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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
he turned upon him imperiously.

She turned upon him imperiously.
"What have you to say for YOURSELF"
The dude covered before her, abashed, and
then passed through the door without a word.
She shook her head sadly.
"Once more is the old saying verified, 1T
goes without sayingP"
She gently locked the door behind him.
Truth.
Old Mercator Ito little Billy DUCKS, just left
school, who applies for situation as office-boy,
and produces testimonial from clergyman)-
We don't want you on Sundays my good little
boy. Have you reference from any one who
knows you on weekdays ?-Sydney Bulletin.
Road contractor (angrily)-See here, I told
you to break those stones so they would be
small enough to go into a mans mouth.
Laborer-Yaas sab, you die. sab, an OATS
what Use been dom. 1 used ma own mouf,
sah.-New York Sun.
Figures may not lie, but the introduction of
the bloomer costume is giving pleasant en-
phasis to many unwelcome truths.-Chicago
Dispatch.
Even the Boston trolley people are queer.
Unlike their compeers elsewhere, they have
nubbins of souls and not alone make some
effort to compass tenders, but have sent to the
Mayor 10000 tickets for Charity rides to be
given to institutions
Editors wife-Who wrote this beautiful arti-
Gle on GLOW to Manage Wife,"
Editor-Young CUTLER.
Editors wife-Why, 1 didn't know he was
married.
Editor-He isn't.-Philadelphia Post.
Old Bullion playfully)-suppos 1 should
lose my money and die poor what would my
little duckie darling do then?
Young bride Cthoughtfuliy)- med
ical college would give me something for your
corpse.-New York Weekly.
THAT man." said the resident to the visitor
as he pointed to a prosperous looking person
across the street; "that man achieved the repu-
tation OF being the most truthful man in town
by telling bafe-faeed, bald-headed lie. He
went fishing and caught eleven of the finest
possible bass, and when he carried them home
in the car he told people that he had bought
acknowledgements Journal.
Chummy-What would you think of man
that always went around talking to himself?
Gruffiy-I should say if he did it to listen TO
himself he was fool; if he did it to avoid
listening to his friends he was a genius, and if
he did 1t to save his friends from listening to
him he was q philanthrop ist.-Truth.
gentleman in Santa Rosa has grown son
at school in Oakland who spends more than
his monthly allowance. His last letter to his
father is q "corker." II is as follows:
Dear Papa: have to ask you for few dol
lars and don't know how to express myself
If you could see how blush with embarrass-
ment you would give me $50 without me tell
ing you.
send you this by -, who is visiting Santa
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
TEXAS Is REDEEMED.

One of the most sensational and remark
able scenes that this country has ever wit
messed was that furnished by the Legis-
lature of Texas on Thursday AT special
session called by the Governor to pass a
law prohibiting prize-fghting in order to
put a stop to the ett-FitZsimmons af-
fair arranged to take place at Dallas a
statute was enacted almost unanimously
prohibiting all contests of this character,
including bull-fghting also in the prohibi-
ton, and providing that the law go into
effect Immediately. Only one Senator and
five Assemblymen voted against the meas
ure. Austin, the capital, was almost in a
state of riot with excitement and iublIa-
ton.
Texas had been selected by the Florida
Athletic Club as the scene of the fight for
the reason that this State has always en-
joyed the reputation which made reason
able an assumption that the contest would
be permitted there. This was a direct
challenge to the better sentiment prevail
ing in the State and an announcement to
the world that the morality of Texas was
of low order. The Florida Athletic Club,
outlawed by its own State in the matter of
fostering prize-fghts, had been forced to
look elsewhere, and it depended on the
reputation of Texas and the absence of
laws prohibiting prize-ights to be able to
conduct the affair on Texas soil.
1t is asserted, though it is difficult to be-
lieve, that the people of Dallas were eager
to have the fight and that its eminent resi-
dents worked hard to nullify the splendid
efforts of Governor Culberson to prevent it.
If this is true, they have placed themselves
outside the order of civilization which the
other communities of Texas have estab-
lished. They have given notice that all of
the old-time spirit of Texas, which for so
many years has been the butt for the iibes
of moralists, is now centered in Dallas, and
that it is most excellent place for good
men and women to avoid.
Texas has so nobly redeemed itself as to
deserve. particular praise. As for Governor
Culberson, he is the hero of the day, and
should receive the highest reward that the
people of his State can give him.
The reported willingness of the Indians
of the Cherokee Nation to have the fight
take place there calls attention to the alb
sence of National control of this serious
matter. With the Indians it is merely a
matter of money. AS they exist under the
sanction and protection of the United
States, they must be given to understand
that this is not still savage country. II
is too late now for Congress to interfere,
but if steps are not taken in the future to
place these Indians under the control of
the sense of decency which pervades this
country the Cherokee Nation will become
the scene of indecent practices OF as great
variety as human depravity can devise.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
The Bulletin is preparing to issue forty

