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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03

1t remains only to tell the story of my
own Intercourse with Whittier. During my
residence in Canada, from 1850 to 1856, I had
become the agent of the underground rail-
road, money being sent me by a Boston
committee through my friend Garrison. AS
a sort of informal report to that committee
I published from year to year in the LIB
erty Bell some account of my fascinating
work. This, of course, Whittier saw, and
when ! returned to Boston we met as old
friends. interested in the same work-and as
we had exchanged notes. acquainted to
some extent with each others lives. We
met two or three times a y-ear-sometimes
at Amesbury before 1856. when the outrage
upon my dear friend. Charles summer. drew
us together / never saw his sister. Eliza
beth, though he often talked to me Of her.
but in 1873 I made q longer visit to him
than usual. spending 2 whole long day at
AmeSbury.
- May of that year my husnAnd's head
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

but now that there were streetcar facilities
the locality began to be peopled and many
handsome and modest homes were built
there.
But it would appear that this prosperity
did not please the Market-street. Company
for some reason or ether. Possibly its
property interests do not lie heavily in
that direction. Possibly the company de-
sired to kill this boom in order to help
some boom in some other locality. Posi-
bly-but speculation is useless in such a
case. The facts are that suddenly, with
out a moments warning, giving no excuse
for the outrage, the Market-street Com
pany-which is now the owner of the Met
ropolitan franchise simply stopped it's
cars at the intersection of Cole and Waller
streets.
1t was one morning early last week
People all along the line, from Ninth ave-
nue. to Cole street, stood waiting for the
cars that usually took them downtown to
their shops and their offices. Not few
workmen and women who have positions
in the City where punctuality is one of the
things required OF them stood there wait
ing for the cars.
There must have been a breakdown
somewhere on the road. or perhaps in the
power-house," they said. one to the other,
these belated working people and business
men, as they stood waiting.
Long they waited, but no cars came
Then the disappointed men and women
walked over to the steam railroad on II
street and waited there for half an hour for
the train to take them down to Stanyan
street. Some walked across the park to
the Powell street cable cars. Others
walked down to Stanyan street and caught
the cable-cars.
The next morning the same crowd of peo-
pie waited on the same corners. The day
before they had seen the Metropolitan cars
running downtown, and as no one had been
notified of the discontinuance of the serv-
ice everybody thought the stoppage was
only temporary, to enable the road or ma
chinery to be repaired in some part.
But in vain they waited. No cars came.
Nor did any come the next morning. or
the next. Since then no cars at all have
run over that portion of the franchise.
Therefore, the residents and property
owners are indignant. They say the action
of the Market-street Company was an out
rage-and who shall gainsay them?
An attorney has been consulted by some
of the property-owners and he has advised
them that their proper course is to demand
immediate action in the matter on the part
of the proper City officials toward fore
closure of the franchise. A recent decision
of the Supreme Court in a Santa Rosa case
makes 1t necessary for the authorities to
act at the proper time in order 20 legally
foreclose franchise. The decision is that,
unless such action is taken within a reas-
enable period, the franchise does not
lapse. This is on the principle that silence
gives consent. If the people are willing to
have these outrages perpetrated upon them
they must stand the consequences.
Will the proper authorities take the
timely action needed?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
S A LONDON REFORMER,
Rev. Septimus BuSS OF Eng
land Talks of His
Work.
breaches From the Spot Where
Elizabeth Heard the Bells
of Shoreditch.

Rev. Septimus Buss, rural dean of the
Parish of Shoreditch, London, Eng, has
arrived in California and is stopping at the
Palace Hotel. He is accompanied by his
wife and his eldest son, who is also min
lister of the Church of England.
DR.. Buss is personally of strong mental
attachments, and possesses a wonderful
fund of information about America as well
as England.
"My parish" he said yesterday, 'is in
what is known as the Parish of Shoreditch,
where there is population of Ia, 900. We
have in all twenty-one churches, and my
own is what is known as the mother
church, built on the same spot where the
church stood in the time of the
Saxons. The present structure was erected
in LAO. Have you not heard of the time
when Queen Elizabeth listened to the
bells of Shoreditch? Well, the spot where
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

