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Against All Precedent.

at pains me to report" said the
chairman Of the Investigating COM
mittee, that we have been g%rievously
betrayed, grossly deceived"
"How?" asked several members in
unison.
II have just learned" explained the
chairman, regretfully, "that there are
some members of this committee who
really wish to investigate."-Chicago
Evening Post.
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Ife Knew Too Well,

Actress ito editor)-See here! In this
article you say that am about to start
out on a starving tour" when l dis
tinctly told your reporter that it was
to be a starring tour"
Editor-Well, you see, he was an
actor himself before he went into this
business, and naturally he knows how
it is himself.-Town Topics.
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Her ReaeOD.

Mr.. Younghubbe-Dont you think.
my dear, that you cook twice as much
as we need?
Mrs. Younghubbe (artlessly)-1d did 1t
on purpose, darling; I want to try some
of those Hints for Housekeepers-
How to make dainty dishes from what
wa left over from Observation-Disclosures
Sun.
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the wind had
shifted around
to the north west
and was BLOWN
at a fast and flu
r:ous lick acrost
the country. A
natural b 0 r n
saddle h e,
), W t a long
swinginf fox trot,
had took me GU
tbrourh North
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ford is tho widest and wootttst free
silver man in our whole entire settle
ment. He turned out on that line last
spring, and he has went on from bad to
worse, and more of it till now to hear
him talk you would think it was bread
and meat and life and death and free
silver on one side, and the world, the
flesh and the devil and the %goldbugs on
the other.
But I was in town one day last week,
and little Bunk he had went in that
mornin with two bales of cotton. The
price had jumped up considerable and
he got somethin better than 8 cents a
pound for his load.
Now the Weatherfords are all debt
pawn, dram-drinkin people, and little
Bunk went to work and paid up his
store account the first thing. Then be
bought a few dry goods and a quart
OF Observation-Disclosures" as Blew
Scroggins were wont to call it, and had
forty silver dollars left clean and clear.
And what do you reckon come x
Little Bunk Weatherford, the great
free silver man, put out he did and
chased all around town tryin to swap
his silver for forty dollars in gold.
After so long a time he found a man
that had two twenty dollar gold pieces
and made the trade and went home
happy.
81 am still for free silver or bust,
Rufe," says little Bunk when he found
out that 1 had caught him in the act,
''but I have got forty dollars to put
away in my old sock, you understand,
and the silver is too blamed onhandy
to keep"
Whereas, I have likewise also took
notice in regards to that-there is more
one Bunk Weatherford in this glo-
rious old country We call home.
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Woman. Woman, Lovely Woman.

Esmerelda Longcofln-I saw you
kiss Miss Elderly yesterday when you
met her on the street. l thought you
and she were ct daggers' points. ]
know she talked shamefully about you.
Birdie McHcnepin-I know it, too,
but she has grown so old and ugly that
1 have forgiven her everything.-Texas
Siftinps,
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Helping Ills Friend.

Bagley-You might help a fellow, il
you wanted to. I'd like to have Ger
trude find out all about my good points
from an outsider.
Bailey-I'm helping you, Bagley.
Why, it is only yesterday that I did my
best to convince her that you were no
fooll-Puck.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-02

-American pine when green weighs
forty-four pounds twelve inc to the
cubic foot When seasoned its weight
y reduced to thiFty pounds elsYeq
AsfuAn0 ~ ~ Sgs SfSt
The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-02

L1Ke a senOHOus serpent
Hidden in the grass, malaria but waits our
approach, to spring at and fasten its fangs
upon us. There is, however, a certain anti
dote to its venom which renders it powerless
for evil. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is this
acknowledged and world famed specific, and
it is, besides this, a thorough curative for
rheumatism, dyspepsia, livercomplaint, con-
stipation, la grippe and nervousness. In con-
valescence and age it is very se~rviceable.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-02
After the Ouadrille.

He-Ah, mademoiselle, If I were
rich and lovely as you are l know what
I would do.
' She-Marry a count, I suppose.
He-Not at oil.
She-What then?
He-If 1 were you I'd marry me-
Judge.
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Kate Field in Denver.

