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The morning call., 1893-10-08
THE VIGiLANT WINS.

The Vigilant showed on Saturday that
the drifting contest of Thursday did not
afford fair trial of her sailing qualities.
On such days as Thursday there is more
chance in the outcome than when the
breeze is steady. One vessel catches a
sniff of wind 1t had not looked for, while
the other, with equal skill and vigilance.
sails in bad luck. The owner OF the Val
kyrie would not place much value on a
race won on such conditions rs prevailed
Thursday. But Saturday appears to have
been good average yachting day. The
breeze must have been light, as there was
a question If either would arrive at the
home stake in time to make the trial q
race The freedom with which Americans
criticize their own countrymen was illus
trated in comment on the management of
the Vigiiant-o Thursday. But the Amer.
lean yacht appears TO have been handled
fairly we'll on Saturday. Probably there
was no more foundation for adverse criti-
cism in one case than In the other. but the
fortune of the Vigilant gave the know-it-
alls chance.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

Lovers of Carlyle's books-not the man
himself--all make a point of seeing the
house he lived in at Cheyne row, Chelsea.
when they visit London. The American
pilgrims go there, and to Stratford-ou-
Avon, perhaps 10 Ayr. and certainly to
Chester-why, they know best. Very little
can be picked UP about Carlyle in Cheyne
Row, except from neighbors who were
terrified out of their lives to keep poultry,
lest the sage should be compelled to in
duige in more than ordinary jag of OBJ
jurgations On the eternal verities of plaques
for the exaitation of character. His house
has now fallen into the decay and neglect
which seem to sanctify all places in the
British Babylon where greatness has toiled,
and the newspapers are girding st the
apathy of ungrateful cockney landlords.
But what would the philosophers adorers
have? If they would preserve the house
as a monument they must buy Ii. 1t does
not let at one sixpence more because Car
lyle lived in it. A tenant would find it a
nuisance. 1t would be case of callers
every five minutes from morning to even
ing. The neignbors. 20 doubt, think it a
nuisance as 1t is. William Hughes. the
The morning call., 1893-10-08
THE GRAND JURY AND THE
SCHOOLS.

A special reference of the Grand Jury to
the present school administration makes it
clear that the abuses condemned have been
discontinued. The report says:
Our attention was early called to claimed
abuses OF a certain character connected with
the (schooD department Our investigation has
developed shameful peryersion of trust al
most sacred in its nature to personal ambition
and personal business ends and extended back
to previous boards. While we were glad not to
discover any cases in which money had actu-
ally been paid for position in the schools, 1t
brought blush to bear citizens who have been
placed in the honorable positions OF School
Directors admit that they had nlled the ap
pointments set APART for them without having
seen the applicant, and simply at the request OF
some personal friend, or worse, some party TO
whom the director was dschaSging personal
obligation in looking for future business ad
vantage. Under such system the efficiency of
San Francisco's schools is wonder. We can
only hope that the publicity which has come
from the investigation will have its moral effect
and help TO promote higher estimate OF the
duties OF this most impOr ant public trust. 1t
Is a pleasure to congratulate the members OF
the present board, who have taken a stand
against the rule of fayortism In appointment of
teachers and made competitive examination the
test. While 1t is true that the highest percent
age does not always prove the best teachers,
there must be some standard, and IL the men,
bers of the appointing board cannot select each
applicant upon his exact merits, which would
be too much to expect, there seems no other
way In which justice 10 all Is better secured.
The report goes on to state that the re-
suit of conference between the members of
the Grand Jury and the City Superinten-
dent of Schools and members OF the Board
of Education was to dispense with:the SER
vices of sixty-six teachers who are placed
first on the list for vacancies. The hard
ship of suspension is somewhat mitigated
by the payment to each Of $40 a month to
report for any duty 10 whIchs they may be
assigned.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

THE OLD SABBATH.

