davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

some famous man or woman long since
dead. If it bear some motto, some cum
ningly devised allegory or 'bookpile'
displaying the names of favorite authors it
will add little to our knowledge of the
person, and it remains memorial of his
private tastes and aspirations.
Aside from all this, for themselves. book
plates deserve consideration. They are
oftentimes works of art, beautiful designs,
beautifully engraved.
Masters have not thought it beneath
their art to design them, and among those
of the past are some which are the handi-
work Of such artists as Durer and Hogarth,
and their example is initiated by some of
the modern artists in France, England and
America. Abbey. Walter Crane, Kate
Greenawav, Mallais have all designed book
plates. The art student, in representa-
tive collection of these tokens, can trace
in an almost regular chain the develop
ment and changes in decorative fashions
at various periods-the evolution of style
in "Ornamentik" Book-plates lend them
selves with singular appropriateness to
symbolism and allegory and reward those
who take pleasure in the study of such
conceits.
There have been in the past few pre-
vaiing styles in the ornamentation, grad
ually giving way to newer styles in book
plates, so they are easily classified under a
few heads. Nor is it difficult on coming
upon an old book-plate to know to what
time it belongs, even if no other mark of
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
WANT EXPENSES REDUCED.
Depositors of Peoples Home Saving.
Bank Petition the Commissioner.

Depositors of Peoples Home Savings
Bank Petition the Commissioners.
A meeting of the depositors in the Peo-
ple's Home Savings Bank will be held at
102 O'Farrel street tomorrow evening.
The depositors submitted second peti-
ton to the Bank Commissioners of Cali
fornia yesterday, praying that some action
be taken toward reducing the expenses of
the settlement. They aver that the affairs
of the bank can be we'll handled at one
half the present outlay. A majority of the
board of directors, they claim, are anxious
to bring about the reduction, "but cannot
by reason OF an indifferent hostile minor
ity." They ask, therefore, that an order
of reduction may be made by the Commits
sioners.
Gunnison, Booth and Bartnett, on be-
half of their client, the California Safe De-
posit and Trust Company, as the assignee
of more than 2600 depositors, representing
claims against the Peoples Home Savings
Bank aggregating $720,0 900. make demand
of the same nature. They make no objec-
ton to the expenditures as far as legal ex-
penses are concerned, believing that the
legal affairs of the bank are handled eff
GENTLY and economically" but express the
opinion that the other expenses of man.
agement are excessive. Those expenses,
they state, are $445 per month, the salary
of the manager being $3.50, the assistant
$125 and the rental $70 They ask that the
salaries and rent be reduced.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

will turn the tide in favor of free silver.
His offices are in law building near the
Treasury, and he spends most of the day
at his desk hard at work and living in the
hope that the friends of the white metal
will come to it's rescue. Stewart is not
rich now, but he keeps up his home,
Stewart Castle, in good style and gives
occasionally delightful entertainments.
The Minister from Turkey, Mavroyeni
Bey, is back in town and refuses to say
word about affairs in his native land. All
along the legation has denied the reports
of massacres of the Armenians, and main
tanned that it was due to people in this
country who started the false rumors.
Mavroyeni is short, dark man, very fond
of society, and, while he gives magnificent
dinners during his stay at summer resorts,
he never entertains at all in Washington.
The youngest daughter of Chief Justice
Fuller will make her debut the first of the
year if the poor health of her mother i'm
proves.
The daughter of Congressman Newlands.
whose wife was one of the heirs of the big
Sharon estate, is also to be among the buds
of the season. AS Newlands is immensely
rich and owns quite bit of property about
they will probably make her coming-out
an event.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
WOMEN HIS VICTIMS.
Arthur Arlington, an Ex-Convict, to Be
Brought From San Jose on a Charge
of Grand Larceny.

