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when she starts for the summer resort, and
needing only the magic touch of the spring
sun to expand them.
The chap trrals follow close in the wake
Of the manzanita, their perfumes oppres-
slyely heavy.
The white. cream and lavender thyrsi OF
the lilac add their sweetness to the CON-
bined odors of March and April. The liIaes
eongregate in large patches and 1t is a sight
worth coming to see-entire hills trans
formed into mOsaics of white and cream
and lavender.
Then come the elders with their graceful
dlgltate foliage and umbels of faint canary
colored fruit blossoms, aud last the wild
grape vines OF the creeks and springs
tangled into natural arbors and sun screens
over The trees Of the watery mold.
While various shrubs are in turn giving
birth to their numerous shoTt-lived progeny
in nidair. the fields are not idle. February
is ushered in with parterres of white for
eet-me-not (myos0tis) SO closely packed
together that they seem veritable snow
banks.
II any lover of flowers or special admirer
OF this particular flower sends for speci-
mems let 1t be in the name of popcorn, ="
for so the children and their elders, not
posted in botanical nomenclature, have
christened it. Acres of the lovely nemo-
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Birds ofPassa-e

Between this and the other side of the broad At
lantie In the shape OF tourists, commercial travel
eTs and mariners. agents ION the road" steamboat
captains. ships surgeons and "aiI sorts and condi
hons" of travellers, emigrant and new settlers ap
preciate and testify to the preventive and remedial
properties OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters In sea
sickness. nausea, malarial and rheumatic trouble
aud all disorders OF the stomach, liver ana bowels
Against the prejudicial influences OF climate
crudely cooked or unaccustomed diet and Impure
water, 1t is sovereign safeguard and has been so
regarded by the travelling public for over third OF
n century. No form Of malarlal fever, from the
ealentura OF the Pacific and tho broken bone fever
ot the Mississippi to It's milder typos can resist the
curative action of this beniguant preserver and
storer OF health, veritaole boon to persons In
feeble health or liable to incur disease. 13
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Items of Interest to Members of
Many Denominations.

Items of Interest to Members of
Many Denominations.
The 1892 census Of Methodist China mis-
sions is as follows: Missionaries so, assis-
tanIs 46. native preachers, ordained II. un-
ordained 137, native teachers 1873, native
helpers 64. members 1912, probationers
1879. theological students 116. pupils 1905
Sunday-schoCl scholars 57S4, adult baptisms
1888, infant baptisms 42l, collections fer
self-support S2461. other purposes S3592.
The ever-increasing tide of benevolence is
one of the most cheering signs of the pro-
gress Of the Christian religion and spirit in
the world. No less than $40. .O61, ,927 was
given last year IN the United States fer
purposes of education, charity ana popular
entertainments in various forms. OF this
amount the citizens OF Chicago contributed
81 146, 900.
Rev. George Robertson, late pastor of the
Ohyet Congregational Church, Toronto,
has come to Southern California, and is
with his friend, Rev. George Wilett of
ReGlands. He is commended as a minister,
vigorous, earnest. practical and true" He
leaves his former field. deeply regretted, to
! seek here more favorable climate.
The Rev. G. NJ. Southgate of Worcester
may decline the New England secretary
ship of the American Missionary Society
and remain pastor of Pilgrim Church. If
the latter organization will make con sid
cradle reduction in its debt. which now
amounts to SG0,000 About S25, 900 would
satisfy his demand at present.
News has reached this country of the
death in November last of Rev. Charles g.
| HartsocE at Matadi, on the CangO Rev J.
Chester hyde says of him, HE was one of
| the best missionaries / ever met in Africa -
DR.. E. J.. Clark, who resigned the pas
torats of the Presbyterian Church Of the
| Puritans, New York, because he could not
teach the doctrines of that church, has
united with the Suffolk Association.
The Girls Brigade of the East Los Ange-
les Congregational Church has adopted a
constitution exactly like that of the Bows
| Brigade. The company meets regularly for
Bible-class and drll.
DR.. Albert G. Lawson is made the target
| for personal attacks because of his raid
against the business OF the gamblers of New
| Jersey.
A fourishing Junior Christian Endeavor
| Society has recently been organized in the
First Congregational Church. Pasadena.
The Emmanuel Church Of Omaha has re-
! ceived forty persons and the Calvary thirty.
| as a result of the recent Mills meetings.
Baltimore, Nd, is having q great re-
| ligious awakening. Moody and Sankey
| were to begin work there last week.
The sixth annual convention of the Cali
| fornia Christian Endeavar Union will be
held in Fresno, April 20-23, 1898.
The Chinese Mission at Vern ondale,
under care of Miss Thompson, is flourish
ing.
The Baptist Church at Santa Barbara is
in a very prosperous condition.
About 1900 cards were signed at the Mills
meetings in Des Moines.
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The WOMAN HAD TEMPER.
And Being Deaf Was Sensitive to
Personal Criticism.
Chicago journal.


