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The morning call., 1895-02-20
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Intending Tenants there running water on
the top floor of this house?
Truthful Caretaker - Only when it rains
ma'am.-New York Herald.
Miss Mabel Dodge, cashier in Massachusetts
grocery-store, is short $4,000 in her accounts.
The new woman is learning. That is a great
deal of money to get out OF a Massachusetts
grocery.-Pittsburg Telegraph.
"Sayin' de right thing at de right time," said
Uncle Eben cam er great gif'. But not sayin'
anything at de right time am mos eZ good an
er heap mo- reli BILE. '-Washington Star.
"You must be very careful to have nothing to
do with those bacilli,v said germ mamma to
her small daugh ter.
"Why, mammal"
because we belong to the very exclusive
artifcially propagated bacilli, while they can
lay no claim whatever 10 culture. New York
Sun.
Watts-Did you ever know of any one dying
for love?
Potts-Once knew fellow who starved to
death after being refused by an heiress.-Indian-
apolis Journal.
The morning call., 1895-02-20
CALIFORNIA HELPS FRANCE.
The University Introduces Valuable
New Forage Plant.

New Forage Plant.
A number OF years ago Baron Won Null
Ter of Melbourne, one of the worlds great
est botanists, sent to Professor Hilgard of
the Berkeley University seeds of Some
twenty desert plants which furnished for
age to livestock. Atriplex semibaccatum
has proved of great value on strong alkali
lands in the San Joaquin, forming heavy
mat of leaves and stems which can be cut
like alfalfa several times year, and will
assist to remove the alkah from the soil as
well as to furnish food.
A bulletin explaining about this useful
atriplex was published a short time ago
by the agricultural department of the uni
versity, and now one of the leading agri-
cultural journals of Europe, d'Agriculture
Pratique of Paris, reprints this entire bulle-
tin, covering four pages, with comments by
Nj. Grandeur tissue of January 24). The
chemical tables, made by Mr.. Jaffa of the
university experiment station, are all re-
produced.
The university has been distributing
seeds of the AtripleX semibaccatum and re-
quests are coming from every part of the
world, as the seeds cannot yet be obtained
from any seedsmen, and there is great
danger of having seeds of inferior species.
unsuited to alkali lands and of less fodder
value, substituted for Atriplex semibac-
catum.
The plant is in especial demand in Alge-
ria, where large areas of alkali soils are
found.
The morning call., 1895-02-20
WHERE FRAUD WAS RANK
A HoTBED OF FALSE TALES
FOUND In THE THIRTY
FIRST DISTRICT.
THE CROOKED WORK WAS UN-
EARTHED IN THE SCHOOL
BOARD RECOUNT.

The long-looked-for frauds which were
expected to materialize in the School
Board recount were exposed in the Six
teenth Precinct of the Thirty first District
yesterday. 1t was expected that some big
errors in the count would appear in this
precinct, and the results fully justified the
expectations.
The changes in the precinct ran all the
way from gain of twenty, in the case of
Hawley, and gain of seventeen for
Ames, which were the smallest to loss
of fifty-three, which appeared in Barrett s
figures. The complete figures for the pre-
cinct show that every one of those> in
Guided in the contest either gained or lost
recount was as follows:
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The action of the Board of Supervisors
in prohibiting the beginning of work on
the public streets under any franchise or
privilege until notice of the intention to
begin the work has been given at least
forty-eight hours before the public streets
are torn up or disturbed will be generally
commended. Recent occurrences empha-
size its importance, and now that it has
been issued the people will expect to see
the order enforced even if it has to be
enforced with club.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

of his machine is afforded by the diagrams,
the first giving plan and the second side
view. The WINGS or "aerocurves," AA, were OF
vanished silk, six inches wide, and extending
four feet from tip TO tip. To stiffen the curved
edges in front he used umbrella ribs, retaining
the metal braces of the latter to secure the
wings to the backbone, b. The wings were
tilted up so as TO form very open V, forming
an angle of 165 degrees with each other. By
means of other light metal rods he provided
for supporting the diamond-shaped plane, C,
on the axis, DID, and similarly mounted light,
movable HEAVYWEIGHT, E. The aerocurves were
designed to sustain the mechanism, and the
rearward plane to keep it on a horizontal
course. In order to secure automatic action on
the part of this rudder pendulum, P, was
hung underneath, controlled so as to swing
only forward and backward, and communicate
ing its motion through the connecting rod,
In, to a short upright lever erected over and
attached to C. If the head of the machine in
clined downward, then the pendulum would
swing forward which would depress the front
edge of the rudder. If the craft aimed little
too high, the pendulum would swing backward
and turn the steering device in the opposite
direction.
Mr. Means made dozen or two of these ma
chimes and launched them from the Boston
Lighthouse tower, from Manomet cliffs, from
kites equipped with automatic releasing mech
anism at York Beach, and from Mount Willard,
in the White Mountains A good many fail
ures attended these ventures, but occasionally,
after falling vertically fifty seventyfve feet,
one of the machines would right itself and go
sailing out almost horizontally and land un-
injured. Since then he has modified his plan
slightly. He omits the pendulum, and attaches
a little ballast, adjustable forward land aft,
under the backbone; then behind (Which is
now rigid instead of being pivoted) he erects a
fixed vertical plane, TO keep his craft from
straying laterally from a straight course. Both
of these rudders may be made of stiff japanese
fans.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

