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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

OFFICE OF TIE BOARD OF STATE HAIR
" Dor COmmissi oners No. 0 California street,
San Francisco, Cal January IL, 1895.
Sealed proposals or bids Will be received at this
Office at or prior to O'Clock p. NJ. MONDAY.
February IL, 1926, for furnishing the materials
and building Union Depot and Ferry house, to be
located on the foundation of approach to ferry
slips Nos. q 3, 4, and on the water front OF the
city and county of san Francisco. IN accordance
with plans and specifications and in accordance
with the terms and conditions annexed thereto
and made > part thereof, prepared therefor by
A. PAGE BROWN, architect, and submitted by
the chief engineer of the board and adopted by
the TN board January II, 1925 TO which specifca-
TONS terms and conditions on tiie In the office of
the CHIEF engineer reference IS hereby expressly
made.
The departments of work on the said depot and
ferry house to consist Of the necessary construc
tonal wrought steel and cast Iron work and other
iron work embodied in the Specifications, mason
work, terracotta and ire-proofihg. plastering
roohng. Skyligbts and galvonized iron work,
penter and joiner's WORK aud glazing. painting
and plumbing and gasftting N accordance with
the plans and specifications on file in this ONCE
TO which special reference is hereby made.
Blue prints will lie furnished to intending bid
ders on de, osting 325 which will be repaid on
returning said blue prints TO this office after
expiration OF five days from receipt thereof.
No bid will be received unless it be made on
blank form expressly printed for the above work
furnished from this office, and unless 1T is
panied by certified check for . per cent of the
amount of the bid, payable to the order of the
secretary of The board. rs guarantee on the part
OF the successful bidder that he will within six
| (b) days after the acceptance OF bis bid enter
into written contract to do said work according to
the plans and specifications prepared therefor.
and will agree TO the conditions terms az en-
bodied in md annexed to said specifications and
will also execute and file with this board a coed
and sufficient bond to be approved by said board.
in su h amount as it shall direct, ana conditioned
for the faithful performance of such contract:
nor will said bid be considered by this board I'M
less delivered to the secretary assistant secre-
tnry at the Office of the secretary at or prior to
O'Clock p. Mon MONDAY, February IL, 1895, at
which place the bids viii be opened.
the hoard reserves the right to reject any all
bids If deemed for the best interests of the State
f0rif rpAc nFtr.
OF the bids G. +. BASSETT,
DAN Il. COLE,
+. s. CHADBOuRNE,
Board of State Harbor Commissioners.
HOWARD q. HOLMES Chief Engineer.
Il L KIr1re IN n
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
CHANGED HER DRESS.
1t Was Neatly Done in a Car Before TIL,
Astonished Passengers.

AsIOulShed passengers.
"Savoir-faire," of the French Frenchy, is
without a synonym in the English Ian
guage. 1t properly belongs to a race that
intuitively follows the old adage, whats
worth doing is worth doing we'll" They
are adopts in the art of diplomacy. Under
trying circumstances they are cool and col
lected.
Il had taken train in this city for a
trip to Philadelphia, said a Washington
man, "and after an hours stay in the
smoker went into one of the regular pas
senger coaches. Casually looking over my
fellow-trayelers, happened to let my gaze
rest on a demure, dainty little woman
across the aisle from me, but whose seat
was in alignment with mine. She was in
tently persuing the pages of a paper
covered French novel. a little later
she dropped the book and produced
from her traps-she was surrounded
by boxes, handbags and shawlstrap bun
dles-a steamer schedule of the Compagnie
Generate Transatlantique, the French line
TO Havre. To all appearances she was I'M
conscious of the existence OF her neigh
bors. She had removed her hat, tasty
tOque, and was attired in skirt, beneath
which there peeped forth a trim little foot
encased in soft slipper.
"As we neared the Quaker City she be-
came nervously animated. Laying aside
her steamer schedule she resurectea from
some unseen hiding-place blouse of soft,
rich material. She then tripped down the
aisle to the ladies' lavatory, and a moment
later returned with the silk garment, the
blouse having taken its place. Resuming
her seat she buttoned the blouse with def
fingers, fixed a gold brooch in place at her
throat and as quickly girded her petite fig
ure with a leather belt
'By this time | became interested in her
movements, and wondered what she would
do next. | was not long left in the dark.
With refreshing nonchalance she tossed
over her head street skirt of like fabric to
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING
EPPS'S COCOA
Observation-Disclosures

