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OLD BACHELORS.


wishes he had brought her anyway. And ne
knows she would have liked to ride on the
donkeys, and he turns about. hal1-lntenuing
to 90 back after her. and almost falls over
a snub-nosed small boy looking wisttuily
at the donkeys and smaller girl at MS
side watching the merry-go-round win
shining eyes. He locks about for the
mother, but there does not seem TO be any
one very near them, and he says little
gruffly, want ride?"
And the boy answers promptly. Yes:
SIR but the little girl only tucks her head
down and says nothing at all.
The little one" at home would nave
done better than that. but then she is older
than this one. old josiah chuckles.
well, come on"
The boy grips his sisters hand tighter
and starts, only stopping to turn his head
lightly, as he yells, Mamma, we're a-gein'
to get ride. Whoopee"
And Josiah, looking back. sees poorly
dressed woman with baby in her arms
start up suddenly from a bench under a
tree and come toward them. Josiah halls
the donkey man and pays for ride for
the two children, and just then the mother
comes up.
'Did you thank the gentleman. Her
bert? 2"
THANK you" says the boy primly.
"And can't you say Thank you to the
gentleman. Bessie?"
"Fank co. echoes the little girl.
''Pm very much obliged to you, sir. !"
adds the mother, and poor Josiah mum bles
something, and is trying to edge off. when
the baby suddenly makes lurch at
him. with a delighted Goo, goo"
Josiah makes a grab to readjust it,
and backs precipitately into a nestful of
baby carriages, and when he has extricated
himself from them, and caught the audible
smoker OF three pert aids, he feels
very savage indeed. and is of the opinion
that women are abject fools. and ba bies-
we'll, he hasn't words to express bis ideas
of babies.
He sets off at rafting pace for the
Haight-street gate. but when he gets to
the top of little knoll, whence he can
look back on the playground and see the
boy trotting round on the donkey, waving
his hat to his mother and the baby as they
stand watching him. and as he catches a
faint strain from the band stand of his
favorite Bohemian Girl" somehow, he
does not feel so hot and uncomfortable.
and the world does not seem so out of tune
as it did moment before.
| He stands looking at it for moment.
| Then he lights cigar and goes en-. max
ing one of the crowd scrambling for the
| first car in town. lie gets footing on
| the platform, and so goes back to the
struggle and din of the clty's heart to the
| jostling a friction of his humdrum,
| practical life, the closer pressure Of the
narrowing sphere of his own self-centered
! interests.
Poor old Josiah! Good Old Josiah
| With all the making of the kindest hus-
band and father in him. and yet. behold, a
narrow, warped old bachelor. chary of
owning any interest in life beyond roast
beef and the newspaper. And this is fate.
| How sad is fate. EUNICE PERKINS.
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- f there's anybody in the world that
am genuinely sorryfor it is an old pache-
lor. - -.
=. I DO not refer to those lapdogs OF luxury
who hayetheir own establishments, with
thar trained servants, their luxurious
furnishings. their dainty bric-a-brac, their
:: womanish instincts that woaid De Jealous
: of any woman's interference in the ar
engagements of their household eHects
nor to those Pillars of clubdom to whom
the name of woman brings nothing OF
sacredness. but only food for cynlclSm OF
: banter. These are the outcome OF the
times; times which would justify the LOT
boding of the wise old Frenchman: w e
to that nation in which the young have the
:yices Of the old, and the old nave not lor-
gotten the folhes of their youth. leave
them to be legislated against oy my
politically aspiring sisters. when they shaii
have come into power
No. what I mean is the real, old
fashioned. shy old bachelor. whom fate
and hs own diffidence have rendered such.
I have one such in mind now. L saw him
The other dav, and it was the sight OF his
.raved cuffs and soled shirtfront that set
p, ito rejecting in this strain.
Poor old JOSIAH And not so dreadfully
old. either. come to think of it. Fifty-two
last birthday, l think he told me not long
ago. But bald. and shabby. and unkempt
looking. A good-hearted man. but so
afraid to let it be known that one only
dimly suspects il. Methodical to such a
degree that he assured me with the utmost
solemnity that be had always. as long
as he could remember. put his
right boot on first in the morning; that
if By any possibility-stress of excitement,
caused by fire or anything of that sort-ne
should put the left boot Oh first. he knew
he should never be able to take a step
until be had taken 'em off again and put
'em on in order. right boot first. even al tne
risk of the house falling over MS head
while be was doing 1t.
There is something ludicrously PATHETIC
in the way he clngs to the family with
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Books Received.

