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The Press., 1893-03-09
Being Near at Hand.

"I suppose" said an English woman to two American travellers on the deck of one of the big transatlantic steamers, "that you intend to visit Shakespeare's birthplace"
 "Oh, yes,' was the answer; "ws shall go to Stratford by all means. You have been there of course?'
 "No; I never have been. Very few English people go there, but it is great resort for Americans"
 "Why is it that English people take so little interest, comparatively, in the town which produced so great geniusT'
 "Well, l cannot account for it, except possibly on the theory that one is never so likely to visit what is always within ones reach as are those who go to strange country with the special object of sightseeing. Why, on this very steamer l have met an American who told me that, although his home is close to New York, he has never visited your Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central park except once, while he has been a number of times to the British museum, and repeatedly to the Louvre. Now, fancy that if he lived & few hundred miles from New York, and occasionally went there to see the sights he would have D much more intimate knowledge of the museum than he has now, when it is within his reach every day, or at least every week. ."-New York Tribune.
The Press., 1893-03-09
Some Horrors of OunClxery.

The old proverb, Any port in storm," has often found practical illus tration in the empirical treatment of disease. Time was when even regular practitioners in the art of healing in cluded in their professional armament, along with many simple remedies of real value, other matters, the very men, tion of which might almost suffice to en- gender illness. We may feel thankful that we have now entered upon a later and more scientific era, and that such extraordinary drugs as weasels' gizzards, does hoofs, snails, and other even more repulsive horrors, do not now find place in any pharmacopeia.
 There still exists, however, a species of medical folklore, and some of its pre-. scribed wisdom available for use in ill., ness is of the most remarkable kind. Times of panic, by throwing a popula- tion to some entent on its own resources for treatment, are apt to create a-de- mand for these survivals of dark age. This happened lately in Germany, where 8 toad cooked with much care was swal- lowed as cure for cholera. As to the result we are not informed. Most of us would probably choose to suffer rather than thus attempt our own relief.-Lon- don Lancet. ?
The Press., 1893-03-09
waitin fer Albut; an. Lawd. Rachers CT

waitin fer Albut; an. Lawd, Rachers CT standin jes' inside
 "'Boysr" he cried, turning to the multitude assembled under the oaks on the lawn. Boys, mind mistis an do right an be bidderble. Be hones', boys. Don't go to cuttin up no disregyardable capers and pranks. Jes' whirl in all up an make de crap fer mistis. Nebber mine de cotton, but ten de cawn. Flow deep, boys, an don't let de grass git de upper hand O de crap.''
 "'Move on there! Move on, boys commanded their leader
 "'Goodby, mistis.: Far'well, chillunr cried Albert. 'Gawd press mistis!'
 "'Gawd press mistisr cried a chorus of a hundred voices as they marched away.
 ''In those turbulent times there were no established mail routes ill our coun- try; indeed the receipt of letter was quite an event. For two months we heard nothing of our men; then one ran away from Shreveport and came home more dead than alive. Of the hundred who had gone from our plantation twen- UN-UWO ulSu. AlDOIb bSSu uS- tailed on hospital duty, and before an other month had passed he, too, had given up the burden of life. Good. faithful Albert! Though he lives neither in song nor story, his was as grand a heroism as was ever recorded; his Rachel waited just within the big, white gates, and waited not in vain." Mrs. Gray had sstaars in her yOice" aS she con- cluded her pathetic story.
 ".We brush the skirts of martyrs and tread the path with heroes, and are all unmindful; but God noteth all, and will reward as surely as the day followeth the dark night" reverently spoke the white haired rector as we sat silent and thoughtful.
 "And it's just as near heaven by way of Silvandale as home," murmured the invalid, folding her light wrap closer about her.-Mrs. c. c. Scott in Ro. nance.
The Press., 1893-03-09
Where the English Poets Are Buried.

