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Arizona republican., 1894-11-06
DONE IN HIS ABSENCE,
The Evil consequences of Staying
 Away from Church.

A gentlemen, mem Der of one of the leading churches of the city, absented himself last Sunday, which, by the way, happened to be the day on which col lection was enino to hn taken to meet a special burden of expense. None of ais friends imagine that he WAS impelled by the circumstance of the collection but even if he had been so unworthily influenced he would have gained noth- ing, for the collection did not take place. It was superseded by a su ubscrip- tion and the subscri Der was the absent gentleman's brother. He began with a generous subscrip ion on his own &C., count and after that made equally gen. erous su bscriptions for other members ab 'ent and present. The absent bro'her was put down for $10, sum which went beyond his widest dreams in the event of 8 collection. He has baen figuring on how many cattle and turkeys he will have to sell to overcome the effect of his brothers liberality.
Arizona republican., 1894-11-06
Founded Alone on AWk-
 ward Forgery.
Recent Discoveries of Fraud Among Mexican Archives.
A Seal Which Had Been Out of Date Hundred Years-FIight of
 Reavis From Spain.

The cloud of the Peralta- Reavis claim which has been hanging over the plains, valleys and mountains of South Central Arizona has practically drifted away. It was not much of cloud but sufficient to create apprehension and to some ex- tent deter capital from entering beneath it's shadow.
 What has always been suspected, that the clam is wholly fraudulent, is now known, and the knowledge is solidly based on recently discovered evidence.
 On his recent trip to Albuquerque, Judge Joseph Campbell met United States Attorney Matt G. Reynolds and Associate Justice Thos. c. Fuller at Rlncon and travelled with them as far as Albuquerque. They were returning from Guadalajara, where they had gone to examine records relating to the Peralta- Reavis claim. MT. Reynolds told Judge Campbell that he had obtained indisputable evidence of the fraudulent character of the claim. The documents at Guadalajara bore unmistakeable marks of forgery which had not even the merit of having been skiilfullv done. They had been inserted in the books of record between leaves in the most bungling manner. The pages lm- m7diately preceding and following the interDolated records numbered con- secutively had been unchanged, show ing the interpolation. Another in- l closing another of the series of blunders made in the construction of this monu- mental fraud. The Spanish seal with which the documents were stamped was found to have been out of use for more than one hundred years previous to the date of the document.
 It was learned also that similar frauds had been attempted and par tially accomplished by Reavis while in Spain. The same interpolation of the records was in progress when the fraud was discovered and Reavis was con- pelled to fee the country. By law peculiar to che Spanish government it is sad the Reavis records were an- nulled. MT. Reynolds will shortly visit Spain to collect further evidence of the fraud. He has not, he says, the slight est doubt in the world that when the matter comes up for hearing the long talked of Peralta Reavis claim will be forever dissipated. It will not likely be heard for two years but MT. Rev holds gives assurance that the claim is as invalid now as 1t will be shown to be when 1t is heard.
 Two opinions have been held by settlers and othes regarding the claim. One opinion or rather fear was that it might have blighting genuineness. The other opinion was that though it was invalid it was based on something. The discovery above described, however, proves beyond a doubt that 1t is utterly without any other found at1on than the baldest forgery.
Arizona republican., 1894-11-06
AFRICAN CUSTOMS.
Episodes Which Traveller Saw In the
 YOruba Country.