DENVER, Sept: 1o.-My journey from
Chicago was over tho Chicago, Burlington
aged systems in the country, 1 should says
judging by thdSivility of the employees, the
cotSort l e1pefH9ced, the excellence Of it,
roadbed, and the phnctuality of arrival. ]
actually reached Denver ahead of time. The
Bu&ington Route is also the best to St
Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City.
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Like a venomous Serpent

THE highest problem of any art is to cause
by appearance the illusion Of a higher
reality, Goethe.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-02
Fall
m edicine

Is fully as important and as beneficial as
Spring Medicine, for at this season there
is great danger to health in the varying
temperature, cold storms, malarial germs,
prevalence of fevers and other diseases,
All these may be avoided if the blood Is
kept pure, the digestion good, and bodily
health vigorous by taking
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B.

Semmissioner U. S. Circuit Court for the West.
ern District of Louisiana.
Commissioner U. 8. Court Of Claims throughout
the United States.
&otary Public in and for the Parish of St. Lam
dry. Once with Hon. John N. Ogden.
% Final Proofs. Collections in the Parishes Of
d. Landry and Acadia promptly attended to.
Pensions secured; Patents, Caveats. TfAde
Marks, ETC., procured without delay.
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SQUIRE RUFUS D
Always at the Front With a Few
"Scatterin Remarks"
A Blood and Death Question Raised In
Arkansas-What Was the Matter With
Old Buck:-The Cold and Silver
Issue-Aunt Nancy Newton
"Ain't Gone Nowheres."
Copyright, 1861

1t was one of them bright and bracin
days in October. A tremendous big
white frost had fell that mcrnin, but
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FOR SALE.

7 WILL sell for cash or on easy terms the fol-
4 lowing described property, viz:
l. A plantation In Bellevue containing about
eixty-six arpents, all thoroughly fenced and
trained, with tensnt house and outbuiidings.
known as the Narcisse Richard place.
2. A plantation situated on the Courtableau.
containing four hundred and forty-two and
q. 100 arpents, about sixty arpents under pieux
and wire fence and in cultivation, with two FOOD
tenant houses and outbuildings. The rear of
this tract consists Of cypress swamp.
3. Several tracts Of wood land on the BAYOU
1eche, situated between Coul0n's bridge and
BaHrJ4 Landing. ~
The nrst and second tracts are rented advan.
1geoUsly for the year 1894, and if sold I will
transfer rent notes to purchasers.
W. G. PERRAULT.
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HE-"Will you be mine-mine until death
us do part3" She-"I don't know about
that; you look as if you might live a good
many years."-lndianapolis Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-02
The Gold and silver Issue,

Man born OF woman IL q monstrcus
curious tasua, tlstls Bunk Ysssass.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-02

'uosuuof-'sSu!qa erlH III ausS9I9 pug
'sSuIQ9 asolS /! 4Ee1S ugm e eAsq d1noM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
DIR. MAOKENZIB'S LECTURE
Greeted by Full House at the
Young Mems Christian Association.

Greeted by Full House at the
Young Mems Christian Association.
DR.. Robert J. Macenzie delivered the
first of his series of four lectures on 1.-THE
Acts of the Apostles" last night in the
Y. NJ. c. A. building. The auditorium
was well flied.
the doctor introduced his subject saying
he desired his hearers to understand how
he stood. He spoke not as Presbyterian,
but as one interpreting the word of God.
1.-The Acts of the Apostles" were wrongly
named; the author designated them as a
treatise. This book soon came to be called
by the church the great "Praxis," mean
ing practice" Men and women were
largely mentioned in this book, but the
apostles rarely-in fact, in but two places.
This book was but the continuation of
the Gospels. 1t was written by Luxe.
The Acts were the headwaters of Chris
Tian history. The speaker here made a
beautiful figure, ikening The Acts to the
Lake of the Woods from which the mighty
Mississippi rises.
A specially interesting point of the
doctors lecture which will prove highly
interesting at this period of woman's adj
vancement was the statement that the first
theological professor was a woman. In
his next lecture the doctor will speak more
OF the time of The Acts
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
OF INTEREST TO LABOR.
Cigar-Makers to Hold Street Meetings.
Wageworkers Complain of Chi
nese Being Employed.

