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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
ONE MILLION DEMIJOHNS.
That Is the Annual Consumption, and
Most of the Biggest Are for Water.

That Is the Annual Consumption, and
Most of the Biggest Are for Water.
Demiiohns are made bottle-shaped and
flask-shaped. The bottle-shaped demi-
Johns come in seven sizes, ranging from
one pint to five gallons. The aask-shaped
are made only in the larger and smaller
sizes, and pint, quart and five gallons are
virtually its standard sizes.
A great many demijohns, both flask and
bottle shaped, are used for the distribution
of pure water, spring and sterilized. In
this country more large demijohns are
used for water than for wines and liquors,
and the number so use9 is steadily in
creasing.
Next in number to the large demijoh
used for water are those used for wines and
liquors. Chemists and druggists use many
large demijohns, grocers use them for vine
gar and oils, and many are used for the
distribution of fruit extracts to bakers,
confectloners and dealers IN soda water.
The smallest sized flask is used as safety
package, as a pocket flask for liquor and
quite extensively for perfumery. When
used for perfumery and cologne the small
TASKS are covered with finer class OF reeds
and willows Within year some liquors
have been put on sale in pint and quart
sized bottle. shaped demijohns.
With the growing use of demiiohns for
waters there has been a growing demand
for covering through which the water
could be seen. Various demijohns of this
kind have been made. In one the bottle is
placed in a wooden crate with hinged
cover. in another the bottle is hooped with
wood, in a third it is held in frame OF
reed.
Gradually the shipping demiiohn has
been developed. The ordinary manner OF
packing demijohns shipped in boxes was
to pack them in hay or straw. Demijohns
are now packed In boxes specially designed
for the purpose.
The demijohn is protected by spring
cushions of steel or rubber. There are
both flask and bottle shaped shipping
demiiohns, in various styles, and with a
variety of cushions and fastenings. There
are thirty or more patents on shipping
demiiohns.
The annual consumption of demiiohns
in this country is estimated at l ,00O, 900.
Much the greater number of these are
made in this country; the imported ones
come from Germany.
The American demijohns are mostly
covered with rattan; the majority of those
that come from Germany are covered with
willow, which is cheaper there.
Demiiohns are made in this country in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
lew IN MaryIdllu' Deu4IOHn CoFeIeIS
work in places where the manufacture of
glass is carried on.
The materials used are prepared by ma
chinery, but the actual work of covering
the bottles is done by hand. Some glass
manufacturers have of late taken up the
making of demiiohns on their own ac-
count at that season of the year when the
bottle manufacture Stacks off.
In the East demiiohns have largely
taken the place of jugs. In the far West
jugs are still used, but demiiohns' are
gradually ousting them in the South
New York Sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

To the Editor OF The CaH-sIR: Professor lie
Conte, learned teacher, says:
'There is no doubt that man, both in body
and spirit, came by process of evolution from
some lower form of animal Evolution teaches
that nothing originates all at once by fiat, but
that all things come by growth"
Where did the growth come from; from moth
ing? No; then it did come by fiat. He says:
"There is no doubt that man, both in body and
spirit, came by process of evolution from some
lower form OF animal That may be mis-
print it cannot be that the professor meant
that in that way. There is doubt, reasonable
doubt. The fact OF the absence of the doubt, if
it be fact, is not yet evolved. Thousands of
profound thinkers doubt ii. He says:
New forms come by modification OF the old"
l go with him. Now let him go with me
few steps, and take his proposition along for q
start, 'AlI new forms come by modification of
the old" Then old notifications came from
older, and older notifications came from
Oldest, and oldest came from-from-from-
why, from fiat. Ii not, then where from?
P D. HORTON
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
SEEKING WARES SLAYERS.
Strange Mission of Friend
of the Murdered Drug
Clerk.
NEW EVIDENCE DISCOVERED.
Hopes to Land the ASsassins
In Jail.