She was a tall. lank woman, with the
slender, graceful build of lath, and she
was being fitted with fur-tr immed cloak
at r State-street store. She was wealthy :;
the clerk had settled that in his mind by
the size of her diamonds. But unfortu
nately he was not aware that she was
slightly deaf.
Il think the other will suit you better"
he murmured. as he critically surveyed tbs
garmentupon her; this fur is very thin"
"Sir." said she. raising her voice sharply
odd you say thin ?"
II meant to say narrow" he stam-
mered.
How dare you say such a thing to me?"
she screamed.
Everybody in the store was looking by
this time, and the little cash girls crept be-
hind the counter for safety.
"Per-perhaps," siammered the Young
man, growing red in the face. II should
have said slight, slim or poor"
mo, sir; you should have said nothing
on the subject at all shall do my dealing
hereafter where the clerks know how To
mind their business and not make imper-
tnent remarks about my persona appear
anee."
And she flounced out OF the store. leaving
the cloak and the clerk on the floor in two
separate heaps.
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The Nadia elegans-another "tarweed"
of the Fresno foothills-has a brilliant
flower, more fragile but resembling the
French marigold. with a dark brown or
black center, set ib a coro,la of rich gold,
which makes the late summer ard autumn
landscapes gorgeous.
The HemiZOuia vrgata lasts through the
autumn and dies erect. This variety of tar
weed is conspicuous by its uginess, if any
flower not reeking with disagreeable odors
may be called ugly; but the winter hoar
frost transforms 1t into glitterlng stalag-
mites aud it becomes idyllic. When the sun
warns the frozen dew. it hangs to the
branches and turns The fields into sparkling
diamonds.
To know. to realize to the fullest ;he
wealth of the Fresno foothill flora, an en-
tire season must be spent among it to wit
ness personally its oyerfowing profusion,
its variety of form, lis manifold colors n all
their shades and battle In the composite
perfume of thousand flowers.
No gardener, no park commissioner can
compete with nature in blending or con-
trasting colors. in artistic and picturesque
arrangements of plants.
when wide DDS and mighty lawns
Bloom upward the skies,
This earth has more gorgeous sight
To show to mortal eyes.
LOUISE A. LITTLEToN.
Toh I Z
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FRESNO'S FLORA.
Trees and Blossoms OF
the Foothills.
BEAUTIFUL WILD FLOWERS.
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs-Na-
ture's Display Unexcelled
by Art.
written for THE MORNING CALL

The Fresno foothills are an ever-eon-
tinuous series of transformations. Asno
two successive winters burst the same
mum ber of rainclouds, so no two successive
seasons present the same panoramic vew
Neither are any two successive days alike,
but each twilight spreads her veil over a
Kaleidoscope picture changed in its color
tones by the mountain breeze that curis up
leaves and flowers and ferns and displays
the red and green stems and boughs of the
flora, or by the warm rays of the
sun making love by the wholesale to
all organic and inorganic life, transfguring
homely old rock hOwlders into things of
beauty, dimpling the flowers with smiles,
and warming the cheeks of the rocky hills
into ruddy glow that fingers long half
hours after the honest cOmpilers Of the
annual patent medicine almanacs have de-
eided that the sun has set
In Mend0cino County the good country
folk divide periods of time into buck
shur'D, sheep shur'n" and Lamb shur' n. !"
The Fresno foothills have the four climatic
seasons of the civilized world. but the win
tiers are curtaled-spring and autumn pro-
lOnged. Naturally the foothills have more
showers than the plains, but the rainfall Of
the entire county is never very heavy one.
These showers most accommodatingly come
for the greater part during the night and do
not interfere with tbs work-a-day world,
but leave the larger portion of the country
in soft condition, lust like pudding" as
a learned Superior Court Judge of Fresno
puts 1t aptly If not elegantly.
Once in every three or four years there Is
fine winter snowstorm which brings every
shrub and tree on the mountain side into
bold relief and blends and loses the irregu-
lar lines Of the white mountain tops in the
The morning call., 1893-03-26
Nature and Art in Greek Statues.

