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The morning call., 1893-11-26
PLENTY OF SUPPLIES.
Secretary Cox Says Natives Live
Well on the Seal Islands.

When the attention of Ernest A. Cox,
secretary of the North American Com
mercial Company, was called TO the dis
patch from Washington, published in The
CALL of yesterday. stating that the COM
paDy WAS plating the Withholding
of supplies from the natives until its ac-
counts with the Government were settled,
he said:
"Oh, you can safely deny that. There
is nothing in the story. The supplies went
up to the PribylOff Islands months ago.
There are between 400 and 500 natives
there, and we must have sent up, roughly
estimated. over 500. 900 worth of supplies
The natives live like human beings now to
what they used to have to put up with
when the Russian Government had the
islands. Then they had to subsist mostly
upon seal meat and live in dugouts. Now
they have very nice houses"-he pointed
to photogra ph of the village on St. Paul
Island-'aud we send them all sorts of
canned goods. All communication has
ceased for the season and there will be
none opened until next May. when the
first steamer goes up"
The morning call., 1893-11-26
BRINGING THEM IN.
Sure-Thing Gamblers and
BunkO Men.
Undesirable Visitors to the Fair
Being Closely Looked After
by the Police.

The Midwinter Fair is paturally attract
ing considerable attention in the East. and
among those who have determined to be
early on the scene are bunko men and sure
thing gamblers, who expect to rea a rich
harvest from among the thousands OF ex-
pected visitors.
The Chief of Police has been fully alive
TO the fact that number of that undesir-
able class has been arriving in the city,
and for that reason he has specially de-
tailed Officers Cleary and Allen to hunt
them up and take them to the City Prison.
Within the past three weeks these Off
GERS have made about twenty men arrested.
Each has been photographed for future
reference, and they have been given the
chOice of shaking the dust OF the city off
their feet at once, never to return, or being
held for vagrancy with the possibility of
six months in Jail.
Four of the number were captured near
the Midwinter Fair grounds just as they
had completed their examination of the
locality and had settled upon their head
quarters in saloon close by. One of the
four was. suspected OF being concerned 10
the bunko game upon G. w. Wright, a
coIored man, who was neatly robbed Of
Sl25 last month.
Six others were arrested in a sol0on OF
Geary street, which it was presumed they
had selected as their base Of operations,
and one of them claimed TO have half
interest in the saloon. He was wildly In
diRnant when he was requested TO look
natural and pleasant while his photogra oh
was being taken.
Chief Crowley said yesterday that these
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fairly started on our promised sail But
the sun was already low In the heavens.
and we realized that the home tack must
be ours. So we put the tiller hard over
bnOm. But the boom didn't jbe. We
waited for it, waited patiently. but persls-
tently; and against the better judgment OF
her rudder, the Black Cat kept to the
course that would have landed US at
Hunters Point in two hours had not some
thing happened.
OF course, we might have brought her
around with the Oars-we knew that-but
wa were tired of playing with the oars,
and made up our minds TO lie up at Hunt
ers Point and take the ferry home.
Then the something happened. The can
vas tapped, the sheets lOOsened in our
hands. The wind was gone. The white
wings of the Black Cat were useless. We
Were half way to Hunters Point. We
waited, we prayed for a breath of air.
Only when the red sun sank behind the
last black hill did a little puff come. 1t
caught us with loOsened jb and lasted
long enough to bring us around nicely on
the homeward tack. 1t taught US the
hidden secret OF the Black Cat. that the jb
and the rudder must work together; then
it left us.
Darkness settled down over the sea.
Sill, there was the moon to steer by and
the lights of San Francisco. We headed
Tor nome, then waited aud prayed some
more. Came then a great white wall
creeping stealthily over the water from
the north. First it hid the north shore and
