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ONE OF NATURES CANTEENs.
A Quantity of Water Enclosed in . Beauti
full Sphere of Chalcsdouy.

A Quantity of Water Enclosed in . Beauti-
full Sphere of Chalcsdony.
A very remarkable curiosity occupies a
little shelf at the Geological Survey. 1t is
lump of chalcedony as big as child's fist,
white and translucent 1t is but q thin
shell, and, when held to the light, is seen
to be nearly filed with water, which flows
about as the object is turned this way and
that What makes it interesting is that the
water has undoubtedly been enclosed and
hermetically sealed in this natural recep-
tacle for thousands and thousands of years.
Probably it was there long before Moses
was born, and yet not . drop of it has evap-
grated. Originally there was cavity in
the rock, formed BY q volcanic bubble.
Water percolated into it., bringing in solu-
ton slick, which was deposited on the walls
of the little hollow in a coating of chalce-
dony. At length it would have been filled
up solid with beautiful crystals, forming
one of those 'geodes," a. they are called,
which are natures treasury -caskets, found
concealed in rocky formations where least
expected and revealing wonders of brilliant
color. Agates are made in the same
fashion. However, in this instance the
small channel by which the water flowed in
and out became closed up in some way, and
so the process stopped. After the lapse of
no one can tell how many centuries, the
stony mass containing the chalcedony
chamber with its liquid contents was
broken open and it fell out, being loose.
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what he's making those passes in the all
| for, with his hands. 1 seem to be the OBJ
| ject of them. Can he be trying to mesmer.
fze me? I don't quite like it. There's
something uncanny about it. ;"
The Colonel muttered to himself, SIT has
an effect on him, I can see it myself
That's enough for one time, reckon. He's
not very solid. yet, I suppose, and might
disintegrate him. I'll just put a sly ques-
find out what his condition is and where
he's from
He approached and said affably:
'Don't let me disturb you, Mr.. Tracy.
only want to take little glimpse of your
work. All, that's fne-that's very fine in
deed You are doing it elegantly. My
daughter will be charmed with this. May
I sit down by you?'
"Oh, do; 1 shall be glad"
SIT won't disturb you? I mean, won't
dissipate your Inspiration"
Tracy laughed, and said they were not
ethereal enough to be very easily discom-
moded.
The Colonel asked number of cautious
which seemed pretty odd and fighty to
Tracy-but the answers conveyed the in
formation desired, apparently, for the
Colonel said to himself, with mixed pride
and qualification
'1t's good job as far as I've got with it.
He's solid, solid and going to last; solid as
the real thing. It's wonderful-wonderful.
believe could petrify him."
After little he asked, warily:
"Do you prefer being here, or-or
there?" Z
ttThere? where?"
tsWhy-er-where you've been?"
Ia
house, and he answered with decision:
"Oh, here, much %
The Colonel was startled and said to him
self, s"There's no uncertain ring about that
II indicates where he's been to, poor fellow
Well, ! am satisfied now. I'm glad got
him out"
He sat thinking, and thinking, and watch
ing the brush go. At length he Said to him
self, 'Yes, it certainly seems to account for
the failure of my endesvors in poor Berke-
lev's case He went in the other direction.
Well, it's all right. He's better off, %
Sally Sellers entered from the street now,
looking her divinest, and the artist was in
troduced to her. 1t was violent case of
mutual love at first sight, though neither
party was aware of the fact. perhaps. The
Englishman made this irrelevant remark to
himself, "Perhaps he is not insane, after
all" Sally sat down and showed an inter-
est in Trscy's work, which greatly pleased
him, and benevolent forgiveness of it
which convinced him that the girls nature
was cast in large mold. Sellers was anx-
ious to report his discoveries to Hawkins,so
he took his leave, saying that if the two
ssyoung devotees of the colored muse"
thought they could manage without him he
would 20 and look after his affairs. The
artist said to himself, II think he is little
eccentric, perhaps, but that is ALL" He re-
preached himself for having injuriously
Judged man without giving him any fair
chance to show what he really was.
OF course the stranger was very soon at
his ease and chatting along comfortably.
The average American girl possesses theval-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
NEW FORMS OF DEATH
Planned by Nihilists for a Propa-
ganda of Destruction in Russia.
AN ANONYMOUS PROPHET OUT.
Ingenious Bomb Which Has Been Christened
the Cars Pancake.
DYNAMITE PREFERRED TO GLyCERINE
WRITTEN FOR THE prsrArcH.i

WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.i
The very recent Anarchist outbreak at
Xeres in Spain has been referred to both in
the cable dispatches and in the local news
paper comments as an ordinary riot devoid
of any political significance. But there is
something portentous behind 1t all. 1t has
been decided to take more active measures
to push the Anarchist movement forward,
and, strangely enough, the fields selected
for active operations are extremes, being in
fact, Russia and Spain. Three months be-
fore the outbreak at Xeres, secret instruc-
tions were issued by the leaders, and in
formation has reached New York from re-
liable sources which indicates an active
policy on their part.
Who are these leaders? The principles
of the Anarchist movement are ably repre-
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.


In
burned the e T tSe @ fg s @ %
killed out
ing
he sells Yankee sold
The latter him FOL the dead and
Gwendoin
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was well calculated to make an efficient
leader. Under the gufse ofa peasant he
penetrated into the remote poverty
stricken districts Of Xeres, where most Of
the soil 10 occupied by the vineyards Of
large territorial proprietors. Here was :
promising field for the exercise OF his skill
and suitable stage for the first act of the
drama of blood.
The peasantry of the Xeres country, hav-
ing nothing to risk except their lives, and
an almost 1nsolerable existence to escape
from, readily accepted the propaganda Of
Ramos, who utilized for his purposes fol-
lower named Zarzuelas. Zarzuelas led the
band Of infatuated peasants against the
bayonets Of the military and fell victim,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
PUNCTUATION IN TRLEGRAxs
A Funny Experience Major Pond Had
With . Chicago Newspaperman.

A Funny Experience Major Pond Had
With . Chicago Newspaperman.
Three years ago, on professional trip
with Mr.. Riley, and while my wife was with
me bound for the coast, writes Bill Nye. we
got word at Kansas City that the children
had been attacked simultaneously with scar
let fever, and so it was necessary to give up
the California trip. 49,
Our MANAGER hated to give up the tour en-
tirely, and, in order to make it more i'm
pressive, wired that was i'll, which was all
right for a manager, but would not do for
anybody else. He sent the following mes
sage. totally unpunctuated, to Eugene Field,
of Chicago,
Eugene Field, Nesos, Chicago:
Nye very i'll west of Missouri what would
You take for 10 nights with Rileyf PoND
Eugene did not seem to understand the
telegram, judge, for he wired back:
J. B. Pond. Kansas City,
also am sick west of tho Missouri, but do
not know what I would take.
EUGENE FIELD.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

Yes find the Safe Deposit Department
German National Bank, Wood street and
Sixth avenue, the most convenient place to
keep my papers and vsluabIes, its location
being so central Boxes rented At - and
upward per year. wSu.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
About Nothing.

Washington SMr.1
Manager are you kicking about?
Actor-My salary.
Manager (impressively) - Don't you
think you are making a great deal Of fuss
about nothing?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

ASKING TON,
March 8. The
true history of
Presidential nom-
nations is never
published. The
world gets tn e
ballots and the
speeches of the
National Con-
ventions, but it
never sees the
wires which are
pulled behindthe
scenes. nor hears
Of tho trades
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
For lmmedia.e In.ertion.

Chicago Tribune.l
Butcher-How much bologna sausage did
you say?
about three-quarters OF column.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

sesses an uncompromising leader of anarch-
ical thought in Bruno Willie, who has been
the handspring of the revolt against the
moderates in the German Social Democracy.
Willie is poet. He has been at the head
of the secessionists who fell away from the
Social Democracy under the conviction that
the latter was fast degenerating into vast
political machine.
Tho Leader in Spain.
Ramos is the life of the restless element
in Spain. This fiery leader, whose i'm
petuous temperament rejects all restraint,
and who, appearing at the Socialist Con-
gress in Brussels last September, as dele
gate, refused to entertain the policy of rea-
sonable agitation-seeking to force upon the
Congress plan of physical force and open
destruction resultion in his election from
the Maison du Peuple-has been selected,
IS the world has seen, to raise the red flag
in Spain. And so five weeks ago when
news Of the revolt reached these shores
Ramos was known to be its instigator. He
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
BY MARK TWAIN,
FOR THE DISPATCH

