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Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05

Three generations have been reading THE
ARGUS. 1t was good enough for the old
grandfather. and as the years sped by it was
found equal to the requirements of the son.
Today the grandson finds it has kept pace
with progress, and he too is satisfied. The
old grandfathers taste wasn't very fastidious,
perhaps-but the grandson isn't SO easily
pleases him
Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05
THE DRIVER HAD A MATCH.


Ana The fnsseneer Had . Cigars In RAc4
Several Of Them.
A prosperous looking business man
boarded the front platform Of Cross
town car, and drawing a well filled cigar
case from his pocket selected choice
hooking Havana. The driver "sized up
the man and the cigar case, and his
mouth began to water. The smoker, at
er biting off the end cf his cigar, began
fumbling for a match. Failing to find
one, he turned to the driver and asked
him if he had match.
Yes, SIR" responded the driver,
with alacrity. Here you are, SIR
THANK you, said the business man,
lighting his cigar and sending the fra
grant smoke waiting across the driver
face.
VERY convenient to have matches
around, sir. alters makes point of
carrying EN-"
''Indeed:''
"Yes; so many gentlemen pull out a
cigar, and then find they amt got a
match.
Puff, puff and silence.
II am quite smoker myself. Course
can't smoke ON the car, but then I en-
Joy it all the more when get off. F"
II suppose so," said the smoker alb
sentlnindedly.
Many gentlemen makes a point Of
giving me Il cigar, especially when they
rides reg'l amt had my after din.
ner smoke yet
"Oh," said the business man in a
preoccupied manner.
Eyes. sir; alters carry matches, as
said before, cause when a gentleman
has cigar and no light he allus seems
SO thankful for it. Generally gives me
a cigar too. Seems kinder fair to ex-
change a cigar for match, 'cause the
weed amt no good without light -
"Ah," said the smoker, evidently
busy in his mind with something con.
nected with business.
The driver looked despairingly at him
and after clearing his throat said:
"You don't happen to have another
cigar in your pocket, do you, sir?''
Certainly I haye-two or three, y
said the business man testify. But
what has that to do with what you have
been talking about:''
The rest Of the journey was made ir
silence. New York Tribune.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05

among remedies for complaints pecu-
liar to women. Nothing equals Zoa-
Phors. Sold by T. H. Thomas and
Marshall & Fisher.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05

there is nothing better than Clinic
Kidney Cure. Everyone who tries
it will agree to this. For sale at NJ.
+. Bahuecn's drug store.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05

The Duke Of Marlborough had voice
that, it was said, could be heard above
the roar Of artillery,
Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05

The Chinese make candies of vege-
table wax, the product Of the candle
barry trsa.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-12-05

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Whn - Sas Chld, she oisd Tor CnlA
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
THE SUNDAY ngALL."

Intelligent readers will find in to-mor-
rows issue of The CALL an abundance of
entertaining and instructive matter. An
interesting feature will be new and original
music for our National hymn, america"
which it is hoped will supplant the English
music, which it is the present custom to
employ, Joaquin Miller will have de-
: lightfuf sketch appertaining to the Ha-
waiian Islands, entitled I'm q Hawaiian
Walhalla,9 in which he relates various
charming incidents of his recent visit to
the islands. HThe Companion of Shark
is the peculiar title of very peculiar story,
which w. G. Morrow has written in, COLA
boration with E. A. Willard, bright and
original young genius. Under the title of
For Ways That Are Dark" Adeline Knapp
presents one of her most thoughtful papers.
A delightful poem, "The Legend of the
Cypress Trees,' by John E. Richards,
shows the fine taste and skill of this accom-
plished poet as applied to the picturesque
expresses of Monterey.
1.-The Sleeping Camille" is an excellent
sketch by Esther C. Quinn. Walter Black
burn Harte, whose "Meditations in Mot
ley" have recently attracted so much at
tention, contributes philosophical sketch
entitled 1.-The Cure of Enthusiasm"
Charles a. Keller makes special plea for
the preservation of the meadow lark. "a
Holiday on Olympus is another of those
fine symposiums of Bohemians assembled
to discuss literature and art. Marcella fully
discusses the fashions, Mrs. johnson has
particularly bright page for children, and
book reviews and the drama are ably
handled by accomplished specialists.
These are only the more prominent of
the special features. and are presented in
addition to the regular departments of
news, correspondence and editorial dis
cussion that assist in making THE SUNDAY
CALL so superb publication.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
A PRAIsEWORTHY ORDER.

