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The morning call., 1894-09-14
Refused an EmpreSS

A Lady in Brookline, Mass, was In Europe
some two or three years ago, and she found In
some neglected co rner a nne old picture Of
the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth. whose
ambition was his undoing She bought the
picture, which presently became quite famous
among artists and dealers, and some time
aiterwaid, when she was at home in BTookline,
she was astOnished 10 receive letter from The
wife OF Emperor Frederick OF Germany, stat
Ing that she would purchase the picture as the
Duke OF Monmouth was one OF her ancestors
aud she would be pleased 10 receive an inti-
nation at what price the lady held II, etc.
Then the Brookline lady sent TO the Empress
response. She felt very much h0nored. she
said, but she found The possession of the
picture pleasing thing and wished TO ksep ii !;
aud. moreover, she, TOO, had a personal IN
lerest IN the portrait, for she was herself de-
scendant of the Stuarts. The Brookline Iady
is the granddaughter OF worthy Boston
merchant by the name of SIewart.-New York
Ledger.
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NOT IN KENTUCKY.
No Bicycle Can Ever Be Taught to
Know the Roads.

"The bcyc'e," remarked the drummer for a
big cycle works in Boston, ''is great institu-
tion and will supersede the horse in mauy In-
stances, but not in all. A case in point came
under my notice recently. | was III Blue Grass.
hentuc Y, where the roads aie superb, and in
The course OF my visits 10 agents ran across a
farmer who lived about five miles from town
and got TO talking 10 him on the subject. He
was rather progressive and conceded that The
bicycle possessed many advantages over the
morse. IL saved feed. toll, care, shoeing and a
lot more things, and was good deal speedier.
why, theB.' said /, don't you get BIZ
cycle"
well, there's only one thing that prevents
me-. he said. with aH apologize grin. When 4
man comes To town on Saturday and starts
home IN the evening Just c0rned up enough not
10 Know the way, his horse Will take him back
10 ms family IN fairly good shape; but The
bicycle alnt made that can do IT, ana Pm a
man that goes TO town on Saturdays
"Ot course" concluded the drummer, latter
that had mighty little show for an argument"
Detroit Free Press
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LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
\ rrived.

THURSDAY. September Is.
Stmr Westport. Jacobs 10 hours firm Fort Bragg:
81 ) eds ba K. to Pollard d Dodge.
Stmr Coos Bay, Green, 80 hours from Newport
and way ports: pass ana mdSe, to Goodali, Per-
kins IL Co.
chr Mary Eta. we'zeI, 2 hours from Stew
arts foint: rs coras wood, TO Be eEder Bros.
Spoken.
May 20-15 5 SO 46 w, Br ship Stockbridge. fun
Swansea for San francisco.
Movements of Trans-Atlantlc steamers.
NEW YORK Arrived Sept l3-Stmr Alecto. I'm
London.
BREMERAAVEN Arrived Sept l3-Stmr
Spree, from New York.
LONDON-ARrived sept 13-Stmr Austrian, I'm
Liverpool
LIVEkPooL-Arrived Sept 13-Stmr British
Princess. from Philadelphia.
MISUNDERSTANDING sept l5-stmr Rhetia, fm
New York.
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Episcopal Convocatiou.

SAN JOSE. Sept. 13-The Episcopal
Church Convocation of San Jose held a
session to-day, clergy being present from
Santa Clara, Santa Cruz. Monterey and
San Benito counties, which comprise the
convocation.
Rev. c. o. Tillotson of Calvary Church,
Santa Cruz, was appointed by Bishop
Nichols, on nomination of the convoca-
ton, as dean for two years. Rev. F. A. 3.
Lewis was elected secretary and A. S.
Kittredge treasurer. A rousing mission
ary meeting was held at Trinity Church
tonight at which Bishop Nichols made an
address.
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OUR ONLY DAY.

Were this our only day,
Did not our yesterday aud tO-morrows give
To hope and memory their interplay,
How should We bear TO live?
Not merely what we are,
But what We were and what we are to be,
Mako up your lifo- the near day each star,
The far days nebul8.
At once would love forget
The keen pursuits aud coy delights of bliss,
And its delicious DangS of fond regret
Were there no days but this.
Aud who, to win friend.
Woulu to the secrets OF his heart invite
fellowship that should begin and end
Between night and night?
Cincinnati Tribune.
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PRONOUNCE CORRECTLY.
Misplacing the Accent on the Most
Familiar Words.

