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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Now then perhaps Mr.. Flint and Mr..
Jeter will start talking-match just to save
the country from losing the knack of con-
troversy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

a Kansas orator is quoted as having re
Gently said of ingalls,: Up was he stuck
and in the very upness of his stucktltud
he fell
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

1t is doubtful if the Gear and the Kaiser
themselves could read the reports about
their projects and then tell what they in
tended to do.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

AS the Government officials claim to
have discovered lot of bogus silver GER
tificates manufactured in Italy and sent to
New York in macaroni boxes, it is evident
that even the home counterfeit industry
needs protection.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

If Cleveland wishes to make his message
sensational all he will have to do is to
write a confession.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Probably when Sherman's book is pub
hshed we will find out it isn't mystery
story after all.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

The Nation watches to see how San
Francisco will do il.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

1t looks as if the Durrant case might end
in surprise party.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

If you wish to see a Presidential con-
vention, catch on and pull for it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30
On the Wave of Prosperity.


Just keep your eye on Oakdaie and watch il
move along when the canals ON both sides OF
the river are in working order.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

GRAND OPERA-HousE-R. w. NJ. City. The
seating capacity of the Grand Opera-house in
this City is $500.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

If China takes any interest in the pro-
posals TO regenerate her she doesn't show it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

1t would be truly Californian to have
that 100000 in sight before the weel
closes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Has grim-visaged Buckley smoothed his
wrinkled front?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Keep q little lookout all the time les
the lottery fiends try to get their work il
again.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

GENUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15c. s119 Fourth,
barber; Sundays, 73S Market (Kast shoestore).~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

"CARDs by the million" Roberts, 900 Suffer-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

HOME FOR ADULT BLIND-A. o. S., City. There
Is home for the adult blind in Oakland, Ala
media County.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30
SOURCE OF SECRET SMILES.

nWhat would you do, miss, if 1 should at
tempt TO give you kiss?'
81 should certainly set my face against it,
sir."-Albany State.
Caulor-should think you'd run a woman's
page in your paper?
Eddy Tory Alive do; three of 'em.
C.-Where are they?
E T. A.-The ad. pages, man!-Boston
Courier.
Teacher-Tommy, you may define the differ
euce between while and time.
-Wy-wy-when paw says he is going
downtown for while, nav says she'll bet he
IS going for q time.-Cincinnau Enquirer
"You are very much behind in your work,
Mr.. Adder" said the employer to his book
keeper.
81 know it, sir,'' said Mr.. Adder, meekly.
"but my corns hurt me so couldn't foot IN
those columns to save my hie-Harper's
Bazaar.
"How's your son. the lawyer, getting on?"
"Badly, poor fellow. He's in prison"
'Tndeed?"
"Yes. He was retained by burglar 10 de-
fend him, and he made so good plea in the
burglars behalf that the Judge held him as an
accessory" -Harper's Bazaar
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

Give your coin chance to distinguish
jfcaIf
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Peace hath her victories, but war has all
the spoils.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

BACON Printing Company sos Clay street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

SOLDIERS VoTE-An Old Subscriber Preside
OF San Francisco. A man does not either gain
or lose a residence by reason of having en-
listed in the army or navy of the United States.
He can always claim his vote in the place in
which he resided at the time he enlisted, pro-
vided at that time he was citizen of that
place and entitled to vote there, and that
since his enlistment he has not elected to be-
come citizen of another State. For example,
II man enlisted IN New York, being voter
of that State at that time, and should he be as
signed to duty in San Francisco, he could not
vote in this State unless he had been in
the State one year, in the City and County
ninety days and in the election precinct
in which he claims his vote thirty days before
change his residence then the only
place in which ne could vote would be in
the State of New York. The same rule applies
to soldiers in the matter OF voting which ap-
plies to persons in civil life. A soldier in order
to vote therefore must have acquired resi-
dence in the State or Territory III which he
desires to vote.
GRAND Wellington, Victoria District,
B. G. Grand Jury in the State of California
is composed of nineteen men whose names are
drawn from the jury-boX of the county in
which they are to serve. 1t has the power to
inquire into all offenses committed or triable
within the county and present to the court
either by presentment or indictment It has
power to investigate charges against CORPORA
tons and has free access at reasonable hours
to the public prisons, and it also has power to
examine all puDnc records. The jury has not
the power to commit as magistrate.
HoMIC1DE-S., Ukiah, Mendocino County.
Cal. The law of this State defines murder to
be the unlawful killing of human being with
malice aforethought. Murder perpetrated by
means OF poison, or lying in wait, torture. or
by any other kind of willful, deliberate or pre-
meditated killing, or in the preparation of
arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem, is
murder In the first degree, and all other kinds
OF murder are murder in the second deprea
10 FREE CuRA-I d z Santa poSn coraa...s
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