those bells echoed out their tidings is
where the church now stands.
81 find that l have got grand work
before me, and l feel that l am doing some
good with the assistance of my ministers
and those who understand our purpose.
Most of the inhabitants of the parish are
cabinet-makers, boxmakers for the linen
diapers, matchmakers and such other
light trades.
1.-The wages, you say? Yes, indeed, they
are very small. Five and six shillings
week, or about 81 so of your American
money. There is great deal of content
ment among the people and also a great
deal of misery. The liquor traffic is the
curse of the parish and / am concentrating
all my efforts and all my force OF helpers
to destroy it. | absolutely believe in tenn
perance and if it can be accomplished /
shall indeed thank God. believe in all
kinds of reform and in politics 1 am
Radical. Woman's suffrage, is good
thing. They can influence great many
men to do good things. and | have no
doubt that their votes would to great
extent be used to elect the better class of
office-seekers.
DR.. Buss has come to the Pacific Coast
to visit his youngest son, who is farming
at Ell Cajon, in the southern part of the
State, and when the reverend gentleman
has accomplished his mission he will re-
turn to England and the Parish of Shore
ditch, where he is styled the "Dr. Park
hurst of London" He will little later
on compile book on American reform,
which will be copyrighted both in England
and this country. The doctor still sticks
to the clerical garb of the old English min
listers. as well as to their faith. He is very
much impressed with the climate of Cali
fornia and says he has never encountered
such long period of perfect weather as he
has witnessed while here.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.

julius Bluemel and Maria Bitterman to Antonio
Schoenemann, lot on e line of Columbia fFlorda)
street, 1872 of Twenty-fourth, S 90 by 100; $40,
Estate of Hermann Binning (by Charles Binning,
administrator TO Patrick NJ. Toner, lot on N line
of Duncan street, 199:11M E of Dolores E
25:O1A by Ia; $3.50.
Margaret Mathews to Catherine NJ. Mathews
lot on s line of Jackson street, 1875 of Larkin
L 22:11 by 1876: $40.
Matthew and Catherine Kavanagh to Clara NJ
Plat, lot Il line of Steiner street, 1888 n OF
Hayes, S5, N 9:3, w 10. Ia. w 70, 8 1913;
$40.
f. w. and Effie E. Hyde to Julia Drussel lot on
Sc corner of Fell and Scott streets, E 81 IS by s
1913; $40.
Henry G. Markham to Frank B. Moors, lot on 8
line of Sacramento street, 165 w OF Devisadero, w
% by 1927; SO.
Charles A. King to Cornelius G. Murphy, lot on
e line of Stevenson street, 125 Of Eighteenth, N
25 by f 80; $40.
Alexandra and Marie Berlin to Jacob Holmann,
lot on line OF Fifteenth street, $50 Of Castro,
80 by S us; $40.
III. Morgent6au Company Ga corporation) to An
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
LEFT WITHOUT A SERVICE
Residents South of the Park
Robbed of Streetoar
Facilities.
NO NOTICE WAS GIVEN THEM,
Part Of the Metropolitan Franchise
Suddenly and Mysteriously
Abandoned.

Property-owners and residents of the
district Immediately south of Golden Gate
Park are indignant at the action of the
Market-street Company in disseminating
its service on that portion of the Metropol-
itan Street Railway Company's franchise
that lies south and west of the junction of
Waller and Cole streets.
1t appears to be one of those high
handed movements for which the South
ern Pacific Company is so justly famed in
this community. The property owners
and residents are agitating the matter of
foreclosure of the whole franchise because
its provisions, they claim, have been
grossly abused.
Upon the completion of the Metropolitan
Street Railway as far as Ninth avenue
property in the vicinity began to enjoy a
mild but very firm boom. 1t had long
been very desirable property for residence,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

