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HISTORY OF A DAY.
Alameda County Happenings Told in
Brief Chapters.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, J
9OS Broadway June (

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,
9OS Broadway, June 9. !
Mrs. Edward Gilligan, mother of Edward f.
Gilligan, the well-known Democratic politi-
clan, who had charge OF the County Jail dur
ing ex-Sherif McKillican's term, is dead
The decree of stribution of the estate of the
late Joseph Mscdonough, owner of the Mac
donough Theater, VINO died in San Francisco
two years ago, was placed on record this morn
ing.
The local State banks have received the cir
cular from the Board of State Bank Examin-
ers asking for showing as to the condition OF
the banks on March q The request was based
on the demand of Governor Budd.
Grace Baker, 15-year-old girl, living at 6O7
Mission street, San Francisco, ran away from
home this morning and it is thought she came
to Oakland on the 2 O'Clock ferry with an un-
known woman.
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United Citizens.

OAKLAND, CAL, June "a number of
citizens residing east of Broadway and
west of the lake have made donations to
the fund which the West Oakland I'm
proyement Club is raising to pay for the
filling of the Twelith-street marsh. Their
act is considered as substantial proof of
their interest in the public welfare, re-
gardless OF sectional boundaries.
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Growth of Language.

"Look here" said the editor, ''you in
clude in this poem line about the earth
cycling around the sun"
Eyes, replied the poet confidently, ''and
I'll stand by it. That line, sir, is not only
an example of polished expression, but it
is astronomically correct"
"Mebbe so, but il won't go here. 'Cy-
cling around the SUM- he repeated
scornfulIy. "Why don't you take the
earth and put bloomers on it and be done
with it2"-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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their commission from their commander.
There was no enrolment of members,
no election of officers, and the meeting
Army service. The volunteer organ, the
Gazette, was on sale, and the band con-
sisted of a single snaredrum. The leader
paid high tribute TO the Salvation Army,
and said that there was no opposition,
but that there is ample room for the new
organization. There was a moderate
audience.
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SPIRIT SURGEONS.
Failing to Heal a Broken Leg, Mrs.
Ackerman Came to the Receiv-
ing Hos pitaI.


OAKLAND, CAL, June 9.-Mrs. Nancy
Ackerman, an old lady who resides near
Peterhoff Castle, Fruityale, was brought
to the Receiving Hospital suffering from a
broken thigh bone yesterday. She is a
strong believer in spiritualism, and at
tempted to deceive herself into the belief
that there was nothing more than an
acute attack of sciatic rheumatism, from
which she has been great sufferer in the
past.
But when her whole leg swelled up to
an enormous size and the pains became
unbearable, she began the hot water treat
ment to reduce the Inflammation. Her
DAUGHTER finally prevailed on her to come
to the Receiving Hospital and be treated.
AS the result of her delay it is probable
that she will be a cripple for the balance
of her life.
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not be coerced. 1 do not think that you
were justified in taking your wife and
children into the place where you proposed
TO take them. You sought to bring them
down to the level of the sea, where sewers
emptied into the water. You wanted to
separate your wife and children from their
friends. You wanted them to undergo a
feeling of repugnance while you were ena-
bled to be near the place in which you
wanted to and in which you liked to wofk. -
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oakland,s Word-PaInter.

OAKLAND, CAL, June 9.-Rev. Ed
wards Davis, pastor of the Central Chris
tian Church, who has appeared on the
platform throughout the coast, Is to make
his first appearance before an Oakland au-
dience Friday night at the Young Mems
trated word picture of seven and seventy
scenes of American natural wonders.
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of oakIanders in quest OF gold. The news
is an unexpected shock to the family
and friends as when he left here he was
in the best OF health and had great expec-
tations for the future. He leaves a widow,
two daughters and son.
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THIS DAY AT II A. NJ.
43712 FOURTH ST., NEAR BRYANT
WELLKEPT FURNITURE OF ROOMS.
FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD Auctioneer,
l9 Montgomery st.

The butcher-shops and restaurants were
all in good condition. The sanitary in
spector had inspected fifteen new houses
and received $66 in fees. DR.. Lubbock re-
ported twenty -four contagious diseases re-
corded during the month; number of
deaths eighteen, births 25. DR.. L. w.
Stidham was appointed on the Board of
Health in place of DR.. G. c. zeyn, deceased.
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Booths Volunteers.

