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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21

job is something to be hung on to with
both hands.
During the embryo riots caused by the
checks for transfers the carmen were
banged from both sides. The company's
orders we're to throw off those who failed
to obey the rules. The passengers am bi
tion was to smash the conductor and vim
dicate his rights. Over and over. the pro-
testing check-holders were men who knew
just what they were doing, and did it with
unnecessary impudence. 1t brought the
company around all right, but sometimes
ii was hard lines for the conductor and
the gripman.
do not say that the street service of
San Francisco is good. Every one knows
that the cars are miserably equipped, and
that they ara run with strict regard for
Mr.. Huntington's famous statement; still
| do say and repeat that conductors and
grip and motor men would like to avoid
accidents, and that if the public would CO.
operate with them to the extent OF taking
lust common precautions, there would be
fewer victims and fewer charges OF man
slaughter. Olive HEYDEN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21

The Very Newest Womanl Have you
seen her? oh, yes; she is chic; still beau
/ tiful-all that But have you seen her IA
cial expression when in repose? Have you
! viewed her curves critically when she is
unconscious and meditatlve? Take her as
she comes out of church this morning.
That is not religious zeal in her eyes
that's the bicycle stare.
And the way she carries her parasol-
that's the bicycle habit fastened on her.
She doesn't know it. Her thoughts are
not on her bloomers and her wheel-far
from it. That's the action of her sub
consciousness getting in its work. 1t isn't
| necessary TO say any more, is it? The
artist seems to have done his work we'll
He has merely caught the bicycle pose and
expression of the very newest young
woman as she is coming out of church.
1t is not the "new" woman, but the
gracious lady whom, in moments Of an
tique tenderness, the head of the house.
hold chooses to designate-though only to
intimates-as the "old woman" whom
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court has crowned with the glory OF de-
fensive decision. The "old woman" the
LADY of the house." as a more refined
recognition would entitle her, has at last
in these unromantic and material days,
won a legal definition in a court to whose
jurisdiction all good citizens bow. The
Appellate Division declares that while the
man may be-and it does not throw any
great doubt on the possibility-the actual
head of his family in the abstract, the
woman, his wife, is the supreme authority
in matters domestic whom it is not only
bad form but bad law to controvert
thwart, oppose or attempt to reduce 10 a
secondary place before the servants.
The decision is sound in common sense,
as well as in law. The home is the empire
of the wife and mother. She bears the re-
spon sibility for its government by virtue
OF her own express qualifications for gov
erDing it. Man is a slovenly, untidy. in
exact domestic animal, who needs to feel
the strong hand of order and economy in
his nostrils, and only woman-gentle,
firm, generous, patient, tidy, economic,
careful, thoughtful, conslderate woman
can direct him Alright. Intelligent man III
all ages has confessed the fact when he
surrendered control of his button processes
and the tears in his artificial integument,
but intelligent man is not universal man,
| the proof whereof lies in the fact that the
| Supreme Court has been called on to adj
| judicate his place in the universe. Now
he knows it, at least in New York. At
| home the wife is not only her Excellency,
but her Majesty beyond appeal.
An appeal, if such were possible, from
this decision to all true men would insure
its sustentation without dissenting
voice. But all this, of course, does not
necessarily limit woman's sphere of use
| fulness.
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ONLY THE
FEMALE MOSQUITO
STINGS YOU.
She Has Five Sharp Needles
Which Serve as Tube
With Which to Suck
Human Blood.

