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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
NEW TO-DAY.
FIGHTING DEATH.
An Occupation That Everybody
Should Be Engaged In All
fha Time

the I1mes
Few people realize how much we can do
In warding off that grim monster. death.
Our days are not ''numbered" Dive cannot
determine the number ourselves, but we
can add or subtract from it.
We are continually though uncon-
sciously doing things that shorten our life
by hours-days-years
We work too long, too hard; we eat food
unsuited to us, too much or not enough.
we overstrain certain muscles, limbs
senses or faculties, while others remain
unused or undeveloped; we expose our
selves to excessive heat or cold, to impure
air; we squander our vitality.
True, with most people these things are
the necessary consequences of the struggle
for existence. 1t is TO the millions who
cannot continually think of their health
that this is addressed. It is to them that
Peruvian Bitters is recommended.
With them Peruvian Bitters is to tina
body what oil is to machinery; IL keena
the entire system so toned that it works
with the least possible friction and waste
of vitality, with greatest power of resist
ance to the germs of disease. Peruvian
Bitters is an infallible tonic, which. when
vitality has been reduced by poor diees-
ton, overwork, sickness, trouble. puts tba
various functions in such normal condi.
ton that nature. unhampered, soon 70.
stores wasted tissues, vigor and energy.
MACK & Co., San Francisco. All drur.
gists and dealers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
FRESNO OFFICERS TO ACT,
Will Make a Strong Fight
for the Four Year
Tenure.
Test Case Before The Supreme Court
to Settle the Question of
County Offices.

FRESNO, CAL, Jan. 19.-Already a
vague unrest has begun to manifest itself
among the county officers of this State
over their Office tenure. In Southern Cali
tornia the county officers have formed s
league, offensive and defensive, to retain
their offices for four years each from Jan
uary 1, 1895. Many of these officers have
heretofore had but two-year terms.
The Legislature of 1898 changed section
so of the county government act to read as
follows: Cali elective county and town
ship officers, except as otherwise provided
for in this act, shall be elected at the gen
eral election to be held in November, 1894
and every four years thereafter"
This seems plain enough, but this legis
lative tlnkering contains "a JOKER il
seems. In referring to Fresno County.
the following subdivision of section ITO is
made to read:
1.-THE officers mentioned in section 81 of
this act (Which section names all the
county officers except Superior Judges,
Assessors, Supervisors and Superintend-
ents of Schoolsl. shall be elected in the
year of 1894 and every two years there
after"
This is a general election year. If the
subdivision cited shall be construed by
the Supreme Court as the law. then the
successors to the following officers of this
State will have to he elected next Novem-
Der: Sheriffs, Coroners, Public Admins
traitors, Clerks, Auditors, Recorders, Treas
urers, Surveyors, Tax Collectors and Dis
trict Attorneys.
Lawyers differ as to the probable view
the Supreme Court will take on the ques-
ton. There have been many decisions
affecting the act of 1893. Section 90 has
been passed upon, it is said, and declared
f1rqOO sfitJrinnaI
One thing seems evident-this county
will furnish the test case before the Su-
preme Court. The two-year-term act was
passed in 1891.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
TIME TO ARBIrRArE.
Salisbury Urged to Settle the Venezmey,
Question.