OAKLAND, CAL, June 9.-Ballington
Booths volunteers held their first meeting
tonight at Ashbury Church. The meeting
was led by G. e. Veeder and wife, but they
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AWAY FROM HOME.
Death of G. j. G. Brandt From Pneu.
monia in Alaska.

GOLDEN GATE, CAL June 9.-The
family of G. ]. G. Brandt, who resides on
First avenue and Summer street, have re-
ceived news of the death of the husband
and father in far-off Alaska from pneu-
monia. He left here a little over two
months ago for Cooks Inlet with party
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r smart Broadway, New
1 \ York, druggist has
this sign hanging outside
his store, it marks the
new era of drug selling.
Is it any wonder that he
has to enlarge his quar-
ters, that his clerks are
busy, and that his store is
one of the most popular
along the leading thor
oughfare7
You can afford to trade
with a druggist that has
such a motto as that.
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Responses Followed With Type.
Written Copies of the
Service.
WILLIS POLK WAS BEST MAN.
The Bride Is the Niece of State
Harbor Commissioner
Cole.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL, ,

Douglas Tilden, the well-known scuIp-
tor, and Miss Bessie Cole were united in
marriage to-day by Rev. DR.. ]. K. Mclean.
The wedding occurred at the home of the
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AUCTION SALE /!

Master Paxton; organ solo, "March
Mllitaire," by Miss Lille Smith; piano
solo, "Air de Ballet" Master thomas
Morrison, and a soprano solo, lies
Phalenes," by Miss Gussie Mast
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AUCTION Sales
PAVILION AUCTION HOUSE.
3I9-3a1 sutter ST., Above Grant Ave


At 1870 Market St., bet. 7th and Sth,
THIS DAY,
Wednesday. June 10, 1896,
At IL A. NJ, 1 will sell
$4,000 worth or New Stoves and Ranges. Agate
ware of all kin1s, Hardware and Tools, Tinware,
Glassware, Chinaware, Iroekery, Woodenware,
Lamps, Shades, Brushes, Brooms, Door Mats, Rat
Traps Baskets and other useful articles too
numerous to mention. S. BASCH, Auctioneer.
R9s- sale without limit reserve to clean up
the business.
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Board of Health.

ALAMEDA, CAL, June 9.-At the ad-
journed meeting of the Board of Health
this evening the veterinary inspector re-
ported that the general sanitary condition
of the dairies in the district had much i'm
proved. He had examined ninety-seyen
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A WEALTHY NAN.

It is sometimes said that Washing
ton was in his day the richest Amer
lean. 1t would be difficult to prove
this. and doubtless the statement is an
exaggeration, such as the common
country tale that Washington could
"stand and Jump twenty-five feet" 1t
is needless to say that no such record
OF his prowess in this line has come
down to US.
1t used also to be said that Washing
ton had once thrown dollar across
the Potomac. Mr.. Evarts's witty COM
ment that "a dollar would go further
in those days, you know" Is we'll re-
membered.
Washington was not, however, the
man to throw away dollar. He was
precise, careful and methodical. In
youth he was, and expected to remain,
comparatively poor as he was younger
son, and the family followed the Eng
lish cutoms of primogeniture-so fur,
at least, us concerned the family estate,
Mount Vernon, which was left to Lau.
renee Washington. Lawrence died in
1852, and his infant daughter shortly
afterward, leaving the estate to George.
His marriage with the wealthy
widow of John Parke Custis brought
him more wealth, and his investments
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turn to Africa to tight, to stop some bit
OF murderous lead, while Casimir and
were amusing ourselves at the opera.
I must confess some men really do
deserve credit. Look at this young man
of thirty, handsome, intelligent fell
low, fighting out there in No Mans
Land, just escaping death in a hospital
ward, and perfectly satisfied to come
and spend his sick leave with his mother
like simple college boy at our country
home! No woman is in his life. No,
not one! He receives no letters, he
writes none. He will soon join his regi-
ment to begin anew life Of fatigue,
obedience, toll, devotion, remuneration,
to end in getting shotin some out-of the
way corner, and dying like an animal,
without careful attention, without tender
nursing. Isn't it admirable?
lcould not bring myself to ask mamma
to authorize Casimir to propose. But l
did the next best thing. AS he only
came out to the country twice week,
I found out way to have him there
all the time. I told Rene freely and
frankly everything in regard to my, IN
tention Of marrying Casimlr, ana Dy
60 doing made it possible for me 10
talk about him at any and all tunes, Just
as if he were present. knew cou-d
trust Rene, that he wouldn't mention 1t
either TO mamma or to his mother.
Wasn't right in doing so? Suppose my
marriage shouldn't take place-an ab-
surd supposition, but everything is pos
sible-Rene's lips would be sealed for
ever.
In thus making q coafidant Of my
cousin I would have the satisfaction of
seeing how he took it-what effect it
had upon him-for while out walking
the day before with his mother, who
was absolutely ignorant of my intent,
she had let drop certain words, from
which concluded that she was feeling
how the land lay, as the expression is.
I feigned not to understand. Could she
have had, thought I, some scheme in
view in thus visiting US with her son?
To tell Rene everything would be to
end his hopes then and there. Would
it not be more loyal' But all this time
there was nothing forbidding me to
keep an eye on him, to observe how he
acted. If was ever in his thoughts he
must have had splendid control over
himself. he didn't draw a muscle. He
thanked me for my confidence in him,
and asked me to preserve it always and
under all circumstances. Under all cir
cumstances? Did he foresee something
which I did not? Did he have differ
ent opinion from me in regard to CAST
mir? made up my mind to observe him
very closely when they were together,
to see if he manifested any spite, any
GOODNESS.
He grasped his hand with genuine
cordiality, and from the moment he
learned Of my affection for Casimir he
appeared to take the greatest interest in
him. It's quite likely that he has never
given me thought and that he is not
in his mothers scheme at all; that he
looks upon me as his little cousin, as d
little girl, in fact.
Meanwhile I'm delighted with the
effect of my frankness. Casimir has
completely gotten over his alarm and is
perfectly at ease with Rene. They've
become the best Of frieLds, and take
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LETTER NO. 4.
cIMv rN CANE

