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BELIEVING JINNEEYEH.
A Sketch From Life Of An
Angry Cat.
HERS is THE LOVE OF EGYPT
And Her Manner Shows Unmistakabiy How
Much She Has Profted by Her
Heritage.
Written for THE MORNING CALL.

Believing Jinneeyeh sits baughtily In the
middle Of the kitchen floor and refuses to
notice me. / have knelt before her and inn
plored her to regard me with favor, but she
does not even blink her yellow eyes, and
never was Egypts sphinx more calmly i'm
perturbable than is she as she sits notion
less. gazing not at but through me and at
the wall beyond. / have offered her the
mornings cream, have brought out from
the pantry dainty baked sweet potato,
her favorite delicacy, and preferred it upon
clean china plate, but she has not deigned
to glance at either offering, and only the
slow. deliberately wrathful writhing Of the
extreme tip of her long tail betrays that she
is live cat and not terra Gotta one.
Believing Jinneeyeh ought not to be thus
naughty in her treatment Of me; not for the
world would twit her of low origin. can
respect honest worth wherever see it, but
really she should remem Der that her birth
is Of the humblest and her days upon this
earth have been altogether too few to war
rant her present severe and critical mien.
1t is only half doZ@n or so brief months
since Johnnie, the table-boy, going to
water Gray Dick. found him standing at the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-02
THE WORLDS FAIR POET.
Sketch of Miss Harriet Monroe, Autho IT
of the Columbian Ode.

Sketch of Miss Harriet Monroe, Author
of the Columbian Ode.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Miss Harriet Monroe, who has written
the ode for the opening of the Worlds Fair
al Chicago. was born in Chicago in 1864, and
is consequently about % years of age. Her
father is Henry s. Monroe, long connected
with the Chicago bar and famous for hay-
ing possessed the greatest law library west
of New York City. Mr.. Monroe spent a
lifetime in collecting this library. and is a
devout student of all branches of literature.
In this he is closely followed by his daugh-
ter, who at an early age developed literary
taste.
Miss Monroe was educated at the public
schools of Chicago. received years tuition
at the Dearborn Institute in this city and
went to the Georgetown Convent in 1877,
from which she graduated in 1879. 1t was
there that her possession of genius was first
discovered, and she was delegated to write
the graduation ode of her class.
Upon her return 10 Chicago she devoted
herself 20 the study of poetry, occasionally
contributing TO the magazines Of the coun-
try. But it was not until she was invited
to write the dedicatory ode Tor the opening
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and when Americans were few. Ramon
had determined to trick the BEAR He rode
a little way from camp and then he dis
mounted dropping his short halter rope
that he might the more easily come up
with his horse again, and taking the revolver
plunged fearlessly into the thick brush
that lined rocky gorge fOrbidding passage
to man. 1t was in that gorge the bear bad
been seen by one Of The vaquerOS only the
day before, and the man had fled for bis life.
Ramon lad not far 10 seek. Possibly the
bear knew its arch enemy and had come
upon the range bent uron his destruction.
A any rate the man heard low growl OF
rage. He saw the brush shake just ahead
of him and thpn the monster rose IN IFS
shaggy might and sat for moment glaring
upon him in anger, its red jaws drip
ping foam. BE did not finch. Anger
blazed in his brown eyes, too, but it was the
anger of the superior brute-the cool anger
that is tempered by mans reason.
For moment they glared at each other.
Then, pushing aside the thick brush as
man might, the bear started for ITS Zoe. On
IL came, aud on-closer and closer. Ramon
did not finch. He would test the new
weapon, aud the stake of success was his
life. The bear, seeing only an unarmed
man, came on. 1t was within ten feet,
eight feet, four feet, two feet Of him. Its
great shaggy paws were extended 10 grasp
him-to give him the embrace that would
snap his backbone as straw, the embrace
of death.
Then, without ffinehing. without turning
his eyes from those fierce ones that blaZed
into his own, Ramon raised the great navy
revolver, ard, aiming cooly as though at a
mark, sent ball after ball crashing into the
brute's thick skull
The bear staggered back, reeled npon its
hind legs as a drunken man reels. ard fell
heavily in the brush almost at the mans
feet, though he had leaped backward TO es
cape its death-struggle.
Then, presently, it lay quite still, and he
came up close to drive his good knife into
its beart-and, as he did il, the bear half
opened one eye and looked u on him sadly
and tearfully, as if in reproach for the IN
fair trick that ne had put upon it, aud so
reproaching him, died.
SOr n SHERIDAN
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SIZE WAS FAST.
How a Cow Was Made Prisoner In Hol-
low Tree.