There is man in this City who hopes to
bring to justice the murderers of Eugene
Ware. He was a chum and close associate
of the dead drug clerk, and a chief witness
at the Coroner's inquest. His name is
Richard J. Dowdall, and he is proprietor
of the Mission pharmacy on the southwest
corner of Nineteenth and Valencia streets.
From the day the unsatisfactory inquest
into the death of Ware closed, Mr.. Dowd-
all has patiently sifted the evidence and
armed with new facts bearing intimately
upon the mysterious murder of his dearest
friend has set to work to run down the
perpetrators of the crime. He is confident
he will succeed where Captain Lees de-
tectives have failed, and the oldest feature
of it all is that the clevs he considers so
accurate were known to the police, who, he
says, disregarded or overlooked them in
making their investigations.
If Mr.. DowdalFs findings are correct
every police theory of the mystery is over
turned. 1t follows, for instance, that
Ware was not murdered by morphine
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
A SOCIETY GIRL.
EXPERIENCE OF ONE OF OSWEGO'S
PROMINENT LADIES.
Living in an Agony of Fear for Months
Every Day Fresh Chapter of
Horror and Suffering.
From the Oswego IN. " Palladium.

FROM the OSWegO IN. III
The following is the story of Miss Elizabeth
Williams of 10 West Third street. Oswego, n.
Y, lady prominent in society circles, told a
reporter of the Oswego Daily Palladium, who
terday. Miss Williams is the daughter of the
late Captain William Williams who was for
many years master OF some of the finest pas
senger ST Gamers on the great lakes and an in
spector and rater of hulls for the Lloyd marine
records on the lakes. The story OF her illness,
given in her own way, follows:
'I was always regarded as healthy and robust
by my family and friends; in fact l hardly
knew what sickness was until the winter of
1S93-94. was then taken down with an at
tack of Ia grippe, from the attending effects of
which did not recover for months. There
seemed to be general breakdown in my health
and constitution, winding up in the early sum-
mer with nervous prostration and sciatic
rheumatism. can't describe my symptoms.
My appetite was gone and for weeks was I'M
able to eat or relish food but sparingly. 1 lost
flesh rapidly and as thin as shadow.
Local physicians attended me constantly.
After months OF treatment dismissed both
and took my brothers. advice and tried Pink
Pills. He had found them etiicacious for kid
ney trouble. Before had finished taking the
first box | noticed an improvement in my
physical condition. / began to relish my food
and my rheumatism troubled me less. Grad
ually the general tone of my health improved
and my. rheumatic pains left me entirely.
regained strength and took on flesh, until to-
day regard myself as thoroughly free from all
ailment and in perfect health. My friends
L
tated to tell them what DR.. Williams Pink Pills
did for one sufferer. 1t is that others may be
benefited,.that / make this statement and re-
late my experiences"
DR.! Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are
considered an unfailing specific for such dis
eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St.
Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism,
nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and salloW COM
plexions, that tired feeling resulting from
nervous prostration; all diseases resulting
from Initiated humors in the blood such as
scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also
specific for troubles peculiar to females, such
as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms OF
weakness. In men they effect radical cure in
all cases arising from mental worry, overwork,
or excess of whatever nature. DR.. Williams
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent postpaid on receipt of price, go cents
box or six boxes for So 50-they are never sold
liams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
Spouting Whales Surround a Ship.

Captain Mitchell of the steam tug
Thomas J. Smith, which arrived here yes
terday from sea, having in tow the bone
laden Italian bark Oreb. from Buenos
Ayres, which she picked up to the south
ward of Fenwicks Island, reports having
been attacked by q tremendous school
of whales at IL o'clock in the morn
ing on Monday last, while cruis-
ing forty miles southeast of Cape Henlo-
pen. The whales surrounded the tug for a
period of four hours, blowing large streams
of water into the air, which completely
shut out all view of the surroundings.
Captain Mitchell says that in thirty years.
experience at sea on tugs he never before
saw such large whales, nor were they ever
known to congregate in such numbers so
close to the land.
tug, and all hands were badly scared, as
these monsters seemed Infatuated, and
dashed along the sides of the boat with
great force. Captain Mitchell ran the en-
gines full speed, and attempted to get
clear of the school, but the huge marine
animals followed the tug, almost swamp
ing her with the immense volumes of
water they threw on board.
Finding that any attempt to get away
from them was futile, Captain Mitchell
loaded up large horse-pistol he had on
board and began firing into them, but the
bullets took no effect. One monster he put
six bullets into, but it only Infatuated the
animal still more. 1t was about o'clock
in the afternoon when the leader of the
school headed off shore and soon the whole
number followed and disappeared. -Phila-
delphia Press
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
OF INTEREST TO LABOR,
Employment Registers suggested-La-
Dor Council Proceedings-Carpen
ters' Union No. 22.