The Cigar-makers' Union decided last
night to start holding street meetings next
Saturday evening to agitate for the patron
age of homemade cigars.
There will be three meetings that night,
the first to be at the corner of Market and
Third streets; that to be followed by one at
Market and Fifth streets, and the last one
to be at Market street and Golden Gate
avenue.
The idea of having transparency wagon
kept in the streets all the time was dis
cussed, but action was deferred until the
next regular meeting.
President T. F. Burns says the canvass of
the various labor organizations is meeting
with promises of all to cooperate with the
cigar-makers in their movement
At the meeting of the Wageworkers'
Union at 1859 Market street, last night,
mplaint was made about the employ
ment of Chinese by Code, Elfelt & Co. in
their cannery. 1t was said there were
plenty of idle white men to be obtained at
reasonable wages. The matter is to be
brought TO the attention of the Manufac-
turers' Association by President Walter
Joyce.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
CHICAGO BUYERS DEFIANT
A Plain Statement That They
Want California Fruits
Cheap.
HATCH SAYS THE FIGHT IS ON.
Eastern Dealers Hold Closed Auc-
tons In Spite Of the Wishes
of the Producers.

A T. Hatch, who is one of the largest
fruit-growers in California and the most
active in the fight against closed auctions
in Eastern cities, declares that the fight
for open bidding for California fruit ship
ments is still on, and that while those who
oppose closed auctions are taking a WE'LL
ight-it-out-on-this-li ne-if it, akes-all-sum-
mer course, they will eventually win. Said
Mr.. Hatch yesterday:
The only thing left to do is to stick to-
gether and gain converts to our way of think
ing by every possible means.
Mr.. WeinstOck of Sacramento who is q
staunch opponent of closed auctions, is doing
an immense amount Of good in the northern
part of the State by addressing audiences in
fruit districts. At Coloma, Ell Dorado County,
the other day he held an open debate with
auctions, and vote was taken at the end OF
the talk. Stevens only got three votes out OF
twenty-eight cast.
These Eastern concerns that thrive and grow
fat at the expense of the California fruit-pro-
ducers have been showing their hands too
plainly lately and are unconsciously working
against themselves. Here is a letter that car
ries out what have always said about them.
EDGCoMB COMPANY. General Commission
and Brokerage,
SO River ST., Chicago, July "a. 1895.
The fight is on The wholesale fruit-dealers OF
Chicago are determined upon closed auction.
The shippers of fruit are determined upon an open
auction. The closed auction opened their business
this morning in the Illinois Central sheds. The
open auction will conduct its business as formerly
in the Northwestern. Who is right? That Is to be
seen; in snort, don't care. What we are after
now is TO buy fruit as cheap as we can. We only
wish the right one to win. There will certainly be
some sacrifices of California fruit here in the next
ten days Come on and place your order with us.
Our Mr.. Edgcomb, who has passed the last two
years OF his experience in California, is thorough
practical Judge of California deciduous fruit. NO
one will question that who knows him.
Bartlett pears, 81 % to 81 so; early Crawford
peaches zoe to 60c; Tragedy plums, 8bc to 81 35;
Bradshaw plums, 75c to 81 70: Washington plums,
75c to 81 40 peach plums, 75c to 81 40.
The above prices are for yesterdays sales. We
anticipate fully good or better prices to-day.
We are in to buy the goods as cheap as we can for
you and give you the best obtainable bargains and
our charges are but ten cents package for buying
them. We good judges Of the goods.
Having personal knowledge Of the various sec
lions in California where the bookkeeping quality
of fruit is coming from 1t will enable us to readily
see snap, and we shall take advantage of 1t for
you. Yours truly EDGCoMB Co.
Die R., f. e.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
THE BATTLE FOR STRAUSS,
Warfare Will Again Be Waged at the
First Congre gationa1 Church
PRAYER Meeting.

A large number of the anti-Brown forces
assembled at the home of Mrs. Frank ].
French last evening to further outline
their plans of campaign. There will be a
battle at the First Congregational Church
this evening between the supporters of
Meyer Strauss and those who favor DR..
Browns course in expelling him from the
church.
Since the meeting held at Mrs. French's
home on Saturday evening the adherents
of Mr.. Strauss have been circulating Pc
tition to which hundred signatures have
been secured protesting against Strauss
expulsion.
A motion will be made that the refer
ence to Mr.. Strauss expulsion be expunged
from the records, and it will be defended
on the ground that the action which led to
the record is illegal.
AS at the previous meeting, DR.. Nc
Donald was the presiding officer. Miss
Myrtle Simpson was present and explained
that when she consented to giving Mr..
Strauss letter containing the alleged
abuse for publication, she understood that
his permission would be asked before the
letter was published, and she was sure he
would never give it.
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TURNED ON THE GAS.
An Unknown Man Found Unconscio Il
in n Lodg House.

