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TURKISH HOSPITALITY.
How Guests Are Served With Coffee and
Cigarettes in the Orient

How Guests Are Served with Coffee and
Cigarettes in the Orient.
New York Herald1
The first ceremony after you enter Turk
ish house, no matter what the errand may
be, is to be served with coffee and cigarettes.
The cigarettes are made of the finest Turk
ish tobacco, the wrappers being of rice
paper. This is probably the best cigarette
in use, the tobacco being we'll suited for the
purpose. The custom of serving coffee and
cigarettes is universal, so common that
when a foreign representative calls upon
any of the ministers at the Sublime Porte,
it is the invariable rule, before beginning
with his business, that he and the Minister
shall be served with cup of coffee and a
cigarette. When this ceremony is over the
business commences.
In fact, in every we'll regulated Turkish
home there is a man known as
caffegee, who stands by a charcoal fire in an
adjoining apartment, and who, on the ar
rival OF guests, at once prepares and serves
as many cups of coffee as there are guests.
There is considerable extravagance of dis
play in the sarfs, or holders, in which the
egg-shaped cup rests. Such services ara
frequently studded with precious stones.
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THE NEW MILITARY TENT.

Description of the Most Popular Means of
Protection Yet Provided.
Providence Journal]
The umbrella tent is one of the new
designs for military purposes. The method
OF construction of this tent admits of OPEN
ing either one section or as many sections as
may be desired. 1t can also be entirely
closed by hooking up the tent flaps and
closing the entrance in case of storm, or
when being used for bathing purposes. In
warm weather the walls of the tent should
be staked two or three inches from
the ground, which, in connection with the
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biouous Law Was passed which declared that
all those then in slavery should remain so
during life; but that their children should
be free when arrived at the &c OF oO, and
the grandchildren were born Tree. The
avowed object of this slow process was to
gradually accustom the slaves 10 the idea OF
liberty, and to fit them tor 1t; while at the
same time their owners might make ready
for the change BY importing Chinese, whose
cheap labor, it was thought, would prevent
the negroes from striking for too nigh wages,
when entitled to any wages at all. In 1893,
however. General Castillo, who was then
President of Peru, issued decree proclaim
ing the freedom OF all slaves.
AS was anticipated, the majority Of them
were unwilling to leave their former mas
ters, to whom they were endeared by almost
paternal kindness and the recollections Of
childhood; and therefore the condition Of
things were not perceptibly changed. It is
calculated that the keep of one of these
negroes costs his master not less than $40
year, and few of them earn very much more
than that amount If left to themselves to
work or play according to their own desires,
they would certainly earn much less.
A CURIOUS TREE.
The northern edge of the valley of Yea is
fringed with an enormous growth OF carob
trees, or algorbas, as they are sometimes
called. This curious tree grows to great
size and resembles the live oak. It bears
pod which is highly priced as fodder for
mules and horses. So very hard is the
wood that its weight actually beads down
the trunk, twisting it round and round into
corkscrsw shapes and making the branches
tie knots in themselves, till the tree as
sumes most fantastic forms. An lmagina-
tive person may see Dore figures and faces
in every misshapen trunk, and long arms
stretched forth in wild despair.
The valley of Yea, bounded on one hand
by the snowy peaks of the Andes. and by
arid sands on the other three sides, is covered
with vineyards and cotton plantations. We
visited one of the former, which is situated
at the mouth of ravine, through which a
mountain road winds up into the interior.
Like others in the neighborhood, it formerly
belonged to the Jesuits; and though the
yield has fallen off since their day, it now
produces an average of 10000 arrobas of
wine in a year, which sells for 81 per
arroba. The married workmen of this
model hacienda are each allowed a small
piece of ground rent free, on which they may
raise pigs, poultry and vegetables, which
their wives and children peddle in the mar
ket place, thus enabling the industrious to
earn considerable extra money.
Palpa is also given up to vineyards and
cotton fields, except where wheat enough is
grown to supply the small population
(about 4,000), and there are two mills
worked by water for reducing the grain to
-four. The village of Palps is surrounded
BY luxuriant gardens watered from clear
stream whose banks are shadowed by will
lows and fig trees.
FANNIE B. WARD.
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borough. She has been hissed here because
she INDUCED in loud conversation, after the
manner OF aristocrats in London theaters,
and doubtless it served her right, for she
grew up an American girl, and should
know that we regard Duchesses with no
awe, however great our curiosity may be.
Why, that grizzly old warrior. William
Tecumseh Sherman, is highly respected in
this city; but for his bad habit of loud talk
in theaters his disturbed neighbors often
hiss him. Therefore the exquisitely
Jeauteous Lille Price, who became Mrs.
Hamersley, and now is the Duchess of
Marlborough, may depend ont that she
will not be permitted to interfere with un-
titled folks getting their moneys worth.
JUDGED BY THE EARRINGS.
Well, usages are whimsical, anyhow. A
funny man in a comedy once got huge
laugh from his audience by saying: 81
know she's lady because she wears diamond
earrings" That phrase was really good
bit of sarcasm at that time upon the preva-
lent fashion of ladies in society in wearing
earrings of great value. Time flies by, and
as it goes the observant man is made aware
of gradual but marked changes in all such
habits. 1t so happens that the lady of
especially good breeding now emphasizes
the excellence of her taste by appearing at
most times without earrings. Whereas
every child of s was unhappy until she had
her ears pierced, not many years ago, most
of the society young women of the present
day do their best to disguise the tiny punct-
ure that almost invariably mars their auricu-
lar perfection.
A young man who had become engaged to
particularly stylish girl desired to present
his fancee with thoroughly elegant and
appropriate gift, so he went quietly to an
expensive jewelers. and picked out pair of
solitaire earrings that cost him every cent
of the ready money he had. That evening
he handed to his sweetheart the package
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WHAT ANGRY MEN DO.