"You are very much behind in your work,
Mr.. Adder" said the employer to his book
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

SOFT baby cream, 15c pound. Townsends.'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

IOmmY-h wy "iASh paw says ne Is going
downtown for a while, nav says she'll bet he
IS going for a time.-Cincinnati Enquirer
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Teacher-Tommy, you may define the differ
,nce between q while and a time
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

Flows your son. the lawyer, getting on?"
"Badly, poor fellow. He's in prison"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30

E. t. A-The ad. pages, man!-BostOn
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
ALI-EEN-ALl, THE COBBLER.
How He Lost His Wives and His Faith at
 the Samo Time.

Ali-Ben-Ali was and is renegade He believes in three gods. and drinks spirits of wine, corn and rye. He also believes that women have souls and that, while there arc many houris in heaven, there are more in hell. When the muoEzin calls to prayer he puts his thumb to his nose and spreads his fin gers out, which is his Turkish way of expressing derision. Once upon time ne owned seven slaves, four of whom were white. Great men were his friends. Now he cobbles shoes, says Vance Thompson in the New York Ad- vertiser.
 He might have been happy man to this day had it not been for that devil of m Alcibiadcs. Ali-ben-Ali was sit ting on his feet, looking through tho open door out on the blue waters of tho Bosporus and the low sandy shore beyond when tho Greek camo up Ho was low-browed Greek. He was peddling slippers with long red points which curled over like rams horns Ali was absorbed in thinking of his seven female slaves. He kicked the Creek in the back violently two or three times, but otherwise ignored his presence.
 The subtle Greek departed. Under his lew brow he devised this revenge. lie wrote letter to the sultan.
 Well sec about this" said the sul- tan. "Mcsrour, off with Ben Ais head and bring me his seven nice wives"
 Mesrour returned in half an hour, the seven slaves, of whom four were white, trailing after him.
 Ben Ali is dead" he said.
 Mesrour lied. Ben Ali. by bribes, had secured his escape and, disguised as bale of tobacco, was stored away in hold of q vessel bound for New York. He is in New York now to prove that this tale is no lie. He cobbles shoes. At times he drinks strong spirits. Then he curses the com mander of the faithful and Alcibisdcs, the low-browed Greek. The sultan i5 ! Mohammedan, and him Den Ah .urSes; the Greek is Christian and is .urscd of Ben Ali.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
Tho sunerstitIons Turk.

There is no land on earth where more superstitions prevail than that of the unspealzablc Turk. Some of them are interesting. fby any chance a sparrow 0, swallow flies in the window and cir cles three times around the room it is Q sign that . blood relation of some one present is about to die. There are many signs and happenings that are supposed to predict marriage. For in stance, ii si horse sneezcs when young girl passcs in the street she is positive that her time is nearly come. If her hair becomes urfastcncd she knows that she win soon be sought for. and if she goes to eat q peach and finds it's kernel split she is equally certain that s1s will soon b. V eiiei
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
TREES AND THEIR AGES.
They Arc the Only Forms Of Nature Which
 Accurately Record the Years.

Accurately Record rE0 Years.
 Elm, 800 years; ivy, 33335 years; maple, 510 years; larch, 576 years; orange, $50 years; cypress, 800 years; olive, 800 years; walnut, 300 years; Oriental plane, 1000 years; lime, 1,1O0 years; spruce, 1900 years; oak, 1,50O years; cedar, 2,Ooo years; yew, S,2OO years. The way in which the ages of these trees have been ascertained leaves no doubt of it's correcenesS. In some few cases tie data have been furnished by historical records and by traditions, but the botanical archcologists have a resource independent of either, and, when carefully used, infallible.
 Of all the forms of nature, trees alone disclose their ages candidly and freely. In the stems of trees which have branches and leaves with netted veins-ln all cxogcns, as the botanist would say-thc increase takes place by means of an annual deposit of wood spread in an even layer upon the sur face of the preceding one.
 In the earlier periods of life trees in- crease much faster than when adult the oak, for instance, grows more rap idly between the twentieth and thir- ticth ycars-and when old the annual deposits considerably diminish. so that the strata are thinner and the rings proportionably closer. Some trees slacllcn in rate of growth at 8 very early period of life, and layers of oak become thinner after 40, those of the elm after 50, those of the yew after GO.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
FLOWERS OF THE NIGHT.
Peculiarly Adapted to Attract Winged
 Insects.


