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The morning call., 1895-02-17
BAS-RELIEF OF

and who was also a prominent figure in
State politics at one time.
The fine work of art was executed in
Rome several years ago, when Mr.. Hay
mond was travelling in Europe. He sat for
the picture before the well-known Italian
sculptor, Luigi Guclien. After it was com
pleted it, was sent on here, and at Mr..
Haymond's death came into the possession
of Mrs. Crafts. It's cost was $1,000
Among art connoisseurs, not only here
but in Rome, it is considered one of
Guclien's best efforts, and the likeness is
almost perfect. 1t gives a three-quarter
view of the brilliant lawyers face, and not
one distinguishing feature-the wavy hair
carelessly brushed back, the flowing beard
(rather longer than he wore it Just previous
to his death) and the rather severe eye
brows-is lacking.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Crafts gave the
marble into the hands of G. W. Winter
wood of 1133 Valencia street, and he has
fitted it in a handsome frame of antique
oak, highly polished. The outer edge of
the frame, which is about eight inches in
width, is marvel of fancy scroll work,
while the inner portion is made to re-
semble a lace pattern. The frame is about
SKA feet in size.
Next Wednesday the piece will be sent
to Sacramento and arrangements made for
a proper presentation ceremony prior to
hanging the gift in the legislative halls,
where the jurist displayed his rare elo-
quence on many occasions during his
official career in the State Senate.
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done. He remembered how warm the earth
before his face had become when the breath
was pressed from his lungs.
He kept his mouth shut to exclude the
earth, but after time it opened in spite
of him and two pieces of clay entered and
caused him horrible sensation in trying
to eject them. He felt that he was lost
and became indifferent. The workmen
who were digging him out cleared the earth
from his face and eyes, but when they
stopped little the pressure on the rest of
his body drove the blood to his head and
swelled the veins so that he was afraid
they would burst. Moreover he could not
breathe yet, because the thorax was still
compressed by the soil.
He never lost consciousness, and as the
men carried him away he saw little wild
yellow canary sitting on spray and heard
it sing. As the bird flew off he fancied
that he was flying after it and perching on
one twig or another, just as it did. The sky
seemed a different color than usual, it also
seemed grander, and the country more
beautiful and he was so much affected by
the wondrous beauty of the spectacle as to
shed tears.-Science Siftings.
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ZIEGLER'S PLANS.
WILL Go FOR THE MILE STRAIGHT
AWAY:

The cyclists who are to compete in the
tournament at the Mechanics Pavilion,
which begins tomorrow night, put in their
last day of hard training at the Central
Park track yesterday, and their final
mighty sprints were watched by large
and interested crowd.
Otto Ziegler, the San Jose champion,
made the sensational effort of the day,
going a lap on his 17-pound racer in 20
seconds fiat, or at the rate of 40 for the
mile. Mr. Ziegler when seen in the train
ing quarters said:
"a soon as the tournament is over and
we get our quad l am going to try for the
mile-straightaway record, which was re-
Gently reduced by Wilbur Edwards to
1:34. l believe / can do it in 20 or less.
The trial will probably be made near
Fresno, though we may between now and
then find more suitable place nearer
home
eff L succeed in my effort think it will,
with Edwards performance, demonstrate
what | have always maintained, anG that
is that California wheelmen are the equals
if not the superiors of Eastern men. The
reason more world S records have not been
made BY Pacific Coast riders is that we
have no tracks like those of the East, and
Eastern men are giving far more attention
In the way of training. Given the same
advantages as Johnson, Sanger or any OF
the rest of them, | think California boys
would beat the world.
"ln April the Falcon team, of which
am a member, will go to Texas and New
Mexico for short time and then take III
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FOOD ADULTERATION.
What United States Department Chem
list Says.

