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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18
ONLY HALF YANKEES

II was on the losing side during the
late war; said Roger Blakenship to a
party of vets who were fighting their bat
ties DER again in the corridors OF the
Southern. 81 belonged to Mississippi
regiment, and the last mothers son of
us expected to return home with at least
a duzen Yankee scalps dangling at his
belt. Our orators had led us to believe
that all we had to do was to show our
selves and the Yanks would break for
tall timber. Our colonel was planter
and small fry politician who had never
seen a real live Yankee, and he fully ex-
pected to plant our regimental colors on
the dome of the national capitol before
we had been out a month. We were
| eager for the fray.
Gust before Grant invested Donelson
we encountered scouting party of Mich
iganders They mum hered only about
to which | belonged and attempted to
| head them off. they made hasty
scamper for brush field that was sur
rounded by rail fence, and we broke
ranks and lit out after them in go-as-you-
! please order. Every man OF us wanted q
Yankee and realized that there were not
| enough to go round. Just as we mounted
| the fence we received voiley that laid a
score of men out. Before we could re-
cover from our surprise those Michigan
| ders we're over the fence and at work on
| us with their sabers and six.shooters
| We concluded that we had made mis-
| take-that we Didn't want any Yankees
| after all.
"Tho colonel was the first Liam back to
| camp. Half his left ear mad been shot
away and he had an ugly saber cash in
| his shoulder. l helped the surgeon fix
him up, and after we had made him com
| Portable he turned to the major. who is
also an editor. and said, solemnly
"Yer've been a-tellin' us in yer darned
| old paper that the Yankees wouldn't
| fight. Dodrat yer meas'ey hide, what do
! yer call fghtin?' The major replied that
, those men were westerners, only half
Yankees. ONLY half Yankees! snorted
| the colonel. 'Damme If | amt goln,
home! If them S only nalf Yankees, I'll
| just be dad burned if l m goin' t tackle
| any whole ones' ''-Life's Calendar.
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Known by Their Canes

You know" said discerning gentle
man yesterday, cit used to be said that
man who carried cane every day was
an idler--worthless for all practical pur-
poses. If you let me see how a fellow
handles cane I'll tell you whether he
is worthless or not. It's not in the fact
of carrying cane, but how it is carried.
that the significance lies. when a man
comes into my office with cane in his
hand l watch him closely. II he sits
and twirls it idly and aimlessly about on
his fingers he is worthless idler. But il
he walks in, puts it up against the wall
and proceeds to business, there is some
thing in him. You may hope for him.
II he holus it fiimiy while he is talking
to you and does not twirl 1t about, he is
all eight. The fellow VINO plays with his
cane, swings 1t around. marks figures on
the carpets with it, punches the furni-
ture with the tip isn't fit for much else.
Yes. decent, hard working straigh t
forward fellow can carry cane all the
time, and they do SO, many of them, and
the act does not indicate that they are
idlers. But the fellow who goes arc und
swinging the cane and playing with it il
a nu isance anywhere you put him.-Lin.
coin Blade.
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CHAMPION EASTERN RACERS
To Attend the Meet After the C0un ty
Fair Races
rIonr,e Salisbury's Famous String Entered.
Large Purses viii Be Offered-Cham-
pionship Polo-Pony Races