Author of Innocents Abroad" Tom Sawyer "Huckeber
Etc, Etc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
MAKING PRESIDENTS
Unwritten History of the
Wire.Working of Ma
tional Conventions.
HOW GEN. HARRISON WON,
Tom Platt's Telegram to Sherman
That New York Was for Him.
GAS PIPES BEAT BLAINE IN '76.
Garfeld's Nomination. the Result Of a
Spasm of Hero Worship.
100000 IN GOLD WON FOR BUCHANAN
500, 900 IN GOLD WON FOR BUCHANAN

rooRREsroNDENcE OF THE pIsPArcH.l
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and it was seen that this would decide the
fate of the nomination"
Poor Gas Fixtures Fixed Blaine.
f'In the meantime the Blaine strength
had fought hard against the field, and it was
all we could do to keep the forces of the
other candidates in their ranks. At one time
when the Conkling strength was wavering, a
number of the other candidates loaned him
votes to keep his strength up and to keep
them from going to Blaine, and during the
first days session we forced an adjournment,
for we saw that another ballot would result
in Blaine's nomination. We accomplished
this adjournment by a trick. We knew that
the Blaine men could outvote us on the
question of adjournment, but the man who
had charge of the convention hall was
a friend of Hayes, and it began to
grow dark jest about the time that
this ballot was to be taken. He
came to the convention hall and told the
leaders that the gas. fixtures of the hall
were all out of order, and that if they at
tempted to light them there would cer-
tainly be an explosion. The result was
next day, and that story about the gas
brought about Blaine's defeat. 1t enabled
his opponents to make combinations against
him and many of the delegates sat mp all
night, myself among the number.
Combustion With Governor Noyes.
"Hayes at this time had not much more
than the vote of Ohio. 1 called upon Gov
ernor Moves and he wanted me to throw the
Morton strength to Hayes. told him I
thought Morton could be nominated, and we
finally left with the understanding that if
the time came in the convention when it
was seen that either Morton or Hayes
could be nominated by the aid of the other
that the best man would have the votes of
the other at that time. This was private
arrangement between myself and Governor
Noyes. There was no other candidate in
cluded in it
"To return to the convention, as said,
everyone saw that the decisive moment had
arrived when asked that the Indiana dele
cation be allowed to retire and consult, and
most thought that it was to withdraw Nor
ton as candidate. As soon as the delega-
tion was alone, told them that 1 thought
the time for the withdrawing of Morton's
name had come and gave them the sub
stance of the telegram had received and of
other telegrams which had been received by
others I told them of my conversation
with Senator Morton before I left Washing
The morning call., 1892-07-08

nations with transportation companies.
It's improved processes might speedily
have been Offset by similar inventions by
its competitors. but there was no way 20
overcome the advantage the Standard vi
trust possessed through cheap transporta-
ton. 1t may be said in general way that
all the trusts are first cousins to each other.
Railroads combine TO control certain terri
tory, and most of them readily mako espe-
cial terms with a combination in another
industry which can give them large busi-
ness. A very large part of the industries
of the United States is done by combina-
ton OF corporations which readily enter
into relations with each other for mutual
advantage. The plea is that an industry
can be carried on more cbeaply by an asso-
citation controlling every department than
by small firms or companies. Possibly it
can, but who gets the benefit Of this reduced
cost? The $780, 900, 900 the Standard OIL
trust has made in 10 years for its owners
is an answer. The benefit has not been given
to the consumer, but retained for the own
ers. The two Rockefellers have, according
TO report, $500, GOO between them. 1here
are other members of the combination WHO
have put way from 100000 to S2Oooo,-
600 each. This, however. Is but one COM
DlDaNon. mere are the sugar AAuat' my
whisky trust, the coal trust. the cattle trust,
the iron and steel trust and others of minor
importance. Every trust is toe to labor.
When it has got control of the market in
which its product is sold, its aim is to re-
drce the cost of production. When mans
greed is the law which governs his relations
with his fell0wmen, an industrial despot-
ism is established as unbearable as II IT
were political 1t is these allied e0mblna-
lions, formed TO prevent competition in
various industries, which are vaguely
spoken of as the money power. The rail
roads represent no one knows how many
hundred millions of dollars. This vast capt.
tai is allied in interest with almost every
other industrial trust. A law that attacks
one is a menace to all.
The fight at the Homestead mills on
Wednesday was the natural outcome of a
combination of iron and steel Industries.
Having established the price OF their
product over given territory, movement
was made 10 reduce wages in the interest
Of the stockholders. A similar movement
may be expected of any combination when
ii has gained power to carry out its real
purposes. When competition is destroyed
and the first step of combination is to de-
stroy eompetition-the subjugation of labor
is deemed an easy task.
The morning call., 1892-07-08
DOWN wIrn THE TRUSTS