It's lights. then even Goat Island disap-
peared into nothing. and we needed not
the sound of the fog horn TO warn US that
we must be up and doing or be caught all
night in the fog.
So we-up and did, which means that we
rowed again. Now a twenty-foot catboat
is not the easiest thing in the world to row.
Away-flve miles away-tO the east and
norlh lay home. To the south lay the fog.
There was one thing to be dODe-and we
did it-make for the southwest point of
Bay Farm Island, beach the boat and wade
ashore. And we had just about time
enough to do it before the fog reached US.
There yet lay three miles of pedestrian n
exercise between us and Alameda, but we
marched ltwlthOut murmur.
We were wet, slightly tried, and
somewhat sleepy-nOt to mention bit
thirsty and a trifle hungry-when we
reached home. Still. it was not long after
midnight, and we had been sailing-or
thought we had. 1t is pleasant to 60 sail
ing on the bay-iu ferry-boat.
And the man who brought the Black Cat
home for US in the morning charged us a
days wages for the job.
After all "a life on the ocean wave" has
its drawbacks, sometimes.
LUKE NORTH.
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phrase with which to paralyze our friends
when we got back.-and then tackled the
lunch-basket. Now, whatever may be
said about the disadvantages Of having a
feminine member OF the crew on such a
small craft as the Black Cat, one of them
is certainly not 10 be found in the content ts
of the lunch-basket.
And l say this knowingly, having more
than once partaken of the ships fare pro-
vlded by that expert skipper, Captain
Mahr0g. 1t was his wont to throw a
pound of soda crackers and can OF cOrned
beef on the fish bait in the locker. And in
due season 1t tasted like ambrOsia, though
that was more the fault of the appetite
than of the viands provided or their man.
ner of serving.
But the luncheon of the lady differed in
kind and quantity as much from that of
Skipper MahrOg as their seamanshi % would
be apt to coul1 it be compared. Only the
skipper always remembers the water-bot-
tie. The lady member of the crew did
not. So when the marmalade and the
fresh biscuits and the good cheese and the
boiled chicken and whatnOt was consume d
by the hungry seamen there was wi hal
lack of liquid refreshments, bottled coffee
being good in its way. but totally insult
ficient to slack the thirst that burns for
water when there is none.
We rowed little more when lunch was
over. We rowed a good deal, if the truth
be told in its naked entirety, for we wante
to find that breeze that Captain Mahrog
had promised US. Presently we stopped
rowing. because we had to. The bottom
rose up through the wafer First IL grated
against the centerbOard. and we all cried
In chorus, Look out for the shoal."
But we were trfle too late. We pulled
and pushed but the Black Cat would not
bulge. She settled down in a soft bath in
the mud and staid there. The masculine
part of the crew got on the outside-sans
shoes and stOckings--and tried bv main
force to coax the Black Cat out into deeper
water. Ii was no use.
Then the wind came. 1t was beautiful.
strong and healthy north wind, and it
made us weep for the shores that it might
have waited us to had the tide been six
inches higher. 1t blew merriy and stead.
lily for four hours at stretch, and all
about us the gay crews of yachts and
by. Only the incoming tide could re-
lease US. And it came slowly. How il
did creep. Constantly we kept measuring
the depth-or rather the shallnwness-of
the water. By aud by, when the water
came up above our knees, when we stood
upright i'm the water. and soaked the
trousers we knew that the hour of our de-
liverance from the mud fiat was drawing
near, and we rejoiced exceeding and
pushed harder. Presently the tide marked
four inches above the highest notch to
which the crews trousers could be rolled
and a mighty effort of the able seamrn
pushed the Black Cat free. She foated
JOY!
To run up the main sail and jib was the
work of moment. They filled as quickly.
and away we sped over the ''boundine
main" almost in the teeth of the wind"
(These nautical phrases are borrowed for
this especial occasi0n.) At last we were
The morning call., 1893-11-26
THE ART OF BREATHING.