DOONS NC(ClVCOs
General Greene" by Francis Vinton
Green. Great Comm nders SERIES. New
York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by
the Bancroft Company.
"a Biblical Discovery. Am a Jew or
a Gentle? or the Created Origin OF the
Races" by Thomas A. Davies. New
York: George W. Dillingham;. For sale
BY the Bancroft Company.
MANY Inventions" by Rudyard Kip
ling. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
For sale by the Bancroft Company.
Suspected" by Louisa Stratenus. New
York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by
the Bancroft Company.
Looking Around" romance by A. S..
Roe. New York: George W. Dillingham;.
For sale by the Bancroft Company.
''Stories About Doctors" by J. Cordy
Jeafferson. New York: G. W. Dillingham;.
For sale by the Bancroft Company.
Rheingrafenstein," romance of the
eleventh century. bv Ritter Dandelyon.
New York: G. W. Dillingham;. For sale
by the Bancroft Company.
THE New Era. or the Coming King
dom." by DR.. Josiah Strong New York !:
The Baker & TAYLOR Company. For sale
by the Bancroft Company.
"Seralthea." by Abel NJ. Rawson. The
Authors Association, New York and San
Francisco. For sale at the bookstores.
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Quite the Reverse.

Quite the Reverse.
Ethel (rummaging in grandma's drawer)
Oh, grandma, what curious old key
this is.
Grandma-Yes. my dear: that was your
grandfathar's latchkev.
Ethel-And you keep it In memory of old
DAYS?
Grandma-No. my dear; old nights.
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x47525OO $4,973000
Standing on the books OF the
corporation at.................. $4,75S,SO7 %
2-Promissory notes secured by
first mortgages on Real Estate
within this State. the States Of
Oregon, Washington, Nevada
and the Territory OF Utah.
The actual value OF said prom
issory notes Observation-Disclosures. $3.50 0.ss4 IS
3-Miscellaneous Railroad. Cable
and Street Railway. Water and
other Corporation Bonds and
Stock Certificates pledged to
the Society for the amount Of. 1,94S,7bO 90
All said Notes, Bonds and Ger
tifcates are held and kept by
said Corporation In its own
vaults.
rual value of which is $50. 225.ooo 90
5-Other Real Estate situated in
the State of California, the
actual value OF which is....... o3,19l l
said corporati on ............ 1000 90
Cash In United States Coin and
Currency the actual value OF
which is.,,........ s40. 495 90
rot,, s3314O12S rs
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via and Greenwich. 25x1oo. $3.50; south
side Filbert, 100 west Of Fillmore. 81 :6x
1877: Is. 5000; southeast side Tehama, 275
northeast of Second. 50x75. $1,000; four lots.
each 25x100. north line Filbert, 1876 west
of Octavia; $3.50 each.
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ASS ETS.
Southern Pacific
Railroad of Cali
fornia. Northern
Railway of Cali
fornia and 8. F. and
N. Pac. Railway of
Cal. First Mortgage
Bonds, the actual
value Of which is.
3.o44.60o Miscellaneous Cable
and Street Railway,
Water, Light and
other Corporation
First Mortgage
Bonds, the actual
of which is. ..........
All of said bonds are
kept In the vaults OF
the Corporation.
$4,000 Miscellaneous Rail-
road First Mortgage
Bonds. the actual
value OF which is.
These bonds are
kept in a box in the
vaults OF and rented
from the New York
Stock Exchange Safe
Deposit Company in
New York City.
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THE BANKS SOUTH.
AttOrney-General Hart Returns From
Los Angeles.