10y THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF THE
~ natural laws which govern the operations of
digestion and nutrition, and by a careful appica-
ton OF the fine properties of weselected Cocoa
MIR. Epps has provided for our breakfast an supper
delicately favored beverage. which may save US
many heavy doctors bills. 1t is by the judicious
use OF such articles of diet that q constitution
ae+ % ~ auuaty 1iS W disnose ohg ehougn 70
subtle maadies are floating around u.s. ready to
attack wherever there is weak point. We may
escape many fatal shaft by keeping Ourselves
well fortified with pure blood ana properly
nourished frame."-Civtl Service Gazette.
Made simply with boiling water milk. Sold
only in half-pound tins. by grocers labeled thus:
JAMES EPPS IL CO., Ltd, II aIne pathic
Chemists, London, England.
Oc2 tn Su I'm
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A Week without a Suicide.

According to the weekly report of the
Board of Health filed yesterday, the deaths
were 119 against 40 for the corresponding
week last year. The principal causes OF
Bright's disease a. casualties 5, cancer IL,
fever 6, heart disease I, old age 3, consump-
ton %, pneumonia 6. An unusual thing
was that not one suicide was reported dur
inc the week
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What Sort of Figures,

The journey was long, and the old lady
with the plaid shawl thought to beguile
the time by conversation with the tailor
made girl who sat with her.
"Live in the city?" asked the old lady,
eyes. Work there" answered the girl,
and said nothing more.
might l ask what you work at?''
Figures"
This seemed discouraging, but the old
lady plueked up her nerve and asked:
Figures? Livin' picters or bookkeep-
in Washington Star
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
The Election Erands-

Albert Houston, George Lee and James
Ryan, who were indicted by the Grand Jury
in connection with the election frauds,
surrendered themselves at the City Prison
Yesterday. They were Immediately re-
leased on bonds, which they had in
raodinacc
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
PHILIP KENNEDY & CD.
SOUTHWEST CORNER
MARKET AND FIFTH STREETS.
ja20 SuTh
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES.

DELINQUENT SALE NOTiCE-MoNo GOLD
~ Mining Company. Location OF principal
place of business, San Francisco, California; locAr
tion OF WORKS Yodie, Mono County, California
Notice-There are delinquent upon the follow
ing described stock, on account OF assessment
mo. 34), levied on the 10Th day of November.
1894, the several amounts set opposite the names
Of the respective shareholders. as follows:
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CrowIer,s Sentence.

James Crowley, charged with assault to
murder for having shot and badly wounded
Annie Henry because she would not love
him, was sentenced to ten years in Folsom
Prison by Judge Belcher yesterday.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

symptoms. Ny eyes, ears,
nose, throat and stomach
were all affected, and at
one time l was so bad
that l went to a doctor for
an operation on my
throat. The symptoms
were very annoying, par
ticularly the hawking
and splitting, and it was
impossible for me to re-
main with any company
for AnV lPnpth of fimp
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
Total nnmber dlstricts -