ing gently at the side. breathe as deeply
as You can without feeling any unple asant
SENSATION In the head or eyes. You should
oe aole TO feel the expansion OF the upper
thorax. the lower ribs and gentle move
ment OF the abdominal muscles. Ii may be
tnat you cannot do this at first. but per-
slstent continuance in this practice, day
alter day, for two or three minutes at a
time. will soon begin to work change Tor
tue DETER. BE sure that it is fresh. pure
air you are taking into your lungs. Most
people have an. idea thai cold air is Deces-
sarily pure air. but such is not necessarily
the case. There should be an open WIN
breathing exercise, or, better yet, take 1t
In the open air.
Another good exercise is to suspend
some light object by thread from the
chandelier or center of the ceiling. stand
at some distance from it and practice
| blowing upon it with your breath. AT
nrst you may only be able t" move 1t when
you are standing close beside it. but you
will be surprised and delighted. as time
goes on. to note how your lung-power will
| increase, until you can stand at cOnsld-
able distance from the suspended object
and cause it to sway violently in the min
| iature gale issuing from your lips. Still
another good practice is never to speak
without first filling your lungs. This de-
velOps habit of speech that is as pleasant
to him who must listen as 1t is beneficial
to the speaker.
The tidal or breathing volume OF air.
that which passes in and out of the lungs
at each ordinary inspiration and expira-
ton. is estimated al from twenty to thirty
cubic inches. AS general thing 1t is
much less than this. as few people practice
even good ordinary respiration. What is
| called the compemental air. the addI-
tional amount that can be taken IN by a
forced inspiration, is about 10 cubic inches.
besides which there is the residual air.
which cannot be expelled even by forcibe
expiration. and which is estimated al
100 cubic inches. Upon the condition OF
these go cubic inches or so OF air depends
to a very large extent the health of the
blood and its freedom and immunity from
toxic influences.
When this is understood we arrive also
at some comprehension Of the Importance
of the loDg-l0st art of breathing.
| MFnJCIrG
The morning call., 1893-11-26
BEHIND WICkETS.
AlamedaS and Penryns
Have a Draw.
Pennant- Holders Smother the ViSi.
tors Under a Heavy Score-Cali-
fOrniaS To-Day.

The cricketers played In hard luck yes
terday. The ground was so soft. after the
rain. that it held the ball, and but poor
work could be done in the field.
Notwithstanding draw backs, however.
the Alameda Club put up such a game
that all interest was killed. a score of
135 for one wicket was quite sufficient to
dampen the arGor of the Citrus Colony
Club. When the above score had been
reached E. Hood, who captained the team,
called the game in order to give the
visitors a chance.
The PenryDs commenced well, but the
darkening shadows made it impossible TO
continue the game, and at o'clock the
game was called. They managed to get
42 runs for FIVE wickets, and had the game
been played out it was within the bounds
of possibility that they might have made
a good showing, but could scarcely have
beaten the Alameda's score.
Ward and Sloman bowed for the Ala
medas, but the latter was not in form.
Ward, however, showed up well, the Wis
pitch. He had no less than seven maiden
overs, and finally got four of the Penryns'
wickets for Is runs.
Taking all things into consideration the
game was unsatisfactory. game can
never be decisively settled while a mum.
Der of men have not been to bat. and con-
sequently to all intents the game yester-
day was really a drawn game.
The California Club will play the Citrus
Colony Club to-day at Golden Gate,
wckets to be pitched at 10 o'clock. weather
permitting.
The detailed score of yesterdays game
is as follows:
The morning call., 1893-11-26
LEFT ON THE MUD.
Cruise of the Black Cat
on the Shoals.
WINDS THAT NEVER CAME.
Beached on Bay Farm Island to
Escape Night on the Bay
in a Fog.

How were we to know that the Black
Cat steered chiefly by the jib? Captain
Mahrog didn't choose to tell us before he
showed the boat out from under the Bay
Farm Island bridge stern first. nor could as
much be guessed from any outward and
visible signs about the craft.
And how were we to know that the mud
flats at the end of the island reach two
miles out from the high water markP
And that expert skipper. Captain NAH
rog himself, assured us there was bound
to be breeze in the afterno oon. So you
cannot blame us for the misfortune that
befell US, unless you hold that boating
itself is wrong, or that we would have been
better off in Sunday school than in the
little-cabined sloop that carried us out of
Alameda Greek early Sunday morning and
on to the broad waters of the bay.
Besides 1t would be work of superora-
CATION to blame us for these misfortunes.
We suffered them. Let it end there. we
are satisfied.
The I'VE" included three-a lady, a gen.
tleman and the chronicler hereof. We are
all able seamen-or thought we were be-
fore that Bay Farm mud fiat came in 10 our
We tried to rise early that morning
tried and succeeded but indlfferently. We
knew it would be high tide al the heads by
8 "a o'clock In the morning. If we caught
the 7 As train for Alameda we wou Id reach
the boat before the high tide could. This
was on our minds when we went to bed,
and we managed to catch the :45 train.
1t was credtable for US. We might have
done worse. Captain Mahrog might have
chided us for being late, but We liked him
the better for his forbearance.
At the foot of High street. In the estu-
ary. between ALAMEDA and Bay Farm Isl
and. the Black Cat bObs I'D and down at
aboard. lunch basket, kodak and clans for
bait. We wanted to sail off TO The distant
shores of SausalitO. but Captain Mahrog's
advice was against it,
"It's only long. rough sail down that
way" said he, ''and you'll have the wind
against you. You want to go over toward
San Mateo. The fishing Is good there now
and the country is picturesque"
We deferred TO this advice-and are
sorry. For pilot we had the distinguished
skipper himself, and l have already
limited that our entrance into the channel
below the bridge was ungraceful. to say
the least. But the wind was slack ar that
time and the ebb tide had lost its force
When he gave us the farewell push Cap
tain Mahrog climbed back Oh the piling
and watched our course down the stream.
This was little unsteady. it could not be
denied. but no more so, we hattered our
selves, than the eXigencies OF a head wind
and IA narrow channel demanded; and it
took time for the Black Cat to beat her
way down-tlme and muscle-for the wind
failed sadly at the critical moment and we
must needs use the oars.
Well, it was high noon by the time our
hands were thoroughly blistered, so we
stood in under the lee of the island-being
assured that would make fat nautical
The morning call., 1893-11-26
Art Association.

