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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
JUVENILE BOOKS.

CHRrsTINE,S CAREER-By Pauline King. D..
Appleton & Co., New York Price u oO. For
sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
Bound in an odd cover of pea green ana sill
yer, this book cont ins much interesting read
ing for young girls. There are number OF
good illustrations and the paper and printing
are excellent. Christine was girl OF very
sweet disposition, and in the merry games and
frolics as wen as in the disagreements and
ouarrels of her set of playmates she always
brought the charm and good influence OF q
brigh. and lovable nature.
SOME SAY, AND NEIGHBORS IN CYRUS
By Laura 4. Richards Boston: Estes q Lau-
riat. Price 50 cents.
A new volume In the famous Captain jan
uary" series, of which nearly zoo. 900 volumes
have already been sold. For years the author
has charmed an ever-increas1ng circle OF
readers with her characteristic prose 1dyls OF
New England life, and these two excellent
stories written in the authors usual graceful
manner are sure OF the hearty approval of all
who pass pleasant hour in reading them.
THE wINDFALL-By William O. stoddard D.
Appleton &, Co., New York. Price 81 30. Foi
sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
This story for boys of adventures both under
and above ground deals with accidents in
mines and with great floods and snowstorms
which call for deeos of heroism in rescue work
which are nobly responded to. There are half
dozen good illustrations of the most e4ctt-
ing events in the story.
WYMPS; AND OTHER FAIRY TALEs-By
Evelyn Sharp. John Lane: The Bodley Head,
New YORK and London. Price 81 so. For sale
by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
Wymps, it seems, are not fairies, although
they have found their way into book of fairy
tales. One of the wymps to whom we are in
troduced slides to the earth on a sunbeam and
takes seat on d saltcellar on the table of the
Kings banquet, and being jealous of the
fairies, VINO had more consideration there, he
bestows upon the Prince the evil gift OF telling
everybody just what he thought of them. His
resulting rudeness is borne with patiently till
he tells the Queen her hair is turning gray.
Then her Majesty says, 1.-The dear fellow can
not be right in his head; he must have a
DOCTOR"
MIDSHIPMAN FARRAGUT-By James Barnes.
d. Appleton 81 Co., New York. Price 81. For
sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
This semi-historical story of the precocious
youth of Admiral Farragut will be OF interest
and DIT oba BILE profit to boys. Most of the Incl
dents in the tale are true happenings, and all
but one of the characters are historical. Far
ragut is represented as having possessed won.
derful fortitude and knowledge at very early
age The book is we'll illustrated with views
of ships and the sea.
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TEN GOOD ESSAYS.

THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO
LIFE-By harles Dudley Warner. Harper IL
Bros. New York. Price 81 so. For sale by A
NJ. Robertson Post street, City.
The ten bright papers from the pen of the
able essayist, Charles Dudley Warner, here
collected are very appropriately put under the
general name OF the first essay in the book
All but the first paper have previously been
printed in the Atlantic Monthly and the Gen.
fury Magazine. They show the influence of
literature over social progress, and the writer
is great believer in the power of letters in
shaping the destinies of the world. He takes
the precaution 10 say early in the first paper
that by literature he does not mean all books
but some books. He says that men busy in prac-
teal affairs do not realize the important part
Literature plays in the development of the
world and that they are prone to regard
thinkers and writer's as comparatively useless
beings He then proceeds cleverly to confute
this erroneous idea, and explains how we can
only see the truth when we look back over the
ages. Then it becomes clear that the great
men Of letters have been supreme in benefit
ing the world. 1.-THE best heritage of genera
ton from generation is the character of great
men, but We always owe its transmission to
the poet and the writer" He thinks the
world will be more permanently affected by
what Goethe said than by what Bismarck
did. All the voIuminous work of the great
Gladstone was probably not equal in lasting
benefcent power to the poem, '1r Memo
RAM"
Speaking of the force of poetry, even among
savages, he mentions that when the Jesuits
landed on the Pacific Coas t in 1868 they found
that the Indians at San Gabriel decked them
selves in flowers and engaged in song contests
which lasted three days.
There is timely essay on simplicity" in
which he states that all the masterpieces
which endure and become part of our lives are
characterized by simplicity. The eye like the
mind hates confusion and overcrowdng. In
Modern Fiction" every lover of good novels
will find it interesting TO note the observa-
tons of this bright, critical mind. In another
paper he satirizes the mournful expectations
of Mr.. Froude's Progress" The Importance
of using acquisitions is pointed out in 'What
Is Your Culture to Me?" and the "NOvel and
the Common School, tells of training children
m l0v II
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and the Beggar Maid" and the ever.fascinat.
ing tale of Fair Rosamond has such pleading
picture of the poor girl kneeling before those
"dragon eyes of augered Eleanor as greatly
adds to the impression always made by the
ballad, that this was one of those rare cases in
which frsilty was sweeter far than the virtue
which denounced it. The Scottish song. OF
"Waly, Waly, Love Be Bonny'' has picture OF
a maiden with her head bowed upon her
knees, and the serpent has his forked tongue
close to her face and she is thinking
But had I visit before Fist.
That love had cen sac i'll to win.
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Farewell for evermore-
How can 1 let thee pass, Old Year,
The threshold of my door?
For when thou farest forth, Old Year,
Thou wilt not 60 alone;
But only shall see, Old Year,
Upon the threshold stone
The footprints in the snow, Old Year,
Trod deep beside thy own!
There's one that journeys forth, Old Year,
With thee across the snow
That hand in hand with thee, Old Year,
Out at my door will 60
But only shall know. Old Year,
But only l shall know
And New Years snow will fall, Old Year,
And drift my threshold DER;
And New Years suns will rise, Old Year,
And shine upon my floor
The feet that pass this night, Old Year,
Go forth for evermore!
MARY A. NJ. MARKS in Temple Bar.
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INDIANS FIRING THE PRAIRIE.
From General Niles NeW Book

"All this can do" said she.
+" Can you pause to do deeds OF kindness
In the midst of your deepest woe?
For grief, 1t must not bring blindness
To the trials of others below.
You must ever strive on, and your sorrow,
Though heavy and sore to bear,
Remains till the dawn Of that morrow,
When pain it is no more there"
'.Ali this can do" said she.
Made answer the wise man slowly:
"If this be so, and thou
Canst bear grief, yet help the suffering,
Thouhast soul even now"
FLORENCE PEACOCK.
Chambers Journal.
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USEFUL GIFT BOOKS.

ORAToRY AND ORATORS: WORDS, THEIR
USE AND ABUSE: HOURS WITH MEN
AND BOOKS-By William Matthews, Ii. D..
Published by Scott. Foresman d Co., Chicago.
For sale by The Whitaker q Ray Company.
Price S.
The set of orks under the above titles form
one of the best presents that could be given to
any one at this holiday season. They are ex-
haustive, we'll printed and substantially
bound. Sold only in sets. From the same
publishers we receive Sons OF Yesterday by
B. F. Taylor, which is volume of charming
verse and can also be recommended as a suit
able giftbook. Price So so
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
LITERARY NOTES.

The Daily Taller, Stone & Kimball's brilliant
and novel literary newspaper, has ceased to
exist, after lively career of thirteen days.
Mr.. Kimball has said, however, that the pub
LEGATION may be resumed next year.
Israel Zangwill has severed his connection
as literary essayist of the Pail Mail Maya.
zine. but will continue to write for the Co.'S
mopolitan.
A fragment by Robert Louis Stevenson, enti-
tied "a Mountain Town in France" has re-
Gently been found, and will be published i'm
mediately by John Lane. 1t is an account of
q sojourn at LIE Monastier in the fall OF 1878,
ana was intended as the opening chapters of
travels with Donkey in the Cevennes," but
never used.
Paul Bourget has been spending tie summer
in Ireland He is writing novel telling OF
the adventures of French family who were
banished from France and came to live on the
banks of Lake Killarney.
In McClure's Magazine for January, Ida
Rose McCabe will tell the story OF the cele-
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A LOVE STORY.

THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL-By
Richard 10 Gallenne John Lane: The Bodley
Head London and New York. For sale by
William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
Quite good story is this of a quest which
was in the end rewarded with q rich requital
though the golden girl who was found at last
was not wealthy nor did she become the seek
er's wife. The tale starts out with q descrip-
ton of an old house and its bachelor and how
the loneliness in which o sisters marriage
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
sCIPlO AFRiCANUs.

UNCLE sCIPIO-By Mrs. J. Fl Walworth New
York: X. +. Femme & Co. Price 81 rs.
Uncle Scipio is good old negro of the South
ern plantation, who is we'll liked by all who
become acquainted with bim. The story Is
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
Disjointed Experiences Strung Together
With the Merest Vestge Of Plot
lAN WITH i RECORD" THE SUGGESTIVE TITLE
oaushc dce to Auhoress Who Msdrects Her Energies
Literary Way-She Ruthlessly Slaughters the Gallo
Tongue in Her Effort to Appear Frenchy

"a Woman With Record" in the neighbor.
hood of the drawing room or the nursery.
EMANUEL ELIAS.
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An Island OF Chalk.

The English island of Thanet formerly
part of the county of Kent is almost
wholly composed of chalk. The island is
ten miles in length and about five in
breadth and has more chalk exposed on
its surface than any other spot of equal
area on the globe. British biologists say
that there are not less than $4,000, 900, 900
tons of chalk sin sight" on Thanet and
that it would take 10000 men and 5000
horses and carts 10000 years to move it,
providing it were dug up ready 10 be
carried away.-The st. Louis Republic.
Palmistry has been practiced in the
East from time immemorable. The PALM
listers claim that several illusions in the
book of Job indicate knowledge of this
art.
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Fellow Travellers.

fain would have thee stay, Old Year,
For, oh, my heart is sore!
This night we say farewell, Old Year,
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In McClure's Magazine for January, Ida
Rose McCabe will tell the story OF the cele-
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
EATERS WITH A RECORD.

A Connecticuts school boy ate 10 mincc
pies on a wager.
Auius Verus, Roman noble, gave q
supper one night to a dozen of his
cronies that made a hole of $3.50, 900 In
his bank account.
Vitellus, the Roman emperor, once
gave dinner that cost over 5000 900
Seutonious states that the guest had
the choice of 1000 dishes of fish and
1000 of game and fowl.
Mr.. Thomas Frazier, of Yonlaers,, once
gave q dinner at the Hoffman house
New York, to 13 guests, the bill for
which was $1,000, or at the rate of $77
per cover. Wines worth $50 bottle
were served on this occasion
Caligula, the emperor, whose wicked.
ness shocked the most brutal of his as
sociates, built bridge of boats three
miles long, IN the center of which he
caused a banquet hall to be constructed
In this was served feast that was
said to have cost 100000.
Grimod de Ia Reyniere, who came ol
banking family, was deprived in child.
hood of both hands, but that did not
prevent him becoming an epicure an6
gourmet. At the age of 20 he was
caught by his own father sitting down
to seven roasted turkeys. His great
grandfather had died at the table In
a fit of laughter.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
HOW TO SETTLE IT.
onty one Way out of the Silver Question
Says Congressman Warner.

