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moment he was really terrlble-then Slivlo
raised his pistol to take aim at me.
Suddenly the door flew open, Masha
rushed into the room. Sne threw herself
upon my neck with loud shrek, Her
presence restored to me all my courage.
my DEAR l said to her, don't you see
that we are only joking? How frightened
YOU look! Go and drink a glass of water
and then come back; will introd uce you
to au old friend and comrade."
"Masha was still in doubt.
"'Tell me, is my husband speaking the
truth" she asked, turning to the terrible
Silvio; is it true that you are only ioking?'
He is always joking, Countess, Silvio
replied. he once in joke gave me slap
in the face; in joke ne put bullet through
this cap while l was wearing it; aud in
joke, too, he missed me when be fired Just
now. And now have a fancy for Joke ;
With these words he raised hIs pistol as if
to shoot me down before her eyes!
"Masha threw herself at mis- feet.
Rise, Mashal For shamep 1 cried in
my passion; and you, sir, cease to amuse
yourself at the expense of al unhappy
woman. Will you fire or not?'
81 will not, replied Silvio. Il am satis-
fed. have witnessed your agitation; your
terror. l forced you to fire at ME. That is
enough; you will remember me. leave
you TO your conscience
"He was now about 10 60. But be stopped
at the door, looked round at the picture
which my shot had passed through, fred at
it almost without taking aim. and disap-
peared.
"My wife had sunk down fainting. The
servants had not ventured to stop Silvio,
whom they looked upon with terror. He
passed out to the steps, called his coach
man, and before could collect myself drove
Off"
The Count was silent. 1 had now heard
the end o: the story of which the beginning
had long before surprised me. The hero of
it l never saw again. l heard, however,
that Silyio, during the rising OF Alexander
Ipsilanti, commanded detachment of in
surgents and was killed in Trans
lated from the Russian of Alexander Push
kin for the Strand Magazine.
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QUARANTINE WORK.
How the City Guards Against I'm.
ported Pestilence.
Precautions That Never Seem so Useless as
When Completely Successful-The Doc
tors Busy Little Tug.

One of the familiar but uncogtated spec
tacles to visitors seeking an airing on Fish
erman's Wharf is the little tug, or steam
launch. Governor Perkins. Few San Fran
clScanS who are native and to the manor
born concern themselves with the little
craft, but to the citizen who has made his
home within the Golden Gate in reeent years
the sight of the doctors boat" evolves
some vivid recolleetons.
Such citizen is apt to remember that
when the big steamer on which he had made
his home for twenty or thirty days hove in
sight of the Heads. after the pilot had been
taken aboard and the way was clear into the
bay; after the islands had loomed up one by
one. first Alcatraz, then Angel then Yerba
Buena, tiny little puffer stole out from
where Meiggs Wharf used to be, and the cry
went around: ''Al passengers on deck"
If it was Panama steamer there would be
pretty sure to be one or two victims of mala-
rial fever tOttering out of their hunks,
helped up 10 the deck by sympathizing
steeragers," for in the steerage, where
most of these cases occur. common misery
begets sympathy almost as a matter of ne
cessity. If it was China steamer the
steerage steward would have the usual busy
time routing the Mongols out Of the last
opium stupor and getting these missing
links on deck. If. as sometimes happens,
there had been case of smallpox among
the Celestial visitors, then all hands, from
the captain to the deck-hand. looked SUI
premely miserable, foreseeing the enforced
joys of a fortnight in quarantine.
SUCCESSFUL PRECAUTIONS.
1t is 4 trite axiom of the latter half of the
nineteenth century-at all events since the
days of the Crimean War and Lord John
Russell-that precautions never seem so
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LABOR'S DOINGS.
Final Preparations for the An
nual Holiday.

