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A Rnat.BuiIder Fails.

II. M. Peterson, described as a master
and owner of sailing vessels. has failed for
$4125. His assets consist of household fur
nituTe valued at $3.50.
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Mrs. Lease has the courage of her opinions.
She has wagefed $50 dress against mans
suit that the Popullsts will win In Kansas.
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The strong point about the cures by Hoods Sar
saparilIa is that they permanent, because they
start from the solid foundation of purified Vital
lied and enriched blood. Try it now
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go Potter building, New York City, is provided with
files of California papers. Visitors welcome. Adj
vertisng rates and sample copies furnished.
i. K. MISCH, Manager,
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THE MORNING CALL

Has larger Circu alton than any
other newspaper published in San
FRANCISCO.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3. 1894.
Official Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Midn. ght We nesday.
San Francisco and vicinity - Fair weather;
nearly stationary temperature; brisk to high west
erly winds w. Ii. HARMON, Forecast omcial.
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AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.
HORSES, Erc--By Sullivan & Doyle. at 1927
Sixth ST.. at IL O'Clock.
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Northern Pacific Overland Route.
If you are anticipating journey to the
East don't fail to get our rates before buy
ing elsewhere. T.. K Stateler, general
agent 639 Market street, S. r.
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The only known woman trainer OF thorough
breds Is Mrs. Chalmer, whose five sons are
all either trainers or jockeys. She trained
them herself.
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MORE than $4,000 people read the Pacific
States Watchman"; 10000 bona fde subscrib-
ers: largest legitimate circulation Of any
monthly west of the Rocky Mountains. A few
frst-clasS advertisements will be taken. Ad-
dress VIM. IL. BARNES, 81. AIMS building,
San Francisco, Cal.
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Let the modern cruising ships BE- well manned
promptly. ana let experimental craft walt for
more men.-New York Herald
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BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street..

SLIDE, Kelly, slide. Electric glass tOboggan
at Palace Baths. 715 Filbert street.
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LADIES JACKETS.

SO
a
LADIES CLOSEFITTING THREEQUARTER JACKETS of Black Diagonal
with of
$1,000.
backs closftn Jackets notified effects n plated
andb
al ch.
vet collar wohS2 WILDE fere $eaeh
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1t seems that William &. Whitney came all
the way from Europe TO keep from being NOM
inated.-Indianapolis News.
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ress in gaining the suffrage, the women Of
England Will be In full enjoyment Of 1t before
they are.
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w. l.. Wilson may find more fences out of re-
pair on his return from Europe than he has
counted upon.-Washingto Times.
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MoNTGoMERY-ST. Lunch House, 426 Montgy.
FOOD and service tirst-class. II. III. Hull, prop.
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PLUSH CAPES

$1,000
with
sikh
fur " e al each
$500.
DOUBLE
ddoubr ipplc
'
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Dizziness Eaintness,

Extreme Lassitude, "don't care" and
swami to be left alone" feeling. excl
liability, irritability, nervousness, Sleep
%biuesss and bacikach ,T These e. are are
sure indications of Female Weakness,
some arrangement of the Uterus, or
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Womb Troubles.

The whole story, however, is told Ia
an illustrated book entitled ''Guide to
HEALTH" by Mrs. Pinkham. 1t con-
tains over 90 pages of most important
information, which every woman, mar
ried or single, should know about her.
self. Send tWO-cent stamps for it. For
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The Argentine wool markets are lively, but
the American wool markets are lifeIess. Free
wool is Dig thing for orelgners.-Detrot
journal.
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1t looks as though some OF the gentlemen
WHOM M Hill once described as "briefiess,
namby-pamby lawyers were about to institute
contfmpt proceedings against the reckless
political inaehlnist before The high court of the
people. In that event there can be no question
as TO the jurisdiction OF the trDunai.-New
York Tribune.
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arreguiaYity,

Suppressed or Painful transformations,
Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion,
Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostra-
tion, Headache, General Debility. Also
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CLOTH GAP


will be offered SIS
TOURIST CAPES
30. will be -
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Every young man should be taught that he
cannot win his spurs in game of poker.-Gal.
weston News.
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causing pain, weight, and bacl1ache, Is
instantly relieved and permanently
cured by it's use. Under all circunl-
stances it acts in harmony with the laws
that govern the female system. and
Is as harmless as water. 1t removes
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NO soFr.HEAR1ED GOVERNORS.