Workingmen are manifesting q great
deal of interest in the free EMPLOYMENT
bureau which State Labor Commissioner
Fitzgerald will open for the benefit of the
unemployed on Monday.
Deputy Commissioner Cleveland Dam
will be in charge of the department, and
has made a systematic arrangement for
the correct registration, in detail, of all ap-
plicants for work.
1t was suggested at the State Labor Bu-
reau yesterday that much could be done
by the employers of labor themselves
toward facilit ating the process of bringing
together those who need work and the
work needed If the employers would keep
employment registers. Such a register
could be in the shape of book, in which
the applicant for work would write his
name, address, age, whether married or
single, number Of children (if any, when,
where and by whom he was last employed,
and such references as he might possess.
This would give both the employer and
the applicant an advantage. The former
1t would enable to take his pick from any
number of men, and it would help to adj
vertise the need of each applicant with
anv number OF likely business firms, fac
tories or other extensive employers of
labor.
A very brief meeting of the Labor Coun-
Gil was held last night, about the only
thing done being to receive the reports of
unions.
Secretary Furaseth reported the Arago
matter in behalf of the Sailors Union,
stating that the four sailors charged by
Captain Perry with INSTRUMENTATION had
been held for trial by the United States
Commissioner. Action was deferred.
The Electrical Workers Union reported
a fair demand for men. All the members
are employed, and new members are being
constantly admitted to membership.
a complaint came from the Musicians
Union, charging a certain outdoor show
with employing non-union talent.
The Brewers Union reported trade as
good, and stated that numerous dealers
had promised not to handle certain beer
which is under the ban of that organiza-
ton.
Delegate Rusk informed the Councilthat
a National convention of stage employees
was soon to be held in Boston, and the
local union had chosen delegates to repre-
sent it there.
The committee on Labor day celebration
OF the Council will meet some time next
week and make a report next Friday night.
Thirty-one new members were taken
into local union No. p, United Brother
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
A PLUOKY TEACHER.
Crossed Bridge on Stringer and Rode
Sixty Miles.

Sky miles,
Miss Minnie Hickox, who has Just en-
tered upon the discharge OF her duties as
teacher of the public schools of Cooke City,
cannot fail of success in any given direc-
ton. Her ambition and grit would stand
many a man in good stead. She is one of
the few women who are equal to almost
any emergency, and is deserving of praise
for her indomitable pluck. She left Liv-
angston TO open the Cooke school on Thurs
day morning a week ago. Upon arriving
at Cinnabar the terminus of the railroad,
she found that the stage would not leave
that day on account of the washing out of
the bridge across Gardiner River. The
stream was so swollen that the stage driver
dared not undertake to make ford, says
the Anaconda Standard.
This was dilemma not counted on by
the. plucky schoolteacher. She had given
her word that she would be in Cooke on
Monday, and she determined to make it
good, even if she had to continue her Jour
ney on foot and swim the streams. There
was no time to be lost, and so she started
out.
was a single stringer. Nothing daunted,
the lady stepped boldly on to this and
walked across the raging river 1t was
perilous undertaking even for a man, and
a woman less brave and cool-headed than
Mrs Hickox would have been very likely
to have become dizzy and lost her balance.
Mrs. Hickox, however, proved herself
equal toe the emergency, and reached the
opposite bank of the roaring mountain
torrent in safety.
As luck would have it, she found
family en- route to Cooke encamped close
by, and securing horse mounted it and
continued her journey. 1t was a pretty
long ride for woman who had never
ridden horse-the distance being sixty
miles over a rough road-but Mrs. Hickox
kept on her weary way until she reached
her destination. Upon arriving at Cooke
she was so badly used up with her long
ride that when she got off her horse she
had to be assisted into the hotel. She had
the satisfaction, however, that she had
kept her appointment.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
ORIGIN OF Hockey P0KEY.
Leftover IcecreamBought at tn e Hotels
and Frozen Again, Hence the Poison.