An Unknown Man Found Unconsciou rs
in n Lod ging House.
A well-dressed man called at 203 Powell
street about 10 O'Clock Monday night and
engaged room. Yesterday morning about
o'clock a strong smell of gas was dis
covered coming from his room. The door
was locked. but it was forced open, and
the stranger was found unconscious in
bed with the gas turned on full. He was
taken to the Receiving Hospital, and it is
not expected that he will recover.
There was nothing in the pockets of the
mans clothing to give a clew to his iden-
tity. No one at the house had seen him
before Monday night. The police are in
vestigstng the case.
Detective Ross Whitaker and Sergeant
Moffitt last night searched the mans
clothing carefully and in an inside pocket
of his vest found receipt in the name Of
William Gregory, dated May 3. for dues in
Eureka Lodge, knights of Pythias, of San
Francisco. There was also a letter from
bis daughter Sophia. dated March q, from
Tacoma, Wash, and another to King &
Ward OF the International Hotel, to the
effect that Gregory was good man to get
passengers for the steamers of the Pacific
Coast Steams ship Company.
The police are satisfied it is case of at.
tempted suicide.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
The Origin of Billiards.

In a letter dated 1850, which has been
presented to the Bibliotheoue Rationale in
Paris, highly ingenious account is given
of the origin of billiards. The writer de-
clares that billiards were invented in
England about the middle of the sixteenth
century by pawnbroker named Bill Kew.
This man, it is alleged used in his leisure
moments to play on his counter with the
three brass balls which he hung up as a
sign. For cue be had yard measure,
corrupted into billiards. This etymology
will hardly satisfy Mr.. Skeat, but it at
least curious, as showing to what length
the speculative etymologist is apt to go.
The most astonishing thing about it, how
ever, is the fact that it is a Frenchman,
who might have seen at glance that bill
lizards is merely a corruption of his own
word 'billiard," from "bille," ball, the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07

company during the two past months were
either of lists long pending or of which the
committee had obtained no information, or
which were approved without publication hav-
ing been made. The association is informed
that these patents were not directly involved
in any of its proceedings. The 5000 acres
EN- braced In the protests OF the association are
still in statu quo.
Ten protests have been made by the as
ISOLATION, the name of Edward II. Benia-
min being used, and such as have been
dismissed by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office are now before the De-
partment of the Interior on appeal Mr..
Ricketts,, who is the attorney for the asso-
citation, sent on his brief to Washington
few days ago In the appeal of Mr.. Benja-
min from the Commissioner disposition
of his protest against the Central Pacifc's
grab of 200, 1888 acres of land in the Sacra-
mento district.
This protest was dismissed by the Com
missioner on the ground that sit is not be-
heved that the instructions of July 9, 1894,
provided for hearings where large number
OF tracts, as in this case. were alleged TO be
mineral land" and while the mineral
affidavit of the petitioner fully meets the
non-mlneral affidavit of the the company's
agent filed with the list of selections, yet
In view OF the fact that publication has
been regularly made and no specific pro-
test hled, the protest herein. in its present
1OIul, Is not CONSIDERED sufficient TO war
rant an order for hearing as prayed for. !"
In summing up his argument to Secre-
tary Smith on behalf of the association
Mr.. Ricketts, contends:
l. That the rules and regulations of July g,
1884, are Tree from ambiguity in so far as they
concern the duties OF the Commissioner of the
General Land Office and therefore are not sub
Ject TO construction by him.
z. That the ordering of hearing, being OF
the essence of the thing to be done, is man
datory and not directory.
8. That the "uniform practice of the othce"
IN other cases has no controlling effect in the
matter OF ordering or denying hearing
herein, as 1t is governed by special rules.
Further, that the rules and regulations OF
July 8, 1894, are void in that:
/. They conflict with the acts of Congress,
excluding the mineral lands from railroad
grants, and enlarge and extend such grants by
arbitrarily determining the character OF the
lands selected by railroad company lying
without q radius of six miles from any mineral
entry, claim or location, to be agricultural
land, Notwithstanding such lands may IN fact
be mineral lands.
2. They arbitrarily determine the character
of all lands lying within a radius OF six miles
from any mineral entry, claim or location
which are not made the subject OF a contest,
or protest, or concerning which no sugges-
ton is made, information given or report
had as to their mineral character.
3. They provide a mode OF proceeding TO
diYest the Government of its title without the
investigation and consideration which the law
and public interest requires.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
KEITH PAINTS CRAGS.
The Artist Returns With a Load of
Studies of Castle Crags and
Shasta.