The Bulletin is preparing to issue forty
page edition next Tuesday in celebration
of its fortieth birthday. Forty years con-
stitute a long stretch in the short history
of San Francisco. During that time scores
of newspapers have risen, hourished and
sunk, and the mutations of other enter
prises have been numerous and bewilder-
ing; but the Bulletin has always moved
steadily onward, ably and honestly assist
ing to lead the City into ways of increasing
wisdom and prosperity, and standing to-
day as one of the highest opponents of
clean, intelligent, honest, dignifed and
responsible journalism,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

prodigious size and are reasonably assumed
to have been of great length. Where their
source was no one can say, but string of
great volcanoes stretching from Tuolumne
County in California to Puget Sound
burst forth and overwhelmed the entire
interval with lava. Where this thick cap
has been broken the old river beds and
theirrich stores of auriferous gravel have
been found, but these exposed places con-
stitute but an ininitesImal part of the
whole. Wherever drift mining has been
tried the gravel has proved rich, and the
probabilities are that wonderful discov-
cries from this kind of mining are yet to
be made
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
A NOTEWORTHY SCHEME,

THE CALL has insisted again and again
that the residents of San Francisco display
a very inadequate appreciation of the
splendid bay which lies at their doors.
There are some excellent yacht and canoe
clubs, but these represent only one phase
OF appreciation. The number of private
boats owned for family pleasure is ex-
tremely small, while sailing and fishing
parties, outside of those made up by male
lovers of sport, are practically unheard of.
The furthest that well-to-do society folk
are able To go in this direction is to take a.
trip now and then on a stuffy, ill-smelling
tug, denying themselves all the finer en-
loyment which comes from ownership of
boats and frequent trips on the bay.
1t has remained for the humble house
boat to educate the people to the charms
of the bay. This ungainly, clumsy and
wholly inartistic though eminently sensi-
bic and useful invention has come rapidly
into popularity within the last few years.
At first their construction and ownership
was matter of individual enterprise. but
as they cost from several hundreds to sew
eral thousands of dollars, venturesoIne
builder appeared here and there who made
them for hire. This year all of these were
so eagerly taken by tenants who are not
able or who do not care to possess their
own households that at last com pany
an extensive scale and have them ready
for next seasons demand.
These enterprising persons may feel sure
that they have embarked in a business
that is bound to bring them handsome
profit. Living in households here in the
summer is a very different thing from a
similar life at almost any point on the
Atlantic coast. The unavoidable curse
there is the mosquito. The pest is I'M
known in most of the places on the bay
that are suitable for households. In fact
the only time we ever have a MOSQUITO
hereabout is when, by some rare acct
dent-which may not happen once in
years-the prevailing winds which pass
norUhward over the tule swamps of the
Sacramento River are turned southwark,
bringing down a few mosquitoes. These
rare winds never last over few hours,
and the mosquito disappears with their
turning.
The summer nights here are always cool
and the entire summer season rainless.
These are extraordinary advantages
Houseboat-living on the bav is sure to be-
come a fashion of great prevalency and
permanence for a summer outing
Within very few years we shall have
regular lines of tugs and launches rum
ming between houseboat settlements and
the City, affording quick and cheap
transportation to all who develop the in
telligence to avail themselves of the rare
and wholesome charms which the bay
offers them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

King Otto of Bavaria is getting crazier every
year. Every now and then he obstinately re-
fuses to take food Of any kind, and the doctors
In attendance are sometimes at their wits end
to devise means OF overcoming his stubborn
ness. His general health, however, when he
can be induced to take nourishment, is excel
lent, though he is subject to the most strange
Authorizations. A few weeks ago he was pos
sessed with the idea that his carpets were made
OF the finest of glass and that it was dangerous
to tread on them, aud he would not be content
until they were all taken up. Another of his
hallucinations is that the walls of his apart
ments are hung with newspapers and he viii
sometimes occupy himself for hours in sitting
in front OF the walls of his room and reading
aloud what he 1magines he extracts from them.
He smokes something like 100 cigarettes every
day, and uses an entire box of matches to light
each one. He never uses towel, handkerchief
or napkin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
PERSONAL.