house, asked my neighbor: sPray what
is the name of the lady who introduced
me to .you? The stranger did not look
astonished. This sort of thing must hap
pen every day. While I do not know the
people about me, they. hardly know me
any better. have made painful discov-
cry for my vanity. The people who dine
me, lodge me, pamper me, take me about,
and, according to my friends expression,
are dying to see me- have not read line
OF my books. In conversation l was by
turns brilliant and profound, as it is the
right thing in Paris, in order to show that
| was both thinker and man of the
world. | found it was not worth while,
and | fell back on the good old platitudes
which allow you to save up your wit for
your books My interlocutors were just
as stingy of theirs. I have dined with a
famous writer and philosopher. Here is
verbatim report of his conversation: How
do you do? Delighted to see you. How
long have you been in London? How long
do you stay? Do you enjoy yourself Allow
me-Mrs. L., Mr.. X. Very hot? Yes,
sitting. Not SO heavy as yesterday,
though, and 1 think the wind is coming
death of so-and-so? Great pity great
loss. Allow me-Lady Constance, Mr.. x
And so on until | took my leave, when he
said: Delighted to have seen you. Good
by"
A fortnight later: 'Back to Paris. 1
am worn to death. A humping hotel bill.
My shirts reduced to rags by English
washerwonlen. Instead of homely Eng
lish fare, 1 nave lived on an audacious
French cookery aggravated by all sorts of
outlandish relishes. What have seen or
learned? Nothing. The English have
prevented my seeing London. have
taken champagne, heard Sarah Bernhardt.
Eleonora Duse and Yyette Guilbert. Per-
sons around me spoke French and showed
me nothing of their souls. If / had been
but three hours alone IN the streets l
should have learned more than in those
three weeks. But my bear-leaders would
not leave me free. If ever go back to
London 1 shall tell nobody. will lodge
in low neighborhood, and go about on
foot or on the tops of buses.-London
News.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
A HOMEMADE DRINK.
Julian Ralph Tells of Teddy He Got
in the South.


in the South.
Colonel Ralph" said the planter, Ten
Joy this yer boundless panorama of nature.
Feast yo' eyes, sab, on the beautiful river.
(Then aside, wife, set out the mixin's In
the back room.'') Colonel Ralph, you
are welcome to share with rs this grand
feast of scenery and natures ornaments.
But, sab, think my wife has set out some
thing-iust a little something-in the
house. | dunno what it is, sab, but II you
find it good 1 shall be delighted. sab"
So we went into the back room with this
Colonel Mulberry Sellers and there on the
dining table stood a bottle, a bowl OF sugar,
three glasses and spoons and glass pitcher
full of spring water.
"Serve yourself to toddy, Colonel, "
said my host.
"I'll watch you first" said I; ~ don't
know what toddy is.
Don't know what toddy is?" said the
hospitable man. why, sab, that does
seem strange to me. Back in gran ole
Virginia, sab, we children were all brought
up on it, sab. Every morning my revered
father and sainted mother began the day
with a toddy, sab, and as we children ap-
peared my mother prepared for each one
an especially tempered drink of the same,
sab, putting-I regret to say--a little more
water in mine than the others, because /
was the youngest of the children"
As he spoke he dipped some sugar into
his glass, poured in little water, sufficient
to make a syrup when the two ingredients
were stirred with a spoon, and then
emptied in an Arkansas "stiffener" of
whisky, a jorum, as the English would
say. That is the drink of the South, where
drinking, without being carried to any
excess that l ever witnessed, still remains
a genteel accomplishment, as it was held
to be by the English, Scotch and Irish,
who were progenitors of nearly all our
Southern brothers.-Harper's Magazine.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
LIONIZED IN LONDON.
A French Authors Account of His Eng
Iish Experiences.

M. Augustin Filon gives an amusing por-
trait of the typical French lion, as lionized
in London. ~ am off to London writes
this lion in diary, the leaves Of which
have been picked by NJ. Filon in a carriage
of the Orient express. 81 see too many
people here in Paris. talk too much and
dine too much. They say the English
have neither conversation nor cookery
Just what suits me. / have often written
about England and explained it to the
public. 1t is time for me to know some
thing of that country and see if all / have
written is true" For several days he is in
the hands OF an English friend who intro
duces him to everything. 81 am passed
on from hand to hand. Every minute l
am introduced to fresh people, whose
names do not catch, and they present me
to their friends.
Yesterday after dinner, at strange
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The Latin word from which pagan is de-
rived originally meant fountain or
spring; then the village which sprang up
around it, and finally the residents of the
village. AS Christianity took strong root
at first in the large centers of population
an and the worship OF the pagan, deities
fingered longest in the country and among
the country villages it came to be under
stood that pagan or villager was, in
virtue of his residence, a worshiper of the
old gods, and thus the term acquired its
present significance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Ferdinand Lopez. historiographer for the
King of Portugal, had man brought be-
fore him in the Indies who "by good proof
had lived $40 years, had grown young four
times, changing his hair and getting new
altogether.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
Builders Contracts,

