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is to fade, how much it will shrink and
how it will wear. The girls are encour-
and their families, and they are most of
them now keen and intelligent shoppers
that small, sharp storekeepers do not get
ahead of for cent. Sometimes a girl
brings in some starched muslin that was
bought for linen, or some other evidence of
a petty swindle, but no girl in that class
will ever get fooled again that way. The
girls discover and discuss bargains with as
much interest and probably as much in
telligence as any of their mothers.
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Good taste is constantly developed. The
girls are taught what kinds and colors of
different uses. They are taught harmony
of color and the artistic appropriateness of
figures in goods, and of buttons and trim
mings on dress. Personal neatness is
rigidly insisted on.
Embroidery and other decorative work is
given as a reward, and the girls take de-
lighted interest in every step of the course.
Few are taught to sew, even crudely, at
home. and most would grow into woman
hood hardly able to do more than sew on a
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27
a NEW WAY TO DINE.
The Jolly Fellow Who Invites Himself
and Then Disappears.


I happened to be one of party of six
dining the other night at an uptown res
taurant. Most of us were strangers to each
other, having met only in the afternoon in
the course of business. They were a
banker, politician, lawyer, theatrical
manager and a something else, do not
yet know what, in that company. The
something else made himself exceedingly
agreeable. He was, in fact, the life of the
party. He was politeness itself, and his
wit and epigrams were fetching. After
dinner he rather suddenly and mysteri-
ously dropped out of sight and was missed,
says writer in the New York Press.
"Who was the gentleman" 1 asked of
the theatrical manager.
"I'm sure l don't know" he replied. II
thought he was a friend of yours"
mo, | never saw him before. | sup
posed he was friend of yours" | said.
Then put the same question to each of
the others and found that the man was UNI
known to any of the party. He had simply
invited himself to dine with us. behaved
like a jolly good fellow and disappeared at
the right moment. The only thing we
have against him is that he forgot to pay
his bill.
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Enjoying Unearned Glory.

The boa constructor who some months
ago astounded humanity by swallowing
alive his seven-foot mate, digesting him as
complacently as if he had been an oyster
died at the Geological Gardens on Tuesday
Another snake has been transferred to his
case, and is accepting without explanation
the admiration bestowed upon him, in
Ignorance of the fact that he is not the
hero of the memorable incident-London
Truth
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27
DRESSMAK|NG IN SCHOOL.
How the Girls at the Franklin
Grammar Stitch, Darn
and Buy.
PRINCIPAL KENNEDY's SUCCESS
One of the Most Interesting Prac-
tlcal Features of the Public
Schools.

The Franklin Grammar School may be
little hard on the dressmakers and on
smart shopkeepers who want to make
extra profits, but it affords a magnificent
illustration of what practical education
may be in the public schools
There are 225 young girls becoming ex-
pert with the needle on scientific prin-
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practical life cannot be measured, but it
will be great. A great number of house
will be more thrifty, tidy and full of com
fort because of the sewing classes in the
Franklin Grammar School, and many lives
will be brighter and better.
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THE GOLDEN CORN.