AttOrney-General Hart Returns From
Los Angeles.
Acknowledgement w. II. II. Hart re-
turned yesterday from his trip to Southern
California, whittier he had gone to receive
the reports of the Bank Commissioners
regarding the condition Of the banks which
were forced to close during the panic last
week.
Regarding the financial situation in the
south, Mr.. Hart said: "All the State banks
iu Southern California. except three. are
solvent and have resumed business. Those
which remain closed are the Farmers Ex-
change of San Bernardino. the Riverside
Company's Bank at Riverside and the City
Bank in Los Angeles. The others are in
good shape, and all indications of anxiety
on the part of these dSpQsitOrs have dis
appeared.
cannot reopen until authority has been
received from Washington. A State bank
unjustifabiy raided by its depositors is al
ways In much better position to resume
business than national bank. The pro-
cess of examination by the authorities is
not less thorough and great deal more ex-
peditious. There is not so much red tape
involved in the process. and that is one
great advantage in being organized under
the State banking law.
1.-THE First National Bank of Los An
geles, l was informed. is to be reorganized
and its capital doubled before it will re-
open it's doors. This is one of the solid
institutions of the south. some of the
wealthiest men in that section being
among the stockholders.
1.-The fact u.s." said the Attorney-Gen-
eral, there is not enough money in the
country to transact its business. 1t will
be interesting to know what remedy Con-
gress will provide. Something must be
done My notion is that the Government
ought to issue both gold and silver certifi-
Gates against all bullion deposited in the
nati0nal treasury, and when its expenses
are in excess of its income t! a difference
should be discharged by the issue of its
own paper. This would tend to maintain
an eauil brium 10 national finances aud
check any disastrous disturbance in the
business world from which we are now
suffering"
Mr.. Hart added that the Bank Commits
soners would all be in San Francisco to-
morrow, when they would give their at
tention exclusively to the affairs of the
Pacific Bank preparatory to making their
report to him.
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4 Substantial Savings. Institution,

The Union Trust Company. occupying
temporary quarters at 22S Montgomery
street. until its new building is erected on
the lot upon which the old Hibernia Bank
building formerly stood, is regarded as one
of the most substantial saving institutions
in the oity. 1t has capital Of 81, $50. 600,
and its stockholders comprise many Of the
most prominent and wealthy men of the
State. Dividends have been declared on
term deposits at the rate Of per cent per
annum, and on ordinary deposits at the
rate Of 1-6 per cent per annup, payable
on or after July /, 1898.
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His Character for Truth Established

Ills Character TOT ruth EStaDHSHeu.
New York Press
Julge-You are called to testify to this
mans character for veracity. What do
you know about it?
"Well, your Hon or, he went fishing one
day, and when he came back he said he
hadn't caught anything and that none got
AWAY"
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STATEN EMIT

OF the condition and value OF the Assets and
Liabilities OF THE GERMAN SAVINGS AND
LOAN SOCIETY, corporation doing business at
526 California street. in the city and county OF
San Francisco, state Of California. and where
said assets situated. on July /, 1898.
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rare descriptive powers are shown at their
best The story is full of movement, too,
and lively incidents. Boston: Lee &
Shepard. For sale by William Doxey.l
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ANOTHER.

When ws present testimonials to the public
through these columns they are always genuine.
which is saying great deal. and we court the
the pains to compare. they will find that we al
done. 1t is easy thing to relieve but curing is
another matter:
The following will speak for itself:
SACRAMENTO. Cal Juno "a. 1898.
AZTEC CATARRH CURE CO., San Francisco
Gentlemen: wish to inform you that my unbe-
lief isa thing Of the past and beg your pardon for
doubling you.
Last April called at your office. and after an
hours argument. gave you an order for your cure.
l used 1t faithfully for nearly month before
seeing any change for the better. but from that
time my progress WINS rapid.
Tho roaring in my ears ceased, my eyes grew
stronger. the. dropping in my throat and the run
ming from my nose stopped and gradually ceased
taxing the cure. having finally stopped taking
June 10. and from that day have NOT had single
sign OF catarrh.
My hearing is good, my eyes strong and my nos
trils open and free while my throat has healed and
my voice greatly improved. had been treate
by several specialists in San Francisco ana all
pronounced me bad case and hard to cure and
proved 1t by not curing me.
regard your euro as great boon to humanity,
while the mildness Of the treatment alone should
recommend 1T to sufferers. know that you can
cataIrh and want all affcted to know 1t, too.
Yours very truly. j. l.. NEUBURN..
We cure Catarrh In all It's forms without the use
OF instruments. All letters cheerfully answered.
once treatment free.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-30
Queer Lapses of the Memory.