The Market-street Railway Company de-
serves the highest praise for its order, just
promulgated, prohibiting its gripmen,
motormen and conductors from buying or
selling lottery tickets. Whatever other
things this company may do, it consist
emily displays wisdom in the discipline to
which it subjects its employees. II would
be difficult to find BODY of young men so
wholesome looking and SO free from indi-
cations of dissipation. Drinking and gam
bling are strictly prohibited. A large num-
Der Of the young men are members OF re-
ligious and other societies formed from
their ranks as distinct lodges of permanent
organizations, and the influence thus ex-
erted brings excellent results. All such
things are encouraged by the company.
The Market-street Railway Company
has made this order undoubtedly as a pro-
hibition of an injurious practice. 1t recog-
nizes the fact that those who have any
thing to do with lotteries are dealing with
fraud and Generalization. The company
understands that encouragement of thrift,
sobriety and honesty elevates the charac-
ter of its men and tends to the cultivation
in them OF that content which proceeds
from success and makes men stable and
reliable.: Thus the company las set an
example Of the highest kind. 1t might be
followed with profit by all other large en-
ployers, and might be taken as hint by
those of our leading newspapers who en-
courage the infamous lottery evil by pub
fishing lottery advertisements every
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
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oL0UDING LAND TITLES.

Every now and then some enterprising
person unearths from the old records of
forgotten years some apparent irregularity
attending the ancient loose methods of
dealing with landed properties, and uses it
as ground for a suit to: GUST the present
owners. San Francisco particularly has
been previously afflicted with this species
of persecution, and its progress has been
materially delayed by it. 1t does not dis
courage any new protector of such a
scheme to reflect that such suits invariably
come to grief. His harvest comes during
the pending of the action
:. The. latest of tn csc suits is that brought
by Noe heir to Gust the present owners
of one of the most rapidly growing parts
of the City. 1t affects the Noe Rancho,
the San Miguel Ran cho and the House of
Refuge tract, which are held by 1000 indi-
vidual owners and contain valuable inn
provements. 1t is neither interesting nor
instructive to discuss the ground on which
the action is brought. 1t would be diff
cult to believe that the contestants ever
expect to win. Their profit lies in taking
advantage of the fears or necessities of the
owners.
In such case it is the clear duty snd in
terest of the whole City to stand by the
present owners, and it is the duty and in
terest of the present owners not to yield up
a cent in extortion. The banks and buyers
and money-lenders can, and doubtless will,
stop the evil effects of such suits by disre-
garding them entirely and by dealing in
and with the property as though the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
THE CALLS" NEW HOME.