Tor some years the law-makipg power
anu the courts have been considering the
pest means 10 check the growth of trusts.
some progress has been made. and at times
the law seemed to get the better of the
hght. but the immense capital at the dis
posai OF the trusts has enabled them to pre-
serve the substance at the sacrifice of the
form. Ii court said one method was lille.
gal another would be devised. TO accomplish
the same purpose The grand object Of
trusts is TO control the market both for
lheir product and for the cost of production.
In this way they can very nearly fix their
own profits. The Standard OIL trust. for
example, has for the last fifteen wears pre-
vented any considerable sale of its product
by other oil-refners. The tools II worked
with were improved processes and eomhi-
The morning call., 1892-07-08
THE PosToFFICE LOT.

News comes from Washington to the eff
feet that Representative YoumanS Of Michi-
gan has introduced in the House resolu-
ton calling upon the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Postmaster General aud the
Attorney General for all the papers relat-
ing TO the San Francisco Postoffice site
He proposes to institute an investigation of
the matter by the House and his action is
preliminary thereto.
The opinion is general in San Francisco
that an influence pushed that purchase, in
dependent of the public. for purposes of
private gain solely. Our citizens will lock
with interest for an exposure, if there has
been corruption, no matter who the blow
strikes.
The morning call., 1892-07-08
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Whittier, it is said, has consented TO
write an ode for the opening OF the Worlds
Fair.
John Watson Foster Is the first Indiana
man to become Secretary of State and the
ninth to hold Cabinet Office
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild Of Vienna
has decided TO sell his famous racing stables
and withdraw entirely from the turf.
The Car OF Russia owns more land in his
own individual right than the area OF the
entire possessions OF the French republic.
Captain Sidney Nj. Human OF the Conev
island life-saving guard has saved 49 per-
sons IRON drowning in the last seven years.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury is an en-
thuslasuc horseman. He rides mainly TO
offset a tendency to corpulency due to a
sedentary life.
Foreign papers say that the Duchess of
Edinburgh had great difficulty in oyercom-
The morning call., 1892-07-08
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.

An evening contemporary is authority
for the statement that several members of
the executive committee of the Traffic AS
ISOLATION are convinced that il may be
necessary to name independent candidates
for the Legislature in certain districts.
These several members Of the executive
committee seems to have come TO some
what conservative conclusion. Does our
past experience with the Southern Pacific
warrant the conclusion that it will nomi-
rte in either convention a man who can be
relied upon TO do the WORK this Traffic As
soeiatiou proposes to do? Candidates may
The morning call., 1892-07-08

he pledged; in fact. candidates have been
pledged In the past; but if the candidate Is
in the employ of the company way will be
found to get around his pledges. 1t Is not
easy to write out pledge that may not be
knocked out" by approaching it from one
direction or another. What the Traffic As
ISOLATION want is Legislature composed Of
men whom the Southern Pacific would not
permit to be nominated in the convention of
The morning call., 1892-07-08

ing the opposition of her brother, the En-
peror OF Russia, TO the marriage of her
daughter, Princess Marie, 10 Prince Fer
dinand, the future King of Roumania.
The Sultan of Johore manifests much
interest in the Worlds Fair to be held at
Chicago next years, and is DESTROYS of at
tending the exhibition.
jules Verne is now engaged writing his
seventy-fourth novel. The famous French
novelist has for many years written on an
average of two books every twelve months.
The young Grand Duke of Hesse, grand
son of Queen Victoria, who recently sue
ceeded his father. celebrated the beginning
of his reign, according 10 an ancient custom,
by liberating 179 criminals.
The late DR.. William E. Knight of Phla-
dephia. a wealthy and eccentric druggist.
left q will giving all he possessed to the
oldest son OF his preceptor. The will is to
be contested by a grandniece who lived
with him.
The Hon. j. ID. Washburn, American
Minister to Switzerland, will resign his
post in September, il is stated in Worcester,
and return home. He has BEEN absent
three years and his personal business in
terests have suffered much from neglect.
The morning call., 1892-07-08