About three years ago came to Har-
rison Square in the cars and mounted
my horse for home. After galloping
about mile suddenly found or i'm
agined [ had gone wrong. [ could mob
horses head back and went near to my
starting place; again turned and rode
home over the same familiar road that
I had so often travelled. The loss of
mind or identity of locality did not last
more than twenty minutes. On a pre-
vious occasion [ took the boat for Ma
liant at 2 o'clock, dined with friend,
and slept at the honse of another
friend. The next morning I went
home quite we'll. Awakening the next
morning my wife alluded to my visit to
Nahant the day before, of which had
given her full account on my return.
[ answered that [ had not been to Ma
liant, and stuck to it. The whole
thing had left my memory. Being
alarmed, my wife sent for the doctor,
who came and found me asleep. I
awoke and found him feeling my pulse,
and asked him why he had come, and
my wife stated the fact of my having
denied the visit to Nahant. I replied:
"You have been dreaming, I am very
well, and do not require the DOCTOR"
The whole details of my visit to Nahant
were fresh in my memory, but the fact
of my having denied all knowledge of
them had become completely blotted
out. Many years ago, when navigating
a ship through Java Sea, one night
about - o'clock we passed close to two
little islands called the Brothers. I
went below to get a map and told an
officer of the deck to call me at a. NJ,
when I intended to change the course
to clear shoal of somewhat doubtful
locality. Iawoke soon after o'clock,
wholly unconscious of having been
called, and went on deck and scolded
the officer for not calling me at 2
o'clock. He answered that he had
called me and informed me of the state
of the wind and weather as in duty
bound, and that [, apparently wide
awake, had ordered the course altered
two points. When at sea in charge of
ship had habit of waking up at al
most any hour, and the end of watch
at night generally found me wide
awake and preparing to go On deck to
see that all was going right.-Capt. &.
C. Forbes, IN Boston Traveller.
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Hints to HousekeeDers.

LIME JUICE and milk is one of the
best remedies fer dyspepsia or indi-
gestion.
70 RESTORE the luster Of morocco,
rub it with the white of an egg on a
bit OF sponge.
A GOOD gargle for sore throat is
made OF vinegar and little red pep
Der mixed with water.
Do NOT drink strong coffee just be-
fore retiring in the evening. 1t is
apt to cause sleeDlessness.
PoNGEE should lie soaked in salt
ana water for twenty four hours and
then lroned before it is cut. After
that it may be washed when soiled,
1T will not spot with water and will
not shrink.
70 KEEP moths away, place in tiny
bags among the clothes packed away,
a mixture made by pounding to-
gether IN a mortar the following:
Two ounces Of orris root and one
ounce each Of cinnamon, cloves, nut
meg, caraway seeds, mace, and cam
ph0r.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-30

west that passes over a clover-fleld,
at almost any stage of growth, has
not the dry, heated, breath-takIng
effect which the same breeze has when
passing over bare surfaces, or grass
or grain stuble In Kansas and Ne
braska, during the years when tens
Of thousands of acres of corn were
fired" by the hot, dry south
westers,' it was found that fields
escaped almost entirely that were
tlanked on the southwest by clover
fields, and on the same principle,
fields escaped injury thai had other
large fields of corn over which the
scorching winds must first pass. This
mission Of clover has long been recog-
nized on the borders of the great
deserts in Asia. Without fear of
successful contradiction, it can in like
manner be stated that the raspberry
patch, the strawberry plantation, the
the orchard, thegnursery,
and the garden will show less damage
by fungus attacks, leaf rolling, fruit
etc, when protected on
the south and southwest by clover
fields or corn-felds. Prof. j. w.
Budd, in Rural Life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-30
Sheep anb Swine.

