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The morning call., 1893-06-04

road for over mile, but the houses were
quite distance from the road. and l did
not approach them.
Another mile on and the road entered
the hills in almost exactly the same manner
as in the Petaluma Valley.
My unreasonable New Englander bad
told me of a M. Lowell-a gentleman from
Maine, she added, to settle the question of
his espectability-who owned big cherry
orchard. She thought / should certainly
strike job Mt Mr.. Lowell's. and to Mr.
Lowel's L now walked at full speed, the
proximity of lunchtime fastening my
weary footsteps.
When [ had made friends with Mr..
LowelPs dog, The most amicabiy inclined
canine of my wanderings, by the by,
approached the kitchen and was told that
Mr.. Lowell was in the windmill-house
packing cherries.
A pleasant-faced man was Mr.. Lowell,
and fine cherry-packer.
Cant give you job. / have just sent
to town for ten men and / expect them to-
day. l have dozen or fourteen at work
already"
1t was ten minutes to twelve, and to say
that ! was hungry would be an insult to
the language.
Sat about this time of day, sir, enough
work to earn a meal would satisfy me-" |
suggested, and Lowell laughed lightly, as
he hammered down the cover of a cherry
box.
mo trouble about that, young man." he
said; you're welcome to come in to din
ner."
Lob nj sI-zt -
'0b, you can do that afterward. If you
want to very badly
While waiting for the dinner-gong to
The morning call., 1893-06-04

getting good men to help harvest th at the
farmers turned in and helped each other,
often being delayed in their work in con-
sequence. A man who could and would
stay out haying season could easily make
500 during the eight or ten weeks of the
season. This. of course, would be clear
profit.
When we came into the house Matte
and Adeline had nearly finished the dishes,
task that they relieved their mother of,
as they informed me with pride. As de-
RED to foster this commendable spirit of
helpfulness, | took hand at the dishes
myself and succeeded in drying several
spoons within the next hour.
They made fun of me little and tried
to take 1t good-naturedly. Thep we got
out our scboolbooks, for we had to go to
school the next morning, and looked up he
location of several Important cities of
Asia Minor. The younger ones, however,
seemed utterly Indifferent to geography
and preferred hopping about the kitchen
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between Masss chusetts and California,
and having declared myself Yankee,
had to agree with her once In awhile.
When, however, she declared that our
climate couldn't hold candle to that of
New England, / decided that patience had
ceased to be a virtue. and as native son
gave her a lecture.
Dear as old Connecticut was to me.
said, the climate, it appeared TO me. was
really more severe than was absolutely
consistent with the perfect comfort of its
people, and asked her if she ever remem-
bered any such lovely winters as she had
Joyed ever since she had lived in the
Sonoma Valley.
She replied that "mayhap 1t might be
colder back in MASSACHUSETTS, but it seemed
to her that the mir was BETTER
told her hoped she would be able to
60 home so that she might expire in a
purer air. and then babe her adieu..
Gundlach's vineyard 1anked the county
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the meal. They came in late in the even
ing, or just after supper. expecting to get
the remains. Then they began to come
later still and claim that their friends
were off somewhere getting up little sup
per and that all they needed was a little
bread 10 top off the repast.
The cheekIest tramp ever knew was
fellow who came along about II o'clock in
as he was very hungry. OF course | told
him he would have to wait. So he went
off somewhere and oversight himself. He
came back to the house about 2 o'clock,
rubbing his eyes as though he had iu,t
awake, and asked me to get a meal for
him, complaining that l had not gone out
to look for him so as to bring him in al
dinner time | thought that was the last
straw that broke the camel's back and l
have been exceedingly strict in discipllning
my trampS ever since"
There, in the heart of Napa Valley,
stands that great farm; the trees and vines
are grown. the animals thrive, the crops
are good, and everything goes smoothly
but for that one great difficulty Of obtain
ing sufficient reliable labor to run the farm.
A sober. Industrious man is a jewel to the
owners Of that farm and to hundreds of
other farms all over the interior counties.
Rare jewels. too, if the experience of Mr..
Allen is to be taken as fair example.
There is certainly something wrong.
Where are the worthy unemployed of San
Francisco?
The locomotive shrieked and 1 was off
for the train. l calculate that during the
three days / was out [ received twenty
three offers of permanent work, heard Of
nearly as many more reasonably certain
chances. and was able to obtain tempo
rary work. sufficient at least To earn a
meal or lodging. at at least three places
out of five. THEODORE S, SoLoMoNs.
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x
AID although l had not slumbered away
all my fatigue 1 sprang out OF bed
promptly. for l had promised Mrs. Pleas
ant to start right in in de mornin'.
The main buildings. which include the
culinary department for the hired hands.
are situated nearly a quarter of mile
from the mems house." in one of the airy
apartments of which I had passed the
might.
As I walked down the long, slopiug
meadow to the main buildings l was given
full particulars of Mrs. Peasants labor
troubles by a middle-aged Irishman who
accompanied me to breakfast.
My companion professed great admira-
ton for the executive ability and general
personal character of his employer. Mrs.
Bell. he said, rarely interfered with Mrs.
Peasants plans, and the latter lady prac-
tically ruled the rOost.'
Attracted by Mrs. Peasants reputation
for liberality and charity, my compan ion
con tinued, dozens of men weekly streamed
through the farm, some asking for work,
either temporary or permanent, and some
boldly asking food and shelter, and even
aims.
1t was surprising. he said. how many
apparently abe-bodied men there were in
the country who scarcely pretended TO be
seeking permanent employment.
Many were the subterfuges and in
genisas devices 10 which these tramps and
semi-tramps resOrted in order to get the
: better, of Mrs. Pleasant by imposing upon
her hospitality and playing upon her SYM
'ya1ny.
y 1t vas no wonder. he said, that the old
lady was becoming cynical.
Tne\ searching cross-examination to
which she had subjected me upon the pre-
yious evening indicated her growing pes
simsm on the subject.
There are many hundreds of acres of
arabic land upon the farm which must
sooner or later be put under cultiva ton,
and Mrs. Pleasant could and would en-
plOy practically all men who might apply,
provided those men proved honest and in
The morning call., 1893-06-04
The California Fair.

