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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
WITH THE PERIODICALS.

A KENTUCKIAN ON KENTUCKY USAGE
The Southern Magazine has changed it's
name to The Mid-Continent and comes
out in a new yellow cover, in illustration
| after the manner of Audrey Beardsley at
his yellowest. Among the editorial utter
ances in this issue is an article that, COM
ing from a Kentucky writer, and appear
ing in magazine that caters to a wide
circle of Kentucky readers, is at once
courageous and full of promise. The in
stance treated of is the recent killing of
| Sanford by Goebel at Covington. These
two men, both in high position, engaged
IN political controversy through the
| press. In the course thereof Goebel ap-
Piled to his adversary language which, the
| decency should ever use, yet language very
commonly in use among Kentucky gentle
| men toward their enemies, which most of
them feel, too, that they must resent when
applied to themselves" The writer then
goes on to declare that there is probably
no other civilized community where the
law regards the taking of human life with
such stolid indifference as it is regarded in
Kentucky. He continues:
To hear these affairs discussed by many of
the best men in the State would simply amaze
one not used to the conditions that obtain in
Kentucky. They lament the necessity for kill
ing man, but when the necessity arises, and,
according to Kentucky sentiment it is continu-
ally arising, one must either kill or be consid-
cred poltroon. Where Kentuckian is in
sulted-and he is the easiest man in the world
insulted-he only calls his assailant to account.
The assailant, to maintain his honor, must
answer that he meant what he said or did,
whether his words or actions were idle or not,
and to maintain his honor the person assailed
holds him personally responsible" Here is
the necessity for one to kill the other, and,
ordinarily, it is done, for in personal en-
counter the work is rarely left unfinished. If
an examining court should by any chance
term of the Criminal Court and if by chance
the Grand Jury should return an Indictment
against him, all interest centers in his trial
The newspapers give daily accounts
of what good he has done in the past. of the
flowers and tokens of sympathy he is daily in
receipt of from those who have received bene-
begins his aequittal is almost a foregone con-
clusion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Orioles Daughter.

Jessie Fothergil has told strong story
in this tale of the life of young Italian
girl. The natural daughter of an italian
gentleman who has fallen upon hard times,
Fulvia Dietrich, legally, and by the iron
traditions of her nationality, was as abso-
lutely the mothers chattel and at her
q BASKET Of oran@es This mof fe disno een
of her IN marriage to dissipated brute of
an Australian. The girls life is night
mare for year, then she hardens to cold,
soulless woman of the world. Her hus-
band becomes a hopeless, helpless invalid,
and during her attendance upon him love
between the brutality of her husband and
the opportunities of her lover-and her
manner of meeting it, form the main motif
of the novel. New York: Lowell, Coryell
81 Col
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The Armenian Crisis in Turkey.

Frederick Davis Greene, M A, for several
years resident in Armenia, has given US
in this volume an account of the Armenian
atrocities of 1894, with something of the
events antedating them and the significance
of the massacre. Mr.. Greene was born in
Turkey and has travelled extensively in the
country. According to his showing, the
case of the subject races in the Ottoman
Empire is desperate, with no hope of re-
form from within, and he declares that re-
lief must come through interference on the
part of the European powers. The real
difficulty in Turkey, according to this
author, is primarily not conflict of races,
or of religion, although both these e1e-
ments complicate the case. 1t is misgov-
eminent. He does not use this word in its
ordinary, mild sense, according to which
there is "misgovernmant' everywhere.
Misgovernment, as it exists in Turkey, is
an organization that breeds death and cor
ruption. No creed is exempt. Every race
is attacked by it. The more apparent re-
suit is outward impoverishment and ma
terial prostration. The more dangerous
and deplorable symptom is the moral de-
terioration of all the races affected. The
case of the Armenians, Mr.. Greene says,
demands immediate and thorough atten-
ton, but should not be allowed to fill the
whole horizon in the Levant. Just now
the blaze comes from their house, but no
one can tell when it may result in a general
confagration. All the other Christian
races, and the Mohammedan races, too,
are equally concerned. The book is we'll
illustrated and gives recent map of Tur-
key in Asia, showing the section COM
monty called Armenia. New York and
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.]
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wheeIbarrow on the Labor Question,


