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ToNoPAH MINES
Late Shipping Intelligence.
OCEAN STEAMERS.

NEW YORK-Passed Nantucket lightship at
40 m, June f. stmr Umbria. from Queens
town
Arrived June 4-Stmr Mongolan from Glas-
gov; stmr La Lorraine from Havre; stmr St
Paul, from Southampton.
Sailed June 4-Stmr Germanic, for Cher
bourg and Southampton; stmr Victoria for
Plymouth. Cherbourg and Hamburg: strnr I.lI-
cania for Liverpool; stmr Minnetonka for
London; stmr Vaderland for Antwerp; stmr
Ethiopia, for Glasgow.
LIVERPoOL-Arrived June 3-Stmr Ces-
trian. for Boston.
Sailed June 4-stmr campania, for New
York
GLASGOw-Arrived June 9-Stmr Cecilian.
from Montreal and Quebec.
HAVRE-Sailed June 4-Stmr La Gaseogne.
for New York
ANTWERP June 4-Stmr iceland.
for New York.
Observation-Disclosures June - stmr
Bluecher from New York, via Plymouth for
Hamburg and proceeded.
Sailed June 3--Stmr Hamburg for South
ampton and New York June 4-Stmr Phila-
delphia from Southampton, for New York
ROTTERDAM-Sailed June 4-Stmr Rotter-
dam for New York
NAPLES-Sailed June 4-Stmr sardegna for
Nice.
YOKOHAMA-Arrived prior June 4-stmr
lulu, for Hongkong stmr fremont, from Ia
coma for Manila.
SOUTHAMPTON-Arriv June 4-Stmr 81
Louis from New York, via Plymouth and
Cherbourg. and passed Hurst Castle at ESQ
LONDON Sailed June 4-stmr Minneapo-
lis for New York
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minimum speed of thirteen knots an
hour on the main lines and twelve
knots an hour on the branch lines. Ar
rangements were also made for the
transportation of troops, marines, sail
ors, officers and civil officials, as well
as ammunition, at special rates. Ger
tain wares-articles of export-were
also to be allowed favorable rates.
A Yearly Subvention.
I'm return for this service the i'm
perial Government bound itself to pay
a yearly subvention of 100000 marks
($1,047. .200), payable in monthly in
stallments.
To-day the German East Africa
line is sending a steamer from Ham
burg every four weeks around the Afri-
can continent. Once a month the
steamers make the circuit sailing to
the westward and once a month sail
ing through the Suez canal.
'In December, 1901, the imperial
chancellor for the Postoffice Bureau
entered into an agreement with the ia
luit Company of Hamburg, under
which, the said company, the owner Of
large plantations in Australasia, bound
itself, for a period Of three years. to
make at least three round trips annu-
ally between Sydney and the German
colonies, New Guinea and the Caroline,
Mariana and Marshall islands. In con-
sideration for this service the company
was to receive the sum OF 120, 900 marks
(s2S, $500 per annum. Formerly the
North German Lloyd maintained this
service, securing the sum of 90,
marks ($21, ,420) per annum. as indemni-
ty from the imperial Postofflce Bureau.
The Diet has made appropriation for
this service. The funds are taken from
the postal receipts and charged to a
so-called indemnity account. In like
manner contract has been made with
the Woermann line of Hamburg. ac-
cording to which the said line, in con-
sideration of 10000 marks (s2499) per
annum, agrees to maintain a four
weeks steamer service between Cape
Town and Swakopmund, each trip Of
which is not to take longer than seven
days in either direction. Washington
Star.
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Enect of Moral Teaching on Youth.

VI On
Two small boys stood before Judge
Stubbs of the juvenile court. They
gazed tearfully into his earnest, yet
kindly face, and. not too badly fright
ened to understand. grasped the i'm
port of the lecture.
My boys. tell me, now, why did
you jump off and on those cars? You
knew that you might have leg or
an arm cut off, didn't you? You
might have been killed. Now. you
haven't any more arms and legs than
you need, have, you? Don't you see
that it's very foolish of you to put
yourself in danger in that manner ?"
Sitting in the little waiting room
Of the court half an hour later, both
boys were silent. They had evidently
been pondering over the words Of the
Judge. Not so much reverence as
might have been expected was heard
in the voice of the smaller boy as he
suggested to the other:
Huh! Bet that's how the Judge
lost his own arm"
News.
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Russian Pronunciation.