Blazon Columbia's emblem.
The bOunteOus golden corn.
Eons ago OF The great suns glow
And the Joy OF the earth twas born.
From Superior's shores TO Chile,
From the ocean of dawn TO the West,
With its banners OF green and its tasseled
1t sprung at the suns behest.
And by dew and shower from its natal hour
With honey and wine twas fed,
Till the gods We're fain TO share with men
such perfect feast outspread.
For the rares- boon to the land they loved
Was The corn so rich and fair;
Neither star nor br2eze Der the farthest seas
Could find its like elsewhere.
Halt our national emblem,
In dazzling SpIendor born.
Behold in embrace all its verdure and grace,
AS /. bursts forth 1.-The Golden Corn"
Ger rugged mounts and valleys
DER he far spreading plains 10 the sea,
In It's beauty and stately grandeur stands
The emblem OF the free.
In its heart of gold there is wealth untold
The corn of the glorious west,
In the radiant light OF the sun twas born.
II was born al the suns behest.
There is none so fair, none can compare,
With our emblem of the free
IT'S Columbia's pride, both far and wide,
From pole TO tropic sea.
The song was set to music by Professor
Carlos Troyer of this city, who, as well as
being a musician and composer of high re-
pule. las DcGH dH OultCI Vi Illt AtdueIlN
of Science and an ardent student of science
for many years past. His Zuni songs are
the only satisfactory Interpretation of
Zuni melodies as sung by Professor Frank
II. Gushing, and consequently are on file
in the United States Bureau of Ethnology.
1.-The Golden Corn is a song well adapted
to festive and National occasions, and
has already received a widespread recogni-
ton throughout the East in colleges, public
schools and choral societies. The music is
original in conception, and though bearing
a classical cast it has the true ring of a
National song, rejecting the beauty and
sublimity of Edna Dean Proctor's poem
The melody is OF easy range for voices of
medium compass. 1t is arranged in two
forms-as 4 solo or concert song, with a
brilliant and graceful accompaniment,
while the second arrangement leads the
melody by a richly modUlated harmony to
be sung as a chorus or as a quartet for
mixed voices. Its martial rhythm renders
1t serviceable also as a march song.
The composer claims originality for this
National song. He says that The Star
spangled Banner" is simply ''Anacreon in
Heaven" which was sung in English
churches 100 years ago; that America" is
an English national air, and Hail Column
bia" can be found among the melodies of
the ancient Irish bards.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27

PROF. HAINEs, chemist to the Chicago
Board of Health, says he has found the
Royal Baking Powder the purest and
strongest, and superior to ali others in
every respect.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27
A ROUGH SHAVE.

The Natives OF Jamaica Use Broken
Bottles for Razors.
The natives of Jamaica have no need to
| buy soap, for the woods abound with
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27

Edna Dean Proctor wrote an anthem in
Boston on the subject which she POLITICALLY
called the Golden Corn" in the following
beautiful and inspiring strain:
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There specific for diseases arising from debtated system
probably the most remarkable remedy that the scientific research this country has
E.
what known the world compound positive for dys
kidney troubles For the latter Pans celery compound has succeeded and
failed.
lar toan oth onesu
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27

THE Royal Baking Powder avoids all de-
composition of the flour as caused by yeast
rising, thereby saving large percentage
of its most nutritive elements, making the
-four go one-fourth further.
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There are five miles of shelving in the
new Boston public library.
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Tho OREGON Experiment Station re-.
Gently published bulletin 80 on Chemistry,
Composition and Use of Fertilizers, by u.
Il. Shaw, chemist of that station. 1T is
an exceedingly clear and concise state
mcnt OF the subject discussed. and every
rancher in California would be protted by
owning one of these bulletins. In regard
to soil analysis MI. Shaw has this to say !:
"In the first place, let it be re:hem bered
that the value Of mere chemical anal.
ysis of q soil is at most doubtful An an
alysis of soil reveals what and how
much of given ingredient was present
in soil. but 1t does not show how
much OF the plant food is BILE. There
is, however, more or less value attached
to Investigations of so called virgin
soils,n and an accumulated number OF
analyses on this class OF soils gives very
valuable data upon which to base Judg-
ment of probable success or failure. !.
In all cases chemical analysis should
he followed by careful field tests, and in
This way any one may become familiar
with tho individual needs OF his SOIL.
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VALUE or THE EUCALYPTUS
This free Of Special value When Drown
in Districts That Are MalarioHs