In the Puritan and cavalier colonies the
observance of Sundays was made obliga-
tory by law. In Massachusetts travelling
was forbidden, and chain was stretched
across the main road from Boston into the
country to prevent rural picnics. In Vir-
ginia nou-attendance at tile Church of
England was punishable by fine and i'm
prlsonment. A similar law insured con-
gregations at the Puritan churches in New
England. Stores and lodging-houses at
Boston and New Haven were required to be
kept shut More license was permitted in
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
In the matter of churcb-going in those col
onies liberation prevailed. The Federal
constitution recognized Sunday by requir-
ing the closing of the schoolrooms at the
military and naval academies on that day,
and by not counting Sunday among the
ten days which were allowed the President
to veto a bill Most of the restrictions
imposed on doing business on Sunday in
this country were borrowed from the
mother country. The common law of Eng
land makes no distinction between Sun
days and weekdays; but since the Refor-
nation Parliament has passed from time
to time acts imposing restrictions on Sun
day trading; these were amended and par
TALLY repealed by the statute of the
Thirty fourth Victoria. which requires the
assent Of two justices or stipendiary
magistrate before a prosecution for Sab
bath breaking can be instituted.
In the Northern States Of this country,
after the formation of the Union, the laws
against Sabbath were either re-
pealed or allowed to fall into disuse, but
in some of the Southern States, as in Ten
nessee. they are still in full force. To this
day farmer in Tennessee may be sent to
Jail for blowing his field on Sunday,
though at Nashville and Memphis the
police wink at the evasion of the law by
storekeepers. The spirit of Charlemagne,
who ordered people to execution because
they neglected to 60 to mass, still fingers
in odd, out-of-the-w way localities.
Sunday closing is dictated by moral,
social and hygienic laws. We all work too
hard. Our merchants go down to their
offices at O'Clock and work till 6. Eng
lsh merchants get through their work be-
tween 10 and o'clock. In San Francisco
a clerk puts in ten hours work regularly
and often spends his evening at the store
besides 1t is odds that he could accom-
plish about as much work in eight hours
methodical labor. The longer the human
machine is kept on the strain the less
efficient it becomes. Ii was no theological
doctrine which induced the ancient nations
of the East to keep the first day of the
week as day of rest. They were wise
enough to know that the preservation of
health and strength required intervals of
relaxation. We live under the same con-
ditions. There are caIlings which exact
continuous labor day in and day out. but
these laborers do not last. They wear out.
II Sunday were abolished as a day of rest
and re Taxation the race would inevitably
deteriorate.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
Making Strong Young Men.

Mr.. w. o. Black. physical director of
the San Francisco Young Mems Christian
Association, is meeting with eminent sue
cess in his work among young men and
boys at the association gymnasium. A
large number of young men are taking
advantage of the physical department, and
on Tuesday evening. November Z, an
athletic exhibition. given by the mem Ders
Metropolitan Temple, which promises TO
be most interesting affair. The physical
examinations are free to all members en-
tering the gymnasium classes. and most
excellent work is being accomplished in
the all.round body building. Mr.. Black
will be pleased to meet young men who
desire to consult him in regard TO entering
the association classes in physical culture
any day or evening at the Association
building. 232 Sutter street.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Colonel Elliott f. Shephard's widow is
to build a memorial church In his honor.
Effie L. Canning, who wrote "Rock-a-
Bye Baby" is still living in Rockland,
Me.
Count de Casa Miranda, the husband of
Christine Nilsson. the singer, is much
older than his wife. and is said to be cor
respondingly jealous.
David Freshman. who has translated
George Eiiot's Daniel Deronda" into
Hebrew, declares that-the book was writ
ten by divine inspiration.
The Countess of Aberdeen is issuing
two charlottesville Onward and Up
ward" and Wee Willie Winkie." The
latter is a monthly for children.
Rev. Armory Il. Bradford. DID,, for
twenty-three years minister of the First
Congregational Church, Montclair, n. j..
has received a call to the pastorate of
Westminster Chapel, London. the largest
Congregational meeting-house in the
world.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

is at his door. He saves the Eastern
freight on raw material and the western
freight on the finished goods. Money will
buy as efficient machinery as in the East.
There does not seem serious obstacle in
the way of manufacturing enterprises for
which we furnish the raw material. There
is certainly an abundance of labor. The
only thing needed is a combination of
skill, capital, business capacity and labor.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
Now is the Time to visit the World

Now is the Time to Visit the Worlds
Fair.
Commencing Friday. September l. the fare to
Chicago and return via the Union Pacific will be
$50
The Union Pacific is the only line running
through Pullman sleeping-cars and dlning-cars,
San Francisco to Chicago. without change, in
three and half days.
All tickets good via Salt Lake City and Denver.
For sIeeping-car accommodations and tickets
cali on d. W. Hitchcock. general agent, No
Montgomery street, San Francisco F. K Els
worth, agent, e1S Broadway. Oakland: or G. f..
Her, agent, 22s South Spring street, Los Angeles,
al
The morning call., 1893-10-08

