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The morning call., 1892-05-27
A LIBELER CONVICTED.

Another verdict-this time for $4,000 dam
ages-has been rendered by a jury in Lon
don, England, against the correspondent Of
a New York paper " no had transmitted to
his journal false and grossly slanderous
story about q popular actress. The CORE
spondenTs defense was that the item had
been brought to him by person who had
been in the habit of furnishing him with
news and who had thus far proved trust
worthy. He did not appear to have been
actuated by malice, but, on the other hand,
he confessed that he had taken no pains to
investigate the story before he sent it to
New York. On both sides OF the ocean the
verdict gives general satisfaction.
There are great many papers which are
conducted with utter oblivion OF the re-
spOnsibility which the possession Of press
and types involves They see an increase
OF readers in each sensational paragraph
they publish, and for the sake of that
they are willing to run the risk OF libel
suits. The other day city paper published
paragraph about a lady, with innuendos
which were most defamatory; there was
not a particle OF truth in the story told.
When called upon for his authority the edi-
tor confessed he had none and offered TO
take it all back, which. in fact. he did. But
an outrage had been committed, respect
able household had been plunged into grief,
and the libeler escaped scot free He had
accomplished his object or course the
lady's husband might have sued the fellow
for libel; but few quiet people care to drag
their family affairs into court and to subject
a lady TO the cross-eXaminatiOn of an attor-
ney.
The worst effect of these libels is that
they prejudice the public against all news
papers. and that the prejudice tells against
:hOse which are honestly conducted, and
which do not propose to become vehicles of
SANDER. Some years ago, in city far from
here, journalist had made himself con-
spieuOus by publishing libels against in
diyidualS relying on the cost and uncer-
tainty of the law for his protection against
libel suits. 1t CHANGED that in publishing
list of failures the commercial reporter Of
the paper miss ated the name of man who
had failed, giving il as James when it was
John. 1t happened that there was a James
who had not failed, and stood in no danger
Of failing. Friends Of decency Immediately
saw an opportunity Of getting eV en- with
the chronic lbeler, and they persuaded
James to bring an action for libel. Under
ordinary circumstances jury would have
found for the defendant, or awarded nOmi-
nal damages. But they looked at the case
from the standpoint of the antecedents Of
the editor, and they awarded plaintiff
$4,000 damages. The verdict did much to
clear the atmosphere Of journalism and TO
check the morbid appetite for SANDER
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Of another standard bearer, few Republi-
cans, known TO the country mainly as 'pTac-
teal politicians" have combined to per-
suade Blaine to re-enter a contest from
which he had voluntarily withdrawn
There might be conditions which would
warrant this change Of purpose, but at
present they do not exist. The party IS
practically united; it is strong, confident
and aggressive. Harrison has given four
years administration that is unassallaDle.
The Mckinley bill has worked better than
its friends expected. Both the foreign
commerce and the domestic productions OF
the country have increased. With Harrl-
son as candidate no new charges can be
sprupp. His acts have been discussed as
thew were committed, and generally ap-
proved. As a man and a President be
simply stands on rock. The friends Of
Mr. Blaine certainly cannot imagine that
Dir. Blaine can re-enter the contest at this
dav without peril to his reputation as q
man of purpose and integrity. If by any
chance he should be nominated at Mime
apOlS he will be put on the defense from
the day Of his nomination. He will be
charged With bad faith, with infrmity of
purpose. and with being the dupe Of such
practical politicians as Quay, Platt and
Clarkson. No one sees the full force Of the
position in which he would be placed clearer
than Mr.. Blaine himself He may possibly
regret his letter Of withdrawal. but he
knows that he cannot escape from its effect.
There is no reason to suppose that be re-
grets it, much less to assume that he even
thinks Of disTegarding it.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Earl Russell objects to his wife appear
ing as skirt dancer.
Elizabeth Cahy Stanton says the Worlds
Fair should be kept open on Sunday.
Frank L. Stockton will devote part Of his
Eurol can vacation TO work on play.
Senator Ransom OF North Carolina is the
best dressed and most polished gentleman
in the Senate.
Ex-Queen Natalie has drsmatized her
marital experiences. Milan figures as the
villain.
a woman, Miss Murphy. is the editor Of
Melbourne Punch, one OF the principal
comic periodicals in Australia.
Mrs. Frances HOdgson Burnett continues
TO observe in Washington the custom she
adopted while abroad OF holding informal
receptions on Sunday afternoons.
The ex-Empress Eugene goes daily to
pray in the mortuary chapel near her pres
ent home, Farnsborough Hall. Everybody
else is excluded while the priest says mass
General Y. p. Banks gives good deal OF
attention to gardening in his old age
Visitors to Watham few days ago saw
him in working clothes, busiiy planting
potatoes
Whitelaw Reid recalls the time when be
lived in the same boarding hOuse with Mr..
HOWells, who paid his board out OF a salary
OF SIS a week, while Mr.. Reid had 10 get
along on even less.
Commander Hannah Ouchterlong, the
Swedish Salvation Army officer, who has
just arrived in this country. is described as
"a keen. sharp-eyed little woman, who can
make a pretty good talk in English, but
who is a wonder in Swedish"
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GOLDEN GATE PARK.
Tue Big Lake Is Fining-A Lawn for the
Children.

