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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07
PAUL BOURGET,
THE NOVELIST.
Announcement of His Marriage
to Mile. David.
The Fashionable Writer of Fiction Who Dr.
vides the HouOrs With De Maupassant
and Is the Idol of the Women

Paris Letter TO THE SUNDAY CALL.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07

Young Housekeeper about to get dinner,
anxiouSly)-What goes with canyasback
ducks. Jack?
Her Husband (who did the marketing
Well, my dear, a tve-doilar bill goes little
way with them.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07

'uiQs Cole-Mistah Black. yo' sit right
..DNn. IF dem qulbbes am legal they shall
stand. and de cou't allows 'em.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07

Tourists in the Holy Land are hurrying
away at great rate because OF the out
break and spread of the cholera.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07

tainiy the motto of some natives in India.
A man of 40 being recently examined eelore
n magistrate at Bangalore stated that ne
earned daily quarter of an anna (apout
I'D by bottling ginger beer, and that ne
was quite satisfied with his wages ana po-
SitiOn.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07

LAWYER Black Yo' Houah, I rise to OBJ
+.er H. De legal quibbles Dat der prosecution
aa oTing'n up.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-07

Mamma-Why, Susie, you've offered your
candy to everybody but little brother. Why
didn't you hand it to him?
Susie with innocent candor)-BecauSe,
mamma, little brother always takes it.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

AN excellent feature of German mail
service is its package delivery. The
German mail recently brought me ten
pounds of cherries from Hanover and
ten pounds of writing material from
Berlin-all for twenty-four cents, twelve
cents on each package, write cores
pondent. And another service which I
want to see more generally done by
Uncle Sam in America is the daily rural
mail service such as Germany has.
Though I am seven miles from rail-
way a German official brings my mail
twice daily, English and German daily
papers, and so on. When our American
country people, farmers and so on, can
have free mail delivery daily at their
own door, they will read the daily
papers, keep abreast of the prices cur
rent and the news, and the young peo-
pie will be more contented because bet
ter informed. Then extend the pack
age post to the country districts and see
how easy it would be to have reading
from circulating libraries and other con-
veniences from the city for few pence.
Nothing is more needed by American
farmers than better mail facilities.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

"a VISIT to Mount Vernon is accom-
panied by some curious experiences
these days." said gentleman who was
recently in Washington and went down
to Mount Vernon. "The place has
been given over to Coney Island prac-
tices, and you can be relieved of
nickel or q dime every time you turn
around. They have restaurant now,
and serve lunch or dinner in one wing
of the Washington mansion, the meal
being cooked in the old kitchen. But
the funniest thing to me was a photo
grapher, who must have been O good
Judge of human nature. You know
when there is a crowd anywhere, any
one man who steps out and assumes
leadership and directs what shall be
done is generally obeyed. This pho
tographer would order everybody to 60
up on the porch, would pose them in
front of his camera, take their mega
tives and then demand aquarter apiece
for pictures to be sent to each one by
mail. The crowd obeyed him and paid
their quarters, but told him I lived in
Washington, so he couldn't play no such
game on me, and he touched his hat,
begged my pardon, but kept on"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18
Revolutionary widows.

There are thirty-fve widows drawing
pensions from the Government because
their husbands we're soldiers in the
Revolutionary war. The oldest of them
is Mrs. Nancy Rains, of Knoxville,
Tenn, the widow of John Rains. She
is now in her ninety-eighth year. On
account of her great age she receives o
pension of $50 month, which is more
than that received by any other Revo-
lutionary pensioner. The number Of
them decreases every year, and but few
will probably be left at the close Of an
other decade. - Pittsburgh Press.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18
MOTHER EWES TOMB.
An American Pays q visit 20 the supPs
Grave.