Numerous correspondents have asked
for information as to the pronunciation
Of the names which figure in the war
news. 1t would be impossible in any
brief compass to give satisfactory rules
for the pronunciation of Russian
names. Generally speaking the vowels
are sounded as follows: "A" as In
far; "e' as in met; 81" as in ma
chine; 20" as in tone; III" as in
rude" Initial 20" often has the sound
of "a: thus "Orlon" is sounded as
though spelled ''Arloff" An "e" in a
final syllable often has the sound OF
"yo" in yoke" so that ''pravezh" is
spoken as though spelled ''pravyozh.
The consonants have much the same
force as in English-'ch" as in
church; "sh" as In wish; "kh' as
"ch" in the German ''ich"; 'ff' as ";
final ~ as SIS" SO far as Japanese
Chinese and Korean names are con-
cerned similar rules prevail. In the
original the names are not spelled al
all, but are expressed with word signs.
In English, therefore, they have been
expressed phonetically They are thus
to be pronounced as they are spelled
Many of them have alternative spelling
but these need cause no uncertainty as
to the pronunciation, since the various
spellings all express the same SOUNDS.
Thus Che-Foo is also spelled Chi-Fu.
But we need only to remember that the
81" in the latter form has the con-
tinental sound of long 'e" to perceive
that both forms are sounded the same,
as though spelled Chee-Foo. So Kin
Chow is also spelled Kin-Chau. But
the latter is a German form and in
German "au" is sounded like ''ow' in
English York Tribune.
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BURGLAR SURRENDERS
AT SIGHT OF A GUN
Resident In San Jose Suburbs Dis
covers Criminal Ransacl1ing
His Home.

SAN JOSE, June 4.-Ferdinand
Tibbett. residing in the western SUI
burbs of this city, discovered a burg
lar IN his home shortly after I O'Clock
this evening. He went to the resi-
dence of Percy George near by, bor-
rowed aNdouble-barreled shotgun and,
returning. stole upon the burglar, who
was ransacking the house for valu-
ables. Tibbett surprised the intruder
by thrusting the muzzle of the CUR
In his face and commanding him to
throw up his hands. The burglar
quickly obeyed and policeman was
called to arrest him.
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Funeral of DR.. Fitch.

SANTA CRUZ, June 4.-The funeral
Of DR.. George L. Fitch, who died at
Belmont, was held this afternoon from
the residence of his parents. He was
5S years of age and a native of Delhi,
n. Y. He came to California in 1856.
For five years he resided at Honolulu
and was Government physician to the
Queen. He was for a time in charge
of the leper settlement at Molokai.
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''I don't dare to tell madame how fine
she looks in that gown said the
modiste, standing off to admire it. "It
would turn her head"
But 1 want to make it turn other
women's heads" protested the stately
dame, frowning at herself in the mir
ror.-Baltimore American.
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T0SAN RAFAEL.
ROSS VALLEY,
MILL VALLEY,
CAZADER0. Etc.
Yia sauaaltto FsrrT.

SUBURBAN SERVICE. STANDARD GAUGE
Depart from san Francisco. week days. az
$50 7:IO AS, $780, 0:15, 1000. II :OO a M
QI 40 a m SausalitO only). 1920. las. 3:lo.
400. ABS. 5:I5 $50. e:25. 7:15. 600. 10 %.
II IS D. m. Sundays and legal holidays. depart
at T:fO. T:45. $50. e:15. 1000. IL 90. II 30
a. m. IL 20, 100. 1:45. 80. 3:15. 400. 4:35.
5:l5, $3.50 s:25. 7:15 s:1S. 900. 10;2o. 1l:S
p. n -
100 7:35, Sis, S:45. .35. 1920. II :0o a. m.
1905, / rs. $3.50. 3:35. 4;2o. 5:oo $40. e.lo.
6:55, 7:55, 1905 II Is D. m On Sundays and
legal holidays extra trains arrive At 12:4o..
2:05. $50 p m
For Fairfax. week days. depart at Z As a M.
3:15 D. m. 5:15 D. m tex. Sat-l. On Sundays
and legal holidays. at AS. $50. 9:15. 1000.
HOO IL 40 a. m. 1920. 90. 1:45. 2:SO. T:1o
and Sis D. m
THROUGH TRAINS.
TAB a. m daily-Cazadero and way stations-
9:15 a. m, Sundays only-FOr Point Reyes.
etc
dero, etc
Sis D. m. daily except Saturday and sun
day-For Point Reyes, etc.
T:15 .. m, sundays only-For Point Reyes.
etc
Sis ,. m, sundays only-For Cazadero. etc.
TICKET OFFIcE-626 Market st.
FERRY-UniOn Depot. foot OF Mar<st 81
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CARD OF THANKS.

