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Griggs courier., 1891-03-13

OOWn uLCerly exhausted DY their work
and terror, having only strength
enough left to watch the fire as it rolled
away.
1t was a sorry-looking little group
that met the eyes of Farmer Somers,
who came hurrying up in his wagon
soon after. Their faces, hands aud feet
were scorched and blistered. Their
clothes were burnt by sparks and black
with cinders. Their eyes were red and
swollen with smoke. The teacher,
Aleck and Jimmie, who had been in the
hottest of the fight, had their eye.
brows and lashes scorched. The bon
nets and jackets that had done such
good service were now an unrecogniz-
able heap of charred rags.
"All here, safe and sound, thank
God" exclaimed the farmer, springing
from his wagon and catching up his lit
tie girl who ran to him crying with Joy,
while Aleck limped after her as fast as
his blistered feet would allow. "Why,
Miss Benson, you're clear played out!''
for the relief of the farmers presence
was too much for Nell's overtaxed
nerves, and the tears were rolling down
her cheeks. "Here," he continued,
children, gather up your books and
dinner buckets and I'll take you all
home. No more school now till these
burned faces and hands and feet get
well. And you set back-fre! Well
nov, that was cleverly done, but you
must have worked fast, for the fire
came like lightning. We didn't even
<0~ 1oko 30 -
and we just made sure the school-house
would go, and like as not lot of you
would be badly burned. I tell you,
mother and me done some praying
yes, and some crying, too. amt
ashamed to tell of it. But the Lords
been good to us all, spared every one
of you. Jump in-jump in! Your
mothers no doubt are pretty nigh
frightened to death, and must get you
home as soon as possible"
How thankful the mothers of that
community were to receive their dar-
lings safe again, only mothers can tell.
AS they bathed and bandaged the
burned faces and hands and feet, they
thanked God that the little teacher had
stood SO true to her trust, had poss essed
so cool q head and had been SO prompt
in action.
In writing of it to her favorite friend
Lii, Nell said: ''It was an awful ex-
perience, such as hope never to have
again. Even while fighting the fire the
thought came to me that this was a
lesson not laid down in the Oxford cur
riculum, but it belonged to the course
marked out by the Heavenly School
master, and as such must be faithfully
learned. What His object in sending it
was, can not tell This much do
know: That little while of work, of
peril, of fear has bound my heart to my
scholars and their hearts to me, SO that
our school days now are filed with de-
light. There are no more troublous
days, there are no more unruly scholars,
there is no longer an easily-vexed
teacher. We have been cleansed so as
by fire. Marie Nantz, in Farm and
Home.
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13

yOAOcf Out dcEOSS Guc prairie as lar as
you can make it go. Be careful and
don't get drop of oil on your clothes
Jimmie, break off a lot of those big
sunflower stalks. Well need them to
stop the tumble-weeds from rolling un-
der the house. Quick, everybodyv'
There was no need for the last ad-
monition. Every child flew to do her
bidding. Nell went rapidly backward
and forward from the bare playground
to the slough. pouring little trails of oil
over the thickest punches of grass,
weeds and husks, while Aleck and jim
mie did the same work on the south
side of the road till the lamps were
drained of oil. The fire was started in
a dozen places along the line; and
while part of the children trailed the
fire till it formed continuous lines on
two sides of the school-house, the rest
followed with wet bonnets, jackets and
aprons, beating out the tiny tongues Of
fame that crept out on the school-house
side of the boundary. Nell was every
where along the line, setting fire here,
beating it out there, encouraging the
children, who worked with the energy
of despair.
How slowly their little black line of
defense broadened, even though aided
by the oil, for the wind was against
them. The fire drew nearer and near
er. They could hear the roar and
crackle of the flames as they siezed
upon the dry and oily sunfowers and
clumps OF tall sage grass The wind
came to them sitting with smoke. and
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
New York ASS ssmenta.

81 met Mr.. Knickerbocker in a shabby
coat little while ago. He has not failed,
has hep
20, no; he only puts that coat on
when he goes to the assessors to give in
his property for assessment. ."-Texas
Siftings,
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
A Doubtful Female.