Tue Big Lake Is Fnling-A Lawn for the
Children.
The children are TO have a splendid big
lawn in front of the playhouse in Golden
Gate Park. A tract Of about three acres or
more is now being plowed up for sodding
More swings have been added, and the plat
devoted to that amusement is being trimmed
and beautified in many ways. The children
are not being neglected at Golden Gate
Park.
At the conservatory alterations are going
on which, when completed, will give the
big glass building an additional wing to the
rear In front to the left, as one faces the
dollhouse, big sun dial Is being made of
flowers, plants and ferns. 1t is about 20
feet in diameter, and will contain the Ro-
man numerals for every hour in the day.
When completed the shadow on sunny days
will mark the hour. The best landscape
gardeners in the city are at work upon the
dial and it is nearing completion rapidly.
Water has been turned into the lake on
Strawberry Hill. Yesterday in some places
already the water was a foot or more deep.
When full it will hold 100000 gallons.
Just above the lake, on the summit of the
hill. Mr.. Sweeny's' handsome gift, the Pan
Drama, is undergoing construction at a
rapid rate. The tower in front is finished
and open to the public. The concrete walls
are up almost as far as they are intended to
90 and the first tier Of glass has been put
in. This will be one Of the main attractions
at the park when completed.
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Is IT TRUEP

In referring to the anomalous condition
Of affairs in California in respect to freight
rates on our railroads and the efforts OF our
merchants and farmers to obtain conces-
sions which would enable them to prose-
cute their business with success the Chi
eagO Tribune makes the following remarks;
This Is the situation which has been forced
upon the people Of California by the criminal
liberation Of Congress, and the indifference, If
not something worse, of a subservlent State
board viii ich has lent Itself to lie schemes OF The
Southern Pacific. They have allowed this gOr-
mandzing, vampire road 10 sap out the very life
of lie people Of California by charging all the
tFafBc viii BEAR" and this too On subsidized
roads built by Government money and credit
OF built cut Of tie profits of the main subsidized
track The four or five owners are already
multi milliOnaires, but the more millions they
extract from the sweat ana toll Of the suffering
people the more greedy ravenous and thirsty
they become Tor millions more Of profits. There
is 40 limit 10 their greed. The people OF Calfor.
MIA should rise as one man 10 support OF the
resolule position taken by the Traffic AssOcia-
ton, aud without regard 10 party The party
indeed, which stands in the way would deserve
10 be crushed.
Every interest in the State is sure to be-
come depressed unless the people do rise as
railroad company must cease. a people
which permits its important Offices to be
filed by the use Of money can scarcely ex-
rect TO prosper. \ local railroad company
actually subsidies steamships and other
railroads in order to have it in their power
to Cypress uS--to enrich themselves inordi-
nateIy at our expense. Was there ever
before an Intelligent community which sub
mitted TO such outrage for much length Of
time? We have had every avenue of access
TO this city ana State blocked, so that few
men could plunder us at their leisure. The
men who control US act upon the principle
that we have not the ability to right our
wrongs-that we cannot help ourselves.
They seem to think that the more money
they extort from us the more money they
will have to bestOw upon the corruptible
element in this CITY and State
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MIR. BLAINE.