Following the races of the county fair
will come meet of the Pacific Coast
Trotting Horse Breeders association. to
be held from October 2Sth until Nove.n-
Der %, which will be attended by many
prominent horse men from Idaho, Ne
vada, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and
California. The management Is sufficient
to guarantee an excellent meet, as its
races conducted on this coast during the
past few years have been among the best
ever held.
Over $25. 900 in purses and stakes have
been provided for the races, entries for
which are now closed. All the promi-
nent trotters and PAGERS known 10 the turf
are hooked for the meet. including Mon
roe. Salisbury's famous string, which has
been on the eastern cicruit during the
past season. Among thsm will De Alix,
who holds the worlds record or 2:03M.
Azote. champion trotting gelding of the
world, with record of 2:04A; Directly,
whose time when two-year-old. has
never been beaten, and fifteen other well
known favorites. In addition to the
above the association will Offer purses
amounting to $40, 900 or 81, 900 for special
races arrangements foi which are yet to
be made.
A feature OF this meet, which will be
hailed with special delight, is the start.
ing, which will De done by professional
from the east, Mr.. McNeer. Heretofore
on this coast. starting has been in the
hands of amateurs. whose work has been
most unsatisfactory. both to the puolic
and interested horsemen.
DUNG the weeks races several polo
matches will be played between the Bur-
lingame cluo, the Riverside boys and the
Southern California polo team. The first
contest will he between the Burlingame
men and the Southern California polo
team, the winners to play the present
cham pions of Riverside a return game,
for the one in which they won the laur-
els last season.
The makeup of the teams is as follows
Southern California team-T b. Proc
tor on his pony Rex, alternating with
Tidal Wave; W. r. Ward, on Jurocks
W. II. Young on Sheila and Wonder. and
Peter y. Martin. on Black Maria. alter
mating with Lady Jane Gray.
Burlingame team Macomb Thomas.
Waiter S. Hobart, Joseph S. Tobin and
W. McCresry.
Riverside team, lcham plons)-Rohert
Bettner. on Cigarette, alternating with
Tom Tit; II. Maud. on Blue Gum; G. E.
Maud, on Dawn, alternating with Polly,
and 6. l.. Waring, on King Pin, alter
mating with Santa Claus.
Arrangements are being made for a
series of pony races. both fiat and hurdle.
In the east this is always society event.
and it is expected that il will prove equal
ly interesting to the polite ones OF this
city.
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AT THE ORPHANS FAIR
A Large Attendance Both in the After.
noon and Evening
A Hands ome Sum VIII Undoubtedly Be Real
ized-Increased Sales Reported by the
Booths - The Contests

The orphans fair continues to create a
lively interest. Notwithstanding it has
now been open for three days. Bright
faces are as attractive one day as another.
and it is that perhaps which helps to
draw the large audiences which nightly
attend the festivities at Turner hall.
All day yesterday the place was
thronged with visitors. and the luncheon
department did more furnishing BUSH
ness than on any former occasion.
The children from the parochial school
attended en- masse yesterday afternoon,
adding merry confusion to the already
crowded building.
A great deal of interest centers around
the different places where votes are being
cast for the most popular ladies and gen.
tlemen. OF the married ladies, Mrs. j.
W. Winston, Mrs. Francis, Mrs. Sylves-
ter Grant and Mrs. John Brad bury are
at the head of the list The lady receiv-
ing the most votes at the close of the far
will be presented with an elegant dress
ing table.
The contest for the most popular young
lady is close one. The favor;tes seem
to be Misses Minnie Bradbury, Maggie
Winston. Laura Beatty anu Leona Eng-
erer.
There is also some lively voting being
done for the most popular gentleman and
the winner will proba bly, be chosen from
among the following, who are now in the
lead: James Connolly, J. Alton and d. NJ.
McGarry.
Still another subject upon which uni
versal suffrage Is admitted is the selcc-
tion Of lady who shall he given beau
tiful gold watch. Thus far the election is
undecided. Miss Kate Farrell, Miss Gill
lespie and Miss McGonley having about
an equal support.
Among the recent donations M de by
charitable persons is handsome birds
eye maple card table, the gift of Barker
Bros to the Ladies of the Sacred Heart
booth.
During the evening a mum Der of auc-
tIons were held, for the sale OF capes,
silk dresses. etc. This evening fine ST.
Bernard pup will be sold to the highest
bidder.
Those who preside over the booths re-
port many sales. and tile general impress.
sion prevails that this fair will be one of
the most successful ever conducted in the
city. The pretty soda fountain presided
over by Miss Cathleen NIemeyer has been
doing an especially lively business.
Musso's neutrality-suspicious. Is appreciated
by all. Another fine programme is pre-
pared for this afternoon and evening.
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was to get off. He said / couldn't use it
coming in town because there was no use
presenting ticket just after leaving
Lake Forest that was only good between
winnetka and Chicago. But I can use
it coming in too. for on the o'clock
train no tickets are punched until We
leave KenilWorth. and then the con-
ductor can't tell where | got on. So I've
used up all but this one and that will
take me home tonight"
And having at last found her money
and buttoned her gloves she paid for her
lunch and virtuously went her way.
And the scribe remembered a child's
composition on bir1s which she once
read. 1t was exceedingly instructive. It
began: There are many kinds of birds;
some are alike and some are different.
And it struck her that that proposition
could be applied equally to cunsciences.
Chicago Tribune,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18
San Francisco Republicans Open
the Fight
M. II. DE YOUNG is WILLING
And So Are Numerous Other Politicians
and Capitalists
They Will All Pull Together to Secure the
Next Republican National Convent
ton for San Francisco
Associated Press Special Wire.