In other columns of this issue will be
found a fine illustration and full descrip-
ton of THE CALLS new home at the south
west corner of Market and Third streets.
house built of steel and marble, towering
100 feet above the other tall buildings of
exhausts the resources of architecture in
strength, beauty and convenience, will be
the most conspicuous and ornamental
feature of the City.
In beginning this great undertaking
Claus Spreckels is giving further evidence
of the spirit OF enterprise which led him to
conceive and inaugurate the Valley rail-
road and buy numerous choice properties
on Market street for the purpose of i'm
proving them with splendid structures.
In the construction of these houses, includ-
ing the magnificent CALL building, the
material is to be of California production.
This means not only the development of
California industries on very large scale
and the keeping of the money at home,
but also the furnishing of employment to
hundreds of men in many ways.
Mr.. Spreckels is thus setting an ex-
ample of enterprise and of faith in the
future of California and San Francisco
that should serve as an inspiration to all
other wealthy citizens. Particularly
should the property on Third
street show their appreciation of the good
which will accrue to them. from Mr..
Spreckels' enterprise and assist him in
making this great thoroughfare what it
should be. 49,
THE CALL believes that it will receive the
generous congratulations of the whole
State upon the assured prospect of its hav-
ing the handsomest and most perfectly
appointed newspaper quarters in the
world, not excepting the splendid housing
enjoyed by some of the great papers of
New York. =
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
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PERSONAL.

Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand
J. T. HALL, fruitman of Vacaville, is at the
Russ.
GeorgeD. Odell, rancher of Dixon, is at the
Russ.
waldemar D. Rose of the Olympia is at the
California.
Adjutant- General A. W. Barrett is at the
California.
John c. Nourse, merchant of Fresno is at
the Grand.
is at the Russ.
Chaplain John Frazier of the Olympia is a
guest at the Palace.
Louis Levy, one of Santa Ana's wellknown
merchants, is in town.
CT. Cox. a big cattle man of Sacramento, is
staying at the Grand.
Henry r. Levy, prominent merchant of San
Bernardino, is in town.
Frank II. Buck; big fruit-grower of vaca-
vile, is at the Palace
Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip Smith of Santa Cruz
are guests at the Palace.
Dr.. G. e. simmons of Sacramento registered
yesterday at the Occidental
Professor and Mrs. Earl Barnes of Stanford
University are at the Grand.
Archibald Yell a prominent attorney of Han
ford, is staying at the Grand
E B. Willis, editor OF the Sacramento Record
Union, is guest at the Russ.
C. T. Jones, an attorney of Sacramento, regis
tered at the Grand yesterday. -: -
A. Mackay, a Government agent for guarding
the seals in Alaska, is at the Occidental.
Mayor Ben q. Steinman of Sacramento came
down yesterday and put up at the Palace.
D.. D. Whitbeek, a leading iceman of Boca,
was one of yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
Very Rev. p v. Hartigan of the Order of
Dominicans in New York. is out here on a
pleasure trip, and is guest at the Russ.
Ex-senator r. C. Sargent, q big landowner of
San Joaquin County, came down from: Stock
ton yesterday and registered at the Russ.
Superior Judge E. A. Belcher has returned
from his outing in the Humboldt Mountains,
where he put in his vacation hunting and fish,
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Minor and Mr.. Minors
sister, Miss K: L. Minor, of the Southdown
sugar plantation at Houma, La, arrived here
yesterday and registered at the Palace.
Thomas W. Gaffey, who will probably be the
next Superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, arrived from Los Angeles last evening
Mr.. Gaffey is Endorsed By the entire delegation
of this State, including Governor Budd..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Jiblet-What is meant by the common run OF
people?
Hilo-suburbanites catching their morning
trains.-Boston Courier.
Teacher-With monosyllable you have only
to open your mouth once; now, Adolphus,
name few monosyllables.
Boy-Small potatoes.
Mr.. McSwat-Great Scott. Lobelia! What are
you waking me up in the middle OF the night
for?
Mrs. McSwat-I want to know, dear, if the
mosquitoes are biting you as badly as they are
me.-Chicago Tribune.
Mr.. Newlywed-What makes you smile so
cynically this evening?
Mrs. Newlywed-I was just thinking how you
used to hold my hand by the hour before We
were married. How stupid you were!
Mr.. Newlywed-Stupid! Not much! 1 held
your dear little lily white paw to keep you
from pounding the piano.-Fulton Gazette.
whats dis 1 fin in yer hair, bossY" asked
the barber.
"My scissors" replied the rural editor coolly
~ lost 'em last spring. Give her another rake,
and see If you can't find my ink bottle and oil
canP'-Atlanta Constitution.
Al suppose the Mullers kept their silver
wedding yesterday?
B-Why. yes; SO, at least, they imagined.
But when they looked at the presents after
ward they came to the conclusion that It
was only German silver one.-Markischer
Sprecher.
Mrs. Mcbride (entering the kitchen)-Brid-
get, didn't see that policeman kiss you?
Bridget-Well, mum, sure an yez wouldn't
have me lay mesilf open to artist for resistin
an officer, mum.-Banner of Liberty.
"What makes you think he cares for your"
"Why, mamma talked to him for more than
an hour las. evening, and he seemed to enjoy
it."-London Punch.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
"AMERICA."
American Words for the Good
Old Song, america"
A Song for Public Schools, Sunday.
Schools and Churches.
Song for Occasions of Patriotic osls-
bration.