Salisbury Urged to Settle the VenezmeIan
Question.
LONDON, Eng, Jan. 49, The Daily
News will tomorrow say that it regards
the adoption by the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the United States Senate Fri.
day of the resolution of Senator Davis.
supporting the Monore doctrine as a most
serious step. It adds:
1.-THE sooner Lord Salisbury discovers a
method of arbitration the better. The
Venezuelan commission hangs fire, not,
perhaps, without President Cleveland
connivance. If he is giving us time we
would be foolish not to take it."
The Chronicle will tomorrow say it is
probable that England and Venezuela will
order inquiries to be made into the state
ments and cessions of land in the dis.
puted territory. This will offer basis for
a renewal of negotiations and, it is now
thought, will be the form of arbitration
that will be resorted to.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
KNEEBS HAS A SURPRISE.
Claims He Will Produce the Real
Racing Mare Bethel in
Court.
The American HorSeman's Case Nav
Lead to International CORE.
Spondence.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 19.---The case
of the American horsepower Robert T.
Kneebs, who was convicted last Monday
and sentenced to nine months imprison-
ment and to pay 1000 marks for starting on
the German tracks an entry alleged to
have been the mare Bethel under the name
of Nellie Kneebs, has taken developments
which may lead to diplomatic commune
cations between Berlin and Washington.
One of the German Consuls in the United
States, it appears, in certifying to the sig
natures appended to the dispositions of
some of Kneebs' witnesses, characterized
the witnesses as unworthy of belief and de-
clared that their testimony was only worth
so many dollars, implying that they were
paio for what they had sworn to and had
sworn to only what they had been paid for
Such statement accompanying the
documents received here is held to be a
breach of the law. The Consul, it is con-
tended, has no right TO communicate to his
Government his personal ideas of the char
acter of the American witnesses, nor has
he the right to take any other course than
to send the papers to Berlin for what they
were worth and without comment
The authorities are fu-ther puzzled to
know what to do with the mare Bethel or
Nellie Kneebs, which according to the
judgment OF the court was forfeited to the
state. Kneebs has given notice of appeal
against the verdict and sentence against
him, and pending the decision of the I'M
perial Court upon the appeal, the mare,
which has been seized in accordance with
the judgment of the court of trial, must be
kept at the expense of the authorities. If
Kneebs succeeds in his appeal he will
claim damages from the authorities for
any deterioration in the form or condition
of the mare, and if he can prove that there
has been any there can scarcely be any
successful appeal against such finding
hneebs says he was very much surprised
at the verdict of the jury i'll his case, and
declares that he win produce the real
Bethel, which is now in America, before
the Imperial Court when the hearing of
his appeal comes up.
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he acted as the London correspondent of
the semi official Berlin Post.
Since his return to Berlin he has re-
suscitated the Reichsglocke, and in recent
articles has made disclosures which involve
Herr Tiedemann, an attache of the For
eign Office. who is accused by Gehelsen of
having dictated articles to the editor of the
Berlin Post. He further promises to pub
lish proofs that certain German Socialist
leader was in close connection with the
late General Boulanger, their letters being
exchanged in London. Gehelsen knows a
good deal that is likely to add to the
already numerous political scandals.
The Vorwaerts, the Socialist organ, char
acterizes as idle fiction the Emperor mes
sage delivered in the White Hall of the
Schloss yesterday, in which his Majesty
asserted that the empire realized the hopes
of the people.
Happily" the Vorwaerts says, ''the
present form of the empire is not the last
in the worlds history. Out of the anarchy
of capitalism will arrive the order of So
cialism."
The celebration which took place in
Dresden yesterday in honor of the twenty
fifth anniversary OF the founding of the
empire was very imposing. II the even
ing there was grand torchlight process
sion, in which 5000 persons participated.
The populace was very enthusiastic and
the King on his appearance received an
ovation. In Munich the celebration ter
minated with a grand state banquet, at
which Prince Regent Luitpold toasted the
Kaiser in the warnest terms. The En-
peror was heartily cheered.
The Emperor, at last evenings banquet
at the White Hall of the Schioss, congrat-
ulated Baron Hammerstein-Loxten Prus-
sian Minister of Agriculture, upon his
Antiquarian speech in the Reichstag in
the debate on Count Won Kanitz's grain
monopoly bill.
The police dispersed several Socialist
mass meetings in Dresden yesterday be-
cause of the violence of the language in
dulged in by the speakers, who protested
against the threats of the Government to
curtail the suffrage.
The banking firm of Muller & Thomson
of Hamburg is about to float loan of
Il, 100000 marks for the Government OF
Guatemala, for the purpose of constructing
q railway.
Mrs. E. H. Sunderland and Miss NJ. F.
Potter, OF the United States, are visiting
the Berlin elementary schools for the pur-
pose of studying the system.
a special edition of the Reichsanzeiger
enumerates 1000 decorations that were be-
slowed in honor of the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the founding of the German
empire.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
PREDICTED By DICKINSON.
En0lond's Fleet Might BIoeE the Ports q
Cuba.