Ex-Mayor Gregory of Sacramento, a
member of the State Board OF Trade. yes
terday came down to stir up the board to
action in the matter of the proposed COM
mercial Worlds Fair in this city. He said
that the board intended aking the matter
I'D vigorously and 10 that end had called
special meeting for June Is. He was con-
fdent of success.
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WIawAM THEArER. juno be-. Il Man

WIGWAM IHEATER, june u. = Manager
Meyer announces another novelty impo talon.
He has engaged tr0up of Hawaiian naive
dancers (four men and four ladies' 10 appear in
their wonderful dances at the Wigwam Theater,
week commencing June II. To-day Sunday
they will take III the city sights, also Golden
Gate Park, dressed In peculiar native costumes,
riding on horseback. -
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THE CALL" INVESTIGATION.
ENOUGH WORK FOR A DOZEN MEN
The Trouble Is That Many Are
Hunting for Work and Pray
ing That They May Not
Find IL.

That rural California is crying for
toilers in hay field, orchard and forest
was very thoroughly dem onstrate ted by a
full-page article in yesterdays "Call,"
entitled "Pleuty of Work for willing
Ioilers." The point m sde by the article
was that DR.. WilIey's "unemyloyed"
might easily find work if they really
wish it, which is doubted in many quar-
tiers.
second chapter on the possibilities
OF obtaining work in the sonoma and
Napa valleys is presented herewith by q
"CalP reporter, who, in the gsrb of a
farm labOrer, went from house to house
and secured many situations, for some
of which he found it very difficult to
frame excuses for not accepting.
Yes, the harvest truly is great, but the
Iaborers few.
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Baggage Notice.

RouDd-trip transfer tickets are now on sale
at any OF our Offices at reduced rates, viz: One
trunk, round trip. soc; single trip, 35c Keep
your baggage checks until you reach the cily,
Morton Special Delivery, II Grary ST., 40S Tay-
Tor st. and Oakland Ferry depot (waitlng
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Rent q Pasteur Bitter

For 81 per month, or buy it il you like. G.
Brown & Son, S2S Market street.
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During the most violent gales the sea Is
disturbed to depth of 500 feet.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30

The bye-elections in England always
attract good deal of attention be-
cause they tend to show any change of
public sentiment which may have taken
place subsequent to the general election.
At this time while the Homerule bill is
under discussion the attention which
they get is more than ordinarily strong.
Within few days one of these elections
has been held. Both parties strained
every nerve, and the chief issue w as
Homerule. The district is naturally a
close one, and has sometimes been car
ried by the Conservatives and sometimes
by the Liberals. The latter carried it at
the last general election. end in the bye
election they succeeded in carrying it
again by an increased majority. The
disgust which the Conservatives have
been claiming had been excited all over
England by Gladstone's Homerule pro-
gramme does not seem to materialize in
votes.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30
Diagnosing an Illness.