What a United States Department Chem
list Says.
Singularly exaggerated ideas concerning
the adulteration of food are very generally
held, according to DR.. III. W. Wiley, chem
list of the United States Department. of A g.
ricrlture. Sand, for instance, is not sold
with sugar-at least in the United States.
The granulated and lump sugars in the
market are almost absolutely pure; pow-
dered sugar sometimes, though rarely, con-
tains little flour or starch, and low grade
sugars are impure chiefly through the mo-
lasses and water they are made to absorb
in manufacture.
Not as good report can be given of
syrups. There is very little pure maple
syrup, most OF what is sold as such being
| a mixture of glucose or can syrups, with a
small proportion of the product of the ma
pie, while in an imitation actually pro-
tected by patent the maple flavor is given
by an extract of hickory bark. Liquid
honey is largely adulterated with glucose
Of comb honey, however, only that in
bottles and jars is impure, the old impress
sion that comb honey on the frame is
| adulterated having been proved to be
| erroneous. Ground coffee is so largely
adulterated with chicory, peas, beans
| ETC., that it is rarely found pure, and even
the unground berry is initiated. Tea is
rarely ullAcu WIFI IOISISil leaves, DuC Ire
quently has its weight increased by the
addition of salts of iron and copper-mate-
rails quite prejudicial to health Cocoa
and chocolate are largely adulterated with
starch and sugar, and products claimed to
be greatly improved as to indigestibility
may have little of the virtues of the original
cocoa bean left in them.
A danger in canned goods is the use of
adulterated tin, which may contain as
high as II per cent of lead, the organic
salts formed by the corrosion of the lead
being always poisonous. The common
practice of coloring, canned peas with cop
per is very Objectionable. The use of pre-
servatives, such as salicylc acid, is not
without risk, while an occasional source of
danger is the development of heterogeneous
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BURIED ALIVE.
sensations of a Man Who Felt the Earth
Closing Upon Him.


w. K. Moorehead, a geologist, was
recently buried alive while excavating a
mound of the mound builders in Ohio
He fell with his head resting little above
his feet, and suffered little beyond sensa-
ton of strong compression due to the
weight of the earth, which pressed the
buttons of his light costume into the skin,
and caused his watchchain to mark his
body.
The pressure of the soil on his straw hat
caused him to feel as if the skin of his brow
were cut. A knife in his pocket seemed to
burn into the flesh, and finally his back
bone seemed slowly to break Then he be-
came insensible to pain, though still able
to think. His thoughts succeeded each
other like flashes of lightning and related
to the past, the future and his home. He
did not think of his condition, except to
wonder if he would be able to breathe
when he was taken out of it. He tried to
move his hand, even his finger, but failed
He could not lift his chest, and the only
part of his body he could move was his
lower jaw, which the clods permitted to be
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HAVE NO Legal Claims.
attorney Mitchell Says the Eastern ReIa
tires Get -Nothi,l0.

tires Get Nothing.
Attorney William NJ. Pierson, of coun-
sci for the executors, was asked for his
opinion on the contents of the FOREGOING
dispatch.
at is news to me- he said. ''I did not
know that Senator Fair had kinsfolk back
there, and it makes little difference any,
how.
These collateral relatives have no in
terest in the will. Senator Fair left a por-
ton OF his estate to nieces and nephews.
but none to cousins. There was no pro-
vision made for the cousins mentioned in
the dispatch, and if the will is set aside
they get nothing. Had Fair died intestate
the children would have taken the whole
property. AS cousins are not heirs-at-law
breaking the will cannot do them anv good
because in that case everything would 90
to the children.
''These people are not entitled to a con-
test. They have no standing in court. and
are not heirs-at-law, are not mentioned in
the will and could not get dollar of the
estate if the will was broken.
THE only persons who can contest this
will are the three children. There is not
the slightest doubt in the world about this
question"
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PREDICTS A NEW PARTY.
Protection and Free Coinage WiU Be tn,
Platform.