Where the English Poets Are Buried.
 Of Shakespeare Westminster abbey contains only monument. His bones, as everybody knows, rest at Stratford- upon-Avon, and Milton is honored only by a bust. The author of Paradise Lost" is buried in the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, and there is no reason to doubt that the dean and chapter of his day would have refused him the right of sepulture in the abbey when he died had it been then asked for. Even so late as the beginning of the Eighteenth century the phrase, "second to Milton alone," which had been proposed as an epitaph for the poet Phillips, was ruled out" by Dean Sprat, who regarded the name of Milton as too detestable to appear in n building dedicated to religion. .,.
 Thirty years later not only Milton's name but the bust to his memory was admitted, although the accompanying inscription was not of felicito1s char acter. Byron was actually refused burial in the abbey; Goldsmith lies in the precincts of the temple; Gray was buried in the country churchyard, that at Stoke Poges, near Slough, in which he wrote his immortal ''Elegy;" and of more modern bards Wordsworth, Ten nyson's immediate predecessor in the laureateship, is buried "by Rotha's stream" in Grasmere churchyard, while the heart of Shelley and the body of Keats are inferred in q Protestant ceme- tery at Rome.
 Posterity is the only sure judge of poetical renown, and who can doubt that were Keats and Shelley to die now they would as a matter of course be accorded place where Browning and Tennyson lie. It is safe predic- tion, however, that our descendants will not hold us of the Nineteenth century to blame for admitting into the poets cor ner the remains of the author of "Morte d'Arthur" and "In Memoriam. ."--Lon- don Telegraph.
The Press., 1893-03-09
MARY JANE.

have thought of getting married When I've seen thee, Mary Jane, With thy dainty silks and satins,
 With thy pettieoat and train. But a whisper came across me,
 Like sign with omen rife "Ah, 'tis very well to marry,
 But, oh! canst thou keep a wife?" If the last new bonnet suits thee,
 Canst thou wear it still the same, Though 8 newer pattern tempt thee, Lately handed down to fame? Will dress or two content thee
 When stern fashion orders moro, And solitary headdress do Instead of half a score? But they tell me am raving
 To expect so strange thing, And they laugh to scorn my musings And the hopes to which cling. So fear I must resign thee
 And bachelor remain, Yet never can forget thee.
 Oh, too costly Mary Jane!
 London Figaro.
The Press., 1893-03-09
C6kERlpGE.

see thee pine like her in golden story Who. in her prison, woke and saw one day The gates thrown open-saw the sunbeams
 play.
 With only a web tween her and summers
 glory; Who when that web frai, so transitory, It broke before her breath-had fallen away, Saw other webs and others rise for aye Which kept her prisoned till her hair was hoary. Those songs half sung that yet were, all di-
 vine
 That woke Romance the queen, to reign
 afresh- Had been but preludes from that Tyre of thine, Could thy rare spirits wings have pierced
 the mesh
 Spun by the wizard who cOmpels the flesh, But lets the poet see how heav'n can shine.
 Theodore Watts in London AtIenpum.
The Press., 1893-03-09
COL. s1LLoWAYE SPEAKS.
What a Colonel of Gen. McClellan's Staff
 saws.
HE SAVED PRESIDENT LINCOLN FROM CAP TuRE.-HE WAS THE PREsERyER, ALSO, OF JOHN JACOB AsToR,

Col. William A. H. Sillowaye is 60 years old. He resides at Bellows Falls, Vt. ,and is connected with the Bellows Falls Times. He has something to say of the most vital interest to his fellow soldiers of the G. A.. R., and to his fellow men the world over.
 In "Rifle Shots and Bullet Shells"there can be found arsketchRof Col. Sillowaye, wherein it is shown that he indirectly saved the union, when in 1863, he prevent ed the capture of Lincoln by the confede- rates. He also saved John Jacob Astor | from similar fate in the Peninsular cam- paign in 1862 Col. Sillowaye served four years and eight months in the army and navy during the war ,and from April 1861, to February, 1863, he served his country without pay or reward of any kind.
 He knew all the Union generals and Secretary Stanton and MT. Welles. He was lieutenant colonel onGen. McC Clellan's staff in 1862. Col. Sillowaye is practi- cal printer, engineer, and linguist. He has set up works in Greek, French, Span ish, Latin, and Hebrew. He was employ ed during five years at.Oxford, Eng. on Homan's Greek bible, and there, in 1859, the degree of IL. D. was conferred upon him. His first wife was daughter of Sir William Blackie, and niece of Sir Richard Houghton. His present wife is relative of Hon Wm. M. Evarts, and very gifted lady.
 Col. Sillowaye is a very modest man, and only consented to talk to the writer after it was shown that it would be crimi- nal for him to keep his knowledge to him. self while others suffered.
 So here is his story as it fell from his lips. He saw it written out, and he en- dorsed every word of it:
 "On the 18th of April, 1861, enlisted in the army of the North. I weighed 162 pounds. After serving four years and eight months in the army and navy, and suffer- ing from wounds and rheumatism, was discharged. weighed the day was dis charged 1O9 pounds. Every year I had attacks of nervous prostration; shortness of breath, and loss of appetite were not
The Press., 1893-03-09

