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The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
How q Pretty Little School Ma'am Be-
came q Colored Woman.

A pretty young school ma'am occu-
pies a small room in the very topmost
floor of a boarding house in this city,
says the N. Y. Telegram. She keeps
her room as neat as a new pin, and is
never tired of arranging and rearrang-
ing it. The top room is very cold, and
the young teacher is obliged to heat it
with a little oil stove. One Sunday,
during the cold snap we had a short
while ago, the young lady got up
about z, lit her oil stove to warm the
room, and turned in again for a nap.
She awoke about an hour afterward
and found the stove smoking. She
turned it out, and then, womanlike,
took a peep at the looking glass. She
started back with an exclamation of
horror; her face was as black as coal.
Looking round the room she found
that her pretty white bed was covered
with black and that all her greatest
treasures were ruined. She rang fran
tically for hot water. but the colored
servant who answered the bell held up
her hands in dismay and exclaimed:
"Oh, miss. you are a colored woman
now, and will never be able to get
white again"
This was too muchrfor the poor little
school teacher, and, sitting down on
her bed, she INDUCED in a good cry.
In a moment or two she happened to
catch sight of her face again in the
glass, and when she saw the white
streaks that the tears had left on her
black cheeks the absurdity of the
whole thing struck her. and she laugh
ed as heartily as she had wept before.
1t took several days before the pretty
school ma'am and her room were re-
stored to their pristine daintiness and
%neatnesS.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
She Bought the Pitcher.

In a popular downtown store a lady
upon whom suspicion had been resting
for some time was one day called to
account for her carelessness. The
proprietor walked up to her and re-
lieved the distressed attendant by say
ing: Madam, will you pay cash for
the pitcher you have under your cloak
or will you have it chargedP"
The woman's face changed color.
She looked at the proprietor with a
gathering expression of indignation.
He met her look with one of unfinch-
ing determination. Her Indignation
changed to one of recollection and
surprise. She gave a historical sort
of laugh. and said:
How very thoughtless of me! 1
did not at first know what you meant.
I was so interested in looking at the
beautiful things that l had really for
gotten that l had-had taken up the
pitcher, or to ask the price of it. I
don't care how much it is. l will take
it any way. You may charge it."
The proprietor looked at the price,
bowed. and walked away. The clerk
took the pitcher and sent it to be
wrapped up and taken to the carriage
that was in waiting for its occupant
Chicago Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
For ox.. rifx Yn...

Mrs. W1NsLow'L SOOTHING SYRUP for
children teething, is the prescription Of
N of the best female nurses and ply
sicians in the United States, and has
been usedfor over fifty years with never.
failing success by millions of mothers
for their children. During the process
Of teething its value is incalculable. It
relieves the child from pain, cures
dysentery and diarrhoa, gripping in the
bowels, and wind-colic. By giving
health to the child it rests the mother.
Price 25c. a bottle.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

The action taken by Commissioner
Garter of the general land Office in re-
lation to the cutting of timber on vacant
government land will be appreciated by
the citizens of adjacent prairie land in the
west. The important features of the
circular are as follows:
Settlers upon public lands, miners, farm
ers and other bona tide residents in either
of the states, districts OF territories named
in this act. who have not a sufficient supply
of timber on their own claims or lands for
for various uses in developing the mineral
or other natural p3(af461kxokathaaalana
owned ya.sd Or occupied fi@aRRisssd
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Michigan Forest Fires.

ALpENA, Mich, May 4.-Forest fires
are still raging in this vicinity. In AL
pena township several families have been
burned out and others have been driven
to the swamps. A high wind is raging
and much valuable timber is being de-
stroyed. There are no signs of rain and
everything is as dry as finder.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Eucklen's Arnica Salve.

The BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles.
" no payment required. It is guar
lnteed to give perfect satisfaction. or
money refunded. Price 25 cents .
box. For sale by ]. ]. Freeman
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
mo coming Of His Feet.

