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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-03
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
 SEPT. 8.
DEATHS.

SUN RIsEs 5;sO MooN SETS, HIoH WATER, SUN SITS, 622 A;3t 1929
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WANTED,
MM Miscellaneous.
$lS.OOO
FOR SALE.

TNO loan at per cent. on first mortgage in l sums to suit. JOHN c. THUNDERSTORM.
 alil If IlR Church street.. @
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FOR SALE, MINE young setter dogs, male and female; I pedigree exceptionally fine. Apply to , WILLIAM COOK au30 If No. 472 Whitney avenue.
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MRS. T. L. ATWATER. IGO ORCHARD street, has returned and fV| is now ready to welcome Ter custom CTS s22t
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
They Were Easy Game.

81 was out hunting quail in big vine
yard near Santa Rosa d few days ago." re.
marked Superior Judge Dougherty of So
noma County, land got the finest bag of
birds l ever shot in my life. When 1 first
went into the vineyard l thought l was
shooting at tame quail, for they wouldn t
fly till L came near stepping on them, and
then they would wobble off through the
air in the most erratic way. They would
only fly u short distance till they would
drop into grapevine as if their wings mad
given out.
MY dog kept bringing me live quail
which l thought | had wounded, but
finally, when l had three dozen birds and
had fired only about a dozen shots, /
knew there was something wrong some-
where.
FINALLY came upon quail lying on
its back and kicking its feet in the air in
the most peculiar way. l picked it up and
found it uniniured, so far as l could see.
Then l set it on its legs and it went stag
gering and foundering over the clods a
few feet till it fell on its back again and
lay kicking helplessly.
'For the first time it occurred to me
that the quail were drunk. They had
been feeding on the frost-bi grapes
that had fermented on the vines, and
were enjoying the widest kind of jag.
Some could not move, while the soberest
couldn't fly fast enough to get out of the
way of clod. San Francisco Post.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Human Sacrifice in Russi la.
From the Kansas City Times.


"The sacrifice of human lives under GER
tain conditions is still custom in certain
parts of Russia" said Professor James +.
Jenkins. ND, of Middletown, N. Y, at
the Savoy. Attempts by the Govern
ment to put stop to the practice have
thus far been in vain. 1t prevails among
q sect known as the 'Tshukshem,' not far
from Yakootsk.
Old people who have lived beyond the
Biblical allotment and sick ones tired of
life offer themselves for sacrifice. When
one of these characters decides to offer
himself up he sends word to all his
relatives, friends, and neighbors, who
then visit him and try to persuade him
to change his intentions, but all to no
purpose. He chooses the manner in
which he shall die, and he is killed with
great ceremony. The body is then taken
to crematory near by, where it is re-
duced to ashes, which are carefully pre-
served in an urn of silver by the rela-
tiyes. During the cremation the rela-
tives pray to the spirits, begging them to
guard the lives of those mortals still left
on earth. This custom has been followed
by the sect for centuries"
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
KILLING A BIRD.
How the Act Affected q Boy With a
TOy Gun.

How the Act Affected q Boy With a
Toy Gun.
A 10-year-old boy OF Newtonville was
given toy gun by his father, who laugh
ingly promised him 81 for every crow he
would shoot.
Highly elated with his gun and sanguine
of earning small fortune by shooting
crows the young sportsman spent the
greater part of ten days in field watch
ing for the birds. Not crow came near
him, greatly to his disappointment, and
he reported his ill-success to his father,
WHO said, to comfort him:
well. never mind the crows. I'll give
you 90 cents for any kind OF bird you can
shoot.''
Early the next morning the boy, gun IN
hand, took up his position in the bake
yard to watch for sparrows, A half dozen
or more unwary birds soon appeared to
pick up the crumbs that he had thrown
out to lure them within reach of shot.
AT movement on his part the sparrows
rose and the boy fired.
One of the birds was hit and fell to the
ground, where it lay for minute, futter-
ing Its wings, and then became motioness-
The boy went forward, picked it up and
looked at it. The poor little head hung
limp-the shot had broken the sparrow s
neck. For moment the boy stood con-
templating the dead creature in his hand,
then, he turned and fled to the house.
"Oh, I've killed It'll I've killed it,
mammal" he cried in shocked tone
1T can't fly any more!" and all that day
his lament was, "Oh, l wish l hadn't
done it?''
His father, who had not supposed the
boy in any danger of hitting bird, tried
to solace him with the half-dollar and sug-
gestions of what might be bought with it..
mo, papa" was his sorrowful answer,
II don't want it. I wish it could make the
sparrow alive again. l never thought it
would be like that to kill bird y
"And,' said his father, in concluding the
story, II was more pleased at the tender
feeling my boy displayed than I should
have been had he become the best shot in
the country. youths Companion.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
A SMART CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Runs Her Fathers Ranch and Does Lots
of Things That Men Do.

