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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
A Town of Celebrities.

Ex-Governor Perham, one of Names
best preserved and happiest ''ex's," enjoys
telling story of a strangers visit to a
little Maine hill town of fragrant mem
ories. where one of the natives took pleas
ure in politely pointing out the local
objects of interest. "There," said the
villager. pointing to handsome old-style
house, lived a former member of Con-
gress; youoer on that street you see that
big square house, where one of Names
most distinguished sons was born who
was successfully mem Der of the Legisla-
ture, House of Representatives in Con-
gress, United States Senator for genera
tion and Vlce-President; right down there
is the modest printing office where one of
our boys used to work, whence he
graduated to become leading political ed
itor, and afterward Postmaster General"
the village the native called the a.ten-
ton of the visitor to other old residences.
There" said he, sis the former home of
another member of Congress, Governor of
the State, ETC., and over across there is
where another M. G. once resided. Right
down the street there is the old home of
Judge c., and over there is where Judge
E. used to live years ago. We've got
good lot of pretty famous lawyers, editors
and colonies besides, that haven't men,
toned" remarked the escort. By this
time the stranger was beginning to get de-
cidedly interested, and burst forth with
the enthusiastic inquiry: "But. good
heavens! haven't you ever had any CON-
mon people in your townp'-Lewiston
Journal.
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1t was so understood, and as we passed
IN by the fort Charlie and Billy Mccarthy
hooked on to our forechains and | heard
Big John, who by this time had poked his
head over the rail, say in a whisper loud
enough Tor those of US who were within
reach to hear: This is Christian ship,
Charley. The boys want Jobs ashore
some want to sing in st. Mary's Church.
There are two vacancies there. amt there i?
There's Cape Colder here who wants to
teach Sunday-school, few Portuguese
who want to dig gold, couple OF Dutch
men who want to be porters in a wholesale
house and two or three Irishmen who want
10 become bank tellers. | guess you can
secure them the places"
"Of course, if they've aot religion I'll
have no trouble" answered Charlie. "I'll
go right back, notify Rev. Mr.. B" Ga
noted waterfront shark, now dead), land
III bring him Off when the sails are fured.
Tell the boys it'll be all right, john"
sure enough, no sooner were the sails
slowed, the running rigging coiled up and
the decks swept down, than man clim bed
up over the mizzen chains dressed in
preacher garb, including the white neck
tie and tall silk hat. carrying in one hand
hymnbook and in the other a lot OF re-
ligious tracts He took a position beside
the maln-deck Capstan, removed his hat,
opened the hymnbook and started to sing:
Glory, glory hallelujah.
All the sailors loudly cry!
The words l shall never forget, for, like
the rest of US, | took him for minister,
but he was not; he was runner for
sailor boarding. house. He induced all of
us to go ashore with him, which we did,
and inside OF three days every mothers S son
OF US was sold for one hundred apiece
'.blood money" and distributed among
the different ships that were lying IN the
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

gilded hillsides. We had great expecta-
tions. Most of our good hymn-sngers got
il into their heads somehow that many
vacancies in church choirs awaited their
arrival while others would go to the
mines, get rich there, and then return to
their homes in the first cabin of steam
ship. But l need not tell the reader that
all were doomed to disappointment.
In those days sailors were scarce in San
Francisco. There was plenty of blood
money" in sight, and the boarding
masters and their runners were reaping a
rich harvest.
They were hard and hardy lot, were
these men of the water front. They lived
in their whitehall boats, and so eager
were they to get sailors that frequent trips
were made out as far as the Farallones in
their frail skiffs to intercept and, If pos
sible, board some incoming merchantmen,
at times a very hazardous undertaking.
Most of the men who kept sailor board
lng-houses then have since fuTled their
sails and silently drifted to the other shore
TO tell there of the many devices invented
for the capture of poor Jack. When the
lew that are living read this 1t VIII orlng
10 their minds the arrival of the V1tula,
and don't believe any one of them VIII
object to my placing in colo type the plan
they successfully put in operation to lure
from these religious surroundings crew
that for months with scrupulous exact
ness attended the weekly prayer meetings
on her quarterback that was holystoned
and squillgeed for the occasion.
meet few OF them on the streets nov
ana again and it makes me feel old to do
so, as the incident that l am writing about
happened more than a third of a century
ago. Anu yet l am glad to meet those
pronzed and fearless men of my young
Clty front days, for it carries the mind
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