IN gQ0 OOmlQK OF Gu0 MOTuAH8s IA S10 WukU0e
ness OF the MOON,
In the amber glory Of the days retreat,
IN the midnight, rObed in darkness, or the
cleaning Of the moon,
listen to the coming Of His feet.
Galilee,
On the temples marble pavement, on the
street,
Worn with weight Of SORROW, faltering up the
slopes of Calvary,
The sorrow OF the coming of His feet.
Down the minister aisles of splendor, from be-
twtxt the cherubim,
Through the wondering throng, with mo-
ton strong and feet,
Sounds His victor tread, approaching with Q
music far and dim
The music of the coming of His feet.
eandaled not with sheen of silver, girded not
with woven gold,
Weighted not with shimmering gems and
odOrs sweet.
But white winged and shod with glory in the
Tabor light of old
The glory of the coming of His feet.
BE is coming. o. my spirit, with His everlast-
With lis blessedness immortal and COM
He is coming. o. my spirit, and His coming
brings release.
listen to the coming of His feet.
IN, Y, Press.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

At st. Paul, Friday night, Glover was
knocked out in the third round by
Moore.
The Pennsy vonia bituminous miners
general strike has been indefinitely de-
clared off.
The wholesale price of beef in Chicago
has been advanced about 33h per cent.
within the past month. The cause is
said to be a scarcity of good beef cattle.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

John Bernhardt, aged 10, has confessed
he killed Henry Schley at Waukeeha.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

speQ On us way.
The wind, could it have spoken, must
have carried strange stories of what it
saw and heard in its passage through the
engine-box that day. Strange ~(stories of
rough forms and gentle hearts, gruff
voices and tender words, bearded chin and
childish cheek pressed together in SYM
pathy and love.
No. s drew up on time at Antioch, $40.
A door flew open as the whistle four times
as if to say: "Here l am, mother"
A little form was lowered from the en-
CINE and went flying through the mist and
fog toward the lighted doorway. AS the
train pulled out Engineer Robinson leaned
from the window.
"Here 1 am, mother" the joyful greeting
rang out, and the engineer saw Jack go
straight into the arms opened to receive
him.
II am coming, mother" that became a
very familiar cry among the n%eighbors.
And more than one eye filled up and ran
over as little Jack Connor's voice, thrilling
and hopeful, rang out on the frosty air of
a winters morning.
One evening he was late returning from
an egrandsyp0n which his mother had sent
11&atiouds were heavy, as if they
Snow.
II knew that Jack would be
~ 6ked when he returned, so she
80 sest and went out to the wood
"Ill gather the chips" she, said, land
save him that much work."
But she had scarcely begun her task
when Jack came painting up the hill.
"Why MOTHER" he called. didn't you
know l was coming"
He expected her to lean upon him; as he
grew older the feeling grew. n he was
always disappointed if she failed to do so.
One morning she went out to her milk
ing, and a strange dog met her and sprang
upon her.
Scarcely knowing what she did she
threw the m%ilking-pail at him and scream
ed for Jack.
he came with a bound, selling a club as
he passed the wood-pile.
"Im coming, mother" Old Peter Glass
passing near heard Jacks cry and ran
down to see what was the matter. There
he stood between his mother and the fe-
rocious mad beast fiourishing his club and
bidding the dog begone.
Peter relieved the loyal little fellow by
killing the dog, which he afterward de-
clared to his wife was craving mad"
"But mad or not" he added, "it wouldn't
a hindered that boys pitching right in to
fight for his. nanny. 1t always brings
the tears to my eyes somehow when leone
in contact with that manful little chap of
Jack Connor's."
Peter Glass was not the only one whose
heart softened for Jack Connor's on.
Aye, many an eye wept and many a heart
bled for him when the little fellow ceased
to appear on the hill above the railroad
track.
Some lives there are that seem to run
amid perpetual sunshine and roses. Some
are rounded to darker lines and run always
beside the deeper abysses of tragedy.
1t was June, glad, sunshiny June, when
! Jacks mother went n morning to call
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
ENGINEER CONNOR'S SON.