In these days, when there is so much talk
about the privileges of women as regards
filling the places which have been hereto.
fore the prerogatives of men, when intel
lectual women of all classes are looking
everywhere for. new fields in which to dis
play their hidden talents and expanding
energies, the success of California girl,
who has accomplished much in managing
a ranch and made fortune in cattle and
horses, may be especially interesting, and
serve as suggestion to some restless
woman who believes she lacks room for her
growing abilities to do a mans work. The
young woman's name is Margaret Rogers,
she is 23 years old, and lives 160 miles
south of San Francisco.
Her father is an Englishman, who went
to California in 1876 for his health, and as
he disliked horseback riding, and it was
such necessary part of life in that out-of-
the-way place, his little daughter soon be-
came an expert horsewoman, and for thir-
teen years herded ali the cattle.
She has always insisted on using mans
saddle, however, riding astride, and has
designed dress which looks like skirt
about walking length, made scant in front,
but with many full straight breadths in
the back, which drape themselves over
the figure IN very successful manner.
She rides on heavy ''vaquero's" saddle,
anu lorty miles is very usual distance
for her to accomplish in one day.
Despite the fact that she has travelled
about that country for thirteen years In
that costume, she is still an object of
much comment. Miss Rogers can run q
plow or a harvesting machine, sow the
grain, mark the calves and sheep, break
the colts, play the piano and paint pictures
with equal facility. She is a charming
hostess, has a fine library, and can do
fancy work like any other woman, and be-
sides her many other plishments she
has won medal in Oakland for her pro-
ticiency in Latin and English literature.
The rise and fall of the market prices
are simple little sums in arithmetic to her
clear mind, and she makes all the contracts
for the sales OF grain, beef and pork for her
fathers as well as her own ranches. With
her sisters help she marks all the lambs
and calves by cutting two little bits out of
their ears, which easily identifies them, and
when the cattle break through the fence at
night she thinks nothing Of riding with
the men for miles to find the break and
hunt up the stray ones. She has been
caught in stampede, when she narrowly
escaped with her life.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Posy Rings.

When posies inside wedding rings we're
first introduced does not seem to be
known. Time has covered that, as he does
so many things, with the mosses of obliv-
ion; but we know that from the sixteenth
century until the middle of the eighteenth
it was customary to have them engraved
on rings. These posies or notices are
seldom to be found with more than two
lines of verse, and often with only one, but
there are few instances known where
three lines are used. Some of these posies
are very quaint ano curious, and few
reach high standard of poetic beauty.
+ In 1912 small collection of rhymes was
published with the title of Loves Gar
land; or, Posies for Rings, Handkerchiefs
and Gloves, and Such Pretty Tokens That
Lovers Send Their Loves" 1t contains
some posies that are not to be met with
elsewhere, and is very interesting work,
though but few people seem to have heard
of it. The South Kensington Museum
has good collection of posy rings, and
among them we find the following:
United hearts, death only parts; Let
us share in Joy and care; "Love and live
happily" There is story to the effect
that DR.. John Thomas. who was Bishop of
Lincoln in 1883, caused to be inscribed in
side his fourth wife's wedding ring:
If survive,
I'll make them five.
If this be true, and not the fable it ap-
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

them, since the cold weather began, with
minute cups of clear, hot, sugariess coffee,
favored with a drop or two OF violet cream.
He is the same man who is making him.
self famous by tutti-frutti iceeream soda.
This is glass of simple vanilla or choco-
late cream with handful OF small. spicy,
crystalized fruits thrown in before the
soda is turned on-cherries. currants.
shredded ginger and the like. 1t costs
only 5 cents more than the ordinary
soda, and is favorite after-the-theater
treat with the young man of modest
means and simple tastes.
To the women who crowd around this
particular fountain every drinkabie is
known By the same special title, and only
the uninitiated now take their soda plain.
All the slrups and havors are mixed, as
many as two, three and four in one glass,
while she of the very blase palate asks
for green swizzle. It's very name is tempt
ing, yet sounds trife wicked; but those
who shop and call, and get about to all
their clubs and athletics successfully say
that it is really natures sweet restorer in
hours of weariness. In reality it is as
mild tipple as ever tempted weak human
nature.-New York Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Various Notes of Bonding and
Working Good Claims in
That District.
LODE AND PLACER PROPERTIES
Rich Quartz Requiring the Application
of Electrical and Other Ma.
chinery.

