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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
CALIFORNIA FRUIT.
All Kinds in Big Demand Both in the East
and Eurnpe

NEW YORK, Aug 5.-The great and pop
ulous Eastern seaboard cities. as two years
ago. are depending almost entirely on Cali
fornia for fruit. except in the single item of
grapes. at present. Especially is this true
Of peaches, pears and piums. A few car
loads of peaches are coming in from Della
ware and New Jersey, but not enough
to make any visible impression on the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
SMALLPOX NEAR SAN DIEGO.
Several Cases Reported at Chula Vista, Ten
Miles Clut of Tour

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5.-Several mild cases
OF smallpox were reported to the health
officer of this city as having developed at
Cbula Vista, 10 miles east of here. A strict
quarantine will be maintained.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
ANOTHER MAN SHOT.

Evans and Sontae Fatally Wound Deputy
Sheriff Beaver.
VIsALIA, Aug. 6.-At IL O'clock this
uorninn Evans and Sontag hid In Evans
barn. shot and probably killed Oscar Bea-
yer Of Lemoore. A Deputy Sheriff Is
guarding the place for tho arrest of the
robbers
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
THEY DOUBT THE STORY.
Gilroy. People Have Very Little Faith in the

o111VJ = tUpI5 hAV6 Ftfy LlLLIe 7 attn N tn6
New Peninsuar Railroad.
GILRoY, Aug. 5.-The published accounts
OF the new peninsular railroad with Gilroy
as terminus is received here with incred-
ulity. The closing Of gaps, Pacheco pass.
surveying bubbles, etc, have so often ex-
panded and burst that only the scream Of
the locomotive steaming into the station
will convince the agnosticS
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
ACCOUNTING ECZEMA
Awful Suffering. Driven Almost Ia-
sane by Doctors. Tried Cuticura.
Relief Immediate. Entirely
Cured in 4 Months.

suffered with the dreadful eczema for over six
months during which time had consulted three
doctors and this tormen ting skim disease bad
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
HIGH WINDS In THE WEST.
Minnesota Towns Swept by a Tornado-sev.
eral Persons Injured.

MARSHALL. Minn., Aug. "a tornado
passed over the western limits of this viii
lage this morning. The house Of l. Il. Cuu-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
THE FALL RIVER MURDERS.
No Clew Yet Obtained to the Perpetrators Of
the Crime

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 5.-No POSI-
tive trace has yet been found Of the mur-
derer OF MIR. and Mrs. Andrew J. Borden,
A reward of $1,000 is offered for the arrast
and conviction of the murderer. Borden's
personal estate Is estimated at between
S175.00O and 100000.
A Miss Lizzie Borden is said to have
made Inquiries at drugstore for a certain
poison, ana this afternoon the drug clerk
was taken before Miss Borden, and be
Identified her. What transpired between
them Ia moi known
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-06
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
d. smbers Of the New Parliament Taking the
Oath Of 0finn

Oath Of Office.
LONDON, Aug. 5.-The House of Com
mons assembled at noon, proceeded to the
House of Lords and participated In the
ceremonies connected with the reading of
the commission for new Parliament.
This ceremony ended, the members of
the House returned TO their own quarters
and the work of swearing in members be-
gan. This will occupy several days.
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%tlnople. became the centre and starting place
Tor all European and tho great
Italian republics employed all their energies
to prevent the Greek feet from recovering it's
Old strength. II should be added that the
emperors who succeeded each other on
the restored throne OF Constantiaople we're
without exception men more fitted to lose than
to hold together on impoverished and OK.
hausted empire. After the decisive battle
gained by the Ottoman Sultan. Murad l.. in
front OF Adrianople In 1852 the Byzantine en-.
pire became q mere head without a body, and
there Is no doubt that the death stroke might
then have been dealt which was to be deferred
for ninety years. As we have said. the last
Paleologi sank into tho humble vassals OF the
ottoman ruler whose realm encircled them.
and the duty Of defending C~hristendom de.
VOWED on the Servians and HunGarians. who be-
them sturdily discharged 1t for $50 yoars.
The sole service rendered to civilization by
the byzantine empire during its last ninety
years OF nominal existence-and no one. OF
course. would underrate tho service-was TINT
1t acted as the custodian OF ancient literature
and art unit! Italy was ripe for the inheritance.
nj, w. III.
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The Mont Blnnc Ob.ervatory.