John Callaghan with Joseph Sullivan, to erect
two-story building on E line of Alabama street, 2OS
S of Twenty-second; $2665.
Julia Drussel to E. w. Hyde, to erect a three
story building on Sc corner of Fell and Scott
streets; $500.
Mrs. A. G. KIatz with II. B. schmuckert, altera-
lett street, 2S6 w Of Twenty-first; $11S9.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

at the Mare Island Navy-yards, was pleasantly
entertained last night by about fifty of his old
fellow-workmen and presented with hand
some gold watch as token of their esteem.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Lucius Flaccus, the legate, and Metellus
asserted that they beheld in Crete the
body OF man 3S cubits long, or ~ feet.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Cornelius Vanderbilt has gates from
France stone from the West,.a gardener
from Berlin and plants from Italy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
Robert Hood Complimented.

Robert Hood, formerly of the Union Iron
Works, and recently appointed foreman joiner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
In South Africa.

The following quaint advertisement is
from South African paper:
Birth.-It was on Thursday, at $50 A. NJ,
the 18th of April, 1895, that in the passive re-
tirement of c. NJ. de Tarnowsky family, at
Eliacin Milton Lubomir has drawn his first
breath of life on this earthly world. All
generous Christian friends kindly to pray our
heavenly Father to protect this puny, living
spring through time and tor eternity!-
European edition of New York Herald
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

but now that there were streetcar facilities
the locality began to be peopled and many
handsome and modest homes were built
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
Soc ON THE DOLLAR

And you will see that we are SELL
ing shoes for about one-half what
you have been paying.
1t will pay any one to buy all tbs
TAN SHOES they need for this
season during this sale.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-26
COWS As pRonucERs.

The cost of pound Of human food.
based on results from 1.776 animals
examined at various experiment sta
tion5 and at the Columbian exposition,
has been carefully studied by DR.. W.
H. Jordan, director of the Maine sta
ton, and embodied in an entirely new
lecture that was the feature of the
Stae dairymen's convention. In brief,
the work Of Dr.. Jordan was to figure
out the relation between the food
eaten and what is produced by it. The
percentage of dressed weight to live
weight in steers is 64.4 In the COM
position of dressed carcass we throw
away in what can not be eaten
eighteen pounds out of every 100
pounds. So that in the steer we only
get 464 pounds Of food in each 100
pounds Of live weight, the remainder
being discarded. But Of milk we
throw away nothing-it IS all eaten, all
d1gestfble. in eggs we throw away
nothing but the shell, eggs and milk
being perfect foods. One of the COWS
at the Maine experiment station pro
duced az much human food in one year
as is to be found in four 1000 pound
steeds The lecture was all through, a
plea for e1actness in experimentation
DR.. Jordan saying that he had more
faith in the work Of the fifty-fYe e1-
pertinent stations of the country than
in popular notions Of a practical ma
ture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-26