An American Pays q Visit 20 the supposed
Grave.
It is not very often that m American
sisits the little town Of Jiddah, on the
Arabian coast OF the Red Sea, yet every
year as the sacred season of the He'd
Iaz comes around, hundreds Of thou
Bands of devout Musselmans are disem-
barked at its little harbor, intent on
making pilgrimage to the Mecca.
which insures to them the happiness
and honor of paradise.
1t was not with any intention Of at
tempting to visit the tomb of Moham.
med and to gaze on the mysterious
HKaaba" that / took sail one moonit
night from Suakim and crossed the tur-
bulent Red Sea to Jiddah, writes an
American traveller. Ny object was to
visit the shrine of one venerated by
Christian and Islamite alike-the re-
puted tomb Of Eve, mother of all man
kind.
Leaving Suakim just after sundown,
when the land Ereeze had sprung up,
in small dhow with prodigious sail,
arrived off Jiddah about 9 o'clock the
next morning.
As 1 was obliged to leave Jiddah
again that night I lost no time in get
ting ashore, and after breakfast I set
of to visit Ewes grave. This is situ-
ated about mile and half outside
of the city on the north. Passing out
by the northern gate the land rises
gradually to the grave, which is in full
view from the time you leave the CITY
wall.
The grave itself is 160 feet long and
five feet wide, and is surrounded by O
stone wall four feet high, covered with
chunam. In the center OF it rises
small dome crowned mosque, wherein
pilgrims assemble to say their prayers.
The mosque is in charge Of some der
vishers, who have plenty to do in keep
ing it clear of the crowds of beggars
who assemble and clamor for back
sheesh.
Inside the mosque is perfectly plain,
except that in the center is erected an
altar. This stands about three feet
high and is covered with curtains. The
curtains being drawn aside discloses a
black stone let into the floor.
| 1uo 5JOHO II SuppoSOu w AO NAAOO1AJ
over the tomb of Eve, aud is polished
like marble by the kisses of the faith
full. 1t is by no means permitted to
every pilgrim to place his lips on this
sacred spot, but by liberal amount Of
backsheesh and the presence of the
consular cavasses l was permitted the
honor, and accordingly the curtain was
drawn, aud on hands and knees paid
homage to our legendary mother.
The stone which is treated with so
much honor. is very curious one
evidently meteoric, and is supposed,
like the Kaaba, at Mecca, to have been
specially sent down from heaven for its
present use.
It is certainly curious that. legendary
lore should select spots so distant from
each other for the graves of our first
parents. While Eve rests on the
shores of the Red Sea, Adam is popu-
larly supposed to lie buried under the
forest clad slopes of Adams Peak in
| Ceylon.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

LARGE numbers of people emigrate
from the Government of Kovno to
Brazil. Circulars are being promul-
gated stating that the Brazilian Gov
ernment offers great inducements to
immigrant laborers whose age is not
above As years, and especially to mar
ried men. Handicraftsmen will find
there factories to work at their respect
i've trades at very liberal salaries.
Farmers will get land free and the
necessary implements and means to
start work at once upon arriving. The
numerous emigration from Kovno Of
laborers who are allured by these circu-
lars is due to the fact that the factories
of that district have greatly deteriorated
of late, and farming has become less
profitable for want of middlemen to
bring produce into market. A daily
paper Of Moscow, reporting these facts,
timidly asks: as this wholesale deser-
ton of populous and prosperous Gov
ernment due to the stringent applica-
ton of the laws against the Jews?"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