A complaint was sworn to in Judge
Conlan's court yesterday by Detective
Gibson for the arrest of Arthur Arlington
on the charge of grand larceny.
Arlington is smooth talker, and women
anxious for matrimony are his particular
prey. He pretends that he he is wealthy
miner or rancher in quest of nice woman
who would comfort his declining years,
and when he gets into their good graces
he either steals something of value from
them, or gets them to intrust him with
the disposition of their available funds.
He was arrested in San Jose recently,
but the authorities there were unable to
get conviction against him. Detectives
ellison and Reynolds had been looking for
him for the past three months, and when
they were notified yesterday morning that
the cases against him in San Jose had
fallen through they telephoned to Chief
Kidward TO hold him, as he was wanted
here. Detective Reynolds left for San Jose
yesterday afternoon with the warrant and
Will return with Arlington.
The specific charge against Arlington is
for stealing a diamond breastpin, value
$100, from Mrs. Lulu Patterson, a widow,
living at 867 Howard street, August 80. He
had been visiting her under the guise of a
wealthy miner, with view to marriage.
Arlington is an ex-conyict, having served
term in San Quentin for similar offense.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
81 ~ ese

As football is to the residents of the bay
cities polo is to the dwellers at Burlingame
and vicinity, and as much enthusiasm is
shown in the latter as in the former sport.
They are somewhat similar games, too, in
some respects as both demand endurance and
pluck, and there is the same delightful uncer-
tainty during game as whether or not there
will be a broken collar-bone, or dislocated
Joint, or some such accident, all of which adds
zest, excitement and exhilaration. 1t is a big
undertaking to become polo-player. There
must be a raft OF ponies, stable with the
proper appointments and men to take care of
the animals-men, too, who are experienced
horsemen and know all about horse that is
worth knowing. The latest acquisitions TO the
players are Talbot Clifton, George Howard,
Perry Eyre and Clement Tobin, all of whom
are playing regularly and promise to make an
excellent showing. The new field is good
one and with proper care will make the best
they have had yet, and while 1t is being pre-
pared another field in the dairy tract OF the
Sharon estate is being used
From now on there will be no further cry of
dullness, and the fair debutantes will, before
long, wish that short halt would come in the
long list of gayeties, in order that they may
get back the roses in their cheeks, for all day
and all night they will be obliged to go out,
and if they decline any of their invitations
their first winter they fear their friends might
think they were not success.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
The Secretary Making a Collection TO
Fine Reference Library.

The Secretary Making Collection for
Fine Reference Library.
J. Richard Freud, secretary of the Mer-
chants Association, is making collection
of books containing useful information for
reference library for the association.
He is sending out letters all over the
country for Congressional and State rec
ords, Federal, municipal and consular
reports.
At the meetings of the directors ques-
tions often arise where such books would
be of great service. Mr.. Freud intends to
arrange one of the most complete reference
libraries of this kind in the City.
The Merchants Association recently re-
quested the privilege of going before the
Board of Supervisors and the committees
to discuss matters of public interest, with
out the formality and red tape that fire.
uuently delays important matters. Yes
terday the officers of the association were
highly pleased at receiving the copy of a
resolution by the Supervisors, inviting the
mem bers of the association to be present
and discuss questions whenever the occa-
sion required.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

some special mark of ownership before
passing them to their appropriate places
in his library.
To collect book-plates has also become a
fashion, and one that affords qualification
and instruction from several standpoints
Since they have been in use so long since
almost from the beginning of the making
OF books it has been the custom to affiX
some mark of possession, it is interest
ing to collect and study book-plates from
the antiquarian historical point of view
Herald and genealogist are interested in
them because those having the armorial
bearings. which style has been most used
in England, afford means of study of the
achievements and pride of connection at
different epochs of innumerable families
of note, expressed in the fashion of sue
cessive periods. Among the book-plates of
wealthy book-owners or those of some dis
tinction in their time but now forgotten
is found. here and there, the book plate of
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

collection. Still third object is to graf
ify an unexplainable desire of book-lovers
to invest their books with personal char
acter, slight though it be, by the insertion
of something which in some way will make
them different from the more or less
copious patches of books. In order to
secure this personal Characterization the
more effectually there is sometimes added
to the plain statement of ownership, indi-
Gated often by the armorial bearings on the
book-plate, some more or less original
sentiment or some bibliophilic motto
which denotes the prevailing taste or bias
of thought in the owner.
To have a book plate has become a
fashion and one that is likely to remain.
1t is pleasure to the book-lover, on re-
turning home in the evening with new
purchases of books, to atfix to each volume
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

CORONADO, CAL, Nov. 26.-Captain and
Mrs. John P. Reed have issued invitations for
the marriage of their daughter Mary Addeliza
Gardiner Ito Carlisle I. Ferris on Thursday even
ing next, at o'clock, at the Graham Memo rial
Presbyterian Church, Coronado Beach. Miss
Gardiner is a most attractive young lady,
and an accomplished musician, having for
several wears been organist for Graham
Memorial Church. Mr.. Ferris is a successful
druggist, located here until recently, but now
of San Diego
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Harding (nee
Oliver have been spending the first week of
their Californian honeymoon at Coronado. Mr..
Harding will make the tour Of the coast this
winter in looking after Raymond & Whitcombs S
extensive interests
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Their True Character and
Place Are Little Un.
derStood.
SOMETIMES CALLED EX-LIBRIS.
They Were First Used by Pub.
fishers in the Sixteenth
Century.

