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The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22

during my service here, and I'm proud of
that record, guess.
.The Whitehall boat that / use is 10 feet
long with 3 fest 8 inches beam. In day.
time any body can see ships, but it is not
such pleasant position to be out in the
bay at night in rain and blow in lonely
boat, watching over the waves for each and
every spark of light In dense fogs the
work is fraught with many difficulties. A
sailing vessel at night has only green
light on the starboard side ana red light
on the port side. You stand with your
glass till you catch a glimpse of those
lights; then offIyou go in your Whitehall.
As soon as you get the ships name no
time is lost in getting the information to
the consignees and wires the arrival to all
parts of the world. Coastwise vessels carry
manifests for the exchange, and these are
rushed uptown from the wharf by horse.
People in general never think of the
trouble and the perils that have secured
the few lines of shipping intelligence which
they scan in the morning papers at the
breakfast table-the lines especially that
tell of arrivals in the night.
twenty vessels day all the year round.
On extraordinary days we have as high as
from forty to fifty"
Twenty-Five thousand miles around the
globe!. Two-thirds of that distance COW
cred by Whitehall boat each year for six
years. Mr.. Fitzgerald is ruddy and robust
and young-looking. 1t may easily be pre-
dicted that, before he lays by the oars and
retires to an easy old age among the less
venturesome landsmen, he will have
traversed in his Whitehall distance
which, if measured by a continuous line,
would permit of that line being tied
around the earth, stretched thence to the
moon and there made secure by turn or
two about the silvery orb of night.
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who shall be the envy and admiration OF
the outside world in future day-just as
in the living present are our eternal sum-
mers, our rivers in the clouds, our noun
tains that merge their blue into the blue
of the sky, our giant trees, our f1owery val
leys, and we may as we'll adopt the old
nursery phrase and say our whole "land
of milk and honey"
Beauty in nature is everywhere visible
here, and beauty in the race will be. in a
large measure, begotten by continuous
contemplation of beauty in our environ
ments.
Beauty of mind. beauty of face, beauty
of form, will be the common heritage of
posterity at some time in California. Our
San Francisco high school girls are exam
Piles of what the future shall see through
out the West.
These girls may write the ''new novel"
that shall be indicative of fine sentiment
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equals nearly eight trips around the world.
Sounds strange, does it? Listen while.
Michael j. Fitzgerald, reporter of shirs
at Meiggs wharf for the Merchants Ex-
change, is SO years old and has made his
home OH the water. one might say, from
the time he was old enough and stout
enough to master an oar. For twenty
years he has been engaged in Whitehall
boating on the bay.
''My first six years were the llyeliest Of
all,' declared Mr.. Fitzgerald. "Then
ships were plentiful, commerce brisk and
freights high. The ships were hardly ever
above 1400 tons register; now we get them
from $500 to 1900 tons. Then rates to the
United Kingdom were from f3 los to f5
the ton; now the rate is Dos. 1t makes a
big difference. During my first six years
of boating the Whitehalls went out as far
as the FaralIon Islands or thereabouts
We might cruise around for hours waiting
for ships and, again, we might meet them
far inside the whistling buoy.
Sometimes we might take advantage of
a tow; but, as q rule. Whitehall men
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n Tis only few ye ars over five centu-
ries since the Genoese navigator
knocked the props of ancient ignor-
ance from under the old delusions
that the earth was fat and that GU
sousiy inclined people who pushed on far
,nourh in one direction were destined TO
ake a tumble into eternal space from the
tagged edge OF the limited square OF the
sorld. An age has not elapsed
dnce a novelist gave to the realm
II fiction a hero who was sup
,osed TO oyerstep the bounds of belief by
,acing around the globe in eighty days.
ANYBODY with sufficient means at com
hand can achieve that kind OF record
Io-day. In fact, eighty days is rather
flow; sixty being the record of actuality;
ind if Inventor Gresham of New YORK
,ets his submarine boat into successful
torking order we may expect to journey
rom continent to continent. through the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22