Some lives there are that seem to run in
perpetual sunshine and roses. Some are
rounded to darker lives, running always
beside the deeper abysses of tragedy.
some there are who live their three
score and drop out of existence, and the
memory of them, for good or ill, ceases
with the tolling of the bell that tells their
going. And there are some. short little
lives to be sure. but so brimful of sweet
ness that the very sunshine of them lin
gers in the hearts of those who knew them
long after their little lives were ended.
When Jack Connor was promoted to the
position of engineer on the N. and G. road,
which cuts the state Of Tennessee from
north to south, he moved his family into
side with crippled Jerry Cranes, on the
hill just above the railroad track, in the lit
tie village of Antioch. For the engineer
was from home most of the time, and
Jerry being a cripple, Jack knew would
insure his OWL wife considerable company
and protection in Jerry's wife.
The houses stood side by side, and both
doors opened toward the railroad. The
village, indeed, was built so straight down
the railroad, for the train was about the
biggest thing about Antioch. FL
Jack Connor's cottage stood OH a hill so
near the track that he could speak to his
wife from his engine when she stood in
the door, as she usually did to see No. s go
by.
The trainmen were pretty we'll acquaint-
ed with the Antioch people in general, but
there was not one among them, from con-
ductor down, who did not know Jack Con-
nOr's son.
"Little Jack" they called him, and the
train never whistled for Antioch but they
would look out for the little fellow hoisted
on the wood-pile to see his fathers engine
20 by.
He seldom went further than the wood
pile; that was his mothers order, though
the brakeman and the train butcher would
sometimes try to coax him down to the
platform with apples and sticks of striped
candy. -
But he would shake his yellow curls and
throw them a kiss as the long train pulled
out.
Sometimes his mother would take him
down to speak to his father, and the little
fellow would go almost wild over the big
engine, and the glowing furnace, the great
bell changing a hasty good-by, and the
shrill whistle, which more than once he
had been permitted to quill"
"Just naturally takes to the engine" the
fireman would often say; "gets it from his
pappy."
And Jack did seem to have a natural
love for a locomotive.
Jerry Crane used to say of him:
IL can allus tell when the cyars are
coming-there's a slapbang of neighbor
Connor's d9Qs,! q click Of gaze. and insa
iffgiisaatt1gssye
lait6lnast sAl2KIsAN1ss
sea1Qofr4 liN0sEsalsealsEsaEa11ss
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

working with him he was praying. Just
for life enough to get home, they heard
him whisper. @Just long enough to get
home and die with my wife and boy"
His prayer was granted; he reached
home and the two he loved best on Gods
earth. Just before he died he reached for
his pocketbook under his pillow and hand
ed 1t to his wife.
at is all I've got, Annie" he said. 81
wish it was more, wife,"
Then he laid his hand on the little head
with its crown of yellow curls pressing his
pillow. he seemed to forget the boy was
only a baby.
sJack," he said, 81 leave your mother to
you. Take care of her, my man."
Then his mind seemed to wander; he
was on the engine n moment, the next
with his family again.
1.-THE company will do something for
you by and by, Jack" he said, aand always
remember-don't forget it, Jack-that any
that any man in time of danger may de-
sert, any man but the engineer. He must
stiek-stick-stick-to his post, Jack"
The hand on the boys head grew heavy;
the little fellow choked back his sobs and
laid one hand tenderly on his fathers
brow. The dying engineer opened his
eyes and smiled.
stick to the engine, and stand by your
mother, Jack" he whispered. The hand
on the boys head grew cold, and when
they lifted it and laid it back upon the
dead mans breast Jack turned to his
mother.
There was no childish outburst of grief;
only an awakening, as it seemed, of the
young manhood in him as he opened his
arms.
'*Here I am, mother, he said. and she I'M
deist00d.
II was then Jacks life began in earnest
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
3 SONS
! ~ ~! q! ~ !! ' Y
a neighbor would pass and

SPEAK W I'LL.
"Anv news today, Jackg'
Gathers aboard today, sir" he would
answer, or else, '"There's a bridge down
between here and Chattanooga, sir" or No.
6 will be fifteen minutes late today, sir"
He always had something to tell, and it
was mostly of the trains or the track, en-
gines or wrecks. Anything that con-
cerned the railroad was interesting to
Jack, for, aside from his admiration for
the locomotive, little Jacks father went
up and down that long steel track just
once each way every day.
he had his fathers head, the trainmen
said, but the neighbors declared he had his
mothers sunny, hopeful, helpful nature.
But one day trouble came to her door.
Engineer Conner was brought home in a
caboose. both legs mashed and an arm
gone, while his engine lay in a ruined
heap under a broken bridge just beyond
the Tennessee river.
Every man had jumped but he-freman,
brakeman, all but Jack.
"Jump, Conner, for your lifew the fire
man had called to him when the timbers
began to crack.
MREkfSaEfd.k
s ',:;
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-05