How a Cow Was Made Prisoner In HoI-
low Tree.
Pendleton Tribune.
Owen Glacey of Summit missed a very
valuable COW last week, says Western
Washington paper. and spent several days
in searching for her without finding any
trace OF her whereabouts, and had about
concluded that she was stolen when one Of
the children discovered the animal not over
fifty yards from the house. She had wan
dered into hollow cedar tree, presumably
to get out Of the sun. and in pushing her
way for fifty feet into the log she passed
through space where 1t had spIintered In
falling, with the end Of the splinters headed
In her direction.
OF course. when she attempted to back
out her exit YVES effectually stopped. the
spllnters having sprung back. And there
she was as securely imprisoned as any of
our repentant sinners at Walla Wal!a
When discovered she had been there five
days, Mr.. Clancy had to cut the log In
front OF her before she could be taken out,
nothing the worse for her Imprisonment ex-
cept for her enforced fast When we state
that the cow would weigh 1900 pounds our
readers will be able to form an idea of the
size of the cedar timber lin this neck of the
woods"
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she rode with wooden saddle on Yakutsk
horss without either washing or dressing:
and at the end of this journey she be-
held the miseries of the poor lepers she
had set out to aid. To these lepers those
who are free from the disease are bitterly
cruel. for they fear the disease themselves.
When any one Is seized, be it mother or
child. father or son. they are driven some
leagues into the forest. There, in hut.
they must live alone and suffer. Only the
Oldest clothes are given them, and their
fo0o is brought TO near their huts
daily, weekly and even monthly. Small
wonder some of these poor wretches
have said death was their only friend;
and yet some live twenty years
in this semi-sayage state. One case Miss
Marsden found in this forest of mother
who persisted that a hut should be built for
her as we'll as her child, while at distance
from 1T, and in secret, this mother was
nursing her child at night. though had it
oeen known she too would have been driven
INTO the wilderness. When it became known
that Miss Marsden had come to help the
iepers a group came to her one evening and
SAT at her fire; many without fingers,
others who could not speak. One poor
wretch brought her a fish to eat.
She has collected means now to estab-
iish colony that they may be better fed
and clothed; and in Siberian nunnery she
found six nuns willing to go and purse them.
The plant she went to seek she found, but
only to discover that it does not cure,
though IL alevates the sufferingS of these
poor eper outcastS.
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region, delightng il seems in seeking dan
ger from the great brutes for Its own sake?
and do not his exploits form the theme Oh
half the wild hunters tales told about
campfires on summer evenings IN the south
country when the night hawk calls TO its
mate across the rocky canyons and the air
is full of the ripping music oil the trout
stream and the black sky is sprinkled with
the golden dust of stars?
All he is a mighty hunter, is Ramon.
For close upon forty years now his cattle
have r0amed the hills and mesas about
POtTeTO See0 lying like cup in the
mountains and with IFS outer edge forming
the apex of The roof of the southern world,
Sfl1' f0r f1T1y vessr-s-tf0Ss RSIf-wfid cattle
have fed to him, by instinct, as he rode over
his range jingling the silver on saddle ana
Bride seeking protection from the great
grizzlies that also walked the range ana
pulled down g yearling Or a two-year-old
steer now and again by way OF oreaKIast OF
dinner.
Ramon knew the habits and the haunt
of every bear upon the range-fOr this as
in the early days. before los ADeriranos
and the railroads came, ana Wnen pears
were numerous as coyotes are now upon the
billsides. He knew them all, and he knew
that il was only q question OF time when
the long warfare he had uaged upon them
would come 10 an end. There would be no
ore bears, senior.
Meanwhile he rode upon his range watch
Ing Tor signs and tracking more than one
bear to its den in the rocks.
Tell you about it? Perhaps some day |
will. just now it is of another bear L
would tell you. The greatest bear that was
ever seen on POtTero SeeO.
Ii was upon a beautiful day in October.
day when the hills were brown and bare,
and tie live oaks were sending down a
Tustling shower OF dry leaves from some
where amid their thick green coats, and
there was just hint OF coming winter In
the sunshine on the hills, that Ramon came
first upon the sign Of this great bear.
Riding out along a ridge thick with low
growing chemse brush upon bare point
he paused under a spreading oak tree to
look down upon his herds browsing peace
fully on the pOtrero below. Then the oak tree
caught his eye "CarambaP be exclaimed,
riding yet closer to it and examining
wound upon its bark high as the head Of a
man on horseback that looked as though
some giant had stood there and amused him.
self by tearing great pieces of bark from the
sturdy tree and finging them down upon
the ground in very waDt0nness.
1t was the bears mark uDon the tree, my
friend, and Ramon knew that it must have
been veritable monster that, upreared
upon its launches, had thus set its seal of
possession Of the county higher than had
any bear ever seen there before.
You do not know THIS custom OF bearsl
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THE SONS OF REST.