RECovERs HIS SPEECH. - Alphonse Hemphlings of Summit township, Butler Co.,, Penn, made an affidavit that his twelve-year old-son, who had rhad St. Vitus Dance for twelve years, lost his speech, was completely cured after using three bottles of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine, and also recovered his speech. Thousands testify to wonderful cures from using it;for nervous diseases, dys- pepsia, nervous debility, dullness, con- fusion of mind, headache, etc. Four doses of this Nervine cured Mrs. W. B. Burns. South Bend, Ind, who had been suffering with constant headache for three months
 Trial bot4ie and elegant book free at w. D. Heald's drug store.
The Press., 1893-03-09
Where Plants Grow Large.

California has become the paradise of the rosarian, the seed grower, the hybri- dizer and the nurseryman. The wild grape is used as stock for wine and raisin grapes, and il some cases that l know of men have grafted Italian chest nuts upon one species of the native oaks. All the hillsides of the tree region, when not too steep to blow nor too far above the sea level, will grow the fruits and varied horticultural products of Spain, Portugal, Italy and southern France. The pomegranate is garden shrub in many districts. and the almond is a roadside tree. The dropping, acacia like leaves of the scarlet fruited pepper tree grow with the magnolias, palms and cedars of Lebanon. Oranges and lemons stand in many an orchard with apples and peaches. Among the notable plants of the state are many adopted species, such as the acacias and eucalyptuses of Australia and the bam- boos and persimmons of Japan.-Charles H. Shinn ill Century.
The Press., 1893-03-09
pbvsical Culture and Long Life.


 According to q leading medical jour- nal, out of 5000 soldiers who were ex- amined recently by a surgeon nearly 30 per cent. were found to be suffering from heart trouble as the result of forced exertion This leads that journal to the conclusion that athletic sports are not conducive to longevity, and it points as a proof to France, where there is no craze for muscular development, and where one finds more people over the age of sixty than in England, with it's rage for physical culture. It would seem, however, that the distinguished editor of the journal in question con- founded the rage for display athletics with that for general physical develop ment.
 It has been long noted ill the gynna- siums that those who train the most per sistently give out the quickest. The cause of it is that they develop the mus cles at the expense of the nervous strength. But there is moderation in both which means better health and longer life, and to the majority of those who enter gymnasium work that is what is sought rather than ''record breaking" capabilities.-Bos Journal.
The Press., 1893-03-09
EeInem hered at Home.

Wealthy City Man (who has taken a fancy to revisit his village birthplace)- Ah, me! there's the little red school house, and wonder is the old church. How we'll 1 remember them. But the dear old familiar faces are gone. Not one remains to recall those happy
 The Oldest Inhabitant (advancing)- Ye're Bill Judd, ain't ye? l knew ye the minute sot eyes on to ye. 1 trust ed your father for 8 codfish in 1S43, an if ye've got the money handy I'd be obleeged if ye'd settle for rit-Exchange.
The Press., 1893-03-09

ALL FREE.-Those who have used Dr. Kings. New Discovery know it's value, and those who have not have now an opportu- ty to try it Free. Call on the advertised druggist and get trial bottle, Free. Send your name and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co.,, Chicago, and get'a sample box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills, Free, as we'll as copy of the Guide to Health and Household Instructor Free. All of which is guaranteed to do you good and cost you E. K. Taft's Drugstore.
The Press., 1893-03-09
A Test for Fnrueru-

The famous handwriting expert, David N. Carvalho, asserts that mo man does or can write his signature twice exactly alike" He therefore advances the star! ting proposition that sswhen two sigma, lures purporting to have been written by the same person are precisely alike it is safe to conclude that one of them is a fOrrerv
The Press., 1893-03-09
The Most Remarkable Latin Sentence.

The Most KemarkaDIe LaCln sentence.
 The Latin sentence, ''Sator arepo tenet opera rotas,' which is, it must be ad- mitted, pretty bad Latin, is a curiosity nevertheless. It can be freely be trans lated as ''I cease from my work; the sower will wear away his wheels" Its fine oddities are these:
 It spells the same backward as for ward.
 The first letter of each word spells the first word.
 The same may be said of the second, third, fourth and fifth letters.
 The last letters, read backward, spell the first word, the next to the last the second word, and SO on throughout.
 There are just as many letters in each word as there are words in the sen tence.-St. Louis Republic.
The Press., 1893-03-09
THE LAWSUIT.