This is the season when the pestiferous
mosquito gets in its deadly work. No
scientist has ever been able to discover a
single virtue in the insect, but we all know
its faults. Besides making mankind mis-
erable during the summer, there is no
doubt that mosquitoes carry and propagate
disease.
There is every reason to believe that
they spread yellow fever. 1t has been OBJ
served that this dreadful fever comes with
them and departs when they go. Where
they are most plentiful it fiourishes, but
where they are scarce very few cases ap-
pear. Malaria is also supposed to be
propaeated by these pests, but this charge
has not been proven.
There are about 150 species of mosqui-
toes in the world, and at least twenty-oue
are native to North America. New Jer-
sey alone has four species, one succeeding
another so that it is kept well supplied all
summer. The largest varieties occur in
the tropics.
The female does all the biting. The
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male never enters the house unless by ac-
cident, its only object in life being to per-
petuate the species. The natural food of
the female is the juices of plants. 1t is
not known why she likes human blood.
If she drinks her fill once she never
troubles mankind again. Her sting con-
sists of five very sharp needles, two of
them being barbed. They unite and form
an awl, which, having made the puncture,
serves a tube to suck the blood through.
When Mrs. Mosquito is ready to lay her
eggs she selects some still water near by.
Here she deposits them in boat-shaped
mass on the surface. She lays about 100
at sitting. From these the larva are
hatched. These Larvae are called "wrig
glers." When the wriggler is ready to
emerge into an insect he comes to the sur
face and sheds his skin, which serves as
raft for him 10 stand upon. If there is any
wind his raft may be upset and he be
drowned. However, if nothing happens,
he stands on ii minute or two until his
wings are dry and then flies away to tor
ment unfortunate persons. 1t takes three
or four weeks for the eggs to develop into
full fedged mosquitoes.
In localities where there are swamps or
bitches the nuisance may be mitigated by
covering the waters with petroleum. A
single drop of oil will spread over quite
large surface, and the thinnest film is said
to be death to the Larvae. 1t is estimated
that 500 acres of water surface can be COW
cred with crude oil for So. If such surfaces
were covered five times during the sum-
mer no mosquitoes could possibly propa-
gate in them. A mosquito will produce
hundreds of generations in single sum-
mer.
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Josiah Aliens wife says we will find
that almost everything has two different
sides if we only take the trouble TO walk
around to the back and view it: During
the recent streetcar wrangle I took occa-
sion to walk around to the back.
As matter OF course I object to Mr..
Yining and the OCTOPUS" That is in
the air of San Francisco. We accept them
with the same pathetic patience we give
to the bad paving and the turning off of
lights. We have been educated not to
expect to have thing just because we pay
for it.
A reader of papers, was ready to take
my little check to the transfer-man, tell
him where 1 was going, wnat l meant to
do when got there and mention the hour
of my return. 1 was also prepared to tell,
if necessary, my age and occupation, Or
explain at length why | preferred skirts
to boomers. If l was in hurry and saw
car after car slide by as l waited, l never
lost my temper out loud knowing how
much one may accomplish by humping
ones head against wall.
But about the other side. Witnessing q
little tussle one day, and feeling sure that
the passenger knew all about the check
and was only trying to see what be could
do the thought came that a conductor S
place Is not all JOY and peace. With the
company on one side and the belligerent
public on the other, he is between the
devil and the deep sea.
| began riding often on the different
lines, and instead of keeping my eye on
the conductors faults l watched the pub
lie as it rode. The recklessness of the av-
erase crowd is appalling. Were it not for
the providence that watches over fools,
half the travelling public would be dead.
Grammatical effect OF Irish ancestry.)
On a Mission car one day I saw woman
nod to the conductor, and, when the car
stopped, she climbed off backward with
the usual grace of a woman in heavy skirts,
which is so suggestive Of COW coming
down ladder and in turning she walked
up her dress Jew steps and fell. The con-
ductor Immediately asked for the address
of a gentleman standing on the platform.
In my verdant innocence l wondered if
the conductor thought the gentleman
pushed the woman off. So l asked. "Why,
ma'am, saio the knight Of the punch, 1--WE
have to do that for protection. That wo-
man may bring suit for damages claim
ing that the car started too soon and threw
her down, and l must have witness
ready"
l told the story to the Girl and asked
her II she believed anybody would do such
a thing; and the Girl told how, on the
Geary-street line. woman in fit of ab-
sehce OF mind "a disease sometimes
chronlc) got up and walked off car going
at 1uil speed, without even looking at the
conductor. The natural result was that
She Droke her head and sued the company
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
Where Ice Is Costly.
arciful heaven can if be p''

"Merciful heaven, can it be?'
With eyes that fairly started from their
sockets the chemist contemplated the
glittering crystal his art had produced.
With hands that trembled violently he
applied the final test
ut is ice!" he yelled, land the very best
l expected to make was diamond"
When they found him he was insane
with Joy. His mind was blank. The Sc
cret was lost, even in the moment that it
was found.-Detroit Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
Well not spit upon the street,
In cars nor public places,
This is far from being neat,
Leaves unwholesome traces,
And disease is spread about
By such selfish doing.
We will try to put to rout