Notes by Abbot Kinney, procured through
the courtesy of PROT h. y. Fernow
Following notes are taken from an ar
ticlc by II. N. Draper, +. &. s.. in Cham
ber's journal, 1881;
Before 1863 the Abbey IRE Fontano was
entirely deserted and was known locally
as "thc tomb. A monk stayed there
during the day as cicerone 10 visi tors,
but he returned 10 tho city TO slseD.
fearing the malarin Of the region. Now
u8SD twcnty-nine monks live and sleep
at the abbey in safety. While drainage
and cultivation have been instru-
mental. the planting OF tho eucalyptus
has been PROFESSIONALLY tho principal
factor in effccting tins change.
OF the many species eucalyptus tried
by tho monks the follow have proven
For humid soils, Il. viminalis and Il.
botryoidcs.
For drier soils, +. rcsinifcra and Il.
melliodora.
For all SOILS Il. globulus.
The soil at the monastery is of volcanic
origin, clayey and sandy, and from eight
to (rarely) sixteen inches deep, overly
ing an impenctrable stratum of tufa. which
is from three to twelve feet deep. At
first this subsoil absolutely prevented the
culture of the eucalyptus, but the monks
by drilling holes and blasting 1t with
dynamite, SuCCccucu III ul&IuB more UT
less OF the debts with the shallow sur
face soil and enabled the trees to pene-
trate the sup-soil.
The seeds were sown in boxes. in aut-
umn, and while very small the seedlings
were potted being set in plantation IN
the spring. 3x3 feet. At the end of the
first year ohe-half of the plants had to be
thinned out, so rapid was the growth.
They are protected carefully from the
wind during the first few years, as the
wood is very fragile in youth. A temper
allure of % is as low as they will stand.
One-half the plants was killed by a tenn
perature Of 16 in 1875. Trees planted in
1875 measured 26 ieet high in 1879, and
eight-year-od specimens were so feet
high. All these were Il. globulus, which
is the most rapid grower. All species
grow more rapidly in warmer climates.
The especial value of eucalyptus as n
preventive of malaria is because of It's
great rapidity of absorption and evapor-
alton OF alter. Vallee estimates that the
evaporation of water from eucalyptus
leaves. under ordinary conditions OF wind
and sunshine, at four or five times their
own weight in a day. This, and the
presence of an aromatic oil in their fol-
age, constitutes their peculiar virtue As
preventives of malaria.
Notes from Catholic World (article un-
signed) May, 1889:
Ire Fontaine is two miles outside the
walls of Rome on the Campagna. The
Trappist monks. who were given control
of the monastery in the sixties, planted
first 1870 L. globulus. The tufa below the
shallow subsoil was such u serious obstacle
that they had no success until they drilled
and used dynamite in it.
Of many species tested the following
are completely successful: Il. globulus
resini era, carinocalyx, rostrata urnigera
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l[-}00KS t AMP .T7iAosE!='TlHElM
y ~ 80. Wy1n MAKE u ~T1c7~
EDITED BY ENOcH KNIGHT