It would seem to be simple enough to
attribute the fever which ordinarily fol-
lows the fracture of leg to the irritation
which is set up in the limb by the acct
dent, yet, in point of fact, that fever is
not seldom the result of the sympathetic
disturbance Of nerve centers, as, for ex-
ample. those CT the stomach, and in treat
ing it it becomes necessary to take these
into consideration. have selected this
illustration because the results of such
an accident as the fracture Of a leg would
appear to be of all things the simplest to
diagnose. When we approach such all
ments as nervous diseases we find our
selves literally wandering in maze
through which there is no path. It is
commonly enough known, even by those
who have not studied medicine, that
while each disease shows certain symp-
toms common to each recurrence of it,
each case must be treated separately and
allowance made for many things peculiar
to the patient.
Among these are his or her occupa-
ton in life, habits, food, constitution or
stamina, previous ailments and, above
all, heredity or those tendencies which
have come from his parents. DIR. Oliver
Wendell Holmes in "Elsie Venner''
makes the old family physician refer to
the knowledge he has gained, during
many years Of practice, of the hereditary
constitution of his patients, and the
doctor adds that no school of science, no
medical education can give this knowl-
edge to his young competitors. All this
is true, wonderfully true, and it is the
lack of just this knowledge of the past
which makes some cases of disease so
terribly puzzling and which makes each
case individual in itself. Cyrus Edison,
NJ. D., in North American Review.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30

President Cleveland is being urged to
call an extra session of Congress earlier
than he had intended and the importuni-
ty is from quarters that are entitled to a
good deal of consideration. The stopping
of the coinage of silver in India has made
it pretty evident to everybody except the
extreme silver men, that we must stop
too and the sooner the better. Hence
the request of the business community
for an early extra session that the posi-
bilities for mischief of the present silver
law may be put an end to as soon as
possible. The President is understood
however, to be of the opinion that a
little delay in calling Congress together
will be help rather than hindrance
to speedy repeal of the law, since so
much pressure is likely to be put upon
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30


The address of the Hon. JOHN L. Stew
ems, late minister to Hawaii, which we
publish this morning, should be care
fully read by everybody who is anxious
to understand precisely what has hap
pened in the island. and the part which
the representatives of the United States
took in it. Minister Stevens's action has
been grossly misrepresented in certain
quarters for political purposes, and the
public has been led to believe that
he was engaged in some sort of a
plot to dethrone the Queen and turn the
island over to the United States. How
little truth there is in this theory is
shown by Mr.. Stevens's clear and sue
cinct account of what happened in that
island, how it happened and why it hap
pened, and the part our minister took in
it. We think that all will agree after
reading Mr.. Stevens's exposition of the
facts that his course was the only one
which he could have pursued with due
regard for the interests of the country
which it was his duty to protect, and
that we ought to esteem ourselves fortu-
nate that at the critical juncture of
affairs in Hawaii the interests of this
country were in the hands of so capable,
courageous and discreet diplomat
Secretary Carlisle still neglects to
make public the report of Special Treas
ury Agent Aver in regard to the prog
ress of the tinplate industry during the
last quarter, presumably because that
progress has been considerable and
therefore distasteful to the administra-
ton. But in spite of the Secretary's
reticence facts and figures are cropping
out. Twenty-four tinplate factories are
now in operation on American soil and
turned out 23,431, 1886 pounds of timed
| and terne plate during the first quarter
of the year. All of this product was not
| made from American black plate for the
simple reason that the rolling mills were
unable to turn out the plates in quanti-
ties to supply the demand. Among such
| firms as are regularly manufacturing
black plate and timing are the United
States works, with 1,473,276 pounds of
tin and terne for the quarter; Wallace,
Banfeld & Co., 1,l2l,381 pounds of tin
plate and 234, 1914 pounds terne; St. Louis
Stamping Company, 1.790,0S3 pounds of
tin plate and 3s9,512 pounds of terne;
| the American Tin Plate Company, Ell
wood Ind, 1,50e, $50 pounds of tin plate
and 52S, 4So of terne. There are other
mills working on American plate exclu-
sively, but of smaller capacity.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30

The Hon. Richard P. Bland has spoken
and his deliverance is much of the kind
we anticipated. He is not staggered a
bit by the action of the Indian govern
ment, but regards it simply as one of the
steps in conspiracy on the part of Eng
land and the gold bugs of the Eastern
states to bulldoze Congress into the
adoption of the gold standard. MI.
Bland does not propose to be bulldozed
and thinks Congress will not be bull
dozed either. When Congress meets it is
safe to predict that Mr.. Bland will be
a more belligerent siIverite than ever
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30
The silver mine owners in the West are