Statesmen may state and poets sing
The pleasures OF the man OF toll;
They say the worker is . king,
The actual monarch OF the soil;
The one through whom the world is blest,
Whose life is sweetened by his skill;
Bot prefer the Sons of Rest,
Who nevar WORK, aud never viii.
Our order Is as old as Time,
And every year but spreads its famet
Our members dwell In every cline,
And everywhere our creed's the same;
For us kind natures bounties biest
Fiji every valley. plain and hill;
And therefore we. the sons OF Rest
Have never worked aud never WILL
We hold that property Is wrong.
Save when IL happens TO be ours;
And that to us alone belong
The rigbtful wesith-creating powers,
We seorn the treadmill lives we see,
Wherever tolls battalions drfII:
They spin. and hew, and drudge: but we
Have never worked and never Will
We've labor leaders In our crew,
Who'd rather die than work a day:
And politicians not a few,
Aud orators, with much u say:
Philosophers. who talk with zest
OF ine-spun theories. until
They charm the listening Sons OF Res.
Who never worked aud never will.
Men may make laws. and gather gold,
Aud build, and legslate. and buy;
But soon they're underneath the mold
And none VIII halt to neave sigh.
While we. by Mammon uncaressed.
Count gold and greed as dross and i'll:
We glory in our creed OF Rest:
We never worked aud never VIII.
New York Sun
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The Mother Robin Wouldn't Submit.
Hartford Times

pieces on the antics and pecrliarities of
birds, will relate an incident that hap
pened last season. Near my residence is a
tree where a Mr.. aud Mrs. Robin had q
nest and family / had noticed for several
days that when Mr.. Robin came down into
the yard in quest of food Mr.. Sparrow
followed and kept quite near him. Finally.
/ saw when Mr.. Robin found nice tid-bit.
Mr.. Sparrow would run up and snatch 1t
away and fly off with it, One time he tried
his little game on Mother Robin but she
turned round and gave him a good. dressing
down. He let her alone after that, but Mr..
Robin endured the sparrow's persecution
as long as his family remained.
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KATE MARsDEN's HEROIsM.
Her Trip to Yakutsk, Russia, to Save the
Lepers.
NJ
Pail Mall Budget.

Some interesting particulars are given In
Russian journals OF Miss K. Marsden's ad-
venturous and intrepid journey into the far
distant province of Yakutsk, to seek the
plant which in India she has heard was to
be obtained in this Russian province. and
which was a specific healer of leprosy.
After arriving at Yakutsk she still bad to
journey. to long distance into the prlmeval
forest. trying on her journey to do good as
she went, By giving New Testaments and
helping the sick; but in spite OF help from
the Russian officials her journey was full of
dangers on water and land-from wild horses
and bears, adventures on raft on the River
Lena, aud danger of being taken as a
spy; for, say the Russians, none 60 to Va
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-02
PRETTY RUSSIAN Girls.
Woman and Woman's Rights
in the Cars Domain.
COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.
The Peasant Girls and How They Dress and
Work-Married Life in the Upper Glasses.
Female Doctors.
Correspondence of THE MORNING GALL
The women of Russia!