stored for the purpose This is grown
SO easily and eaten 50 Sreedily by
fowls that we wonder it is not more
generally raised.
It can be readily stored in shallow
trenches near the hen house. from
November to May, and IS reliable sup
ply of green succulent food. which the
hens never seem to tire Of. Even the
stumps are available if chopped up
fine. The trenches should be covered
with straw, or any refuse matter, two
feet deep.
MangeI wurzel and sugar beets are
also good feed. and if kept where they
will not freeze, they may be given
whole, but it is better economy to cut
them I'D with a root slicer, Any of
the roots ordinarily fed to pigs or
neat stock Will be relished by the
hens, and help TO I'll the egg basket.
The most diff1cult part Of the enter
prise VIII be the providing of animal
food to take the place Of insects that
swarm in the spring and summer. The
farmers who follow winter butter
making have an abundant supply in
their skim and butter milk This e
best given in the warm state, mixed
with Indian meal which supplies the
place of the butter which has been e1-
stracted from the milk 1t makes a
very complete food itself.
II the mix is not aNaAaoie we iooN
next for a steady supply TO the wastes
of the village markets, and to chand-
lers greaves from the Village or city
butchers. Scraps of fresh meat and
bones can be had from the butchers
ana offal from the fish markets at
cheap rates, which is good food for
laying hens. but the quantity is quite
There are many other sources of
animal food in different localities
which will supply this part of the raw
material for fresh eggs. Lime in some
form must be had for the shells Oys-
ters, long and round CLANS 5collops
and musseIs are widely distributed by
the fish markets. and furnish lime in
its cheapest form, With strict atten-
ton to these particulars any wide
awake man or woman can have lots
of eggs IN winter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-26
GRAVITY SEWER WORK.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS WILL
REPORT IN FAVOR OF REsUMING.
Meeting Held Yesterday Afternoon
Time Checks Considered and Will
Doubtless he Pafd-RepOrtS VIII
be Submitted to the Council This
Evening.

Worldngmen who read The Herald
this morning will rejoice over the ac-
ton of the board of public works
taken yesterday afternoon. 1t has
been decided to report to the city
council tonight in relation to the
gravity sewer work that the board
sees no objections to the commencing
of eScavating on March 1, or the pay
ing for such work prior to May l. pro-
yiding the bondsmen are willing. OF
course a modification of the contract
will have to be made as, according to
it's present terms, payment cannot be
made until the concrete work is in
place and the backflling completed.
The board also took action anent the
claims Of the workingrnen employed by
Contractor Mcdonald and Fox. Watson
and company. The amount Of time
checks outstanding against the former,
which the boards action Will doubtless
cause to be paid, is s195. While those of
Fox. Watson and company aggregate
about 5000.
The distribution of this money will
aid a great many families who are
now in destitute circumstances and
the council viii, no doubt, order the
same paid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-26
THE CHIMES OF ANTWERP.

High Ger the sunlit market place,
Where buoy workers come and go.
From out the belfry's airy grace,
There ring in accents sweet and low.
UNfailing at the appointed times.
The "tender and melodious chimes"
Entranced we stand, and, listening, hear
The heavenly music in nadairi
When. lol there falls upon the ear
A note of terror and desp lir;,'
A tone OF grief and anguish 0Wells
Within the sweetness of the bells.
For once. beneath, thes belfry,5, shade.
The demons of this earth held sway
And fire, and sword, and rap,ne made,
A fury OF a might and DIV;
And while the chimes of antwerp last,
There echoes yet that dreadful past.
For still, whene'er the sweet bells ring
Their message 10 the town below,
Their tuneful voices seem 20 Dring
Some memory of that day o. woe;
The ''old. unhappy. far-off'' tale,
Arises ike breath of bale.
Chambers journal. -. G.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-26
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
THE ATcH1soN GIVES NOTICE OF 4
CUT.
Reduction of $3.50 on One Way
Rates East from Los Angeles
Reason for the Moves. II. Bab-
cock Expected Home Today
Notes.

Chicago, Feb. .5-The Atchison road
has given notice that beginning Wednes-
day next it Will reduce one way rates
from Los Angeles east by $3.50. The cut
is openly made. according TO the Atchi-
son, because the other lines have for
some time been making it in connection
with the sale of tickets over the Texas
Pacific road. The cut has been diYertinG
business from the Atchison and that
road has made up its MIND that it could
no longer stand such conditions The
heavy blow ia the western trunk line COM
Inittee Just as it is prepared to go into to
the Texas Pacific deny in strongest
terms ter that they hays had any t share ,;nl in
accused of being in with the Texas Pa
cific, has shown Gonelusiyely that it. has ma
not had q Texas Pacific ticket Within the
interval in which the cut is said to have
been made. an manner OF heavy press
ure is being brought to bear on the At
Gibson to INDUCE t to yescind its action,
but SO far nothing has been accomplished.