Bonynge's Feeling Toward Mackey VIII Re-
suit in a New Cable.
New York Press.]
A guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, who
has an important mission here, is c. w.
Bonynge. He is an old Californian who
"struck it rich" in the days of bonanza
mines, and has been living in London. He
has fortune of ST, 900, 900 or Sc, 900, 900, and
with other capitalists proposes to establish
a new Atlantic cable. The European end
will be at Valentine Bay and the American
end as near New York as possible on the
Atlantic coast.
There is said to be personal antagonism
of some kind between Mr.. Bonynge and
John W. Mackey, and if the new cable is
constructed there will doubtless be another
cable rate war.
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COFFEE OF THE TURKS.
1t is Drowned, Pounded, Boiled With Sugar
and Then Served.

1t is Drowned, Pounded, Boiled With Sugar
and Then Served.
New York Herald.l
The Mohammedans are strictly temper
ate people. Under the laws of the Koran
intoxicating drinks are prohibited. This
abstinence is almost universally adhered to
except by such persons as have, by living in
foreign capitals, imbibed the vices thereof.
The universal beverage is coffee, and thou
sands of cafes are scattered throughout the
cities and hamlets of the empire. In a cafe
in Consta ntinople one may frequently see
several hundred citizens and soldiers, the
whole assembly as quiet and peaceable as
family party. Turkish coffee is prepared in
peculiar way. The bean, after being
roasted brown, is pounded into a powder
and boiled with sugar, and then served in
small cups of the size and shape of an egg
she'll. 1t would probably take eight such
cups to fill one of our ordinary coffee cups
The price of this coffee varies from one
quarter of a cent to a piastre-about AZ
cents.
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CAN'T JUDGE DISTANCE.
Prairie Dogs Will Walk Off a Table IL Left

Prairie Dogs Will Walk Off Table IL Left
to Themselves.
DR.. Wilder has made discovery relative to
prairie dogs, says Chambers Journal. They
seem to lack any sense of height or distance.
owing, it is thought, to the nature of their
ordinary surroundings fiat, level plain,
destitute of pitfalls of any kind. Several
dogs experimental with, walked over the
edges of tables, chairs and other pieces of
furniture, and seemed to be greatly surprised
when their adventure ended in tall to the
ground. One dog fell from a window sill
20 feet above granite pavement, but hap
PLY soon recovered from the effects Of
its tumble.
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large opening between the umbrella and
side walls, will cause constant draught of
air. The special feature of the tent is its
simple construction and portability. 1t
folds up, and the bundle, including poles,
stakes, guy lines, etc., when the tent is
made of ten-ounce duck, weighs about 46
pounds. The tent was first used by the
New Jersey troops at the last encampment
at Sea Girt.
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EAUTY must behave
itself at the theaters,
and all the more so
when it is OH exhIbi-
tion In a proscenium
box. That is the rule
enforced rigidly by
New York audiences,
and no exception can
be made even in the
case Of so distin-
guished an embodi-
ment of loveliness as
the Duchess OF Marl-
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The True Reason.