James 7. Rucker Of San Jose is at the Palace
Attorney A. L. Hart of Sacramento is at the
Grand.
dental.
E. Cahiu, civil engineer, San Martin, is at
the Grand.
yesterday.
Is in town.
Henry slade of Chicago is guest at the oc-
dental Hotel.
Francis W. Fox OF Victoria, B. c., is a guest
at the Palace.
E. C. Horst, e merchant of Sacramento, Is at
the California.
Railroad Commissioner w. r. Clark of Stock
ton is at the Baldwin.
r. NJ. Green, mining man of Oroville, is
staying at the Palace.
Reginald Fendall of Washington. D. c., is q
guest at the California.
A. B. Lennon, editor of the Santa Rosa Re-
publican, is in the City.
Sanford Robinson of Guatemala registered at
the California yesterday.
Professor E. E. Barnard of the Lick Observa-
tory is staying at the Lick.
F. B. Tuck, a mining man of Angels, put up
at the Grand last evening.
A. C. Mclean, a railroad contractor OF Mon
terey, is guest at the Lick.
Mark L. Hopkins of Santa Rosa registered at
the Occidental Hotel yesterday.
Thomas Derby, superintendent of the New
Almaden mines, arrived in town yesterday.
R. H. Beamer of Woodland, member of the
State Board of Equalization, is in the City.
]. II. Flickinger, the prominent fruit-groWer
OF Santa Clara County, is registered at the
Pa
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Rosa over Sunday. He will wait for an answer.
Your afectionate son.
P.S.: Overcome with shame for what have
written. have been running after the messen-
ger to take the letter from him, but cannot
catch up with him. 1 hope my letter viii be
lost.
His father was naturally touched, but was
equal to the emergency. He replied as follows:
My Dear Son: Console yourself and blush no
longer. The messenger lost your letter. Your
afectionate father.-Santa Rosa Democrat.
Johnny, Willie said you threw him down
and jumped on him with both feet"
"Well, ma, was just playin'."
"What sort of play do you call that?"
Football indianapolis Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
a. Presentation TO u. W.. Dohrmann.

Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary Of
the establishment of Nathan, Dohrmann Zoos
store on Suffer street, and last evening when
the store closed. for the night F. W. Dohrmann
was treated to pleasant surprise. The eighty
employees of the establishment presented their
employer with three large frames containing
cabiEet-slzed photographs of all the employees.
The ladies' pictures were in one frame and
those of the gentlemen in the other two. The
presentation speech was made by ]. II. Jahns,
one of the oldest EMPLOYEES.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
TO OPEN ISLA|S CREEK
congressman Asked to Aid in
Reopening a Public
Waterway.
ACT ADMITTING CALIFORNIA.
President SeouloVich Talks About
the Property Owners
Association.

The Pennsylvania-svenue and Islais
Creek Property-owners' Association is 60
ing after the Southern Pacific on account
of certain distractions which prevent navi-
CATION in Islais Creek.
This arm OF the sea was declared open in
1868, and so remained until ten years ago,
when the Legislature granted certain privi-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

the Pacific Theological Seminary will al
ternate in supplying the pulpit of the
First Church. These gentlemen and others
will also be called upon to supply the pull
pit of Plymouth Congregational Church,
vacated temporarily by DR.. w. D. Will
nams, who is one of the delegates to the
distinguished body which assemblies at
Syracuse next week DR.. Brown will be
away four weeks, DR.. Williams remaining
a week LONGER
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

John E. Parsons of New York City has made
the pleasant announcement that final and IA
vorable action has been taken on the erection
of the bronze statue of Peter Cooper in the
small triangular park just south of Cooper
Union. 1t is gratifying fact that the sculptor,
Augustus st. Gaudens, who has been commits
stoned to design the statue, was at one time
student at the institution.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The cost of the recent general election in
Great Britain, which has just been COM
puted, shows total expenditure of about
$5,000,000, or about 81 for every voter in the
three kingdoms. 1t is probable that under
our system the election in the single State
of New York will cost nearly as much as
that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
DIR. BROWNS DEPARTURE.
VIII Be Delegate to the Congregational
Council at Syracuse.