When I left my room the next morn
Ing, dear Blanche, had ma'ie up my
mind to one thing-it was TO say to
mamma that she might authorize CAST
mir to ask for my hand. 1t Was the only
thing 1 could do to make atonemcnt TO
my own conscience Tor the cowardly
act-yes, there's no other word for it
which I had committed. 1t was neces-
gary for me to punish myself at once.
Why punish myself? Would my becom-
ing Casimir's wife be u punishment'
What Juggling with words was this? 1
was deeply agitated, dissatisfied with
Casimir, with Rene, with myself above
all, for the two others were quite inno-
cent. Casimir loved me and was jealous.
He was afraid he was going to lose me:
He let me see it; it was very natural
he should. Rene had guessed our love-
OWNED our intentions. He had told me
30 frankly. He praised the man that
vas in love with. Why shouldn't ne,
since he wasn't in love with me him
self? Why should he love me? he
had other things to do. He was to re:
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HIS STEpCHILDREN.

Like Napoleon, Washington had two
stepchildren, Doy and girl, and, as
in Napoleon's case, the love between
him and them was as close and warm
as ii he had been their father in the
flesh.
As Eugene de Beauharnais became
Napoleon's aid, young John Parke
Custis served Washington in a. like ca.
pacity. At the siege Of Yorktown
young Custis contracted camp fever,
and died of it, at the age of twenty
seven. Young as he was, he left q
widow, Eleanor Calvert. q descendant
of Lord Baltimore; son, George
Washington Parke Gusts, a baby
daughter, Nellie, who, with the boy,
was adopted by Washington, and two
elder daughters, Eliza and Martha,
who became the wives of Thomas Law
and Thomas Peter. Four children by
father of twenty-seven was not an
extraordinary record in those days.
Washington's other stepchild died
even younger than the young Custis.
whose death at Yorktown saddened
the hour of victory. She WAS named
Martha for her mother, and died
young, in 1773.
1t thus happened that, after the
wars close left some opportunity for
domestic life, Washington had about
him no young people except his adopt
ed grandchildren, G. W. P. and Nelly
Custis. And the girl was easily his
favorite.
Nelly Custis was a girl of singular
grace and beauty, and would not have
needed the high position of her family
TO support her position as a belle
in Virginia. Her face was mobile and
expressive rather than regular, and,
alone among the ladies of her day, her
portraits show her as girl like those
OF o.day. She was thoroughly mol
ern in appearance. She married Law
renee Lewis, Washington's favorite
nephew. =,
1t may be noted, as a rather odd
fact, that Martha Gusts, Mrs. Wash
ington's granddaughter, named her
three daughters Columbia. America
and Britannia Wellington.
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scarcely less wild trappers or squatters
upon his Lordship's domain. Wash.
ington had been selected by the old
nobleman because of his belief in the
Youths ability to cope with these ele-
ments, and the young surveyor left
his home on the banks of the Potomac
early in 174S, just after the compile
ton of his sixteenth year, his only
companion being George William
Fairfax, nephew of old Lord Thomas.
Whether these boys erected the build
ing or found it already in place his
tory does not state, but well.aathenti.
Gated tradition says that they built it
themselves. That they used it for an
Office, kept their instruments there
and slept in the upper room. there is
ample proof Here, during all the
summer of 174S, when not actively
engaged in the field, they were busy
with their Office work or in defining
bounds for the settlers.
The old hut has, in the memory OF
the present generation, done duty as