En0lGnd's Fleet Might Blocks the Ports of
Cuba.
Hon. Don NJ. Diekinson's address on
Scuba" before the Detroit Manufacturers
Club Saturday nighJ will now attract great
attention and be regarded as significant.
In the course of his remarks he said that
we were not to be oyerawed by England's
mobilization of her fleet. Her action
might scare the German Emperor and
the ruler of the Transvaal, but if we had
not ship or a coast defense she could not
scare US. England, he said, has had her
eye on Cuba since 1910, and he believed
that Lord Salisbury had nothing else in
view in the Venezuelan boundary dispute
than to establish the precedent that the
Monroe doctrine did not obtain, and thus
get possession of Cuba.
The time had come for every m snufactur-
ing concern to take up the Cuban question
and press it on Congress as a matter of
business. Complications might arise at
any time. England believed that in Cuba
is her only security for the payment of
Spanish loans, and almost any dav the
English feet, in spite of the Monroe doc
trine, might take possession of every
Cuban port and force the collection of this
Yunney
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
BIG FIRES At CHICAGO,
Two Apartment-Houses on the
South Side Are Raced by
a Confagration.
Excitement Among Occupants of One
of the Structures Becomes
Almost a Panic.

. CHICAGO, ILL. Jan. 19.-Two of the
finest observation-disclosures on the south side
of the city were destroyed by fire this
evening. The buildings were owned by
Lincoln Brooks and located at the south
west corner of Wabash avenue ana Thirty
sixth street. The one on the corner con-
tanned forty apartments and was unoccu-
pied, being just about completed. The
building next door was filled with tenants
and contained over thirty fats.
Both buildings are total loss. The walls
OF the occupied one still stand, but the
empty structure burned like finder and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
OWNED A BosANzA HIVE.
Mrs. McAdosc, Made Rich by the Spotted
Horse, Passes Atcay.

Mrs. McAdosc, Made Rich by the Spotted
Horse, Passes Atcay.
DETROIT. MICH, Jan. 19.-Mrs. Clara
A. Meadow, aged SO years, died at her
residence here this morning from COM
plication of diseases, after an illness which
lasted nearly six months. She was the
wife of Hoyt A. Meadow and was Michi-
gan woman. She and her husband went
to Montana many years ago and became
interested in mines, one of which, the
Spotted Horse, proved bonanza. She re-
turned to Michigan some years ago and
settled in this city.
Mrs. Meadow represented Montana on
the Board of Woman Managers of the
Worlds Fair in 1893. The gold for the
base of the famous $4,000 silver statue at
the fair was taken from one of her mines
and was contributed by her. Mrs. Nc
Adow leaves a fortune estimated at
So 600 900.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
POISON IN TIE COFFEE.

Evidence That Caused the arrest OF q
Murdered MGn'S fife.
CHICAGO, ILL, Jan. 19. Jacob Joahen-
son. saloon-keeper at 1928 Cottage Grove
avenue, was found dead in bed at IL
O'Clock tonight. His wife was found in
another room in Mysteries. She managed
to tell the police that three or four men
had broken into their house, killed her
husband and robbed them of $500 in
money, which she drew from the bank yes
terday.
The case looked suspicious, and the po-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

In 1861 he went to England, where he de-
feated the English champion runners. In
1868 he returned to this country and took
part In races in New York and Chicago,
defeating all corners. "Deerfoot's" great
est record was made in London, where he
ran ten miles in fifty-tWo minutes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
CABLE TO AUSTRALIA.
Landing Places VIII Be Made on British
Territory Only.

Territory Only.
SYDNEY, N. s. W., Jan. 19.--At con-
ference of the postmasters-generalo of the
Australian colonies the Hon. Duncan
Gillies and Sir Saul Samuel, agents-general
in London of Victoria and New South
Wales respectively, were appointed Aus
tralian delegates on the Pacific Gable Com
mission.
The conference adopted resolution de-
claring that Great Britain, Australia and
Canada should each pay third of the cost
OF the cable; that the landing places
should be on British territory only, and
that the route from Fiji should be to Nor
folk Island, from which place the line
should bifurcate to North Island, New
Zealand, and to Morton Bay, on the east
coast of Australia.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
Christian Ton.en to Meet.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 19.-The
twenty eighth annual convention of the
National Woman Suffrage Association Will
be held in Washington January % to %.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, president, and
Miss Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer of
the association. are here arranging the de.
tails of the meeting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

lice, in searching the place, found coffee
cup partly filed with fluid sus-
pected to be poison. The woman was
placed under arrest and taken to Mercy
Hospital, where she will be guarded until
able to stand an examination. Three men
who were seen about the saloon early in
the evening were also arrested.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
TO SETTLE WITH GoLD.