Why should so many persons say sponta-
nightly instead Of spontaneeity?
There is no excuse for saying ap-pricot for
a-D DrcOt or eck-auable for ec-quable. or ERIN
for Erin, or asafdity for asafeIida, or VeD-zu-
celia for Nen-e-Zu-ala, or AdO.nls (ShOrt o. for
Ado.nis dong o). or Di&n.na Tor Diana dong az.
or mattron or PATRON, and so on. 1t is just as
easy to accent the las syllable as the first in
"pretense." Some persons call bomb "boom" i'll
stead of "bum," because the spelling seems to
warrant it, but when they call tedious "tejuS''
they have no such apparent warrant. In
me West and South Tbe .>i,' in isoIaI.
is made long and nearly everywhere
educated persons say truck u-lent for true Gu.
lent, a-men-dDle for a-meen bic lever for lee
yer, and give the sound OF ''u'' in up instead of
''l'' in il in such words as squirrel, stirrup and
sirup. There are many words in which the
accent is persistenty misplaced by persons who
know better. IL is common 10 put Ihe acctut
OH the second syllable of peremptory insIt ad
Of on the first, on the first Instead of the second
syllable OF coquetry, on the second instead of
the first syllable of exemplary. etc. Many per-
sons place the accent on the first instead OF the
second syllable OF inquiry, and do not give the
''p' its proper length. The accent in gladiolus
should be on the second syllable, with a long
! 81" but many place Il on the third.
The exasperatlng thing about II is that some
common words take th' utmost pains TO learn
how TO pronounce Bouguereau, and are con-
vulsed when they hear anybody else mispro-
n0unce Chopin and Beethoven. Recently thy
broke out with vawz for vase, hough the
weight OF authority Is against 1t. Knowles
alone allows 1t. Webster authorizes only one
pronunciation, the long "a" and kissing So
Worcester prefers the ''z'' sound, but not the
Jaw" The improper use Of The sounds OF "a''
is most serious. Those who have the courage
to use the Italian the modified Italian "a"
often use II unlawfully, as IN cawn't and raw
ther. The proper sounds OF "o,' particularly
III God. dog aud some other words, are widely
ignored The common usage Is wrong III the
case of the terminal line" in the names OF
chemicals, as mOrphiue, cbloriur, iodine. ami
line, DenZine. ETC.. all OF which should be pro-
nounced as though there were no hual "e." II
Is morphiO, not morpheen.-New York Com
mnrcial AGVerLlsRr-
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Crawfisb, it is said, will drop:their claws
when they hear sudden and loud clap of
thu0der. Lobsters do the same. The I'M
pulse, when suddenly alarmed, is to throw
off the heavy claws and scurry away to
place OF safety. The claws at once begin
TO grow again and in ten davs or fort
night are as big as ever, but the crawfish
does not make his appearance in public
until they are strong and hard. To do so
would only invite another crawfish To
make dinner of him
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been most remarks able, and TO have had some
thing picturesque and also diabolleai ABOUT H.
As The mailed figures moved IN silence among
ile guns, their handspikes looking INK maces,
seemed unnatural under the steady hali OF bui'
lets. The insurgents were believed TO nave
thought hell itself had sent form these extra
ordinary antagonists, ghosts of past age !;
While the French on the ramparts, true 20 their
nature, the first moment of anxiety over. burst
into rOars OF laughter
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FOREST FIRES.
The Danger Has Not Yet Passed i'm
the Lake Regions,

BEssEMER, Mich. Sept. l3.-The Goye-
bic Powder Company mill is stIl in great
danger. The Fire Department has been
fighting the fire for the last tweniy-four
hours and is almost exhausted. The fire
is fierce and the wind strong. Trout
Creek, Mich, on the south shore is in i'm
minent danger. At Iron Belt, Wis, on
tie Wisconsin Central, several buildings
were burned. At Wakefield an unknown
miner was killed by the heat Four hun
Gred million feet of pine is being burned
liz Gogebic and OntoDagon counties
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MARRIED..

GOLINSKY-GANS-In this citv. by the Rev. Nj.
S. Levy, Charles Golinsky OF Stockton and Ray
Cans of san Francisco,
SCHOONMAK ER-CUNNING HAM-In this city,
September II, 1894. James b. Schoonmaker aud
Nellie V. Cunningham, both of San Francisco.
NAEGLE-CHAMBER san jose September
8. 1894, by the Rev. John W DinSmore John j.
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Two Bow Burglars.