DooK. In my second lecture l shall criticize
IN defense of certain Oriental exploiters of
africa, including my friend Tippu lib, and
I'D my thlu lecture in defense of the many
explorers and Others whom Mr.. Stanley has
sat upon, and of work done by others
his.
WIN reference TO myself, Mr.. Stanley,
wneh aiJusting geography by crticizing the
hlilap<inakers, refers to me as "a person who
iiau loiioWed IN the steps of six preceding
investigators, after whom the map-makers
las one of their SINS had named great BAY
;,,a; ganylka-endeavOring to stamp as
i1ssisniIcant the work l had done, because
SsneIs mad been there before me. Yet Mr..
T Toaniey was also preceded by others-on
s ltansahyika by Burton, Spoke and Living
stone stone on Nyanza by Spoke, Grant and
EEmin' on the Albert by Baker, Carak,
f Eihin and several Others; in the dwarf and
tolest ianq by Schweinfurtl; on the upper
SEunso oy Livingstone and Cameron; on the
i''k oy Inckey and his officers = and,
sonS ca ne mas sat upon most of those per-
suns Ut treated them with contemptuous ST.
t teiice' L have persistently given honor to
S. vs. 81 VINO went before me, and, in the case
g. 1.IIahley, nave argued against all comers
tot sne precision of his prediction as to the
U u,aI w Oh Ianganyika by the Luhuga. My
S Sa carefully retained a name given by
osiiriey, as have done by names given by
VI ~ memory of all my predecessors.
&c piotest against the wholesale slaughter
u natiVes las described in Mr.. Stanley's
nook1 IN the process of travelling or work
4ns IN Africa, as being unnecessary. Ii is
t tiue lnat Mr.. Stanley writes many beau
I ! liaXlms about the African natives now.
: nus, nuoe Say tlat, because some of them are
Utmost The identical words l wrote myself
long ago. But what is the good of those
i max when we know that Mr. Stanley's
S f,.n maxim In Africa was a patent, steel,
DFeech-l0ading, quick-frlng one"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-05
LACK OF LYMPH.
Treatment May Be Impeded.
Latest Bulletins.

DR.. Keeney, Health Officer, is not at all
discouraged with the developments that
have resulted from experiments with the
Koch lymph. To the extent that these ex-
periments have permitted he thinks they
have proven much if not all that has been
claimed for the discovery. Tuberculosis is
most tenacious disease, and it ought not to
be expected that cure, or even favorable
change, can be effected in short time. The
cases under treatment have only had
week trial What serious disease is there
known to medical science that will respond
radically to SO short 4 treatment?
FredrickSOn, one OF the first to be treated,
shows marked changes and all favorable.
Inns fact alone should speak worlds for the
remedy. 1t is not at all out of reason to
suppose that If the treatment in his case
could be prolonged the disease might be PEI
manently arrested if not cured.
a serious trouble that now threatens to
interrupt further successful experimenting
with the lymph is the limited supply. just
as the treatment Of those on whom the first
trials were made is getting under way and
making all sorts of promises the supply is
about to give out. and without more no sat
isiactory trial or results can be hoped for
DR.. Reeney held a consultation with the
Mayor yesterday about sending FIR more
lymph, and there is little doubt that such
course will be pursued soon. Mayor San
derson said he hardly liked TO take snch
responsibility upon himself without some
action OF the part of the Board Of Health,
but would send for a larger supply if that
body deemed it worth while Ii is under
stood that the members OF the board do
think it best, and are anxious to prolong the
experiments TO n result.
None of Dr. Hirschfelder's patients at the
City and County Hospital were given an in-
lection yesterday, but DIR. Kerr admin
istered six milligrams TO Fredrickson,
thirteen to EdN ards. the lupus patient, and
twelve to Anthony Quinn at $40 o'clock in
the morning. Quinn is considered the best
signs Of the lymph's reaction. His bulletin
il &C follnu-s.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-05
ANOTHER GUARDIAN,
S. L. Pettingill's Trust Closed
by Judicial Order.

