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The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
BROKE DOWN THE GATES.
A Team Crashes Into a Crossing as q
Train Passes.

Team Crashes Into q Crossing as q
Train Passes.
An accident occurred yesterday after
noon at the railroad crossing on Mission
street, near Twenty-fourth, that by the
merest chance did not result in the death
of two persons.
1t is customary at this point for the fag-
man to let down four large arms or gates
at the time of the passage of trains.
The new Santa Cruz "hyer'' that was
put on the road yesterday had just passed,
causing several waiting teams to become
restive. As the next passenger train, the
Monterey express, leaving Fourth and
Townsend streets at 2:35 p NJ, was going
by at a high speed, two-horse wagon
bearing license tag 2599, and containing
man and boy, dashed forward into the
swiftly moving train.
The springy poles of the guard threw
them back for an instant, when they made
another plunge and broke through both
gates, just grazing the rear coach, break
ing the guards inte splinters. The team
dashed up Twenty-third street and was
stopped at Valencia, and was evidently
quite severely hurt. The man and bow
escaped with bad scare.
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and knees to where I heard the blessed
river flowing along, and pretty soon l
slipped into the water with much the feel
ing that lost child would have when it
found its mothers arms.
Wasn't / afraid of drowning? Bless
your heart, child, was about as much at
home in the water as a fish, and it |
couldn't have kept afioat minute should
have done the same, fer drowning would
be comfort compared to being tortured
by those Indians. / made short work OF
swimming mile, and the next thing l
knew i dropped like shot bird on the
steps OF the Humphrey cabin.
We'll, to make long story. snort, 1t
wasn't more than two hours before every
two Indians. They found Tommy IN the
bottom of ravine, not dead, but so near
it that he never walked a step for three
months. Will was all right, crippled for
LIE, oh yes, but that was all.
What became of them Indians?
never asked and the men that hunted 'em
never said. All know is that | never see
hide nor hair of 'em again"
You may be sure that after that Grand
ma Butterfield was the heroine OF the occa-
sion, and that everybody was proud of
sitting in the presence of woman who
had been at once SO courageous and so
clever. Perhaps some of the young folks
moved up little closer to the fire, and it
maybe that some even cast apprehensive
glances back where the branches of the
trees cast their shadows; but when one
little chap, who ought to have been in bed,
wondered whether the band OF Indians
that Emily belongs to down there are per-
fectly peaceful" everybody laughed conf
IDENTIFY, and the story telling went merriIy
on.
II have sailed all the seas there are, |
believe" said ruddy and genial grand
papa, who couldn't help being an ideal
captain if he tried, "but l have always
been so much less of hero than Mrs. But
terfield that / think will talk about some
thing else than my own experiences after
this. For instance, did you see that great
old fume and water-wheel up the canyon
Well, that flume, which the Spring Valley
Company is now using in supplying San
francisco with water, was built by the
elder Vallejo between eighty and ninety
years ago. Vallejo owned thousands OF
acres about here by grant from old Spain.
He planted grain, he built the fume and
had magnificent fall, which supplied
mill-power as well as irrigation.
Now, our road through the canyon has
baen washed out each rainy season for
twenty years and rebuilt each time at enor-
nous expense, and Vallejo's old cement
and wood flume, built almost in another
century, is still in excellent condition.
THAT is the difference between the way
we do things and the way the old-timers
did them"
"a story of 40? Well, / will tell you
something that happened to me in June OF
that year. I was washing out gold in the
north fork Of the American River, and we
were taking out about eighteen ounces
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and bits of bright cloth and other odds
and ends out on the ground for the squaws
and their children to carry off.
1--WE got kinder used to seeing 'em
around, and didn't mind them at all after
awhile.
"Well, one day mother was washing
some clothes by the river when buck and
a squaw came polling along in one OF them
queer lite dugout canoes that you can see
them using up there to this day. They
brought the canoe up close to the shore
and the squaw stepped out, slipped the
band of her basket from her head and laid
the basket down at mothers feet.
"The basket was fine big one, shaped
like funnel Q got it yeti and it was nearly
full OF brook trout.
"Well, mother was just tickled to death
with that present and afterward she never
felt the least bit afraid of the Indians. She
stayed all alone on the clearing with US
children while father took our one old
horse and went to Chico for -four and other
things that we had to have for winter.
The Indians would come around and sit
in the sunshine, watching us, still as
statues, but never speaking.
''Our folks was good to the Indians
and gave 'em food and things in winter
when they was starving. So things went
well ami they never harmed us, though we
heard of dreadful things that were done
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ganization are: Mrs. l.. L. Dunbar, pres
ident; Mrs. r. V. O'Brien and Mrs G. S.
Holmes, vice-presidents; Mrs. T. L. Mil
ler, secretary; Mrs. F. w. Bridge, treas
urer. These ladies constituted the reception
committee. Others who were active in the
preparations for the entertainment and
who contributed to it's success, were:
Mrs. H. L. searle, Mrs. T. Wintringham, Mrs.
Thomas Haven, Mrs. H. S. Wood, Mrs. F. C.
Peterson, Nine. Bazan, Mrs. C. J. Hendry, Mrs
A. 8. Spence, Nine. Fusenot, Mrs. R. c.. Hall,
Mrs. Horace Ball, Mrs. J. B. Maxwell, Mrs, John
Burns, Mrs. Arthur Page, Mrs. Alexander
Becker, Mrs. G. L. Holiness Mrs. John Pew,
Mrs. W. Lichtenberg. Mrs L. ]: Benjamin. Mrs.
Dorsey, Mrs. J. w. Tucker, Mrs. ], E. Berming-
ham, Mrs. A. c. Donnel1, the Misses Tucker
Miss Holmes, Miss Dean, the Misses Lichten-
berg, Miss Lohse, Miss Becker, the Misses Ever.
son, Miss Whitlock and others.
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anybody ever saw anywhere. In the win
ter people use them great deal, and SO
they are suspended across from one tree to
another above what they call "high-water
mark" You have to climb up ladder to
get to the bridge. and when you have
crossed it you have to climb down ladder
on the other side.
"When / was coming across one some
body shook it and l was so scared that |
had to sit right straight down in the mid
die of the bridge. We eat fruit all the
time. HATTIE r. c.
81 live down in the glen" writes one of
the other boys, "and the most fun of my
vacation was the time l went on trip to
the City. l think it is the best thing in
the world to see the bay and to go to
Golden Gate Park, and to ride all over the
City in streetcars that 90 like gee whiZ!
"We have little boat down in the can
yon, but you just ought to see the great
big ships and steamers that are thicker
than blackberries in the harbor of San
Francisco. 1t is enough to make any
body's eyes stick out, l tell you.
JOHNNY L. B -
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FOREIGN LANDS.

