regions alone will be exempt from the radiation. because the sun will not be shining on them at the time of the collision. But they will be visited with such a flood of hot afr and steam that their fate can hardly be dif- ferent from that of the rest of the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
HnsnltahIe Baltimore

"Whenever I meet a man from Balu- more" said a resident of Birmingham "my heart warns to him. Ten years ago 1 came from the old world to the United States a perfect stranger and spent seV- eral months in New York and Philadel- phla 1 was upon the point of returning when l accidentally visited Baltimore. Up to the time of my arrival in the border city my experience of the American peo- pie had q most chilling effect upon me.
 Nothing but business relations existed between me and the people with whom I came in contact. but in Baltimore the hand of friendship and the hospitable welcome were accorded me. It may seem strange, but so far as southern manners and customs are observed they are far more in evidence in Baltimore than in Birmingham. I like to pay this tribute to a city where, regardless of creed or coun- try, the fact of my being a stranger was the recommendation which gained ne ad- mission to the homes of those hospitable people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
MEMORY IN CHILDREN.

From Harpers Weekly
 An investigation into the power of mem- ory in children was recently made by the director of the department of child study of the Chicago public schools. It was found among other interesting re- suits, that there is no memory period" no period in early school life when the memory Is stronger than it is at any later portion of the childs life, period es- pecially adapted for learning to spell. "While there are no memory stages, there are undoubtedly periods of interest that are especially favorable for the child's learning to spell; times when the child is aroused from indifference or from a feeling that spelling is a small part of life to recognition that 1t Is important. It has been pointed out that during early school life the auditory memory Is the stronger, and later that the visual mem ory Is stronger. During the whole of school life the audio-visual memory is stronger than either the auditory or visual; that Is. a simultaneous appeal to both sight and hearing produces a richer and more usable Image than is brought about by an appeal to either sense alone It would seem from this that the more senses we can appeal to. the deeper will be the impression
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
CAMPS OF MILLIoNAlREs.

New York Press
 Many modern mIllionaires include camp In the Adrondacks among their possessions. and find more pleasure in log cabin near one of the picturesque lakes than in a marble house in Bellevue avenue. J. Perpont Morgan set the pace a decade ago, building a comfortable, but plain, house well away from civilization. John Jacob Astor's dwelling at St, Regis is far more than a camp. Spencer Trask is arranging for a home in the mountains. Of the younger set. Alfred Gwynne Van derbilt has a finely equipped lodge near Paul Smiths and Reginald, his brother probably will go and do likewise. Miss Mary Hartman, whose father, E. H. Hartman, is one of the Paul Smiths col ony, prefers their rugged mountain home to their Tuxedo mansion. and entertains lively house parties there. Almost any morning last summer Miss Hartman could be seen padding a canoe, at which she Is as clever as at riding a fractions cob William Rockefeler's chain of log cabins adjoins the Hartman camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
Modern Electric Cannon.

From the Washington Times.
 A Norwegian scientist, Prof. Birke- land, recently demonstrated with great success the powers of his electro-magnet- ic cannon at the Royal Norwegian acad- emy, before ministers of state high off, cials and others.
 By means of an electro magnetic cur rent the professor undertakes to dis charge. with a 61s centimetcr experiment. al gun. a projectile weighing ten kilo- grams. The projectiles penetrated the target to depth of forty centimeters, but the professor says the efficiency of his gun at the present moment is such that. with a 30 centimeter gun, he could discharge a projectile weighing 800 kilo- grams at a speed of 200 meters per second without flame or explosion.
 The special value of his invention Is that it Is capable of discharging projec- tiles with an explosive charge of such strength that an ordinary field gun could not stand the shock By means of the electric current the violent shock is en- tirely dispensed with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
GRADUATES 4JUpeMENT DAY."

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 The college graduate is getting it from all sides. He may have gone to college from choice or he may have been damned through by wealthy and ambitious par ents. But no matter how he got there he must sit in his seat and take a good baeealaureate drubbing
 And the crop of commencement day ''rebukes" is just a little bit larger than usual this year The graduate gets a good scolding for all the past failures" of college education. He is held responsi- ble for the failure of colleges to put brains into empty craniums, and he is warned that he must come up to popular expecta- tions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22

 train left Fifty-ninth street. wished to announce that sixty-sixth street would be the next stop, and so yelled, Sixty six snakes thereby soaring bibulous old gentleman who believed that he had the whole quota in his hat
 A traveling man in the lobby of the Hillman. in commenting on the story last night. remarked that it was a refreshing experience to northerner to hear the brakemen call the stations. Why" said he, T cannot understand three out of four of the names called.
 T further want to call attention to a wrinkle that I got onto which is peeu- liar. believe. to Georgia and Alabama. I refer to the custom of brakemen. after calling the station name to add. pas sengers will please not forget their pack ages That is a rule that should be en- forced on every local run in the country If it had been done up north it would have saved me several hundreds dollars in the last twenty-five years that l have been obliged to spend to replace um- brellas left on trains; and that js only one Item. Certainly 1t is a custom that should prevail throughout the length and breadth of the land"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
That .EnuIlsh Tariff.

The Chamberlain tariff that was nipped so prematul fly and violently was double-beaded scheme-a scheme that would enable the colonial secretary to give preferences to the pleased to call the empire, and that would at home help the aristocratic landowner and the tory farmer by in creasing the price of corn, the demand for home products, and therefore the value of land. Imperialism and tory ism were to be benefited, and the con sumers and particularly the members of the trades unions were to foot the blll. This they declined to do, and union labor played no unimportant part in tho violent overthrow of the Chamberlain scheme.
 1t was not voted out-it was stamp ed under foot and trampled into non. rc .ognition Either it or the ministry had to go. and Premier Balfour sue ceeded in saving the cabinet by repu- diating the measure lugged in by the ears by one of his own ministers. The bill is still government bill that can be brought forward at any time, but it is not probable that even Mir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-22
Rural Free Delivery.

Postmaster General Payne proposes, it is said, to turn some of the public indignation over postoffce affairs against the free rural delivery routes, and especially against the routes es- tablished in the south He proposes. it is freely stated, to abolish one third of the routes he had previously sanctioned in the south, and one-fifth in the north. He will soon go in search of routes in this section of the country that do not have each 100 families along them, and these, say the correspondents, will be abolished
 The non-paying rural routes should not be abolished, any more than the non-paying star routes, or the non-pay- ing rail routes, of which there are plen- ty in this country. The entire service shows each year deficiency, and 1t has done this almost from time out of mind. Before a single rural free de- livery route is abolished, the most ample evidence should be procured, and even then there should be no hasty or sectional action.
 Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow, who is conducting the investigations in the postoffice depart ment, seems to be particularly un- friendly to rural free denvery. He re- gently undertook to show in the course of an interview that the rural carriers are fast becoming a powerful machine that will dictate to members of con- gross. One result, he says, will be that their salaries will be raised from time to time, and that they will make or break members of congress at will. Some congressional districts contain 300 rural carriers, every one of whom comes daily in contact with voters. and no congressman can stand up against them, especially when they be- come well organized and have accumu- lated considerable fund
 MT. Bristow's talk discloses his en. mity towards the rural carriers, and as he is to do the Investigating of the rural routes, it shows that the rural carriers are up against packed jury. Congress will soon, however, meet again, and unless MT. Bristow's inves- tigations are absolutely partizan and sectional he will hear from that body The rural routes, comparatively few of which have been established in the south, will not be disturbed. They are much needed in the development of the country districts, and 1t is safe to say that the postoffce department is undertaking a large contract when it says it will abolish one-third of the number.