Englamd's Ramored Plan to Cain the
Disputed Territory.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. IA special
cable dispatch to the Herald from Havana
says: The Havana papers print story to
the effect that England, if she succeeds
through Chile's good offices in resuming
diplomatic relations with Venezuela. will
offer President Crespo 100000 to recog-
nize the Schomburg line.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
Maerix Readv TO EY1hs.

AUCKLAND, N. q. Jan. 19.--The Maoris
OF North Island have telegraphed the Earl
of Glasgow, Governor of New Zealand, of
fering to form a guerrilla regiment for SER
vice in the Transvaal should such service
be deemed necessary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
Judge Brans.eetser Is Dead.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 19.-Judge
Brauzwetter, who presided at many trials
OF editors for lese majeste and other press
offenses, died yesterday from paralysis.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

ROME, ITALY, Jan. i9-An immense
number of people this evening attended
the Vatican 10 witness the ceremonies at
tending the beatification of the theologian
Da Courte.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
DEFBATED ALI CoMERs.
Death Of "Deer1oot," the Famous Indian
Lona- Distance Rftnner.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 19.-"Deerfoot,"
the famous Indian long-distance runner,
died on the Cattaraugus reservation yes
terday. His proper name was Louis Ben
nett. the name "Deerfoot" being given
him for his professional running.
He was born on the reservation in 1928
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Req. DIR. Reed Gone.

TORONTO, ONT.. Jan. 19.-Rev. William
ID. Reed, DID,, rector of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada, died to-day, aged so
years.
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Deofh of Bishop Hayqood.

CoVINGToN, GA, Jan. 1e.-Bishop At
ticus Haygood, of the South Methodist
Church, died this morning at Oxford.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
Passino ofa Pon,,tor Dfyiue.

LONDON, ENG, Jan. 19.-The Rev.
William Rogers. popular divine and the
intimate friend of many distinguished
persons, died to-day. He was rs years of
age.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
HIS GENIUS MADE
A NATION LAUGH.
Death of Bernard Gillian,
the Noted Cartoonist
of Judge.
REMOVED BY A FEVER.
Stricken Down While in the
Prime of His Life and
Popularity.
FAMOUS FOR HIS SKETCHES.
For Years He Furnished the Ideas for
a Corps of Clever
Artists.
FAMOUS FOR HIS SKETCHES.

CANAJOHARIE. N. Y, Jan. 19.-Bern-
ard Gillian, the famous cartoonist of
Judge, died suddenly at 3:25 o'clock this
morning at his home here. He was So
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-04
Reforming CRIMINA rs.

The State prison parole system will
become operative in Illinois in August,
when large number of prisoners will
be released. This has stimulated the
Prisoners Aid society in Chicago to
renewed efforts to put itself into posi-
ton to meet it's largely increased but
self-assumed obligations. 1t is pro-
posed to form a cooperative organiza-
ton in each county of the State, and
to apportion the released convicts
among them. The society cares for the
discharged prisoners who can be per-
suaded to accept it's aid. employing
them in the simple work of broom
making until it can place them at 9TH
er profitable employment. One of the
workers in the Chicago society says:
We get positions for men in every line
of work imaginable. We never deceive
All employer. In every case we tell the
men to whom we are applying for po-
sition the history, as far as we know it,
of the man we wish him to employ.
Some of our cases of reform have been
most notable and some ex-convicts are
now occupying good positions in Chi
cago. We keep a record in which are
all the statistics and information we
can collect concerning the men who
have come to US. Eighty per cent. of
them have been led to crime through
drink, and most of the crimes they
have committed are those against prop
erty. Our statistics show that we
have reformed at least % per cent. of
all the ex-criminals we have had a
chance at.
This is a very encouraging showing.
1t will astonish those who think GRIM
inals cannot be reformed.
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"A TORN IN NEED OF WOJIFN.