What delightful scene is presented of
an afternoon in the summery winter or
the blossom wreathed spring when the
troops of merry San Francisco maidens
are lightly, laughingly, marching away
from the Girls High School. Then and
there you may behold a genuine Califor-
MIA picture. knowledge looks from their
eyes; their faces wear the hues and the
smiles of health; they walk with graceful
steps, withaI as dignifed and with every
bit as much queenly independence as
Charles Dana Gibson gives to his ideal
American girl. In fact, it seems more
than probable that Gibson got his IDEAL
from composite of the California girl.
The "queenliness" of our girls, anyhow,
should be a characteristic feature. 1t was
a bright young woman of the West who
pertly explained when, instead of bowling
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and wide knowledge and high culture In
its author, and that shall be devoid of
trash.
These girls may restore the art of con-
versation, now nearly lost, and dispiace
pretense and emptiness by worth and
solidity.
These girls, SO far as their power and in
fiuence extend. may elevate the tone of
society. and teach the world to respect in
tellect where it now bows down to mere
pocket-book.
These girls may augment the fame of
California in many ways, and, observing
Athem as they glide down the high school
steps and march healthfully away, one is
our excellent system of education, there is
not q doubt but that these girls will fulfill
the lofty and bright hopes for their future
that every good citizen is happy to nur-
ture in his heart.
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SAN FRANCISCOS HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.

at the feet OF her Royal Majesty of Eng
land and kissing the royal hand, she had
stepped up to the throne-cbair and aston
ished Queen Victoria by grasping her hand
and shaking it heartily, and when an
officious and offended man-in waiting
whispered to the young woman from over
the sea, "Only sovereigns meet on equal
terms': 'Sir, in America we are all
sovereigns in our own right.
If one has ever seriously considered the
questions, as woman qualified to voter"
and "What will the effect be when our
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sisters shall WELD the franchise that vain
men now monopolize?" there is half a So
luton in a passing study Of these high
school girls. One is prone to think that,
fitted by intellectual qualifications, these
girls might be of assistance in warding off
election-day mistakes.
If the rising young women all over the
land be as promising as the high school
girls of San Francisco. the coming woman
is near at hand At least, she is not more
than an age away, and statesmen a few
years hence need entertain no alarm at
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comforting the great republican privilege
on women of the day about to dawn.
The San Francisco girl, as she is seen at
the Girls High School, is OF type that
poets from time immemorial have gone
into ecstacies about. 1t is not to be won
poetry and song. All things that serve as
inspirations to genius are here. Nature
has lavished her bounties on us and all the
surroundings here conduce to the propa-
cation on these western shores of people
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22

sANBoRN, Vail & Co. have new goods all over
their store. Don't think of old styles or old
prices. What 81 used to buy so cents will
likely buy now. They have stacks of new and
beautiful things in pictures, frames, artists
materials, leather goods, stationery, lamps
and shades, sSti6cial flowers and toilet articless
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~ ALIFORNIA directs the world
n with honest pride to her glorious
IL climate, to her flowers that never
~ fade, to her fruits that are equaled
nowhere else in beauty or quality.
The land of the West excels in all these
things and more, but the goddess who sits
by the Golden Gate, the brown bear re-
posing at her feet, has more reasons to
ling Eureka" than mortals in the dis
sance may have dreamed.
The choicest flowers, the rarest gems of
this sundown by the sea cannot be pic
hrred in black or white, for what artist can
paint the dew on the rose or the flash of
!he diamond, and what artist can do JUS
ice to the rosy freshness and the captivat-
ng graces of our California girls?
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-12-05
A QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP.