DIR. c. o. Brown, pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church of this City, left last
evening for Syracuse, n. Y, to attend the
National Triennial Council of Congrega-
tional churches as one of the delegates
from California. He expects to preach at
his former charge in Kalamazoo, Mich, an
Sunday, and he will fill several Boston pull
pits during his absence.
Professor Foster and Professor Lloyd OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE FREE LIBRARY-G. P, City. The Free
Library of this City is open every day in the
week, except Sundays and legal holidays, from
9 A. NJ. to 9 P. NJ. On Sundays it is open from
80 to P. NJ. 1t is not open on the evenings
before Christmas and New Year. To become
borrower apply at the library for an applica-
ton form 25) and fill it out according to the
directions thereon. Call the next day, and if
the application be approved card will be
issued which entities the owner to full priv
lleges OF the library for the period OF two years
from the date of issue. To draw book for
home use fill out one of the buff blanks pro-
vided in the library for that purpose, with the
name and address. as on the borrowers card,
together with the shelf number of the desired
book as found in the catalogue. Then hand in
the buff slip and card at the delivery desk, and
when the book Is procured the party wanting
1t will be notified If the party wishes to read
the book in the reading-room of the library
I'LL out pink slip and hand it in ct the deliy-
cry desk.
METROPOLITAN THEATER-F. K, City. The
Metropolitan Theater which was on the west
side of Montgomery street, north of Washing
ton, was in part torn down in 1873 to make
way for the opening of Montgomery avenue
The last performance was on the 2Sth of April
OF that year, the performance being eompli-
mentary benefit to E. G. Bert, the lessee. The
bill on that occasion included an overture:
song, "The Apple of Ny Eye" little Title Oar
ling; grand pas seul, Mile. Marie Gaugan; E.
D.DaVles IN an original entertainment entitled
THE Funniest of Funny Folks; "Home From
the Club" a comedietta, in which Mr.. and Mrs.
f. NJ. Bates took part, the whole concluding
With the fairy extravaganza cinderella" with
Blanche and Ella Chapman (the Chapman sis
ters) in the principal parts
A SEAMANs RIGHTs-T. H., San Diego CAL
Each State provides who shall have the right
to vote within its boundaries, and also pre-
scribes the length of time person has to reside
in the State. county or precinct before he shall
have the right to vote. The master of an Amer
lean vessel arriving in a strange American port
on the day that an election for President is
being held would not have the right to vote
at that port, for the reason that he had not
acquired legal residence. A citizen of State
cannot lose his residence in the State he leaves
until he has acquired a new one. A seaman
does not by reason OF being absent on a voyage
lose his residence in the place where he last
voted. The law works no greater hardship on
seaman than 1t does on any other citizen who
absents himself from his voting place at the
time OF an election.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Miss Burta Grace Boyd is known as the Grace
Darling of St. Croix. She has charge OF the
Ledge light, about six miles below st. Stephen
n. B. She won her title twelve years ago by
saving, alone and unaided, two sailors from
certain death-a deed of bravery recognized by
the Dominion Government, which presented a
hfeboat and gold watch to the young woman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The accession of General Miles to the
command of the army will be noted with
more than ordinary satisfaction. The
people are proud of West Point but all the
same they like to know that the graduates
of that school have no monopoly of mill
tary honors in this country.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The Ohio people find Senator Brice so
quiet during the campaign they are in
clined to think he intends to steal the
State instead of buying it openly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Now that the much-discussed City Hall
angel has been attached, we shall find out
if il has any redeeming qualities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

1t is pleasing to learn that the bulk of
the sugar made at Chino is consumed in
this State. The home market and the
home factory should stay together.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

All signs point to the conclusion that the
era of good feeling is going to be an era of
great public improvements.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

A vigorous American policy at Washing
ton would help Cuba and would not hurt US.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

FALL medicine is fully as important and as bene-
fetal Spring medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla
should be taken at this season to keep the blood
pure and the bodily health vigorous.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

If Mr.. Huntington will look again he
will see that the competing road which he
calls a toy in the hands of the people is
something like club.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The first train on the Valley road was
the visible manifestation OF the new move
ment that will head off monopoly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight viii
not be pulled off in Texas, and Dallas will
have to turn her fstic arena into an in
dustrial exposition building.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

1t is reported from the hunting regions
of Maine that this year the deer are as
plenty as rabbits, but the rabbit census is
not given.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The lake States are fighting for deep
water way to the ocean, the Southwest is
fighting for deep-water ways in Texas, and
it is certainly time for the Pacific Coast to
get into the swim.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

It begins 10 look as if the division of
Turkey hardly needed outside interference.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Since Margaret Mather whipped her hus-
band on the street it is easy to foresee she
is going on the stage again, but the new
form of advertising is not commemorate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Irish and Gator should make a grand
tour of the East. They are complaining
over there that eloquence is lost art.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Perhaps a City ordinance might compel
the railroad company to put tenders on the
trolley-cars, but then perhaps we cannot
get the ordinance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The doubt in which Professor Huxley died /:
indicated by the lines which have Just beer
placed upon his tomb according to his own re-
quest. They follow:
And If there be no meeting past the grave,
II all is darkness, silence, yet tits rest.
Be not afraid, ye waiting hearts that weep;
For God still giveth his beloved sleep.
And II an endless sleep he wills, so best.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Commissioner Clark may not be on to
himself, but the people are.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Ofthe leader of the Nebraska Republicans
in this campaign it sufices to say his name
is Norval. Every body can speak for him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

TRY our Molasses Peppermint Chocolates.
Townsend's, 627 Market street
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

1t is said of the Round Valley lynching
that 1.-The truth of the matter will likely
never be learned" but it will be If the law
looks into it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Coal has been received for the Valley
road, ana it won't end in smoke.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

The free-coinage play failed as q dra-
matte venture, but Irish and Gator draw
crowded houses.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04

Buckley got the worst of the round, but
he was not knocked out.