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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
SEVEN TIMES ONE.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover,
There's no rain left in the heaven;
I've said my seven times over and over,
Seven times one seven.
I am old, so old write letter,
Ny birthday lessons are done;
The lambs play always, they know no better
They are only seven times one.
o Moon! in the night I have seen you sailing
And shining so round and low;
You were bright, ali, bright but your light is fall
ing
You are nothing now but bow.
You Moon have you done something wrong In
heaven,
That God has hidden your face?
hope if you have you will soon be forgiven
And shine again in your place.
velvet bee, you're dusty fellow,
You've powdered your legs with gold!
o brave marshmary buds, rich and yellow,
Give me your money TO hold.
o columbine, open your folded wrapper,
Where two twin turtledoves dwell,
o cuckoo-pint, toll me the purple clapper
That hangs in your clear, green bell!
And show me your nest with the young ones in it
will not steal it away.
1 am old you may trust me- lnnet, Hnnet,
1 am seven times one to-day.
JEAN INGELow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
Nest in a Church Clock.

A curious incident has just occurred at
Birchington Parish Church, immortalized
in the "Ingoldsby Legends" In COM
memoration of the Queen jubilee clock
with skeleton face was placed in the
church tower. The other day the clock
unaccountably stopped, and upon inspec-
ton it was found that house sparrow had
built its nest between the projecting VIII
and TX so firmly as to prevent the clock
from working. The nest was promptly re-
moved, only to be rebuilt day or two later
in the same unique position. Once more
the face has been cleared and the opportu-
nifty taken to regild the figures. The spar
rows SO far have not made another attempt
to build there.-W Westminster Gazette.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

brushed up the dirt, saying alphabetically
to me: "Men are so triting about doing
anything about a house right"
She seemed little put out and to re-
store good feeling praised the cup from
which l was drinking my tea. She blushed
with pleasure. They had not been mar
ried long, she told me, and the cup and
saucer were wedding present. In sheer
idleness l asked how long she had been
married.
ooh, not long," was the reply. "Only
nine years"
So, little house-fnch up there on your
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

into it for me to hurry up an come to this
place, an my papa is coined along, an my
mamma is a-comin', my papa SAYS, after
she gets all through helpin' to make a
whole lot of poor little childrens sick about
the Fourth of July.
Not anybody would like to stay where
the Fourth of July is, guess, if they could
go to their grandma's house, where every
thing is lovely and beautiful.
If you could get some overalls. dolly,
you could have fun ali the time just like
me. But | guess you is made too much
like ladies, an maybe their legs is wobbly
just like yours, an some of them is just
only sticks, with pretty heads stuck onto
the top of them an aw1y awfly nice silk
sleeves an things fixed onto them so nice
an so nice that nobody can't hardly tell
that they amt meat all over.
| just guess | know somethin' about
folks what [ didn't ever member about
before. Dollies grows up into ladies an
meat babies grows up into mans!
An when woman's rides onto bicycles
an has fun they amt no really ladies at
all they is Just only meat babies crowd up,
an they amt hardly no different from
girls an boys an mans. I know pretty
well that nobody couldn't never teach a
meat baby for to be dolly, an don't
guess anybody's dolly could be NAKED into
really baby 'cept God came down his
own self an tended to it. l tried pretty
much to wake you up into baby dolly,
an [ scolded you. an slapted you an
stuck your foot in the fire an
soaked you into the baf tub. But
you never did nothin' but smlle an
look the same ole silly, an they
just only painted your ole cheeks again
an made you some new dresses, an they
thinked you was awful lovely. l didn't
think so much, but I pretended l did
cause if didn't love you l couldn't love
nuthin', an it's better to love a ole make
believe than not to love nobody. But il
you could have turned into a really baby
dolly! You could come out to play with
me with some cute little overalis onto you,
an you could climb trees an eat cherries
an hear the birds sing, and sometimes find
their nests an peek in. You could ride
onto loads of hay, an nobody wouldn't
say faint no place for little girls.
You could see the trees a-wavin', an the
sky SO pretty overhead, an maybe, dolly,
just maybe, you could have little black
pig named after you, just like are got!
You could feed the ducks most every min
ute, so they'd get fat for a dinner. an you
could hunt eggs an pull the naughty ole
hens what wants to set off from their nests
every single time they tried for to do it.
| better go an see about that right now,
dolly, an I'll sit you up on this chair,
dolly. an spread your nice silk skirt all
out pretty way, an you can stay here an
look at the bureau till I can't think OF
nuthln' to do but tend to you some more.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

nest, yours IS not, after all, the only house
shaped and softened and compacted by
loving heartbeats. l rested we'll that night,
on cot in the little hut, where nine years
with that red-haired, freckled-faced man
who was $50 trifing about doing anything
about the house right" had seemed to his
hard-working wife only little while.
GNoTE.-The writer of .Idyls of the Field" gives
article
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
Dorothy and Dolly.