''"' w. ''H'''' f''''ss
1t may be remembered that NJ. Jansen. the
well-Enywn director Of the Meudon. Observa-
tory and member OF tho French Institute. who
last year made, the ascent d. Mont Blanc in
scheme for establishing an observatory there,
the snow there was no solid he'd OF rosk fo or
f9undations Of a building, conceived tho idea
IL is cG H nlstruG III gh one sr witch sG9'4 h DO kept II
I%fas '1 %alsSd d Boq %ssss'a'ls&r 81. i e "s By:
Grehulhs,, and Baron Ie ftothschild were
liberal Subscribers. and the funds thus obs
tanned we're spent IN the construction Of An OBJ
the grounds OF, the. Meudon, establishment
has aeen taken TO pieces again and sent q
taken up to the summit Of the mountain and
put together nnder tho snrervisIon Of M.
pani.sdi r. r. E E]enysISt n f II. ,onrn %Ro ,s SssS%;
Central Asia ana over the Pamiir into India,
tI n new observatory T. Of timber and is
SQUARE platform, with an iron balu.trade and
various meteorological Instruments. There
arc several rooms in each compartment OF
S = 2ry;d for tn tho ~ use: uT2n ne on" AIDE; Of the
tourists ana tier suidoss.' These rooms viii
hn provided with barrack furniture and with
thu fuel used at first being anthracite, Tho
Two stories communicate with each other ~
m' s%trsis 81 " I sta,aia! H witI a T rnpSoa '9eI sir !.
Ing access to tho room for the guides.
Ventilation Is provided for by means OF tubes.
while the windows OF the upper story, with
double framework and doubt panes Of glass.
afford vows. 10 various directions. among
otheIstoward C~hamounix, with which 1t is in
phorical rlgnals when tho atmosphere is sum-
ciently clear. All In. tlmber has u thick coat
OF frsprOof paint. and each riece Of wood is
iiunlher"d 50 rs TO facilitate TIA. obseryatory,s
being easily put together..a work which Will
lie completed by the end Of Septem her,
~ remains, OF course. 10 be seen whether tNo
building viii. rs NJ. Jansen anticipates, re-
main Ia it's place By the simple process u let
ting the plGnks which are 10 form the walls
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possessed even merchant vessels In Mr..
Oman's opinion this monopoly OF European
commerce was one OF the greatest elements In
the strength NJ the byzantine empire. He
thinks that the subsequent concession OF free
TRADE to the venetians dealt an irreparabie
blow TO it's financial resources.
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Tho next striking figure In Byzantine hiss
tory Is Leo the Isaurian. who accepted tho
crown in III. on the very owe OF q great Sara
cenic invasion OF Asia Minor which was to
eliminate In a siege OF Constantinople. They
who accept ut second or third hand Gibbons
view OF the inferiority OF the Byzantines to
the Teutonic conquerors OF the West must be
puzzled to account for the failure OF the On
meyad Caliph to take Constantinople. though
no taxed oil his resources to that end, while
one OF his lieuteIants at tho further end Of
Europe. and with only q handful Of Arabs.
wrenchcd Spain from the Visigoths and reach
ed tho heart OF France. where it required the
whole power OF tho Franks under Charles
Martel to arrest hia progress. But Constants.
nople. it may DO said. was fortified. so were
Merida. Toledo, Taragona. NarboEne. yet the
saracens took those fortresses. The truth is
that even the rabble OF Constantinop!e could
fight. az was repeatedly demonstrated and
there were no Hebrew traitors among them.
such as infested the Visigothic s%trongholds.
The Mohammedan power which fruitlessly
assaulted Constantinopls In A. ID. til was In
comparably mishtier than that to which the
city succumbed In 1853, and 1t is interesting
to consider what would have been the conse-
luences to Europe had the earlier attack sue
ceeded. The Caliph. once planted on the
western side Of tho Bosporus. would have
found before him In tho confines OF tho old
Roman empire only three considerable enc
mics. viz: the Avars In Hungary. the Lom-
bards In the valley Of the Pc. and the de-
crepit Merovingian monarchy which Pepin OF
Heristal aud his descendants had not yet
managed to regenerate. Under such circum-
stances we cannot doubt that the whole Msdi-
tsrranean world would have become MoslsIn.
and that Christianity would have ceased to
exist except. like Judaism. as the tolerated
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VIII.
Historians have agreed that tho greatest
crime ever perpetrnted against civilization was
the sackinG OF Constantinople in 1904 by the
leaders Of the Fourth Crusade. and the par
t~itioning OF tho Eastern empire among the
representatives Of Latin nations. 1t Is true
that in 1851 Michael PalcologuH. who had
made himself ruler of tho small Greek State
in Bithynia, grandiloqucntly called tho En-