The petition of S. e. Pettingill of Sierra
County for appointment as guardian of his
son-in-law, George w. McWilliams, the real
estate agent recently committed to the asy-
lum for insane at AgnewS, was heard yester-
day by Judge Levy.
Several friends of the insane man ap-
peared to oppose the appointment. and testi-
mony was offered as to the condition of
McWillams' health and finances, Pettingill,
it appearing, having aroused their great dis
like by causing McWilliams' removal from
private to public asylum
Pettingil testified that his daughter (Mc-
Williams wfe) is also insane and confined
in the Napa Asylum. He knew only of
$1,000 possessed by his Snn-in-laT, believing
him to be otherwise poor.
Il. ii. Henecke when placed on the stand
stated that lie had been McWiillams' friend
for many years, and had paid taxes on his
property. He said that McWilliams owned
three lots on California street, valued re-
speciively at $500, $500 and 5000. Besides
these he possessed certain other land il Pre-
eta Valley and elsewhere, the value of
which the witness did not know.
From George Ii. Parker it was learned
that McWilliamS had shown him a bag of
gold containing 5000, which he took from q
safe-deposit vault 10 the Pacific Bank, the
witness accompanying him. Parker also
ascertained that McWilliamS has 500 more
in the-hank
At this point Judge Levy refused TO hear
any further testimony, saying that Pettin-
gill Is not entitled to letters of guardianship.
which he would award to E. ii. Henecke.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-05

Manager; A. FL. Clifford, President; II. C.
conrad, Secretary; L. Burke, Master of
Properties.
Society Personals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred W. Sharon left on Mon
day evening for their home in New York.
quite large number Of friends went over
on the boat to say bon voyage at the train.
MI and Mrs. Boyle nee Hale) are ex-
peeted here early in the spring on visit to
relatives and friends. Mrs. Boyle is
daughter of Mr.. joseph P. bale, merchant
with South American ports. Mr.. Boyle is a
brother of the Earl of Cork aud Orrerv.
Their residence is in london.
Captain and Mrs. Ward, who have been
the guests of Mrs. Hood in Sonoma for
couple OF weeks, have gone to housekeeping
county
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barroilhet of San
Mateo are at the Palace Hotel.
Mrs. Conrad Lee of Wiikesbarre, Pa, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Duncan Smith of
Judge E. W. NJ, Kinstry has been visiting
in Fresno.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Rogers of Los Angeles
nave come up for prolonged visit to this
city.
Mr.. NJ. Theodore Kearney has been pay
ing much attention to his Fresno property
of laie. The plans of his Chateau de Fresno
have been modified, and building will be
begun about the latter part OF next summer.
MIR. William BabcOck will arrive the lat
ter part OF the week from New York.
Mr.. e. c. Sessions and his daughter, Miss
Annie Sessions, left yesterday for an ex-
tended tour of the East In April they will
be joined by Mr.. George Sessions and will
travel throughout New England.
Colonel and Mrs. A c. Ellis have gone on
visit to their old home in Carson.
Mr.. George w. Meade of Sausalito has
been visiting Del Coronado.
Mrs. George H. Bryant, Miss Annie Stone
and Miss Eta Robinson are spending few
weeks with Mr. Mcintosh at Portland
Mrs. Hllman-Smith of San jose will
spend this week at Folsom, the guest of
Mrs. Captain Aull.
Mr.. r: S. Clark, after a short visit to his
uncle. Major j. B. Clark of Colusa, has re-
turned to this city.
Mrs. NJ. j. Flayin and son have gone
down to Del Coronado.
Commander John r. Bartlett of the United
States Coast Survey, with his family, is
stopping at Pasadena for a season. The
steamer of which Captain Bartlett has COM
mand is now at Mare Island and will start
for Japan about March 1st Mr.. Bartlett
will be absent some months, his family re-
naming in Pasadena in the meantime.