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a PETITION.

A petition is in circulation in all parts
of the country, and now in this city, ask
ing Congress to establish a bureau or de-
partment to give especial attention to
road construction and the best methods
to employ, and to stimulate the building
Of good roads. The petition is in a right
direction. Iu Europe the Governments
make road-building matter of first con-
Germ. But ours is not military Govern
ment, and hence the need for like activity
does not exist. But the reasons why our
Government should stimulate the road
building spirit are strong and numerous.
Indeed, two years ago the State Depart
ment was impressed with the wisdom of
the Federal Government doing something
in this direction. 1t accordingly had Con-
suls, Consular Agents and Ministers of
the United States, in all countries where
we are represented, collect all possible
data in their localities concerning roads
and their construction and economy. The
result Oh ILLS luSLIuCllOu Was d large VOL
ume, freely illustrated. giving US ex-
haustive information concerning high
ways in all parts of the world where we
have official representatives.
But the establishment of a Bureau of
Roads would greatly aid in pushing road
agitation to final good accomplishment.
Good country roads are the greatest
needs of the day. They involve cost of
products, values of land, time, distance,
profit, character of rural life and COM
munity prosperity. The Federal Gov
ernment can well afford to set up the de-
partment or bureau asked for. There is
material enough for it to work upon from
the beginning already in the archives of
Of the State Department. in the Patent
Office, in the National Museum and in
the literature of the day upon the subject.
Good roads the country needs moro than
it does new railways, or fairs, or desira-
bleimmigration, or almost anything else,
excepting only moral stamina in our
Legislators and officials.
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rights of the people, those rights not
enumerated in either Constitution and
therefore reserved by them, to warrant the
contention now made in San Francisco? ?
If it is reserved right to cast an indie
pendent ballot, then it has been repeatedly
violated in States where viUa Uoce vote
was required; in others where the ballot
is so indorsed as to make its identifica-
ton easy. Congress has gone so far as to
confess the right of Territorial Legisla-
ture to pass laws requiring Endorsement
OF numbers upon the ballot correspond
ing to the numbers opposite the names of
the electors on the poll-lists, thus directly
exposing how the elector voted Though
this regulation was contested in Utah, it
was upheld by the courts and by
Congress, thus making a stronger case
than the San Francisco contestant can
present.
II Is to be freely admitted that the word
"ballot' implies expression of will, or
choice, or judgment by secret method.
But as to what that method shall be the
Legislature alone possesses the authority
to declare. 1t cannot refuse to conserve
the secrecy of the ballot without consti-
tutional warrant, but under the mandate
to provide for the conduct of elections
and to protect the ballot from improper
practices, bribery and fraud, it is the
judge of the efficacy of the plans it
adopts, subject to the limitation that if
IN that judgment it invades an express
or reserved right of the voter, the courts
will protect him. Voting is a privilege,
so expressly declared in the Constitution;
it is to be exercised, therefore, upon the
terms prescribing it, and the creation of
them is committed to the Legislature.
There remains then but one other
ground upon which the claimant can
base his contention, and that is that the
uniformity and general application of
the laws required by the Constitution is
not observed in the new ballot law, mas
much as it secures secrecy of the ballot
to some citizens and denies it to others.
But this is an unsound position. 1t is
not the law which at1licts the petitioner,
but his physical misfortune. 1t is not
that any provision of the law fails in
general application, but it is fact out
side of the law which units the petitioner
from embracing the privilege fully. AS
well might the elector complain who is
paralyzed and unable to come to the
polls and insist upon the ballot box be-
ing brought to him, because the Legis-
lature had no right to prescribe regula-
tions for elections that would not fit his
individual case. uniformity" never had
any such meaning; no such strained
definition can be attached to it; nor can
the provision that "all laws of a general
nature shall have uniform operation"
be so contorted and perverted.
We do not believe the Supreme Court
will sustain the contention of the peti-
toner. Indeed, we are positive in con-
yiction that that tribunal will oust the
petitioner and affirm the legality of the
law requiring him, seeing or sightless,
to 60 inside the guard-rail of the polling
place to prepare his ballot alone or Off
cially assisted.
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PEPPERED PIGEONS.
The Pelican Gun Clubs Shooting
Tournament Yesterday.
Some Excellent Scores Made-PIgeon
Pot-Pies to Follow Roast
Turkey Dinners.