TRANsvAAL MINEs.-Dr. j. w. Matthews, a
member of the Cape Colony Legislative Assem-
bly,, who has been delegated TO visit and make
report on the workings OF the big mines in the
United States, has been prevailed on by a num-
her of leading minlng men to give lecture on
the mining of the famous gold ranges of the
Transvaal, South Africa. The lecture will be
given in Metropolitan ball, Tuesday evening,
October 10.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
PUBLICATION oFFICE

B25 Montgomery street, near Clay open until IL
o'clock p. NJ. BRANCH OFFICES: 71o Market
street Kearny. open until g o'clock midnight;
339 Hayes street. open until $50 o'clock; 6oS Larkin
street open until 9;SOoclocki Sw. corner sixteenth
and Mission streets, open until o'clock; 25lo
Mission street. open until o'clock; and 1l0 Ninth
street, open until 80 o'clock.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

ps-VIsIToRS TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
end The CALL on sale at the newsstands In the fol-
lowing hotels: Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel,
Briggs House. Clifton House, Commercial House,
GnuIt House Grand Pacific Hotel. Sherman House,
Leland House Northern Hotel, Richelieu Hotel.
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel.
AT WASHINGTON. D. C.-The Willard Arling-
ton Ebbitt and Shoreham Hotels.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
suRsCRIpTION RATES:

DAILY CALL dncludng Sundays), s6 per year by
mail postpaid: Is cents per week, 05 cents per
calendar month, through carriers. DAILY CALL
FIVE copies three months. SO 25. SUNDAY CALL
81 so per year postpaid. SUNDAY CALL and
WEEKLY CALL, $3.50 Fer year, postpaid WEEhLf
CALL s1 per year. postpaid.
THE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
nor will the editor enter into correspondence re-
Epecting them
The morning call., 1893-10-08

China Decorated Fruit Plates ........... 10c
Decorated China Creamers, wei e 30e, now 15c
Crystal Vinegar or Oil Jugs, were 25c, now 15c
10-ineh White Granite Meat Platters,
-.-.--.Were Zoe. now 10c
finch 0blong Fancy Glass Jelly Dishes,
...---..--.were 15c. now DC
3-inch Square Fancy Crystal Cake or
Bread Plates. were 2oc, now 10c
10-inch Round Crystal Cake Plate. ..
were 30c, now 2Oc
6-inch Long Fancy Crystal Pickle or
Olive Dishes es.---..-..-... were 2oc, now 10c
8-inch Covered Crystal Berry Dish........
were 4Uc, now zoe
Cake Salvers on Stand ..... were SOC. now 15c
8-inch high Fancy Crystal Water jugs.
were soc, now 25c
9-inch high Fancy Crystal Water Jugs.
...-.......,.-.-.... .,...were 75c, now S5c
7-piece Fancy Crystal Berry Set....
49, were zoe, now Soc
Crystal Goblets (set of 81 ............ 25c
White Granite Covered Chambers.
were Soe. now 00c
8-inch White Granite Dinner Plates (set
of6) were Csc, now 4Oc
Fancy Decorated Majoliea Cuspidors 25c
10-pieee White Granite Toilet Sets,.......
.....-..were S2.75, now So 10
The morning call., 1893-10-08
The CitY's Mortality.

The deaths in this city during last week
numbered 1lS. against 1o3 for the CORE.
spending week last year. The more fata
diseases were: Apoplexy 2, bronchitis 6
cancer 8, heart disease 81, inanitiop IS
consumption Is and pneumonia IS.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

If Call subscribers arho intend ledring
the city vcill notify the business office OF
their change Of address the paper a0iH be
Ior1cGrded to them regularly.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
Another Great Reduction in Rates via the
Shasta Route and Northern Pacific r. R.

