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or loading grain or logging timber, and il
you stay long enough to invest a few dol
lars in the unsuTe and uncertain hope of q
glorious fortune, you will discover that the
poolroom is managed on business principles.
You can invest IN pretty nearly any Sc
curity you like in most Of these poolrooms,
from mine that exists only on paper or
horse that is going TO be pulled up to fight
that is going to be sold.
1t is so easy, for instance. for the parties
in charge TO take in hatful of dollars on the
proposition that the fight will last thirty
rounds when they have "seen" the pugifists
and You have not. 1t Is so easy for you to buy
ticket for sure winner in a horse-race
and find afterward that rank outsider has
won.
1t is so easy for you 10 plank down $40 on
an event, but so hard to get it back again if
there Is nc percentage coming to the pool
room.
The Paris mutual is one of the sure things
that catches ever so many raw novices. On
the face of it the thing looks like square
bet, but combination is always like the old
story about the three balls which have
formed from time immemorial the pawn
orokeTs coat-Of-arms-it is to l if you
get iJ out!
1t is to against the speculator in the
pooiroom, every time.
One or the peculiar circumstances about
these places is that the prom oterS are ALWAYS
ostentatiously rich and tho patrons are
always undlsguisedly poor.
The usual external signs of n poolroom
are polished brass brackets, plush curtains,
fresh paint and carved wood. Internally
there is great show of electrical apparatus,
fancy counter. a gilded cashiers desk and a
general conjuror'S mystery.
Also. the fool and his money soon part.
and the ollie Of $50 gold pieces stacked up
on pay day are not the sure property o f any
OF the payees.
The old-time phonograph game is openly
carried on In one Of the Stockton-street
houses.
II is the simplest thing In the world,
Ihere Is long blackboard. brisk young
clerk. man with n phouograph, and a
monotonous calling off of the latest quota.
lions on hypothetical mine. Ii the price
II 1t goes down and you have bet down"
you win. But in either case there is a half
dollar commission coming TO the house. III
you et."up" and the blamed thing goes
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Still a Few Left.

SPOKANE. Dec. 29.-The Great Northern
passenger train which arrived from the
East to-day ran into a large herd of ante
Iope near BiackfOot. Montana. The herd
numbered more than 100, of which seven
were killed The engine was disabled by
the collision and another engine had to be
obtained before the tain could proceed.
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;. NEW. STREET RAILWAY.
The Charter. for Extension Filed at
:: Santa Rosa.

SANTA RosA, Dec 29.-The charter Of
the Union Street Railway Company has
been fled here. The charter Tor this COM
pany provides for important extension. in
streetTailway lines in this city. A line - III
be built from Santa Rosa.to Taylor Springs
two miles southwest. of here. and another
will be constructed TO Rincon Heights: east
two miles: This will give Santa Rosa one
of the MOST complete street railway systems
In the State: A proposition to adopt cleo
:tricty as the: motive. power is being
seriously considered. and a consolidation oil
the different lines is thought TO be among
the possibilities. -
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A Human Fiend.

Los ANGELES, Dec. 29-Miss Cummings,
young lady 19 years of age, while return
ing home from a store in the western part
OF the city about O'Clock. was set upon by
tramp, dragged into the bushes and
brutally assaulted. 1t was two hours later
before she reached home in terrible condi-
tiou. Up to midnight no trace of the brute
had been found
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The Case of Briggs.

NEW YORK. Dec. 29.-The New York
Presbytery met again to-day in secret ses-
sion and continued the discussion Of the
charges against DR.. Briggs. At o'clock
the session concluded. Moderator Bliss
said that voting was not yet reached. and he
thought it possible that no conclusion would
be arrived at before SATURDAY.
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: A. Republican Supervisor.

SANTA EUz. Dee: 29.-1lhe court rejected
three:ba;nts as irregular in the contest for
the surelYisorship of B<anciforte Town.
shipiu this county. This gives A. g. Lay.
contestant, majority OF .eDe. Lay Is Re-
publican. Parsons. who was declared elected
on the face OF the returns, is Democrat.
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Caught i'm a Snows!ide.