It's Cultivation Is n Great Industry In
Mexico.
Athlgh noon, as 1 rode across the wide
spreading prairie, halted at Il SQUAT
ters cabin and inquired of man sitting
on the doorstep if 1 could get a bite to
eat.
u don't skassly think you kim" he re-
piled as he looked me over.
I'll pay you for it,"
"Ies, know, but that ain't the ouess-
ton. Fustly, the ole woman amt we're
to cook nothin', and, secondly, no.
hody knows jest who owns this claim"
isn't it yours?" asked.
"Wall, L sorter reckon to consider it
was, but Yesterday q feller Gums along
to jump me. He reckons to consider
that he's got the best rights"
"Then it's case of law?"
"Oh, no. Thar won't be no goin' to
law about it. No; neither one of us
want to go to law"
'How will it be decided?"
wall, he was in hurry Yesterday and
didn't hev no gun along, but he's cum
in back to-day to hev it out with me.
That's why the ole woman has gone
away. If he kin shoot ME outer the
shanty his claim is good; if he can't
then I'm goin' to bury him whar' he
fell"
And you expect him to-day?"
This AFTERNOON, sab. 1 guess that's
him down thar by the grove. If you
want to git into that hole out thar and
watch the scrimmage neither one of us
will object, but you'd better keep yer
head down."
L thanked him kindly and rode on, as
he was getting out his rifle and cart
ridges. Three days later returned that
way, and as I rode up he greeted me
with:
"Wall, stranger, you kin hev a bite
to eat to-day"
"Is your wife at home?"
Fright to home, sah."
"And how about the claim?"
81 own her."
"Then the man"
eyes, he cum, but he was poor shot.
That's whar planted him; up thar on
the hill. Git down, stranger, git down
| and hev snack with us and feel your
self at home!"-Detroit Free Press.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-12-05
Tho Tiresome Run.

"The human body" said the doctor,
throwing a wise look across the dinner
table at the superintendent, with
proper nourishment and proper excr-
else, can stand great heat and great
cold. Now, presume you haven't any
idea of the eXtremes-heat and cold"
"Oh, yes" interrupted the superin-
tendent; ''my Washington experience
teaches me that the two extremes are
ice cream and oysters. And, speaking
OF heat and cold," he continued, glanc-
ing at the bright coal fire in the CRATE,
"isn't it a little singular that the fire.
T!acc crate is cold if it is not coaIcd, and
hot a:d cold at the same time, although
ii may he coaled and hot, yet it is gen
orally cold when not coaled. Ipresumc
you catch my meaning"
But the young doctor had caught up
his hat, and was trying to catch q
cable car.-Washipgton Star.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-12-05
Homemade Minco-Meat.

Six pounds of beef boiled, then
chopped fine with two pounds of suet,
a quarter peek Of apples cut fine, three
pounds OF raisins, two of curTnnts,
thrcc-quarters of q round Of citron, one
pint Of brandy, one Of wine. Swecten
and spice to taste, as some like more
spice than others. l use cloves, CHINA
mon and nutmeg. Add cider as you
use the mince-mcat. - Philadelphia
Press,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-12-05
Court Proceedings.

A judges little daughter who had nt
tended her fathers court for the first
time was very much interested in the
proceedings. After her return home
she told her mother: "Papa made u
speech and several other men made
speeches to 12 men who sat all together,
and then these 12 men were put in q
dark chamber to be developed" d."-Pitts-
burrln Chronicle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-12-05

aDVERTISING RATES.
i, he made as low as is consistent WIZ ~
"a business principles. Apply al inc Oh
tOr terms.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-26

or not. We had to break the top open
to get into the cistern. | saw three bod
les taken out of the cistern. / did not
recognize the children, because did not
know them. | paid very little attention
to the children, but l noticed that they
were wounded about the head. | could
not say what kind of wounds they We're"
Redirect examinations: Il have known
Burt ever since have been on the force,
which is eleven years. When l showed
him the check on Pecan street he asked
me to give him an hour to get the money.
He was back in less time gave me the
money, and | gave him the check. Dur
ing this conversation, and from what
w. w. Harris testified that he had
known Burt about ten years, and lived
at No. POT East Ninth, near Burt's late
residence. 81 saw him frequently i'll the
evenings with his children. His treat
ment was always very kind. | don't re-
member to have seen him out with his
wife"
Cross-eXamined: Il never saw any act
save one of kindness toward his family
| never noticed anything out of the ordi-
nary with him. | saw him on the Satur-
day of July "A, about dusk. He was GO
ing down town. | never noticed anything
out of the usual in his appearance"
Mr.. George Walton, for the defense,
here offered in testimony some indct-
mcnts found against Burt by the Travis
county grand jury for forgery. Before
he read them, however, the defenses at
torneys consulted and Maj. Buck Walton
asked that they be given until afternoon
before reading the indictments, or con-
tinuing their testimony. This was grant
ed, and the court adjourned until
o'clock.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-26
Qrom Sundays DailyD