PLACERVILLE, CAL. Nov. 30.-Both
the purchase and bonding of mining prop
critics in various portions of the county is
progressing to an encouraging degree.
The Pine Hill Gold and Silver Mining
Company of South San Francisco has
sunk shaft $50 feet on its property and Is
preparing to erect ten-stamp mill with q
view to adding sixty stamps in the spring.
D. H. Jackson OF Oakland has bonded
two claims on the Larkin ranch, four miles
from Placerville, and is sinking shafts
At fifty feet the rock is showing free gold
in fair quantity and very rich sulphurets.
The indications are that this will make
good mine. 1t is squarely on the mother
lode.
The Gignac gravel claim started last
week with tive-stamp mill, two miles from
Placerville. This is the property OF Mrs.
DR.. Stone.
Spreckels & Mulky are hydraulickine
near Fair PLAY, and their first cleanup was
agreeably surprising.
The Gray mine, thirteen miles west oi
here was bonded by W. c. Hodgkin and
J. Graham OF Chicago. This is an old
property being reopened. From 1850 to
1872 it was worked to a depth of $50 feet
and produced $4,000.
Pasco 81 EwartS opened hydraullc
plant one and half miles from town
under permit of the United States Debris
Commission.
Fraser and Varozza have begun work on
a claim two miles from town and are open
ing on good-sized ledge OF quartz tha,
shows some free gold and rich sulphurets.
Mr.. Morey, the Placerville mining ma
chinist, expects to operate soon on the
Blue Bird and Rip Van Wrinkle, situated
twenty miles north of here. Facilities for
electrical appliances are excellent and ne
will introduce power plant. There is 8
stamp mill on the Blue Bird.
Lyons, Clifford and Tong have started G
two-stamp mill near Clarksvi.le and are
developing four claims.
Sam Lane is operating five-stamp mill
in the old Stillwagon mine in Brownsville
district and taking out rock producing $50
per ton.
John Melton is running a 1400-foot tun.
nel to cut Poverty Point hill. The tunnol
had been run $50 feet and was abandoned
for lack of funds. Mr.. Melton purchased
the property and gathered fourteen mines
into one group, There are five ledges al
ready cut and six more to open. A ten
stamp mill for prospecting purposes was
started up by Mr.. Melton, and the results
were so satisfactory that he will complete
the big tunnel. This property is two miles
from PlacerYille.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Single Driye-wheel Engines.

The new type of engine on the Reading
Railroad, which was built entirely for
speed and has only single pair of driving
wheels, is exciting much interest among
railroad men and. if entirely successful, it
may lead to some important changes in
locomotive building. 1t has already
proved itself very fast. In recent run
from Jersey City to Philadelphia No. 3S5
hauled eight heavy cars and, in spite OF
losing fourteen minutes from unexpected
causes, made her schedule time. The only
places on this run where 1t was possible to
attain any considerable speed were be-
tween Bound Brook and Trenton Junction
and Trenton Junction and Jenkin town.
Between these points the average speed
from start to stop were H.2 and 52.S miles
an hour, respectively. The maximum up
grade is 81 feet per mile. From Bound
Brook TO Hopewell the distance is Is miles
and is all uphill. On this grade the loco
motive increased the speed of the train
from 81 seconds per mile to 81 seconds.
No sand was used except at starting from
station. The abundance of steam and the
large cylinders enabled the engine to pull
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Catching the Captain.