"milk house, for farmers. OF the
dense copse of trees which Howe says
shaded the spring, only a tai! and
sturdy elm remains. On o hill not
far away is "Soldier's Rest" another
log cabin-itself of historic interest
also, for in it lived Daniel Morgan,
the rough teamster who afterward be-
came Washington's right hand in the
War for Independence Morgan, the
hero of Quebec and Saratoga, and the
man who destroyed Tarleton at the
Cowpens and checked the tide OF
British victories. Morgan was con-
spicuous figure in all the rough and
tumble fights that gave the little town
of Berryville the name OF Bsttleto~n,
by which it was known for 100 years,
and after these encounters he would
20 and sit on the rocks down BY the
old Washington cabin while his wife
would bathe his bruised and cut head
in the cooling waters of the spring,
and bind up his bloody wounds.
It seems almost pity that this old
cabin should be allowed to crumble
away in tho Virginia pasture field
where it has stood for l45 years. The
great elm tree looks as if it was good
for a thousand years yet, while the
rock and the spring will be there for
evermore, but sun and wind and rain
have made sad ravages in the hut that
sheltered the youthful Washington.
The present owner of the cabin is G.
G. Gaines, of Berryyille. New York
| Tribune.
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real pleasure in being together. And
30 We three pass our time walking. talk
ing and riding. Rene is fine artist,
and Casimir is good musician. Now
that Rene is with US there was no rea-
son why Casimir should keep up his
fixed and official visits, and SO mamma
invited him to- come and spend a fort
night with us. And. in the mean
time" said she, II shall, as occasion
offers, let our friends know the truth OF
the matter"
But, dear Blanche, have asked for
delay. My soul is so deeply and mys-
teriously enraptured as I am, that is,
when don't get terror-stricken at my
position. I protest to you that Rene
has not made Casimir lose in my eyes,
but still Casimir's rights have not
blinded me as to Rene's qualities.
When one of them is away lack some
thing. How shall I express myself?
They are complementary to one an
other. One is light, the other is dark;
one is Partisan full Of wit. the other
is an Oriental full of melancholy: both
are handsome, brave, intelligent, re-
fined. Need / assure you, Blanche,
that if I had been Casimir's wife be-
fore Rene arrived I should not have
glanced at my cousin, for I'm quite
sure Of my own honesty; or had been
Renes wife T. shouldn't have noted
Casimir. To sum up, dearest, incred-
ible as it may seem, I'm as happy with
one as with the other, but when they
are both with me my happiness is much
greater. Yes, it is perfect.
When l am alone ut night interro-
gate myself. prove myself; attempt
| to namrare thAna two beings. I see
them in no uncertain light, but just as
they are, completely different, but
equally full of tenderness and sym.
pathy. I resolved last night to fal
asleep while all my thoughts were with
| Casimir, and succeeded, but 1 drean
of Rene all night long. In word, deal
Blanche. give ear but keep my secret
| l love two men, and say it must,
| love one as we'll as the other. IT.
| Inonstrous! At times I wish that some
deadly ailment might come upon me tt
| get me out of this tangle. Have pit.
on me. dearest, and tell me what TO do
| You know.
LETTER No. 8.
| BLANCHE TO ApRIENSE. (Return mail)
| Since you love one as we'll as you d.
the other, toss up copper! Marry tn
one chance selects for you. You viii
| probably regret the other up to the
morning Of your marriage. You won
think OF him after that. Kisses am
consolation from your old school friend
BLANCHE
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his CURIOUS FALSE TEETH.