The family OF the late Catherine Cronin de-
sire To thank their friends for the sympa thy
and kind offerings during their bereavement.
THE FAMILY.
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TONOPAH MINING EXCHANGE.

Following were the sales on the San Fran
isco and Tonopah Mining Exchange yesterday:
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COM MERCIAL NEWS
Continued From Page Al.
PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE

Following were the sales on the Pacific
Stock Exchange yesterday:
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A for M0rninE for AftsrnoOa
lsunday excepte1 Sunday only
asAturdAy only Monday only
tetops u All stations On Sunday
- Only trains stopping 1t Valencia 81 Douthboun4
are6:t0 An I:O0 A n. q. Is A H. ft:aeA- n. 8sSoPM
40 r n. and 500 ,. Il
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e.p-I1ergs 11siIn Gribrt1te
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %. 1904
TEE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The japanese squadron COM
fnsnded by Admiral kamimura was reported OH
Singapore, Straits Settlements, steafnlng West
80 General hurcpatkln iorWafdeo 10 %.
Petersburg z Chinese report that the ftusslails
had retsken 03-Metre Hill. - The japanese
captured some heights overlooking Pigeon Bay
- Admiral Togo reported that the Russian
battleship Sevastopol, despite all attempts 10 re-
pair her cannot be restored 10 hghtlhg u4nl;
- The Car personally resented the plea OF
8 zemstvo for the convocation OF nanohal as
serbly TO prepare q programme OF reforms.
DOMESTIC.-A compilation Of the official vote
cast IN the various States on November SHOWS
+rat F2ooseveIt's vote !, 146 G6S that OF all
other candidates, and 2.54I51S over that OF eX-
sJudge Parker. 80 The government OF Iapalt
has consented 10 negotiate an arbitration treaty
with The United States. - Governor Ooeii a.
rived at Albany and spent some time at the
Executive Chamber; among his callers wa Ju-
Illus N. Mayer, Attorney General-elect' IA the
evening the Governor and Mrs. Odell entertained
The incoming State officers and their wives anu
a few others at the Executive Mansion. -
The VIII OF Miss Bertha NJ. Dolbeer who was
killed by & fail at the Waldorf-Astoria, was sus-
tanned In San Francisco. - A JOINT lno!ct-
-1ent against DR.. Chadwick and Mrs. Chadwick
OF the charge Of forging the name OF Andrew
Carnegie 10 a mole for S5.000000. was returned
IN Cleveland - Seven men were sunocated
by smoke which was drawn into q NINE at
Bolivar Perm. It was announced at New
Haven that the National Steel Foundry Com
pany had received an order furnish all the
steel castings 10 be used in the London under
f-rolInd railway. The administration OF
5iphtheria antitoxin, Il was announced at Bits
Of cerehro-spinai meningitis. - An aged
couple died on the same day at South Hadley,
Mass.
CITY-stocks were dull and lower - The
grand Jury made a presenunlent regarding the
appalling and shocking use at Albany OF
bribery fund which was raised by the Liquor
Dealers Association last spring. == Ellhu
Root and General Hubbard were among the
speakers at the dinner OF the New-England So
ciety. = The crusade OF the Health Depart
1nent forced the Metropolitan Milk and Cream
Company 10 90 out Of business. - Controller
Grout said he would oppose Parsons's plan for
advertisements and slot machines. 80 In
spectors Albertson and Baldwin were reduced to
the rank OF captain for legal reasons. - De-
tectives of the New York City Railway Com
pany made arrests for fraudulent use Of trans
fers - Justice Davis charged the jury in the
Patterson trial and put the defendants fate in
their hands - An intimate friend OF King
don Could said he shot by instinct on Tuesday.
having for years feared attempts at kidnapping.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Rain. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 81
degrees: lowest II.
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NTREET NLGNS AGALN