The captain OF certain large sailing
vessel is probably the most polite officer
in the whole mercantile service. He has,
however, a great idea of his importa nee
and loses no Opportunity of impressing it
upon his crew. In particular he insists
one on board. One day a new hand
joined the ship, and short time after
leaving harbor, being seasoned old salt,
he was entrusted with the wheel. The
captain came up and put the usual
question::
"How's her head?"
"Nor'- by east" answered tae old tar,
VERY ..yge: ygruffiy. ), ,,, =,
tain son this craft when one of the crew
speaks to me he gives me- a title of respect.
Don't you think you might do so, too?
Now, how's her head?"
Nor by-east, tell yer," shouted the
tar, displaying not little irritation.
81 m afraid you don't quite understand
me-" responded the captain, good hui
mnredly. Let me relieve you at the
wheel, and then do you take my place and
ask me the question. 1 will then show
you how it should be answered" They
accordingly changed places.
lows her 'ead?" roared the tar.
s'Nor' -bv-east sir" replied the captain,
with emphasis on the "sir.
"Then keep her so, my man, whilst /
goes forrard and has a smoke" was the
Startling rejoinder from the old reprobate,
who calmly commenced to suit the action
to the word.
For the first time on record the captain
lost his temper.-Tit-B Bits.
1t takes twelve tea-plants to produce one
pound of tea.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS ON SH1Ps.-The
story of how lightning conductors came
to be adopted in the British navy is inter
esting. In 1866 G. Tomlinsop, Fellow ot
the Royal Society," described in England
method of receiving the discharge of a
Leyden jar on plate of crown glass. He
showed on the glass tree-like figures, with
trunk, branches and spray, and argued
that this was only miniature representa-
tion of the lightning flash, which was sim
ilarly bifurcated and trifurcated. At tha
time lightning conductors were not in
favor, either on land or sea. DR.. Dyne, the
head master of the Highgate Public School
who consulted Tomlinson as to the desira
bility OF lightning conductor for the new
school building, said he had never seen
lightning conductor and had only q
vague idea of it; furthermore, although
he personally was open to conviction
as to its merits, his profession looked
upon the conductor as attracting
repelling it. A similar opinion was held
at the Admiralty. Snow Harris, an en-
gineer of repute, who had designed form
OF metallic conductor for ships, strenuously
recommended its adoption, and gave the
Government many proofs of the i'm portant
losses which had occurred through ltS ao-
sence. His scheme, which was apparently
ruined by a fash of lightning, was by the
same agency turned into success. He
obtained permission to erect his con-
ductors on ten ships destined for foreign
service. In one of these a Flagstaff was
put above the conductor, and in the hrst
| thunderstorm it was shattered by light
ming bolt, but no further damage was
done. This trifling accident was regarded
with grave misgiving, and 1t was the In
| tentlon of the Government to remove all
| the conductors when the ships returned
| home. Sir John Rennie was employed by
the Admiralty TO erect two yictualling-
| houses at Devonport. Each was fur
nished with granite chimney rising
sixty feet over the roof. One of
these was supplied with lightning con-
ductor; but before the other was put up
Rennie called on Snow Hill and COM
planned Indignantly that the charge of
lightning conductors had been struck out
of the estimates. Harris said, "Well,
never mind; nature will avenge u.s." The
prophecy was fulfilled in a most extraor-
dinary way. A bifurcated stroke of light
ming fell ON the two victualling- houses.
The protected building suffered no injury;
the unprotected chimney was torn open
and the building was seriously damaged.
This settled the matter. The lightning
conductor became popular and Harris
arrangements for ships were adopted, to
the immense advantage of the navy. Har-
ris was knighted, received a civiI-list pen
sion of $1,000 year, and the House of Com
mons made him special grant of $4,000
for his invention. Lord Palmerston, who
moved the grant, SAID that he never made
a similar motion with greater pleasure"
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
violet and Orange Blossom Drinks.

The latest acquisition to the long row
of long-necked looking bottles at the foun-
tain is marked "orange flower syrup"
This is pure extract of orange blossoms,
and is about the most ethcreally delicious
beverage when taken with three inches of
cream and well charged. They call it
"Hymen's wassail," the girls do, when
the clerk of the fountain serves it with
plenty of soda and ice shaved and piled up
light as snow. He recommends it as
good thing for nerves. One of the incest
and latest of his combinations, and de-
servedly popular, too, is ordinary chocolate
soda, dashed with one teaspoonful of
creme d'yvette.
Everybody knows what that is, cor
dial colored and favored as if with
violets, and another apothecary is earning
a good name among the women by serving
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
ENTER NOT BOHEMIA.
1t Is a Country of Which Girls Should
Not Become Citizens.