Arcbaologis,s have observed that in
Greek statues the male eve is strongly
arched, while the female eye has rather a
flattened surface; and referring to accounts
by the older anatomists who have affirmed
such difference to exist. they have seen in
this fresh proof Of the exact observation
of nature by the ancient Greeks. The ruIe
is not without exceptions. for the cnrpea in
the Zeus of Otricoli has quite fiat form.
Herr Greet recently set himself [Archiv fur
AnaD, 10 inquire whether such sexual dif-
ference actually exists, and from individual
measurement OF radius of the cornea in the
horizontal meridian, he gets an average of
7.S3 nm. for men and 7.S2 mm for women.
Donders gives 1858 and 7.7g9), so the dif.
ference IS so small as to be imperceptible tn
the naked eye. Measurement of other dimen-
sions gave but minute differences also. The
auther concludes that the Greeks Cfrom mr..
tistic motivesl did not in this case follow
nature.
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phIla, Ike bits of heavens own blue
dropped from their m0orings above to the
earth beneath. and shooting stars (D0dO-
catheon medal in shaded reds darting
overhead. Then the buttercups and daisies
and the mullitudes OF yellow flowers in all
shares and all sizes, which alone would
entitle California TO the name of "the
Golden State"
and crrvtee filed with btossoms-'racemes,
corymbs, umbels. spikes, heads, panieIes,
thyrsl, cymes, tascicles, glnmeTules, single
and compound" as we used glibly to recite
in school, creeping and twiniDg, independ-
ent and solitary, and in all colOTs. till the
entire country becomes a great brilliant
Kaleidoscope.
To enumerate all would be dry reading
matter 10 any save the bCtanist. OF the
hundreds many are common to the plains
below and to the coniferous belt above.
The foothills act as sort of stipler in
blending the egetati0n nf the valleys and
of the Serras. 1t IS difficult task TO select
the few conspicuous by their profusion,
special brilliancy or special merit, where
none to the close observer Is without its
distinguishing characteristic.
The honeysnekle has two representatives
one with delicate canaTy-cOlored blossoms,
fragrant as the lemon balm. with regulation
eonnate perfoliate leaves; The other like the
cultivated woOdbIne.
The species of mallow, so familiar to all
children over the land as ''cheeses," -four
ishes luxuriantiy, as does aliluria with its
wee pink crown.
The yellow violet, which is the first spring
Hover found in some Of the New England
States if poets tell the TRUTH flowers freely
IN the mGldy creek banks of March. Many
branches OF the antirrhInum (snapdTagon)
family attain luXuriant growth. The
large yellow species plants Itself 10 The
water beds and shoots its stems one to two
feet high. The leaves spread themselves
over the surface of the water and grow to
great size. a patch of yellow antirrhinum
IS a surer test Of bed OF water than WITCH
hazel or any other sort of superstition
whatsoever" q know for l have tried
them ALL II grows so eOmpactly that it
eonceals all traces of water.
The graceful white azaIea is as strong a
feature Of the landscape ms the lilac.
There are two species OF the milk weed
the common gummy sort of the plains and
one blnssomIng in deep purplish crimson
aud white cyme, graceful and fragrant.
which IN turn natures into q coma or seed,
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LIFE's NIGHT WATCH.

Throughout the night, the hot and heavy night
With soul wide opened. that It could see
Across the dark OF its own reyerfc
We toss from right to wrong. from wrong to right
We Yrarn to hold eaCA moment in our might
Ere from our ,stlessness 1t restless flee.
Aud yet wouid urge II with impatient plea
To bear Us onward to the coming light
thousand fanCles hoverlng TO and fro
Hasten the hours. and yet the dawn is slow
At length she comes. Beneath her gentls breath
rSr-spreading peace doth lightly overflow
Our lessentnZ expectancy; and so
We slHk to 6refest sleep. And that is death.
-TamDte R,fr
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Weight of Railroad pa;Is
New York Tribnne

The weight of the rail used on the AmerL-
can roads has been increasing steadily these
twenty years, Notwithstanding the abnn-
dance of timber for ties. This is due solely
to the increasing weight of rolIinQ-stock.
Cars of every description are much heavier
than tney were formerly and their capacity
is greater. Twenty years ago the mnvimnm
capacity of freight-car was from 20, 900 to
24,000 pounds. To-day it is from 10000 10
$4,000 pounds. and, indeed few cars have
been built that will carry 100, 600 pounds of
freight. A 30-ton engine was regarded as
OF fair size some years ago. but we see them
now weighing sixty, seventy and eighty
tons. Until within the last ten or a dozen
years the average weight of rails in nse
here was 56 pounds TO the yard.
The morning call., 1893-03-26
The bohemian.

