The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-20

1t is impossible to make out from label whether
you are drinking claret, port or white wine.
l have few OF the labels photographed and
transferred to glass plates which I use in magic
lantern exhibitions. Occasionally like to go
before camera clubs and exhibit some of the
strange pictures have been fortunate enough
to get in Japan.
Frequently I find it very difficult to get
even snap shot, and generally carry my
camera under my arm with newspaper
wrapped around it so as to deceive the natives
into the belief that am carrying ordinary
bundle. The greatest difficulty to be met with
is at festivals, where the people gather and
load up on saki, the native wine. When they
are full of good cheer and high spirits they de-
velop most decided hatred for the camera,
and have to take great deal of care not to
do too much open work, for fear of an assault
on my instrument"
Mr.. Poole spends most all his spare time and
spare money in satisfying his thirst for snap
shots. good story is told of him, which
shows what man will do to get the subject he
really wants. He was anxious to obtain good
picture of japanese policeman, and while
taking walk in the morning stopped every
one he met and made an appointment with
him, each one arranged for the same hour.
When the time arrived some thirty or forty
Japanese officers walked up to his house and
on the front porch in his dressing-gown, Sc
lected the man he wanted, paid the rest yen
each and dismissed them. That night the
Chief of Police called up the officers who had
made appointments off their beats and fined
them two yen each.
"There goes man used to work for at S25
amonth," said Isaac Upham, the valley road d.
rector, yesterday, as a stoutly built, dark COM
plexloned man walked out of the formers office
and started down the street. ellis name is
Paul Rauze," said Mr.. Upham, 'and in 1860
he ran blacksmith-shop and a store about
thirty miles above Marysyille. The store was
supply depot for the mining camps in the
neighborhood, and kept the books, delivered
goods and made myself generally useful about
the place. There was still another duty which
deyolVed upon my shoulders, however.
L was expected to act as cook, and
in that capacity 1 looked out for the
wants of four men. After working two
months I received a raise of SIS and in
two months more got similar raise. About
this time received an offer to teach school In
Butte County at $40 month which accepted.
The district was named after me and is still so
called. l believe l am the only man in the
State who ever drew pay for working thirteen
months in one year. There are, as you may
know, only four weeks in a school month and
in one year taught fifty-two weeks without
vacation. Yes, times have changed considera-
bly," remarked the gentleman in meditative
manner as he dipped his pen in the ink-bottle
and placed his signature to a check for a cou-
pie of thousand.
M. ID. Heyman, gentleman who has until
quite recently been largely interested in to-
baceo-growlng in Cuba, and has made that
island his home for many years past, is in the
CITY, ana IN q conversation at the Occidental
farda rnfar 70
lat1ng to the present uprising in that country
"The information given out to the general pub
lic,' said he, Invariably is unfayorable to the
revolutionary party, but when we consider that
all this news comes from Government sources
there is nothing surprising in the matter. In
1868, when the uprising occurred, it took the
rebels four months to work from the lower end
OF the island to point 500 miles to the north
west and westward; but in the present in
stances they nave succeeded in working their
way 1000 miles into the interior The island
will yet be involved from one end to the other
and the Spanish Government will vet be COM
PEELED to acknowledge that it has q serious con-
fiict on its hands"
Dr. Leslie d. Ward, vice-president of the
prudential Life Insurance Company of Newark.
N. j., is at the Palace. The organization mem
TONED 1s peculiar one in the insurance
world 1t was started about nineteen wears
ago ana IL derives Its principal business from
insuring working people and children. Youth
does not bar an applicant for a policy as the
company 1nsures children from one wear old
up. The plan has gained an immense support
in the East because OF its cheapness it being
possible to secure a policy which will cost the
insured only 81 so q year in premiums. the
payments being made in weekly installments
as low as and To- cents per week. There is
no such company doing business on this coast,
nor is there likely to be, as DR.. Ward says that
it is only where very large population can be
found in small area of territory that the
business can be made profitable.
Colonel c. W. Tozer of Tulare last night
said; "lf the San Joaquin Valley road comes
within ten miles of my place will guarantee
10 nave ten miles of the road graded free of
charge to the road. Ny peighbors feel as much
interest in this matter as do, and intend to
90 al Ihey can to Ihelp what bids fair to so
Carl binder, a civil engineer and contractor
Oh chicago, is guest at the Palace He took
prominent part in the construction work of
some OF the great buildings at the Worlds
FAIR having built Machinery Hail, the dome
OF the horticultural building, the Krupp build
ing ana several other structures.