SHaStd EOute anu NOrtheTn Pacific K. K.
Only $50 TO Chicago and return. Good sixty
days. Two through trains leaving Portland
morning and evening. Finest equipped trains
in The world. Composed OF Pullman palace
Pullman upholstered tourist and dining cars
unsurpassed. Lowest rates. Communicate
With us before purchasing elsewhere. T. X.
STATELER, General Agent 63S Market ST..
San Francisco
The morning call., 1893-10-08

CHRISTIAN AssoCIATIoN.-This afternoon
at O'Clock F. l.. smith. a prominent evangel-
ist of the East, will speak at the mass meeting
for young men only at the Christian Associa-
tion Hall, 232 Suffer street.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE,
WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN FRANCISCO, october T. 1893. ,
oniciaI Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Midnight Sunday.
san Francisco and vicinity - Fair weather
nearly stationary temperature: westerly winds
JAMES j. GRAY.
Acting Locat Forecast oncial.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
Phillips, Rock island Excursions

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday and Sarur-
day via RIO GRASDE AND Rock ISLAND RVS
Through tourist sleeping ears to Chicago and Bos-
ton. Manager and porter accompany these excur-
sions through TO Boston. For tickets, sleepng-car
accommodations and further Information address
CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Ry,
SO Montgomery street. San Francisco
The morning call., 1893-10-08
THE DAILY MORNING CALL

FOR SALE AT
New York.. .BRENTANO BROS. 8 Union Square
Chicago ...........W W. B. SIZER, 1S9 State street
New Orleans. .GALLoT &JoUBERT. 115N Common
The morning call., 1893-10-08

j. F. CUTTERS OED BoURBoN-This cele.
brated whisky for sale by all first-cass druggists
and grocers. Trademark-Star within shields
The morning call., 1893-10-08
NOTICE

Any Of our patrons tcho fail to find THE
MORNING CALL for sale by trainboyS
piU confer a .faror by notifying this Office
Of the fact, naming the date and train.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

SCBREIBER's, s34 Market street. Extra fine
chocolates and bonbons.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
MIscELLANEoUs.

SIT doesn't make a particle of differ
ence WHY we are selling at such ridiCu-
louSly low prices, what interests the public
is WHERE can they get the most for
their money!"
The morning call., 1893-10-08

PALACE baths 713 Fibert; warm sea water
Cures rheumatism, neuralgia many ailments. =
The morning call., 1893-10-08

FINEST eyegass specs, 15c 81 Fourth ST.. !:
Sundays, 730 Market celebrated glove-house. =
The morning call., 1893-10-08

DYSPEPSIA seldom causes death. but permits is
victim to live on In misery. Hoods Sarsaparilla
cures dyspepsia and all stomach disorders. II
also cures sick headache and dizziness
The morning call., 1893-10-08

THERE would be no Indigestion in the world II
Angostura Bitters were used by all, DR.. j. G. B.
Siegert & Sons, manufacturers
The morning call., 1893-10-08

which tribunal OF last resort the decision
was rendered which uncovered the fraudu
lent claim of these corporations.
The morning call., 1893-10-08
THE MORNING CALL

Has larger Circulation than any
other newspaper published in San
Francisco.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

II afaicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp
son s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents
The morning call., 1893-10-08
THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL,

4 IT
80 Potter building. New York City, is provided with
files of California papers. Visitors welcome. Ad-
vertisng rates and sample copies furnished.
f. X. MISCH Manager
The morning call., 1893-10-08

E. H.BLAcK. painter. la Eddy street.
The morning call., 1893-10-08

A JAPANESE INTERIoR.-Under this
expressive title Alice NJ. Baker has given
to the public series of charming letters
from Japan, written during her sojourn
in Toxic, where her experience was quite
unusual for foreigner. She was the
teacher of English in the most conserva-
tive and exclusive educational institution
in the Mikado's realm-the school for girls
of noble parentage directly managed by
the Imperial Government. Near by the
schuol she lived in thoroughly Japanese
home, the household consisting of three
teachers, two OF them native women, three
pupils. and two young girls speaking not a
word of English. Naturally the letters of
this bright American woman reflect the
color OF the environment in which they
were penned. Her views Of Japanese life
were obtained from the standpoint of the
aristocratic Japanese woman. and as such
are of value aside from their intrinsic in
terest. The author lays 10 claim to deep
research or wide knowledge. She simply
records incidents. sights and impressions.
She is Almost too Oldest. for, in telling
how the Empress came in state to the
school. visited her classroom, remained
some tlme and afterward presented her
with valuable robe of rare silk sh. treats
this red-letter day ia the most mat,er.of-
fact manner possible. She does not even
gush over an afternoon spent with the
Minister of War in the i'm perai pre- senee
on the Mikado's birthday. Her pupils
were all peeresses of the realm, and so she
net royalty on equal terms. Everywhere
she made friends, and one can read he
tween the lines her regret on leaving tie
Oriental home wherein she learned TO love
the. pretty. sensitive msidens and their
high-bred hospltable mothers, with whom
she was SO harmoniously associated, TPub-
The morning call., 1893-10-08
THE CALL CALENDAR.