''The Girl Who Is Employed" is affec-
tionately addressed and wisely counseled
by Ruth Ashmore in the December Ladies
Home Journal. The writer tells the girls
of their duty to their employers and them
selves, discusses matters of dress and warns
them against ''the dangerous lana," which
she designates Bohemia" /" (which seems
to you so attractive. In reality it is a
country of which you should not become a
citizen.
No matter whether your friends call you
prude or not, do not permit the social
side of your life to degenerate into free
and easy condition where no respect is
shown TO you as woman. In Bohemia
there may be some laughter, but be sure
there are many tears. In that land you
would probably spend all your wages in one
day OF festivity, and be a beggar, or worse
still, borrower for the rest OF the week.
'In that land woman buys one fine
frock, too fine for her position in life, and
during the working hours she looks un-
tidy and always suggestive, by. her shabby
tinery, of a gay girl rather than we'll
bred woman, which is what the busy girl
should aim to be. In Bohemia it is claimed
there is a jolly good-fellowship, and noth-
ing else, between men and women. You
don't want to be jolly good fellow.
''You want to be woman who is re-
spected not only because OF her sex, but
because of herself, and the free and easy
life in which a man offers woman cigar
cite, and she volunteers to get for him
something that he counts more cheerful
than cup of tea, is one which my busy
girl does not want to live. If for no other
reason this would be one. In Bohemia
all women must be young and beau
tiful, and you are not going to be
that forever. So make for yourself social
world that Will be enjoyable, that will be
pleasant, but where you will be liked wnen
youth and beauty have gone, because of
the good that is in you mentally and spir-
ituallYn
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01

ranged spirally and running from the top
to the bottom OF the structure.
This is an idea of my own" said Aron-
son last night, "and Architect KimbalI
has already prepared the plans under aly
direction. have several sites in view in
the neIghborhood of Fifty ninth street, and
as soon as location is selected l shall be
able to raise $500, 900 among capitalists
here and in London to put the scheme in
onerotjou -
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
The LARGEST Tortoise.

There is reported from the Isles Egmont,
in the Indian Ocean, not far from the Isle
Maurice, the capture of an enormous male
land tortoise, the largest thus far known.
These islands lie in about latitude 60 deg.
DO min. east south and longitude SO deg.
min. east. They are without fresh water,
though one of them has salt lake of con-
siderable area. They have not been known
hitherto as the resort of land tortoises,
though the neighboring islands have them
in abundance. This tortoise and his mate
have been seen on the island recently at
various times. Here are his chief dimen-
sions:
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
BuiIders, Contracts.

Frank 81. Lawton (ownerl with Frank e. Arm
strong contractor and architect), to erect two
story frame building on S line Of Charming way,
40 w of Atherton street, w 40 by S 120, block /,
Ryer Tract Berkeley. Payments: fnclosed 1918,
brown mortar on 1915, completed 1878, usual 35
days 1878; total, s23O0; bonds, $1,000; H. L. Whit
ney and 3. +. Underwood, sureties; no limit, no
forfeit; plans, &C.. filed.
Same with same. to erect a one-story and half
building $ line OF Charming way. 30 w Of
Atherton's, w 40 by 100. block, Ryer Tract.
Berkeley. Payments: Enclosed $3.50, brown NOR
tar on $3.50. completed $3.50. usual 80 days $3.50;
total $23O0; bonds $500: w. L. Whitney and b f..
Underwood s1reties; limitations: forfeit none; no
plans, etc., fiied
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
How He Knew 1t.

"Ah," said Mr.. Ayteful, as he sat smok-
ing his after-dinner cigar, "there is nothing
in all of life's blessings comparable to a
good wife. know this to be true"
His marital partner came and stood be-
hind his chair and laid both hands softly
on his sh houlders.
Eyes, / know it to be true" continued
Mr.. Ayteful "for Simmonson told me so
and never knew him to tell lie in his
life'
1t was only one hand this time that the
sharer of his joys and sorrows laid on his
ear, and not so softly at that.-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Protest Against the Acceptance
Of a New Fire Engine.
House.
THE COMMISSIONERS WARNED.
A Statement That the City's North
Beach Buildings Fall Far Below
Requirements.

interested citizens have sent to the Fire
Commissioners protest against the way
the work is being performed on the new
firehouse at Stockton and Francisco
streets, and also protesting against the ac-
ceptance of the houses by the City until all
the requirements of the plans and speci-
fications are complied with. The matter