A curious book written by singular
man. The author was born in London of
very poor parents. He left school mere
lad, with the rudiments of an education,
glad to work for a few shillings week.
He was very young man when the Chart
list movement arose in England and he
flung himself headlong into it. Later he
came to America and went to work at rail
road construction. He wheeled dirt in a
barrow, hence his pen-name, Wheelbarrow,
and he narrates with pride that he was an
expert barrow-wheeler. Working his way
building, when his job was completed at
Richmond, Va, he entered a brickyard.
While thus employed he studied hard and
was admitted to the bar. After receiving
his diploma he went back to the yard to
earn money to set him up in an office of
his own. During the late war he rose to
the rank of general and has since been
member of his State Legislature. In his
preface he says: Coming out of the labor
struggles OF my childhood, youth and early
manhood, covered all over with bruises and
scars, and with some wounds that will
never be healed, 4 Imay have written
some words in bitterness, but do not wish
to antagonlze classes nor excite anlmoSlty.
desire to harmonic all the orders of so
ciety on the broad platform of mutual
charity and Justice" His work is series
of essays on various of the problems pre-
sented by capital and labor. They are full
of sound, hard-headed common-sense and
logic, interspersed with personal expert
ences and "reminiscences of the greatest in
terest. The essayist is first and last upon
the side of the workingman. He knows
him, and knows the taste of bread that a
man eats in the sweat of his brow. Never
theless there is temperance and restraint,
a certain fairness that comes of seeing all
around the subject that does not always
characterize the utterances of labor's advo-
Gates. His essays are all brief, and cover
wide range of topics-"Compe petition in
Trades, ""Wages, -" Money" Strikes" and
"Monopolies has shot in his locker
for each and all of the many dangers that
threaten labor's liberty, whether they lie
in the camp of capital or of labor itself.
His way of thinking is as Independent as
the man himself, and his book is eminently
readable. [Chicago: The Open Court Pub
fishing Company.1
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
The Story of Patriots Day.

This is an account of the first celebra-
ton, in April, 1894. of Massachusetts, new
legal holiday, Patriots Day." which oc-
ours on the 18th of April, and is intended
to supersede the day of fasting and prayer,
the annual appointment of which has been
abandoned in that State. The little book
contains suggestions for the celebration of
the day by the school children, and the
author, George j. Varney, has crowded a
red covers. Boston: Lee & Shepard.
For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco. I
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
The ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.-The reader
who, like Bunthorne,
Does not sigh for all one sees
That's Japanese,

Does not sigh for all one sees
That's Japanese,
viii find more that is readable in almost
any other periodical than the Atlantic
Monthly. As an exponent of the Oriental
cult, however, the magazine may be said
to do its work thoroughly. There is in
the current number an article on GA Pill
grimage to the Great Buddhist Sanctuary
OF Northern China" by William Wood
vile Rockhill, and no less than three
articles on Japan and recent books on
Japan. OF these articles the most i'm
portant-by far the most delightful of all
In the magazines Lafcadio Hearn's
I'm the Twilight of the Gods" Mr.. Hearn
has a peculiar and loving sympathy not
merely for the japanese, but for all the
Eastern peoples and the comparatively I'M
known clvlllzations. lie writes with Q
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

"naughtiest" of small boys or girls
out on the sands of the sea-
shore, with the infinite winds, the infinite
sky and the infinite sea, and you will have
no more signs of rebellion nor of irritable
ity until you attempt to carry your small
savage into captivity again. You need not
even provide your troublesome" little one
with any tools with which to carry out his
plans-not even with pail and spade. If
you will but remove all your restrictions
if you will but restrain your entire retinue
of "don' ts''-the child will dig with his
bare hands, and asks no more of life (be-
fore he is hungry than chance to build
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
The Story of the Good Little Boy VIII
Did Not Prosper.