John Boden In Donahoe's Magazine.
All classes and trades Of men have bur-
dened the world with their wants and their
woes save the bohemian. Who ever knows
of the struggles of the men whose brains
are their only tools. of Iheir heartaches and
DESPAIR, their bitter disapp0intments Who
knows of their battles for the bread they
need? Now and then some poor, weak
soul, wearied by woe too great, seeks from
another world a justice owed him here.
Bohemia mourns him day, there are possi-
bly, few lines in some newspapers saying
that 'tovorwork," which is diplomatic lam
guage for underpay. killed him, and all is
over Or maychance, the weirdly humor-
GUS tale over which you laugh SO heartily.
recounting the adventures OF a poet i'm
search Of q purchaser, had for its basis n
personal experience Of the author. He
could not sell his poem, but must have
bread, and so out of his misfortunes be
made good cheer. His adaptability is one
Of his pecularlties. The ordinary man, re-
bntfed by fortune, would sit down and
mourn himself into an Illness. The bo-
hemian utlIzes those very reyerses. and
both he and the world are the merrier
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Good Slang.
Atlantic Monthly

Good slang is Automatically expressive and
has narrow escape sometimes from beinv
poetical An English traveller had quarrel
with the mate Of Mississippi steamboat
and the case came into court. The counsel
for the plaintiff, in his opening address to
the 1nry, thus stated his cause of action
dressed my client 10 most violent and per-
emplory terms and threatened him IL he did
not Immediately remove his personal effects
from the entranceway OF the steamer he
would precipitate him into the raging flood
below" The evidence of the bystanders as
to the mates words were as follows. III .oos
here, stranger. il you don't tote your plum
der off that gangplank right smart l'll spilI
you In the drink" F
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His Two Works of Art.
Boston Globe


One day the swell artist was passing the
house Of the younger one, and the latter
called to him: "Mr. -, l have Just fin
ishsd two pictures. entirely different in
subject, and would like to have your opinion
on Them" The great man said he would
be only too happy to look at them, so. usher
ing him into the house and opening the
parlor the owner pointed to two pictures
hanging on the wall, and said Theirs
they are. One picture is my father, copied
from an old-tashioned ambrotype; the other,
is a painting of Lily Pond" The artist,
after adjusting his eyeglasses aud looking
carefully at the paintings moment, turned
and asked, (which did you say was your
fathRr MIR. -"
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eventually for them. There is much more
fact than fancy behind many of the t1fes
that make pass pleasantly an evening by
the firesde. The bohemian is not tres
passer on the time OF any man nor trader
on the symDathies nf world that does not
understand him. H contributes his brains
while other men contribpte their raHn.
ald yet the latter claim all the rewards Tor
tue progress made in the ages.
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an easy task for the court TO show that
teaching school, purchasing real estate.
voting and giving his slave TO hire. did not
divest Mr.. Stovall of his privileges as
traveller; but il was done after fashion,
nevertheless, 10 the qualification of few
and the amazement of the many. Perhaps
the most biting comment on the judgment
of the court was that Of Judge Baldwin.
man Of decided pro-slavery opinions. who
remarked that the decision gave the law
to the North and the nigger to the South"
However, as the opinion gave to Hiram
was not legally reversed In his case 1t
answered the purpose just as well as il it
had received the concurrence of the entire
Supreme bench. But anxious as he seemed
to be concerning his legal rights. lie mani
Tested but little surprise at the manner in
which his questions had been answered.
He had doubtless suspected that he was n o
longer a slave in California and had come
to me to have the truth of the happy sur
mise confirmed.
When l asked him how long he intended
to divide his earnings with his late master,
he replied:
",jes' as long as he axes fer 'em, sab. l
can't say no to de chile of my ole msssa."
But you are free man now, and must
look out for Yourself"
81 know dat, sab; but I can't bring nv
self to swin'le my poo ole missus outen de
price OF nIggah wutf as much as | is. l
tor 'er I'd come back ter Kaintuck wiv
Trace. am 1t pears ter me dat urter do it, "
You say you have money. Then, why
not buy yourself of your mistress at her
own price? And why not buy your wife
and child, as well, as soon az you are able
to DO SOP What better use can you make
of your money than in huying yourself and
family out OF hondage?"
Glory. 10 God! You're right, sab, an
dats jes wat I'll dot" exclaimed the old
| man. AN it won't be long afore l duz it
eder. But l mus hep Trace along; he's
sorteruo count, but mus help i'm along,
sab an bmeby, wen Is good an ready,
Pll-but my roo ole head is buzzin' wiv de
IDEAS you've put in ii. an l wan ter tink
kline ter me, sab, an [ won't bodder yer any
mo- ter-daY." And he rose and slipped
quietly away through the brush.
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Leaving the Placer Times office little
before daylight one morning, on passing the
Arcade saloon. the floor of which had just
been sprinkled, l observed through an open
door a scuffle in the back part OF tha room.
The lights we're dim, but could distinguish
that two mrn were attempting to rob or
murder a third. l drew pistol and fired a
shot in the air in front of the door Tie
struggle ceased. and in attempting to escape
through back door one OF the men was
knocked down with a heavy wooden chair.
patrOlman appearing in response TO the
shot, we entered the room, where we found
Hiram sitting exhausted on a bench. with
cut on his forehead which was bleeding
freely, and his shirt literally torn from his
black body, while the man who had been
knocked down had just risen to his feet
whats the row here?" inquired the
officer, grufiy addressing the latter. we'll
dressed white man, who was feeling a
bruise on the side of his head and looking
for his hat.
THAT Niger knows more about it than l
d." was the reply. Il was walking peace
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III.