The trap-shooting tournament held at
Agricultural Park yesterday, under the
auspices of the Pelican Gun Club, was
participated in by the best local wing
shots, and also attracted quite a large
number of spectators.
The only participants from abroad were
Messrs. Z. Merrill of Stockton and Crit
tenden Robinson Of San Francisco, who
are among the best trap-shots in this
State
The judges for the day were J. o. Kane,
Les Morrison and f. NJ. Woodson, the
latter also officiating as scorer. The
weather was delightful, the air being cool
and crisp after the rain and frost, yet
warm enough for comfort. Many of the
birds were good, strong flyers, butsthe
majority were only of the ordinary quail
ity. American Association rules gov
erned the matches. The management
was excellent, and everything passed off
pleasantly.
The Pelicans had their mascot on the
grounds-a big, fat bird of the pelican
tr1be-which was staked out near the re-
treshment tent, and looked solemn and
wise.
OPENING MATCH.
The sport opened with a six-bird
match, s. so entrance, fifty per cent. to
the first, thirty to the second and twenty
to the third The scores Vvare aS fOllOIVs.
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IT is probable that the German EN-
peror is pressing his people to the point
of danger in insisting upon the passage
of the new army bill, and the imposition
of new taxes to make it effective. The
dispatches assure us that discomfort is
not concealed, and that open protest is
loud. The Emperor defends the measure
in his speech opening the Reichstag, with
the plea that the bill reduces the term of
compulsory service, and that the other
new provision relates to the training of
still younger men in the art of war. But
it is not likely that this plea will soften
the harshness of the measure which car
ries with it new taxes, though they are to
be levied upon brandy and beer. The
latter can scarcely be classed among lux
uries in Germany, and the imposition of
the tax therefore will be received as
grevious burden. The contest now to be
inaugurated in the German Parliament
will be one of exceeding interest, and
will likely develop more outspoken OPP
position to the policy of the crown than
any other measure it has promoted.
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The three moneys were divided between
those tieing on six birds.
A number of other matches were shot.
continuing until the supply of birds gave
out. The principal winners in the latter
part OF the afternoon were Wittenbrock,
Gotobed, E. Nicolaus and Frank Rub
staller, Jr.
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Weather Forecast.

Official forecast for the twenty-four hours
ending Mt midnight, November 25th:
Northern California-Fair weather, followed
by rain in the northern portion and along the
coast; southerly Winds warmer.
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G. Robinson and Z. Nicolaus divided
first and second moneys $3.50, and the
ties on IA divided third.
THIRD MATCH.
At the conclusion of the second match a
stop of an hour was made for lunch, after
which pool-shooting was resumed, the en-
TRANCE fee hni11cr 90 % Tho scornr -.-o.c.
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FAST TIME TO THE EAST.-The Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad Santa Fe route is now
IWeIve hours shorter TO Kansas City and st
Louis, and twenty-four hours shorter TO Chi
cago than formerly. Pullman Tourist Sleep
ing cars TO Chicago every day without change
personally conducted excursions every
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PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH b,
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A little SOZODONT be sure
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SECOND MATCH.

The three ties on six birds divided the
stakes.
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This was the main match of the day,
each man shooting at Is birds, entrance
s. each. The scores we're.
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The sport opened with a six-bird
match, s. so entrance, fifty per cent. to
the first, thirty to the second and twenty
to the third. The scores were as follows:
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nary Street San Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-12-04
BUYING PONIES.
Adventures i'm the Island
of TimOr.
PICNICS AND MOUNTAINEERING
The lien the Dutch Dread Turn Out to
Be Friendly Companions When
Seized Like a Nettle.
Written for THE MORNING CALL

care you game for an adventure?" said
Chipperell suddenly. stopping short in his
rapid pacing of the poop of the Cav Cor
sair, as we ran merrily before the wind from
Port Darwin, North Australia, bound for
kopang. Timor, to discharge our gang of
Solorese pearl shell divers.
l winked a solemnly affirmative reply
from my comfortable couch upon the
skylight. Adventure was all was on board
for.
1--WE will have an empty ship when We
have discharged our men at Kopang. and /
have been advised TO speculate in cargo of
ponies to run up to Singapore, instead of
going in ballast" continued "Chip."
/ smoked on in silent interest.
NOW, old man." simpered Chip, with
charming coyness, which sat upon him like
butterfly upon an elephant, when it
comes 10 handling ships I'm about as good
as the average man. but when It's question
of horses or ponies, whyi hanged il know
anything about themp'
j awaited further developments.
Now it occurred to me that if you liked
the adventure I'd hand you over our bal
ance Of 800 soveregns and send you ashore
to pick out aud buy all the ponies you think
mt for market purposes in Singapore and
give you complete charge of the business.
\ GU first get the ponies and bring them
aboard and I'll do the rest"
The idea charmed me at once, and /
readily agreed to tackle anything connected
with horses and ponies, with which | had
been more OF less familiar all my life.
We had left Port Darwin on the I'd of
MAY. IS. and on the 9th were beating up
the Rotti passage to KOpang TimOr off
which lovely little town we anchored at 5
p
Around US lay five or six Arab brigs. all
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A nUSICAL BEAR.