Yesterday the Burt trial opened prompt
ly on the appointed hour, with not only
all the interested parties on hand, but all
the spectators as well. 1t hardly passed
the hour of yesterday morning before
the crowd began to drift into the room in
small droves, and by 8 o'clock the crowd
had grown to such a big size that it
crowded the room in every nook. and
corner. The ladies had, by permission
of the court, been given seats within the
bar and were clustered as thick as black
birds around the prisoner and the re-
porters' tables. They all looked upon
the prisoner and heard the taking OF
testimony with an interest that was
worthy of careful attention on the part
of those who love to study human curl
osity. Not one whit behind the ladies
came the men. They fairly sat on one
another as they squeezed into the seats
in the auditorium part of the court room.
The adiourning hour Friday was for
$3.50 yesterday morning and none of the
interested parties put in an appearance
much before that time. The reporters
took up their positions about 9:15 and
next came the lawyers for the defense.
The jury filed in at $3.50 and in their
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-26
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Very promptly, i'll fact. at the very
moment of . o'clock precisely. everything
was in readiness for the continuance of
the case, and the first witness was call
ed. He was Geo. Walker. He said he
was upstairs in Burt's house, and in the
east room. He saw stovepipe hole in
that room and found in that an iron
washer. He looked at the floor and
found piece of the floor plank loose.
1t was about twenty-five inches long,
running from one rafter to another. 1t
was under that piece of plank that the
pump handle was found. Excused.
DR.. II. II. SmoOt was next called, but
stood aside, as DR.. Wallace was not in
the court room to hear the evidence.
But Drs. Wallace and Worsham, two
of the insanity experts at that moment
coming in, Dr. Smoot was again placed
on the stand and testified as follows:
DIR. SMOOT.
Had known Burt since July, 1874: had
known his father and mother; had been
minister of the Presbyterian church in
Austin twenty years this month. Burts
father and mother were members of his
church, and he was very intimate with
them. He stopped at their house TWEEN.
ty-four hours the second day after he
came to Austin. He came on visit
here III 1874; was then two weeks at
Burt's parents home Burt was then
about years old. He refused a cal
to the church then, but in November
1876, he accepted a call and came here
to live. Was at DR.. Burt's office fire.
quently and at his home great deal
Dr. Burt was n deacon and the treas
urer of his church. In April, 1877, DR.
Smoot moved next to Col. Sneed's house
which was within block of Dr. Burts,
| and the intimacy was increase. That
summer of 1877, DR.. Burt told him he
was greatly troubled about his boy, Eu.
gene, and n neighbor had complained of
bead purse being lost, and he feared
Eugene had stolen it. 1t developed that
Eugene Burt had stolen the purse He
wanted the money, he said, to turn to
gold, and put it under rock in the back
yard so it could rot and turn to gold
Dr. Shoots eldest boy had told him
that Eugent wanted to sell him a purse
and when DR.. Burt told him CDR. Smooth
about his suspicion, Dr. Smoot told hin,
of this circumstance. Dr. Burt asked
him Dr. SmooD to get his boy to buy
the purse, but DIR. Smoot bought the
purse and Burt got the money and put
it back in the purse as it was no good
and would not rot" Burt was born
September, 1869, and this occurrence was
in 1877, hence between and years
old. DIR. Smo0t and DIR. Burt botf
talked about the matter and tried tc
shame him so he would never do such
a thing again.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-26
THE TRIAL.