WHEAT can often be fed profitably
to sheep.
SHEEP kept clean are not affected
with scab unless taken from other
sheep.
AS THE hogs get co bedding to-
gether care must be taken to look out
for lice.
BROOD soWs will thrive better if
they have good opportunity to take
exercise.
WHEN given a regular ration pig
will rarely overteed in going once to
the feed trough.
ONE serious disadvantage with very
large hogs is that they are very slow
to mature.
In providing racks for the sheep be
sure to arrange SO that each will have
a place to eat.
SHEEP seem to require more min.
eral elements in their food than any
other kind of stock
SHEEP will stand considerable cold.
II it be dry cold, and if they are pro-
tected from the wind.
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Believed EVERYTHING He Said.

/ strolled into the emporium of Hans
Won Observation-Disclosures my
Teutonic corner grocer, to purchase
l cents worth of smoked herring
and a soda cracker, when the worthy
tradesman hailed me with:
Hello! Meester Shones, we're you
peen coin some days vot I missed you,
eh?"
Give been out of town, to Trenton"
said.
"Vell, vat you hev saw NIT Trenton ?"
said Hans, ready for gossip.
ooh, not much" I said; Il saw man
tried for murder"
"Vel, vat mooch murder?" said Hans,
eagerly.
[ determined to crafty my German
friend, and so gave it to him:
"Well, they tried the man, found him
guilty and the Judge said: That will
do; take him out aud hang him to the
lamp-post in front Of the door!' They
were just doing it when a man came up
to the Judge and said: Judge, did you
know that it was only Dutchman
killed?' The Judge said, mo! No
body told me that; fetch the gent back
They brought the man back, and the
Judge addressed him: My friend, I
didn't know it was only Dutchman
you killed; I beg your pardon. You're
Free And then he turned to the law
yers and the people in the courtroom
and said: Gentlemen, did you know it
was Dutchman our friend here killed :?
I think you ought to raise a subscrip-
ton for him. So they handed the hat
round and got $181.5O, and the man
went away with three cheers from the
crowd
"Meester Shones," said Hans, grave
ly, Il believes every tings you say, put
I thinks dot ees Won lie, Meester
Shones!"
There was no further argument.-
The Imp.
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE
FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE.
To Grow Fruits with Pleasure and Profit
''Rut Farming" Should Be Abandoned
Exercise for Cattle-How 10 Handle q
Stallion-General Notes.
L ruitS on the Farm.

Not only should the farmer use
every means to have all kinds Of fruit,
but he should endeayor to have the
various fruits TO come in as early in
their season as possible. He should
select the earliest as we'll as the best.
Early fruit. though Of inferior quail
ity, will be of more pleasure and
profit than if later and of better
quality. My experience in market
ing fruit for the last eighteen years
has been to this effect. Seek the
earliest to begin with, the best quail
itY in all respects for main crop and
the latest to quit On. The first and
last or latest fruits are generally in
ferior, most especially with small
fruits. But to grow fruits to attain
the most pleasure and profit, they
must be planted on good soil, we'll
prepared and properly cared for after
wards. To plant any variety Of
fruit on poor soil, unless it is well
and properly MANFRED, will not only
prove an improbable investment,
but will discourage the anxious
grower and foster the idea that there
is no pleasure or profit in its cultiya-
ton. While fruits are very generous
in their demands, still. all varieties
OF fruits prefer and should have, as
far as practicable, soils genial to their
wants, where they flourish best and
grow to perfection with smallest
amount of manure and cultivation.
Different situations, I have noticed,
make difference in the time of ripen-
ing, size, and quality of fruit. l
have taken strawberry plants OF
the same variety of pure stock,
and set at the same time two
beds, one bed facing the southeast
and the other on level ground. There
was several days difference in the
time of ripening. Those facing the
southeast ripened first and sold for
% cents per quart, while those SCI on
level ground were as fine, if not finer,
but came in later when there were
more berries in market, and sold for
only l23 cents per quart. Thus, the
level bed would have deprived us Of
the pleasure Of setting the first ber-
ries of the season before our neigh
bors, and enjoying the same dainty
dish ourselves, besides considerable
rotit.-Thomas d. Baird, in Farm
and Fireside.