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
1 held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.
saw the next-door garden lie
Adorned with flowers before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That L had never seen before.
1 saw the Gmpling river pass
And be the skyis blue looking-glass;
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping in 10 town.
If could find higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairyland,
Where all the children dine at five.
And all the playthings come alive.
oBERr LOUIS STEVENSON in "The Child's Ga
den of Verses"
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that is the prediction of DR.. Ellis, acting
pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church
of East Oakland. He says that on Mon.
day he will give notice to the union that
at the following meeting ne viii move that nat
the union is ashamed of what is said or
done in its deliberations it should go out
of existence" said that gentleman, land
if I were you 1 would withhold judgment
until they reconsider the vote. If they
still refuse admission it might be well to
let them severely alone as far as news
paner notices co."
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| cage like mad. But one day it was really

cage like mad. But one day it was really
dead.
~ cShght box full of grasshoppers, but
they all got away.
~ have killed three snakes this summer,
and l have been fishing great deal, and
once l caught trout fish. That was fun
GILLIAN G. j.
Another little g-person in overalls
wrote: II came all the way from Port
land down to Alameda Canyon so that
could spend my vacation in a place where
it doesn't rain all the time. And the most
fun we have had was the day we went on a
picnic.
''Some people don't ike picnics, but
think they are just elegant. Ruth and got
everything ready. We filled big basket
with all sorts of good things, and we har-
messed up the pony and cart all by our
selves.
''Some of us walked and some of us rode,
and we stopped on beautiful bank all
covered with ferns. We wanted to go in
wading so bad that at last they let US, and
after that we built fire and cooked some
candy.
''The water in the creek was so clear that
we could see the fish in it. and we took
cups and stopped down and caught little
tiny ones in them. There are the funniest
title bridges across Alameda Canyon that
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
wills Presented for proDate.