Alfonso Belcher and Richard Nolan,
boys aged 10, DR. oke into Bette's crockery-
store, Jones and O'Farrell streets, at 3
o'clock this morning, and stole S23 from
the till Two pol cemen caught them
while leaving the store and charged them
win hurolary
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IN FRONT OF A SALOON.
One Italian is Shot Twice by An
other.

SACRAMENTO. Sept. 13.-Shortly after
midnight John Petralli shot Joseph Mar
acci in front of an Italian saloon. Two
shots were fired. one striking Maracci
10 the hand and the other
in the abdomen. The latter was
taken out near his back. 1t is not known
whether the wound is fatal. Petralli saws
his wife bad told him that Maracci had
threatened to kill her. hence the shoot
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According TO some recent statistics of
the cost Of living an EnglishDan spends on
an average S4S year for food. French
man S47, German $40. a Snaniarc S33
an Italian S24 aud Russian S23. Oimeat
Inc Englishman eats 100 pounds wear, the
FreDchman 81. the German 81, the Italian
20 and the Russian Jl. or bread the Eng
lishman consumes $50 pounds, the French
man 540 the German $50, the Spaniard $50.
the Italian 400 and the Russian 635.
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Smoking Through Snow.

In the snowy regions OF The Himalayas it Is
sald. little smoking tunnels are made 10 the
frozen snow, a: the end of which is placed some
loOacco. along with a piece OF burning char
their mouths, and lying. fiat on their stomaehs,
inhale the smoke
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Statistics show that in 1000 marriages
ooZ men marry women younger than them
selves, 5I9 marry women of their own age
or near IL AID SO marry women older than
themselves. The most notable difference
in ages was in Cambridge, n. j., last year,
where the bridegroom was % and bride 90.
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Lucknow Inundated

LONDON, Sept. 13-A dispatch to the
Times from Calcutta says the highest
flood ever recorded is now causing much
damage at Lucknow, where large por-
tion of the city is inundated.
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representatives of h. Spinners' Union
was held to-day, at the close Of which the
spinners gave out a statement that the
situation had been generally discussed, bur
nothing definite had been done toward
settlement.
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Money in the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-At the close of
business the cash in the treasury amounted
to S126. .S74, 800. of which $50, ,55S, ,479 repre-.
senled gold reserve
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DR.. Goriansky, Russian physici,n
Claims to have found that the juice OF. raw
eranberries given freely, purs or diluted.
with an equal part of water. is an excel
-ent means of relieving thirst and vomit-
.ng in Asiatic cholera.
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BORN.
BAUER-In this city. September g. 1894, TO tn 9
wife OF A. C. Bauer, = son.
STELLING-In this city, September 8, 1894, to
the wife OF John StelIing,
LEWIS-In this city, September Il, 1894, to the
wife OF Albert Lewis. a daughter
LYNCH-ln this city. September II, 1894, to the
wife of w J. Lynch of Santa Cruz. daughter.
EIM-September 8, 1894. TO the wife OF Philip
Helm,
TENNIS-september IL, 1894. to the wife OF w.
E. Tennis son.
sUTToN-August %. 1894. to the wife of George
sutton.
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An Awful TRAGEDY.

BRYAN. Ohio, Sept. 13-Mr. and Mrs.
j. c. Fetters were killed at Edon by a
Wabash train an hour after their wedding
tonight.
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It is estimated that 1900 tons OF ostrich
feathers have been exported from Cape
Colony during the past thirty years, val
ued at SOC, 900. 900.
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Snread of Chniera.

LIEeE, Sept. 13.-Fifteen cases of chol-
era aad seven deaths occurred here yes
ferday.
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No Settlement Vet

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Sept ia con-
ference between the mill treasurers and
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

birth. marriage and death notices sent by mail
will not be inserted. They must Oe handed IN at
either of the publ ication offices aud be indorsed
with the name and residence OF persons authorlz-
ing to have the same published.
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England has i've orders of nobility.
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sible. One was Horace Hume and the other
Lady st. Ruth.
Three local doctors were called in, but it
was some hours before the two came around.
A telegram had arrived for Hume and he
tore it open with feverish hands.
"Thank you, dear Horace, for coming.
All danger is past" That was all.
He knew then that it was not dream.
1t was by an effort on the part of Maud
Montagu's will that his spirit had been
drawn out Of its mortal limitations; but as
she grew weaker and weaker her effort
relaxed, and Lady st. Ruth, who had
entered the same carriage, and guessed his
mission, had almost prevented him reaching
her in time, because she was wishing with
all her heart and soul and strength that the
girl should die.
Suddenly she had seemed to hear the
cries of Mauds mother, some power within
her seemed to say that Maud was dead, and
in fit of terrible remOrse for her cruel
wish she had fallen in n swoon and Hume's
spirit had once more sped on in time to
save his sweetheart's life.-PearSoR' s
WeekIU
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COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
from first page.