Mary Carter was practiciug her music and
was all alone in the house. But for some
reason she was always alone when she did
So AS soon as she struck the first note of
her exercises everybody went outdoors and
staid there regardless of the style with
which she went over the scales.
Mary was a San Francisco girl who had
gone to spend the summer with her sister.
who married a raneher that lived away up
in the mountains near the head waters of
American River. Her brother-in-law, Mr..
Matthews. was we'll to do and fixed the
little house to which he took his bride in
fine style. Things were so elegant 1t
was hard TO imagine that the place was
nearly fifty miles from civilization. When
he was buying furniture he was persuaded TO
take splendid grand piano, which in due
time Arrived at the ranch, and it was on
this that Mary was praciicing.
She did not like the idea of being alone
at first. but as she found it impossible to
persuade her sister TO stay with her she had
to make the best OF bad job.
She went over the scales carefully every
few minutes. taking a look out into the
garden TO see that her relatives did not get
too far away.
After finishing one piece, she rested
moment thinking Of what she should play
next.
Suddenly she heard a snpffling sound, aud
turning around saw a large brown bear
standing in the doorway leading to the back
part os the house. She was paraIyzed with
fear. aud could neither move from her chair
nor scream.
She saw the bear come nearer. and she
trembled like a leaf Oh. how she wished
she could faint. But she was strong girl
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CLOTHES IN ART.
A Very Difficult Problem for Portrait
Painters to Solve.
Sir H. Maxwell. NJ. p. in Blackwoed.


See in what dilemma our poor portrait
painters find themselves. Our Clothes are
now so ugly that they have to resort to all
sorts of devices to paliate their evil cut and
play pranks with light and shade to relieve
their tiresome coors. Perhaps the most
successful treatment is that adopted by Mt
Whistler in his portrait of Carlyle. in which
the canvas is kept 10 a low and limited tone
"a kind of cleaning, with no sparkle Of
bright light or vivid color-and the cloaked
figure looms like a ghostlike reflection Of
the departed sage.
1t is a mastery piece of work, yet gall
lery filed with such shadows of humanity
would be oppressive; one would look for
flashing glance, the cleaning metal the
flush of rich color in which the Venetian
masters rejOiced. AS rule, when a man
is to be painted, his clothes must be Gealt
with too. Attempts are sometimes made
rarely with success. to avoid this necessity.
The late MIR. Johnston of StratIun, who
collected large gallery of pictures, stood
for Ills portrait at st. Sebastian, in the nude,
with arrows sticking in various parts OF his
body.
One clear objection to that device is that,
inasmuch as English gentlemen are not in
tue practice OF appearing in public without
their clothes. they are not easily recognized
In that unfamiliar state. To be satisfactory
a tu represent Tue SUBJECT
thereO of as he is best known. Moreover, most
OF US would Shrink from exposing cur acalypt
Terms TO be busted daily by The diligence
OF our own hOusemaidS. The fact
Is few artists IL this climate succeed
In painting the nude; it almost invar-
ably gives an impression of the un-
dressed. Etty's groups of undraped
figures convey an unpleasant guggestion of
live bait; and. leaving out OF account the
beautiful confectionery prepared each year
bv the president of the Royal Academy and
skillful attractions like Mr.. Hackers
"SyTinx" in the exhibition OF last summer,
there has been in the annual show at Bur-
hngton House only one picture during the
past three or four years which dweils in the
memory as thoroughly satisfactory rem
dering of the nude figure. yielding at once a
poetical ideal and conscious Interpretation
Of warm palpitating flesh and blood This
was Miss Henrietta Rae's LA CigaIe" in
the exhibition OF 1891. On the whole, there
fore. for these and other reasons too obvi-
Gus to specify. it cannot be urged that the
British statesman. capitalist. squire, author
or other nobility should sit for his portrait
otherwise than fully clothed.
The morning call., 1892-12-04
AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.
What Woodchopper Found in His
Cabin on Returning Home.