age the historical study of the develop
ment of religious liberty in America.
The following regulations respecting its
award are proposed: l. The prize shall
be open to general competition. 2. 1t
shall be given to the writer of the best
essay on one of the three following
themes (a) A critical comparison of the
claims put forward, on behalf of Rhode
Island and Maryland respectively, regard
ing the first establishment of religious
liberty in America; (b) critical history
of the movement toward disestablishment
and religious liberty in Connecticut; (c)
A critical history of the movement to-
ward disestablishment and religious lib
erty in Massachusetts. 3. No essay shall
original research. A. The prize shall be
awarded at commencement 1896; essays
submitted in competition for it shall be
placed in the hands of the president of
Brown university on or before May l,
1886. 5. The essays shall not bear the
writer's real name. but an assumed
name. A paper hearing the writer's real
name shall be enclosed in a sealed envel-
ope. upon which shall be written the as
sumed name. and this shall be banded in
with the essay.
The most curious and probably the
most ridiculous book of the present sea
son is the product of James 4. Rowyer.
published in Richmond. Va. end entitled
The Pollinctor. 1t may be the reader
will in some way, in the future, find out
what a Pollinctor is. but it will not aid
him much in getting at the reason for
the books existence. Worse grammar
was never discovered, nor was more of
it ever found in the same space.
The whole book is incredible.
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THE KEYS OF FATE-By HERMAN SHORES.
Arena publishing company Boston.
This book belongs to a series which the
Arena company bias been putting before
the public, most of which are of the mod
ern reform order, the present being a very
realistic story of the east with dream of
what the twentieth century may be and
do. The service is handsomely set out
and entitled to be accorded many points
Of excellence.
Another of the series before us is Facts
and Fictons of Life. by Helen H. Gard
ener. This is a collection of essays which
have appeared in different magazines and
are now Tor the first time put in book
, form. Most familiar among them. per-
maps. are A Day in Court, Sex in Brain,
and Woman as an Annex.
HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
This is the most important work lately
undertaken in any department of our lit
erature. Mr.. McMasters' past is a tre-
mendous one and will take seven vol
fourth volume taking us only to 1921.
The most important and indeed the
main topic. treated in mis- latest volume
is the war OF 1872. or as it was for half q
century or more always called, "the last
war;" This epoch in our history few
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Gle about. hauling at the slight line in
a vain effort to take the fisherman una
wares. But it was no use. and finally,
after much Keeling CLEAN of yellow and
silver flashed by the boat and soon the
silver beauty with his yellow tail and
trying 10 avoid the gait. and finally was
hoisted aboard to tip the scales at forty
pounds, while its mate, longer but more
slender. told the story of but seventeen.
We have been half an hour at this sport,
and finally pull in by the seals and sea
lions. and where the rich green water
where the grounu swell comes bounding
in from unknown seas get another strike.
There is a finy hurricane. as he tears off
$50 feet of line with single rush; then
in spite of our efforts fifty feet more, and
fifty feet again, before he stops in his
mad run. What salmon had Il greater
reserve of tricks? He is now on the bot
TOM or where it is supposed to be, rusk-
ing like salmon; now away like oy-
clone, whirllng around, darting to the
surface, now to the bottom again, coming
in like an arrow to turn and dart away
at the sight of the boat ike rocket
making the reel fairly groan in anguish.
But there is a limit even to a big yellow
tail. and finally when you begin to feel
weary and afm-sore at the fight, he
weakens and you bring him to the gaff.
Perhaps the next one takes your line.
perhaps a Tuna strikes it anu burrows
the tip of your rod: in any event, after
the day you come back to Avalon with
from $50 to 2U0 pounds of fish, if the god
OF fishing has been with you all day, and
are photographed with your catch from
the four points of the compass, hoping
thus at one blow to prove the story you
have to tell and arouse the envy of your
friends far and near. For the head.
weary man this art of fishing is balm
| Il
exercise is just what the man of sedentary
| habits wants.
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FESTIVE YELLOWTAIL
Furnish Great Sport at
Santa Catalina
THE BARRACUDA FISHING
Also Good, and, Taking 1t All in All, No
Sportsman Need Be Idle
at Avalon
BY SENIOR Y,

SANTA CATALINA, June 14.-Tne
season at Catalina this year has opened
up six weeks earlier than usual, and the
little island has already taken on all the
life of the summer. This is, in all prob
ability, due to the fact that the hotels
have been open all winter and the boats
run daily instead of three times week
previous to July. The visitor will note
many other new features since last year.
New streets have been laid out, accom- mo
dations for campers, new system of
sewerage, new hotels and shops, while
on the beach and in the realm Of fishing
many Improvements are noticed. The
Paloma will be added to the feet and a
large barge anchored on the fishing
grounds, equipped with boats of all
kinds, between which and Avalon power
launch will ply, taking fishermen back
and forth. The Marine band gives daily
concerts at the landing, and the little
town begins to present lively scene.
This season the fishing seems to be bet
ter than for many years, and every day
some fine catches are brought in and
photographed before admir,ng cowds,
exciting the envy of the -unfortunates who
failed to get bite One evening I
StdTIcu u .oO ny y Wdo2uciiS Pulcu
along shore by "Billy," a stalwart beat
man. l had two light rods. out dead
loads" of sardine bait and was ready to
break the record. Off Pebble beach
where the waves gently break upon the
stones and make soft music, l had the
first strike the reel singing loudly and
the line rushing out SO fast that it almost
smoked. The fish took fifty feet at the
first mad rush, and then it's mate seized
the other bait and Billy was forced to
drop his oars and take rod and there
was soon a duet on the reels, a kissing
and screaming from their steel threats.
The danger was that the fish would cross
each other and foul the lines, but by
hard work they were kept apart, giving
in their struggles fine exhibition of the
game qualities of Southern California
fishes. There was hardly any trick that
these gamy fellows did not attempt-now
they were racing seward with two hun
dred feet of line after them; then when
stopped by the leather drags, they would
turn in towards the boat at racing
speed; SO FAST in fact, that they
overran the multiplying reel; then
it would be dive, and the fish
would sink deep in the blue waters while
the one on the boatman's rod would cir
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teritricornis. coccfera. viminalis melli,
odora. gunii, sturtartiana.
Many drains, both open and covered,
had to be made. though some species
grew in the very wet soil.
Betwecn 1863 and 1874, though not
sleeping in the convent. twelve monks
died Of malario. The beneficial effect Of
tho eucalyptus 3cgan to be noticed when
oue hectarc 1.-TWO and n half acres) were
planted. In 1874 the fathers began sleep
ing ut The convent. and none have uled
of malaria since. In March, 1882. their
nurseries contained 5000 eucalyptus
trees and covered I67 acres. Nine hun.
dred trees per hectare are considered
enough for sanitary purposes.
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Disease Among Poultry