Boston Courier.
Wooden-Why do bald-headed men
always want to sit in the front row at the
opera?
Smart-Why, 50 they can catch the airs
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Not Even a silver Mine.

Boston Herald.I
Count POOrboni-My dear, will you-a be-s
mine-a?
American Beauty-Sorry to disappoint
you, but l am not an heiress.
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KISSING A DUCHESS.
Untitled Folk Will Insist on Their
Rights at the Theater.
SHERMAN CATCHES 1T AT TIMES.
Beauty Nowadays Tries to Hide the Little
Holes in the Ears.
ANGORA KITTENS ALL THE RAGE NOW

tcoBBEsPoNDENcR OF THE D1sPATcH.I
NEW YORK, November Is.
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CLARKsoN's CAMPAIGN METHODS.

As such he had the control of the big po-
litical machine of the Postofice Department,
and, as an evidence Of his ability, out of 25,-
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A GRADUAL EMANCIPAIlON.
I think it was in 1921 that the rather an
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-09
NoIEs FROM NILES.
The Farmers and the Orchard lists Return
nh

The Farmers and the Orchard lists Return
to Their Labors.
Editor Morning Call: And men may
come and men may go, but go on forever
everp' Election day has come and gone,
and still the old world ways on as ever.
Alameda County had been the banner
bearer for the Republican party for so many
years that she seems merely claiming her
own again when she calls for the return of
the banner from Los Angeles County, where
it has been quietly reposing for the past two
years.
With very few exceptions the whole Re-
publican ticket has been elected throughout
the county, and those exceptions are minor
offices, where some local candidate upon the
Democratic ticket had perhaps the strongest
pull" Niles now has one of the two
Justices OF the Peace for this township. Z.
NJ. Z. Peters was elected by handsome
majority, TACT which is quite aot3ry
IT, Nllesites. Now that the country is pro-
vlded with new officers and the machinery
OF government once more set in motion and
well oiled, the farmer returns to his plow-
ing and planting and just now 10 his prun-
lng. The scale question is the subject i'm
medlateiy In hand; many orchardistS are
pruning and will spray Immediately. The
scale seems to affect an orchard unevenly,
sometimes running in zigzas course through
the fields. A set Of trees may be completely
covered, while the very next ones will be
comparatively free. The health of a tree
has very little to do with it. Unless the old
scale are present in great number. it is i'm
possible for person not acquainted with
the subject to find trace OF them at this
time OF The year, but take microscope
and thousands will be found. sometimes
upon II single twig, aud it is now, while in
this minute unprotected insect state, that
they can be destroyed; in few weeks each
tiny speck, not larger than a period, will
have found spot, and attaching itself to
the limb always the newest growth) will
grow brown hard covering. exactly like
turtles she'll, over its back. the edges of
which are attached to the limb In this it
Is safe from heat or cold, frosts or washes,
and In this 1t grows until it is about half as
large as lady-bug. In this it lives and
dies, leaving behind it hundreds Of minute
epgs to be matched out IN due time, when
they push the dried shell off, and crawl
about hunting comfortable quarters. The
scale lives upon the sap of the twigs, and
settling cluse to the leaf or fruit stem, saps
tie substance, until tue leaf aud fruit
drop off. The scale matches any time
from November until February. even
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generally applicable: "a pound caustic
soda, y pound caustic potash, 4 gallons