l Yoruba Country.
 Jean Hess, French-African travel
 CT, gives in Le Figaro of recent date an
 unaccustomed view of the savage ne- i gress. He pictures her as having a l beauty of her own beftting the climate and vegetation of tropical Africa. ! That, however, might be matter of
 taste, and, perhaps, most writers would
 find it hard to discover, with M Hess, ln the naked negress living bronze, of unimpeachable lines," a creature whose pride and dignity suggest what ancient poets tell of Athenian priest esses and Roman expresses"
 1 Matter of fact and not of taste h ow- ever, is to be found in the account M Hess gives of love and marriage among some of the savage African tribes In the country of the Yoruba, extending from the Gulf of Benin to the Niger, M. Hess saw young negro who, after sacrificing pigeon upon the end of a stream, threw it's plumage upon the water, and chanted prayer to Imoya, protector of the bottom of the sea. Imoya is white genius that lives at the bottom of the stream. He has power to inspire virgins with love of the young men that implore his aid. Prayer is made to Imoya in secret place, with the sacrifice of honey cakes and white doves. Here is love chant that is sung to Imoya:
 ''There is in the house of the chief beautiful virgin, Rere by name, the loveliest of all. She has large hips as those of a heifer; she has arms as strong as warriors; she has eyes as sweet as the antelope's; her voice is chant gayer than those of the birds; her dancing is light and pleasure to see; she is supple and undulous as the sacred serpent; she is lovelier than may be told. I would like her well for wife. She would honor me in my house and she would give me beautiful children. But she is proud and mock ing. She will laugh at me when I would buy her, and I shall not be able to conduct her to my house. Imoya, give her to me!''
 The girls also have their chants, fetiches and ceremonies to obtain hus- bands. In village of Yoruba, M. Hess saw group of young negresses per forming these rites about a great baobab tree. They carried jars of oil, and sang, moving slowly, with naked bosoms, with measured cadence and harmonious balancing. As they danced they affixed white bits of cloth to the tree. The observer saw nothing gro tesque or Imaginable in the scene.
 NJ. Hess says that the savage negress has her coquetries, and asserts that she submits to painful tattooing that she may seem more beautiful to men. The marriage of rich man of the Egbas to the daughter of chief was a notable ceremony. The maiden's consent hay ing been obtained the future husband paid her father the agreed price. As the newly married couple journeyed homeward people along the way laid down branches and flowers, saying:
 ''The genii give thee beautiful spouse; forget not that she is more pre- cious than all thy riches. The virgin whom thou takest was the charm of the house, the charm of the city. Thou desired her. When thou hast given us all thy treasures thou shalt not have paid enough"
Arizona republican., 1894-11-06
Feed the Young Stock.

Lambs, colts and calves should be kept continuously growing, whether they are to be kept over winter or sold in the fall. When they go into winter quarters the observer should be able to note their sleek, fine, healthy, TO- bust condition. Such growth can only be obtained by judicious naaazc1nent aud attention, Good pasture, pure water, perhaps a little grain during the droughty season and frequent salt ing are needed.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
ALL GOOD BOOKS
In "The Calls Big
Premium Library.
The Works of the Best Authors Can
Constantly Be Found in
the List.

THE CALLS Premium Library is rapidly
becoming an institution on which many
people depend for their literature. The
list is long, and contains books on almost
any subject a person can think of, and
the price at which they are offered places
them within the reach of ALL
Several of the books were produced to
sell for one dollar, many of them at sew
enty-ive cents. and hundreds of them at
fifty cents. Now any of them can be OBJ
tanned for ten cents and one coupon cut
from THE CALL.
There are many advantages in buying
these books. They are all new and clean.
and the reader is assured that they have
never been handled as books from
library are. Then again they can be read
at the owners leisure and then laid away
to be looked over again at some future
time. A very few dollars will give. any
home quite an extensive library OF the
best books published.
The list includes several practical works
on cooking and general recipes that are
sure to be of value in the family.
The martha Washington Cookbook"
should be IN every house, as it Is chuck
full of hints for the housewife.
There are several books on other prac-
teal subjects that anybody can obtain by
consulting the list that is published daily.
REGULATIONS, readings. poems and PLAYS
are interesting to many people, and HE
CALLS list contains several works on
those subjects.
In the way of fiction the list is kept
ahead of the times. The best books are
obtained as soon as published. and all sold
at the uniform price of 10 cents. The fic-
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In modern works the list includes "a Man
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Any of the books IN the list can be OBJ
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
VARIED BEAUTIES.
Scenes in the Sacramento
Valley.
This Portion of the State Is Illus
trated and Described in epic
turesque California;

One of the most interesting portions of
California is the Sacramento Valley. II
contains every variety of landscape. be-
sides that which is Enthusiastically its
own, and the life of the people who live
there has distinct stampof individuality.
Those portions of the valley near the
river are fiat and fertile. and in appear
ance maybe somewhat tame, but the foot
hills Of the Serras which form the eastern
slope of the valley are wild beyond de-
scription and of wonderful scenic gran
deur.
In part twenty-four Of Picturesque
California" the position of the Golden
Gate is illustrated and described. The
pictures are from photographs and paint
ings by famous artists, and the descriptive
matter is from the zen of the great writer.
Charles Howard Shnn.
The full pages picture two photographs.
One is view the State Capitol, show
ing the handsome building and beautiful
grounds to the best advantage. The other
is most unusual growth of live oak. A
splendid specimen of one of these Califor-
MIA trees has extended one OF its limbs 30
far from the trunk that it became heavy
and bent down to the ground and TOOK
root. The picture shows the branch OF
the tree forming beautiful natural arch
way.
Mount Diablo and the Tule Region" is
the title OF a picture from painting by ID.
d. Nichols. The bold face of the famous
mountain forms a soft background for
lake filed with tules. on the surface OF
which floats boat full of men engaged In
the exhilarating sport of duck-shootlng.,
suffers MILF. is from painting Cy
George Spiel. and is graphic and artistic
portrayal of the spot where Marshall first
discovered gold in 1848
There are ten other characteristic pictures
OF scenes IN the valley. some OF little Dits
along the river and others are scenes in
vast fields that stretch away and meet the
Slerras, which blend into soft haze that
seems and becomes part of the sky.
Part twenty-four of picturesque Cali
fornla' will be ready for distribution to
CALL subscribers to-morrow. and can be
obtained for ten cen Ia and one coupon.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12