Lawyer Ito female witness)-Will you
please tell this court and jury what
your age is?
Elderly Female-What's the use?
They wouldn't believe me If I was to
tell them.-Texas SiftiugA
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13

ana stained. One OF its faded green shut
ters hung by single upper hinge and
dapped disconsolately in every puff of
wind that eddied round the southeast
corner; another had succumbed to its
fate and lay neglected upon the ground.
Trespassing penknives and pencils had
cut and written the names of their
mischievous owners upon the front of
the house, and the open door was dec
GRATED with notices of school meetings
and election bills.
Such was the exterior Of this western
'ehaA of learning," and the interior
looked scarcely more attractive to the
''schoolma'a am" who had the fall
term" at the munifcent salary of twen-
ty-hve dollars a month. There was the
usual array of SCARED and ink-stained
desks, rusty stove, s'scratchy'
blackboard and a smoky ceiling. The
wall was decorated with maps done in
red, yellow, blue and green, and here
and there hung writing or spelling
chart A globe stood on its chest in
one corner and the water-buclet occu-
pied a bench beside the door. Four
bracket lamps were fastened to the
window castings, us the school-house
was used in lieu Of both church and
public hall.
Nell Benson. who sat at the teach
er's desk" that September afternoon,
was the daughter of Presbyterian
minister who had but recently removed
from the pleasantly Miami valley to
the prairies of Kansas. o, how home
sick she he been for the pretty Ohio
home, the sld neighbors, the pleasant
village; but most of all she longed for
the familiar halls of the seminary at
Oxford, and missed the CHEEKY faces
and merry voices of her gay classmates
there.
The expenses of the long move had
drained heavily on the minister's slen-
der purse. and the struggling little
churches to which he had come were
able to give him but small salary;
even the small sum necessary to defray
Nell's expenses at the seminary was
not for a moment to be thought of. So
with many a secret sigh and tear she
had packed her disappointed hopes
with her trigonometry and moral
science in the very bottom of her trunk,
and had gone bravely out to try to earn
enough to carry her to a diploma the
next year. Next year! o, what tor
ture to think of Sue and Lill and Kate
going back "this year, for their senior
year, while she was the only missing
one. But Nell was conscientious about
her work, and really enjoyed it; though
sometimes her twenty small scholars
seemed dreadfully tiresome, and Aleck
Somers, the freckle-faced boy on the
back seat, was often inclined to be un-
ruly.
On the afternoon on which we look
in upon her she was very weary. The
children had been noisy and restless,
and Aleck had persisted in sitting side
ways in his seat and gazing idly out of
the door. It was not pleasant pros
pect outside, and Nell wondered why it
should be so attractive to him. The
prairie stretched away from the door,
brown, dreary and bare, till it dropped
for a moment in the muddy waters of
the Ninnescah.
The "big slough that passed within
q few rods of the school-house, and
trailed its snake-like course across to
the river, was the only break in the
dreary level. This slough was mar
row depression in the prairie, marked
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
CONCERNING THE DIET.
What You Eat Matters Little n,You At
tain Certain Results.

What You Eat Matters little IL You At
tain Certain Results.
The human system requires q certain
quantity of carbon and of nitrogen to
keep up the equilibrium OF health, re-
marked a physician to a Telegram re-
porter. The healthy man needs 800
grains of nitrogen and 1900 grains of
carbon dailv, to supply the waste that
takes place during the twenty-four
hours. H,s should select diet which
can supply us near as possible the
proper amount of each of these sub
stances. 1t mat ters little whether he
eats vegetables or meat, SO long as he
achieves the result. 1t is very possible,as
vegetarians contend, that well selected
vegetable diet is capable of bringing
the greater number of individuals
to the highest physical development
Of which they are cap able, but it would
be difficult for the majority of working
men to get the proper diet of vegetables
all the year round, and q mixed diet,
partly vegetable and partly animal, is
most sensible.
some people who live almost entirely
upon it. The proper proportion is about
one part of meat to three of vegetables.
On thousand grains of meat contain
about 100 grains of carbon and 800 of
nitrogen. Therefore to obtain the 1000
grains of carbon which mans system
requires no less than six and half
pounds of meat must be consumed daily,
while the requisite 300 grains of nitro
gen are contained in one and a half
pounds of meat, consequently three or
four times more meat must be consumed
to supply the carbon that is necessary
to furnish the nitrogen.
One Thousand grains of bread contain
300 grains of carbon and ten of nitro
gen. In other words, to obtain the
requisite amount of nitrogen for the
system, ON diet of bread alone one
would have to consume exactly double
The quantity of carbon required. A
short calculation shows that two pounds
of bread and three quarters of pound
of meat just about compensate for the
daily drain on the system of healthy
man.
Beef and mutton usually contain Is
Der cent. of carbonaceous and 20 per
cent. of heterogeneous material Potatoes
have "a per cent. carbonaceous and Q Of
nitrogenous material, very nearly the
proportion the system requires Oat-
meal has 66 carbonaceous and 16 nitro
genous parts, and, taken alone, is bet
ter article of food than beef as regards
the requirements of the system.
Skinned milk contains carbon and
nitrogen in about equal quantities.
Oatmeal and good milk and bread, for
breakfast, with beef and potatoes fol
dinner, form about the best diet thai
can be devised.-N. Y. Telegram.
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
A BRAVE sCHOOLMA'AM.
The Little Teacher Who Was True
" to Her Trust.