TOtcCttOH anu fTSe COINAGE U1IC Re the
Platform.
LoCKPoRT, n. Y. Feb. 16.-J. McParlin
of this city, secretary of the State national
committee of the Peoples party, in an in
terview to-day stated that about March d
he expects the birth of new national
party.
Mr.. McParlin states that during the past
few weeks secret conferences have been
held by members of Congress and other in
f1uential men from all parts of the the
country; that important political action
will follow, he affirms, is certain. The
platform of the new party will be obi
metallism and protection
II am led to believe" Mr.. McParlin
added. that the conference will result in
the formation of a new party in favor of
free coinage and protection, with a bounti-
full element back of it from the start, not
only in the South and West, but in Penn
sylvania and other Eastern States"
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parade, passed down the principal street of
the city surprise was depicted on every
face when, instead of the new Commits
sioner, plain ordinary bicycle rider hove
in sight:
As the mounted officers of law and order
passed THE CALL Branch Office on Market
street the band, which Immediately fol-
lowed the stars, struck up that sweet chest
nutty air, "Daisy Belle" and then, of
course, every lady knew that wheels were
coming.
Chief Marshal Thornton, who is one of
the prominent and popular members of
the Olympic Club, was given charge of the
wheelmen's parade; which had started
from the corner of Van Ness and Golden
Gate avenues at o'clock, and as he rode
. gracefully over the cobblestones on his
silent racer in front of several hundred
wheelmen, there were several ladies on the
sidewalk who could not resist saying in
overtones, "Ain't he nice!"
The Olympic Club Wheelmen wearing
white sweaters and numbering probably
one hundred men, came first into view.
They were followed by representatives of
the Bay City Wheelmen, Imperial Cycling
Club, Oakland Cycling Club, Acme Club,
Reliance Club, Crescent Road Club, Cali
fornia Cycling Club Garden City Cyclers,
San Jose Road Club, Liberty Cycling Club
and Remington Cycling Club Consider
ing the number of clubs represented it was
thought that the line of decorated wheels
would be large, but such was not the case
Many of the wheelmen who had prom
ised to ride in the parade did not put in an
appearance, and as a consequence the
showing of wheels and riders was far be-
low what the managers of the Pavilion
Cycling Tournament had anticipated
The column rode down Market to
Kearny, to California back to Market, to
Golden Gate avenue, where it disbanded.
The racing tournament will commence
tomorrow, and it is thought that some of
the contests will be close and exciting.
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COUSINS OF JAMES
GRAHAM FAIR.
THEIR PRESENCE MADE KNOWN
AFTER THE STEALING OF
THE WILL.
CLAIMS FROM THE FAR EAST
BUT ATTORNEY PIERSON SAYS
THESE DISTANT RELATIVES CAN
NOT GET ANYTHING.

HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 15.-Dispatches
published throughout the provinces con-
corning the disappearance of the will of
the late Senator Fair has developed the
fact that the late millionaire left number
of relatives living on Prince Edward
Island. 1t had been known for some years
that James Graham Fair had some near
kin in that province, and the sensation
following the stealing of the will resulted
in inquiries being made, through which it
has been learned that Mrs. John Stewart,
an aged widow who resides at Southport,
Prince Edward Island, is first cousin of
the late Senator, their fathers having been
brothers
William Ross of Charlottetown, Prince
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HoFFMANs GREAT SORROW.
He Hill Sac the Etbe's Ocners for His
Famity's Death


Fanity's Death.
OMAHA, Nebr., Feb. 16.-Carl "A. Hoff-
man of Grand Island, one of the twenty
persons saved from the wreck of the Elbe
in the North Sea on the morning of Janu-
airy 20, was in Omaha to-day on his way
home He came in from Chicago at 80
O'Clock this morning and spent the day
calling on his friends, and left for his home
at 2:15 O'Clock this afternoon.
81 could have been home before had I
wanted to-" said Mr.. Hoffman, '.but can
not bear to go home and think that my
wife and child will never more be with me.
You cannot imagine how bad it is. We
were so happy there, and now must go
back and they are not with me. / could
easily have saved my boy if the Elbe's
officers had let me alone, but they tore my
little boy from me, said he, and he choked
down sob, and then added bitterly, "but
l will make them pay for all this. They
must do it. But l do not want to talk too
much about this, for l will consult an at
torney when [ get to Grand Island I will
then make sworn statement and forward
it to the owners of the Elbe. I do not
think it best that I should talk too much
about the action of the officers of the Elbe
and the behavior of the Crathie.'
The morning call., 1895-02-17
THE LORDS DAY
In an Average Scottish Village or Small
Country Town.