and to guarantee the money for its incep-
ton 1t is now time to hear from the in
terror and to know what it will do. En-
thusiasm is well enough in its way, but
with it must be manifested spirit of
organization and cooperation, without
which enthusiasm soon turns to vaporing
and ends in nothing. Let the State hear
the voice of the valleys speak out in no I'M
certain tone from San Jose tonight, and
let that utterance be as practical in its way
as the voice of San Francisco has been In
aid of the project for a competing railway.
The morning call., 1895-02-20
Mrs. winsIow,s soothing syrup,r

Has been used over fifty years by millions Of moth.
ers for their children while TIE thing with perfect
success 1t soothes the child, softens the gums al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Darrheas, whether
arising from teething or other causes For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup 25c a
bottle.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

No matter which way Fresno looks she
sees a new railroad making bee line for
her.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Sympathy with local enterprise should
always be deep enough to touch the pocket
book.
The morning call., 1895-02-20
A NEW DEPARTURE.
From the Bakersfield Californian

From The bakersfield Californian.
The CALL gives the proposed dairy enterprise
in Kern County big boom, as shown by the
article reproduced in another column. That
paper proposes to make a specially of new
Developments of industry in all parts OF the
State, and the instance in question is all indi-
cation OF the lines it proposes to follow. This
is anew departure in city journalism which is
OF great moment to the interior, and ii is to be
hoped that it will be followed up.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Every large city in the Union has had a
Republican National Convention, ana now
it is our turn.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Max Muller knows eighteen different
languages to the extent of being able to
speak or write in any one, and consider
able number in addition less perfectly.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Don't wait for the other fellow to put up
money for local enterprises, but put up
your own and show him how to do it.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as
II by magic; one application cures poison oak
1t relieves pain and abates Inflammation.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

1T is not what we say, but what Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla does, that tells the story Hundreds of people
relieved from rheumatism and catarrh testify that
Hoods Sarsaparilla cures.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The silver victory in the Senate may be
considered as good as gold.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The easiest way to deal with the theater
hat is to overlook it.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

For the consolation of the East we can
promise that when Congress adiourns the
billiards will stop.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

. As proof that San Francisco is in strik-
ing distance of the Fasteners convention
here would strike them favorably.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

When the public spirit now so rapidly
growing is fully developed there will hardly
be anything San Francisco needs that she
will not be able to achieve.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

People who believe in taking chances
should remember that dollar in a savings
bank has a thousand chances in its favor
to one on a lottery ticket.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Tilt is not likely that Ii Hung Chang be-
gan his interview with the Emperor by say
ing II told you So" but he doubtless felt
like it.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The list of subscribers to the competing
road is a true roll of honor, and every man
of means should see that his name is on it.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The man who expects to be the next
President of the United States may as well
make up his mind to look for nominal
ton in San Francisco
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Investigation is good word, but we
must qualify it with local in order to give
it the right application.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

]. f. CUTTERS OLD BoURBoN-This celebrated
whisky for sale by all tirst-elass druggists and
grocers. Trademark-Star within a shield. .
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Money for the San joaquin road is roll
ing in so fast that it hasn't time to talk
and is now cheering everything in the city.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

-. BY way of a new enterprise it would be
good thing to begin planning for golden
exposition to be held in 1899 to celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of
gold.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

So long as she has left a single command
er willing to commit suicide, China will
not be at the end of her military resources.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Joseph Treih, the railroad magnate OF VI
emma, who died the other day, left ST, 100000
to society of that city to be used in prosecut-
ing astronomical research.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Ames gained 1S, lost Z Barrett gained g lost
81; Carew gained o, lost rs; Hawley gained 81,
lost 6; Henderson gained 81 lost 8; Maxwell
gained z, lost b6; McElroy gained 80, lost A; Muir
doch gained II, lost 8; Scott gained go lost g:
Synlmes gained %, lost 5.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The Great West will soon be the Greater
West.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The railroads may be relied upon to do
much to bring the National Republican
Convention to this city, but the citizens
must do more.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

There is just as muchesson for pensioning +
teachers as there is for pensioning for lawyers,
doctors, editors, farmers or car-driyers. And
no more.--San Jose Mercury.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

We must have that convention.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