 Insects.
 As we all know, there are day-bloom- ing and night-blooming flowers, says the Cornhill Magazine. The former lay themselves out for the fertilizing visits of bees and butterflies; they are generally decked in red, blue, vel low orpurple, and have often lines, spots or markings on their petals which point to the nectaries and so act as honey guides. The night-bloonling flowers, on the other hand, lay them selves out for the visits of moths or other crepusculGr insects. and therefore have recourse to something like the tactics of the tircfies and the glow-wOrms. They are usually pure white and the petals arc often of such peculiar tex ture that they seem to glow with in ternal light in the dim shades of even ing. At times one might almost fancy they were stained by nature with some curious forerunner of luminous paint, so strongly do they reflect every invisible ray of the faint twilight. They thus succeed in catching the eyes of moths, which, of course, are es- pecially modified for receiving and per- ceivinS the slender stimulus of dusk and the gloaming.
 But the nocturnal flowers have no lines or spots, because these last could never be perceived in the gray gloom of evening. They make up for it, how ever, by being heavily scented; indeed, almost all the strong white flowers, like jessa mine, tubcrosc, gardenia, stephanotis, ccrcus and syringa, which are such favoritcs with florists, belong to night-blooming plants, specially adapted to attract the eyes and noses of night-hying insects.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
In tf,a An.trian ArnH.

The polyglot character of the Aus. trisn army was abundantly shown the other day when the ancient custom of solem1ly swearing in the recruits in the presence of the troops was revived, after having been discontinued since 1868. In Vienna alone the formula of path to the colors had to be adminis- tered and read out in nine languages, bo-wit: German, Hungarian, Croatian, Bohemian, Polish, Ruthenian, Rou- manian, Servian and Turkish, while the religious part of the ceremony was conducted by Roman Catholic. Greek Catholic ard Greek orthodox priests, Protestant pastors, Jewish rabbis and Nahometap uleDa.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
THE AUTHOR OF "sPARTAcus. i"
Composed by Elijah Kellogg When a Stu-
 dent at Andover.

Composed by Elijah Kellogg When a Stu-
 dent at Andover.
 Talking with correspondent of the Boston Herald Rev Elijah Kellogg, of Harpswell. Me, thus described how he wrote that favorite Reclamation of school boys: "Spartacus to the Gladia- tcrs":
 E'It was while I was at Andover,' said he, smiling as the remembrance of tho event came back to hlm. We were required to prepare speeches for our rhetorical exercises, and after each man had spoken he was subjected to criticisms by his fellows-and their comments weren't always so compli- mentary as they were pointed. Then the professor would follow with seri- ous criticism, and he always found faults that needed correcting.
 ''So these speeches came to be looked upon with dread, and at last I made up my mind that I'd try to get something so different from anything we had had and so interesting that it would hold their attention too closely for them to think about points on which to criti- else me, and so I would get off free.
 ''Well, wrote 'Spartacus.' When began it worked just as 1 had ex- pected. They were so taken by sur prise that they never thought of any thing but the speech. You could have heard pin drop at any time while I was speaking. and they did not recover until had finished and had come down to ask for criticism.
 ''Then when Prof. Payne turned to the students and inquired: What criticism have you to offer, young gem tlemen?' there wasn't one of them had word to say, for they were all think ing of the piece and hadn't noticed anything else.
 'Gentlemen,' said the professor, i've are not here for theological dis quisitions nor for learned arguments, but these exercises are purely rhetOr- ical. and, gentlemen, that is rhetoric
 ''Thcn, turning to me, he remarked; T could criticisc you, Kellogg, but don't know whether it would do you more good or harm, and so, on the whole, think will say nothing.'
 ''So." added the old gentleman, with . chuc1lc, II escaped criticism"
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
COURAGE IN SURGERY.
Why Experienced Practitioners Are Cool
 GEis Operating.