In recent years the name and fame Of
James G. Blaine have not baen subjected TO
greater trial than during the past few
DAYS. Some months ago Mr.. Blaine frankly
declared that he did not desire the Re-
publican Presidential nomination this year.
Tbe letter in which be made the declara-
ton was explicit and to the point 1t was
addressed to the official head of the Repub-
lican party. and was to this extent an Off
cial act. Nothing has occurred since to
cause Mr.. Blaine to change his mind. The
marty has another candidate with whom the
masses are satisfied. The prospects Oh VIC
tory are better now than when the letter
was written. This improvement has Deen
made under the general understanding that
blaine would abide by his letter ana thas
Harrison would be the nominee. Without
any public demand for another candidate
tIian Harrison, without any apparent con-
dltions on the party 10 REQUIRE the seieell0n
The morning call., 1892-05-27
THE wORKING OF RECIPROCITY.


The summary statement Of imports and
exports Of the United States for March, now
just issued, reveals the effect Of the reel
proeity clauses of the Mckinley tariff
The exports Of domestic merchandise for
the nine months ending March 81, 1891, were
$3.50, 646. $50; but for the nine months ending
March 81, 1892, they were $685. Al. 629-an
increase of S119. 765. 099, say 20 per cent
This increase is altogether in products Of
agriculture, grain, meal, pork, meat and
provisions the exports Of these articles in
the last nine months having exceeded the
same exports in the previous nine months
by the large sum of sips. $50, 023, which rep
resents food sent from the United States TO
Spanish America and other foreign coun-
tries. But for the reciprocity clauses Of the
Mckinley act the American farmers mar
ket would have been 20 per cent less than it
has been, and he would have had to take so
much less for his products.
1t seems singular that this increase Of ex-
ports has not been offset by correspond
ing increase Of imports. But such is the
case During the nine months ending March
81, 1891 the total imp0rtations Of the United
States amounted to S61S. 1S5, 242; whereas
during the nine months ending March 81,
1892, they were only 500, coo. The
dutable list shows a falling off Of about
S103, COG, 900, while the free list shows an
increase Of S95,OOO00O Thus the effect of
| reciprocity has been merely TO transfer a
hundred millions Of imports from the dutia-
bic to the free list without increasing the
general volume OF imporlations; the coun-
try at large has gained a market for nearly
! S120,000 coo Of domestic products, without
increasing its consumption of foreign prod
uets. The fact is that the tariff which ex-
listed before the reciprocity treaties did
operate to check foreign consumption of
American products, and did not operate to
check American consumption Of foreign
products. We took as much Cuban sugar
when it paid duty as we now do when it
comes in Free But Cuba now gets Der flour
from the United States, whereas formerly it
got it from Spain.
The principal change in our import trade
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caused by reciprocity is in the articles of
food. OF the articles of food which are aG-
mitted free under the reciprocity treaties
we increased our consumption in the last
nInemonths from S1O3. 191. 643 to $3.50, 51s. 02O,
while of the articles of food which continue
to pay duty there is an apparent dmi-
mutton of consumption from $50, $50, 459 to
S27,466553 This arises simply from the
transfer Of certain articles from the dutia-
BILE to the free list. Our consumption has
probably varied but little.
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BE NOT DECEIVED.