THE IKIAI.
The court room was crowded by o
o'clock, but it was 9:25 when the prisoner
walked in and took his seat. He took
off his own hat on this occasion, imme-
diately upon sitting down IN his chair.
The various attorneys for the state
9:3O and the jury came in Immediately
after and Judge Brooks taking his seat,
the court was open for business.
The defense was on deck with their
side of the case and Attorney Walton
addressed the jury, stating that in order
that the jury might more fully understand
the facts in the case he would state that
the defense in the case would be insan-
| ity. He called the attention of the jury
| to the defendants condition and asked
the jury to pay strict attention to his APP
pearance. He also stated that the lines
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-23
THE DRUMMERS' CLUB.

That was remarkable meeting of
the Bryan club at the Park Hotel last
night. An account of the speaking
appears in our local columns. The
organization embraces drummers from
half the States of the Union, and it is
a body of active and intelligent Dem
ocrats. They have gone to work with
a vim, and their influence is being
widely felt.
As was well said by one Of the
speakers, the drummer comes near
to the people. II times are hard, he
knows it and feels it. He is usually
man of large information and wide
reading, and his views are entitled to
weight. In England the average sala-
ry of the knights of the grip is from
5000 to $4,000. In this country it is
from 5000 to $4,000 The drummer
wisely does not desire to have Eng
lish policies and English salaries fss-
tened upon his country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-23
THE TRUE REMEDY.

w. NJ. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, Ill.,,
Chief" says: "We won't keep house
without DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption,C Coughs and Colds. Ex-
perimented with many others, but
never got the remedy until we used
DR.. Kings New Discovery. No other
remedy can take it's place in our home.
as in il we have a certain and sure
cure for Coughs, Colds, Whooping
Cough, eto." 1t is idle to experiment
with other remedies, even if they are
urged on you as just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery. They are not
as good, because this remedy has a
record Of cures and besides is guar
anteed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial
bottles free at John Y. McRae's Drug
Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-23

ANOTHER CASE OF COERCION
ARE ALL OUR WAGE FARMERS
TO BECOME VASSALS?

The indignation of the honest people
of the State, particularly the wage
earners, was aroused few days ago
by the publication of the fact that
Pennsylvania concern, operating the
Cumnock coal mines in Chatham coun-
ty, had discharged Mr.. George Hood,
one of their best men, because he was
supporting Mr.. Bryan for President.
To-day we print a letter from Lenoir
showing that another Pennsylvania
syndicate, owning a railroad and lum-
Der works in Caldwell county, had
discharged man personally known
by us to be not only competent and eff
ficient, but upright and honorable,
too, because he is a leader in the free
silver movement in his county. This
concern lacked the decency to give the
real reason for the discharge, but
their subsequent action proves what
was their purpose. The members of
this syndicate are now engaged in
holding rallies all over Caldwell coun-
ty, stirring up bad blood between the
negroes and whites and seeking to
dominate the politics of that section.
Their imported speakers are telling
the people that wisdom only comes
from the North, and that they ought
to follow Northern leadership.
There is limit to patience and toll
Grafton. The people of North Caro-
lima have never known anything of
the political slavery that prevails in
Pennsylvania. The employees have
worn no yoke. They have worked for
their wages, but have been free men
at the polls. The attempt of certain
outside employers to dictate the poll
tics of the men they hire is an innova-
ton which will not thrive in North
Carolina climate, and the Pennsylvania
and other concerns now engaged in
intimidation and coercion may take
notice that it will not be tolerated.
The laws of North Carolina protect
the humblest citizen in his equality
with the richest. In Pennsylvania
white slavery seems the fashion. The
attempt to transplant it upon North
Carolina soil will arouse the deepest
indignation upon the part of all free
men, and they will arouse themselves
to crush the party or parties attempt
ing to control by such brutal methods.
Can North Carolina be won for Rus
sell and the gold standard by such
methods as are being employed? What
do the honest yeomanry of the State
say to the corrupt and brutal means
introduced to put Russellism and
serfdom upon our people? Such things
will arouse the people to such indig-
nation that they will rise up in their
manhood and swear that North Caro-
lima shall not be won by corruption
and coercion, and that the party that
attempts it shall be utterly damned
and destroyed.