i have only one more thought TO pre-
sent. The wings under which Ruth had
come TO trust were gentle wings. There
is nothing softer than a feather. You
have noticed when bird returns from
flight how gently II stoops over the nest.
The young birds are not afraid of having
their lives trampled ont by the mother
bird; the old whip-poor-will drops into
its nest Of leaves, the oriole into its cas-
ket Of bark, the humming bird into its
hammock Of mOss-gentle as the light.
And so, says the psalmist, He shall cover
thee with His wing. Oh, tho gentleness
Of God! But even that figure does not
fully set 1t forth; for l have sometimes
looked into the birds nest and seen q
dead bird-its life having been trampled
out by the mother bird. But no one that
ever came under the feathers Of the Al
mighty was trodden on.
Blessed nest! warm nest! Why will
men stay out In the cold to be shot Of
temptation and to be chilled by the blast
when there is divine shelter? More
beautiful than any flower ever saw are
the hues Of birds plumage. Did you
ever examine it? The blackbird, float
ing like flake of darkness through the
sun light; the meadow lark, with head
of fawn and throat of velvet and breast
of gold; the red flamingo, flying over the
southern swamps like sparks from the
forge of the setting sun; the pelican,
white and black-morning and night
tangled in its wings-give but a very
faint idea of the beauty that comes down
over the soul when on it drop the feath-
ers Of the Almighty.
Here fold your weary wings. This Is
the only safe nest. Every other nest
will be destroyed. The prophet says so:
Though thou exalt thyself like the
eagle, and set thy nest among the stars,
yet will bring thee down, saith the
Lord of Hosts" Under the swift wings,
under the broad wings, under the strong
wings, under the gentle wings of the AL
mighty find shelter until the calamities
be overpast. Then when you want to
change nests it will only be from the
valley of earth to the heights of Heaven;
and instead of ''the wing of dove" for
WHICH David longed, not knowning that
in the first mile of their flight they would
give out, you will be conducted upward
by the Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings Ruth, the beautiful Moabitess,
came to trust.
God forbid that in this matter of eter-
nal veal or woe we should be more stu
pid than the fowls of heaven; ''for the
stork knoweth her appointed time, and
the turtle, and the crane, and the Swal-
| lows observe the time of their going; but
my people know not the judgments OF
| the Lord"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

A DECIDEDLY practical feature Of the
pension business is the frequency Of the
marriages between old soldiers and
young women. An enterprisisg girl
from the poorer classes of Appomattox,
or one of the adjoining counties, sends
her photograph to the Soldiers Home
at Hampton, Va, q veteran responds,
and the knot is tied. No less than
twenty such marriages are reported
within a radius of FIVE miles of Hamp-
ton. There would be an element of ro-,
nance in this surrender of the old sol
diers to the charms Of beauty, if it were
not for the purely business nature of the
transaction. A soldier with pension is
gold mine. and his death, which must
take place soon in the course of nature,
leaves the young widow in the enjoy
ment of his pension for the remaining
years of her life.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18
Beating About the Bush.

In some parts of the southwest, ro-
gardless of the great growth of towns
and the building of school houses, it is
still almost impossible to get direct
answer to o question. One evening
about dusk o man road up to q fence
surrounding lot near the roadside and
thus addressed a woman who was a.
tempting to persuade few drops OF
milk from muley COW:
Madam, I am lost"
"Wall, that's whut the preacher says
is the matter with the most of us, an
reckon the best thing to do is to get
'ligion an then do the best we kin under
the circumstances" she replied, giving
the COW an awful jerk.
Il mean that have missed the road
to Dabney's Ferry"
"Wall, I shouldn't wonder, fur it is
mighty matter fur some folks to foller
these roads here, they are so crooked.
You air travelin' reckon?"
"Yes, I wanted to go to Dabney's
Ferry"
SCOT kin folks livin' down thar, I
reckon?"
@No, have no relatives living in this
part of the country. Will this road lead
me to the ferry?"
"Wall, you'll halter ak pap about that.
He tramps roun' all over the neighbor-
hood while I'm doin' the work an he
oughter know whar all the roads go to.
where is he?"
"Who. pap%
"Yes."
"Wall, the Lord only knows. But l
reckon ther yaller dog kin take you
whar he is.
where is the yellow dog?"
II don't know that nuther. You'll
halter ak one of the chillun."
Where are the children?"
"The Lawd in Heaven only knows,
stranger, fur / don't. Jest wait awhile
| and mebby one of 'em will holler, fur
it's. about time for one of EN- to git snake
bit"
II haven't time to wait"
"Wall, then, I reckon you'll have to
| jog along the best way you kin"
Il wish you would give me some
information"
"Yas, I reckon so, fur I have hearn
tell that information is mighty fine
thing when pusson is pushed right
hard fur it"
where does that road over there
lead to?"
Right to Dabney's Ferry"
why, that's the road want. Why
didn't you tell me?"
"Wall, you didn't ak me about that
road You KEEP on talkin' about sithin'
else. Wall, good day. Ef you travel
round here much you'll rarn to ak fur
whut you want without beatin' bout the
bush. - Chicago Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18
Not Fallen So Low as That.