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct T.-The Union
League club has begun the fight for San
Francisco as the next meeting place oil
the Republican national convention.
The committee appointed to make pre-
liminary arrangements in regard to the
movement held its first meeting in the
club rooms in the Palace hotel tonight.
Senator Thurston of Nebraska and Con-
gret N Joy OF Missouri were the in
vited guests.
Senator Thurston was the first speaker.
He said: "For my part, l am in favor
OF San Francisco for the next convention,
and 1 know other mem bers of the ma
tional committee who are also in favor of
San Francisco. The only difficulty is
the di stance and the expense and the
amount of time that would be lost in
coming and going. believe that if the
proper offers were m ade those difficu tiles
would be overlooked"
Mr.. De Young said: This matter has
been talked of in the east to a great ex-
tent. know that there are member OF
the national committee who will work
with me for San Francidco, and among
them 1 may name Hansbrough OF South
Dakota, Manley of Maine and Shoup OF
Idaho. John G. New of In diana will also
favor San Francisco. and | think that il
we go TO work properly and with will,
we will win our victory"
Mr.. De Young said that he was willing
to contribute his money and time in
bringing the convention here.
1t was the opinion of Congressman Joy
that the matter of railroad fares would
be the most serious drawback. He
thought that if low rates could be secured
from Mississippi river points it would
make great difference in the matter.
'Of course. / must admit that St
Louis is my CHOICE said Mr.. Joy, "be
cause Missouri is my state, but outside
of st. Lou;y, l would raher see San Fran
cisco selected as the next convention sea-
than any other city in the union."
On Saturday, the 26th inst, the Cali
fornia Associated Press will hold m eet
ing in the rooms of the Press club in re
gard to the same matter.
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A DepufY Collector

SAN FRANCISO, Oct. lit is an
nounced that Congressman Warren Eng
fish has been appointed deputy collector
OF the port Of Oakland at a salary OF
$4,000 year. English was instrumental
in having the bill creating Oakland q
port OF entry passed by congress. The
bill was modified, however, so that Oak
land would &c under the jurisdiction OF
the collector of the port of San Francis
co. Collector Wise has appointed Eng
of Oakland.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18

There was a cheerful party of old peo-
pie in Alliance, o.. the other week.
Eighty persons were present, ranging in
age from IS to 103 years. There were four
csnetarians, thirty whose ages range from
IS to 9S years. One of the number was
a witness of the battle of Waterloo. An
other the mother OF Governor Mckinley,
is in her seth year
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18

at one of Sir Henry Parks meetings
in Sydney during the recent general cleo
ton man III the hall created disturb
ance by making frequent inte1jections
Atter standing the disturbance for some
time. the veteran politician told his inter-
rupter il he would come on the platform
he would box his ears for his impertin-
ence, old man as he was. The meeting
appauded very heartily.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18

Austria proposes to deaf with persistent
drunkards by treating them as mentally
incapable and OBTAINING them in special
retreats for a term of two years. They
may go in Of their own accord or on COM
pulsion, In which case they must be tr.' d
and witnesses both lay and medical call
ed. They may he released before the time
ia up or imprisoned again.
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just like you, so noble and generous.
Miss Jones said she felt sure yoli'd want
me to be mem ber-but l know IL never
occurred to her that you'd want me to be
two. Chicago Times III erald.
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summer it is proposed 60 obtain 49, 0O0,-
600 gallons day for the city from the
AXE OF Geneva. Engineers think that
the necessary works could be bailt In six
years.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18