can National liberty be maintained" we
must constantly be con guard"
While our age is such that we could
perform little active service, we are still
young enough to protect property and
support the constituted authorities in
enforcing obedience to law. The past
year has been one of anxiety. At one
time the National Guards of five States
of our Union were under arms, and the
Regular Army called to service. L
made no tender of service of our Order
to the President of the United States,
and issued no call to my comrades; yet
my ear was to the ground and my eye
along the horizon. Had the men on
duty been unable to restore law and
order, | should have calledon the Grand
Army ofsthe Republic, and am conf
dent that every comrade able to bear
arms would have responded. We can
not too highly compliment the volun-
teer militia for their prompt response to
the call, and the faithful manner in
which their duty was discharged. 1t
tells us that patriotism is not dead in
the hearts of the American people, and
that the young men of to-day are as
loyal as were we. In every way posi-
bic should we encourage this spirit.
Visit the armories of our National
Guards, encourage the best class of young
men to join their ranks, invite them to
our Campfres and our Memorial Day
services. Assure them that the soldiers
that were are in full sympathy with the
soldiers that are, and will support them
in the discharge of their duties to the
fullest extent.
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progress of the battle these men would have
been glad to be safely out of it, and sometimes
they were cut of as to be willing to surren.
der. But it was impossible TO get out.
Occasionally a man, more hardy than wise,
would make the attempt, and the moment be
appeared crawling up the bank or over the fence
that stood between the road way and a cornfeld
back of it he would be literally riddled with
bullets. Several men got partly over the fence
and there hung across the rails. their bodies
being actually made into seyes. Once. ap-
parently by unanimous consent" they con-
cluded to try and surrender, and so hung out
on the points of their bayonets any sort of a
cloth available that had once been white as flags
of truce, but before the Union troops could get
down TO where they were a reinforcement came
up in the cornfeld back of them and COM
menced firing over their heads. At once down
came he tokens of surrender and out went the
whizzing deadly bullets again. Finally, how
ever, in a charge of the Union troops that
swept up to, over. and beyond the roadway, all
the occupants that were still living were capt
ured. After the battle was over 10 spot on that
field presented more horrible appearance
than the "sunken road " and its immediate
vicinity. The roadway was bankful of dead
with the men, and the slopes that approached
it were covered wIndrows of the harvest of
death.
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Hume turns quite white "'Pon my
word l ont know" he says. 81 suppose
somebody told me-"
He is completely mystifed himself, for
he still believed that be had never seen or
even heard of the woman before, unless il
was in some previous existence.
What an extraordinary thing that you
should have an intuitiye knowledge of her
movements. Perhaps you know her future
as well as her past" says Lady ST. Ruth
with sneer
Then she turns to Lord Merryweather
Take me back to my sister, will you? ?''
she asks, and resting the tips of her fingers
oil his arm she goes off, with the barest in
clination of her head to Hume.
Hume is walking aimlessly along the
promenade, when suddenly he feels i'm
PEELED by some mesmeric influence to look
behind him, and finds himself face to face
with his charmer, Maud Montagu.
He has turned so suddenly that she can
not help slight collision, and Hume raises
Lis hat and apologies.
" believe we are stopping at the same
hotel" he says, turning almost uncon-
sciousIy and walking by her side.
Yes. | saw you in the hall just now,"
she says. "They keep the place SO hot
cannot stand it. / always come out here in
the evening"
Hume cannot yet make up his mind
whether he has met the girl before. 1t
seems 80 natural to be speaking to her, and
ye: she has shown no sign of recognition.
But he is startled out of his usual compos-
ure when she asks him in her low sweet
voice whether he has enjoyed his ride that
afternoon.
How do you know 1 went for one ?" he
asks, almost rudely.
90, | beg your pardon" says the girl,
turning her face away and dropping her
eyes before his searching gaze. suppose
/ was dreaming"
Three weeks afterward Hume is engaged
to Maud Montagu, for Lady ST. Ruth has
hardly spoken to him since that eventful
night, and she has given him to understand
that all is over between them.
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partments in which to hold their annual
Encampments. Our Rules and Regu.
lations compel Posts to hold their elee.
ton of officers at the first stated meet
ing in December, and therefore all the
Posts of our organization have one
month in which to elect their officers,
while Departments are allowed six
months, and the present year our De
partment Encampments were scattered
over nearly five months, the first being
held the last week in January, and the
last the first week in June.
The result is demoralizing in that
many of the Departments holding their
Encampments in May or June do not
get the new administration in working
order until some time in July, and the
result is delay and confusion in their re-
ports [ therefore renew the recon-
mendations of several of my predeces-
sors, who have seen and experienced the
evil effects Of the present system, and
recommend that the rules be changed so
that all Department Encampments be
held between Feb. and May l, giving
them an allowance of three months in
which to hold their Encampments.
In closing this report l desire to ex-
press my appreciation to you for the
great honor accorded me in connection
with your administration. My official
relations with all National officers, both
elected and appointed, as well as Depart
ment officers, have been of the most
fraternal character; and to all my COM
rades | desire to extend my grateful
thanks for renewed honors and most
kindly consideration.
In F., c., and L.,
JAS. f. MEECH,
Adjutant-General.
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/ | i.