Onty One Way flut OF the silver question,
Says Congressman Warner.
EN-Congressman John De Witt War
ncr opposes sex-Congressnan Richard T..
Bland in discussion of the money
question in the New York Journal oil
July /. Unlike many eastern men, MIR.
Warner has high opinion of the abil-
ity, character and motives of the silver
people. He thinks that boththe leaders
and those in the ranks of the sixteen
to one army are earnest, industrious,
sober and God-fearing American citi-
zens, who are smarting under actual
grievances as to the real cause of which
they are greatly mistaken. We quote
tbe following as part of Mr.. Warmers
views.
This proposed law to make people
accept silver is not asked for by any
body who wants silver. 1t is just be-
cause. people do not want silver and
viii notStake it unless compelled to do
so shat our free silver friends want u
law to make them take it. The only
people who want the law are, therefore.
rot those who wantsilver but those who
gold and thinking they can buy silver
mere cheaply, want to make their cred
itors take it instead 1t may be said
that, as to future matters, we could
make special contracts calling for geld.
That is just what they can do now in
regard to silver. AS matter of fact
large and increasing proportion of con-
tracts do provide specially for payment
in gold. 1t is significant that no one
hears of silver contracts. The reason is
no one prefers silver except for the pur-
pose of forcing it upon some one else.
''The most serious feature of the pres
ent situation is not so much the predica-
ment in which we find ourselves as the
apparent disposition in both parties not
to take the only way out, which, if 7
may suggest it, is to accept the situa-
lion that the commerce of the world
las created for itself, to recognize its
general acceptance of the gold stand
ard, and, leaving to commerce the
things that belong to commerce, to re-
sist any attempt at interference either
by cur own government Independently
Oi Dy any COHDllldClOll ptONCch ~ duo
those of other notions.
PERSONALLY believe gold to be far
superior to any other standard that is
even remotely practicable, but if our
commerce preferred silver should con-
slider it measureless impertinence on
the part of congress to interfere with
fhat preference. And SO, certain as +
am that our commerce finds it more
profitable and natural to use gold as
standard, am all the more opposed
to any attempt by congress to interfere
with the natural course of business.
Bad as would be the effect of
free silver, more and more of us are
concluding that a few years of appre-
hension and financial paralysis, such
as we have had, would be more dam
aging than the actual experience of
free coinage of silver, n trial of which
would at least establish certain facts
and destroy sundry delusions."
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
ODDITIES.

In London there are 40 restaurants In
which only vegetable food is served.
At Greenwood Garden, Peaks Island
Me-, there is huge rattesnake which
has just completed an unbroken fast
that lasted for full year.
a 17-year-old boy in Lisbon, Me-.
named William Blackford, has already
attained a height of feet sH inches
and is still growing
The fact that White Sulphur Springs
Mont, is n splendid antidote for the to
bacco habit, is attracting the attention
of slaves of the weed.
The great-grandfather grandfather
and father and son, all working to
gether digging cellar, was rather un
usual family gathering in Eastport
Me-, recently.
A monstrosity in the shape of cali
that had the head, tail and skin of {
dog and the feet and teeth Of it's OWL
kind has been stuffed and is now on ex.
hibition in Invercargill Australia.
A malicious man in Newkirk, O..
poured kerosene on the tail of a neigh
'bor's cat and set fire to it, thinking that
the animal would rush madly to its
home and cause a confagration in the
house Of the disliked neighbor. With G
cats usual pcrversity, it dashed into the
barn of the malicious man, and the barr
was DESTROYED.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20

IT seems like old times to find the
name of the Hon. Adoniram Judson
Warner, of Ohio, signed at the bottom
of silver circular. He was crying
for silver with an exceeding bitter cry
when the Hon. Silver Bill was still un-
easy in his first coat with tails, and
had a secret passion for licorice and
corn cake. Where would silver be
without the Hon. Adoniram Judson
Warner? Where would the Hon. Adon-
IRAN Judson Warner be without silver?
They are now and forever one and in
separable. 1t is doubtful if General
Warner could survive the free coinage
of silver; it would throw him out of
work, smash his pen, mutfie his voice,
leave him nothing to wall about. And
his wailing would be missed. While
the country has economists, phophets
and world-record thinkers like General
Warner, General James Boanerges
Weaver and the Hon. Richard Parks
Bland, the springs of amusement will
not be dried up for it; and as for them
they could not be happy were they not
made perpetually unhappy by the
thought of the woes of the cart-wheel
dollar.-New York Sun.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
Aud Lang SYne.

1t sjngeth low in every heart,
We hear It each and all
A song OF those who answer not,
However we may call.
They throng the silence of the breast;
We see them as of yore-
The kind, the true, the brave. the sweet
Who walk with Us no more.
'Tis hard to take the burden. up,
When these have laid it down:
.They frightened all the Joy of life,s
They softened every frown.
But oh! It's good to think of them
When we are troubled sore;
Thanks be to God that such have-been,
Although they are-no more!
More homeike seems the vast unknown,
Since they have entered there:
To follow them were not so hard,
Wherever they may fare.
They cannot be where God is not,
On any sea or shore;
whate'er betides, Thy love abides,
Our God for evermore!
John W. Chadwick, in Youths Oompon.
lort .,.r,tszasr,atS--------,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
FOREIGN PERSONALS.
Stanley Is regarded as dismal parli
mentarv f6i1,iSe