Boise. idahc, Dec. 29.-In Lemhi County,
week ago, a number Of freight teams,
boGnd from. Salmon City to Kettle Greek,
were caHglit by a sn0wslide Albert Big
ger. ai:d e. Stein were killed. Dave Kerr
and Elmer Black caught on a treetop and
satad themselves Two horses were killed
aud, H. (leh frsight DESTROYED
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THE. OSCAR AND HATTIE.
The Schooner Case. Before the Ad.
rniraIty Court:

:" VICToRIA. Dec. 29.--The case of the Os-
ear and Hattie, charged with violation of
the modus yiyendi came up in the Admir-
alty Court to-day, Chief Justice Bigbae pre-
siding. Comm ander Johnson and Leuten-
ant Harrison of the United States steamer
Mohican testified to the arrest off Aiu
Island. They did NOT think the sehoon er
was sealing, as no seals were within 2CO
miles: The captain of the schooner pleaded
that he rad gone in for water only. The
tChief Justice promised n written Judgment
;9u a few days. but intimaied that the charge
of sealing would be dismissed. the. schooner
10 pay.the costs of prosecution.
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REDEMPTION OF BONDS.

DHGNIX, ARIZ DECEMBER z, 1s92-IN AC-
Il cordance with section OF act SO OF the Twelfth
Legislative Assembly of Arizona Territory publica-
tion is hereby made that there is in the sinking
fund created under said act S204 900, and that
will pay at my office iu Phoenix, Ariz thirty days
from the date of this notice. Territorial funding
bonds issued on June l. 1888, Nos ~ to o6u both
inclusive ana accrued interest thereon to January
q iss3 Interest ceases from and after January Z,
1898 WIN CHRISIY
DEF SOt Territorial Treasurar
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Liberty in Salt

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The Advertisers
London special says the Birmingham Salt
Union is having sculptured at Wiusford,
Cheshire. reduced copy of the statue of
Liberty for the Chicago exhibition. II will
be carved out of solid white salt and stand
Twelve feet SIX inches in height.
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HUNTING IN TOWN.

A Party of Nimrods Chase NiId
Beasts i'm Los Angeles.
Los ANGELES, Dec. ga large party
went to Elysian Park to-day to hunt lions
reported to be prowing about there. After
a hunt of several hours and finding no lions
nor trace of them the party separated.
Notwithstanding the Ill success of the
hunters, Mr.. McCrea says that the lions
and coyotes are so numerous about there
that four months ago he lost 100 pigs and
as many turkeys and hens. Himself and
neghbors have recently captured four
coyotes and five wildcats,
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A. BOYS NECK BROKEN.
Knocked Down by a Falling Tree He
Strikes on His Head.

SANTA Rosa. Dec. 29.-Bennie O'Neil,
the nine-year-old son OF prominent farmer
living near Windsor, was instantly killed
"Wednesday afternoon. His father was fell
ing big tree near the house, and the boy
was sitting on the limb OF a tree near bS.
When the tree fell down the boy was
knocked off his seat. and he struck the
ground on his head, breaking bis neck.
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ERHAPS the easiest

+ X ii A 4 > the easiest
way TO make a small
lfortune or to lose one
with the chances in
favor Of losing one-is
10 become a slave or
ehattel in one Of the
poolrooms of San Fran
cisco.
You can do as you
like. You pay your
money and you have
uour oh nipp
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A Big Initiation.

SEATTLE, Dec. 29,-Fve hundred and
forty newly elected members were installed
: in a lodge of the Ancient Order Of United
Workmen last night 1t is said this is the
largest number ever initiated at one time by
any secret order in the United States.
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When John Jacob Astor died in 1913
worth S25, 100000 he left SlO.000, 1000 more
than the richest American before him. But
in the last ten years at least two men, w.
FL. Wander bilt and the second John Jacob
Astor, have died with fortunes twice this
size. and John ID. Rockefeller Is ordinarily
estimated to he also worth $500. 100000. 1t
is estimated that there are only seven
American fortunes of over $50, ,0O0. OOO,
Huntington, Sage. William Rockefeller,
Stanford, Mrs. Green and William Astor :
six over $40, ,CO0, 600, ID. O. Mills, Armour.
Searles, Charles Crocker's estate, Henry
Hilton and the L. S. Higgins estate. or
fortunes OF over $4,000. GOO there are seven
teen
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The Rackhnne Railroad.