Z WAS q little
dingy school
house facingth the
west. 1t had
on g g be e n
white, but the
sand and rain
and hail-storms
of the prairie
ha d foreclosed
their mortgage
on its pristine
b e a n ty a n d
freshness q n d
"a "a,
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
A Noted Bear Skin.

1t is said that a Mr.. Jarvis, of Kansas
City, has a bear skin, used as rug,
twelve feet long by ten feet wide, not
counting the head, tail or legs, all Of
which are attached and appear as nat
ural almost as life. The bear, a black
grizzly, was killed about two years
since on Bear Lake in Utah and weighed
$3.50 pounds. It is the largest bea,
skin in the country and probably in the
world. It was borrowed to grace the
banquet in honor of Stanley, the Afri.
can explorer in London, and subse.
quently served as rug on which q
luncheon was given to Rt Hon. William
Gladstone and Mr.. Stanley by Mis-
Tenant, then Stanley's fancec. A
representative of the University OF
Pennsylvania offered the owner $l,1W
Or it but he would not part with it.
The Home.
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
A Timely Warning.

Cumso crushing in excitedly)-Haven'+
you a balance at the 'steenth National;
Fangl YES. What's the matter?
Cumso-Draw it out right away!
Fangle-What's up?
Cumso-I heard the cashier promise
young lady to attend q charity bazar to
niGhtl-Judge
Griggs courier., 1891-03-13
Couldn't FORCED Him.

They were waiting on the corner, and
one gave the other light from his cigar.
''Let's see?" said the first, after a bit.
t'haven't we met before?"
"Yes, SIR" G
'T thought so. Your face is familiar.
Where have seen you?''
"I'm Woodward avenue car conduc-
tor, and every morning for the last three
years you've got on at Garfield and
asked me if this is what called rapid
transit"
'Um!" growled the other Us he went
up to the next corner to catsh car
Detroit Free Press.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05

BAGS-Dealers report moderate inquiry. Out
side Bags Sac: The combination price of Calcuttas
CANNED FRUITs-Several slight variations APP
pear. The market continues quiet and weak. The
cots 81 IS q doz for Plums. 81 SOC so for Peaches
81 65@l 80 for Pears. 81 1892 20 for " bite Cher
CANNED VEGETABLES - Peas 81 O5GI Is;
string Beans aocSsi 2 DOZEN The Gamers quote
CofFEE-Quet and featureless. Buyers pur-
chase sptringly. quotations. are: 2O@2OAc for
beans; Is@is4c for good Costa Ri S Pi 4ed
with black beans; ls@l9c for fair Costa R!ca;
isc Tor GOOD iar aT gooH washed salvador;
temala: 2114@211sc for prime washed Guatemala:
20la@2lc for good washed Guatemala; 1884 @2OI4 &c
ioI isir washed Guatemala; 17@ls12c for medium
qualities: l63z@l7c for ordinary qualities; loo
lt12c for very inferior to common.
COAL-Receipts in Jay were 81 800 tons against
$3.50 In July, 1880. Thus far this year there
are are 76s's2O tons. against 57, liO during
change. Foreign Goals steady. Seattle Coal
Is arriving more freely; Prices dealers are as
ton. SO 80 q ton: Sonthheid Wellington, So SO
ton; Cedar River. nominal; Seattle. 81 so:
sydney, 50; scotch. sstas SO; Brymbo, Sc; Grers.
So; Cumberland, $40 in bulk and 81 SO in sacks;
cite Egg, $40; Camel, 50 . ton.
FISH No: / MacGerel is quotable at $50
= s4 5o5 IN a 6Ss 81 oSSs a. II KITS ks
Mess Maekerel ss@s % 2 Kit: Pacific Cod, &c ia
Ter mdies e Tor rolls and 7sc = n for sficks
Eastern Smoked Herring, s5c: Dutch DO. 81 500
Observation-Disclosures AT $4O@fl . flask
SYRuP-Tne Western Sugar Refinery quotes:
Drps In bbs. soc: do. in haf-bbls 32Iae; In 5-gai
Kegs, S75ac: in l,gai TINS: 47lac 2 gaIlon.
and IS 30 2 key for wire in 200-keg lots
SuGAR-The Western sugar Refining Company
Extra Powdered and Fine Crushed. ali 5Jsc q 10;
Bry Granuated. 5lsc: Confectioners 4, Sac;
than bbls ~ - 0AS
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05
NEW FACE FOR THE COINS.
A Philadelphia Designer VIII Do Il
Work