The public need not expect any improve
ment in the affairs of this city and State
while they continue to elect old hacks to
important Offices who have betrayed us for
fifteen or twenty years past, for these men
are owned body and soul by the railroad
company. New men must be taken up. Our
old hacks will make pledges, but it will not
do 70 trust them
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ArcTIoN sALEs TODAY.

FrRxITrRE.-By Chas. Levy, at ll35 Market
ST.. 81 10 O'Clock.
FURN1TURE.-By Butterfeld q Vincent, at l35
3idley ST. at O'Clock.
FURN1ruRE-By VIM. ButterfeId, at lO4 Haisht
b.. at II O'Clock.
TuRNl4rHE.-By NJ. J. Simmons at 1Ol Eighth
ST. al II clock
PArNrIxes.-By Trey L Co., at Irving Han at
8 O'Clock ?. NJ.
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WEATHER PEFD .CTIoNs.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE !
WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN FRANCISCO, May p. lSSZJ
For Twenty-four Hours Ending Midnight.
For Northern CalIfornia-Fair but cloudy and
foggy with light rains in mountains In extreme
northern and in southeastern portions; southwest
touorthwest winds; nearly stationary temperature
For Southern Canfornia-Far, but cloudy and
foggy weather. with light rains IN mountains; south
10 west winds; nearly stationary temperature eI-
Cept cooler N Yuma.
For Oregon and Washington - lair weather;
westerly winds; stationary temperature, except
cooler In Eastern portions
Fer Nevaas-Fair, except light rains in noun
tains: brisk westerly winds; cooler.
For Utah-Fair, except preceded by showers In
northern portion; cooler.
Local Forecast.
For san Francisco-Fair but cloudy and fosgy
weather. westerly winds; nearly stationary tenn
uerature.
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DAILY CALL dncluding sundays, 50 per year Dy
All ,,os+naid. Is cents Der week. 90 cents per
calendar month. through carriers. DAILY CALL
five copies three months, SO % SUNDAY CAL i.
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.CAILand WEEKLY CALL, e 30 per year'p posi- patu'
WEEKLY CALL Is pages, 81 per year pOs'lA'u-
TIE GAIL cannot return rejected manuscripts
ror viii the editor enter into correspondence re-
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THE ARGUMENT.

Four OF five men have had the reputation.
by crooked management. Of plundering the
State Of many millions Of dollars annually.
We all realize how the affair has been man
aged, but our opponents act upon the prin-
ciple that there are enough corruptible in
stfuments here to enable them TO hold us at
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TIE CALL CALESDAR.
NOTTCEL

Any Of our patrons lc5o fail to find TIE
MORNING CALL for sale On train-50ys
Vft confer Il Idgor by notifying this office q
UGGci, naming the date and train,
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T. II. Scott, who lives at 1882 Seventeenth
street, was passing under the Mills building
yesterday morning when piece of wood
fell on his head and inflicted deep scalp
wound. He went to the Receiving Hospital
for traafmaDt
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BEAR IT IN MIND.

Were all Of Onr newspapers to work hon.
estly for the public in the contest with the
railroad company the hiring OF other rail
roads, steamships, etc, etc, to put up the
price of freight would not last very long.
The morning call., 1892-05-27

625 Montgomery street. near Clay. open until IL
o'clock p. H. BRANCH OFFICES: no Market
street near Kearny, open until l. O'Clock midnight;
$50 Hayes street, open until 9 80 O'Clock; 6O3
Iarkin street open until 80 o'clock; % Mission
street. open until o'clock P, N; and l16 Ninth
street, open until $3.50 P. N
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DANGER FOR DOUGLASS.
An Alleged Joker Sends Threatening
Letter to the Police.