V0WDO kH0L00 00u08060 WIN 000g008D
and Dispatch.
! Capt. John Windrow, an old sailor of
the Pacific. tells this to the Tacoma
Ledger: "WhiIe / was in Shanghai
along in 1858 or SO, the ruler of the
city equipped two steam gunboats for
the suppression of the piratical traffic.
One of these he put in command of an
American. The boats had been out on
. cruise for several days. and early one
afternoon they returned towing thir.
teen piratical junks which had been
captured. l went aboard to see the
prisoners the boats had brought in.
An iron rail led around the gunwale
of each of the boats, to which were
shackled two hundred of the most vii.
lainous-looking Chinese I had ever
seen. Justice to such fendish wretches
was swift in China in those days, and
the next morning they were led out fol
execution. In spite of the horror OF
this wholesale beheading the execu.
ton had streak of the comic in it.
Two Chinese assistants Of the execu.
toner carried a large bamboo pole.
The condemned Chinese were in a kneel.
ing posture and the assistants would
clutch Chinaman's queue and take q
half-hitch around the bamboo pole.
Then, each putting the pole on his
shoulder, they both would suddenly
rise up, stretching his neck away from
the prisoners shoulders. The execu.
toner stood ready with drawn sword
and Topped off their heads with as
much indifference as farmer would
have about cutting cornstalks. Little
baskets were ready, into which head
was placed, and in this manner the
heads were hung on the walls outside
the city gates"
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DAHOMEY WIVES.
3Aey Are Obtained by Purchase Of tn,
King.

3Asy Are Obtained by Purchase OF the
King.
All the female population of Da.
honey belongs to the king, who sells a
few, once a year, to any subject who
may be in want of q wife, or some
times, if a man has performed an act
Of bravery or pleased the king in any
way. a wife is bestowed upon him free
as special mark of favor The price
for wife is fixed, but there is no choice
allowed.
The candidate, says Waverley Maya
line, lays the sum of money at the
kings feet and he may receive in ex-
change young girl of eighteen or a
toothless old hag of sixty. But he
dare not grumble or complain and can
only leave the palace with his bargain.
If any wife quarrcls with her hus-
band and wishes to leave him, accord
ing to an old custom. she has right to
return to the kings palace. The pres
ent monarch is said to possess only a
few hundred wives, but there have
been kings Of Dahomey who possessed
three thousand consorts.
All the officials ut the court. when
they enter the kings presence, lie fat
on the ground and strike their fore.
heads On the floor, as a sign that they
humble themselves to the dust. Even
Ihemigau, the chief minister, is COM
PEELED to crawl toward his sovereign's
feet when he has a communication to
make.
The women of Dahomey, after their
marriage. lead miserable life. They
arc never allowed to eat with their
husbands and receive any instruction
he may wish to give them on their
Knees. No wife would dare to stand
n her husbands presence without his
,pecial permission.
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According to the "Gotha Almanac"
which has just been issued for 1894, the
queen of England has reigned longer
than any other ruler in the world, hav-
ing assembled the throne in 1887. Next
to her in point of time are Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria and Fred
erick, the grand duke of Baden. The
monarchs who have reigned the short
est time are Prince Frederick of Wal
deck and Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha. The oldest monarch, accord.
ing to the Almanac" is the pope,
who is more than eighty-three years of
age. The grand duke of Luxembourg
and the king of Denmark, respectively
seventy-six and seventy-five years of
age, stand next to him in this regard.
Grand Duke Karl Alexander, who
lives in Weimar, is fourth in point Of
age, and Queen Victoria, with her sew
enty-four years, is the fifth oldest mon.
arch. The youngest crowned heads
are the little queen of the Neither
lands, who is thirteen, and the king OF
Spain, who is seven and q half year
old.
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/ MUST HAVE SECRETkEiES