Total nnmber districts SIX.
Yesterdays count showed but one
feature Of interest. In the Sixteenth Pre-
cinct OF the Thirty-ninth District there
was found twenty-six ballots with double
cross III the squares opposite candidates
for Sheriff, and in twenty-five of these
cases, one OF the crosses was opposite Nc
Nab's name. The days count in detail
was as follows:
THIRTY-NINTH DISTRICT.
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was troubled with torturing headaches; my
stomach was always out OF order, and any
thing / ate caused me great distress.
81 had read and heard so much about the
Copeland Medical Institute that l determined
to make a trial there. l did, and now feel like
another man. l can testify that the immediate
relief after the first treatment was fully worth
the small fee charged for the full month. Any
one desiring any further information regarding
my case will be cheerfully received if they will
call on me.'
Mr.. A. ]. Glaze, who lives at SIS Orange
street, Oakland, says: Having been success
Copeland, Winn and Neal, I take pleasure in
recommending them to the public. and if nv
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

me hawking and splitting, with hacking
cough. Ny stomach became involved and I
had cramps and bloating and rifting, with
smothered-up sensations after eating. My con-
dition gradually grew worse, and l lost flesh
and strength right along. had read many
OF people who who had been cured by
acquainted with some of them l decided /
would try them myself. ] did So and am en-
tirely satisfied with their treatment. | am
feeling splendid and gaining in flesh and
strength all the time.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
HOME TREATMENT.
Every mail brings additional proof of the sue
cess of the home or mail treatment.

R. T. Meeker, Occidental, Cal, writes: az
Will not need any more medicines, for am sure
that l am cured. There has not been sign OF
the symptoms Tor some time, and feel SPLEEN
did again. l will always recommend you to
any one suffering, as have confidence in your
treatment. II cured me.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

statement will be the
means of pointing others
TO the way to relief l will
be satisfied. My trouble
commenced over a year
ago with a bad cold,
which I could not get rid
of. My nostrils were
stopped up, first one side
and then the other; my
eyes panied; l had head,
aches; l had a dropping
of mucus in the back of
.lA ul.sal. I-a.-t
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS !
Special Offers ASSignGG's Sale.

BLACK SATEEN FRENCH CORSETS,
SIC; worth SIPS.
SKIRTS, trimmed with three rows
satin ribbon, zoe; worth 81 %.
LADIES' CHEMISE AND DRAWERS,
Masonville muslin, embroidery trim
mings, 4Oc; worth 75c.
No. % DOUBLE-FACEA LL-SILK SATIN
RIRRON 2hc. worth Anc
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-01
Some Railway nlapmeking.

This won't do" said tho general passenger agent i'll annoyed tones to the map maker s'I want Chicago moved down here half an inch, so as to come on our direct route to New York. Then take Buffalo and put it little farther from the lake.
 You've got Detroit and Now York on different latitudes and tho impress sion that that is correct won t help our road.
 And, man. take those two lines that compete with us and make 'em twice as crooked as that. Why, you've got one of 'em almost straight
 Tank Boston over little to the west and put New York little to the west, so as to show passengers that our Buffalo division is the shortest route to Boston,
 "When you've done all these things I've said, you may print 10000 copies but, say, how long have you been in tho railroad business, anyway?"-New York Herald
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FAME WON BY ACCIDENT.
Bastien Lepage's First Successful Picture
 Was an Advertisement.

Bastien Lepage's First Successful Picture
 Was an Advertisement.
 The great French painter, Bastien Lepage, was pursued by unmerciful dis aster through his youth in his efforts to study art His mother worked in the fields to keep that sickly boy at school. At 15 he went to Paris alone, starved for seven years, painted without success, but still painted. He had just finished a picture to send to the salon when Paris was besieged, and he rushed with his comrades to the trenches.
 On the first day shell fell into his studio and destroyed his picture, and another shell foll at his feet, wounding him. He was carried home and lay il and idle for two years Then he re- turned to Paris and reduced to abso- lute want, painted cheap fans for liy- ing. One day a manufacturer of some patent medicine ordered picture from him to illustrate its virtues. Lepage, who was sincere, gave his best work to the advertisement. He painted land scape in the April sunlight. The leaves of tender green quivered in the breeze; a group of beautiful girls gathered around fountain from which the elixir of youth sprang in a bubbling stream. Lepage believed there was real merit in it.
 Let me offer it at the salon, he asked his patron.
 The manufacturer was delighted. ''Rut first paint a rainbow arehing over the fountain, " he said, with the name of my medicine upon it." Lepage re- fused. tThen l will not pay you sou for tho pioturel' The price of this pie ture meant bread for months, and the painter had long needed bread. The chance of admission to the salon was small He hesitated. Then he silenced his hunger and carried the canvas to the salon. It was admitted. Its great success insured Lepagea place in public recognition and his later work place among the greatest of living artists - Current Literature.
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Blackie and the Magician.