Why Experienced Practitioners Are Cool
 Ghds Operating.
 An old surgeon, engaged for the mo- ment il dissecting 2 cold roast quail, and rsal.ing, it must be confessed, only sn indifferent job of it, had been lis tening incidentally to the conversation of his table companions who were dis cussing the calmness and nerve dis played by the average practitionerd dur irg surgical operations, says the New York Herald. Both agreed that the poise and coolness shown by surgeons at times were extraordinary and hard to understand.
 Now, friends, if you will permit me-" interrupted the surgeon at this point, ''I would like to tell you that there is nothing extraordinary about it. The nerve as you call it, of the surgeon under such circumstances is the uost natural thing in the world. It is not display of cslmncss which hns been put on for that occaSiOn, or an exhibition of courage summoned up for aa unusual emergency, but simply the normal demcanor of & practical, n1atter-of-fact man who knows what he has to do and how he is going to do it.
 ''The trouble with many people who marvel at what they call a surgeons courage is that they fail utterly to comprehend the conditions under which he performs his work. They imagine that he is experimcn nting, or that he doesn't know his ground, or that he will cut something that he ought not to cut. Nothing could be further from the facts. No movement In science or mechanics is preceded by a more accurate fcreknowlcdge of its results than the average operation in surt Y. There is no such thing as guessworl about it. The operator knows he is performing an operation which is based upon an exact science. He fellows rules which apply to all cases, and is secure in the confidence that causes which have produced cer- tain effects in given instances will do so in all others.
 "Why, then, should there be any need in his work for extraordinary courage? There are cases, of course, so critical or so unusual as to excite even the calmeSt and most self-con- tained operator, and when these are under treatment the surgeons powers of self-control are frequently taxed to their utmost limit. To the man who, in such case, can wield the knife without tremor, when life itself de- ponds upon the accuracy and delieacy of his touch, we must award the praise due to real heroes. But in the aver age case, say of amputation or of skull fracture involving cranial operations, the surgeon neither needs nor possesses more than the courage of an intclli gent, sincere man, who knows his duty and has learned how to perform it. His technical knowledge of anatomy and it's methodical habit of work ac- custom him 10 conditions which alarm and excite non professional minds. and he goes about his task with a certain quiet, vigorous, assertivc confidence in the result of his movements which the observer is quite likely to mistake for 8 marvellous courage summoned up for that particular occasion. It is courage of certain sort, confess-thc cour- age of absolute confidence in the in- SIllibility of the science he repre- cants
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
BISMARCK'S MORTGAGES.
The Ex-ChancellOr DevOting 332,O Q
 Year to the Liquidation of Debts.

The Ex-ChancellOr DevOting 332, 900
 Year to the Liquidation of Debts.
 Nobody in Germany has felt the evil effects of the agricultural depression more keenly than has Bismarck. To persons who have read of the magnifi- cent presents given to Bismarck by the old emperor it has been surprise to learn recently that his estates are heavily mortgaged. His present from the old emperor after the Austro-Prus- sian war of 1866 was S30o, ,OO0, and with this sum he bought his palace at Var gin. After the Franco-Prussian war he received from the same hands the Saxon forest at Friedrichsruhe, valued at $750,000 He inherited the ancestral estate at Schoenhausen. On April 1, 1885, Bismarck's seventieth brthday, his admirers throughout the world gave him that portion of the Schoen- hausen property which his father had been obliged to sell when times were was some S400,OO0. Bismarck is also a distiller, forester and the owner of a large brick yard. Despite all these ad- vantages, however, says a writer in the Home Journal, he has found it impossi- ble to lift the mortgages, amounting to about $750,O ,OOO, which have incumbered his estates for many years. Of his gross income more than $32, ,000 must be devoted every year to paying the in- terest on his debts. The burden is not agreeable to the old chancellor, and he has often remarked to his friends re- gently that his ambition to leave an unincumbered property to his children would never be gratified.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-25
Too Good Q Joke.

Lord Bowen, an English judge, was once tempted to sun up ironically. It was the case of a burglar who had been caught, having entered from the roof and taken the precaution to leave his boots on top. His defense was that he was in the habit of taking midnight strolls1on the roofs of houses, end that he was tempted by curiosity to have a look at one of the interiors. Lord Bowen said, sarcastically: ''If, gentle men Of the, jury, you think it probable that the prisoner considered the roofs of the houses a salubrious place for an evening walk; if you suppose that tho temptation to inspect the interior of the houses beneath him was the out come of a natural and pardonablc curi- osity, in that case, of course, you will acquit him, and regard him as a thoughtful and considerate man, who would naturally remove his boots be- fore entering the house, and take every precaution not to disturb his neighbors. To the judges amazement, the jury took him at his word and ac- quilted the prisoner Lord Bowen never attempted to joke with jury again.