a great deal is >;..i ;huut luH let
tcr-v rit.u.- j. a host art. ANA l",cr, ot
hir"n" days take ,-r.rt ! ':.''r,. ;.Hd
Ir.tc 10 i..3r.f To- t.t. lu:a.- .r,,-~,
rp.-;.'~ wy.jt,.l III tie if.~i --,:.,3..tinn
and then contrasting thrn with the
little scrappy notes >crawlrd in the
very iilcgihlc handwriting %; t"-day.
Within The last few years the utter i'm
possibility Of any >rricty wuinan at
tempting ~ keep mp her own CORE
spuuicncr ha> been thoroughly proved,
and the New York Herald thinks that
of all the fields of employment open
t. women that Of private secretary is
most desirable and one of the most re-
muncrative. 1t i a post which re-
quircs business ability. great tact. a
clear handwriting and 4 thorough
knowledge Of composition. The
schools and colleges are beginning to-
realize how important it is L. train
women to ill these very positions, for
every year sees the demand increasing.
Some women require that their secrc-
tarics shall write Il hand precisely like
their own. So that notes of a most init
mate character can be answered by
the secretary without giving otfense.
as would probably be the ease should
the receiver of a note for an instant
fancy that anyone than the person to
whom the letter had been sent had
answered it. OF course this position re-
quires the most absolute trust. for the
secretary is OF necessity Entrusted
with the most intimate affairs
Of her employer. The world has GER
tainly changed since the time when it
was generally believed and universally
stated that no woman could keep Sc
cret. for many are the cases in this
city where another person has charge
of my lady's private affairs and never
has there been known a time as yet
when such confidence has been abused
The duties of a secretary are manifold
and require considerable knowledge of
society and its requirements. She must
know to whom cards should be sent,
must keep up visiting list and be sure
when invitations for receptions and
dances are sent out that none of the
dead friends are invited. In some
places the secretary has charge OF the
household affairs as we'll.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-28
INDIANS OF YUCATAN.
k1Ange Customs with Infants and with
Brides In Early Days.


In an old book called The Buc-
.aneers of America" recently re,
printed, is given Il curious account of
he customs in vogue among the Yucca
an Indians two hundred years ago.
t runs substantially as follows:
As soon as child is born it is car
led to the temple where a circle OF
1ole is made and filled with ashes. On
his heap of ashes the naked child is
placed and left there a whole night
alone, not without great danger, no
one daring to come near it. The
temple is open on all sides. So that all
sorts of beasts may freely go in and
out. The next day the father and rcla-
tives return to see il the tracks or step
Of any animal appears printed in the
ashes. II no track is found the poor
baby is left there until some beast has
left behind ii the marks of its feet.
To this animal the new born babe is
consecrated, as unto its God; and this
beast he is bound to worship and serve
all his life-it being his patron and
protector. When grown to intelli
gence the parents instruct him in re-
gard to his patron beast, and teach
him to serve and honor it as his own
proper God. He goes to the temple
and makes offerings to the beast. In
the course of his life, when injured or
harmed in any way. he makes his
complaints to this beast, WHENCE"
adds the narrator, innocently, many
times it comes that those who have
done the injury of which he complains
are found to be bitten, killed or other
wise hurt by such animals. After this
superstitious and idolatrous mann err"
he contin ues, do live those miserable
and ignora mt Indians that inhabit all
the islands of the gulf of Honduras, as
also many of them that dwell upon the
continent of Yucatan."
A man desiring to marry applies
6rst to the damsers father or nearest
relative. He is carefully examined
concerning the manner of cultivating
their plantations, and other matters.
he is then given n bow and arrow.
With these tokens he repairs to the
young maid, and presents her with
garland of green leaves interwined
with fragrant flowers. The wreath she
Is obliged to put on her head, and lay
aside her virgins garland which she
has hitherto worn. All the relatives
and friends now assemble to consult
IS to the propriety Of the marriage Of
this couple. Having agreed as to
their approval. they meet at the house
Of the damsers father, where they
drink Of q certain liquor made of maize,
OK Indian wheat" and here, in the
presence of this company, the father
gives his daughter in marriage. The
next day the newly-married bride
comes to her mother, pulls of the
garland and tears it in pieces, with
cries and bitter lamentations, accord
ing to the custom of the country"
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TEXAN HOSPITALITY.
Tho Passing Stranger Always Invited
and Taken Care OF.