John Golly's will was filed for probate yester-
day, conveying $4,000 estate to four sons
and daughter. Notes amounting to $500
represent money loahed to John B. Gollv a
son who is now dead. These notes are ordered
Cancelled and the sons children are to receive
no other portion of the property
Mrs. Luigia Boitano has bequeathed a 10000
estate to her two daughters, decreeing that
one silver dollar be paid to her husbsnd'
Giuseppe Boitan0.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
FEES OF JURORS.
A Decision by the Supreme Court That
Pay Cannot Be Drawn for Time
of Continuauces

a.
of Continuances.
The Supreme Court yesterday rendered
decision denying the right of jurors to
collect fees during the continuances of
cases in which they were engaged. An
Amador County citizen named Mason sued
his county for fees during the period of a
long continuance of case. the continuance
being on account of the illness of two other
jurors. The Superior Court decided against
him, and that decision is affirmed. Says
Justice Harrison:
In such cases they are net ain attendance
upon the court during the period for which
they are excused. Neither are the jurors VINO
have been impaneled and sworn to try cause
in attendance upon the court during any
period they are excused therefrom, with the
opportunity to be engaged in ordinary ayoca,
tions, any more than if they had been relleyed
from attendance at their own request, or De-
cause the court may have taken an adjourn
ment for its own convenience.
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PASTORS MAY RELENT.

Presbyterian Ministerial Union May Let
Reporters BE Present.
The representatives of the press will be
admitted to the meeting of the Presby-
terian Ministerial Union again. At least
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
The trial of winthrop.

The trial of Oliver w. winthrop, the man
charged with poisoning Mrs. Jennie Matthews,
has been set for August II in Judge Bahr's s
court
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

Polite at first meant polished and was
applied to any smooth. shining surface.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28


reduced from $5, 81 so and $40.
For $3.50, 1918 and $3.50
Final bargains in ALL-WOOL CLOTH CAPES;
black and all colors, fancy trimmed and some
silk lined; all sizes go this week; TO close,
actually reduced from SO, $40 and $12
For SIS, $3.50 and @8.
Final bargains in VELVET CAPES, silk lined and
necks very fully trimmed with chiffon and
ruche some with yiolets and Jets, nobby and
stylish; actually reduced from $l5 $1S and
$50.
For $3.50, $3.50 and $11.
Final bargains in Elaborately Trimmed SILK
CAPES all silk lined, fancy neck ruches and
trimmed in laces, jets or braids, very dressy
and elegant: reduced from SIS, $40 and $25.
For S12.50, SI5 and $1S.
Final bargains in Paris Imported BLACK DRESS
CAPES: finest materials, silk lined and ele-
gantly trimmed with braid, Jets or embroid-
cry, nothing finer than these In black capes
actually reduced from $27, $50 and $50.
For SIS, $3.50 and So.
Final bargains in ALL-WOOL CLOTH JACKETS,
box style, blacks, tans and navfes, all sizes:
actually reduced from SO, Sl1 and SIS.
Country orders carefully and promptly
filled. 4lscays send money tCtth orders
Satisfaction guaranteed.
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A PQlnEeH

to homeseekers and Florida tourists. Allper-
sons contemplating trip to Florida, and all
points in the southeast will do well before
purchasing their tickets to write to or con-
suit Briard F. Hill, northern passenger
agent of the famous Dixie Flyer line,
which passes through Nashville, Chatta-
nooga, Marietta and Atlanta, over the
lines of the Lookup Mountain route con-
sisting of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Ry., and the Battle Field route
the Western and Atlantic r. R., over which
are run double daily service of through
Pullman Buffet and sleeping cars to jack
sonville, Fla, via Macon and Triton, leaving
Chicago at .: 02 p. m, reaching Jacksonville
on the second morning at 7:20, thus AVOID
ing all detention or delays while en- route
Folder, maps and all information pertaining
to this short through line will be furnished
or mailed on application to the Chicago Of
fee, 1874 S. Clark ST., Room 2. aszs
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and tabooed her. I think some of the
dearest creatures would have tarred
and feathered her if they could. Jane
DiAker had the comfortable Yankee
pride of 'srespectability" In its Yankee
sense strong within her soul, and this
scorn quite crushed her. She hid her
self from human eyes as much as pos
sible, and went thankfully home with
old Miss Dinker, whose income had
grown smaller in these years, and
who really showed great generosity in
taking her disgraced niece to her
bosom.
And now that she had countenanced
poor Jane and opened her house to
her. she also had lost her friends,
and people grew hard upon her.
"You'll tell your aunt, Miss Jane,
that shall proceed to law if I lose an
other spoon,'' said one angry matron,
ito whom Jane had been forced to speak.
| When her boy grew older there were
children near by who, If he yentured
,into their company, were dragged away
las though he had the plague. And
when Jane would have placed him ut
the one good school, Aunt Dinker hay
Iing allowed the money, the lady who
presided thereover gently limited that
IL would not do.
J! And little Richard, clinging to her
hand, asked, as they went home:
i''What is it, mamma?" Then poor Jane
wished that she were dead.
/ Old Miss Dinker called In high dud-
gson upon the schoolmistress, and re-
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CURIOUS NOTES,