Much has been said and written about
book plates, or socalled ex-libris, and yet
there are men of books-makers, venders.
and buyers-who have no very clear idea
what they are. In the minds of some they
are ludicrously confounded with the ster-
eotype plates from which books are
printed.
Book-plates are. primarily, ornamental
designs inserted on the inside cover of
books to indicate the ownership. They
we're first used in the sixteenth century,
and from this it must be supposed that
then, as now. precautionary measures
against the negligence of borrowers were
necessary. A second object besides to III
sure against loss of books is to secure the
Identification of a valued tome as part OF
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

Identification is upon it. More individual
ity and originality, and less following
along the old lines, in modern times, is
displayed; there are newer com mbinations
of old devices and freer expression of per-
sonal taste and turn of mind, and the
owners name in an enigma or monogram
is much in vogue. England largely re-
tains the old style Of armorial bearing
and some Americans use the coat OF arms
OF their English ancestors.
The designs, besides the armorial bear
ings, which figure most often ION book
plates, are "library interiors, '"book piles"
allegories, landscapes. portraits, seals,
urns, wreaths and the "tree of literature"
Collectors obtain book-plates from vari-
Gus sources; from the covers of old books
to be found among the waste and rubbish
of secondhand bookshops all over the
world, the discarded covers of old books
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

sent to be rebound, from libraries of those
who insert their own book-plate in place of
that in some old volume now come into
their possession, and some even from rare
and valuable books. Large collections
are accumulated by purchase of numerous
smaller ones or through the agency of
dealers.
1t is an easy task to remove book-plates
from old volumes. A piece of flannel the
size of the plate is wetted thoroughly,
laid on the plate and pressed with hot
iron. The steam arising quickly perme-
ates the plate and moistens the paste or
glue, and the book-plate can be lifted off
the cover without injury to the volume.
KATHERINE N. DURHAM
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
CATARRH OF THE EAR.

Catarrh extends from the throat along the
Eustachan tubes into the ear causing defec.
tive hearing. Speedy and inexpensive cure by
the Copeland system.
"Is your hearing failing ?'
.'Do your ears discharge?"
"Are the ears dry and sealy?"
"Do the ears itch and burn?'
'Is the wax dry in the ears?''
ais there a throbbing in ears?"
care you gradually getting deaf|'
"Have you pain behind the ears?"
els there buzzing sound heard?'
"Do you have ringing in the ears"
care there cracking sounds heard%'
ais your hearing bad cloudy days."
"Do you have earache occasionally?'
''Are the sounds like steam escaping?"
"Do you constantly hear noises in the ears?"
ado your ears hurt when you blow the nose?"
"Is there a roaring like a waterfall in head?"
"Do you hear better some days than others?"
"Do the noises in the ears keep you awake?"
"When you blow your nose do the ears
crack?"
"!s your hearing worse when you have
cold 2''
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
AT THE HORSE SHOW.
n. G. Paine, in Harper's Bazaar.

n. G. Paine, in Harper's Bazar.
Said much beribboned Hackney, proud veteran
of the Show,
To his neghbor Green Hunter, in the next ad
Joining stall:
"Well, what think you of the Horse Show? Fol
I'd really like to know
A novices Impressions of the people and II all. y
"Why," answered the Green Hunter, "I am favor
ably impressed
With the way the Show is managed, and they
treat you very white;
And the people are amusing, though think they re
overdressed
And don't seem too intelligent, but tits pretty
sight.
"Stll 'twould be a big improvement II they all
were mum bered, so
By referring to a catalogue a horse could quickly
The ones that worth looking at. But after all,
you know,
It's the horses at the Horse Show that really
interest mer
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
HIS SLAYERS UNKNOWN.
Inquest Held on Young Neville, Killed
in Eickhorst's Grocery.