In passing Hiram's stand a few days after
| noticed a deeenily lettered tin sign b0ve
it, reading, Hiram Marks, Bootblack."
He explained that as it was proper that he
should have more than one name he had
added his own to that of his father, who
had taken the name of the man on whose
plantation he had been born a slave.
Less than a month later Tracy Shattuck
met his death in drunken broil in front
of Lees Exchange. Hiram wept over the
body and gave it decent burial, and the
next day came to me with a request that
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of and the pence be carefully picked out aad
devoted TO st. Peter with a profound
blessingl There is no Mexican who would
allow season to pass without gather
Ing fresh sack of this yerba to
hang in dark corner OF his store-room !;
for. as its nama indicates, 1t Is a peculiar
herb OF the vivero, or rattlesuake; meaning,
in this instance, not something for the de-
lectation of the reptile, but for the victim
OF the reptiles bite In the way of tea or o
poultlce.
The Mexlcans claim that this herb tea Is
so eihcacious thatthey never lose an animal
from ratJlesnake poisoning, even when
whole day has passed before discovering
the bite. So IL God tempers the wind to
antidote for rattlesnake poison where
rattlesnakes abound.
In the early twilight Of early spring ths
sweet aroma of the white Gilla dichtoma
spreads itself through the balmy atmos-
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| v

Standing in front Of hotel In Napa one
afternoon in the autumn of 1855, a respect
ably clad old c0lored man suddenly turned
in passing, and. throwing up his hands. ex-
claimed:
"W-a-a-ll w-a-a-ll eff dis amt you den
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A Fair Scholar.

Everything is fin de steele now," he re-
marked.
Yes" she answered. thoughtfully; 81
wonder why P"-Truth.
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amount to be at his own disposal. 1t was a
hard bargain for Hiram, but be was content
with il.
For more than a year Tracy received the
stipulated hundred dollars regularly at the
end Of each month. What amount, If any,
was earned above that sum, the master
never inquired He was ashamed to accept
so large a stipend from the hard-working
old man, especially as he had no legal claim
upon his services; but be received II, never
theless, and 20 feed his appetite for gaming
it Is probable that he would have resoTted TO
methods still more questionable.
first met Hiram to know him and learn
something of his history in Sacramento late
in the summer of 1851. He had a boot
black stand near the old Union saloon on j
street, below Second, and was still IN the
sweeping and cleaning business. Among
the gambling saloons attended to by him
were the Ell Dorado, Lees Exchange and
the Arcade. In the discharge Of every duty
he was faithful and conscientious, ana the
keys of many rooms and offices were en-
trusted to his keeping.