Stanley is regarded as dismal parlia-
mentary fa1ufe.
Bismarck is failing rapidly, though
his mental faculties are unimpaired.
The late John Stetson recently re.
marked: "There are more men who
are fools in Boston than there,are men,
Prince Eugene, the youngest son OF
King Oscar II. of Sweden and Norway
is travelling under the name of Count
Rosendal.
Taine's only daughter has married NJ
Dubois, son of the late director of the
Beaux Arts. Though brought up as q
Protestant, Mile. Taine was married in
q Roman Catholic church.
Kaiser Wilhelm stopped at Frankfort
for few hours for the celebration ot
The anniversary of the treaty of peace
and within three days there were A(
arrests for lese majesty in the town.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
RANKS AND rI-c.Es.


The oldest sons of the younger sons Of
peers take precedence over the Oldest
sons Of baronets.
The eldes. sons of dukes, marquises
and earls are usually called by the Sec
ond title of the father.
The lord high chancellor, If of the
order of barons, takes rank Immediate
ly after the archbishop of Canterbury.
The Saxons had the title Thane,
which was changed By William l. into
baron not long after his conquest of
England.
The eldest SONS of knights of the
Bath and of st. Michael and st. George
precede the eldest sons Of Knights
Bachelors.
Marquises come next after the oldest
sons of dukes, and are succeeded by the
oldest sons of dukes not of the blood
royal
The. comptroller of her majesty's IS
household ranks next after the treas
urcr. and is succeeded by the master of
the horse. =
After the great court fufctionaries
rank dukes of the blood royal; and
after dukes the oldest SONS of dukes of
the blood royal.
The Order of Baronets was estab-
lished by James l. in 1911. This title is
found in no country of the continent,
existing only in the British dorninions.
The speaker of the house of COM
mons, in state ceremonials, stands next
to the barons, and is Immediately fol-
lowed by the commissioner of tire great
seal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
u1Glnai marriage Ceremony.

a most original marriage ceremony
took place in Harwich, England, a few
days ago. The curate of the church re-
ceived visit from the bridegroom, who
npologized for asking him to perform
the ceremony instead of the vicar Of
the parish. ''The fact is, you are keen
wheelman, am told" "Yes," said the
curate "a muscular Christian), much
amused; II don't know how l should
get on without my bicycle" "Well, that
is why came to you. To tell the truth,
we want to have some fun out of the
wedding, and we mean To have q cycle
one!" Accordingly, on the appointed
day, the wedding party, consisting of
bride and bridegroom and about 30
guests, rode down to the church, at
tired in regulation cycling costumes
the bride in a neat tailor-made gown,
the bridegroom and groomsman in
l.nickerbockers and caps.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-20
POLITE POLICEMAN
He Carried Her Away from the street


He Carried Her Away from the street
Car.
The Boston Herald tells of n brave DO
liceman, who is especially attentive to
the wants of little women who want to
cross the street. 1t is seldom that kind
ness makes an error, but in this case the
poiicenun's good-natured helpfulness
was mistaken.
The pleasant wea ther had broughtout
crowd of shoppers and among them
was a pretty little woman, who seemed
to be in terror of moving across the
street.
She stood On the corner and ganed at
the passing throng, unmindful of the
many admiring glances cast at her. A
car passed the crossing and was closely
followed by another. Then she ran into
the street and the policeman saw her
Just as she left the sidewalk
The second car was coming along un-
der right of way, when the officer raised
his hand and seized the little woman
by the arm She was.so slight that he
almost lifted her out of the way of the
car, and dashed in front of team on
the other side, landing her safely on. the
opposite sidewalk.
There you're all right" he said, as
she stepped up ol the Sidewalk and
turned her face to him.
She shook out her skirts, Strengthened
her hat and smiled sweetly at him as she
replied:
"Yes, I'm all right; but ran out to
take that first car. I didn't want t,
come over here. Now, will you please
escort me across!"