Anybody don't care much about ole
doll when anybody is taking their vacation
to grandma's house, so you mustn't 'spect
to be taken air of nowadays, Mrs. Dolly.
An anyway, wouldn't your mamma look
pretty silly sittin' down an playin' with
you when she has got her hair cutted off
an wears overalls, an can have fun all the
time if she wants to? Yesterday week, I
guess it was, my really mamma said for
me to behave like little lady, an not get
my dresses dirty, and to be tryin' for to
sew an to keep quite. An, then, they got
letter from granma, an it was writed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

The greatest difficulty in estimating the
wealth OF the United States lies in ascer-
tanning the value OF the personal property,
which constitutes very considerable item
of our National wealth,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

mamma, are you SO sorry we didEit that
you are crying, too?''
Truth to tell, there were some tears in
Mrs. Mammals eyes. But can you be quite
sure that they came there because she was
so sorry for the social mistakes of her
small daughters? DINAH SHADD.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
NEW TO-DAY.

has stated and that DR. NEYs Celery Beef and
these
unt And Celery used excel in the world the beef
specialist accurately blending these elements
GOOD?
bvda
GOOD
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
Some Great Men to the Children.

Some Great Men to the Children.
Carlyle once asked an Edinburgh student
what he was studying for. The youth re-
piled that he had not quite made up his
mind. There was sudden fash of the old
Scotchman's eye, a sudden pulling down
of the shaggy eyebrows and the stern face
grew sterner as he said: 1.-THE man with
out a purpose is like a ship without a
rudder; a walf, a nothing. a no man.
Have purpose in life if it is only to kill,
divide and sell oxen well, but have a pur-
pose, and having it, throw such strength
OF mind and muscle into your work as God
has given YOU"
Mr.. William D. Howells wrote a letter to
the school children of Jefferson, Ohio, his
native village. In it he said: GA good
many wise critics will tell you that writing
is inventing, but l know better than that
1t is only remembering. By and by you
will all be authors, or rather you will real
iZe that you have been authors as you SET
down for the printed page, or your own
fireside circle. the history of your life.
hope that history will be for each of you a
true and sweet and good one, without
harm for any living soul in it, and with
help for all who come to know it. Reflect
that you are making your book row in
words and deeds. Be true, in order that you
may get the truth from other mems books.
and not be hurt by what is false and evil
in them. Literature is life, and a clean
conscience is the best criticism"
Charles Lamb was the wittiest and mer-
REST of men. and nothing survives of him
that is not bright and sparkling.
And pray, Mr.. Lamb, how do you like
children? ?" asked good, foolish body who
haA aria with eli N
praises of babies.
"B-b- boiled, ma'am," suffered Lamb.
And the lady was duly astonished and
shocked.
"My lads said Napoleon, "you must
not fear death; = when soldiers brave death
they drive him into the ranks of the ene-
my" And again, he said to his physician
Believe me, we had better leave off all
these remedies; life is fortress which
neither you nor know anything about.
Why throw obstacles in the way of its
defense? Its own means are superior to
all the apparatus of your laboratories.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain pre-
scriptions, the results of which, taken col
lectively, are more fatal than useful to
mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are
the chief articles in my pharmacopeia."
"Thus if you are scholar" writes EN-
erson, "be that. The same law holds for
you as for the laborer. The shoemaker
makes good shoe because he does moth
ing else. Let the student mind his own
charge.
No way has ever been found for max
ing heroism easy, even for the scholar.
Labor, iron labor, is for him. Read the
performances of Bentley, of Gibbon, of
Culver, st. Hilaire, Laplace He can toll
terribly said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.
These few words sting and lash us when
we are frivolous. Let us get out of the
way of their blows by making them true of
ourselves. There is so much to be done
that We ought to begin quickly to bestir
ourselves. Nature, when she adds diff
Guilty, adds brains,''
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

4 Schoolgirls Quarrel.
Ruth and Edith were only ''tenderfeet"
in Los Angeles, and the first day at the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

A little girls father has round bald
spot. Kissing him at bedtime not long
ago she said: ''Stoop down, popsy. I
want to kiss the spot where the lining
shows -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Will turn to sound sleep if you take Celery.
Beef and Iron regularly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Is durable if you take DIR. HenIey's Celery,
Beef and Iron.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

May be got rid of by taking this wo
remedy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Will give way if you take HenIey's Celery.
Beef and Iron every day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Meyerbeer's little daughter after watch
ing for long time the gambols of some
ragged children in the street turned sadly
from the window and said with pathetic
resignation: "It's great misfortune to
have genteel parents"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Permanently cured if you persevere and take
this grand preparation.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
Queer Little Island.