In an Average Scottish village or Small
Country Town.
One may be no Sabbatarian, and yet
thoroughly enjoy the reposeful quiet of
'the Lords day" in an average Scottish
village or small country town. The still
ness of the streets, no shrek of railway
whistle in your ear, no display of wares in
shop window, or chaffering of merchandise
in the thoroughfares by the itinerant chap
man. The drinking houses contraband for
the day to all save the so-called bona-fde
waytarer, to the enormous profit OF the
general community. Then the sound of
bell and the focking to public worship.
And IN the afternoon or evening the quiet
social stroll along the links, lane or high
way. 1t is in its way an idyllic picture.
But here, again, there is change. Bicy-
clists in scores now fly through the quiet
Boreal hamlets and find their way to the
public taprOoms of Sunday in the guise
of bona fide travellers. while bands of ex-
cursionists packed into char-a- bancs shake
the dust OFF their chariot wheels as they
rattle past the village church, but go not.
into ii. This is, no doubt, IN accord with
the fin de steele spirit, the perfect law of
liberty" after the up-to-date manner.
And, in judging the poor man or the busy
toiler whose week days give but scant OPP
portunlty for enjoying the God-given boon
of fresh air and sunlight, let us not be too
censorious.
Perhaps after all Samuel Johnson was
not so far wrong in his quaint dictum about
the observance of Sunday. cit should be
different from another day. People may
walk, but not throw stones at birds There
may be relaxation, but there should be no
levfty." Excellent though the inference
is, perhaps rather droll-that on week days
one might throw stones at birds. Not un-
like the plea 1 once heard put forward for
polygamy-that it is only Bishop who, in
holy writ, is enjoired to be the husband of
one Wife-The Scottish Review
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PRINCESS PA ULIN4 DEAD.
The little Holland Midget Succun,bs t.
La G1.inne in Nelr Ynrk

The little Holland Midget Succun,bs to
La Grippe IN NelU York.
New YORK, Feb. 16.-Princess Paulina,
who arrived in New York on December %
last and who has since that time been the
object of great interest to thousands, died
in this city yesterday.
Princess Paulina was born in Holland in
1876 and during the past nine years has
been seen and fondled by nearly all the
kings and queens of Europe. She was
brought to this country under a two years
contract by Manager F. P. Proctor The
Princess was exactly II inches high and
weighed but 81 pounds.
Two weeks before her arrival she had an
attack of the grip and was laid up for a
few days. She soon recovered and on Jan
uary 80 gave special reception, attended
bv nearly a hundred well-known physi-
clans and surgeons. She was taken i'll
again week ago and was pronounced to be
suffering from bronchitis, but it was
not until Thursday that her life was de-
SPARED of.
The Princess died at 80 clock in the morn
ing. The remains will be taken to Holland
for burial
The morning call., 1895-02-17
1ET AND MONT.

Edward Island, is another first cousin of
the deceased millionaire, Ross mother
having been sister of Senator Fairs
father. Besides these there are several
others, but more distant relatives, resident
in the vicinity, whose identity will be
proved. Then there are number of rela-
tlves of James Graham Fair in the State
OF Maine, and with these the island rela-
tives will Immediately communicate, with
a view of establishing their claims to a
portion of the wealth in California.
Lawyers who have carefully looked into
the history of the people mentioned in
Prince Edward Island state there is not
the slightest doubt but that their relation
ship with Senator Fair can be unques-
tionably proved to the satisfaction of any
court.
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THE. WHEELMEN'S
NIGHT PARADE.
MOUNTED POLICEMEN WERE. ON
HAND TO CLEAR THE THOR
OUGHFARES.
AND THEY RODE LIKE POLICE.
THE CYCLISTS MADE A GOOD AP-
PEARANCE. WHEN RIDING TO
DAISY BELLE.

The every Saturday parader on
Market street was taken by storm last
night when platoon of mounted police,
under the command of Sergeant Birdsall,
hove in sight.
Naturally the appearance of small reg
iment of 1.-The finest dressed in their best
riding clothes, attracted no small amount
of attention and speculation as to what the
unexpected really meant.
In fact, with few exceptions, everybody
looked for the appearance of the new Police
Commissioner, who wild rumor said was
the hero of the hour.
As the wearers of the silvery stars, riding
only as policemen can ride when on
The morning call., 1895-02-17
EIGHT HOURS DEMANDED.
another Fight to Be Made 6y Electrical
EulDIOHes.

another Fight to Be Made 6y Electrical
Employees.
New YORK, Feb. 16.-The Press will say
tomorrow: Another fight for work day
of eight hours will begin tomorrow in this
city which will Immediately involve 1900
electrical employees.
In case the board of walking delegates
carries out its threat of ordering SYM
pathetic strikes on all buildings where
members of the Electrical Contractors As
ISOLATION have work under way there will
be over 5000 mechanics on strike before the
end of the week.
On Friday a conference was held in the
Building and Trades Club between the ex-
ecutive committees of the Union and the
Contractors Association. The demand for
a work day of eight hours was formally
made and refused by the contractors.
The morning call., 1895-02-17
JEWELRY IN CHINA.
What Every Chinese Belle Must Hav,
at Her Home.