Vancouver Village, Where the Fair Sex
is in Great Demand-Bargains in Mat
rimony-Lonely Maidens Can Procure
Husbands to Suit the Most Fastidious-
Big Sums Awaiting Those Who will be
Life Companions.
(From the San Francisco Examiner.)
There Is city in the western part of
Canada, close to the Pacific ocean,
which is named by all who visit it the
most desolate spot upon the face of the
earth. Its climate is good, its natural
resources excellent, it's houses fair, its
streets well paved, yet within this town
there is an air of forlorn detection that
strikes the most careless traveller that
comes within it's boundary.
1t is on Vancouver Island, a sweet.
fair spot. And the desolation is caused
by one thing-one only. The lack of
women and girls.
This particular town is scarcer of the
product than any of it's locality. There
are many towns upon the island, but
this one lacks women SO sadly that in a
recent census of the place it was found
nearly thirty thousand short This
number includes q count of serving
women, women to do the work of the
house, cook, wash and iron It also in
cludes working girls and women who
are not expected to marry. And of
course, it took in the queens of the city,
the fair matrons of the homes and the
mistresses of the pretty establish
mentS.
To-day the doorsteps of these houses
yawn vacantly and the vines fiuttering
over the portals seem to say: "She
comes not YETI
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-04
SOCFAE.


Schoolboy-'I always envied Caesar
Teacher-..Well, he was a great gener-
al" Schoolhoy Yes; and he didn't
have to study Latin Somerville Jour-
nal.
The Wife-"When you proposed to
me, John, did you think would accept
you?' The Husband-"Not the first
time. 1.-THE second?" Il wasn't going
to propose but once. PUCK.
The Soul of Music-"I like the old
old-fashioned songs remarked the
man with a bored look and an ungenial
squint. why is that?" Nobody
sings them Washington Star.
Mrs. wriggles-"Was that good box
of cigars, Ephraim. that / bought you
for your birthday"
Mr. Wiggles (craftily)-"I never saw
better box."-Somervill Journal.
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had wife and couldn't keep her,
He hid her boomers, bike and bell,
And then he kept her very well.
Chicago Record
There is no use in denying it," said
the young man who uses slang indis
criminately, "Cholly Chuggins has
wheels" "Really?' said the girl from
Boston. Whose make are they?"
Washington Star.
Partly Successful Minnie-"One of
those odious Washers tried to talk TO
me on the car this afternoon" Mamie
You called the conductor" mo, +
just gave him whitening look" ooh!
And did he wither?" HE dried up
Indianapolis Journal.
Agent--"Can't you put a burglar
alarm in your house?" Lady--"No, we
don't need it." Agent But" Lady
mo, / mean it; the family across the
street watches the place so closely that
even a burglar could not get in without
being !"-Tit- Bits.
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gives the sleeve cuffs and the standing
collar the latter being finished with
embroidered points. Bows of white
satin appear at the shoulders, Thus
combined this goods and trimming
give a particularly airy summary eff
feet, which is tremendously repeated in
the hat. This is a low backed panama
sailor, trimmed freely with white chif-
fon rosettes and eornflowers, but the
arrangement of the trimming is such
that it's quantity stands for airiness
rather than for bulk or weight.
The fashion of a bow of ribbon right
on top of hats retains vogue, 1t really
is not a graceful style for the bow
looks as if it had just been dropped
there and was liable to be blown off by
any little puff of wind, but it prevails
very generally. 1t is unfortunate that
the English walking hat should be
made with so impracticable head size
and shape. Almost all of them are
very long and hardly a hands, breadth
across. The American woman's head
is not shaped that way, though may be
the English woman's is. The former
has a wide head deep through back of
the ears, and this means that only a
hat with fairly wide or round head
size will suit her. Yet so many of us
insist upon balancing upon our heads
the English walking hat. and there it
wobbles like a badly constructed rock
ing chair. FLORETTE,