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. !
WEATHER BUREAU.
AAS FRANCISCO, July s. 1897
- !" eDty-four Hours EDdinz Midnight.
scr ofthsrn California = Fair weather: north
~ aess wanosi light changes in tempera -ure.
for southern CaIfornia-Fasr weathfr: north
81 20 southNest winds; slightly warmer.
nef oregon and Wasblu gton--Fsir weather: north
s1't "iaGsi generally warmer. exeept nearly Sta
tionarY along the coast
Nevada-Fair weather. northerIg VIM; slightly
warmer.
TOT Ntah-Eair weather. eighty er.
For saa francisco cir weather; rly winds;
nearly stationary te 81 erature.
The morning call., 1892-07-08

-, u Call Gncluang sundays, So per year by
- tpeah&la; 10 cents per week, or 65 cent per
,sienaar month. through carriers. DAILY CALL.
Ass oop'es three montls. SIS IS. sUNDhY CALL
"a psgesl 81 50 per year. postpaid Sun DAY
~ ana WEEKLY Gail 50 10 per yea postpaid.
OALl g paessi, 81 per year postpaid
-. AL cannot return reiecGed ma luscripts.
-. VIZ The esiitor enter into Correspondence re-
The morning call., 1892-07-08

49,. zonesy street. near Clay open until IL
?. \. BRANCH OFFICES: 51O Market
see :, s~r hearny. open until II O'Clock midnight;
l-f- - = street, open uatH so O'Clock; 603
49,. street. open until 80 O'Clock: IS Mission
800 $500 opsa Until o'clock r. H.; and Ninth
81 ee-' open until 80 p. NJ
The morning call., 1892-07-08

"KHITIKo" reads character from handwriting.
Write In Ink, on unrued paper. In al undis-
puiSed hand. state sex. Send win % cents,
stamps or postal note. 10 "kfltlko," eos Mer-
chant street san Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-07-08

: ~ "a STERN OFFICE or THE CALL.
os'es building, New York City. is provided with
ys,tfsi. s @ii.ornia papers. Visitors welcome Ad-
'Stes AMI sample copies furnished.
NIScH Manager.
The morning call., 1892-07-08

PATRICK MCCARTHY's ESTATE Daniel j.
Condor has written TO the Health Once ask
ing for information concerning Patrick Me
CaiIhy. The lattei's sister has received notice
OF his death, aud has heard that he was quite
wealthy.
The morning call., 1892-07-08

FOR SALE AT
S Ses Vera =. .BRENTANo BROS. Union Square
=, -, tss......ss- News Stand Palmer House
Nsa~~As. ..,.........6ALL0T & JQUBERT.
Sc,
The morning call., 1892-07-08

Baron Gustave Rothschild is a bosom
friend of the Sultan of Turkey, and is said
to have frequently procured loans for that
potentate at unusually low rates. AS re-
suit he has been invested with the Turkish
order Of the Mediidie.
The morning call., 1892-07-08
THE MORNING CALL


- : larger circulation than am other
- y spaper published IN San Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-07-08

The CoRoNER's OFFIcE.-The expenses OF
the COroner's Office for The month OF June were
Slo27 So
The morning call., 1892-07-08
PERSONALS.

p : n REWARD FOR RECOVERY OF BODY OF
p ~ Frank Horn. who was drownei Sunday
une 10, 1892. Address JOHN HORN, 1920 Laguna
. s. F. ly7 3t+
The morning call., 1892-07-08

ATTEND the closing-out sale of dry goods and
shoes AT los Fifth street.
The morning call., 1892-07-08
rRIFLE OVER COST.

Alta TRIFLE OVER COST.
The Great American Importing Tea Company
sells erocAery china glass, majOllca and tinware.
CITY STORES.
go Market St. near Sixth.
l40 Sixth ST., above Howard.
522 Kearny ST., bet. California and Sacramento
5ll Montgomery ave-, near Stockton.
l4l9 Polk ST., bet Pine and California.
zoos Fillmore st. bet. Pine and California.
306 Sixteenth ST., above Mission.
1912 Mission ST.. above Twenty first.
1873 Hayes ST., bet. Franklin and Cough.
l46 Ninth ST.. above Howard.
21S Third ST., below Howard.
1O4 Second ST, below Mission.
81 o. 80 and So Market ST., headquarters.
Jelly glasses and Mason jars sold at actual
GIVEN AWAY FREE
With our exceptionally fine New Teas and Delicious
Coffees. jY8 II