One week from to-day the eighty ira les
unions of this city will celebrate Labor
day. On account of the recent organi-
zation of an association of employers
it is proposed TO display all the
strength that organized labor in San Fran
cisco can command. Fully one-half of the
unions will be represented in the parade
and the federation of trades is preparing a
monster float on which each labor organ
iZaton in the city will be represented by a
pretty girl and shields giving the name of
each organization will be arranged around
the platform.
The joint Labor Day Committee yester-
day reported all bids for the bar and hat
room privileges, and will advertise for
others to be opened at a special meeting on
Wednesday evening"
The following committees were appointed: !:
On Arrangements-C. Hansen, I. Hag-
gerty, j. Diaz, j. w. Barnes, J. Cavanagh,
NJ. Haberlin, o. Anderson, N. Crowley, p.
Knapp. L. Carroll, F. p Barnett, j. Gas
kns.
On Reception - NJ. L. Farland E. J. Ger
lach, 5. }. Collins, j. Nealon, Z. j. Flynn.
A. Sullivan, +. Emery, F. Schmidt, I. A.
Egan, q. Guinne, j. b. Seeley, j. ID. Con-
don.
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CHRIST THE BREAD OF LIFE.

Many a Starved Soul Dwells In Pam
pered Body.
"What is your highest ideal of life ?'
This was the question which led TO spirited
discussion in the Bible-class of Mrs. Cooper
yesterday. The regnant purpose of our life
gives character to all that we do, contin-
ned the teacher. Do we feed the body and
starve the soul? Jesus, the great teacher.
warns US against laying all the stress of life
upon the things that perish. He points to
possessions that are indestructible. He
tells us, over and over again. that our real
treasure Is our inward treasure; that we can
never be any richer than our heart is.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst
after righteousness. There can be no
growth of body, mind or soul without food.
The body has its nourishment. so has the
mind, so has the soul The supreme fact is
Jesus is the bread of life. We do not need
TO understand all about the chemistry of
bread in order to have it noursh us. A child
is nourished and strengthene ed by bread, al
though he knows nothing of its constituent
elements.
The verse. Him that cometh to me 1
will in no wise cast out" brought out the
fact that Christ labored among the fallen,
the guilty, the outcasts, the wrecks of poor
humanity. and sought to lift them up--not
the naughty Pharisee who said, II thank
thee that l am not as other men are," but
the poor publican who said. "God be merci-
full to me sinner" To the peuitent Jesus
came in forgiving pity and love. Do we
seek to do the Fathers will? Ii the spirit
which was created to find its enjoyment in
the love and service of God settles down
satisfied with the love of the world. then it
turns celestial feast into husks-it seeks
its own lower will and not the will of God.
Every kind of life is essentially superficial
that does not bring the human heart nearer
to the infinite presence and love.
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useless as when entirely successful. With
out DR.. Lawlor and his little quarantine
boat, the Governor Perkins, smallpox
would be as rife in San Francisco as the
plague in Damascus, Smyrna, Beyrout or
Aleppo; the cholera in Calcutta, Alexan-
dria, SebastopOl or TOulon; yellow fever as
familiar a guest as in Vera Cruz, Tampic
Key West or New Orleans. Such guests
come unbidden. They "come like shadows;
so depart" They viii not come whom we
call them even for those who can summon
spirits from the vasty deep" but they have
disagreeable way of stealing in without leave
or license wherever there is an open door. In
other words, where there is no quarantine
system, or loose system, which amounts to
the same thing.
WITHIN EASY CALL.
The immunity which San Francisco has
enjoyed from epidemics of smallpox or
yellow fever or cholera is not natural i'm
munity. The city is in the same latitude
with dozen cities in the Old and New
World which nave been frequently invaded.
1t is within easy call of Panama, where
yellow fever is epidemic. 1t is the same
Steaming distance from ports in China and
Japan, where smallpox is as familiar as
measles in the family nursery. Leprosy is
a constant possibility, and it is only re-
Gently that China and Japan have passed
through the ordeal of genuine epidemic of
Asiatie cholera, which might be imported
into San Francisco from Hong-kong, Shang-
Hal OF 1 OhOH2Dla QulG as easily dHu a
quickly as from Alexandria into MarSeilles
or Toulou. And the story Of the military
Gordon around ToulOn, only six years ago,
is not forgotten.
HIS CRITICAL EYE.
When DR.. Lawlor steams out to greet an
incoming vessel from strictly foreign port
he soon gets through his greeting with the
captain and gets down TO business with the
ships surgeon. Mostly that official can ex-
hibit clean bill OF health-a little sickness,
a case of pneumonia OF Panama fever, per-
haps, but nothing "of any account" Such
a statement necessarily requires TO be taken
cum grano sails, since no one likes 10 be de-
tanned In quarantine, and the first-class pas
seDgers. the ships crew, the officers and the
"steeragers" are of one mind in this regard
They all want to get ashore. 1t is the doc
tors duty and his custom then, here as else
where. to make ocular survey Of the whole
crowd before he permits the vessel to dock.
1t is just as the New England philosopher
said, People are very honest, but there's
no harm in watching them" 1t is safe to
say that every man, woman and child who
has landed in San Francisco within recent
years has passed the ordeal of critical pass
ing glance from DR.. Lawlor's eye.
DISEASES GUARANTEED.
A ship is not detained in quarantine for
any trifie. The Treasury limitations are
quite specific. The diseases which are
deemed contagious or infectious for Quaran-
tine purposes, with the limit of detenti Oh,
| are as follows {: Yellow fever, days ;
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/ diseases, and from their srarse population.
are little likely to become centers of infec-