at the time he dared not print as were
printed other books. In this, the latest
issue, is presented the conclusion OF
Bacon's account of the Spanish Armada.
which has been pronounced one of the
great historical poems. The poem runs
smoothly In iambic verse of the period and
is full OF beautiful imagery, aIlegorical de-
scriDtion. flights of fancy, flashes of wit
and deep thought To read the account
one cannot fail to stop and think of The
patience and study devoted to the absrac-
ton of the wonderful tale from the thou
sands of pages over which the doctor has
spent many weary hours in his search for
the proper lines to follow one another in
their sequence. 1t Is most extraordinary
work and worthy the attention OF all VINO
take any interest in literature: Detroit
and New York: The Howard Publishing
Company.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
The Judicial Exterminator.

Edgar Catlin, the attorney who wanted
to brain Judge Conlan in court on Friday
with brickbats and rocks owing to an al
legged grievance In connection with the
cases against Frank McManus, appeared
in court yesterday morning. His case
was continued till tomorrow. McManus'
cases have been sgain continued till next
WednesdAY.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Several designations and Appoints
ments-IHenry Rice Tried.

ments-Henry Rice Tried.
Driver Henry Rice was tried by the Fire
Commissioners las, night for neglect OF
duty. He was charged with failing to
send telephone message ordered by the
Chief. His very excellent reason was
that the wire was broken, and the charge
was dismissed
The following resignations were &C
cepted: William Tannian. driver. engine :;
Il. Stewart. extraman, engine 10; w. Bal
llnger. extraman, engine II.
:, The following were appointed: Thomas
OConnell, truckman of truck Z; Jefferson
OConnell, truckman of truck z; A. Barnes.
truckman OF truck 4 Henry Rivers, hose
man OF engine 5; B. Donnelly, h0seman of
engine 4 and III. White, hoseman OF en-
CINE 9.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
Not to Oppose the Funding Bill.

Not to Oppose the Funding Bill.
President Holcomb of the. Produce Ex-
change and President Laumeister of the
Merchants Exchange have notified Mayor
Ellert that the commercial bodies over
which they preside do not deem it advis-
able to hold meeting to protest against
the passage OF the Reilly funding bill by
Congress.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
HOTEL DEL MAR.

ing buses to trains: children SO so to s5, adults
%, nurses 50 per week special rates families and
societies; table unexcelled. For particulars apply
TO Manager. Santa Cruz. CAL. or Catholic Ladies'
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GLENBROOK HOTEL. LAKE COUNTY.
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sea level; beautiful scenery; pure air, water;
hunting and fishing. o.. W. R. TREADWAY
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aplh Am SuWeFr
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
GLENBROOK HOTEL. LAKE COUNTY.
ADJUSTMENTS.
MACDONOUGH THEATER. OAKLAND

Tomorrow, Mon, "a Nights and Wed. Matt,
MR. JOIN DREW.
Mon. and Tues ev'gs and Wed Mat, 1.-THE But
teriies"; Wed. ev'g., "The Masked Ball"; Thurs,
Christopher Jr." Seats on sale to-day. au12 st
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12