PANAMA, Dec. 29.-The party of Ameri-
can engineers under w. Skunk, surveying
the route for the Inter- Continental Railway,
arrived at San Jose, Costa Rica. December
%. They have been in the field since April.
1891. and expect to finish this section of the
work in six or eight months
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full aspirant for millions without work II b,

full aspirant for millions without work II be
misses 1t.
There are some funny things about all
these houses of easy coin If the visitor is
shrewd enough to notice them.
One is that all the reservations are in
favor OF the house and none In favor of the
customer. 1t is always 70 to on the con-
cern.
For instance, whatever event a man bets
on the house always gets its commission and
holds the money until it gets that commits
sion. The second is that all doubtful issues
are decided in favor of the house.
The third is this: Tha: the house gets a
commission from winner and loser, while
holding itself free to win money from both.
Merely to illustrate, there was a good
old-fashioned row between some of the
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The Use of Perfumes,

Mrs Burton Harrison In Ladies' Home Journal
Nothing is more sinned against today
than the use of scents. To the many
people 10 whom any strong odor is dis
tressing, the present reign Of scent bags in
the garments of women who frequent pub
lie places and public conveyances Is In.
tolerable.
1t is only the faintest suggestion OF a re-
fired perfume that should ever be allowed
TO hang even for moment about the be-
lodgings of weli-bred girl; and even such
a casual use of the merest Whit of the
dainty and imDalpabl essence should be
rare; to wear any redolence upon her per-
son in sachets is objectionable.
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TRAVEL CHECKED.
Falling Tinlbers Plug Up Railroad
Tunnel.

WRIGHTs STATION, Dec. 29.-About 10 40
o'clock last night, when engine 3 passed
through tunnel 2. returning from FELTON,,
eight or ten timbers dropped on the track
Immediately behind the engine, and more
seem ready to follow. The arches put in
on Tuesday night have twisted eight inches
out CT plumb and are slowly moving. All
souihbound trains are unable to get through
1t will take at least twenty-four hours be-
fore traffic can be resumed.
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dred bear fights in the mountains of South
ern Oregon. principally in the Siskiyous.
Griffin has kept a record of Trailer's
achievements and finds that he has caught
105 bears during his lifetime, including
those treed, brought to bay and run into
caves where they were shot, besides catch
ing numerous pantherg. wildcats etc.
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Randall Was Honest,

PHILADELPHIA, Dee 29--The final ac-
count Of tile estate of the late. Congressman
Samuel J. Randall shows that he left prop
eriy valued at S739, while the fees of the
undertakers and physicians who attended
him amount TO S1194.
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Judge Angellotu and were discharged. No
indictments or informations were filed.
Several suggestions and recommendations
were made to the Board of Supervisors.
The jury reported the county Offices COM
petsntly and economically conducted.
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AGENTS IN TROUBLE.
Two Insurance Men Are Charged With
ENLIGHTENMENT.

Los ANGELES. Dec pa complaint was
fled in Justice Owea's court to-day by the
manager OF the Fidelity Mutual Aid Insur-
ance Company of San Francisco, charging
one j. II. Wilson with embeZzlement. The
statement is made that Wilson, who has
been representing the company in this Sec
ion, has failed to turn in moneys collected
on premiums, and the company, being in
duty bound to protect its policy holders, has
concluded to commence criminal actions
not only against Wilson but against another
smooth agent who is also in arrears.
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A BABY'S PECULIAR DEATH.
1t Fell Out of Bed Into a Bowl OF
Water

SEATTLE, Dee. 29-The thirteen months
old baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Emile Marx was
drowned in a bowl Of water at the Arling-
ton Hotel last night. The babe was put to
sleep in couch by its mother, who stepped
into her sisters room. Returning after
midnight she found the baby dead in the
bowl. 1t had awakened and crept off the
bed, falling head first into bowl contain
ing about two gallons of water.
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up for ali to see. Ii
is a case Of abiding by
the spirit of the la W.
though the minors are
posting their money
with goblet weens out
side.
All of the pool
rooms have conspicu-
Ous n1tiPps that rhpy
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Not a Valuable Franchise.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Two bids of $500
and $1,000 were made at the auction sale of /.
the Underground Rapid Transit franchise
to-day. The bids caused much diSappoiDt-
+nent to the Rapid Transit Commissioners.
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Hall and Eitzsimmnns.

New YORK. Dec. 29.-rhe announced
date of the Ffzsimmuns- Hall battle, which
occurs before the Crescent City Athletic
Club at New Orleans. has been changed to
March from April B.
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PENNSYLVANIA Suffers Also.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29.-Produce deal
ers are combining against the Penn sylvania
Railroad, and new steamship line to carry
fruit from Florida TO this port has been
Organized
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Fourteen Cases of smaIIpox.