Three months have passed since the day
when Hume sat in the hall Of the Hotel
Criterion with Lady st. Ruth. He is home
in England now OH business. and when that
is settled he is going back to the Riviera to
be married.
The day is cold and bleak, and as Hume
drives in hanson toward his hotel in
Northumberland avenue a strange feeling
of uneasiness takes possession of him, and
he cannot throw it off. Something has
gone wrong, he knows, something very ter
ribe
When he reaches the hotel his worst fears
are confirmed, for he finds telegram await
ing him to say that Maud has been
suddenly taken i'll and is dying The
at the most. The mental agony he suffers
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Commander-in-Chief, GAR
DAMMING THE MISSISSIPPI.
Col. Michael Gives Some Particulars of Gen.
BaiIey's Work.

Ecening Star
"That was grand piece of engineering"
declared Col. w. II. Michael the other day,
referring to the plan for building series of
dams across the rocks at the falls above
Alexandria, La, during Gen. Banks's expe-
dition. "The man who suggested 1t and
superintended the execution Of it deserves
to have his name emblazoned on Fame's
banners. He was promoted to the rank of
Brigadier-Generala and received the thanks
of Congress for this valuable service. 1t is
interesting to note that Gen. Bailey was not
q regularly y-educated civil engineer, but was
the product of hard knocks and practical
experience on the water courses of the
Northwest, and possibly in the State of
Maine as lumberman. In this vocation
he had learned to construct and use dams to
overcome obstacles arising from shallow
water in shallow streams in getting out RATS
of logs and lumber. He had used this same
knowledge two years before in taking two
large transports which had been concealed
in Thompson's Greek by the Confederates,
and which fell into our hands when Port
Hudson was taken.
when Col. Bailey proposed the rescue of
the gunboats by means OF dams the profess
siOnal engineers said it was madness, and
ridiculed the idea. The water was too swift,
they argued, to admit of such an expedient.
Admiral Porter, however, fell in with the
proposition at once; indeed, he was engaged
in figuring out some such plan when Col.
Bailey plan was brought to his attention.
"The Colonel was sanguine of success, and
the entire force of the feet and a large army
force were placed at his disposal. All the
mills in the vicinity were torn down for
material, and three regiments were set to
work telling trees, while thousands of others
engaged in bringing brick and stone; quar-
ries were opened and flatboats built TO float
the stone down to where it was wanted.
Every one worked with unabated vigor, al
though most of the men engaged doubted
the ultimate success of the enterprise.
In eight days the dams were completed,
and the water had risen so as to let four
vessels over the falls just as the dam col
lapsed. The accident, instead of disheart-
ening only served to encourage and stimu-
late Col. Bailey and the sailors and soldiers
who had worked waist-deep in water for
days in building the washout-out dam.
Four vessels had been saved, and the others
must be saved in the same manner.
"All hands went cheerfully to work again
in the broiling sun, up to their. necks IN
water, and worked increasingly by relieis
until another dam was built. This time,
instead of one dam, q series of wing dams
was built, leaving an open space of so feet for
the vestels to pass through. When done,
the vessels passed thrOu III without accident,
except the unshipping of few ruddeFS.
"Col. Bailey was the hero of the day, and