On Sunday, August 1S, THE CALL will publish
a new tune adapted to this grand National au-
them. The tune of ''God Save the Queen" is all
well enough in England, but in the United
States 1t is out of place The British have twitted
Americans upon their lack of originality long
enough, because of this borrowing of their
National air. They say 1t would be as proper TO
borrow their National ensign and they are
right. At last an American has attempted to
supply the deficiency that has SO long existed.
Those who have heard the music played and
sung say that he has succeeded. The music
and words will be published in next Sundays
CALL. Sunday-schools and churches wishing
extra copies of the paper containing this song
should file orders in advance. THE CALL has
purchased the exclusive privilege of publica-
ton in San Francisco. This is an opportunity
for securing a meritous musical novelty for
Sunday school and church services. In addition
you secure the other splendid features included
in THE SUNDAY CALL. Every Sunday-school in
San Francisco ought to ring with the music next
Sunday. 1t is simple yet soulful. and withal Is
appropriate to the high theme TO which it be-
longs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
ANOTHER ELECTRIC LINE,
A Fifty-TWo Mile Road for
Napa and Sonoma
Counties.
FERRY TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Revival Of an Enterprise That Was
Once Abandoned for the Want
Of Cheap Power.

The announcement recently published
in THE CALL that the Clear Lake Electric
Company was preparing to convert the
waste water that flows from Clear Lake
through Cache Creek into electric energy
that will be transmitted by wire to San
Francisco and all the cities and towns
along the line has revived another pro-
jected enterprise that was abandoned some
time ago. This enterprise was the build
ing of an electric road to run through Napa
and Sonoma counties, and having its
terminus at Sonoma Landing, on San
Pablo Bay. From this point freight and
passengers were to be transferred to rapid
ferry-boats that would make regular trips
to and from San Francisco.
The line of the projected electric road
was to start in Sonoma County, at Santa
Rosa; extend to Kenwood, ten miles; to
Sonoma, ten miles to Sonoma Landing,
six miles-a total length of twenty-six
miles in that county.
The branch in the Napa Valley was to
begin at Calistoga, running to Napa and
thence to Sonoma Landing.
While the bay landing would be the OBJ
jective point of the two roads the cars
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