A Philadelphia Designer VIII Do the
Work.
There is every probability that the new
designs for Uncle Sans subsidiary coins
will be made by Engraver Charles E. Barber
of the Philadelphia Mint. Mr.. Barber is
now working upon designs for new halves,
quarters and dimes, and new designs may
be forthcoming for all the coins in circula-
ton.
Some time ago the late Secretary of the
Treasury, William Window. offered $500 to
the artist who submitted the best design for
the coins OF the United States Over 400
designs were submitted to the three judges
appointed by The Secretary. The jury were:
Henry Mitchell, seal engraver of New
1ork; Augustus st. GaudenS, BostOn's
famous sculptor, and Charles E. Barber of
the Philadelphia Mint. Not one of these
designs was acceptable.
The new Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Foster, decided not to abandon the project
OF securing new and better design for the
COINS OF the United States, and MIR. Barber
was yesterday instructed to prepare a set of
designs TO be submitted to Secretary Foster
and Director of the Mint e. o. Leerh for
approval. In speaking on the subject last
night Mr.. Barber said:
I'VE will make new designs for halves,
quarters and dimes first. If they are better
than the present designs they may be
adopted. 1t is by no means assured, how
ever. that the change will be made at once,
but it is certain that no change will be made
until a design is secured that eXcels the
present in every way. The difficulty with
nearly all the designs submitted by the COM
petltors for the $500 prize was the fact that
they could not be utilized. The designs
must he Of such character that every i'm
preston will be clear and distinct"-Phila-
delphia Record.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05
GIVEN MORE TINE.
Owens Bros worlmen Clamoring for
Their Pay.

Owens Bros workmen Clamoring for
Their Pay.
AT meeting of the Harbor Commission
ers yesterl lay, the question of the forfeiture
of the contract OF Owens Bros for Section
Of the seawall at North Beach was dis
cussed. The contractors had been given
one weeks time in which to obtain re-
sponsible parties to take the work and per-
form the terms of the agreement with the
State, but yesterday they asked for more
time, and they were given until Thursday,
by which time they will be re quired to pro-
duce responsible parties to fulfill their eb-
legations or their contract will be forfeited
There Is now due the contractors $500,
and on the other hand $1,000 is owed the
workmen, who have been engaged on the
work. and are daily clamoring for their pay
Many OF them are in very destitute circunl-
stances. 1t is the desire OF the Harbor
Commissioners that they shall receive as
much OF their money as possible and it has
been suggested to the workmen that they
combine and throw Owens Bros into in
solyencv. BY this means receiver will be
appointed, and the Harbor Commissioners
will pay to him all the money due the con-
tractors.
The receiver could use this money in
iquldating the claims of the workmen. for
the State has received full value for all
moneys paid on the contract, and the work
men are the only ones who suffer.
Commissioners Brown and Basse:t made
an examination yesterday Of tho piles used
along the wharves, and those covered with
creosote were found to be in the best condi-
ton. Five piles were dug UP which had
been SO covered several seasons ago, and
they were found intact,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05
TONS OF PEARS.
JacksOn.Street Wharf Crowded
With the Fruit.

Jackson-street Wharf is piled high with
pears, boxes on top of boxes, until the eye
gets tired looking at the large stacks, which
takes up most of the room on the wharf.
With over 1000 boxes of pears on the wharf
and scarcely box to be had uptown, it
seemed strange order of things, and a
CALL reporter made few inquiries as to
the cause Of this yesterday.
The first man he met who knew anything
OF the matter was Mr.. McDonough, of the
firm OF McD0nough & johnson, commission
merchants There is no glut of pears"
said that gentleman, although to those not
In the business it may look SO. In fact
there Is scarcity of good fruit in the mar
ket. The trouble all lies with the Gamers,
who at present have their hands full with
the peach crop, but in a day CT two they
will begin work on the pears, and then the
piles OF fruit on the wharf will vanish like
snow before hot sun. Every box of good
fruit we have on hand or can get is con-
tracted for, and the fact is we have none to
sell.
Most of the pears come from along the
Sacramento River, and at the present time
about 600o boxes "a day are being shipped.
VI course some of it is inferior fruit, and
this is unstable at any price, but good
fruit will look out for itself, and Of this we
cannot get enough. What you see on the
Wharves is simply piled there until we can
move 1t to the canneres."
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05
SOUTHERN JOURNALISM.