pire OF NicGa. recovered possession OF Con-
stantinople. Here his descendants reigned
until l453, and to an unobservant reader tho
record OF the PaleoIogi looks like tho natural
continuation OF older byzantine history. But
the truth Is that in the interval tho byzantine
realm had undergone n fatal transformation.
As regards the external signs OF change 1t Is
obvious that tho lands subject to Michael
Paleologus were much more limited In extent
than those which had obeyed the Greek prede-
cessors of tho Latin usurpers. In Europe four
great blocks OF territory had been lost for
ever. First was a slip along the southern
slope OF the Balkans in northern Ihrace ana
Macedonia. which had fallen into tho hands
OF tho BulGarians and become completely
Slavonized. This Is the district now known to
MS as Eastern Eoumeiia. The second piece OF
d~ismemhered territory is represented by Al
bania. Third in the list OF old Byzantine lands
w shlCIluBi usN't
Greece proper, now divided between the Frank
princes OF Achaia and tho Frank Dukes Of
Athens. 1t is true that tho Taleologi retained
q considerable slice OF Peloponnesus. and were
destined to eventually encroach upon their
Frankish neighbors, Lastly must be men
toned the islands OF the !Egean, OF which a
large majority were held either by the Vene-
tian Government or by the Venetian ad-
yenturers. The great difference in respect Of
territory. however. between the empire OF 1904
and the empire Of 1861 was only one Of
the causes which crippled tho realm OF the
Paleologi. Tho whole FISCAL and administra-
tive machine OF government had been thrown
irreparably out OF gear. Then. again. the COM
mercial decline OF the empire had become ire
trievable. The Paleologi were never able to
reassert the old dominion over tho seas which
had made their predecessors the arb!ters Of
the trade OF Christendom. The Latin con-
quests threw the control OF the trade OF the
Bosporus into the hands OF tho Nenetians. h
had no desire to make ConstantinopIe their
one central msrt, but We're Just as ready to
trade through the Syrian and Egyptian ports.
From 1870. onward. Italy. rather than Constan-
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LUCAS daughter OF the GenerAl OF inc Cappa.
docisn theme. whom he carried of In spite OF
her father and seven brethren. Pursued by
the irato family. he rode them down one by
one at vantage points in the passes. but spared
their lives and was ~reconciled to them at the
intercession Of his bride. The story Is evident
ly in the same vein as the tales Of chivalry in
western Europe. most OF which. however. be-
long to a considerably later period.
between A. u. 900 and 300 art followed much
the same course as literature In the byzantine
empire. 1t was In a state of decay for the first
century and a half. and the surviving works Of
that time are often grotesquely rude. For sheer
bad drawing and bad execution nothing can
DO worse than the coins OF the seventh and
eighth centuries-a Frankish or VisiGothio
piece could scarcely be more unsightlv. Tho
few manuscripts which survive from that
period display a corresponding though not an
equal decline In art. Mosaic work. perhaps.
showed less decadence than other branches OF
decoration. but even In this field seventh and
eighth century productions are very rare.
In the ninth century everything under
went a wonderful improvement. The
old classical traditions OF painting live
again In the best manuscript illumi-
nation OF the period. Many OF these
Illuminated manuscripts might have boon ex-
ecuted In the NTH. or even In tho fourth CEN
fury. SO closely do they reproduce the old 10.
man style. 1t seems that the iconoclastic
controversy stimulated painting. Prosecuted
by the Isaurian Enperors. the art OF sacred
portraiture became supremacy respected by
tho multitude. As early also as tho middle OF
the ninth century the minor arts OF mosaic.
silver works. and jewelry were observed to he
In q finurishing condition. There is one other
point In the history Of the Byzantines in the
pt,th apfnr : u.htpl, atfapfinn A. IirnotaI Iu
our author. This is the UNIQUE CONNER
cial importance OF Constantinopls ut the
epoch. All other commerce except that OF
the empire had been swept of the seas
by tho saracen pirates in the preceding
hundred years. the only communications
between eastern and western Christendom
being Kept up under the protection Of the BY
zantino navy. The Oriental products which
found their way to Europe all passed through
the warehouses OF the Bosporns. II was East
Roman ships which transacted all the trade.
Except the few Italian ports. such as Amaln
and the new city Of Venice. no Christian tow
In the western Meditsrrsnsau seems TO have
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17