HI hIIbEtU VOhVI ooHus q 4HTOdIenIng
Letter to the Police.
Chief Crowley was not at all pleased yes
terday when he received the following let
ter:
SAN FRANCISCO. May 20, 1892
To CHIEF Of Police: The first chance / have I
VIII Try my best 10 use one of the dynamite
bombs on Captain Douglass before the week is
out. You must think am crank, but you viii
get left. GEORGE
Inside the envelope were two old-fash-
Toned paper cartridges used for ancient.
muzzle-loading rifles. There was a little
piece of tape prOtruding from each side of
the bullets. These pieces Of tape were used
to tear the paper off the bullets so that the
powder could be poured into the barrel of
the rifle.
This fool joker's work, )" said Chief Crow
ley, sis becoming rather mon0tonous. If he
keeps on long enough he may excite some
crank to throw bomb"
The morning call., 1892-05-27
A Church Lunch.

From IL: 80 to 1870 to-day lunch will be
served in the chapel adjoining the Howard
Presbyterian Church on Mission street near
Third. 1t will be given by the Lewis Band
of Hone
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THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL,
sc Potter building, New ork City, isprovided with
fiotof California papers. Visitors welcome Al
VeIlisiIg rates and sample copies furnished
i K NISCH Manager.
The morning call., 1892-05-27
Kindergarten Work.

Yesterday afternoon there was an in
formal reception at the Kindergarten Train
ing School, "a Silver street. At this recep-
ton was exhibited the handiwork OF the
pupils of the school
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"KRITIKo" reads character from handwriting.
Write In Ink on unruled paper IN an undis-
guised hand. State sex. Send with 80 cents.
stamps or postal note, TO "Kritiko,D 600 Mer.
chant street, San Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-05-27

A strange brit not impossible story comes
from London to the effect that William
Henry Hurlbert, who has occasionally been
a subject OF discussion In the British House
or Commons, and against whom a warrant
has been issued on the charge of perjury
arising cut OF his defense TO a breach of
promise action, has been received as a lay
brother in the Redemptorist Monastery in
Rome. If the story be true be has ended
his search for the ingenious Wilfrid Muir
ray, who was alleged to have led him into
q labyrinth of bad deeds by wonderful imi-
tatiOn of his handwriting, so perfect, in
deed, that forgery could not be traced. 1t
was supposed that Mr. Hurbert had taken
refuge out of the reach of warrants in
Mexico. If he is in Italy the Director of
Public Prosecutions may think it worth
while to disturb the sOlemnity OF his re-
ligious duties among the Redemptorists.
Like George the Fourth. he will have good
deal to confess If permitted to remain in the
institution.
curious bit Of news Is telegraphed from
ST. Petersburg. Recently the embargo
upon the export of grain was raised at GER
tain Baltic ports, and the shippers are
awaiting buyers. But the buyers accus-
toned to transact business at these ports
have gene elsewhere, and quantities of oats
cannot find purchaser. 1t is doubtless
only question OF time. for the buyer goes
TO his best market for any commodity. The
Russian Government, with these supplies
waiting for a customer. could take adyan-
tage of the situation 10 supply the famished
districts of the empire with food. The fact
that no such action is taken may incline
many to the belief that the distress was not
as severe as has been reported.
One of the papers read before the con-
yention of editors was on women as journal
lists. The speaker declared that women ale
born reporters. implying that they have a
natural talent for gossip or the picking up
Of information. Perhaps they are not
stronger in this quality than men, but there
is no reason why woman should not make
her sphere in journalism and do brilliant
work too. 1t is not light employment. and
not always agreeable, but. as things are
managed for them, women have much
harder tasks at present In the ordinary
The morning call., 1892-05-27
rHE DAILY MoRNING CALL

FOR SALE Al
New York go BRENTANO EROS., 3 Union Square
Ctfcago .........N News stand Palmer House
N,U t7rleafis .. GALLOT & JOUBERT,
1851 Common ST.
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WHY, cannot tell you how much good Hoods
Sal sapariIla has done me-" says Mrs. Brown "It
gave me strength good appetite and made me
eel cheerful and happy"
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THE MORNING CALL
pURT,ICATTON OFFICE /:

las a larger circulation than any other
newsDaper published in San Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-05-27