An English magazine, in an article
on restaurants, tells Of q New York
speculator who came to grief and went
to work as waiter in cheap eating
house in that city. To this waters
table came broken-down, seedy-look-
ing individual of an aristocratic, Fifth
Avenue, brown-stone front typs. sneak
ing in with every sign of being very
much ashamed of himself. When the
waiter arrived to take his order there
was mutual recognition, and the new
conner murmured: "Great Scott,
Thompson! you here" The attendant
showed no sympathy at all, but draw
ing himself up haughtily, dryly replied
@Yes, Jones, I.wait here, but I don't
dine here"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18
Visiting Manners.

MduE VI US WuU pElu0 OuIoo1NcS Ou
our good breeding are singularly blind
as to what is due to friends who are Wis
iting people unknown to us, or who are
entertaining guests whom We have never
met. Nor are we more assured as to
some Of the points of etiquette toward
our own guests and to our own hosts
when we make an occasional fitting
from home.
1t is useless to decry etiquette by say
ing that the best manners in all cases
are those which hurt no one. This is
true as general law, but there always
are some points which leave no room
for experiments as to what will hurt
another. and which yet may be settled
once for all by few rules.
If you have an acquaintance who is
entertaining friends whom she wishes
you to meet, it is your duty to call
promptly, and if possible offer some
hospitality to both guests and hosts.
If the position is reversed, and your
friend is visiting people unknown to
you, never 60 to see your friend without
leaving card for the hostess. If you
give any entertainment for the friend,
be very sure to invite her hosts also. It
does not follow that your invitation will
be accepted, but if it is, the hostess
must be treated as the guest of honor
and shown every Difference. If, for in-
stance, the entertainment is luncheon
for young ladies, she may be asked to
take the seat at the end of the table op-
pcsite to your own.
If the mutual friend is your guest,
you may be sure that, if she is woman
Of good breeding, she, in turn, will ac-
cept no invitation which does not in
clude you, although you may think best
to decline it and insist upon her going
alone. Nor will she receive visitors
without asking you to join them in the
parlor-should her friends be rude
enough to have sent you no cards.
Here, too, you may excuse yourself, or
at most, Join them with such delay as to
give them short interview alone.
These same rules hold good for you
when you are the guest. Before you
go to make the visit, send word to your
friends where and with whom you are
to stay, so that there may be no idea
that you are in a clearinghouse, and
therefore mistress of your time and sur
roundings. This constant Difference to
your hostess should lead you to order
all letters and packages to be addressed
to her care.
As to the disposal of your time, when
you are visiting, no etiquette requires
you to accept all the plans of your hos.
tess, if you feel unable to do SO; but
care is needed to show that refusal
means lack Of strength, not lack of in.
terest and inclination. With a little
tact on both Sides, you will have many
hours for your own.
Indeed, skillful hostess will manage
to secure You this privilege. and moi
make the mistake of working too hard
! to amuse you, and so absorb every mo
ment of your visit into her idea of whai
is pleasure for you.
| No greater compliment is possible
than the quiet acceptance of your pres
ence in the intimacy of family life
| Youths Companion.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

The meanest man on record has been
discovered again. He lives in Arkansas
City, Kan. He brought suit against
his wife for alimony, alleging that she
is a strong and healthy woman, and
asked that she be compelled to sup
port him. The courts have just de-
cided the case adverse to him. In its
decision the Supreme Court says there
is no case in the law-books authorizing
such suit; That the domestic relations
would have to be readjusted and an
obligation cast upon the wife to sup
port the husband before such an action
could be maintained.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

CREosoTE has been successfully ap-
piled as remedy for the potato dis
ease in Scotland. Every eye of the
seed potato is touched with creosote by
means Of small camels hair brush.
The product of potatoes so treated is al
most totally free from disease. Where
the creosote is not applied to all the
eyes of the Seeding the result is partial
disease. If too much is used the seed
will not germinate.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

KING KALAKAuA, the King of the
Sandwich Islands, has made an i'm
mense amount of money by borrowing
from other people. This is an easy
way to make money, but the business
is apt to run down on mans hands as
he grows old. Kalakaua finds it harder
to borrow than lie formerly did, for he
has never been known to pay q bill, -
he says he doesn't have the money. To
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18
Imnolite Professor Newcomb.