Leftover Bought at the Hotels
and Frozen Again, Hence the Poison.
1t is an actual fact that old icecream is
bought up by Italians and vendors from
restaurants and ice-cream stands, frozen a
second and third time and again offered
Tor sale, to be consumed by the newsboys
and general public under the alluring title
OF hokey-pokey, says the New York Her.
aid.
Almost every night these vendors make
the rounds OF all the hotels and buy up
whatever has been left over from the dav
previous. This cream has all melted more
or less to It's original consistency, and if it
is SUN frozen when they get it there is lit
tie left but fluid by the time it has reached
the Italian quarter.
Inns melting process is the cause of all
the danger. Cream once having been
frozen ana again melted very readily turns
sour. In this stage it is poisonous The
yender OF hokey-pokey cares little whether
or not the cream is sour. Quickly upon
his return to his quarters he freezes all this
musn ana PACKS 1t away for the next days
use.
The few cases of poisoning that have
come to the public notice are in all nroba-
billty not the only ones that have occurred
Tor physicians say that many cases of
poisoning have occurred in the districts
where the hokey-pokey vendors are that
could not be accounted for because of the
suddenness of death.
IL has generally been understood that
certain establishments are putting ont
large quantities of hokey-pokev and SIM.
plying the vendors, but this is not so. TIE
Italians and their families are the only
ones Who manufacture and cater to tbe
consumers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
DIR. Simms Responds to the Article By
Major Berry.


Major Berry.
To the Editor Of The Call-SIR: With your per-
mission l win notice Major C. ]. Berry's article
on diversified farming in the southern part OF
the San Joaquin Valley. 1t is strange that men
lik Major Berry can only see one side OF diver
sitied farming. He seems TO think a man can
only make living on twenty acres by truck
gardening and selling his truck in a large city
where the competition is great and where he
has to come in competition with Chinese and
two or three other nationaltes and mustsell at
low figures. l propose to show such is not
diversified farming. We will now suppose there
Is a colony, say twenty-five to fifty families,
anywhere between Bakersfield and Stockton.
Each farmer has twenty acres, with water TO
irrigate his land. We will now suppose he puts
out two 10 four acres in almonds, same
TO prunes, one TO two acres TO aprlcots,
one acre to nectarineS, two TO three acres
to alfalfa He can hedge his land
in with pomegranates and ounces II he has
Jour acres In almonds the fifth year the crop
will be worth $400. Prunes the same. The
apricotS and nectarines can be dried and VIII
pay well. He can keep two cows, one horse
and one good sow on four acres OF alfalfa. II
the colony will put up a creamery and make
irst-class butter and cheese, there will be a
good profit from the cows ana all the milk used
at home Tor the family, pigs and chickens.
While the trees are coming into bearing beans
peas and potatoes can be raised between them.
The world is a market for the nuts and dried
fruits. There will always be market for but
ter, eggs and poultry. There are a great many
other things that can be raised at a good profit.
Peanuts will pay. There are a great many
seeds that will pay to raise. Onions will pay,
and there is good demand for them early in
the season to ship East. PomegranateS make
the finest jelly in the world. l hope Major
Berry Will write again and look over the field.
MILTON Cal Julv 10 1895
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
FREOKLES.
What Is Known About These Unwe1com,
Visitors.