Many years ago 'the Wizard of the North" gave somo performances in Ed inburgh, and Professor Blackie was one of tho crowd who went to see them AS he WAS making his way in he felt some thing at his coattail, and putting his haad into his pocket he found an egg. This he took out and most adroitly transferred it to the pocket of young man just ill front of him, person as unlike himself as can well be imagined. Arrived ill the hall, he remarked where this young man placed himself and chose his own seat i'll a corner as remote as possible. When the time came for Wizard" Anderson to Trouble him for the egg, he arose and explained that he had nothing of the sort ill his pocket, but that he believed that gentleman could produce it. pointing to the aston ished young man, whose surprise, how ever, by no means equaled that of the wizard. M. A. ill London News
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LoNeFELLows FIRST POETRY.
He Was More Than Thirty When His First
 Volume Was Published.


 Toward the end of 1886 he took up his abode in Cambridge, whore he was to reside for the rest of Lis life-for 45 years. He was made to feel at home in the society of the scholars who cluster ed about Harvard, then almost the sole center of culture in the country. His work for the college was not so exact ing that he had not time for literature. The impulse to write poetry returned, yet the next book he published was the prose Hyperion, " which appeared in 1889, and which, though it has little plot or action, may be called a romance. The youthful and poetic hero, a passion ate pilgrim in Europe, was, more or less, q reflection of Longfellow himself.
 A few months later in the same year he published his first volume of poetry -"Voiees of the Night''-in which he reprinted certain of his earlier verses, most of them written while he was at Bowdoin. Some of these boyish verses show the influence of Bryant, and oth- CTS reveal to us that the young poet had not yet looked at life for himself, but still saw it through the stained glass windows of European tradition. The same volume contained also some more recent poems-"The Belcaguered City" and ''The Reaper and the Flowers" and the. Psalm of Life perhaps the first of his poems to win swift and abiding popularity. These lyrics testified that Longfellow was beginning to have a style of his own. As Hawthorne wrote to him, Nothing equal to them was ever written in this world-this vest ern world, mean, ''
 Certainly no American author had yet written any poem of the kind so good as the best of those in Longfel- lows volume of Ballads, printed two years later. Better than any other American poet Longfellow had master ed the difficulties of tho story ill song, and he knew how to combine the swift ness and the picturesqueness the ballad requires. His ballads have more of the old time magic, more of the early sim plieity, than those of any other modern English author Of its kind there is nothing better in the language than ''The Skeleton In Armor, " with it's splendid lyric swing, and "'The Village Blacksmith" and ''The Wreck of the Hesperus' are almost as good in their humber sphere. Excelsior, |" in the same volume, voices tho noble aspira- tions of youth and has been taken to heart by thousands of boys and girls - Professor Brander Matthews in St. Nicholas
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AN lNslDloUs VICE.
Gambling Is Worse Than Drunkenness to
 Business Integrity.