are little likely to become centers of infec.
tion.
REMOVED TO THE STATION.
In all cases where vessel arrives in this
port with case of smallpox on board. or
where a case of smallpox has occurred. the
sick and the healthy passengers alike are
removed TO the quarantine station on Angel
Island. They are detained there fourteen
days, and meanwhile there is a thorough
fumigatl0n OF the ship and the passengers
effects. Accommodations are now provided
at the quarantine station ON Hospital Cove
for fourteen patients, while from 250 to 300
passengers can be accommodated in the ad-
| joining barracks.
They are pretty strictly confined to bar-
racks, too, for IL the civil authorities were
remiss Colonel Shafter would pretty quickly
| send out picket guard and establish mil
| ltary Gordon, in the interest of the garrison.
| The first-claSs passengers would fare no
| better than the steerage people in such a
| case. a quarantine is not q picnic; there is
| no time for nice social distinctions. Disea So
| levels everything. Wherever the plain vel
, low quarantine flag floats over ship or build
| ing there is a hard-and-fast rule which even
wealth cannot break.
VESSELS INSPECTED.
The inspection OF incoming vessels ex-
! tends to deep-water ships coming round the
| Horn sS well as TO foreign ships of war.
| The Panama and ocean steamers come in
pretty regularly on time, but the deep-water
IHipS may comc III at any tllne, ana thus DR..
| Lawlor Is kept closely at his post. As soon
as vessel of tile iDspectable class arrives
| off the Heads a telephone message is sent
both to the Doctors Office in the Commis
| sioner's building or to his Office on Fisher
| mans Wharf. The maintenance of quarau-
| tine passengers is AT the expense of the ship,
| but medical attendance on the sick at the
| Quarantine Station is provided by the United
| States Government which takes charge of
| the station through DR.. Preston II. Bail
| hache of the United States Marine Hospital
and Quarantine Superintendent. 1t is in
| tended shortly to build fumigating tug for
! the conveyance of passengers in quarantine
to and from Hospital Cove, Angel Island.
The first and last time the quarantine
station was used was in the case of the
Oceanic, which arrived three or four months
ago with case of smallpox on board.
The morning call., 1891-08-31
SENATORIAL VIEWS.
VIII lam NJ. Stewart of Nevada on Pol
cal Tnnics.