During the last two days large quantities of
melons and several lots of pears and plums
have been dumped into the bay at San Fran
cisco because the market was temporarily
glutted. Yet there were thousands of people
IN that city who would have been glad to buy
the fruit at q price that would have paid for
handling it had they been notified. By tele-
graph and by telephone every charitable So
ciety in San Francisco could have been notified
within half hour of the situation. But that
would not have been business 1t is the
same outrageous method that was adopted
years ago by the fishermen and fish dealers,
who, when an abundance brings down the
price, dump their stock into the bay. 1t is
time that a strict law placed its hand upon
this kind of business" What crying shame
it is that food is deliberately destroyed when
there are thousands of people who are in
actual want-San Jose Mercury.
In Alameda the Union for Practical Progress
has been disbanded. 1t was formed to unite
the churches. the labor unions and other ele-
ments in single movement, and it seems to
have failed because the cement of common
motive was lacking. Another cause of failure
may be that practical progress" was inter-
preted to mean words rather than acts, and
talk unaccompanied by deeds is growing to be
rather drug in the Misunderstanding En-
quirer.
Importations of foreign goods are increasing
under the Wilson tariff and still the revenues
are insufficient for the needs of the Govern
ment. tariff for revenues and protection of
home industries is what the country needs and
needs badly.-Albuquerque IN. Mex.) Citizen.
If we produce the finest wooden goods of
certain kind at profit, why cannot we manu-
facture the finest clothing of certain kinds
also at profit? What is the object of sending
these goods thousands OF miles away to be
made up?-Marysville Appeal.
Before we can justly blame the correspond
ents in California for distributing offensive in
telligence in the East about our lives it might
be well to place some restrictions upon the
quality and amount prepared for home con-
umption.-Stockton Mail
Tired hands are the only hands that have a
right to be folded. Rest is sweet only when a
good days work has been accomplished. The
man who has done nothing for the betterment
of his race is not ready to die--Woodland Mail.
If the worst that is said by mock moralists at
home and envious editors abroad is admitted
to be true of California this State is still an
Eden ss compared with the East.-Stoekton
Independent.
The San Francisco CALL is making q fierce
fight against the Southern Pacific. 1t Is the only
paper on the coast that dare wage relentless
war against this octopus.-Salt Lake Star.
Three of kind-the filibustering expedition
to Hawaii, the awful massacre at Jaeksons
Hole and the CORY war in Omaha.-Los Angeles
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The recent death in Moscow OF State Coun-
cilor Jermakoff deprived the poor of Russia of
their most munifcent benefactor. 1t is said
that in the past twenty years Jermakoff gave
$5,000,0eO to charity. His first public act
which excited general attention was the pur-
chase of the freedom of all the serfs living in
his native village. This cost him $120,000
He came to the rescue of the poor people time
and time again when the harvests failed. His
funeral was one of the largest ever seen in the
old burial place of the Russian Cars,
thousands of the poor of the capital following
the philanthropist's body to the grave.
The death of ex- Governor Rice brings to mind
the interesting fact that five Governors of Mas
sachusetts were born in the year 1S1S-Rice,
Butler, Boutwell,, Talbot and Clafiin. The
senior Ex-Governor to-day in age, as we'll as in
date of service, is Mr.. Boutwell,, who held the
governorship in 1878, and is five weeks
older than Mr.. Ciaflin. -.
The late Duke of Hamilton made the biggest
bet on record against a Derby winner about
thirty years ago. This was on the occasion of
the Dukes visit to Middle Park in 1866, when
he laid out f1S0,0O0 TO 10000 against Hermit
for the Derby. Fortunately for him, friends
interviewed and the bet was scratched.
The latest news from Explorer Nansen is q
letter received BY his brother, Mr.. Alexander
Nansen OF Christians. The letter is dated July
IL, 1893, and in it the explorer says that he
does not expect to be home again in less than
three or four, or possibly five, years.
Christine Nilsson went to Sweden recently to
attend the wedding OF a nephew, which oc-
Cured in the little village near which she was
born. The young man will eventually inherit
the farm on which the celebrated singer first
saw the light OF day.
The new Portuguese Minister to the United
States, AIDE Sequeira Chedim, is particularly
handsome man of about 40, with very elegant
and attractive manners. He speaks English
with only slight trace of accent,
Prince. Louis Lucien Bonaparte's library, q
unique pathological collection of $4,000 vol
umes, for which his executors have more
than once tried to find purchaser at $500, 600,
is again offered for sale en- bloc.
The late Mrs. Mary Reynolds was one OF the
wealthiest women in Iowa. She was the widow
OF Diamond joe" Reynolds, whose name is q