The women of Russial
How shall describe them?
They are like no other women on the
face of the globe, and still among their
millions they have types OF almost every
race of women known to man. In ST. Pc
tersburg you see the fair-haired, bue-eyed,
freckled- faced maidens from Finland
walking the streets side by side with the
red-haired girls who have been imported
thither from the Caucasus and Georgia, and
here at Moscow you see the Tartars, the
Cossacks and the Armenians mixed to-
gether with the other different types OF the
eighty provinces Of this vast empire. Along
the Volga you will meet different costumes
and different races of women at every land
ing place, and the girls Of Little Russia
wear different clothes and have different
manners from those of Great Russia and
South Russia. Here in Moscow there are
vast number of gypsies, and Russia has
the harem Of the MOhammedaD, the poly
andry of the Himalayes and all the varied
combinations of civilized love and marriage.
The pure Russians look upon ESrrisge
much as we do, and OF late years the rela-
tions Of the sexes among the upper classes
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-02

We do not know why
SCOTS Emulsion of cod-liver
oil is so useful in those simple
but varied conditions which
you know as I" having a
cough" We cannot explain
it: we only know the fact
from experience.
1t may be due to the COM
bination of tonic effects OF
cod-liver oil and the hypo-
phosphites it may be partly
due to the glycerine. There
are many effects in medical
practice the causes of which
appear to be plain, but how
those causes produce those
effects we do not know at all.
scorr & BOVINE, Chemists, r,a South sth Avenue.
Your druegis, keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of cod-liv
oil-sll druggists everywhere do. 81.
ocl ThsuTu&wy Inn sl.E.
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OF the Auditorium that she was brought
into great prominence. Last winter she
brought out her first volume of poems, en-
titled "Valerie and Other Poems," which
was received with favor by the critics.
valerie" is dramatic conception, which
Miss Monroe has been advised to have pro-
duced upon the stage. The volume was
printed by the DsVinne press, and as it
was an edition de luxe for subscribers only
1t has never reached the public. :.
The ode for the inaugural ceremonies OF
the Auditorium was designed to be set 70
music, and because Its success as a cantasa
Miss Monroe was invited TO prepare an ode
for the dedication ceremony. parts oil whlcn
could be accompanied by fitting music.
With this end in view Miss Monroe started
to write the ode last oe.ooef anu nnisned
tons. for which Professor Chadwick Of Bos-
ton has written the music, and does not ex-
coed in length 375 lines.
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my fingers down upon the neck. get the
rattlers in this way SO as 10 keep them from
biting themselves. and thereby letting the
cases out OF ten rattlesnakes will bite
themselves IL they have chance and they
are the smartest thing alive except human
beings. Once in while l get the rattiers
by smashing them in the head. but / don't
like that way for it's most dangerous and
the oil is not so good. Have l ever been
bitten? Yes, five times, and l suffered so
much the last time that all the money on
earth would not induce me to be poisoned
so again. That was four years ago and /
can feel pains from it to this day. l don't
believe any one ever fully RECEIVERS from
dose of genuine rattlesnake poison. 1t is
the most awful stuff on earth. | have seen
great big COWS die of drop Of the poison
in an hours time"
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sTRINGING sANDPEEPs.
Story That Is Truly Marvellous, II 1t
Really Be True.