The peculiarly square and clumsy
look of Washington's jaw in tie Stuart
portrait and other late pictures OF him
makes him look very unlike the slight
faced and rather handsome man shown
in his earlier portraits.
This curious appearance was due to
his false teeth.
The science of dentistry is only a
hundred years old, and at the first
false teeth were not only very expen.
sive but extremely imperfect. The
first dentist who ever practiced IN
America was LIE Mair, a visitor with
the French army in the Revolution,
though before that time jewelers. had
made few sets of false teeth, and, OF
course, physicians had extracted mol
ars whose usefulness was outlived.
Washington's teeth were made by
John Greenwood, of New York, the
first American dentist, who carved a
complete set of teeth out of sea.horse
ivory IN 1890. The work OF making
the teeth occupied long time, and
they were fastened into the mouth,
not by the familiar principle OF sue
tion. but by complicated and ingeni'
GUS arrangement of springs and bands
of steel, which partly filed the mouth
and made the lips bulge out, psrticu'
larly the lower one.
The processes of dentistry improv'
ing somewhat, Greenwood made an
other set of teeth for Washington in
1895, and the portraits of him painted
after that year show rather less Of the
grim appearance about the lips which
characterizes the most familiar por
trait of the first President, though II
some of his portraits he is represent
ed as he looked-with no teeth at al
in his mouth.
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WASHINGTON,S CABIN HOME.

His Humble Abode While Surveying
the Wilderness for Lord Fairfax.
Sunshine aud storm have been at
work upon it for generations, and yet
there are few buildings that attract
the admirers of Washington that have
more of interest in them than the de.
caying cabin, which stands alone in an
old pasture field half mile from
Berfyville, in the beautiful Shenan.
doah Valley of Virginia.
The old. cabin was the home OF
Washington when he was surveyor.
He came here direct from the mater
nal roof to begin the arduous and, at
that time, dangerous work of survey
ing the lands of Thomas, Lord Fair.
fax, who owned all the northern part
of Virginia under the Kings patent
the work was arduous because OF the
physical aspect of the country, then q
dense wilderness, and dangerous be.
cause of the character of the inhabi.
tants, who were principally Indians OF
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ess. its dread soIemnity.

can we'll imagine a person smiling at
the news Of the loss Of fortune, l can
even conceive Of dying person being
so frivolous as to push the holy sacra-
ment aside with ribald epithet, but l
cannot imagine a woman who has ever
truly loved a man as jesting over the
pang of a sister. No, Blanche, like the
eyeless fish of the black waters OF some
subterranean lake, the glory OF the sun
shine is lost upon you! I love you still,
dear Blanche. I always shall love you,
but you're not the woman I stand in
need of just at present. Many thanks
for the suggestion, but 1 never carry
copper coin in my portemonnaie.
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his LOVE AFFAIRS.

It was fsted that Washington, like
Napoleon, was to be the victim of
more than one disappointment in love.
Every. one knows how attentive he
was to: Mary Phillipse, of the good, old
Westchester family whose house is
now the City Hall OF Yonkers, during
q stay in New York, but there was a
Virginian love affair considerably ear
ller.
His first love was the charming Sal
ly Gary, one of that aristocratic Vir-
ginia family of Carys, of which Mrs.
Burton Harrison Constance Cary is
in our day a member. 10 her he
wrote love poems, anonymous, printed
in the Virginia Gazette, and other
love poems, not anonymous, sent to
her in manuscript. These rhymes de-
scribed his 'poor, restless heart,
pierc'd by Cupid's DART" and made
use of the other rhymes of "dove, "
''love," and "above," not unfamiliar
in every age. With her, too, he
danced at the festivals of St. Tamma-
nv, the titular saint of the Colonies.
But Miss Cary would not listen to
the suit of the long-legged frontiers
man, and married instead his dearest
friend and woods companion, George
William Fairfax, and went to live at
Belvoir, the Fairfax seat. When pref
ty Sally Fairfax died in England.
years afterward, her Virginian heirs
found some of Washington's love let
ters, and these have been kept unpub-
lished ever since.
Until the war, however, Mrs. Sally
and her husband continued to live IN
the Colonies. Five years after Wash:
ington's courtship Of her, when he had
become famous in frontier warfare,
be met at Mr.. Chamberlayne's house
on the Pamunkey River, the Widow
GUSTS, whom he afterward married.
Of course, the Belvoir ladies saw a
great deal Of tho mistress Of Mount
Vernon, md Virginia gossip, which
tukes the harmless form of tradition,