Inquest Held on Young Neville, Killed
in Eickhorst's Grocery.
At the inquest held by Coroner Hawkins
Yesterday, on the body of the young car
penter Alfred Neville, who was killed by
robbers in Eickhorst's grocery at Pierce and
Greenwich streets, on the night of Sunday,
the 18th inst, the verdict returned was that
he was murdered by unknown persons.
Groceryman F. G. Eickhorst repeated the
statement he made to the police at the time
of the shooting.
The investigation of the deaths of James
King and Edward Marite at the San Bruno
quarry, owned by Contractors Warren &
Malley, developed that in each case the
killing was accidental.
From the testimony it was learned that
Marite was warned in time, and that King,
in disobedence OF orders, was working
where he should not have been when the
blast occurred.
The young Tulare miner, Daniel Carroll,
was found to have come to his death BY
suicide at the California House, 626 Cali
fornia street. The mysterious disappear
ance of the woman who was with him in
room Is, until P. NJ. on the day he was
discovered asphyxiated, was not satisfac-
torily explained. Two hours after the
woman left the man was found dead with
the gas in his room turned on.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

Mckee, j. J. Morris, A. Purneil, c. Jorgensen,
W. j. Batchelder and s. E. Tucker
Among those prominently interested in the
society are the following: Mrs. William AL
Miss Alice n. Bacon. Mrs. L. L. Baker. W. J..
Batehelder, Mrs. J. E Birmingham, Mrs. Olive
Bonelli, Edward Bosqui, H. NJ. Bosworth, Noah
Brandt, Mrs. Louise Cadwalader, Mrs. Mar
riner Campbell. Walter, c. Campbell;
Chappelle, Frank Coffin, Miss Eleonore
Connell, Mrs. Isabella Cook. Mrs. Fred A. Cor
nell, Louis Cregaux, Colonel Charles r.
Culver, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Davis Mrs. NJ. H.
de Young, Robert Duncan, Henri Fairweather,
S. G. Fleischmann, Otto Fleissner, J. F. Elem
Nellie R: Gallagher Mrs. Henry Gibbons, Louis
Henry Heyman, ". Il. Holt, Mrs. Maud E. Hunt.
Edgar stllman Kelley, Alfred Keieher; !, A: a.;
Mary Lake, Daniel NJ. Lawrence, Alois T. Le-
| jeal Mrs Fleissner- Lewis, Louis Lisser. Robert
Lloyd, Miss Mabel Love, Mrs. n. F. MacombeT'
| Mann. Samuel D. Mayer, Baroness Won Meyer
| inck, Giulo Minetti, Bernhard Mollenhauer,
Mrs. Joseph L. Moody, Charles a. Murdoch,
| Charles Parent, James d. Phelan, Charles
| Phillpott, John Haraden Pratt Miss Ella Part
| ridge, Mrs. Edna Smell Poulson. Mrs. Margaret
C. Pierce, Mrs: Nettie Pratt,Lawrence, Mrs; BE Be
atrice Priest-Fine Mrs. Ira Pierce Mrs. so. Put
nam, ]. d. Redding. Nine. L. Coursen- Roeckel, l.,
Mrs. ]. H. Rosewald, Martin schultz, Nine. Yda
| de Seminario. Miss Beda S. Sperry, Adolph B..
| Spreckels, w C. Stadtfeld, Leon /. Stanton,
| Charles B. Stone, H. j. Stewart, Francis Stuart,
Mrs F. W. Sumner, Miss S. Alberta Swan, Mrs.
| w. NJ. SWEET, Rowena NJ. Tarrant. Mrs. Eva
| Tenney, Fletcher Tilton, Mrs. Emilia Iolett,
Robert Tolmie, Samson E. Tucker, Miss Ada E.
| Weigel, Clarence Wendell, Miss Mary B. West
| Henry Kirk White Jr., Alfred Wllkle, Miss
| Jeanette Wilcox. J. Wesley wilkins, Miss Marie
| Withrow, Mrs. Selden S. Wright, E. Werner, H.
| Clay Wysham, Frederick Zech Jr., F. J. Ziterer.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
NEW TO-DAY.
EXPERT TREATMENT,
With q Prompt and Permanent Cure
at the Nominal
Included-The Common Symptoms
Of Catarrh.