Women who suffer annually from this
visitation may console themselves with
the fact that it is only the finest skins that
are liable to freckles, coarse or rough skins
never exhibiting a trace of them. There
are two or three kinds of these spots, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, one being permanent
and not dependent upon the suns rays
which is known as winter freckles, while
the more usual kind are those which ap-
pear only during the summer months.
Red and fair haired persons are particu-
larly susceptible to freckles, as their skins
partake of the fine, delicate nature al
luded to.
They arise from the action of the sun
upon the coloring matter of the skin, and,
as a French doctor says: ut acts with
women as with plants, the coloripg matter
of which it increases"
A girl whose epidermis freckles easily
should keep out of the sunshine whenever
she is able to do SO, and when, as is fire.
quently the case, she must encounter it
she should shade and veil her face and
neck from its ferceness.
The best kind of veil to wear in this case
is q gauze one, through which the sun
cannot penetrate.
In color it should be either white, gray,
blue or green. These two latter are very
dreadful to taShlOnaDle women, but they
really are not, as such colors do not at
tract the heat as much as black does.
Ordinary net wells are not of much use as
protection either against fierce sunshine
or intense cold, but the gauze ones are in
valuable.
If the skin is very tender and becomes
irritated by the sun it is good plan to
put a little cold cream on the face
before going out into the open air. This
should be rubbed well into the skin with
the finger and gently wiped off with a
piece of soft linen or an old pocket hand
kerchief. Then it must be busted with a
little good rice powder.
Very often the most simple remedies
are much more efficacious in the case OF
freckles than strong ones.
For instance, nothing could be more
easily prepared than an old-fashioned re-
cipe, which is as follows: Throw hand
full of parsley into a jug capable of holding
pint and over it pour quantity of boil
ing water. When it has cooled battle the
face with the liquid. Lemon juice is also
efficacious in removing and preventing
freckels, as it is great factor in whiten.
ing the skin. 1t may be used in the water
employed in the daily additions, or the
lemon, cut into halves, can be rubbed over
the skin in the morning or at bedtime. If
done too often it may cause redness and
irritation of the skin. Milk is a valuable
agent and it softens and soothes an irr1-
tated epidermis.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
Something Queer in Pearls.

The most freakish freak ever assumed by
pearls is exhibited in that extraordinary
curiosity known to the gem fanciers as the
"Southern Cross" Taken as a whole. it is
group OF nine pearls grown together in
such manner as to form perfect Latin
cross. Seven of the nine go to form the
upright of the cross, or main shaft, which
is exactly one and one-half inches in
length. The arms of the cross, which, it
must be admitted, are hardly long enough
to give the figure good proportions,
are each formed by one pearl so ar
ranged on either side that the addition
of the tenth of an inch to each would give
perfect symmetry to the outline of the
whole figure There is not an ill-shaped
or off-colored pearl in the group and taken
as whole it is not only a remarkable
freak of nature, but it is also valuable
collection of gems of goodly size and fine
luster.
This wonderful freak was discovered sew
eral years ago in the pearl fishing grounds
of Western Australia by a man named
Clark. He is said to have been a very
superstitious man, and to have regarded
the symbol exhibited in his find as an i'll
omen. On this account he dug a hole.
and, after carefully wrapping the oddity
in several folds of silk, buried it. About
twenty-one years ago, in 1874, the gem was
disinterred, and since that time has
changed hands several times. The last
time it sold for 52,000.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

share of the estates, which she and her sis
ters inherited equally from their mother
and grandfather, in establishing and sup
porting two orphana ges-one for boys at
Mayfields, in County Sussex, England, and
one for girls at Bletchingly, in the same
county. In her will she provided literally
for these two institutions, which are under
the control of Roman Catholic orders, and
also gave Archbishop Manning $4,000 for
the maintenance, support and education
of young men studying for holy orders in
the Catholic church.
Richard Cation, the father of the "Three
Graces," was an Englishman who came to
Baltimore in 1785.-Baltimore Sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

Lood of Carpenters and Joiners, at its
meeting in Pythian Castle last night.
Secretary Anderson said the numerical
strength of that union was almost 600.
stalled:
President, P H. Mccarthy; vice-president,
F. NJ Thompson; recording secretary C. An
derson; financial secretary, NJ. /. Wandell;
treasurer, L. P. Smith; conductor, J. H. Flynn;
and Harry Meyer delegates to the district
conncil-P. H. Mccarthy, Henry Meyer, l.. n.
VIVA, Theodore Wiekes and ]. E. McPicker.
The Musicians Union simply met yes
terday afternoon and adjourned for week
out of respect to the memory OF Vice
President Denis Sullivan and James Kidd,
whose deaths were announced. Both the
deceased had been members of the First
Regimental band.