Once there was good little boy by the
name of Jacob Blivens. He always obeyed
n his parents, no matter how absurd and I'M
reasonable their demands were; and he
always learned his books and never was
late at Sabbath-school. He would not
play hockey, even when his better judg-
ment told him it was the most profitable
thing he could do He would not lie, no
matter how convenient it was. He was so
honest that it was simply ridiculous. He
wouldn't play marbles on Sunday; he
wouldn't give hot pennies TO organ-grind-
er's monkeys; ne didn't seem to take any
interest in any kind of rational amuSe-
ment.
The other boys could only conclude that
he was afflicted" so they took him under
their protection and never allowed any
harm to come TO him.
This good little boy believed in they boys
they put in books; he had every conf
dence in them. He longed to come across
one of them alive, but he never did.
Whenever he read about a particularly
good one he turned over quickly to the end
to see what became of him, because he
wanted to travel thousands of miles to see
what became of him; but it wasn't any
use. That good little boy always died in
the last chapter, and there was a picture
of the funeral, with all his relat ions stand
ing around in pantaloons that were too
short and bonnets that were too large, and
everybody crying into handkerchief that
had as much as yard and a half of stuff
in them.
Jacob had a noble ambition to be put in
? book, with pictures representing him
gloriously declining to lie to his mother,
and she weeping for Joy about it, and pic
lures representing him standing on door
step giving penny to a poor beggar
woman with six children, and telling her
to spend it freely, but not to be extrava-
CANT, because extravaganza is sin; and
pictures of him magnanimously refusing
to tell on the bad boy who always lay In
wait for him around the corner as he came
from school and weIted him over the head
with a lath, and then chased him home,
saving "Hii hill" as he proceeded.
But somehow nothing ever went right
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Slurnber Song,

Slumber Song.
In the winged cradle of sleep Hay
Ny darling gently down;
Kissed and closed are the eyes of gray
Under his curls' bright crown.
where, oh where, will he fly and float
In the winged cradle of sleep?
Whom will he meet in the worlds remote,
Where he slumbers, soft and deep?
Warm and sweet as a white blush-rose,
His small hand lies in mine,
But cannot follow him where he goes,
And he gives no word nor sign.
Keep him safe, ye heavenly powers,
In dreamland vast and dim!
Let no i'll, through the nights long hours.
Come nigh TO trouble him.
Give him back when the dawn shall break,
With his matchless baby charms,
With his love and his beauty all awake,
Into my happy armsl
CELIA THAxTER.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
brave cities, topping towers and endless

brave clues, topping towers and endless
racetracks.
The more energetic, the more deter
mined, the more fond of freedom our chill
dren are the more we find them an anxiety.
And only because we have established an
arrangement of physical conditions,
men and women, are lily adapted to the
needs of growing children. Dio Lewis has
said that children may live and flourish in
spite OF bad conditions of every other sort
so that they be supplied with an abund-
ance of pure air. Yet we shut them up in
cities and grieve greatly that majority OF
them die there.
Theodore Thomas has said that children
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

is red. blue or yellow. Peculiarities of con-
formation, of feathers, beak or petals do
not strike him as significant, and are at first
of little use to him in Identification Profess
sor Willcox's little handbook will be found
to occupy wide field OF usefulness BIOS
ton: Lee & Shepard. For sale by William
Doxey, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Christian union Mission.

During the month of May the Christian
Union Mission secured employment for forty
four men, number being provided with
clothing; 1856 meals were provided, of which
liza were given free; and 1925 beds were pro-
Yided, Of which number AT were Tree.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