Great mum bers of people suffer from the ma
lign poisons of catarrh as from other subtle
chronic maladies, without any correct or def
mite idea OF the nature of their affection. The
following symptoms have been carefully ar
ranged by Drs. Copeland Neal and Winn to en-
is that ails them. Many diseases known under
various specific names are really OF a catarrhal
origin aud nature. Every part OF the mucous
membrane, the nose, throat, eyes, ears, head,
lungs. stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and
bladder are subject to disease and blight by
catarrh The proper course for sufferers is
this: Read these symptoms carefully over.
mark those that apply TO your case and bring
this with you to Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn.
If you live away from the city send them by
mail and ask for mail treatment. In either in-
stance, and whether by mail or Office treatment,
the patient may be assured of the speediest
relief and cure possible to medical scien ce.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
FUTURE EVENTS.

The P. D. C.'s will hold their next party on
Tuesday next, December 3, at Odd Fellows
Hall.
The Golden Gates will give their ninth party
at California Hall, go Bush street, on Thurs
day evening, December 3.
Bay City Parlor, N. S. G. W., will give COM
plimentary invitation ball on Friday evening,
January 3, 1896, at Armory Hall. Cards call
for strictly full dress.
The Xavier Literary Club will give high
class musical and literary entertainment Tues
day evening, Decem Der 3, at Social Hall, AL
cazar building. Admission will be by ticket.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

A week ago Wednesday the first large dance
OF the season was given by Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
wallace at Armory Hall, and every night since
there mas been dance, many of them large
ones. The debutantes were present in num-
bers week ago Wednesday night, the men as
wen as the girls. The callow youth, fortu-
nately, was not SO prominent as he was last
year. Young men of this season are easily
lstlnguishable from those who have been out
ior the last few years by their enthusiastic in.
terest in the various affairs they attend. 1t
VIII not be very long, however. before they
lose this enthusiasm and settle down in the
b!aSe manner which is supposed to be en-
phatlcally the thing for the young men of the
present day.
It has been over a week now since the great
ball and still 1t is the never-failing topic of
conversation. 1t is n great pity there are not
moro balls given like this one. The only
trouble seems to be the lateness of the arrival
OF the guests. There is certainly no reason
why dances should not start earlier out here.
In New York where they have the opera TO at
tend it is all well enough, but as we have no
opera season and very small leisure class il
is very hard on the man who has to get up
early in the morning. Quite number have
sent regrets TO parties this season on that ac-
count.
The two-step or deux temps has been the
most popular dance this season, and seems fast
to be driving out the old-time waltz
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
THEY TELL ME THOU'RT THE FAVOR
TIE GUEST.

They tell me thou'rt the favorite guest
Of every fair and brilliant throng;
No wit like thine 10 wake the Jest,
No voice like thine 10 breathe the song;
And none should guess so gay thou art,
That thou and are so far apart.
Alas! alas! how different flows
With thee and me the time away!
Not that wish thee sad, heaven knows;
Still, if thou canst be light and gay,
only know that without thee
The sun itself is dark to me.
Do now haste to hall and bower,
Among the proud and gay to shine
Or deck my hair with gem and flower,
To hatter other eyes than thine?
All. no! with me loves smiles are past:
Thou hadst the first, thou hadst the last.
CIRABETE RosMEH, in Los Angeles Lyceum.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
~ ~ ~

There were quite number OF dinner parties
last Friday evening before the assembly. One
OF the prettiest was that given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Jarboe and Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
S. Tobin at the Dimond residence, 1893
Taylor street The guests, sixteen in number,
sat down ct the beautifully appointed table at
s o'clock. The decorations were in red, and
the dinner most enjoyable one. In addition
10 the two hosts and hostesses were
Mr.. and Mrs Russell J. Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Knight Miss Kate Clement, Miss Celia
TObin, Miss Ella Hobart, Frank L. Owen, Wal
ter :. Hobart, w. r. Heath, Z. H. Sheldon and
T. N. Greenway. After the dinner the party
was driven TO the assembly, where most en-
iOyable evening was spent.
Mr and Mrs. W. Mayo Newhall gave a large
dinner on Friday. after which the party went
TO the assembly. Mr.. and Mrs. W. Fl. Crocker
gave large dinner the same evening,
going to the theater afterward.
The assembly was more largely attended
than was expected and many improvements
noted over last year. This was particularly SC
in the large banquet-room and the main hall
and corridors.
We fully agree with the Wave that the floor
OF Golden Gate Hall "was exceedingly poor. "
The canvas covering was not properly
stretched, there was no spring and the cloth
too poorly sewed, which made it rather IA
tiguing for the dancers.