VIII lam NJ. Stewart of Nevada on Politi-
cal Topics.
Senator William NJ. Stewart of Nevada
returned to the city yesterday from visit
to his mines in Zacatecas, Mexico. Hs
stated to CALL reporter at the Palace YES
terday that he should continue his efforts in
behalf of free coinage. He thinks that silver
sentiment is growing steadily throughout
the country. and is confident that his views
will ultimately be generally accepted
When questioned regarding the statement
that the Farmers Alliance and the silver
men would join hands to secure the Presi-
DENTAL nomination of Senator Stanford. the
Nevada Senator eyaded the query remark
iug. "Well. the silver men and the Alliance
hold the same views regarding free COIN
age" He repudiated the remark credited
to Senator Sherman. that the silver people
were being manipulated in the interests of
the Democratic party.
''The Pacific Coast" he continued sic
the Ireland of America. The Pacific States
are ignored in the selection Of Presidential
candidates, members of the Cabinet and on
the more important missions to foreign
lands. Our delegates in both parties
go to the national conventions pledged
ior some Eastern man whom thew
support enthusiastically, and being
considered certain and loyal to their candi'
date. no attention is paid to their demands
alter election. We should send our dele
gates uDpledged and then if the Pacific
States stood together they could get almost
anything they wanted. Eastern States snn-
port some local man in a complimentary
fashion and then by shrewd trades obtain
their choice of Cabinet positions and Fed
eral appointments.
California should cultivate more of a
sectional spirit in politics and strike a bar
gain which would ensure for the State snh-
stantial representation and a share of rec
ognltlon. The interests of this Coast de-
mand, and her population and resources en-
title her to representative in the Cabinet
and in the next Republican National Con,
vention the Pacific States and Territories
will form a combination which California
will be invited to join. If she declines the
combine will be obliged to work without
her.
Mexican politics deserve to rank with
the sciences, and they have the most orig
lnal system of conducting elections of which
l have yet heard. This country is divided
into districts, each of which has a political
chief selected by the Governor of tn, State.
All election ballots must have the seal of
the district official, who has thus CEN
sorship of all candidates, and if the latter
are not approved by him the seal is with
held. Scratched ballots are thrown out and
don't 90. Is not that an original scheme
How would it do for San Francisco?"
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Printers win Parade.

The Typographical Union voted yester-
day to participate in the Labor day parade,
and sent an invitation to the German print
ers' union to join them. The following
were elected Committee on Arrangems nts
for the turn out: J. Olwell, J. J. McDaid,
I. McGOwen, @. II. Saunders, j. K.
Phillips, III. g. Atkins, l.. p. Ward, J. III.
Simpson, N. Monaghan, J. Kelsey, w. W.
Ross, l.. +. Compton, N. Farland, j. d.
Hoes, A. Pennington.
a committee was appointed to confer with
the Typothete ON the new scale of prices,
and resolution was passed that hereafter
all special meetings of the union shall be
held on Sunday afternoon, or between and
O'Clock in the evening on other days.
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A Cheerful View.

Professor Riley of the Agricultural De-
partment. in speaking of the recent grass
hopper investigations, says that the injury
done in PARTS Of California is due TO species
which are local in California. He there
lore takes cheerful view of the outlook md
teels that it is only necessary 10 continue
Investigations with view Of learning as
exactly as may be the area over which the
eggs OF the destructive species are laid. an
that II 1t be necessary Congressional aid
may be secured for the farmers during 1892.
-Marysyille Appeal.
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Great Spakesi
The Riverside Press says: A friend sends

The Riverside Press says: A friend sends
us an account of q young man in Sussex
County, n. j., who was bitten by a rattle
snake on August 1st. On the I'd lie seemed
to have recovered !? ON the 4th he was re-
ported dead, the poison having affected his
kidneys. The next day lie was reported
alive and well.
1t appears he sank into a comatose state
that so much resembed death that an under
taker was sent for. The physician decided
to make post mortem examination as to
the action of the poison. When the lance
was used the swelling went down, and
noticing life he was resuseitated and is now
out of danger.
The morning call., 1891-08-31
Temporarx Secretarx.

Charles Grambarth has been elected tenn
porary Secretary Of the Federated Trades
during the absence of Ii. Kretlow, who goes
East to-day TO attend the annual convention
OF the Cigar-makers' international Union.
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Federated Trades

The Executive Committee of the Fede-
rated Trades met yesterday and instructed
a subcommittee to visit the proprietors of
the United Workingmen's Shoe Factory and
adjust, II possible, tie trouble between
them and the White Labor League,
The morning call., 1891-08-31
Young Men,s Ins,itnte E.cursia.

On Wednesday next the Institutes of San
Francisco will leave Third ana Townsend
streets on grand excursion to Watson
vile, returning same evening. Over $4,000
have been subscribed by the citizens OF
Watsonville for the entertainment of the
Y NJ. 1. with concerts, excursions, parades
and barbecue Friends of the order are in
Vited to accompany the excursion. Rail-
road rates have been reduced to 81 70 for
round trip. Train leaves Third and Town
send streets at A. NJ. sharp, stopping at
Twenty-ffth and Valencia streets.
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NOTICE-NEW CITY HALL CONTRACTS.