and al awful warning is spoken in that
soft poetic phrase.
So alert, so omnipresent are the children
that if one would escape the terrible JUS
tice of their simple and straightforward
conclusions, if one would not have his
lapses imprinted upon the virgin pages Of
child's memory, it becomes necessary to
be the thing one would seem, if there are
children in the house.
Even the babes in arms are "takin'
notes." I myself remember distinctly the
feeling of distress and resentment engen-
dered in my small mind because my
elder brother, sent to rock me to sleep in
the cradle where 1 lay, used to shake it
savagely, making me afraid OF being
thrown out, as perhaps l had sometime
been. L was perfectly conscious OF being
injured and of being without redress, and
remembering the ache in my infantile
head and heart. l am sure that l could not
talk, and so suffered from the inability to
express my suffering.
Again 1 remember distinctly shocking
phrase or statement which woman whom
/ never saw after | was four years of age
uttered TO my mother in my presence.
pondered the words and their meaning in
my heart for lifetime, always recognizing
them to be vile and always recalling the
woman's looks when she spoke them and
always my mothers gentle "be careful,
please; remember, little pitchers have big
ears" Tears of repentance may wash out
the record of our sins from the book of the
recording angel, but no such miracle is to
be wrought in the minds of the little ones
who watch US with innocent and trustful
eyes.
The record of our words and deeds is
written inevitably and internally in the
brains of our children and other peoples
children. Their lives and the lives of
those who shall come after them are infiu-
enced irrevocably by our chance sayings,
shaped in imitation of our wise or foolish
doings.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

Johnnie's father (sternly)-What were
you fighting that bad boy for, Johnnie?
Johnnie-To keep from gittin' licked
Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Socia1ism-What Is It? Is 1t Christian
Should the Church Take an Interest
in 1t?


Should the Church Take an Interest
in It?
A very lengthy title for a very brief
work. The little pamphlet is an address
given by Rev. J. E. Scott before the Pres
bytery of San Francisco, and now printed
by request. The reverend writer defines
socialism on its economic side as system
of cooperation in the chief productive in
dustries, combined with an equitable dis
tribution of the products of industry. 1t
has primarily to do with the practical rela-
tons of man to man in the business of life,
and considers the race, not as multitude
OF isolated beings but as social body, its
various members having a common reality
of dependence one upon another. In
answer to his own question, SIS 1t Chris
tian?" he brings forward the testimony of
various students upon the subject. He
brings to the affirmative side such think
ers as DIR. Behrends, Laveleye, James Rus
sell Lowell, Professor Graham and Phillips
Brooks. Christian socialism he declares
to be, like Christianity, the cause of the
poor man, and as such every Christian
should give it attention, to learn what
widened application of the Gospel may be
in it. Christianity has heretofore, he says,
been applied to individuals, but it is
adapted to kingdom, and a kingdom
means organized society and state.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Health and Morals.

Among the papers read at the recent con-
gress, perhaps none contained more valu-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

Frances, who has recently acquired some
fowls, presents herself, all smiles with a
fresh egg in her small hands. "Where did
you get that?" was the query.
Frances with enthusiasm)- two pull
lets laid i'll
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

Freddie Jagged 81 don't think dogs
take very good care of themselves.
Grandpa-What do you mean by that?
Freddie-Dogs bark so much I should
think it would make them have sore
throats
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Little Pitchers.

ga chiefs among you takin' notes"
quoth Robert Burns. And what a sermon
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

Little Tommy Ito his playmates in the
dooryard)cI'm goin' right straight home
and tell my mamma if you don't let me
play I'm God all the time that I stay over
to your house. Now!
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
Philosophy of BabyIand.