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 29.-Two more
smallpox cases were discovered here TO-
day. Besides these there arr fourteen cases
at the pesthOuse. most Of which came from
laborers on the Great Northern Railroad.
SDohomish and Seattle health officers vacci-
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Mrs. Cleveland Goes VISITING

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land left the city this evening for Buffalo,
where she is to pay visit to her mother.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Lamont,
Baby Ruth and a aid.
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POOLROOMS A PERIL TO OUR BOYS.
The Whole System Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.

found an unmixed evil: 1t is for the new
Board of Supervisors to eradicate 1t.
There is always hope in q community
where the old men and the middle-aged
men set an example. But let man Of mid
die age-the irrepressible age, the argu-
mentative age-gO into one OF the poolr0omS
named here and what will he see?
He will see men who might support
wives and families, il they would, lowering
around the approaches TO the Stockton
street holes and the Eilis-street dens-men
with their hair sprinkled with gray and
their mustaches or boards telling eloquently
of ''time's eternal winter" seeking to gain
the ear of boys, In view of joint investment t
in a s0-cailed game Of chance, which shall
cost the boy everything and his reputation.
in order that booksellers may reap COM
mission.
1t is q terrible but easily demonstrate
adjunct that dens of vice thrive nowhere
so much as where risk and large profits go
with loss of honor. The poolroOms of San
Francisco have been here mentioned by
name. Shall they thrive at the expense of
our boys?
There is a general likeness between the
poolroums and their methods are similar
Whatever distinctions exist are Just such
as might be expected to exist between a
small concern and large one--a boldly
conducted business and one which treads
on the narrow edge of the law.
For instance in one OF the rooms the
words mo Minors Admitted are posted
up for ali to see. IL ..------.-..... ....-....-
Is case of abiding by u...
the spirit of the law.
though the minors are "No Minors Law
posting their money
with go-betweens out Is EFaded
side. c,.,
All of the pool >
rooms have conspicu- ...''''.'s.-''.:..'''''''
Gus notices that they are regularly licensed
and have given bonds for $4,000 with the
County Clerk.
Given bonds for what?
You go into a poolroom, aud in most
cases what you see and bear is this:
You see a sort of counter, sometimes a
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NOW THE BEARS DANCE.
Death of Dog That Has Killed Hum
dred of Them.

ASHLAND, Or, Dec. 29.-Southern Oregon
hunters are just now mourning the death, Of
John Griffin's famous bear dSg old Trailer.
who died a natural death asday or two ago.
Trailer IS az the hs-o of mere than hun
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b. q. StabIer Dead.

MARYsvILLE. Dec. 29.-B G. Stabler. one
of the most promineBt horticulturists and
froit-arowers in this section Of the country.
and we'll known throughout the State. disd
at his residence near Yuba City this morn
ing
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The Three Grnces

Are represented with perfectly developed forms
beauty and health combined No dec ay ed -toothed
man or woman can be healthy. because digestion
must be imperfect Use SoZoDoNT, get healthy
teeth good digestion and = sound tody. Revive
the three Graces.
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went on. and the dol
lars were switched in.
II was like the tale
of old the vestigia
nullu retrorsum.
There was nothing
coming back-nothing
at lpast tn the visitors
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The. Leyees Safe.

SACRAMENTO. Dec. 29-The river is fall
ing slowly owing to the wind driving the
water from the overfowed lands up into the
channel
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Governor of a Desert.

TORONTO, Dec. &C. III. Royal has been
appointed lieutenant Governor Of the
Northwest Territory.
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Langtry Sinking Again.

LONDON. Dec. 29.-Mrs. Langtry is re-
ported to be again in. imminent danger of
death.
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A little something
that amounts
to a
big something.