French papers say that ex-President Casimir
Perier is making preparations for visit tc
FpvDt
The morning call., 1895-02-20

.. It is high time to make the Eastern peo-
pie understand that the trip to San Fran
cisco is not long and toilsome journey to
Ultima Thule, but pleasant ride to Ely
Sinm.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Mrs Cleveland's ceremonious gowns, worn
at receptions and dinners ut the hlte house
this season, are the admiring talk OF al! 1ash-
ionable women in Washington. Both fabrics
and STYLES arc new.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Republicans, get to work.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Apples contain larger percentage of
phosphorus than any other of our fruits.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The determination of the Government
to have new investigation of the Post
office site before constructing the building
is decided case of running investigations
into the ground
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The very best investigation the State
could possibly undertake just now would
be one to devise means of reviving placer
: and hydraulic mining without injury to the
valleys.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street. =
STRONG hoarhound candy, 15c h. Townsend's.-
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The men who work for economy in the
Legislature and those who subscribe to
enterprises in business circles, are the men
who advance the welfare of the State and
have the honor of the people.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

1t is good sign of the improvement in
Mexico that the leading men of that city
are thinking more of holding an inter-
national exposition next year than of
making war with Guatemala.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

member except Reed, and he is as much in
evidence as any of those who are no more thah
half his age
The morning call., 1895-02-20

A-iourney across the continent to attend a
National Convention in San Francisco
would not be half as hard on the delegates
as to spend conVention-week sweltering in
the torrid heats of an Eastern city.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The prompt passage of the bill providing
payment for the National Guard for SER
vice during the strike last summer is one
of the commendable acts of the LegisIa-
ture. The guard was prompt in respond
ing to the call of the State, and it is only
proper that the State should be equally
prompt IN payment.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Now that the festival season is approach
ing every city of note in California should
arrange for holding floral carnival in Or
derly sequence, beginning at San Diego and
coming north with the season, so that
every week of the spring time should be
marked somewhere in California by festi-
gal that would attest atonce the delight OF
our climate and our capacity to enjoy it.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

: There were many speeches madeEat the.
National Woman's Suffrage Convention in
Atlanta, but the only one extensively
quoted was that of Mrs. Henry of Ken
tucy, who said; MADAM President, there
are two quantities in this world unknown
to men-electricity and woman. Men to-
day know more about electricity than they
know about women
The morning call., 1895-02-20

While the Government is making an
other inspection of the Postoffice site, it
might be worth while to get the architect
to revise his plans little bit. At
the present time the proposed site is a
great deal more satisfactory than the pro-
posed building.
The morning call., 1895-02-20

Emancipate the mining industry of Cali
fornia from legal bondage and it will eman-
cipate the world from financial bondage
by an output OF gold that will revive every
industrial energy and benefit every enter
prise,
The morning call., 1895-02-20

The Los Angeles flower festival f
expected to be exceptionally gay this year
and as many of our people will attend il
our social leaders of wealth and culture
should arrange for one in San Francisco
by way of returning the compliment.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-02-15

lature of West Virginia declined to treat with
the Virginia commissioners for the settlement
of the debt on the basis proposed-namely,
that West Virginia should pay one-third of
the debt.
There seemed to have been feeling on the
part of at least on member of the Senate that
Virginia had been treated contemptuously in
the matter. Senator Finley moved to amend
the resolution byadding statement, showing
the reasons for which this State declined to
enter upon negotiations with the Virginia
commissioners, but the Senate refused to
amend the resolution, which members thought
was explicit enough to be perfectly under
stood, and it was passed without dissenting
vote.
1t seems that when the Virginia commits
sioners communicated with the president of
the West Virginia Senate last month. they
agreed to enter upon the settlement of the
debt ON no other basis than that proposed in
the resolution creating the commission, and
Chairman Whitaker, of the Finance Commit
tee, said the Virginia commissioners exceeded
| their powers and authority when they pro-
posed to settle the debt on any other basis
than that stipulated in The resolution appoint
ing them. and for that reason a settlement
with them on any other basis would be con.
sidered null and void by Virginia.
| Governor O'Ferrall saws the West Virginia
Legislature, if the reports of the proceedings
he true, has misinterpreted Virgnia's inten-
tons in the matter that Virginia simply de-
sired to get the matter off of her hands, and
would be pleased at any smicable settlement
NY, x:.,:o
, of the West Virginia certificates.
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West Virginia's Share of the
Debt.