:. There is an awful warning to those
parents who continue to name children
after their relatives. Up in Knott county
on Caney creek the practice has been car
ried on to an excess. and the result is
that the Sloan family numbers among
its mem bers the following: Big Isom
Sloan, Hard's Isom, Sons Isom, Isom' 8
Isom. Jailer Isom, Sorrel Head Isom,
Jim's Isom, Little Isom, Andy's Isom,
Summ's Isom. J i'm bo's Isom, Big Isom's
Isom and Sorrel II cad Isom's Isom.
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Indicted bv the Grand Jury

s. A. Garrett was placed under arrest
yesterday by Deputy Sheriff White on an
indictment by the grand jury charging
him with EN- bezzlement.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-18

Mr.. Depew is an artist in cigar smok'
ing. Note his directions: First clip
the end of your cigar; don't bite it off.
Then, taking the cut end, blow sharply
throu gh the cigar, thus expelling all the
dust. 1t is understood there is tobacco
dust enough in the average cigar to rot
the lungs OF an ordinary man in few
years. Light evenly, and there you are. "
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Building ground comes high IN Lon
don. Lately plot of ffty-seven square
yards in LON bard street sold at So, 500 per
square ward.
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Suits for small boys, any color you want. Your
size, your kind, and the other things to dress
him up Cape Overcoats for the little fellows
from $3.50 up and the shade and warmth for
the pet
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persons at the Western Union Telegraph
company's office in this city: Isaac
springer, Ed Warren, Ed B. Parsons. e.
H. Watkins. William Brown, Green &
Elliott, X. B. Clark.
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There was slight rainfall this N orn-
ing shortly after / O'Clock.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01

earth and sun cuts off our view of the
suns disk wholly or in part; that lunar
eclipse occurs when the moon passes into
the earth's shadow, and is thus deprived
wholly or in part of the sunlight with
which it is usually Illuminated, and that
the earth's shadow always projects in a
direction opposite to that of the sun.
Generally the moon passes TOO far above
or below the plane Of the sun, the earth
and its shadow to have any interception of
light take place; but when at or near its
nodes, which are the two points OF the
orbit where it passes above and below the
plane of earth and sun, there will be more
or less of an eclipse. The boundary lines
between these conditions, or that point
where the moon seems merely to Craze the
rim of the disk or of the earth's shadow
are known technically as the ecliptic
limits. The sun, after its northeast edge or
limb was eclipsed August 90 passed along
its apparent path at the rate of about de-
gree per day, and on September 4 will ar
rive in the line of sight of the moons de-
scending node, the shadow of the earth be-
ing then at the opposite or ascending node
$50 degrees distant.
In the meantime where is the fast
travelling moon to be found?
AS it moves $50 degrees in less than four
teen days, it will have gone more than
half way round the heavens, and just be-
fore it passes its ascending node will be
immersed in the earth's shadow on the
night OF the Sd of September, and speeding
round will overtake the sun September 10
before it has gone sufficiently beyond the
opposite node to escape eclipse.
If the first solar eclipse had occurred
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01
THE COMING LUNAR ECLIPSE.
BY ROSE 0'EIALLoRAN.