He had faithful friend at its beginning, The highest honor and the deepest truth, Desire to keep in thought and deed from
 shining,
 A plan for fighting fancied wrongs-and
 youth. He had an enemy when it was ended, An honor stained. aheart grown hard and
 cold. A little pile of gold, a mansion splendid, Dim eyes and silver hair, for he was old. Alice Lena Cole ill Youths Companion.
The Press., 1893-03-09

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25c per box. Sold by E. K. Taft.
The Press., 1893-03-09

What a pity that so many otherwise at- tractive, polite and particular people af- hict their friends by the foul and disagree- able odor of their breath; it is mainly caused by disordered digestion, and can be corrected by removing the cause, by using that pure medicine, Sulphur Bit ters.-HealM Magazine. ". 9
The Press., 1893-03-09
Where Honors Are at R Discount,

"Here iOHOrS AF8 ht 9 UlSCOuQf.
 Billups had just been graduated at Yalevard. s.s.
 ''I was valedictorian of my class, sir, Phi Beta Kappa man, and the winner of four scholarships" he said to the merchant to whom he applied for work.
 ''Very good as far as it goes," replied the merchant; but what do you know about putting up shutters and sweeping out offices, and making yourself gener- ally useful?-Harper's Bazar
The Press., 1893-03-09

Wnllo employed ln BOSCOn, l was com pelled to resign my position on account of i'll health. 1 consulted several eminent physicians and took their medicines No use--I grew worse day after day. They told- me I could not live. I could not
 walk alone in the street without falling or clinging to the railings. At times I would shake and twitch. Had spells of falling down in the office or on the street. In
 the house had to lie down or drop down. Several times I believed I was at deaths door.
 I had been commander of three AIiifer-
 ent G. A. R. posts, and my comrades ad- I>vised me to try Dr. Greene's Nervura
 blood and nerve remedy. I bought bot tie, and when had taken two-thirds'o of it began to improve. 1 kept on taking it., improving all the time. now weigh 130
 pounds, and feel like my old self again. You can put it in your paper thatI at tribute my good health to nothing but Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy.
 I am perfectly satisfied that it saved my life. I am 60 years old; but, as you can
 see for yourself, am as active as man of 40, and can do good days work, as
 people here we'll know. My friends in
 Boston, New York, and other'places, are | surprised at my recovery. Indeed, am SurprlSeu mySelI to De 50 well. 1 HdVlSe
 everybody afflicted to buy and try Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve reme- | dy at onee.".
 | At this season of the year when every 1 body needs and is using a spring medicine,
 we advise the use of this wonderful health
 restorer. It is by all odds the best Spring
 medicine ever discovered, and immediate | ly invigorates the blood, strengthens the
 nerves. and restores 8 healthy action of all the organs.
 Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
 remedy is as harmless as it is good, and:i is purely vegetable. It sells at $1 per bot | tie. Physicians recommend it to their patients as it is not patent medicine. It
 is the discovery of that eminent specialist, l Dr. Greene, who can be consulted person ally or by letter, at 35 W. 14th-st., New | York, at all times.
The Press., 1893-03-09

"I like to sit before fire and wrIte," said the poet. "Yes it must be pleasant for manu-
 facturer to have a consumer constantly
 before him." returned the cynic.
The Press., 1893-03-09

Excited lady, on the beach-Why isn't something done for that ship in distress Why don't some of you
 Coast guard, hurriedly-We have sent the crew line to come ashore, mum, @s
 Good gracious Were they waiting for formal invitation
The Press., 1893-03-09
Stacked Lime in the Siclrnn,n

Sore throats are very prevalent in the autumn, and are especially prevalent such days as we are having now. A homely Long Island cure, said to be very effectual, is to slack lime in the sickroom, so the patient can inhale some of the fumes.-New York Journal.
 ''None better." MT. Thomas Buckley writing from the Iron Works, Elm. st. Troy, N. Y., says: ''Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup is one of the finest cough syrups for colds. None better. always use it."
The Press., 1893-03-09

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The morning call., 1893-04-24
A q IL w