OCTOBER. 1898.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-05-12
WHAT is HEART FAILURE?

We really wish our esteemed con-
temporaries the doctor, would explain
to us exactly what they mean when
they say that so-and-so has died of
heart failure, says the Washington
Post Of course. we know in a gener-
III way that IL citizen dies when his
heart comes to Il determined stop, and
no doubt that contamination might be
loosely described as heart failure on
the ground that it is the reverse of
heart activity. But the term is now
employed as though it described some
specific complaint, like consumption
or Bright's disease, or diphtheria; and
we are building up within ourselves u
yearning curiosity to know just what
it means.
Mr.. Thompson, we will say, is a
large man of liberal ways of life, with
tiorid complexion, jocund nose,
and coming appetite for rum and
water He eats with catholic taste
and Brobdignagian energy. He
drinks as does the painting hart
which finds an unexpected fountain
in the desert. Some fine day Thomp-
son dies with his boots on, so to
speak that is to say, he reaches for
his glass of hot whisky toddy, miss
es it, and passes. Several eminent
physicians gaze upon the cadaver,
wag their heads mournfully, and say
Heart failure Within week old
Joskins around the corner takes Il
tumble. Josllins is cadaverous and
long, built like a tuning-fork, and
equipped inside of him much like the
crane of song and story. He eats lit
tie, drinks less, and mirrors his gen
Grafton in Il bilious eve. Somebody
leaves the door ajar and Joskins blows
out through the chink into another
world. Doctors come and ponder
o*er him and say Heart failure"
once again.
We do not understand it. We wish
we did What is heart failure any
how? Is it new disease, or is the
term merely a scientific subterfuge :?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-05-12
A BIRD STORY.

hope, although the incident may
be trivial, that the little fact may in
terest your readers as much as it did
myself when / was listening some
nights ago to the little lark of whom
my story tells, piping away in what
the poets call 'dulcet strains" of the
most melodious music.
My friend, James Shanock, three
years ago caught young lark, and it
has been pouring out its song ever
since then from its cage, and a very
sweet note it is. Some little while
ago, as the afternoon was sunny, the
cage was hung outside in the garden
at the moment another lark was carol
ing in the air, and Shanock's bird rose
from the cage, which was only cover
ed with fine net, and in which there
must have been a rent, and disappear
ed in the direction of the other lark.
My friend seeing this, at once began
to whistle, holding up the cage to at
tract his pet back again, and in
short time down it came to his feet,
and waited patiently while he gently
replaced him in his cage. There are
three witnesses, l believe, in this
case.
The funniest thing, too, is that
about the same time James Shanock's
cat brought him in little bird quite
delicately and waited for him to take
it from his mouth quite uninjured-
He is a great bird lover, and it looks
as if the cat, like everybody else,
knew this fact,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-05-12
VOL. XXXVIII---NO. ~.
THE GRACE OF4CCEPTTyG.

We hear u great deal about a gra-
cious, wise and notable way of giving
but people rarely speak of WAYS of
accepting, be it gift or favor. And
yet here also wisdom, affability and
generosity, or their opposite qualities,
may be very conspicuously DISPLAYED.
If but few of those who have a liberal
spirit are lowered with that TALENT
for giving which cheers the recipient
like IL sunbeam, there are still fewer
who understand how to accept with
grace and dignity. Where great sacri-
fees are offered the person for whom
they are made is so overwhelmed by
gratitude that all ceremony vanishes,
and the EXPIRE sion of thanks pours
unrestrained from the heart. But in
the many thousands of little everyday
favors one cannot help noticing how
few persons possess the faculty of ac-
cepting graciously.
Which of us cannot recall some oc-
caslon in the past when the curt re-
fusal of some trifiing gift or favor,
whose offer was prompted by the
klndllest impulses, has cut deep and
fingered in the memory for many a
day, though, doubtless, the blunt re-
lection was due merely to brusque-
ness of manner, with no thought of in
fiicting pain?
Even when no hurt is felt, how stiff
and wooded, how awkward the ma
jority of people are in accepting any
little attention or present Either
they pour forth a torrent of thanks so
utterly disproportioned to the
matter in question that the giver is
uncomfortably embarrassed, or they
receive it with a display of the most
formal courtesy.