To prevent disease among poultry, take
every precaution lest you bring disease
into your premises. Do not buy poultry
showing the slightest trace Of disease, or
regarding which you have the slightest
suspicion, for mild case may introduce
a serious trouble. Keep your flocks away
from those of your neig hbors, especially if
theirs have or have had any disease.
Isolate and disntect all such fowls the
moment they show any unfavorable
symptoms. Do not let them remain
with the others. Kill off the runts and
unthrifty specimens lest they become
disease distributors. By making post
norton examination on fowls first taken
sick the trouble may be discovered. Burn
the bodies of diseased birds, or bury
them in quicklime. If buried in the
ground they may be unearthed by dogs or
skunks and the disease spread. Doctor
ing fowls already sick rarely pays, but
prompt preventive treatment of flock
may ward off the disease. The quicker
you learn the cause of the trouble the
better. Do not feed the entrals of ami
mails to fowls unless first well cooked. as
they are liable to contain germs of dis
ease.-A merlcan Agricuturist.
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YEAR BOOK OF THE SOCIETY OF THE
SONS OF REVOLUTION, State of Cali

YEAR BOOK OF THE SOCIETY OF THE
SONS OF REVOLUTION, State of Cali
We have just received this interesting
publication, through the courtesy OF H.
0. Collins, Esq, Of this city, president of
the society. 1t is a very handsomely
printed pamphlet COD tanning the names
and ancestry of the fifty members OF this
society. and the text of the happy ad-
dress of President Collins at It's first BAN
quet. The society is doing a good work
not only in keeping alive the sentiment
OF patriotism. but in aiding the historical
researches which will add to the remark
able interest always attaching to the
greatest of our wars-if not the greatest
of all modern national struggles. The
societys prizes for patriotic essays have
all been awarded TO pupils of the Los
Angeles high school.
r q
MASTER AND MAN.-Tolstoi; Appletong.
This is only sketch, but most elo-
quent and striking one. 1t tells how the
proud, grasping merchant and money
getter ground the man in his employ
and Only realized how selfish he was
when the two came to be freezing to
death together in q Russian snowstorm
Then the Muster saved the Man by
throwing himself and his garments upon
the latter. while he himself never opened
his eyes again when found by the peas
ants who came to the rescue. Hovell's
introduction to the story is luminous
and touching, repeating anew his con
slant praise for the great Russian writer
whom he has SO long regarded as the
greatest of all realistic story tellers.
4 4
BETTY BY ANNA VERNON Dorsey The Win.
dermere series, United States Book COM
pany, New York.
This is simply told and rather good
last-century love story The scenes are
laid in that now deoayed but picturesque
and always charming region known as
the Eastern Shore" The story is of a
day OF cooked hats powdered hair and
sedan chairs; and all about an eas7-going
and proud race and their relations to the
great epoch of the Revolution. 1t is
charmingly gotten up in paper covers.
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From the same publishers also we have
three new volumes OF The Lakewood
Series, whose titles we have now on,
time and space to announce:
They are Welded to Sport. by Mrs Ed
ward Kennard; Monal the Mahatma. b,
by S. Barring All these are prom
Using candidates for summer favur from
the great throng of readers of light litera-
ture. As usual, these volumes are excel
lent samples of the publishers art, which
has succeeded in making cheap books
handsome. Perhaps at a later Cay fur
ther mention may be made OF these latter
volumes.
A friend of Brown university has offer
I'd the sum of 5000 as prize to encour-