enough coal on board in the American
ports to make the return voyage. The
ship builders and engine builders on
the Tee side have notified their work
men that the works will probably be
closed in the event of the miners going
on strike. If the works are closed
it will render idle $4,000 men.
In all the cities of the Rio Grande
do Sui great opposition to the Brazil
Ian government is reported. Three
thousand men are said to be in arms at
Porto Alagre ready for action. At
Rivera, Argentina, Brazilian soldiers
are said to be committing numerous
robberies. They are supposed to have
killed several Argentines, the populact
are said to have taken up arms and
arresting the marauders. From Corr
entes, Argentine, comes word tn at tn,
provincial troops have revolted, NOR
tally wounding Commander Got ele ant
one lieutenant. The insurgents ar
encamped outside the city.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17
A Grateful Alligator.

There is an old man who lives not a
dozen miles from Jacksonville, on the
st. Johns river, who has what might
be called an alligator farm, says the
Florida Times-Union. He owns
tract of about twelve or thirteen acres,
and in one part is low, marshy place,
which, in wet weather, is filed with
water. A ditch connects this with
the river.
One spring day the owner of the
farm while walking near the swamp
heard crashing sound in the marsh
grass, and looking over to the center
saw large alligator moving around.
He stood still and watched the sauri-
an, and discovered that it was throw
ing up mound of mud and grass.
After time, when the heap had as
sumed shape not unlike that of
hut such the Esquimaux are pictur-
ed as living in, the alligator lay on
top. The farmer came to the conclu-
sion that she was laying hereggs, and,
not wishing to disturb her, left.
The next day he visited the place
again, and saw that the mound had
been firmly bedded all around, while
the old 'gaton lay summing herself on a
log. Each day he visited the place
and carried food to the old one in the
shape of fish and meat, and as the
time went on she got so tame that on
a certain hour she was on the lookout
and came crawling up to be fed.
One morning he was startled by
loud believing in the direction Of the
swamp, and Fastening over found
things in high state of excitement.
There, lying in pool of water, was
the old mother, surrounded by num-
erous little alligators, some of which
climbed upon her back and then slid
off. seeming to enjoy the fun inn
mensely. AT the slight of her friend
a bright light beamed in her eyes,
and, after receiving a few caresses,
she started off toward the river, fol-
lowed by her young.
Every spring after that the owner
of the place has watched for the old
gator, which has never failed to show
up and each year build a new mound
and raise her young.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17

cy with electricity which has ended
with him being its master; Andrew
Carnegie was telegrapher; Charles
Pratt, whom have mentioned above,
and who did more to help young men
to acquire trades than any man whom
can mention, started in life as a
machinist; Judge Daniels, Of the SUI
preme Court of the State of New
York, was a shoemaker; William r.
Grace, who was Mayor Of New York,
and who is worth some twenty mill
ion dollars, was butcher; the late
George Jones, who, as editor OF the
New York Times, was one of the
most powerful men Of his day, was q
printers "devil," in the same office
with Horace Greeley when both were
boys; Jay Gould, the great flnancier,
was first tanner and then survey.
or; DIR. John r. Paxton, ID. D., who
breaches to the wealthiest congrega-
ton in the world. began life as car
penter; Philip Armour, the Chicago
millionaire, was moulder; the late
John Kelly, the famous politician,
was CRATE seller; John ID. Rockefel-
Ter, now worth 1925, 600, 900 was a
mechanic in iron; Rev. Robert Col
lyer, ID. d., was blacksmith; John
A. Mackay, was stone-mason before
he became the owner of the Comstock
Lode, and one of the richest men in
the world; Jesse Seligman, the emf
nent banker and philanthropist, laid
the foundation of his fortune by
studying in the very poor night trade
schools that existed when he was
young; United States Senator Hill
Of New York, was printer; the late
Henry w. Grady, the greatest orator
the South has given us since the days
of Calhoun, was also printer. And
so it goes. could give scores Of
other names of other men who were
mechanics, or were skilled in trades
and became great after serving faith
fully at their various tasks.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17