generally applicable: "a pound caustic
soda, B pound caustic potash, 4 gallons
water.
These remedies are effective on all scales
on all deciduous trees. For evergreens,
however, they are too severe. destroying
the leaves. Whale-oil remedies should be
used for them.
From his own experience Mr.. Barry
evolves the following rules:
/, Don't spare wash or labor. Tile greatest
mistake Is 10 attempt too much within a given
time.
2. Attack the least infected part OF the orchard
FIRST This VIII enable the operator 10 get his
hand IN before reaching the worst.
3. The scale Is deposited In October; therefore
begin spraying i'll November, as soon as the
leaves drop. just now you may catch many IN
sccts before they encase themselves, and the
scales already ioimed are moie easily pene'
tfaIed.
4. Spray once again during fair days Of winter
and again In March OF Aprli, after the buds start.
In April spring growths Will prevent. Now
plune all the limbs not Gearing fiuit buds. thus
destroying newly hatched insects and securing
clean new growths.
8. Be sure of the strength OF caustlc soda.
Professor Hilgard OF the University OF Califvr
nia recommends the greenback brand, from ST.
Helens. England 9S per cent strong
o. Spray adjoining orchards, whether apparent
y Affected or mol. An ounce OF prevention,
This pest IS called the Apricot Scale, but
the experience OF orchardIsts hereaboutS is
that II InlectS the peach tree with equal
readiness and results fully as disastrous.
1t is bound to yield, however. to the above
treatment. Mr.. Barry used 1000 gallons on
his orchard, at cost of ABOUT $50 for chem
icals. Fully three-fourths of the scales were
destroyed, and the prospect is for their COM
plete eradication this year.
There is good deal Of spraying being
done now. anu orchardists are very hopeful
as to results. This is a pioneer fruit section
and city dealers claim-at least, TO us-that
1rult from this section Is among the best
that reaches the city. This may be fiattery,
but out here We are inclined 10 the belief
that 1t Is merely a just appreciation Of merit.
CeHterUiite Noe. 2, 1890 &C.
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NEW WESTERN.

THE NEW WESTERN HOTEL OCCUPIES ONE
of the finest locations in San Francisco, the COR
ner of Kearny and Washington streets, opposite
plaza and City Hall. 1t is convenient to the Post
office, Custom House and United St1tes Treasury,
and four lines OF pass the door every few min
utes all parts OF the city, boats and Golden Gate
Park, Cliff House. ETC. Is the model hotel Of the
Coast, absolutely fre-proof, and only hotel In San
Francisco provided with hre-escapes. Every room
is large and airy, with perfect ventilation and mag
nifcently furnished. Table excellent. Price 81 20
to 81 per day, and accommodation equal to hotels
charging double the amount. Free coach to and
from all trains. Special rates by the month. GAL
LAGHER STANLEY, Proprietors. noe tt SuTuF
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lter, and it is necessary to spray
eyeral tImes during that time to