From the Richmond Times, Feb. o.
Governor O'Ferrall has heard nothing ofic-
tally regarding the treatment of his commu.
nicaton to the West Virginia Legislature,
concerning the settlement of her portion OF
the debt of the original State, and. therefore.
says he is not in position to discuss the mat
ter.
On January 10Th the House of Delegates of
West Virginia declined to appoint commits
sion to treat with the commissioners appoint
ed by the General Assembly of Virginia, in
connection with the debt held to be due by
West Virg. mia, and passed a joint resolution
to that effect.
A Republican member of the House was
entrusted with the duty of conveying the pa
pers and the action of the lower branch to the
Senate, but the Republican member did not
deliver the message, and the member himself.
for some unknown reason, was lost to view
for several days. He finally turned up, how
ever, and the Senate, Wednesday, passed the
House Joint resolution refusing to appoint
commissioners to meet those from Virginia.
Virginia has settled her portion of the debt,
and, while she has no further interest in the
matter, their was an implied obligation that
Virginia would assist in any way she could
, in the settlement between West Virginia and
the holders of ''the West Virginia securi.
/ ties
The joint resolution recited that the Legis.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-02-15
Baptized in Icy Waters.
Lancaster (Pa.) Letter in Philadelphia
Record.)

The rigorS of the weather have no terrOrS for
those pious religionist, the Dunkards, as was
demonstrated by the immersion of two women
Vile to-day. A great crowd of spectators
watched the proceeding from the banks of the
stream, some attracted simply by curiosity
and others viewing the ceremony with all the
solemnity that attaches to the rites of this
peculiar and deeply religious sect. The
weather was extremely cold, and many in
the great throng upon the bank were bundled
up in blankets and went stamping about to
keep warm. The creek was frozen over and
covered with snow. The immersion was pre-
coded by religious service at the meeting
house at Voganville, few miles distant.
After the arrival of the preacher, the congre-
CATION and great array of strangers, all in
sleighs, several stout deacons with shovels
and axes cleared the snow for considerable
space and then cut a good-sized hole in the
ice, which was several inches thick. The
hole was cut ten yards from the shore, where
the water was waist deep.
First, the preacher, Rev. John Graybill
boldly waded into the freezing pool and mo.
toned to good brother OIL the bank that he
was ready. The brother, warmly muffled up,
and wearing huge broad-brimmed hat, led
young woman, Miss Croft, shivering, to the
bank of the stream, where she was received
by the preacher. She wore a loose wooden
gown, and discarded her heavy wrapping as
she was about to receive her icy plunge. A
circle of the brethren was formed around the
pool, all standing with barred heads. while a
cold northwest wind blew gale Rev. Gray
bill offered prayer in Pennsylvania German
while he and the girl stood waist deep in the
freezing water. The preacher asked some
questions, to which the young woman avouch.
ed her religious claims, while her teeth chat.
tered painfully. Then Rev. Graybill dashed
several handfuls of cold water over Miss
Groff's head, neck and shoulders, and those
stream.
Then he asked her some more questions
and the climax was reached when the preach
Ell pronounced the formula: ''Ill namen der
dreinichte, Fader, Sohn and Heilichein
Ghost" plunging the head of the young
woman under the water at each mention OF
the Deity. The motion was forward and moi
back ward, as in the usual Baptist immersion
Then, while Miss Croft knelt. the water
reaching nearly to her chin, Rev. Graybill
prayed that her name might be written in the
Book of Life. The ceremony occupied near
ly five minutes, and when the young woman
was led from the water, her face was blue
and her frame shook with cold. She was
hurried to farm house close by, where a
complete change of apparel awaited her.
Exactly the same form was observed in the
immersion of the second candidate, Mrs. Liz
zie Stump. Both young women live at Bare.
vile, and are daughters of Dunkard parents.
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FEBRUARY ON THE FARM.

Ordinarily good deal of ploughing can
be done this month for Spring crops. This
year, judging from the weather we have
had, nothing can be done except to attend
to the live stock, and keep up the house
fires. Fortunately, considerable land was
broken up before Christmas, (which it is
always well to- do when sod land is to be
put in conn., but notwithstanding this
favorable fact, the impossibility OF doing
anything either in this month or January,
must necessarily result in a rush of work
when Spring comes, so that whatever can
be done in the meanwhile to facilitate mat
tiers should be attended to. Time may be
saved by securing cloverseed and fertilizers
now, and hauling them while the teams are
idle, that is, if fertilizers are intended to
be used on Spring crops, as to the advlsa
bility of which we have serious doubts
1t may he profitable to use fertilizers in q
seed is to be sown with oats-but except il
cases where the land is to be seeded down
in grass of some kind, either for hay, OF
permanent pasture, we question whether
the use of commercial fertilizers Otter
pays at the present prices of grain. al
the manure from the stables, hog lots
poultry houses, and barn yard should b'
carefully preserved, Much may he dom
in this regard in February, by keeping thu
stock well bedded, and the manure, as fal
as practicable, under shelter, and ava,
from under the caves of the stables, an(
sheds. Much time may be saved by haul
ing manure this month and scattering L
on the fields, though this is advisable onl.
Oh level ground.