HER FAIR FAME.-This is q new story
by Edgar Fawcett, with little character
analysis or description, but Short dra-
matte and interesting. Phyllis L0rremore.
an orphan, brought up in luxury by Ogden
Hamilton, falls in love with her dreamy
master, Foulke Bradhurst. Foulke is the
protege of Hamilton, and discovering the
latter's love for his ward, pleads his case
with Phyllis. The result is like John
Alden's 'Why don't you speak for your
self, John?" Phyllis and Foulke are
married, leave New York for Paris. and
all Bradhurt's attempts TO sell his pictures,
genius though he be, fail because the rich
Ogden Hamilton opposes him. AT last, to
save her husbands life, in the last extrem-
ity OF disease and want, Phyllis agrees to
see him no more. provided his restoration
to health and success be insured. Hamil-
ton keeps his word. Foulke Bradhurst re-
covers, goes to Rome, and, under another
name, wins fame and fortune. He believes
his wife to be dead, and their meeting at
Trouvilie had dramatic complications that
result in their own reunion and in the
gu eide of Hamilton. "Her Fair Fame is
the shortest of Edgar Fawcett's stories.
but it is also the most interesting. The
movement never flags, the interest of the
reader grows to the very end of the story,
the characters are clearly conceived and
deity painted and the English is purer
and simpler than usual. New YORK: Mer-
ril & Baker. For sale by the Bancroft
Company
SIR BACoN's CIPHER SToRY.-The third
volume OF "Sir Bacon's Cipher Story" by
DR.. Orville w. Owen. is out. This is a
continuation OF the strange story that is
being worked out by DIR. Owen from the
works of number OF authors, the prin-
cipal ones being those ascribed to Shakes
peare. and which the doctor holds were
written by Sir Francis Bacon. From these
works the doctor, by the use of certain
cipher, discovers a story of the times OF
Sir Bacon which Bacon wrote, but which
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12

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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12

Wars and rumors of war come and 90,
strike bubbles are blown and burst, but
the question of illumination commenced
when God said, "Let there be light" and
it has lasted ever since Householders on
the one hand. are ever clamoring for cheap
light; wealthy companies are ever putting
forth their claims for something new and
better than the old, and yet half the world
continues to live its life in semi-darkness.
There is an amusing side to all this, and
the fun can be found in print from time to
time. Nearly every week writer's to the
press are ingeniously advertising one sys-
tenn or the other, and a kind of undecared
controversy between the friends of gas,
coal oil and electricity uDderlies the whole
question. The public, as a general rule,
are not so much in terested in the extent of
cOmpany's plant or the salaries of its
officers, as in the price at which its product
is supplied. Coal oil is cheap, but the
cleaning of lamps is disagreeable and
soils dainty fingers. Gas is clean and as
brilliant as electric lights. When mean
descent lamps were firss introduced the
uninltiated began to sell their gas stock,
prophesying that the worlds illumin alton
of the future must be by electricity only.
Much as l admire those lights it seems to
me that they are never likely to be uni
versal, because the expense is and proba-
bly, always will be greater than that of
other illuminants-the glowing assertions
OF the electric people notwithstanding. Ii
is certain that in the future world the
"outer darkness" portion will have 10 use
for any lights at all, and its inhabitants,
at the present advancing rate OF skeptic-
ism, will probably have large majority.
The fnal evolutions In the Illuminatory
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
GOSSIP.
Passing Comments on Current Topics.
BY THE oBSERTER.

Lullaby songs! Their name is legion.
Moreover. with some few exceptions. they
are insipid, weakly things. lacking In
motive as to text; hymnal and tiresome IN
their setting.
Aware of these facts, as | presume they
were, George Adam and young Emile
Bruguiere, in cOmpounding new vocal
sedative to be known as Mothers Gift,
have taken big chances.
| am not sufficiently versed in harmony
and counterp0int to criticize the Bruguiere
part of the work. but if it is In keeping
with Adams graceful lines no further
apologies for their preparation Will be
necessary.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-12
Clear anCe Sale.
FINE Shoes!

We told you that our store would be
crowded from morning till night, and
it was, and will be.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-04
STARTED TO DIG.
An EmbyrO Grave Found Under the House
Where Dew Was Murdered.

Coroner McCollister has a nose that
would do credit to the typical old Sleutb
OF the cent romance.
Ever since the discovery of the murder
OF James Dow he has had his nose to the
ground trailing the murderer, and has
found many valuable clews. He has visit
ed the scene Of the tragedy several times
and has noted every little thing he saw.
Thursday while looking the place over
again he found some evidences that part
of the floor of the rear room showed
signs of having been removed. He did
not pay an especial attention to it then,
but the more he thought about the mat
ter the more ne felt like investigating il.
Yesterday he went down there and getting
down on his hands and knees
and scraping the coal dust away
he found that a piece or the
floor about fifteen inches wide and three
feet long had been cut with hatchet.
He pried the piece up and found it to be
cut not over month or so. He looked
and could see nothing. He lit match,
stuck il down and found evidences of the
rnmoval of some dirt. He became more
enthused, and with an unflinching heart
he jumped down and lighted another
match and found that quite good deal OF
the dirt had been removed and the dig
ging of grave started.
The supposition is that whoever killed
James Dow intended to bury the body in
the earth under the floor but didn't have
the nerve to accomplish his purpose for
fear of detection.