later, and 1t is necessary to spray
several times during that time to
keep them in check at all. As it has only
been about four years since the pest has APP
peared in this section, farmers are still eX-
perimentiny as to the best washes to be
used. There are three recipes used, the one
most in favor being so powerful as TO burn
the clothing and skin terribly, making 1t
necessary for the operator to deck himself
out much like highwayman-in old clothes,
heavy boots, rubber gloves and mask-and
still he suffers, for the spray is so fine and
powerful it finds its way into every crack
and crevice. and eats the skin off. and yet it
is not success in killing the scale, and tho
question is still unanswered as to the very
best manner of Graduating them.
The light rain about two weeks ago has
set the plows at work upon the hllsides
many of which are already planted, ready
to catch every drop OF the rain, to mature
the early peas and corn, and as no frost
touches the hillsides. they have only to fear
excessive rains, when the seed would be
rotted in the ground, as was the case last
year.
The hillside vineyard of table grapes, be-
longing to Ii. A. MAYHEM, which lies direct
ly north of the station, is not proving as
satisfactory from a moneyed point of view
As 1t should, considering the magnificent
quality uf grapes. The crop rpens in the
middle OF the season When the San Fran
cisco markets are flooded and table grapes
hapS another season or so may find the Ques-
ton solved in another manner. Mrs. l..
More has dried and is sweating 1900 pounds
of raiSinS, made from different varieties of
table grapes, and if the sales prove salts
factory, she may. another year, buy from
others 10 dry.
Perry Morrison, who came across the
plains in Al, and who has lived on the same
ranch in Niles since 40 and who had never
been East in all that time, went back a few
weeks ago to visit his old home and friends,
intending to be gone about three months.
Much to the establishment of his friends and
neighbors he returned last week, having
been gone three weeks. and declaring he
had seen all he wanted tol Verify, there's
no place like home."
Last week the California Nursery Com
pany began running their tree diggers. They
have orders FROM Manitoba to Texas, and
from the Alegh anies to Australia.
Several entertainme are promised in
the near future-a dancing party, bazaar
and a sort of musical drama, arranged from
Schiller's Lay of the Bell all OF which
promise to be unusually good.
Mites, Nor. s, 1890. MRS L. Z. THANE
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looked for any day now. In the meantime
the earnings of the Denver and Rio Grande
Western have been growing, despite large
expenditures for construction. The net
gain for the first eight months of the year
was $3.50, 00o.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LAND OFFICE.
Jerome Madden, Land Agent of the
Southern Pacific Company. reports that
during the month of September the land
sales OF the company amounted to $4,000
against So, l42 for the same period last year.
For October the sales footed 100000, while
in October, 1889, they amounted to only
S27, 197. For the first five days in Novem her
last year, Southern Pacific land was dis
posed Of to the amount of $3.50, against
$1,000 for the first five days OF the present
month.
1rack-laying on the Southern Pacific
Company's branch line from Los Banos,
MERGED County. to Armona, a point on the
G0shen-Huron branch in Tulare County,
will be commenced in few days. The
grading was completed last summer. With
this extension the Tracy branch will run
from Tracy to Ammonia. a distance of 126
miles.
EQUALIZING THE MILEAGE.
By still another order, to take effect on
November 10TH A. ID. Wilder of the Western
Division will superintend the California Pa
cifc Division from Bencia to Sacramento,
The Clear Lake Division from Elmira TO
Ramsey, also the Santa Rosa and Napa
branches and the line from Suisun to Napa
Junction. The aforementioned divisions
have been for long time under charge Of
j. 3. Wright of Sacramento and the change
has been made to equalize the mileage.
}. 6. Mccall, the well-known aud popular
General Agent of the Erie road in this city,
is receiving the congratulations of his many
friends on his election to the Assembly from
the Fifty-third District Hitherto the dis
trict has been the hot bed" of BOurbonism,
but this year it elected Republican repre-
sentative by handsome majority.
The Southern Pacific Company's October
statement has been delayed on account of
heavy freight business.
a. II. johnson, assistant general freight
agent of the Union Pacific, has gone East.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 1864 languages and over 1000
religions.
Two thousand two hundred trains leave
London ordinarily every twenty-four hours.
There are about 100000 inhabitants
on the globe. or these SO, 633, 033 die every
year.
There were in operation In the South in
561, 300 in 1S79-S0.
1t is calculated that 81, 1913 persons die per
day, 1880 per hour, go minute or one every
time the clock ticks.
Brazil is larger than the United States,
but in the whole twenty States which make
up the republic there are not as many pe0-
pie as you have in New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
The projected elevated road in Boston will
almost Craze the old South Church and the
old State House, and will cross very nearly
above the ground of the famous Boston
massacre.
Dark-haired persons have better chance
in the great struggle for existence than those
of the opposite complexion, except IN con-
tagious diseases, where blondes are COM
paratlvely exempt.
The number of marriages is in proportion
Of rs to every 1000 individuals born. The
time when the greatest number of mar
rlages take place is in June and December,
about the time of the summer and winter
solstices.
Brakeman Sam Harris of Laramie was
on the top of a freght-car of Union Pa
cific freight running between Wilcox and
Rock Creek, Wyo., when the top of the car
was torn OIL by strong gale. He was sent
over trees, as well as telegraph wires. He
was found several hundred yards away IA
tally injured.
The number of males and females Is about
equal and their average lite is about SO
years; one-fourth of the inhabitants die
before they reach their fifteenth year. To
1000 persons only one reaches the age of 100
years; to ever 100 only six reach the age OF
60, and not more than one in 900 lives to see
their eightieth year.
NJ Rene de Champagne, Director of the
French School at Diarbekir, in Asiatic
Turkey, reports the fall of a curious farina-
ceous substance duiing hal-storm. He
describes it as NEW manna," resembling
mulberry in shape and size, although the
mulberry is not cultivated in that region.
The Kurds, according to his letter, have
given it the name of celestial grain" and
It was sold in the market-place.