Among the contributors to the comm z
exhibition of works by eminent foreign
and American artists to be held at the
rooms of the Art Association are Irving
NJ. Scott. Mrs. William II. Crocker. Mrs.
A. E. Head. Lloyd Tevis, William Norris,
Colonel c. +. Croker, E. w. Hopkins, NJ.
E. Hecht, Mrs. Samuel nj. Wilson, Mrs. r..
c. johnson. Henry 7. Scott, E. A. Denicke,
DR.. E. r. Taylor. William f. Herrin, Ed
ward l.. g. Steel, Mrs. o. S. Orrick, Mrs.
II. NJ. Newhali, Mrs. William Mayo New
hall. Timothy Hopkins. Philip LiIlenthal,
S. c. Bigelow. IgnatZ S;einhardt, w. E.
Brown. John ID. Spreckels, w. f. Goad,
Frederick w. Zeie, and others who have
not as yet sent in their blank forms but
who have promised to contribute one to
three pictures each.
The morning call., 1893-11-26
An Attachment.

The .DicklDs- Hobart Lumber Company
has been attached by the Humboldt Lum-
ber Mill Company to recover S444 The
lumber-yards of the company on Berry
street have also been attached. Ameeting
of the creditors of the Dickins- e obart
Lumber Company was held on October T.
and j. b. Bowling was appointed trustee
In the interest of creditors. The liabilities
are about S21.00 and il is claimed the
assets are worth about $27, ZOO.
The morning call., 1893-11-26
BLACK DRESS GOODS!

e11ts
winb
ALIWOOL HENRIETTA.
will be off cred a cperya
81 90 will be placed
The morning call., 1893-11-26
STORM SERGES !!
at 40 Gents.

100 ALIWOOL NAVY BLUE DIAGONAL SERGES
p 80 on his week perry
30 pieces 54CH AWOoL NAVY BLUE STORM SERGES
The morning call., 1893-11-26
REGARDLESS OF SACRIFICE!
NOVELTY COLORED DRESS GOODS

INCH ALIWOOL
fects ST. will be
a
week at 75cper eryard
The morning call., 1893-11-26
SILK DEPARTMENT!


a
De a per ard
closed this week at
LOO
= -
a
The morning call., 1893-11-26
FURNISHING GOODS!

Having bought Stockton Wooen Mills their en
stock of FINE WHITE BLANKETS finer
offer THE STRONGEST VALUES EVER PRESENTED.
The morning call., 1893-11-26
DRY GOODS.
THANKSGIVING Week LEADERS
STYLISH DRESS FABRICS
SEASONABLE HOUSEF URuISHIuG GOODS!