The silver mine owners in the West are
hopeful, but it is difficult to see any
ground for expecting an improvement in
the price of silver in the near future.
Demand has very important bearing on
price, and the action of India in stopping
the free coinage of silver, which will
probably be followed in this country by
the repeal or modification of the Sher-
man law, must of course greatly dimin-
ish the demand. 1t looks as if for some
years to come it would not be possible
to work any of the silver mines of the
West at great profit, while many of
them can be operated only at loss.
The effect of this state of things will of
course be disastrous, paralyzing many
industries which depend upon them, and
throwing many men out of employment.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30

Phillips has been dropped from $1,000
to a fourth-class office.
There has been no change in the salary
of the Portland postmaster. Where
other places are not named, there have
been no changes.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30

The Democrats out in Ohio are having
an uphill job to find candidate for gov
ernor to run against Mckinley this fall.
There are a lot of little men upon whom
a nomination would confer valuable
distinction who are ready to stand, but
all the big men of the party are very
backward in coming forward. The fact
is they all snuff defeat. and none of
them is anxious to sacrifice himself for
the good of the party.
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congressman by the sentiment that sur
rounds them at home that when they
come together they will be ready to act
without any delay. There is probably
something in this, for Washington is a
VIGOROUSLY bad place in which to gauge
accurately the public sentiment of the
country.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30
Good News for Postmasters

Albert H. Scott, chief of the salary and
allowance division of the post Office de-
partment, has just completed the annual
adjustment of the salaries of Presidential
postmasters for the ensuing fiscal year,
which are based on the revenue of the
respective offices. Following are the
changes in the salaries of Maine post
m q efnrS.
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THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, JUNE 80.

The character of Gov. Altgeld' S act in
pardoning the anarchists is pretty accu-
rately indicated by the character of the
men who are most vociferous in endors-
ing it. All the lawless element of Chica-
go are testifying their appreciation of the
pardon.
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30
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A bruise may be prevented from dis
coloring by Immediately applying hot
water, on little dry starch moistened
with cold water
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-29
AMERICAN QUEENS.
They Rule Us. Blu How About the Hoopss ir
Ruling Them?

Queens, indeed, ARE the American women,
To paraphrase an old saying. 1.-The hand
that rocks the cradle rules America"
more truly than ia any other part of the
world The mothers lullaby heard in
foreign countries may not WOO the slum-
Der o. an infant King, but in America
every babe at birth has an equal chance
with all his little fellows in the infant
kingdom to wear the crown of prefsrmen;
by his fellow American sovereign, Yes,
every American woman is Il queen, but
she yields faithful service to one mistress,
Fashion. In view of the latest decress Of
this domiDeering dame there must be u
considerable curiosity among the ladies as
to how they are going to appear in the
costumes of a century aud over ago, which
Fashion has decreed is to be the prevailing
style during the next few years. The very
radical change from the present styles
will, of course. be made very gradually, SO
that it may he two or three years before
the modes of the revolutionary days will
be reached in all the fullness Of crinoline
which our gentle foremothers wore. Ia
England the change has already set in,
and it will doubtless be followed here
very soon. II is a more or less deplorable
fact that the fashionable world of America
still recognizes Paris and London as its
capital cities. and whatever is the style
there is bound to become the style in this
country. II will, therefors, afford the
ladies a vast amount of satisfaction TO
know that they will soon have an oppor-
tunity to see the styles OF the old colonial
days in a complete exhibition. The Adam
ForeDaugh shows, which will be here on
Friday, September l.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-29
POLICE COURT

Business opened brisk yesterday morn
ing, several cases demanding the attention
of his honor.
John Agnew, charged with being drunk.
plead guilty and WAS charged 50 for the
fun He was committed.
Frank Offenstein was run in Saturday
night, but disdaining the suggestion OF
staying in the bastile all day Sunday when
he ought TO be at church, he pulled out his
wallet and put up so cash bond He
hasn't been seen since. lie was charged
with disturbing the peace.
j. d. Carter. drunk; guilty; s.; COM
mitted
s. L. Tapp had an unloaded gun conceal
ed about his person. and this being priv
ilege accorded to nobody but Il policeman,
and being n stranger, he was taken In. Ii
cost him SIS
w. T.. Champion, another drunken man
who declined bed on the stone floor in
the lookup. very generously put up" bis
watch for his appearance yesterday. HIS
love for his watch was not as strong as
Damon's love for Pythias. for he was too
busy to "show up." and his ticker is ap-
propriated to the public use.
Tom Jones was "unco' fu' and happy,
and he too, put mp his Waterbury and
skipped.
Mona Smith, having the fear OF neither
God nor man before her eyes, disturbed
the peace OF the good people Of Burton,
who were worshiping Ia their church yes
terdsy, and for this lack of piety on hl.
part he was muicted in the sum Of $50.