CEALED PROPOSALS FOR CEMENT WORK
~ Granite Coping, Plumbing. Gas fitting aud Lamp
posts, at the New City Hail. in accordance with
Specifications Nos. %, 30 and 81, Will be received
by the New City Hall Commissioners on September
II, 1891, between the hours OF IL A. NJ. and IL NJ,
Mt which time they Will be opened. Specifications,
Drawings and Blanks can be obtained at the Secre-
tary's office, New City Hall.
au25 got EDWARD 1. WOLFE. Secretary
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A young woman of Paris, Idaho, has be.
come insane from gatherings In her head
caused by catarrh.
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smallpox, IA days; Asiatic cholera, IA days;
typhus fever. q days; leprosy, detention at
the discretion of quarantine officer. Typhoid
and malarial fever are not quarantinable;
neither Is scarlet fever, probably for the
reason that it seldom affects adults. An
epidemic of scarlet fever on board of a
ship would undoubtedly cause her deten-
tion. however. Scurvy is not quarantinable.
neither IS measles or any of the minor ex-
anthematous diseases.
DEADLY CHOLERA
The most deadly visitor, because the one
that knocks most peTsistently at our outer
gates, Is smallpox, In New York cholera
from Europe and yellow fover from the
West Indies are the chief subjects of any
iety with the Quaranti Officer. There is
again, more yellow fever in Colon (or AS
pinwalD than in Panama, besides which
the trip from that side of the isthmus is
much shorter than from Panama to San
Francisco. This explains why passengers
are only quarantined for five days in ship
Win yellow FEVER on board. The period of
incubation or matching" of this disease is
very short. If, for instance, passenger in
transit OF the isthmus should contract vel
low fever it would show itself within five
days, and II the disease extended to other
passengers on the vessel there would be
ample time on the voyage up the Mexican
coast to Isolate the cases. On the New York
side, Vera Cruz, Havana, Port ROYAL. Tam
plco and Aspinwall are all yellow fever
focl; on this side Panama is the only town
from whlch the disease is likely to be i'm
ported, aud the cases would then declare
themselves quite early enough to put the
ships surgeon on the alert. Such vessel,
however, would be quarantined for five days
as matter OF precaution and matter of
course. 1t rarely happens that ships from
Australia or New Zealand are quarantined;
these countries, being free from endemic
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There are 6So.S94 pensioners in this
country.
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PALACE HOTEL.

THE PALACE HOTEL OCCUPIES AN ENrIRn
block In the center OF San Francisco. 1t Is tha
model hotel of the world. Fire and earthuuake
proof Has nine elevators. Every room is large
light and airy: The ventilation is perfect A bath
and closet adtoin every room. Ali rooms are easy
of access from broad, light corridors The central
court, illuminated by electric light. It's immense
glass roof broad balconies, Carl and trop-
cal plants, are features hitherto UNKNOWN In Ameri
can hotels. Guests entertained either the Amert-
can or European plan The restaurant Is the finest
In the city Secure rooms In advance by telegraph
Ing. THE PALACE HOTEL
ls San Francisco. Cal
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FIRE ALARM TELEGRAH

The present fiTe-alarm telegraph went into
operation on April "a, 1866. Previous to
that time the city had watch-tower on the
then third story of the old City Hall, and
the bell-ringer sounded the alarm for fire on
the present bell, striking by wards Under
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M R. AND MRS. DREw'S DANCING ACAD- oa
w emy, II New Montgomery st.-New ar ~ o.
rangements; tuition reduced; dancing learned q a
az little cost; Gents exclusively (beginnersl, L-&
Mondays, Wednesdays; Ladies' (beginners), Tues
days, Thursdays: sriTees Saturday evenings.
PRIVATE LESSONS DAILY. 7tf
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OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS THU LOWEST!

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2:30 Race, with Six Entries, and Gentle
mems Driving Club Race.
Entries to additional purses close with the Seere-
tary, al the office, s2O Eighth St, Oakland, p. NJ.
Monday August 3lst.
Racing each day at 2.
p. PUMYEA. President.
JOS. T. DIMOSp Secretary au1s II