Alfred and Walter had permission to go
for walk. Presently Alfred (aged 81 re-
turned home alone, and the following con-
versation ensued:
Mamma-Why, Alfred, where is your
brotherP
Alfred-He went in a boat, SO I came
home.
Mamma-Don't you think he was very
naughty to go in boat when he was for
bidden2
No answer.
"Tell me at once what you think about
it,
Another pause. 'Well, then. I fnks-I
fnks don't want to brag bout myself P'
Little Tommy Ito his playmates in the
dooryard Pm goin' right straight home
and tell my mamma if you don't let me
play I'm God all the time that I stay over
to your house. Now!
Children's motives should always be IN
derstood
"Will," said Wills grandfather sternly,
"did you pull up one of my little pear trees
by the roots2''
eyes, sir" said the boy, with anything
but culprit' face.
"Well, what did you do it for?" pursued
the grandfather.
"Why, grandpa, do you want your COW
to eat your green apples off your trees and
get sick and poison the milkP'
''No, certainly not"
"Weli, pulled up the pear tree because
it was Just the right size for cow-whip
and drove off your COW from your apple
trees with il" said Will, with offended dig
nity.-Harpers Bazaar.
Little Johnnie was in tribulation one
morning; prohibitions, great and small,
met him at every turn. It was mo" to
this and "no'' to that till at last he began to
cry, angrily exclaiming to his mother be-
tween sobs, 81 wish mo- was swear word
so you couldn't say itl'-Babyhood.
Johnnie's father (sternly)-What were
you fighting that bad boy for, Johnnie?
Johnnie-To keep from gittin' licked
Detroit Free Press.
Freddie Jagged 81 don't think dogs
take very good care of themselves.
Grandpa-What do you mean by that?
Freddie-Dogs bark so much I should
think it would make them have sore
threats.
Frances, who has recently acquired some
fowls, presents herself, all smiles, with a
fresh egg in her small hands. Where did
you get that?" was the query.
Frances with enthusiasm my two pull
1eta laid ~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
"Jimmy Boy"


The women who were little girls twenty
five years ago will recall the delightful
"Prudy Books that gave them such pleas
ure and were the most welcome of gifts at
Christmas and on birthday anniversaries.
With what delight they were read and re-
read. Happy the child of these women
whose mother has treasured the relics OF
her juvenile library!
But now Little Prudy" has grown up
and we have another story by Sophie
May, whose fertile pen brought Little
Prudy herself into existence. Jimmy
Boy" is one of Little Prudy's children. and
his quaint sayings and doings are proof
that Miss May still retains her old charm
in California, Little Prudy having left her
home back in Maine for another on the
Pacific Slope. Little Jimmy will be well
come to Californian little folk because of
his own dear self, and older readers yet
will grant him welcome because of the
early associations and memories that true
men and women never outgrow. Boston:
Lee & Shepard. For sale by William
Doxey, San Francisco
Common Land Birds of New England
Professor Wilcox of Wellesley College
has written this little book primarily for
the use of his classes in field study. 1t
deals with the common land birds of New
England, but as birds, like their human
brethren, decline to be bound by geo.
graphical lines, the book will be found
useful in studying most of the birds in any
locality in North America. Students in
California will find it of no little use in
identifying 'sthat bird yonder on the fence"
and little knowledge of the identity
of the feathered folk we encounter on our
rambles adds materially to our enjoyment
of out-of-door life. The book is of con-
venient size to carry in the pocket, and
contains an artificial KEY to the common
species Of New England birds that will be
found very useful in placing any bird ordi-
narily to be encountered. The main guide
to finding, in the key, is eolor-which is,
after all, the only guide uninitiated can
follow. a bird or a flower to such learner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02

Another pause. "Well, then. 6nks-I
fnks don't want to brag bout myself
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-15

is to he relieved by the Adams. now at
the Mare island navy yard. The Adams
was stationed al Sitka in 1852, under Capt.
MeTriman.
Rev Vladimir Donskoy. of the Russian
Greek church. of Sitka. has been relieved
by Rev. Father Anatole. of St. Petersburg.
The former will return TO st. Petersburg.
Liquor sellers Indicted.
The Alaska News says the grand jury
created a sensation by bringing in indict-
ments against forty-four saloon men in
Juneau. Douglas City and Stka for hav-
ing violated the organic act which pro-
hibits the sale of liquor in Alaska. This
is the first time any grand jury in the ter
ritory has indicted persons for selling
liquor. The jury pettioned the national
government TO repeal the issuance OF
liquor licenses. or else permit regularly IL
censed dealers to transact their business
without fear OF prosecution At present
the dealers are licensed by the government
and then indicted and prosecuted for sell
ing intoxicants.
An Indian who killed his sister because
she was thought 10 be a witch. was sen
fenced 10 eighteen months in the peniten-
tiary The Indian pleaded that he was
forced 20 commit the crime. owing TO the
persuasion Of his tribal chiefs and doctors.