Professor Simon Newcomb, Of Wash
ington, is known as man whose scien-
tific studies have tended to exaggerate
a natural disposition to mental abstrac'
tion. A lady Of this city was at recep-
ton given at Professor Newcombs's
house. The occasion had been made
delightful by the Professor and his &C.
complished wife and daughters.
Toward the close of the evening the
lady, who had enjoyed the affair
greatly, approached the host and
asked him with much enthusiasm:
"How often do you have these de-
lightful reunions, Professor
No polite prevarication delayed the
reply:
"Thank God, madam, but once q
year. Detroit Tribune.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

be sure, he borrows Of one man 10 pay
another; but he unfortunately spends
the money before he gets to the other
man. Kalakaua has had all his real au-
thority taken away from him, and is now
only nominally king, and possesses no
real sovereign power. Kapiolani, his
wife and queen, is more of q man THAI
he is, and most Of the praiseworthy
deeds of his reign can safely be at
tributed to her.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

ANEW YORK newspaper correspondent
Is the authority for the statement that
the erstwhile conspicuous Nellie BLY,
has been retained by New York pub
Usher to write serials. The alleged
salary would give a United, States
Supreme Court justice more pocket
money than any one of them is probably
laying by from his present stipend.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

Our country has been invaded by a
group Of sixteen Frenchmen, members
Of the Alpine Club, Of Paris, who pro-
pose to ascend all the mountain ranges
of America. They will first tackle
Canada. These gentlemen, while they
may look little store-msde and queer
in their typical English tourists garb,
are in reality men Of science, and their
society has branches in all the capitals
Of F,urope
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

The San Francisco Examiner says
that the fashion of wearing wooden
shoes is growing into favor in this
country as we'll as in England. By the
aid of machinery really neat and COM
Portable wooden shoe can be made so
stylish that no young woman need be
ashamed to wear it on the street.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

The vatican library at Rome con-
tains $4,000 printed books and %, 600
manuscripts. The manuscript form
one of the most valuable collections in
the world, being mostly Greek, Latin,
and Oriental.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

The fight at fredericksburg on Dec.
IS, 1862, was o bloody one. 1t lasted
all day long, and at night $1,000 dead
and wounded men lay upon the battle
field, 1000 OF them being Confederate
soldiers. The morning after the battle
Il. B. Treadwell, now resident of
Brunswick, and who was a member of
the Tenth Georgia Battalion, COM
manded by Major Emeory Rylander, of
Americus, went out on the battlefield.
Near two federal soldiers, who appeared
to be father and son, he found razor,
Q razor strap, shaving brush, and q
small piece Of soap. These he took,
and, having used up the other portion
of the outfit, still uses the razor when
he wants to shave.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

Il FEEL" said the young man to her
father, shat existence without your
daughter would be only dreary task,
whose completion could not come too
soon" ~Very well" said the old gen.
tleman, stake her, and presently you'll
feel tho same way, only more so.--
Washington Post.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

THERE is a negro living in Scriven
County, Ga, whose home is huge log.
This log is twenty feet long and five
feet in diameter. 1t is divided into
three apartments, one of which is occu-
pied by the proprietor's three hogs.
The negro occupies another, and the
third is filed with hunting and fishing
apparatus. The negro makes his iveli-
hood by hunting and fishing. His
clothes are of skins of wild beasts and
he lives alone by himself. His two dogs
are the fiercest to be found anywhere. He
procures his ammunition by bartering
game with the employees aboard the Ss'
yanah River boats, and the passengers.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

The use OF India rubber for erasing
pencil marks was first suggested in or
just prior to 1852 by an academician
named Magellan, q descendent of the
great navigator.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

The worlds stock of diamonds has
increased enormously in the last fifteen
years. In 1876 the output of the Afri-
can mines was about 1900, 900 carats,
last year it was over 100000, and the
great "trust" which controls all the
principal mines assert that they have
100000 carats sin sight" at the
present time,