Grand Foreman Ward has gone right to
work. He visited Golden Gate on the even
ing of the 9Th inst. with Grand Oyelseer
ToOhy, ana made 1t interesting for the
brethren. BE also called on Bay District
No. 226 last Tuesday evening with Deputy
Lawrence Nolan. Last Friday evening he
made friendly visit to YeTba Buena with
Grand Recorder Hirshberg, ID. j. Toohy,
u. o., and delegation from Spartan Lodge
and on Saturday was present at the open
meeting of No. sc at Mission San Jose,
Next Wednesday evening a visit will be
made To No. of East Oakland, one the 2Sth
to Hea!dsburg and on the 29th 10 San Lo-
renZn.
Grand Overseer Toohy is booked at sew
eral paints.
Grand Master Workman Booth is doing
the southern localities. He has mapped out
work enough to engage him the entire year.
va Pacific No. OF Oakland gave the de-
grees 10 six new members Thursday night.
1t has more work for this week, and will
also present an entertainment to the breth-
rem present.
Valley 80 will celebrate its fifteenth ami
versary by public entertainment at its
hail on next Friday evening.
Inc laoor bureau of this order is doing
practical and unselfish work TO benefit the
unemp loyed. j. N. Mertens, 1865, is secre-
tary and Caleb Brind chairman.
Golden Gate Lo' ge had a fine gathering
on thursday evening. Walter Malloy pre-
SIDED. and addresses were delivered by the
grand foreman and grand overseer, and
programme OF recitation and song given by
MISS l.. Trautner. Misses Garfield, Mrs.
water MallGy, Miss l.. Frermuth, Messrs.
IL. L. WhelaD. A. Trautner and Gus Traut-
ner. A social dance concluded.
DEPUTY " oodmansee has a new lodge
about ready at Hopand.
San Jose is already at work to entertain
the next grand lodge.
An energetic campaign ia nroposad and
IL is designed that every subordinate in this
jurisdiction shall be visited during the pres
ent term, especially those lodges W hich have
not been called upon for some time.
The morning call., 1893-04-24
|. O. O. r.

Grand Patriarch Savage had a grand re-
eepton at his visit of inspection at Peta-
luna. Canton Santa Rosa was present in
uniform and gave n commendab!e drill.
Degrees were conferred aud banquet added
to its attractions. The grand patriarch has
been welcomed by large gatherings at
and Santa Clara. He will visit Fresno,
Selma, Tniare. MERGED. Visalia and the
south in June.
The Grand Lodge Will commence its an
nual session in this city on Tuesday. May
9, at 9 A. NJ
The Veteran Odd Fellows win meet in
annual session Monday evening, May s, and
hold their banque: the following night. Any
member of twenty years standing, who re-
side west of the Rocky mountains is eigi-
bic to membership IN the veterans, although
he may belong to a lodge in the East.
Next Tuesday is Odd Fellows day
throughout the world. 1t will be cele-
brated in every State of this Union and in
most countries abroad.
A number of new halls will be dedicated
in California, notably those at Colusa and
Los Banos. Every speaker available has
been engaged, and more than sixty points
in this jurisdiction will be made a red-letter
day of April 26.
Foe most worthy object is the great
picnic at FL Campo for the benefit of the
Odd Fellows library Of this city. No more
deserving donation could be made than 20
this institution which was the pride of the
pioneers OF tine order aud which has done
rs much to forward the interests of the fra
teTnitY as any factor that could be named,
The morning call., 1893-04-24
Order Of Chosen Friends.

Social Council No. 46 made great sue
cess OF its grab-bag party.
Samaritan Council No. Is held a we'll
attended district meeting. Deputy C. C.
O'Donnell presided. The programme con-
sisted of speeches, songs and Rotations.
and closed with dance. Refreshments
were served during the evening. Members
from various councils were present: also
Ii. w. Hutton, G. c.; NJ. Boehm, q. V. C.,
and Nj. II. Brickwedel, G. g.
Sacramento Council No. SO will be pre-
scented with a handsome banner by the
Supreme Council next Tuesday evening. on
which occasion twenty candidates viii be
initiated. making the mem bership 5IT. The
supreme and grand officers will be present.
San Francisco Council No. 1S2 Will bold il
public district meeting under the supervision
OF Deputy j. Enemark tomorrow evening
Germania Council No. $50 Will hold It's
district meeting on May .
America Council No. will hold its district
meeting under the supervision OF Deputy
Z. A. Street on May @
The anniversary party will be given MAY
"a, at Odd Fellows Hall
The order is reported as being most pros
porous.