events and issues on
elections and prizefghts Of being disinter-
ested individual or philanihrOpist.
The great idea OF the men and eallow.
jejune youths-imagjning themselves to be
men on the faith OF limited adverse ex-
perience-whO frequent poolrooms. is that
"it is only fools and horses that work.
.rhe supreme idea is to get rich and get
money without work.
The pooIroom fulfills these conditions ex-
actly. or seems to fulfill them.
You have only got to loaf around all day
listen TO the gossip Of The sporting houses
collect tips on 6gGting men and horses, or
better still. infuse silly women of sporting
tendencies with your own enthusiasm. then
take few dollars. get the straight tip and
win. OH so many hundreds of dollarsi
Many Of the young men of San Francisco
who have carried out this idea are either
working in the jutemill at San Quentin or
breaking stons at Folsom, or they are in a
fair way to do one or the other. And those
whJ are not are looking for friendly jury.
The poolroom is conducted on the simple
principle of Heads / win-talls you lose' /;
and the tails always fall to the lot of the
player. The dealer never takes any tails"
in his.
THE CALL reporter who wandered
through seven poolrooms on Wednesday
Eight and yesterday morning readily saw
the way in which the poolroom sharps reap
an easy harvest 1t was not pleasing trip,
but it was emineRtly instructive.
Billy Murphy and Johnny White were
supposed to be fighting at the hour the re-
porter dropped into the first of the pool
rooms visited on Wednesday nights
In the second round of the fight, which
had begun an hour before. the referee had
declared all bets off, but the betting in the
poOlrooms was supposed to go on and did
go on. The lambs were there to be shorn,
and shorn they were.
From time to time the results of rounds
were handed in and declared amid tl,e en-
thusiasm Of the other lambs ready for the
shear.
The betting went on.
The shearing went on.
How easy uow-consider it-fOr a man
who knows that fight is fixed" to make
money!
How verdant the greenness of man who
goes to poolroom expecting TO win any
body's money but another verdant neigh
bor'sl
The poolroom proposition is. squarely
presented, the idea Of getting money with
out working for il.
1t may be amplitied. simplifed. multiplied,
but it is the same thing.
The description of the poolrcoms would
be easy to anybody who had no interest in a
fight
Horses being ruled out there is no inter-
est. But hght is always on. That is the
logic OF the poolrooms.
At the same time money can be secretly
hazarded on anything from horses upward
or downward, from horse or man to a
mine.
II was "a great awakening" In a certain
sense, to stand in this peolroom on Stockton
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SADDLE TRANSIT : NECESSARY.
Stage Passengers Ride Horseback
TbrOispt1 r1eudne.iuO QadwoodS :;

Through rlendOcino Redwoods. :
UKIAH, Dee. 2s.-After five days ohstruc-
tion on account of swollen streams and up
rooted trees the overland stage connections
with the coast were resumed to-day. On
the Ukiab. Big River and Mendoclno route,
via the Ukiah. Boonville and Greenwood
route, seven miles Of saddle transit has been
necessary up 20 date. with promise of
through stages tomorrow.
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You have the idea that to be rich you
must speculate; that you cannot even be-
como possessed of a modest competency
without speculation.
Have you that ideap
Read this simple straightforward state
ment of a GAIL reporters rounds OF the
poolrooms of San Francisco and you will
be quit of any such silly dreams.
You have the poor mans option of OBJ
taning the certain proof OF your own wrong
by seeing another man wronged.
You can DO it any time by going into the
poolrooms at the following addresses.
which are here gFatuitousy advertised:
II ELLIS street
80 Ellis street
Is Stockton street.
15 Stockton street.
25 stockton street.
III Market street.
All you have to do is to invest your money,
the proprietOrs cannot be out of pocket,
ard they will not be slow TO inform you
that If you bet and are out of pocket in the
result YOU cannot tempt fortune for nOth-
ing, and the house has always got to receive
something in the way of commission.
This little something amounts to 6 bic
something when you figure it OUT. other
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houses and the Muir
phy-White fight win
ners and losers yes
erday morning.
Ii was open TO any
patrons Of the houses
to bet one that Mur-
nhxr uEnnIh Win twn
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The Tune Was There Ali the Same.


George had taken lessons on the; violin
for six months or more. He was saving
away on an exercise the other day, wien
his father said: +'It seems TO-. me that yeu
irro zen HepH oH LloSe eAgIc!ses ao9nt
a tune?" ....-*;
= :. II can play tunes all right enough re-:
piled George.
play one"
We'll, can all the same"
"Humpl I'd just to hear YOU"
81 can play Home, Sweet Honie,'" ex-
claimed George firing up; "and I'fl show,
you. You may n OF be in paradise while Pm
playing it," he continued, with is chin on
the instrument aud his bow poised in the
air, but this is Home. Sweet Home you're
going to hear" Anddrawing the bow with
vigorous swipe across the auivering.
strings, he played Home, Sweet II orre -
TIL tue misguided parent rushed in horror
from the house. =
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street and listen to noisy bets on an event
which had practically been already decided.
People stayed around the room to bet,
while commissions went in, and business
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No Indictments rlade

SAN RAFAEL, Dec. %. - The County
Grand Jury rendered their repor. to-day to