- lIfs. " IIIsIVW ; oUOIIlIuG syrup
Has been used fifty years by millions of moth
eIs for their children while teething with perfect
success. 1t s0othes the child, softens the gums.
alIays pain wind collie, regulates the bowels
and is the best remedy for darrhea whether arising
from teething or other causes. For sale by drug
gists in every part OF the world. Be and ask
for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup. Twenty I'VE
rellfs a hntfIa
The morning call., 1892-05-27

Jesus Campeche of the City Of Mexico
claims TO be 154 years old.
The morning call., 1892-05-27

THE 1892 issue of Langley's San Francisco d.
rectory is now out. The public are cautioned TO
have nothing TO do with canyassers claiming to
represent the directory unless provided with the
regular printed blanks bearing the imprint of Lang
ley's San Francisco Directory, 51s Clay street.
The morning call., 1892-05-27

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs" will relieve
Bronchitis Asthma. and Throat Diseases
t,ypA mInce MES. SWANS. pa suffer strsa,.
The morning call., 1892-05-27

INFORMATION WANTED OF BEN IAp,I-s5-
i supposed 10 be on Pacific C0ast-if Twin, H. -
brother. y. T. LARSEN. Platte Center IN. y. ~
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UOOO Itching, Skin Disease, Blood Poison or
any other disease known TO human flesh thar K M
INIMENI cant permau entity cure: no charge mn
III cured by calling at our olce for proper treateut
KING LIN iMENI MEDICINE CO. NoDt0,msr,,
ave, Sau francisco; price 81 a g. ny5 In,
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GOOD HAND ON VESTS: ALSO APPRENTICES.
VI Gal Stevenson St. DyZo 81.
GERMAN OR SWEDISH GIRL FOR HOUSE
" work. Apply 112A Twenty-first st. my25 ~
ADY TO TAKE ORDERS FOR PRINTING.
IL 5l4 KeArny ST. my23 7ts
I ADY WAITER AT NEW CASINO, SIZE
IL Kearny; good wages paid. ny23 6tS
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GENUINE SPECS, EYEGLASSES $50 Up
" Next TO bakery, IS Fourth St; SUNDAYS -
Market st., in Celebrated ladies' dry-.oods st,ro
don't forget the numbers rnv9@ 2s
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pRIVATE HOME IN CONFIE FZ,r-
tina ST. 40 -
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NOTIcE-soNG AND DANCE, soc LESSON
" 1424 Greenwich st. MN r,.s
The morning call., 1892-05-27

r. MORE MOWERS FOR A COMPANY'S RANCH,
y good wages: 4 teamsters for ranch, $50 and 40
20 labOrefs city. $50 20 transfers, city, $5o;
aborers around quarry, ~ day, nsas cry ~
scraper-teamsters, $26; 8 grayet-miners, 81 a Jay
and found for British Columbia; French COOK.
small place, $40; hotel cooks $40 ana sou; 4
hotel walters $40 and $35: dishwaShers, YZoi
barber country $50 a week; boy to tend bar, @l5;
men 10 load cars in Sawmill, $50; blacksmith
sawmiII $40 aHd found. L. +. WARD q co. oYo
and 81 Clay
The morning call., 1892-05-27

60 IN FOR A DOZEN CABINET P1IT-,
GpZsCO graphs: coOred free Grst-class W.,
gnaranteed WILSON'S y kearng sf arLI " ~
The morning call., 1892-05-27

M RS.A NJ QUINN or NEW YORKHA LEASED
W store 1856 Market St, stocked If with a IarIs
carefully selected line of imported ana domestic
no Ilnnery seLL.ng az Wholesale prices. nH2l lln