a. Courtner. woodchopper on the San
joaquin about twenty miles east of here.
mas recently had reason to think that some
animal was making visits to his camp. At
one time be had procured from sherman
near By lamb, and. after killing and dress.
ing it. had hung portion of the animal to
small tree near his abn. In the morning
the carcass OF the sheep was gone, il having
been taken away plecemeal until nothing
put the sack in which 1t hung remained.
AT another time he heard his dogs bark
Ing loudly On the outside. and presently one
OF them was heard to yell Justify as il in
extreme pain. After the commotion sub
sided Courtner went outside and found one
OF his dogs lying upon the ground whining
piteonsiy and blood flowing from a dozen
gaping wounds. Courtner tried to save the
animal, but 1t was In vain, for by morning
IL had saccumbed to its severe handling.
Courtner was at bis wits end to determine
what KIND CT an animal his nightly visitant
was. Last Friday night. however, he
learned what KIND OF a beast il was whose
visits were attended with such disastrous
consequences Upon the occasion in ques-
ton Courtner had just returned from his
days work about half-Dast5 in the evening.
aud as usual flung the door of lis cabin open
and walked IN. AT the moment he did so
he was started by seeing two fiery eyes
leveled on him from corner OF the room.
Courtner thought to back out of the door
was to invite an attack. and to go forward
was surely attended with danger. The
wood chopper had an AK In hts hand, and,
the best thing under the circum-
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six-inch half-round file an old fiatiron. with
out handle, or one of the modern kind.
will answer the purpose of an anvil; pair
of steel compasses for scribing off the
width of the metal to be cut; small cop
per bit. some Humans solder. and 10 cents
worth of muriatic acid and piece of old
zine. In this case the mounting of the
gourd is the first thing to be considered
Extend your compass to half an inch.
Scribe off a line on the sheet iron, the
length that will pass around the middle
OF the gourd and leave lap of half an
inch. Puncture hole with the awl in one
end OF this band, pass it around the gourd,
and then scribe off the other hole: puneture
as before. Now cut out the scrolls for the
feet. The strips of metal can be strength
ened by folding several Ihicknesses of pe-
per. Place the strip of metal between the
paper, pulling the metal through and hold
Ing the paper in the right hand and the
metal held by the pliers in the lei hand
good deal Of the large bends of the
scrolls can be done in this way. The final
trueing and small bends are done with the
round nose pliers.
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different color. black, red and yellow, and
in each shade there are counted six aces, six
deuces. six trays, six fours, six fives and six
skies. Each piece has its own proper value
determined by the black points, which are
the tens. and by the reds, which are the
units. Thus the three black and four red
equal thirty-four.
The mum bers of players is optional. Each
one selects six pieces. The game begins by
the highest domino raised, according to its
proper value. Red is played upon red and
black upon blsck. The yeIlows are not
played upon; but If one plays q piece su-
perior In yellow point to that that it covers,
he can play again on one side or the other
OF the line until the yellow point played Is
inferior to the preceding.
The player who draws from the stock can
take but a single piece at each turn. He
cannot resort to the stock when the game Is
closed; that Is to say, when the six pieces
that carry the point demanded are already
placed. He who has closed the game may
reopen 1t. * he finds IL of interest to do so,
by moving a domino from one end of the
line to the other. The game Is won by the
one who holds the fewest pieces 10 case OF
dennite stoppage of the playing. With
an equal number of pieces. 1t belongs to the
one who stopped the game. The last piece
played expresses the points won. lift is
IS, Tor example, the game is tantamouut to
10 points.-Les Inventions Nouvelles.
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A Captive Badger.
Grass Valley Telegraph.

oraSS Nalcy Telegraph.
To-day large aud fierce badger was
brought to town and was on exhibition for
short time on lower Main street. The
animal is certainly one Of the most savage
that has been seer for some time II was
fully three feet long. of grizzly gray
color. with black and white stripes on its
head. and emitted a strong odor. Ii is a
powerfully built brute and appears capable
OF vanquishing an antagonist OF twice its
size
The animal was captured on Saturday by
ring FlBgerseu. Sweede living on the
Mayhem place, two miles east OF Glenprcok
Park. Fingersen knocked the animal sense
less by blow from an iron bar and then
confined 1t In a barrel.
Since being In Fingersen's possession
the animal has killed aad eaten large bull
dog and two ours which were unwary
enough to come within reach of its claws.
William Boodel Of Nevada City asserted
to-day that tile legs OF the badger are shorter
or one side than the other and nearly left a
finger as souvenir in endeavoring to point
out the disparity.