Leaves unwholesome traces,
And disease is spread about
BY such selfish doing.
We will try to put to rout
Smoking, spitting chewing.
1t is not from Mother Goose" Lewis
Carroll didn't write it. You may search
the ''Bab Ballads through without COM
ing upon the original, says the New York
Sun. In fact it is not to be found within
the realm of nonsense at all. This noble
jewel of sentiment as fittinglv set in the
pure Eold of sweet poesy is deadly earnest.
1t is the battle cry of the Woman's Health
Protective Association of Brooklyn, and
was sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle"
at the annual meeting held yesterday
afternoon in the grounds of Mrs. Jere
Johnson Jr. at 1853 Hancock street by six
little girls from the South Congregational
Mission Chapel, clad in appropriate cos
tunes and carrying National flags and
Health and Happiness" banners. There
is more of the song, but this is the vital
part. In fact the main part of the entire
meeting was devoted to the denunciation
of the process mentioned in the verse.
For the better knowledge of those who
are so lost in depths of ignorance as not to
know what the Woman's Health Protec-
tive Association is, its objects are explained
here by quotations from the address OF its
secretary, read yesterday:
''To inspire the women of Brooklyn with
realization of their municipal obliga-
tons; to promote the health of the people
OF Brooklyn and the cleanliness of the city
by taking such action from time to time as
may secure the enforcement of existing
sanitary laws, and to procure the amend
ment of such laws and regulations when
they shall be found insufficient for the pre-
vention of acts injurious to the public
health or the cleanliness OF the CITY,"
The girl seemed ill at ease and every
time he took seat near her she moved
away.
my dearest" he said, "you seem wor-
ried. Let me chase those tears away"
Mary chase tonight she returned
quickly, 'fand if you know what is good
for you you'll keep away from me.
Papa is sitting in the next room reading"
'But the door is closed" he protested,
''and we can hear him if he makes the
slightest move"
'But you can't hear him turn on the X
rays" she answered, "and you can't tell
when he will take it into his head to do it.
either.''
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the paleozoic age whirling in the direc-
ton of the glass sarcophagus in which
repose the brass-ferruled umbrella once
carried by Benjamin Franklin and the
fintlock musket owned by Daniel Boone.
But his aim was bad and he sighed relief
as the fiinty fragment came to a pause
under remnant of petrifed brakebea
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"Why, any one can see that he is
paunch- u.s."
"How about the Pilate?"
''If he had not been a pilot he never
could have steered himself up here, and
that is all there is about it,
Mr.. Barker whisked his feather duster
over showcase and sent remnant of
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hallway that totally unfamiliar with the still fresh
and majestic dispensed and
the lives and liberties hands be disposed
knowledge
tion Cour hat ha
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hallway
building silently
another hallway revealed totally different This leads the
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
Excited Over POntius PLATE.

"Hap said Mr.. Barber, the Joker OF the
State Bureau of MINING, as very fat Wis.,
itor waddled from the elevator to the reg
ister and there inscribed his name. "Thats
Pontius Plate.
'How's that?"
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
Bits of Irish Humor.
FROM THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.

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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21

Keep your hand ON your pocketbook
when you hear man insisting that "busi-
ness is business"
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21

Thomas Slater has message for every man on
page 81. Don't fail to read it.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
ROANOKE, VA, SAT-
HOKE SMITH.
At Valdosta, Ga, He Made Speech al
Eulogized Cleveland.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 2.-Ex. Secretary
Hoke Smith delivered to-day at Valdosta
the second and last of the speeches he had
consented to make in the State campaign,
in compliance with the request of the
Democratic executive committee. Mr.
Smith prefaced his remarks, which were
devoted almost entirely to the advocacy
of the State ticket, with the statement
that, although because of the promise he
had given while making the fight against
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
in Georgia before the national convention,
he would support the party's nominee,
he could not endorse the Chicago plat
form, and regarded the financial. plank
of that platform especially rs most
serious error. His opposition to the free
coinage of silver was us earnest and as
uncompromising as ever, he said, and it
was only because he felt bound by the
definite promise he had given and his par
ticipation in the canvass and the prima-
ries preceding the convention that he sup
ported the Democratic ticket, Il course he
had taken with reluctance and that he
could not urge it upon any. one who had
not made n similar pledge.
A notable feature of the ex-Secretary's
speech was his eulogy of President Cleve-
land, which was earnest and eloquent,
and which was received with prolonged
and tumultous applause.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
CuRAN NEWS.