What Every Chinese Belle Must Have
at Her Home.
The first thing to attract attention in
Shanghai and Hongkong is the quaintness
and quantity of jewelry worn by Chinese
women in their hair. A careful OBJ
server can, simply by looking at
these ornaments, tell not only the rank of
the wearer but the district from which she
comes. There are three classes of these
headpins. First, the purely decorative
pins, made of gold, silver, brass, ivory,
ebony, horn, tortoiseshe1l, bamboo or
celluloid, the pin terminating in head
which discloses the rank of the wearer;
second, those which terminate in cluster
of some sort, seven jade stars, for in
stance, or group of blue cats
eyes representing a bunch of grapes;
third, those in which the shank and head
are separate, the latter keeping thereby in
constant motion. The hairpins used are
made of thin bars of gold or silver. which
are made to bend in different shapes, ac-
cording to the style of hairdressing. A
curious instrument possessed by every one
in China above the extremely poor is the
tongue scraper. They may or may not
have brushes, but they are sure to have a
tongue scraper
This scraper is a ribbon Of silver or gold,
with ring at one end, by which it is sus-
pended when desired. The cheapest are of
plain metal; more expensive ones are en-
graved, while few are jeweled at either
end. Like hairpins, they are sold by
weight, plus small charge for workman
ship.
Thumb rings are very common in the
East. These are often made of precious
metal, ivory, jet and precious stones, but
generally they are of fine jade Tire cavity
is not cylindrical but swells out at the base
and middle. This enables the owner to
wear it lower down, and also prevents its
slipping. The jade is usually polished, but
may be engraved or carved in intaglio or
relief. The refined classes use jade ex-
cluslvely and as precious variety as their
purses will permit, but some of the lower
classes wear limitations, which. are made
OF glass or porcelain colored with lead or
iron oxide. One variety, which is made by
enameling iron, is remarkably strong and
durable and corresponds to the "knuckle-
duster." The thumb ring came into vogue
in the time of the Three Kingdoms, during
the reign of the famous General Kwang-
IT, He used bow, and to increase the
accuracy of his aim substituted heavy
bamboo thumb-ring for the glove usually
The morning call., 1895-02-17
objects to the Side Trips.

DENVER, Feb. 16.-General Manager
Dodge of the Rio Grande Western Railroad
does not. indorse General Passenger Agent
Benefits action in agreeing that the
Union Pacific may give side trips from
Ogden to Salt Lake on round-trip and
highest first-class one-way tickets, and he
telegraphed Passenger Agent Lomax to-
day that he would not sign the Western
trunk-line agreement with that provision
Incorporated
The morning call., 1895-02-17

white children, and many of the latter
have been taken out of school on that ac-
count. a mass-meeting of the white citi-
zens was held yesterday and united pro-
test made against the mixture of the two
races. The School Trustees refuse to re-
cede from their position in the matter and
the trouble will be carried to higher au-
thority
The morning call., 1895-02-17
White Plains Home Burned.

WHITE PLAINS, n. Y, February 16.-The
Westchester Temporary Home on North
street, about mile from the County
Courthouse, was totally destroyed by fire
tonight. About 200 children and dozen
teachers and nurses in the building es-
capped without injury. The fire was the re-
suit of defective fue.
The morning call., 1895-02-17
CO4STWISE CRAFT OVERDUE.
Aneiety for Vessels Overdue at AtIanti,
Ports.


New YORK, Feb. 16.-Much anxiety is
manifested among the owners of small
coastwise sailing vessels as to the safety of
about twenty-five ships which are sup
posed to have been lost in the blizzard of a
week ago.
Every day the offices of the agents
are besieged by relatives anxious to know
what has become of their loved ones who
shipped month ago.
Since the severe storm there has not
been one coastwise sailing vessel reported
from any southern port, and vessels bound
from New York for the south and New
England are also SO long overdue that they
are supposed to have foundered.
The ships about whose whereabouts
there is doubt number over twenty, the
crews average about ten men to each, and
the total value of the cargoes is about a
quarter of million dollars.
The morning call., 1895-02-17

worn by archers. His example was followed
by his bowmen, until the practice became
presented him with a jade ring of great
value, which he substituted for the bamboo
one His brother, the reigning monarch,
adopted the custom out of compliment to
the great warrior, and thus introduced.the
fashion into civilized society.-Journal of
the Society of Arts.