A queer little island is Navassa. A
ship load of negroes was landed in New
Jersey the other day from the Pater-
son, hailing from this rock Of four
miles area, dowh in the Caribbean, of
Hayti. Hayti claims IT and the United
States controls It. Hayti never pushed
hef claim. It Il totally bare-all pro-
visions eTs espPtS TT there, ; and several hun.
a .s ~ hssgs kept ot ot work. being
I TACT, the s isws II Il i ship p a are IN force &C
there, officers AAd all The product,
and tho only 1h3, is sold by the Nasassa
Phosphate company, There Is no
wharf Or harbor, and the work u very
Isborious. There are frequent COM
plants Of hard treatment from the re-
turning grew, which Is usually shipped
f0{ Hx months' aeyviee. The hesdquaEs
HM'6k thscompsay ere In Baltimore.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
Tho Arab at Home.

DR.. j. P. Peters was the manager Of
the expedition sent out by the univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in 1888 to explore
the ruins Of Babylon. During the
two years l was there" said he, II
lived with many Of the wild tribes
around the marshes Of Arabistan. The
conditions in which found them were
most deplorable. They were q most
depraveG race, robbing, cheating, tly.
ing and fighting being the daily OUT
line of their existence. The principal
diet of these people is half cooked bar
ley bread, and with large percentages
of the tribes this forms the sole diet.
When / offered twelve cents q day for
diggers and guards, had half the
population applying to me for work
and was forced to reduce the days
wages to ten cents When one OF these
men has o headache, his friends burn
him with red-hot from, and many times
have seen wounds carefully dlled
with iron rust. Their government Is o
practical exhibition Of anarchy"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
cuRlosITIEs OF COMMERCE.
Cinnamon Use Big Cargoes OF Twine In
Their Cues.

Chinamen Use Big Cargoes OF Twine In
Their Cues.
Two or three curiosities of commerce
arc mentioned in the report of the
commissioner of customs ut Canton.
Woolen goods, says the New York
Journal of Commerce, are not much in
demand in that latitide, but "woolen
cord is now very largely used by the
natives here for Plating into their
cues, and the importations of this arti-
Gle are steadily increasing" The inn
port of kerosene oil at Canton in
creased from three million gallons in
1888 to more than nine million Eve
hundred thousand gallons in 1901. 1t
is peddled on the street. The empty
cans serve great variety Of uses. The
domestic servant delights in them as
convenient and all-embracing recepta-
cles, and readily fashions them into
handy utensils for daily use. They are
converted into lamps, boxes, toys for
children, and all sorts of domestic
articles. Flatteped and pieced to-
gether one sees them generally used in
conjunction with the usual mating as
coverings for boats and sheds. They
supply the packing tins in which lard
and ginger are exported. 1.-THE tinware
sent from here to tha northern ports
consists largely Of lamps, boxes and
various small articles made of old kero.
sene tins and ornamented with lacquer
varnish." Evidently the shipment Of
oil to China in bulk is an expedient Of
doubtful value.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
1t May Do As Much For You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, of Irving, ILL.,, writes
that he had severe kidney trouble for
many years, with severe pains in his
back and also that his bladder was af.
fected. He tried many so called kidney
cures but without any good result
About year ago he began use of Elec.
trio Bitters and found relief at once. Elec.
trio Bitters is especially adapted to cure
OF all kidney and liver troubles and often
gives almost instant relief. One trial
will prove our statement. Price only so
cents for large bottle. At Seybert & Co. IS
Drug Store.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
THOSE BACHELOR GIRLS.
How They Radiate Happiness and Hsv'
Fun,

How They Radiate Happiness and Have
Fun.
The world has improved in one re-
spect. There was time when the
woman who did not marry was sup
posed to be subject for jest; when it
was concluded that she remained un-
wed because she could not do anything
else.
Nowadays it is all changed, and the
woman who does not marry has
recognized position socially, and we
have all grown wise enough to know
that any woman who wishes can
marry, says the New York correspond
ent of the Pittsburgh Press. 1t is true
she may not marry the man she most
admires, but always she can marry
some man; so that if she stays out her
life alone is by her own choice.
Then, too, the beautiful friendships
that may exist between women are
recognized, and the possibility of a
home being made without a man in it
is acertainty. In flats, in dainty little
houses, two or three bachelor women
(they don't call themselves girls),
whose lives are so arranged that one
can be the homekeeper while the other
is out in the world, are happy and COM
Portable from day to day.
And better still, they are not only
happy themselves, but they make less
fortunate women glad by bringing
them in to share some Of their pleas
ures. They give agreeable little dinner
parties, they entertain in quiet ways,
and always these women whose names
are not heard in connection with votes,
nor whose pictures are seen in the
papers, as among those who intend to
remodel the city government.
The editor O. well-known literary
paper is one of those women, and she
makes for all nephews and nieces a
lovely resting-place, managing to give
it all the attention required in few
hours before and after business. AN
other, a very abode of beauty, Is the
home Of two women friends, one a
weu-known actress, the other the only
woman dealer in plays in this country.
And there are innumerab BILE little homes
where women are bound by ties Of
blood.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
ARE WOMEN AeUsEo eY MCN7
A General Feminine Disposition to Grum-
bic &C Their Hard Fate.