TO DO BUSINESS
of
UNUSUALLY are wha offer
WEEK. for Grand Annual Holiday
Holiday goods by forcing
gigantic
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-02

Tho story is very curious. The cir
cular window had been without glass
for some time when Father Jones or
dered a new one from the only store in
the village and had it put in place. The
sun was shining full on the glass when
the glazier left it, and few minutes
later little girl ON the opposite side Of
the street cried out. "Oh, SEQ the pretty
picturew
Passersby followed the line of her
pointing finger and saw the image in the
glass. A crowd collected, and Father
Jones, the village priest, was sent for.
He saw it and 80 did all the rest, but
Catholic priests are as a rule very wary
of giving encouragement to such things,
and he decided that it was in the glass
originally. He had that glass taken out
and another put in, but the picture came
again, not so boldly outlined as before,
but still plain enough TO be recognized.
Father Jones then went up inside the
spire and looked through the glass, but
on that side it was perfectly clear and
free from lines of any kind
Bishop Cotter, Of that diocese, was then
consulted and pronounced it "A delusion,
and as thousands Of people were crowd
ind the little village to see tho wonder he
ordered the glass taken out. Meanwhile
an invalid suffering from an incurable
disease entered the church to pray and
went away completely cured, as he al
legged. This started second pilgrimage
A boy with curvature of the spine en-
tered the church and went away straight
and sound. Then all the cripples and
invalids Of that section thronged to Can
ton, and at last accounts the little vii
lage of four or five hundred people was
literally overcrowded with the lame,
sick, blind and manned.
1t is, to say the least, a puzzling affair.
1t is a standing rule in the Catholic
church that no event is TO be considered
miraculous until every possible natural
explanation is disproved and every rea-
sonable doubt destroyed. One explaua,
ton, and the one generally accepted by
skeptics, is that some talented photog-
rapher or manipulation of lenses has been
amusing himself by transferring an
image from some distant point Of van
tage, the process being the same az that
used in producing the stage GHOSTS"
which excited such wonder some twenty
years ago. But what about the "cures"
of which over a score are now reported
It's very pretty problem as it stands.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-02
Curious Scene n. the Worlds Fair.

The other day tho Turks consecrated
the grounds on which the Turkish pa
vilion Of the Worlds fair will be erected
First they killed n large white sheep as
a sort Of insurance to prevent Allah
from destroying the building. A hun
dred men in Bullying brooches, rimless
red fez and red slippers stood around the
sheep. One prayed, another tied a
bandage over the eyes Of the sheep, and
Fdhri Bey cut the animals throat. After
this everybody went to the Turkish vii
lage, and the sheep was there cooked and
eaten
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-02
THE CURES AT CANTON.
A Minnesota Village Where Miracles Of
Healing Arc Performed.

Fillmore county is in the southeastern
part Of Minnesota. Canton village is in
the southwestern part of Fillmore coun-
ty. In Canton village is small Cath
Ole chapel called st. Michael's; that
chapel has a small spire; that spire has a
small window, and in that window there
is, or recently was, a phenomenon which
many people considered miracle.
1t was picture of woman holding an
infant child. Neither the woman nor
the child looked at all like the standard
pictures Of the Madonna and infant
Jesus, as the child represented very
chubby and broad jawed baby Of the
healthy western type, while the woman
bore the likeness of stout Swedish or
Norwegian nursegirl Nevertheless there
they were. There was no way Of account
ing for their being there, and imagina-
ton did the rest. 1t was considered a
miracle, there was rush of visitors,
miraculous cures" wero reported, and
now Canton is celebrated.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-02
WROTE WAR SONGS.
TWO POETS WHOSE FAME WILL EN-
DuRE FOR AGES.

Father Ryan Was "a Champion of tho Con-
federacy, and Julia Ward Howe Is tho
Author of the Battle Hymn OF the Re-
public"
The faithful priest and ardent Virgin
jan, Father Abram Joseph Ryan, was
but forty-six years old at death, yet
measuring time by its experiences he
may be said to have lived two ordinary
lives. He was in way dedicated to the
priesthood from his birth, for his mother
was a woman Of the most devoted piety,
and even in his boyhood days in Norfolk,
Va, he showed marked tendency to
the study and contemplation of divine
things. He had, however, scarcely COM
pleted his preliminary studies and been
ordained TO the priesthood when the civil
war began, and he and his brother David
were soon in the Confederate camp shar-
ing in all the hardshipg Of the soldier.
What u strange contrast does the life
of Julia Ward Howe present. tt first
view it would seem thai tho opposed
or conventional mentality By, sex had
been reversed; that the man was all fer
vent emotion and sentiment, the woman
all hard, cold logic. She was from the
star, a Unitarian, he a Catholic; she tho
dau inter- of a well TO do banker and a
cultured wife, reared in comparative