The Passing Stranger Always Invited In
and Taken Care OF.
1.-THE latch string hangs out" ex.
pressed the hospitality of the southern
frontier in the days before the war"
If traveller rode up before the fence
that separated the log cabin from the
road he was greeted by Light,
stranger, lightw Without this salu-
tation no one dismounted, but it was
rarely withheld. Mr.. Williams, in his
recent book, "Sam Houston" thus de-
scribes the impulse of hospitality.
which made every traveller a guest
during the early settlement Of Texas:
The traveller who rode up to the
front fence was instantly invited to
alight. His horse was stalxed out or
hobbled to feed on the prairie grass
and the visitor sat down to exchange
the news with his host. The coffee
mill was set going, if there were any OF
the precious grains in the house, and
the hopper in the hollow log to grind
ing the corn. The venison or bear meat
was put on the Goals and the ashcske
baked.
After the meal and the evening pipe
the visitor stretched himself on q buff
falo robe on the floor with the mem.
bers Of the family and slept the sleep
of health and fatigue. In the morning
the response to any inquiry as to the
charge was: you can pay me by COM
ing again"
The story that certain hospitable
settler used to waylay travellers on the
road and compel them to visit him at
the muzzle Of q double-barreled shot
gun was only q humorous exaggeration
of the instinct for hospitality which
characterized the community.
The visitor was living newspaper,
who brought the only news obtain
able, and was a welcome relief to the
monotony and loneliness Of the wilder.
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\ An American Institution,

= An Englishman who has now learne
two or three things about America i
general and New York in particula,
admits that he did very amusing an
British thing when he first crossed
New York ferry. 1t seems that the fe,
ryboats Of this town are famed abroat
for their size aud steadiness, and thi
particular Briton had been assured tina
he would never know hewes af1oat whe
ON one of these boats by means of an
motion perceptible in the cabin. RI
Numbering all this, the Englishma
seated himself in one of the ferry
houses on first coming to the city an
patiently waited until the usual Amer
can rush for the wharf should proclaim
his arrival at the opposite shore. N
rush occurred, however, and after Sc,
eral boats had come and gone the Brito
made the humiliating discovery that h
had been thinking better of an Amer
can institution than it deserved.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-28
SCHOOL SYSTEM OF FRANCE.


The Symmetry and working Are Said -
He Next Thing to Perfection.
Every child in France at this hour
says the complacent minister in the
wellknown story, sis studying tho
same lesson" and, according to the
Fortnightly Review. it is practically
the same for every undergraduate
still. Uniform knowledge and uni
form precision, with uniform justice
for every young citizen, are thus Sc
cured, and what are commonly reck-
oned the essential qualities of the
French mind" are unquestionably de-
veloped. Not only the symmetry, but
the working Of the system is perfect;
the grand armee is gone, even the code
has its uncertainties, new govern
ment and principles come and 60; but
the University of France has sat as it
was set, above the reach of time or
politics, as beseems the mighty spir-
itual organization it is. The body of
the nation is in its outer court, its gov
eminent classes are in the second and
third. We recognize in England how
largely the public schoolboy is father of
the man, but we must deepen this i'm
preston tenfold to realize the national
Importance of the lyceen and his bac-
calaureate. One might write q good
account of modern France in terms of
him alonc-the lyceen fullblown as
litcrateur and critic, as artist and en-
gineer, as journalist and politician, as
soldier and colonizer, and SO on. In
all such occupations, however, he has
too much to do with the outer court;
it is in the inner one, that of the doc
torate. the aggregation, the diploma
of the Ecole Normale Superieure, that
he fully blossoms, unspotted from the
world. He becomes professor or
other functionary, for above all things
the ambition of the conventionally
well-educated Frenchman is to belong
TO some bureau or other. The profane
call this inner court with some sp-
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MUST TELL THEIR AGES.

A Law That IL Not Likely to Prove Popu
lar with Most Women.
According to recent decree of tn
Austrian courts Of law, concealment O
age on the part of the bride is sufficien
to invalidate the marriage. An Au,
trian baron has succeeded in obtaining
an annulment Of his union in conse
quence of his wife's having pretende
at the time Of its celebration that sh
was fifteen years younger than her req
age.
Hitherto concealment Of age b.
women has always been considered q
to q certain extent defensible and cui
tomary, and no one has ever dreame
Of regarding these departures from tn
strict truth in the light of lega
fraud. It is, however, well in any cas-
to remember the old adage according
90 which q woman is as old as she Look
says the New York Tribune. and if sh
be passe in appearance it is useless TO
her to claim fictitiously youthful age
There is an attractiveness attachin
to each period Of life, and the vetera
is often in her way quite as charmin
"a the debutante.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-28
HORRIBLE CARGOE8,