How a Country Political Editor Got
Squelcbed.
Shortly after | began to illuminate nv
opinions through the columns of the Poker
town Pathfinder there came ON a heated
contest for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Mississippi. General Bob
Lowry was the most prominent man for
the place, and l went for him and his record
tooth and nail. Every week for several
months L hu led ponderous leader at him.
REINFORCED by dozen vicious paragraphs.
few days before the meeting of the uomi
mating convention he came to Pokertown 10
make speech. The Methodist Church had
been given up for the occasion, and was
crowded inside and outside to hear him.
l was there in front seat with nv
best girl, CasSandra Bilbeak by NV side.
She had pinned buttonhole bouquet on
my coat and was wearing billed" shirt
and Understanding collar, which was the
envy of Pokertown society. Governor Low
~ delivered speech that made the rafters
of the old wooden church vibrate. / was
beginning to fear that he would treat NV at
tacks on him with silent contempt Cassan-
ORA, too, was getting disappointed. | had
prepared her TO witness how / would make
a single remark which would cause the
orator to become laughing stock He had
wound up his talk on the burning issues of
H..
the crowd, thinking he was through. were
getting up to go out when he stopped them
with wave of his hand.
on, by the way" lie said, 81 forgot
something. 1t is small matter, but | viii
notice it simply because [ am expected to.
and not because it is worth it." Then he
proceeded to sail into me like cyclone.
He stopped in his speech to take drink ni
water. Now was my chance. l stood up
and, looking him squareIy in the eye, /
began:
Hold on there, General, you needn't get
your collar up"
did not get any further.
Young man." he retorted In tone as
cold as ice and as cutting as a razor
young man, intend to keep you busy for
The next five minutes keeping down tile
other end Of that garment to which YOU
alluded"
The next day the Pokerlown Pathfinder
was for sale. and was across the NIississ-
lppi River with ticket for Portland, Ore
gon, on my person.-GalvestOn News.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05
COMMERCIAL RECORD.
TUESDAY EVENING. August 4.

TUESDAY EVENING, August 4.
SUMMARY OF THE MARRErA
Flour steady.
Wheat firm.
Barley unsettled and lower
Oats and Corn declined.
Rye unchanged.
Corn Products tending downward.
Hay steady.
Straw abundant.
Seeds nominal
Beans weak and dull.
Potatoes Ia slow demand.
Onions doing better.
Butter lower.
Eggs and Cheese steady.
Honey quiet.
Poultry sells well.
Game in light RECEIPT.
Peaches and Apricots frmer.
Apples, Pears and Grapes weak.
Citrus Fruits quiet.
Dried Fruits neglected.
Nothing doing in Raisins.
Nuts Inactive.
Vegetables in large supply.
Provisions dull but firm.
Hops weak.
Hides easy and quiet.
Tallow unchanged.
Wool firm.
Grain Bags in moderate demand.
Meat market unchanged.
Canned Fruit dull.
Coffee quiet,
Coal steady.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-05
Produce Market.

FLoUR-Steady and in fair request Net cash
prices are: Family extras, 81 90@6; Bakers ex-
tras, "a 9095: city supefne. So 5Oq3 rs; In
terror brands 81 1895 for extras. 50 5o@3 rs a
Dbl for superfne.
WHEAT-Freights on the spot continue quiet
The last reported charter was an iron bark Mt
45s Sd. for United Kingdom, Havre or Antwerp
The chartered Wheat fleet in port has a registered
tonnage of 1000. against 4+,400 tons on the same
date last year; dsengaged, 1900 tons, against
3440: on the way to this port. 1884, tons
against 26l.a5O.
Wheat rules firm. in sympathy with higher prices
acroad, where unfavorable crop reports from
France are hardening prices. The demand here
Is fair. but nothing extra. No. l. 81 55@l 56J4
q ctl: lower grades, ST 5J@Dl 52Hs p ell; choice
81 b11s q ctl; extra choice, Tor milling, 81 5S34 a
6ll4 Rctl.
CALL sALEs-MoRNINa.
Buyer '9l-600, 81 1914.
CALL sALEs-AFrERNooS.
Buyer season-l0O, 81 81; 100, 81 5fIl Buyer