diagram represents cross-section of the
shadow encircled by the penumbral ris-
gion, and as the sun is not included, the
relative proportions are fairly correct.
At 6:4S P. NJ. the moon will enter the
penumbra, but as the earth is then inter-
cepting only portion of the suns disk,
there is but a slight decrease in its usual
luster.
At 8 P. NJ. it will have advanced east
ward through the penumbra, and its
northeast limb comes in contact with the
umbra or deep shadow.
As its outline is not sharply defined, the
moment of first contact can be only theo-
reticaily determined, but it will soon be
evident that the dark marking on the disk
known to selenographers as the Ocean OF
Storms is invaded by an unwonted gloom,
less distinct at first than that of the
terminator.
Those who have telescopes will soon
observe that Aristarchus, the brightest
lunar mountain, is growing dim and indis-
tinct, and gradually Copernicus, the Apen-
mines and the central plains will also be
engulfeG in shade. Just before 9 O'Clock
slender crescent will alone indicate the
place of the vanished full moon.
Its reversed curvature and advent at
night shows it to be different from the
crescent in the eastern heavens at day.
break, but it will much resemble the young
moon of twilight straying far from its &C.
customed route near the western horizon.
From 9:06 to 10:47 P. NJ. a moonless sky
will be above US. and the star streams OF
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from the gray-tinted body seen in the
curve of the young crescent every month,
remained DuZZling, unexplained fact for
many years and evoked some strange con-
lectures. Kepler discovered the true cause
three centuries ago.
AS the sun shines on the side of our
planet, turned away from its eclipsed satel-
for the vaporous atmosphere which en-
velopes the earth to depth of many miles.
The rays, instead of glancing all round into
empty space at the edge of the illumination,
have been curved somewhat toward the
slope of the dark hemisphere and in pass
ing into space in this altered direction
some of them fall on the otherwise dark
moon.
This refraction, always noticeable when
heavenly bodies are on the horizon, has an
increased effect as the rays curve round
through greater extent of atmosphere,
and if it were possible to view our world
from the position of the moon it would
be seen encircled by shallow but distinct
crimson halo on many occasions. 1t would
be deeper than the sunset tInts, because q
far longer extent of atmosphere would
have more effectually absorbed the other
colors of which light is composed.
It will not be surprising then If the
eclipsed moon becomes family discernible
with a dull coppery tint. A noted case
was that of March 10, 1s4S, when some OBJ
servers have described the shaded surface
as being far brighter than in other recorded
eclipses. The light was of deep red color.
During the totality, the light and dark
places on the face of the moon could be
almost as well made out as on an ordinary
dull moonlight night, and the deep red
color when the sky was clearer was very
remarkable from the contrasted wilderness
OF the stars. II, however, the atmosphere
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01

It is not often that three eclipses come
within a period of thirty days as during
the present season, On the Goth OF last
month (August) more than one-fourth OF
the suns disk was eclipsed to large
portion of Russia and Northeastern Asia ;
on September 10 next the morning sun
will appear in crescent form to the inhabl-
+ants of Southeastern Australia and New
Zealand; and midway between these dates,
or on the evening of September 3, the
moon will be totally eclipsed to more than
one-half the globe, including the United
States.
The summer of 1888 was also season of
triple eclipse, though the weather proved
unfavorable on this coast for observation
of the lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipse of
last March, also unseen on account of in
tervening clouds, was followed in two
weeks by apartial solar eclipse.
Whenever two eclipses of the sun occur
within period of about thirty days they
must be only partial. and total eclipse of
the moon is inevitable at mid-interval.
To understand this clearly it must be re-
membered that in about four weeks the
moon revolves round the earth, part of its
orbit being few degrees above and part a
few degrees below the plane of the ecliptlc
which passes centrally through the earth
and sun; that solar eclipse is caused
when the moon in passing between the
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very near the node, though lunar eclipse
might take place in two weeks, another
solar eclipse within a month would be i'm
possible. On account of the small extent
of the lunar ecliptic limits the reversed
phenomenon of a solar eclipse between two
lunar eclipses is also impossible; The fist
diagram gives an idea of the relative posi-
tons of the sun, earth and moon on the
evening of September g.
The relative dimensions cannot be con-
veniently represented, owing to the enor-
nous size and distance of the sun, but the
outline explains how our satellite, In total
eclipse, is immersed in the cone-shaped
shadow of the earth at little more than a
third the distance from the base of the
region where only a portion of the sum
light is intercepted.
The lines show how the angles of the
umbra and penumbra depend on the size
and distance of the illuminating BODY, the
sun, but are necessarily out of proportion.
Some minutes past p. NJ. Septem Der 8 the
nearly full moon will rise south of the
east point of the horizon, but while the
earth's rotation thus brings it into view of
US, its own motion is obliquely eastward
at the rate of about half degree, which is
nearly equal to its diameter, in one hour
At P. NJ. the shadow of our earth is pro-
iected into space northeast of the moon,
and the sun, with which it inevitably
keeps pace, is in corresponding position
below the northwestern horizon.
At evening we are always in the western
end of the base of this cone shadow, which
would sweep round the armament unseen
and unknown if theory and the passing
moon had not revealed it.
This is one of those paradoxical cases in
which darkness brings visibility and
Ihguratiyelyl sheds light. The second