A General Feminine Disposition to 0rum.
bic At Thsif Hard Fate.
Do you think women are really
abused as much as they claim to be?
asks the "Quiet Observer" in the Pitts
burg Gazette.
It seems to be fact that majority
Of them, married and single, believe
they are abused by the men Just be.
cause the latter happen to have control
of business affairs, run politics, and do
the courting.
The woman of manageable age who
Is still living at home feels that men
are not doing right by her. She natur-
ally wants to marry, have big we'd
ding, and go on tour of the eastern
cities, or western, as the case may be.
But she has to go on waiting because
no man asks her to join him in these
festivities. For this reason she feels
that she is an abused creature.
The old maid who has settled down
to earn her own living just hates the
men because they allow her to wear
her finger nails off scratching for bread.
The sight Of man walking comfort
ably along the street, or driving, or
even lounging around some resort,
causes her indignation to rise to the
top notch. Why do they thus continue
to abuse her?
The shop girl wonders why the boys
do not gather around and ask her to
choose one of them to be her defender
and supporter. She is quite certain
that she should not be permitted to
I Al e = A.
whole of the blame is placed on the
young men who are earning money
enough for two and spending it for
their own comfort.
Married women are the loudest COM
planners and their complaints are gen.
| orally against their husbands. 1t is all
right during the honeymoon, but when
chat is over and they turn to face the
| realities Of life she feels that she is be-
ing abused. Her household duties are
heavier than when she was at home;
her husband is not the signing lover
who filed her heart with joy, and her
days are not as thickly interspersed
with picnics as when she was q girl.
As she thinks over this she becomes
more deeply convinced that she is a
much abused woman, that husbands
are not half as nice as beaux, and is
quite certain she never would have mar
ried had it not been for the men.
Yet, in spite of all this, the abused
woman is a most inveterate match
maker, revels in gossip about prospec
tive unions and reads the paper
that publishes the longest list Of
marriage notices. No matter how un
happy her life, nor how much of it she
blames on her own marriage, she find:
her greatest delight in getting others
to do the same thing she feels like kick
ing herself for having done.
No doubt some women are abused
and sadly abused, but how about the
men? Think Of the life Of the man who
has been so unfortunate as to get
wife of this stripe. He may be no goot
and fully deserve his punishment, ye
it often so happens that he does all /,
his power to stop these Complaints.
Suppose we call it q standof or agre,
that both parties are greatly abused.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
WIND IN GEOLOGY.
It Causes Meteorites to DisappeAr In
Bubbles and Dust.

Bubbles and Dust.
The part played by the air in geology
is turning out to be more important
than was generally believed. It is not
only that it shifts the sands Of the des-
crt or the shore, and abrades the rocks
with kind Of natural sandblast, and
conveys the ashes of volcanoes to great
distances, says the Boston Globe.
BY the friction of the atmosphere it
fuses meteoric stones, and scatters their
dust far and wide. A popularity of
this meteoric dust is that it contains
numerous little hollow pellets and
tubes, as we'll as scales and angular
fragments Of vitreous matter.
These pellets are discovered in ordi-
nary air by the microscope, on the tow
ers of cathedrals, and on the SHOWS Of
the Alps, as we'll as in the Arctic re-
gions. Moreover, they are found in the
ooze at the bottom of seas and oceans,
and also in the sedimentary rocks
which have been deposited by ancient
seas.
They are formed by the air acting on
the melted surface Of the meteoric
stone, and are, in fact, a kind of air
bubble of microscopic size.
NJ. Daubree has proved, by expert
ment, that granite perforated by blast
of nitroglycerine gases develops such
pellets on the fused lining Of the blast
hole; and quite recently M. Meunier,
another French geologist, has found
that the lava wool, formed by the wind
blowing on the molten lava Of the Ha-
waiian volcano Mauna Loa, after the
manner of "slag WOOL" consists chiefly
of such mineral tubes and pellets.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-10
The New Year

Finds Hoods Sarsaparilla leading every.
thing in the way of medicines in three
important particulars, namely: Hoods
Sarsaparilla has
1. The largest sale in the world. It
accomplishes
2. The greatest cures in the world.
It has
8. The largest Laboratory in the
world.
What more can be said? Hoods Sar.
eaparilla has merit is peculiar to itself,
and most of all, Hoods Sarsaparilla
cures. If you are sick, it is the medicine
for you to take.