"Just when the stock of questions
concerning the ethics of matrimony was
running out, J" observes the Chicago News.
ssan Eastern man of science has appeared
on the scene, trundling on his wheelbar-
row another relevant topic for discus
sion. The scientist wants to know sat
what age woman may marry" and for
the sake of inducing argument he answers
his own question with the statement that
in general "a woman is wise who DELAYS
her marriage until she twenty -four or
twenty-five years of age A man should
never marry before twenty The
reasons for these opinions are many and
OF widely variant nature. The subject
has, of course, its physiological and
moral aspects, and in places it presents
arguments ramifying into questions of
political economy and the formation of
society. This advice is probably sound,
and young people who are not engaged
and don't intend to be will invariably re-
spect it. So will all young people over
the ages mentioned. But there is diff
f:ulty in that young women do not take
an active part in the fateful decision. It
is the young man that generally pro-
poses, and also disposes-so far as dates
are concerned. If he requests the hand
OF girl of twenty he will probably re-
fuse to wait five years for her. She can
take him or do without. As for girls
very much over twenty five the question
as to the time for marriage is easy"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17

The curious fact is noted by the San
Francisco Bulletin that number of
great men of sswar times" are repre-.
sentcd only in the female line of descent.
Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Jefferson
Davis has a living grandson. Neither
has Andrew johnson, Thurlow Weed nor
Horace Greeley. General Hancock's one
son lett behind him only small dauga-
ter. There is no representative of Gen.
eral SCOTS name. A singular parallel
runs betwixt two Confederate Generals
Stonewal Jackson and John Morgan
Each died before the war ended, leaving
one fair daughter. The two girls grew
up, married happily, bore each daugh
ter, and died soon after giving birth Il
q second child.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17
Running the Gauntlet.

A Companion contributor says that
when he was boy it was the custom
in some country schools for teachers
to allow pupils who cared to do so to
'run theEgauntlet" occasionally at the
Friday afternoon literary exercise. A
boy who tried to "run the gauntlet"
took his place on the teachers plat.
form and tried TO recite a piece, while
the other pupils were allowed to do
anything they could, within certain
limits, to cause him to laugh or break
down in hemidst of the recitation.
The writer well remembers one of
his own gauntlet-runnlng experiences.
The piece | haG chosen, he says, was
that fayorite of all rural schoolboy
disclaimers, "Rienzi's Address to the
Romans" My schoolmates began
making all kinds of grimaces, and
called out the most ridiculous things
about Rienzi and the Romans, as well
as about myself; but l was able to
close my ears and eyes, and to con.
tinue the recitation with imperturba-
bic gravity until came to the line.
II had a brother once, gracious
boy"
There was in the school very black.
grotesquely homely and very mis-
chleyous colored boy named Washing
ton Price.
one OF his accomplishments con-
sisted In wagging his huge ears toand
FRO like amule, while, bysome peculiar
muscular action, he could move his
scalp back and forth until his woolly
mar came clear down to his eyes.
swell, | had just said, with great
tenderness, II had q brother once, a
gracious boy" when / beheld Wash
ington Price coming down the aisle,
wagglng his ears and scalp, and say
ing:
"An' heah | come, yo' own deah,
long.iost brudder, am Use jes' ez
ez eyah was. Oh. my dear
Use come TO claps yo' Id my
brace agin."
rms was more than boy with nv
sense OF the lndicrous could bear,
and | fed to my seat, while the
school house rang with laughter.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17
Scenery on the Danube.

Every bend OF the river is the oppor-
tunity for castle, and as these were
built about thousand years ago, they
are now highly picturesque if not prac.
tical monuments. The Rhine suffers
seriously in comparison with the first five
hundred miles of the Danube, but no.
where more than in this neighborhood
for not only has the Danube ruins as
striking and extensive as those of the
sister stream, but she has more of them,
And what in our eyes adds still more TO
the charm of the Danube is the virginia.
character of its rock and forest-a rugged
grandeur not yet vulgarized by villas and
summer lodging houses in addition
the picturesque peasantry whom we see
crowding the bridges at noon, laden
with scythes, rakes and forks, stalking
like an army of rebellious rustics out into
the hay fields after their midday dinner
in the village home. The most secluded
part of the Rhine between Mainz and
Bonn has about it the flavor of being
prepared for Saturday afternoon visitors /;
Is infected with suburbanism; is pretty,
but painfully self-conscious. The Dan
ube. on the other hand, is more like a
rustic and ruddy nymph, ignorant as yet
Of her charms. She disports herself
there the average tourist does not pass /;
the Baedekers and Murrays have nothing
toeay of her many secluded hooks. It
Is only by water that her charms can be
seen to advantage, for at times her
banks are SO steep and rocky that it is
not possible to build foot-path along
the edge of the water.-Harper's Mag
azine.