William Keith is one of the first of the
noted San Francisco artists who has gone
afield during the summer to return with
sketchy spoils of natures forms and hues.
Yesterday he drove several weeks dust
from the easels in his studio and went
right to work outlining on canvas the
mighty form of Mount Shasta as it is seen
in the far distance through the little valley
back of Castle Crags.
Castle Crags and Mount Shasta will be
the themes of some of the most important
work Keith will do during the coming
months, and the studies he has made
are among those that promise great
things from his brush in the portrayal of
these peerless mountains. They will be
painted as Keith has seen them, and in
that style that has given his work its in
dividuality and fame.
His studies of Castle Crags promise to
be especially magnificent. These towering
masses of gray, naked rock, rounded here
and Jagged and precipitous there, present
one of the most picturesque and aIluring
as we'll as difficult scenes painter can find
in the mountains. Keith has studied them
brush in hand as the clear mornings light
them and as evening softens them with
deepening shadows which finally leave
them towering silhouette against a west
ern sky, while bestowing a blush black
ness on what the rising sun made brown
and gray and cleaning.
Keith's studies of the Crags are all made
from q point below the tavern, across the
Sacramento River, and the picturesquely
tumbling stream flows through the fore
grounds.
Keiths Mount Shastas will be painted
at distance of twenty or thirty miles.
He has preferred the points OF view at
Castle Crags to that about Sisson This
artist wasted no time in trout or ham
mocks. He worked like beaver through
long hours every day. Two studies a day
was his rate of work, and thirty-two color
sketches made about Castle Crags and
elsewhere are among the results.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
TO FIGHT AT COLMA.
Billy Gallagher and Charley Turner OF
stockton Were Signed Last
Evening.

The Colma Athletic Club managers have
signed Charley Turner, the colored cham
pion middle-weight pugilist of Stockton,
to fight Billy Gallagher on the evening OF
the 29th inst. The pugilists must weigh in
at 154 pounds at 8 P. NJ. on the evening OF
the contest.
Gallagher is now on his journey from
New York TO this coast, after having easily
disposed of fighter named Harmon few
evenings ago at the Manhattan Athletic
Club of New York.
The ''Black PEARL will train Turner,
and George Green will look after Gal
lagher's interests upon the arrival of the
latter.
1t was stated last evening that Sharkey,
the champion heavyweight pugilist of the
English and American navies, refused to
meet Joe McAuliffe after he had 'sized
up the big fellow. Sharkey's friends
state, however, that their champion has
never shown the white feather and that it
is not by any means likely he will retreat
from a meeting with McAuliffe after hav-
ing announced that of all men the man
he would prefer to fight was the Mission
Giant
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
PIucky Mrs. Fender.

All Gin, Chinese, leaped through awindow
into the house of Mrs Fender ON Jersey street.
between Castro and Diamond, yesterday after
noon and secured her gold watch. AS he was
making off with it she caught and held him
till the arrival of Police officer Dodge, who
booked the offender at the Seventeenth-street
station for burglary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07

In recent chat with an American news
paperman Alphonse Doudet said II can
not tell you how l admire your people.
But l can say that we should all admire
them more if they were little more hon
est about paving French authors royalties
on books which they have written and
which have been translated into English
for the benefit of the United States
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Beaten and Robbed.

Mrs. Even, waitress in the Coliseum dive
on Kearny street, was taken TO the Receiving
Hospital yesterday morning to have a LAGER
ated wound in her scalp dressed. She said
when she went to her home, 432 Green street,
81 an early hour yesterday morning and en-
tered her bedroom she was attacked by man,
VINO struck her over the head with some in
strument and robbed her of a purse containing
81 The instrument was found in her room,
ana proved to be two ink bottles tied up in a
STOCKING. The police are working on the case.