Il
Really Be True.
Corr. Amador Ledger.
According to promise l send you that
sandpeep story. 1t was in Minnesota on
Mr.. Andrews farm, where | lived in 1857.
At that time / had neighbor named Reign.
Reign had shotgun that he thought was
better than any around for miles, while l
had an old kings arm, commonly called
musket. 1t was one that my grandfather
had in the war of 1912. flintlock with an
iron ramrod having head on it about FIVE
eighths of an inch in diameter. Reign was
always Dragging how well his gun would
shoot, and that he could kill more game
than any one else.
got tired hearing him brag about his gun
and his shooting. so ! asked him what his
was worth. He said SIS. | told him that
would double the amount and put mp $50
and my old kings arm against his gun that
L could shoot more game in an agreed num-
Der OF hours than he could. Reign took me
up. and tho time was set for Thursday to
settle the bet We were to start from the
house at o'clock in the morning and be at
home at in the afternoon. 10 the morning
loaded my kings arm very heavily and
started for place called Sandpeep Lake.
The lake was named on account of so mauy
sandpeeps being there. Just as got to the
lower end of the lake | saw Reign at the
upper end.
That was just what wanted. l knew IL
he fired that the sandpeeps would fly down
TO the end where was, so | secreted myself
in a good place, and II was not long before
| heard him fire and down came large
flock of sandpeeps and lit in front of me on
the sand rear the water. / took aim, say
ing TO myself, Now old kings arm, do your
duty. l fired, and to my establishment |
went one way and supposed the sandpeeps
went the other. But after getting M and
wiping the blood from my nose and face l
commenced picking up sandpeeps. and
picked up fourteen dozen and seven. which
was very good for starter.
/ commenced to load my gun, put the
powder in and, going to put the shot in.
when l found that had lost my pouch. /
started for home for more shot, when just
As | came to a rail fence ! saw fifteen wild
turkeys flying toward me. | dropped down
behind the fence aud they lit ON it about
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specific gravity. to augment its power Of
raising and sustaining a balloon, with re-
gard to the size of the balloon and the vol
ume of gas. This process is deemed likely
to supersede both the use Of the special gas
manufactured by the Yon system and that
of the condensed gas which is supplied T.
English and Italian companies. The Ger
man military balloon car also, as shown in
the illustration from the Illustrated News
of the World, is suspended from a trapeze,
which lessons its oscillation.
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LIVES ON RATTLEsNAKEs.

The Reptile Is In It's Way a Blessing to
Mankind.
Pomona Progress.
The popular idea is that rattlesnake Is
curse to mankind and of absolutely no use,
except possibly to give the male contingent
on camping and picnic parties an excuse for
providing a we'll known serpent-bite anti
dote. Andrew Akers, white-haired ex-
miner, who occasionally comes 10 town from
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us WlDgS are OF pure
white dotted with bril-
liant red spots. A
superstition exists
among some of the
handlers of bananas
that if one OF these but
terri es lights upon n
person it is an assur-
anee OF good luck.
Innumsrable varieties
of sea shells find their
way into the ban ana
punches, many of which
are priced highly by the
workman for I N q y
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MILITARY BALLO0NING.

improvements Devised by Lieutenant
of Artillery.
In Germany much attention has been
directed of late to new process of balloon
ing invented Jointly by Herr Richter.
lieutenant of artillery, and by Herr Majert.
scientific chemist, Of depriying gaa -et ihe-
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beauty. II is supposed that they get into
the punches when the latter are piled upon
the seashore preparatory to being slowed
away in the holds of the vessels.
A peculiar cruStaeean in the shape Of a
crab also hides Itself in the punches OF
bananas from Baracoa occasionally aud
makes trip 10 this city.
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One Of the natural curiosites of Asia Is
the great salt desert of Persia. 1t is many
miles in extent and is solid incvustation
of salt several feet thick.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-02

The steam printing press was invented
by Richard Hoe in 1872
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A NATURAL INCUBATOR.
Some Sen Birds That Are Not Devoid OF
Sense.

Vallejo Chronicle,
The officers and men Of the United States
cutter Rush relate marvellous tales Of
wondrons discoveries made by them during
their 1890 cruise. The feat OF which they
seem proudest WAS the discovery Of a nat
nral incubator on the sides OF the volcano
Bcgoslov. where millions of hawks, guls
and other sea birds deposit their eggs and
leave them to be Matched by volcanic heat.
Who says that birds are devoid of INTEL
ligence?
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THE BANANA BUTTERFLY.

Pretty Little PoIka-Dot Creature
With Good Name.
Washington Star.
A beautiful butterfly, with big body and
large wings, is among the insects often
found in banana ships. It's body Is almost
white. except for delicate pink tint, and