In parts Of Ireland there is super.
stition to the effect that belt made Of
women's hair will protect the wearer
from all harm.
LAKE MAGG1oRE, Switzerland, has
waters Of three different colors. On
the east, brick-red; north, pure green;
south, deep blue.
4 The great Lick telescope reveals 1OO,.
100000 stars, and the astronomers de-
clare that each is probably sun as
large as our own.
THE deepest gold mine in the world
is at Eureka, CAL; depth, 1890 feet;
deepest silver mine at Carson City,
New, depth, $500 feet.
BARTHoLD1 says that the gigantic
statue which he presented to the
United States is the likeness Of his
mother, 'srejuvenatcd and modified"
ACCORDING to the late DR.. Brown.
Sequard, the. ''elixir Of life' man, q
gentle pressure of the ears will control
z severe fit OF coughing. 81.
The highest velocity attained BY q
projectile fired from modern rapid
fire gun is 1887 feet per second, Q,
something like 1868 miles an hour. Y
ACCORDING to one Of the textile trade
journals it takes 100000 miles o.
thread every year to keep the peopl,
of the United States in their clothes
The longest wire cable ever mad.
was that put in use by the st. Lonis
Cable Railroad company in April, 1855
Length, $4,000 feet; weight, s9,51l
pounds.
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Why He Was Elected.

A member Of the Ohio legislature Of
some years ago had been elected from
q district which had always sent rep
resentative of different political COM
plexion, and it happened that he was
given to bibulosity. He did well for a
week or SO, but then the temptations
of q great city like Columb bus were too
much for him, and he began to drink.
He kept it up for whole week, and
for that long he never appeared about
the capitol. Then his friends looked
him up. Asz s.
"By George, old man." said one OF
them, you'll have to quit this, and get
down to business
''Oh, I guess not" he replied care.
lessly.
"You're bound to or your constitu.
ents won't stand it. They sent you
here to do something for them and
they expect you to do it.
''No, they didn't" he insisted. a.
This was poser.
'"They didn't?" exclaimed the spokes.
man. What did they send you for
then?" @
why" he laughed, ''they had to
send me to keep the othersfellow from
coming. Detroit Free Press
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TIE FARMING WORLD.
FEEDING PIGEONS.

-
Plan OF a Hopper suitable for About
One Hundred Birds.
" IS 2 very convenient way to feed
pigeons from 90 hopper. The birds,
especially is allowed to fly at large,
and thus obtainsnbundant exercise, do
well. Whether it is the best plan is
open to question, but it is plan gem
orally pursued by pigeon-keepers
"A hopper consists of a narrow box,
say about a foot wide, with openings
in front for the pigeons to feed from.
These openings are usually about three
inches wide and five Or six high, square
at the bottom and rounded at the TOP.
The following rough sketch Gig. ~
will give an idea of the front Of the
hopper:
The back Of the hopper should be
considerably higher than the front, so
that the top, which is hinged as lid,
will permit the droppings rolling off.
Or the top ridge may be constructed
with sharlespikes projecting upwards,
and thus prevent the birds from roost-
ing upon it.aa
Inside the box, starting from the
front edge, where the bottom of the lid
rests, is placed board of the width Of
the inside of the box, slanting suffi-
GENTLY to carry its bottom ont two or
three inches from the front side of the
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white Glover for Pasture.