When the seven-hundred-ton Aus
trian bark Villa was picked up at sea
by the Norwegian fruit steamer Breid.
ablik and brought to New YORK q
couple of months ago much curiosity
was expressed as to what could have
caused her crew to desert her. With
the exception of being partially dis.
masted, it was in perfect condition.
says the New York Tribune, and the
loss of its masts might have occurred
after the crew left it. 1t had sailed
from Egypt with cargo chiefly made
up of old bones, and no word was heard
of it until it was picked up off Hatteras
by the Breidablik. All the bark's
papers and every scrap of food had
been taken from it and the fate of its
crew was mystery. The experience
of the three-masted schooner Wallace
j. Boyd, which recently arrived at
Philadelphia from Montevideo with a
similar cargo of old bones may afford
an explanation Of the mystery sur
rounding the Villa. The crew of the
Boyd say that nothing could ever in
duce them to ship again on a bone
laden vessel. Within a few days after
leaving port the vessel became infested
with scorpions and other pestiferous
bugs, which came out of the cargo and
penetrated every nook and corner of
the craft. The men were driven from
their hunks in the forecastle and every
effort to rid the schooner of tn e
plague was unavailing. Five or six
times day all hands were compelled
to strip, battle and change their cloth
ing, but the smaller insects held on in
spite of all this. On a day which was
damp and warm the torment was ag-
gravated by the appearance of large
green bugs, which swarmed over every
thing and continued their ravages
until port was reached. 1t is believed
that the creatures were in the
bones when they were gathered on the
Argentine plains, and the excessive
heat of the hold during the voyage
through the tropics caused them to
breed in enormous numbers and forced
them on deck. It is possible that the
crew of the Villa was driven from it by
. similar cause and met . worse fate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-28

Facts About the OriEin Of tho
Christmas Turkey.
Our Earnyard G"hhior IL Not the Direct
Descendant Of American stock,
But q Relative Imported
from Mexico.

Among the lCNUT.r~ belonging - the
high conditions e civilization cNhi-
hitod ~ th' =, N.rAu 1n'..'u ~ the
t'-uc II the Spanish conquest Wa~ the
Possession ~ " itrIGlaA II one 81
the ms: ,At,u~.f. l''t...-.,ti ;-a,rivnN
On record, 80. 'i.'- N"-t.l"-f'n N'tr.
l. 'fAi.rae''. l.',..., g.. .., L.. aa inal~
- that couhtT. ".tn others brought
al great co>t :r!A distances. 1t -
stated - historians 'Aa' trrnry>-
ralIr': hv -, Spanish '-t'i.'Nrrr> =.
k'nG %: lN''"..'', "'r- f'rH.-!''d III
larry utlr'" ~- - .-. - t.,- ''a~,> ~
pre- III Ia" "iU, pure. ulrna -rrf.c.
At that 'iiac lie bird had been do
mcstlca;cd ana reared III M"N."" for
hundreds "f yoArH. 1t Wa CARRIED by
the -Spanlari> I" the West Indies,
whence II Wa taken - Europe early
in the sixteenth century. Erf"rr long
it became in Europe highly appreciated
FOR its flavor. E".n% SHOWN I" he OF
foreign origin. Il rrp"r canned ground
that the fowl had zee "H'allt" rom
Turkey. that beng region mute
known IN western i.Ir"pe. In TINS
way 1t obtained the name by which 1t
has since been d">l5nH eel.
People coming I" tie nited States
from Eur"n" "r"n@nt TINS Mexican
FOWL to the | nlt''! states ana the
progeny OF the stock thus imported
anu 1etched BACK I" the c"htiheht
whence 1t was Originality derived FUR
nlshes Yankee tables to-day. In TACT,
the contemporary turkey OF the barn
yard did not bel"n@ here originally.
1t is not derived from the Wild turkey
OF the United states. which is quite
another species' WITH DARK meat on
the breast and other dliitrences pam
ly distinguishable- On the other hano'
the wild Mexican turkey has white
meat on the breast and resembles our
tame turkey in all other points.
There are two species OF Wild turkey
In North America. One IS confined to
the eastern and southern parts OF the
United States while the other is native
to the Rocky mountains. parts OF
Texas, New MG.lco. Colorado, Arizona,