President Ahearn announced yesterday that
II the Board OF Estimate and Apportionment
would appropriate $4,000 for the purpose he
would put signs at every street corner in the
Borough of Manhattan. MIR. Ahearn has not
yet chosen, we believe, a model for the signs
which he wants to put up. and that is an ex-
cecdingly important consideration. They ought
to be legible by night and day, uniform and
c0mely. Those erected under the last admin
istratiOn were not uniform and to that extent
Mr.. Canto.s efforts were misdirected Some
of them fully satisfied the two other require
ments and might we'll have been placed every
where. With the failures and successes of his
predecessor to guide him, we do not see how Mr.
Ahearn can easily go far astray
II the Borough President had already select
ed a satisfactory model for universal use, we
should earnestly support his demand for an
appropriation. AS The Tribune has said over
ana over aGain-yet perhaps not often enough
the lack Of street signs is q source Of constant
and great annoyance to residents and of extreme
embarrassment to strangers. 1t is such Il dis
credit to the city, as everybody would have
said III advance that no administration would
consent TO prolong. Yet it continues year after
year, and the authorities in general seem TO
think that it is a matter of trivial Importance
1t is officially estimated that three thousand
street corners still remain unmarked. Mr.
Ahearn appears to be really earnest in his de-
sire TO supply the deficiency, as he well may
be, for if he did the work wisely he would
earn large measure of praise and gratitude
He thinks that $4,000 would be enough. IF SO
all right But he ought to get what he actually
needs, whether that is $4,000 or 3GO.OOO-or
100000 for that matter. Why in the world
should this great rich intelligent city be sub
jected to the jecrs and maledctons Of every
ether civilized community because Of its pro-
tracted neglect to provide an indispensable re-
quirenent Of respectable municipal existence?
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CoRRuPT LL0EoR DE4LERs-

The grand jury has done we'll to make pre-
sentiment against tie Liquor Dealers ASsocia-
ton. even though it has not been able to Sc
cure sufficient evidence of its corrupt practices
to warrant an indictment Publicity must do
good, and the unusual course of sending the
presentment accompanied by a transcript of
the testimony, to the Governor and legislature
will tend to interfere with the lobbying meth
DDS Of the organization which have long been
a public scandal.
The presentmeCt is none too strong in its
Characterization Of this oathbounG organization.
which has shown itself q partner In police
crime and the protector of the very evils Of
which its members have pretended TO be the
victims. Mayor Low sought to relieve the
liquor dealers from police blackmaH and
would have done SO if the dealers had them
selves been willing to cooperate with him.
instead, they banded together and protected
to the best of their ability the police The rea-
son, of course. was clear. They found more
profit in selling Illegally at the cost of bribery
than they hoped for in lawful traffic, even
under liberal terms which reformers were
ready t. favor in order to put the business
on a respectable basis and break up the police
system
We do not suppose that any legislative In
vestigation will reach the bottom Of the scan
daI0us operations of this association but if the
laWEaking body is forced officially t. take
note of the scandals, the legislators who are
prone to participate in them are likely to be
driven under cover. We hope TO see the testi-
mOny on which the grand jury based its pre-
sentiment published after 1t has been submit
ted to the State authorities. Its moral effect
at least. will be good.
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State. The ipaIienable right OF a State to au-
thorjze incorporators to organize and begin bust
ness wouId still be intact. The incorporators
oouId still do all the business they wanted to In
the State. If some other authority assumes
SUPERVISION when they get outside the State,
neither the corporation nor the State has right
TO complain.
"State rights" may well be sacred; but no
State has any fright" to project its authority
beyond its own boundary and say how its Great
ures must be allowed to act, either III relation
10 the domestic affairs of other states or the
national concerns committed TO the care of the
federal government That is mere usurpation.
and the fact that it has been tolerated is no
reason why II should continue to be. If federal
supervision of corporations engaging in inter
state commerce really means, as said, the trans
fer from the States to the federal government
Of the body and substance of the charter giving
power. it must be evident that the States have
been projecting themselves beyond their sphere
into the national domain to a remarKao4e extent
otherwise federal control over subjects original
IL committed to the nation by the Constitution
could not interfere with their functions. If the
body and substance of the charter giving power
are indeed the grant of interstate commerce priv
lleges those extremists who want TO deprive the
States Of the power. rather than those who pro-
test against federal oversight would seem to
he the true champions of the constitutional fed
eral system and the protectors Of the nation
against the partition and dissipation of IFS
proper authority.
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~ExPEcTIyG ALL THINGS IN AN HOUR