Prof. Heny thinks that it is hardly.
advisa bic to sow white clover alone on
land for hog pasture. He urges a mix
ture Of several grasses, such as two
bushels Of blue grass, one bushel OF
orchard grass, one peck OF timothy
and four pounds OF white clover seed.
Sow this on three acres of ground with
very light seeding of oats or barley,
or, better still, without any grain at
all. He suggests that the land be not
pastnred until the sod is well formed,
and, il the grass runs up tall, that 1t
may be cut for hay. No stock should
be turned in on the field until the sec
ond season, unless for few weeks IN
the fall while the ground is dry. DC
urges thick seeding Prairie Farmer.
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Tho Isle Of Boredona,

Tho Isle Of boredom.
As you sail through life take pains and Steer
away from the island that lies so near 81.
The Isle OF Boredom, which all men fear.
The island sets up like q shelf OF rock,
but woe to the sailor who lands ct tho dock
And offers the people chance to talk.
For they talk all night and they talk Ill day. Il
And try as YOU will to get away.
They pin you down and they make you stay.
They talk Of the things they have done and
said,
They talk you awake and they talk you to bed,
TIL you almost wish they would talk you dead.
And the queerest thing. and the one to deploro,
About the dHeliers upon that shore
NOT one OF them knows that he Is bore.
So steer away from that island shelf,
That Is governed they say by wicked ELF,
Lest yzu bo bore and not know 1t yourself
Ella W. Wilcox. in Youths Companion
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monstrated in vain. The fact that She
| stole a spelling book during her brief
stay did not further her object. When
a little boy was sent for it at dusk Jane
wished herself dead again. If only she
could have had pride in anything or
anyone, she thought; but life was all
shame to her..
''Habits are hard to break she said,
"but I'll try. Only you oughtrl't to be
SO hard on me when I've stuck to you
So" And then she revealed plan
which she mad concocted for giving the
boy an education. 'I'll put him to the
best school in New York." she said.
Ill keep the story that they tcll-lie,
as it is-to myself, and I'll pay his bills
regular. Tain't likely I'm agoing to
see him grow up without eddication.
Well make him clergyman or doc
tor. Well snap our fingers in the
faces of these critters. I'll take him
up myself tomorrow and he shall come
down every Saturday night"
II shall miss him so," said Jane.
But it's for his good, and thank you,
aunt"
So Jane spent the night in tears, and
in the morning Aunt Dinker went to
the city, taking with her little Richard.
Jane suffered a great deal that day,
and when at night she saw Aunt
voice to speak to her. But the old
lady was in good spirits. She sat down
before the fire with her shawl on, and
told Jane how pleased Richard was
with the jor4.ney and how Miss Speers
had admired him. And Jane brought
her the tea, and she took it sitting by
the fire, but still kept her shawl on;
and, moreover, the shawl looked Curl
ously thick and bunchy.
Once before had Jane seen the same
thing, and it had resulted in the APP
pearance of somebody's workbox. Her
heart misgave her.
''Aunty," she said, in trembling tones,
"are you cold?"
Not particularly" said Miss Dinlzer.
'"Then shan't l take your shawl?"
"When ask you to do so.''
Jane was silent. Old Miss Dinker
fdgeted. Finally Jane burst into ~
proaches.
''Oh, aunty! couldn't you help dis
gracing my poor boy, to steal in New
York, where they have no mercy on
you, and at the school, where hoped
he could hold his head as high as any
one? Oh, aunt, aunt"
You ought to be ashamed of your
self, Jane. I've been good aunt to
you; and, as for the school, never
touched thing. I put my hands in
my muff, and sat just so, and made a
pint of it. And it's nothing much to
make a fuss over. took it almost
without thinking. 1t came in SO
handy"
What is it," asked Jane, desper-
ately.
well, I'll tell you," said Aunt Dink-
err, land if they want it they can have
it. From the school to the depot there
came up rain. had on my best bon
net, so looked about me and there
was church open and in l popped.
'"Well, as stood there, out came a
gentleman that / knowed was the
clergyman, and says he: Walk in,
mas am, and wait for the rain to be
over. There's fire in the vestry.' And
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Soil Entirely Too Loose.

A great many farmers entertain the
very erroneous idea that they cannot
have their soil too loose and porous,
but they can. Many crop, especially
on light, sandy soil, would be increased
twenty-five per cent, frequently more
than this, if the soil could be well
rolled just prior to sowing or planting
time. Rolling or frming the soil causes
1T to retain moisture that would soon
be evaporated if left in the condition
that the pillow left it. A great many
fruit trees and vines are lost in the ;egg
gregate by not understanding the
principle involved in firning the soil.
Our farmers and gardeners have sadly
failed to value the harrow and the
roller two indespensa bic implements.
-Cplman's Rural World.