 Business Integrity.
 "GambIing is the skulking, poison ous foe to business integrity, said an experienced business man. You can SC the signs of drunkenness, ;" he said, "and guard against being damaged by a drinking partner or employee, but more often than not you know nothing of the gamblers downward progress until your losses tell the tale. I have seldom seen a case ill which the habit of gambling did not have the oompan- ion habit of lying. The lying gets worse as the gambling becomes confirmed. Your gambling associate comes along with such cheerful mask of falsehood that you arc indignant when somebody intimates that he is treading the dan gerous path of dallianee with cards or horses.
 Some years ago I had little expe- rience which I'ye no doubt many mer- chants can duplicate. I was a manag- ing partner Ill branch of one of the most extensive houses ill St. Louis. We had salesman whom we valued high ly. It came to our knowledge that he was falling in love with poker. I said that he must be warned The other partner thought he was all right, but consented to the warning. In a few months the man collected a bill and lost tho money at poker. then insisted on reporting a discharge to the main firm, but my partner stuck to his faith in the mans promises. Finally we com- promised by retaining the delinquent on condition that my partner notify the firm that he would be personally re- sponsible for losses caused by repeti- tion of the occurrence. We also sent to every customer a notice that all bills should be paid directly to our head quarters.
 Before six months had passed the salesman managed to collect bill of $1, 500 and lost every dollar
 My partner took the money out of his pocket and reimbursed the firm. It is not necessary. to tell anybody who knows gamblers that he never received a cent from the man he had befriended
 "The preacher and the lawmaker may grade other vices as more heinous, but the merchant and tho banker who know what is good for them are more afraid of gamblers than of anything else. o-St Louis Globe Democrat
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MT. vaux Did Dance With Her.

The story often told that the late Hon. Richard Vaux had danced with Queen Victoria has been denied quite frequently since his death, but as a matter of fact he did dance with the queen. He was not her partner, it is true, but danced in what was known as the queen s cotillon at tho ball given in her honor i'll 18G7, when he was sec- retary of the United States legation. Mir. Vaux was selected by the queen her self as one of tho seven persons to join with her in the dance, very great honor. In the course of the eyolutions i'll the cotillon he danced with the queen. This statement was made by Mr. Vaux to we'll known Pennsylva- nian who served with him in the Fifty first congress. Philadelphia Record.
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How Flies Walk on Window Panes.

The microscope reveals the neat con trivance which enables fly to walk up window pane or defy the laws of gravity by gliding along, back down ward, on the ceiling The magnifier shows the foot to be made up of two pads covered with fine, short hair, each pad having hook above it. Behind each pad is a bag filled with sticky liquid which oozes out whenever the fly puts his foot down. The amount which is pressed out of each foot is very small indeed, but taken all together it is ann ply sufficient to hold the insect in any position he chooses. St Louis Repub' lie
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Preparing For a Gaming.

Kit Alexander had been warned sev- eral times for breaches of school disoi. pline and was at length reported to the head master. who gave him a final warning. One night not long after Kit was again caught in mischief, and he felt that tls;s time he was in for 1t. U A fiogging by the doctor was no joke, and Kit determined to make what prep aration he could that the wind might be tempered to the shorn lamb
 On rising the next morning he put on first his undershirt, then layer oi stiff brown paper, then his jerseys, upon these a sweater and over all clean white shirt, borrowed from his chum, whose clothing was two sizes larger than his own Lastly he put on his coat and vest.
 It was very hot day in June, and at morning intermission Kit whispered to a friend: Pm nearly stifled. I hope he'll give it to me now.
 But the doctor said nothing and Kit went on slowing until dinner time He felt half inclined to dispense at least with tho sweater before afternoon school, but fear of the doctor's cane deterred him.
 All through the afternoon be suffered untold misery, mopping his face until his handkerchief would mop no more But at longth, just before dismissal, came a messenger The doctor would liko to sec Alexander in his study. ''
 On entering the study the boy saw the supple, snakolike cane lying on the table.
 Well. Alexander. 3 said tho doctor, T can go on warning you no longer You hayo brought this upon yourself But as it is your first visit hero for such q purpose l shall make your punish ment somewhat mflder. Hold out your hand; four on eaeh!"-Y outh's Com panion