AS was expected, something of a pother is
now being raised over the length Of time which
may be required for the construction Of the
Panama Canal, and strenuous objections are be-
ing raised against what seems TO be by far the
best plan of construction. on the ground that 1t will
take little longer than some other and inferior
plans. Seeing that the world has waited about
four centuries since the first essay at isthmlan
transit was made. and that the United States
has been working at the problem by fits and
starts for more than half a century, and seeing
moreover, that the world has managed to rub
along pretty comfortably and prosperousy all
this time without the canal. it really does seem
a trife superexgent for people 10 hold that we
must have a canal right away, quick, or every
thing will go to everlasting smash. 1t is doubt
less desirable-and nobody has urged it more
earnestly than we-that the canal shall be con
structed without unnecessary delay. But
promptness is not, after all, the paramount con-
sideration 1t is decidedly more important that
we shall have the best kind of canal.
But is an unreasonably long time demanded
for the construction of the canal, even Of a sea
level canal: We do not think so. Let us COM
pare the estimates with the actual figures Of
other canals. The Panama Canal is to be forty
seven miles long and forty feet deep and in
wolves greater works and more difficult prob
lens than any other ever constructed. At sea
level II is estimated it will take fifteen years to
put It into use and twenty years to finish It,
The Suez Canal, with which comparison is first
suggested, IS nearly twice as long. but it IS
only about twenty-six feet deep, and its con
stuction involved no problems save the scra ping
and dredging OF sand. Yet ii took eleven wears
70 get ii into condition for use and many more
years to finish it. The Cornth Canal is only
four miles long and twenty-six feet deep. but it
consumed eleven years IN construction The
North Sea and Baltic Canal is sixty miles long
and twenty-eight feet deep, and its construction
was all easy work, yet it took eight years We
are inclined 20 think that the average engineer
conversant with the conditions Of these several
cases. will conclude that if the Panama Canal
is opened at sea level in fifteen years it will be
as expeditions job rs any Of the others
We must bear in mind that the Panama Canal
is not only the greatest work OF the kind ever
undertaken in the world, but also that Il in
wolves more difficult features and problems tbou
any other, including some never before known
10 canal builders There is, of course the work
Gf excavation, including cut more than three
hundred feet deep There is the construction of
locks and dams. There is the building of a
great DAM with appurtenant spilIways and
reservoirs, for the control and disposition of the
torrential Chagres River There is the construc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-23
MANY TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT LENox.

lay TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCSEI
Ienox. Mass, Dec 22.-The holiday season IN
Lenox viii be the largest and gayest in decade
Every room in the hotel has been engaged BY
guests who have been arriving since early in the
week and the town has taken on a lively air
Mr.. and Mrs SarnUel rockingham Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Astor Bristed and Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred
erick schenck are entertaining house parties.
Mrs. Bacon's guests include Miss Gladys Bower.
Miss Alice Bradford. Miss Bessie Strong. Miss
Helen Chandler. Miss Grace Dempsey. OF Boston,
and Julian Wright Of New-York
Mrs. Goldman. OF Boston. fs a guest OF Mrs = f
Schenck- Baroness Won Meyer OF Dresden. who
has been guest OF Mrs. Scheack started to-day
for New-York
At the hotel Mr.. and Mrs Giraud Foster and
Thomas Shields Clarke. OF New-Tork and Joseph
and Chester Burden Of Harvard, who are guests
of their mother, Mrs. J. ". Burden Of New-York
Mrs c. r. Edwards. % Washington. has also ar
rived. Mrs George Baty Blake OF Boston, is en-
terta,ning her mother. Mrs. Arthur Hunneweu. at
the Blake cottage. Richmond Mountain. The
sports OF the time sleIghing. skating and skse
ing
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Astor Bristed. Of New
York who are at their cottage on Lake Mahkse-
nae. have issued invitations for a reception on
Monday evening. They Will give a ball at their
cottage on New-Year's Eve.
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that the disposition of masses to come ana uy
their fortune here facilitates the steamship eh-
forts. So do the temptations to escape military
service and TO avoid the severe exactions or HE
abroad.
\ If it had not been for the restriction OF the
Chinese onset many years ago, it cannot oe
doubted that the rush from the Yellow King
dom would long ago have exceeded the capac-
ity Of this Republic to absorb it. Now tne
danger of an overwhelming rush of undesirable
elements from certain parts of Europe is by no
means trit1ing one. There is no lack of labor
ing men in the United States-and the arrivals
of newcomers at this port are excessive. MI
Sargent's sources of information as to the COM
ing flood are excellent. Still. Congress is not
likely at the present session to make our immi-
grafton laws more restrictive.
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ton of breakwaters docks. wharves and other
harbor works at the terminals. There is the
establishment Of a vast electric plant for the
utilization of water power in connection with
the Gamboa dam, to furnish from 10000 to
10000 horsepower. There is, finally, the con-
struction of waterworks. sewerage systems.
pavings and roads and other public necessities
and conveniences at both ends of the canal and
all along the route What other canal ever in
volved such undertakings rs these? 1t is easy
enough to sheer at fifteen years work as not
making the dirt fly" very swiftly. There is
nothing more easy, or more empty, than sheer
ing. man may make the dirt fly" and thus
demolish an ant hill in n few minutes. He may
make the dirt fly" just as vigorously and swift
" in demoliShing mountain, but the job will
take him many years. There need be no fear
that the dirt will not fly at Panama just as
rapidly as it ever did anywhere. If it takes
longer than some other jobs have taken, that
will be because there is more dirt to move and
there is a bigger job to perform.