Havana, Oct Spanish forces under
the command of Colonies Sarrauo and
Cano have been engaged with the insur-
gents under Alvarez and Truillo at the
Guasimal farm on the Naranjo river.
Alvarez and twenty other insurgents were
killed. The troops had five men wound
ed. The steamship Juan Forgas has ar
rived here from Spain bringing forty Off
GERS and 200 soldiers to reinforce the
Spanish troops in Cuba.
Madrid, Oct. "A dispatch from Ha-
vana announces that Gen. Malquize has
taken the positions occupied by Gen. Ma
Geo and that the insurgents lost eighty
Killed and large numbers of wounded.
The dispatch adds that eleven Span
iards were killed and that ninety were
WOunQed.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
BRYAN AT CINCINNATI.
He Addressed Three Large Meetings in
~. That City Yesterday.

Cincinnati, Oct ..2.-William Jennings
Bryan tonight addressed three big meet.
ings in this city. Then he crossed to the
Kentucky shore and spoke to great as
semblage at Covington 1t was q fitting
close to most eventful day. From
dawn to dusk the nominee sped across
West Virginia from Charleston to the
Ohio river, stopping and speaking at al
most every town of consequence, and
then along the Kentucky banks to this
city Arriving here at 6:45 p. m, he was
met by local committee and the mem
bers of the. Duckworth Club and was
driven to the Hotel Gibson, where he ate
a light supper. Almost Immediately af-
forwards procession was formed to Mu-
sic Hall, where the biggest meeting of the
night was held AT the conclusion of
his speech there he addressed two other
successive meetings from stands erected
ut street corners to crafty thousands who
could not gain entrance to the hall. Then
he visited Covington.
The vast auditorium at Music Hall was
SO thickly packed with people that it was
next to impossible to move Even the
alsles were clogged with standing men
and women. In the beginning was start
ell what looked like an attempt to break
up the meeting, but it was quickly sup
pressed and thereafter the candidates. ut
terances were greeted with the utmost
enthusiasm. The disturbance was
created by gang of roughs in the gal
lery, and while it lasted it threatened to
create trouble
Mr.. Bryan appeared upon the stage at
S:2U O'Clock and the ovation that greeted
his entrance continued without abate.
ment for eight minutes. When the an
plause had subsidized Hon. Louis Remleen.
who acted as chairman of the meeting,
attempted to introduce Mr.. Bryan, hut
the gallery would not permit him to talk.
Hon. Gustave Tafel then tried TO get
something like order, but with no better
success. Eventually Mr.. Bryan stepped
to the speakers stand and raised his
hands in mute appeal for silence For
moment he was successful, but at the
end of his first sentence the noise in the
upper part of the house was resumed and
the candidate was obliged to resume lis
seat. Then Olway J. Cosgrove, president
of the Duckworth Club, under whose au-
spices the meeting was held, pointed out
as the chief offenders three men in one of
the balconies and asked the police to re-
"e them. In doing so he characterized
r'iem IS o |-"ards, and entreated the
,esS cI 'i' fe -" Mr.. Bryan
..tf fttN
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03

Bryan - ~ai civ. u
There will be Ln. s,.,4,
vention. The first, to begin a.
Saturday morning, will be devoted to Vi. i.
preliminary work and permanent organ
izaeson. The second session. Saturday
afternoon, will elect officers and listen to
speeches from the guests of national
prominence. AT the night session the
chief attraction will be the presence and
speech of Mr.. Bryan.
1t is quite likely that all of the present
officers will be re- elected, as there seems
to be no opposition to Chauncey Il. Black,
the president, nor to Lawrence Gardner,
the secretary.
Tonight all the visiting and local clubs
took part in the parade through the bust
ness section of the city. Forty-five clubs
were in line, making an imposing sight
with waving banners and torches.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
" oewall Cannot Attend.

st. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 2.-Assistant
Secretary Mexican and his corps ,of as
sistants were busy all day registering
delegates to the National Association Of
Democratic Clubs, which meet here in
session tomorrow.
$50 many are coming in" he said, "I
would not be surprised IL there were g.
ooO delegates present when the conven-
ton is called to order at II O'Clock to-
morrow. Up to this evening about 800
delegates have handed in their creden-
tlals and late to night and early to-mor-
row great many more sthan that num-
Der will arrive. Accommodations have
been made for $500 delegates and we may
possibly fill every seat reserved |. for
them.'
Vice-President AdlaiH, Stevenson, who
Will act as temporary chairman of the
convention, was the first Of the leaders to
arrive this afternoon. President Chaun-
cey E. Black, of Pennsylvania, and other
officials of the National Association of
Democratic Clubs, came in on ~ special
Train over the G. and o. railroad, accom-
panied by delegates from eastern clubs.
PRESIDENT George e. Roe, of Texas,
VINO Will be sergeant alarms of the con-
vention, and Congressman Sulzer, of New
York, also arrived to-day
The following telegram was received
here to-day:
George w. Allen, ST. Louis, Mo-. I
regret sincerely that am to be deprived
OF the pleasure of participating in the
great meeting of Democratic clubs, which
VIII contribute so much to our cause.
Arthur Sewall"
Chairman Jones, of the national execu-
live committee, sent the following ..tele-
gram from Chicago to-day:
impossible for me to be in ST. Louis
g. o.fov f-,rortant matters keep me
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
OHIO STATE SENATOR MISSING.
Adolph Pluemer Unable to Settle With
Cincinnati School Board.

Cincinnati, Oct. 2.-State Senator
Adolph Pluemer has been missing sew
eral days, and the city treasurer stated
that he had failed TO turn over $500 due
the school board for it's library fund.
Senator Pluemer retired as treasurer of
the library in June, and was unable to
settle then or since He has been a prom
inent iron dealer, and was at one time re-
puted to be n millionaire. He lost heay-
lily in the Aetna furnaces at Ironton. His
friends here are raising funds to meet
the library and other claims. Senator
Pluemer is not considered guilty OF any
embezzlenent, but so pressed that he
cannot meet his obligations.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
CONDITION OF 7RADEsE BETTER.
A HEAVY MOVEMENT IN THE
SPRING WHEAT REGION.
There is. "a Slight Improvement in the.
West and South Money Market is
Easier and Commercial Paper is More
Easily Discounted Wholesale Mer-.
chants Report Better Feeling.

New York, Oct. ..2.-Bradstreet,s to.
morrow will say: Cooler weather. and
continued purchases by merchants, nota-
Oily west and South, continued the slight
improvement in trade recorded in prece1.
ing weeks. Merchants at primary cotton
markets and at the large centres in the
spring wheat regions report bette
movement of staples, due to unusnallv
heavy receipts of these crops. Through-
OUT central West, including such points
as Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago and ST
Louis, the volume of trade falls bebind
that of year ago in some instances. bnt
is equal to 1t in others. AT Eastern con-
Tres the Improvement is seen in greater
ease IN the money markets, and more dis
position to discount the commercial ma
per, although Mt unchanged rates.
wholesale merchants report a better feel
ing generally. but few anticipate any ma
eerlai increase in the volume of business
this month. Mercantile collections are
slow and as difficult to make as beretos
fore, except in the cotton States. and Mt
some points in the Northwest, where
heavy crop reports have enabled interior
merchants to liquidate long standinhs ac-
counts The more conspicuous demiaad
at larger cities is for dry goods, CLOTHING,
Shoes; hardware, leather and Iumber
Ihere is also better demand for pig iron
anu ior steel. business in cotton goods
mas been checked by the advance in
prices, and mill stocks tend to accumu-
late again. :,
Exports of wheat (flour included as
whea0 from both coasts of the United
states and from Montreal this week
amount to 4, 40, 794 bushels, the largest
weeks export of wheat since the second
week of September, 1893. 1t iscompared
with $3.50, 600 bushels last week, 2, 6i3, 600
bushels in the corresponding week one
year ago, ., Pa, 900 bushels two years ar
3,iS9, o00 bushels three years ago. 'sS'
of 1892. VS.
The total number OF failures through
- 1856, is II, $50, the largest
IKE period since Il
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