There's one thing certnin--thnt your
Big Store reached it's fourth birthday
Saturday, and from the number of teie-
grams and letters from oil oyer the State
of congratulations and the sayings of
pretty things from our newspapers in
San Francisco, both morning and even
ing, we're enough to make our hearts
swell with pride. But we're not throw
ing bouquets at ourselves, but keep our
course in the right drecHon-- that of
giving you the very best of service and
the very highest character of goods at
prices that no other house can or viii
OFFER
Monday some Very Choice Short
Trouser SUITS for your boys in those
fine blue and black serge cheyiots, in
ciuoing some very handsome styles in
Scotches, oil new spring styles, for lads
between the ages of S and rs. Tho
goods are cfeveriy tailored, and double
the money is nearer the actual price.
Monday at
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that leads downward, every door that tends to
degrade him, that tends to rob him of exalted
character, that tends to put him on low
plane. 1t is only when he attempts to stand
shoulder to shoulder, on the same plane, seek
ing the same honors, demanding the same re-
spect for which others aspire, that the door Is
slammed in his face.-Rev. r. G. Ransom,
African Methodist, Cleveland, Ohio.
We need higher type of manhood in pro-
1esslonal life, at the bar and on the bench-s
lmpartially as bootblaek. We need higher
type OF the press and higher type in the pull
PPit, and. lastly, we need a higher type of
res that is gooG 5egon d.ys IN
the week and twenty-four hours in the day
Rev. c. J. Greenwood, Baptist, Utica, n. Y.
MODERN CHRISTIANITY.
We modern Christians are willing to preach
ana pray, put we don't want to associate with
common humanity. The trouble with our
nominal Christianity is that it is too tender to
pc touehed, too holy TO be handled, too nice to
De nudged, too exquisite to be exposed, too
o1gnlhed to be desired, too respectable for de-
cent people, too cultured for common people,
too shallow for sensible people and too fdealis.
VIC Ior everyday people.-Rev. ]. L. Gordon,
independent Boston. Mass.
CHRIST.
Many seem to think that the Gospel is very
complex system: They look into the churches,
lne creeos ana the systems and are confused.
Ihey can understand and harmonize all these
things. After all, at the last ANALYSIS we find
CLIlSI 10 DC lne center OF great manufacture
ing plant as the motor of it all, so Christ is the
source of all this truth and life.-Rev Dr.
Smiley, Presbyterian, Pueblo, Colo.
HE'LL.
He'll is not fierce doctrine to frighten peo-
pie into heaven; it is a stern necessity, ali In
exorable law against which all the waves
OF unbelief beat in vain. The old-fashoned
theology, with its literal fire and brim-
stone and bottomless pit, have passed
away. call that state hell which is bare
OF all the glories of the redeemed life
whether of this world or the next. call that
hell which is devoid of all longing or higher
things, OF all hunger and thirst after right
eousness, OF all interest in Jesus Christ, of all
love of God. When man is in that state he
is in hell.-Rev. Claude Raboteau, Baptist,
Jersey City, NJ.
SENSATIONAL SERMONS.
One objection intelligent men urge against
the church is its own lack of faith. This,
they tell us, is seen in the conversion of the
pulpit into an arena for the harlequin and
the substitution for Scriptural preaching
OF the quips and jests of the concert
hall. Such alleged preaching is like the
1oam cast up by the sea. 1t feeds no man; it
quenches no mans thirst. But it does place
the church under the ban of intelligence and
brings the ministry into disrepute. Irreverent
sensatonalism. perhaps, more than all other
ened hold OF church upon the respect Of
men OF sense and sensibility.-Rev. S. G. Mel
son, Baptist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
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which is apt to stick to them as long as
"Hunkers" and ''Barn burners stuck to
the warning factions of the New York
Democracy in ante-bellum days, or as
"Snappers' and "Anti-Snappers' will ad-
here to their descendants of a more recent
"Featherheads" clung to the two wings OF
the Republican party. In longevity it
may equal the name "Knownothings,
which has survived for these many years.
1t may be said in passing that the
amusement the silver Democrats derived
from Senator Morgan's happy character
ization of his Democratic opponents was
about all they secured in the debate on
the repeal of the purchasing clause OF the
Sherman act. He laughs best who
laughs last" and the gold cohorts had the
last laugh on that occasion, and it was de-
cidedly loud and hilarious.
Lord Bacon hath it that Reading
makes full man, conversation a ready
man and writing an exact man." The
first two qualities Senator Morgan poss-
esses in phenomenal degree. Considering
what busy life he has led it is incompre-
henslble when he found time to learn so
much, or, having learned it, how he man.
aged to digest and asslmilate it. His ca
paciouS head in no way resem bles a store
house, into which a vast mass of things
has been thrust indiscriminately, but
rather well-arranged armory, in which is
found every species of weapon, bright and
shining, in its proper place, ready for in
stant use-or an intricate machine in
which every wheel, cog aud pulley does
with utmost precision its predestined
work; for
On every point, In earnest or in Jest,
His iudgm ent, his prudence and his wit
Are deemed the very touchstone and the test
OF what is proper just and fit
found lawyer-one of the best in the South
He had never held any civil office, except
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
Pen Picture of the Senator Who
Made Coils P. Huntington
Very Uncomfortable.
A MAN OF VARIED TALENTS.
He Is Said to Know More Than Anv
Man at Present in Public
Life.
The Fifty.third Congress was noted for

The Fifty-third Congress was noted for
its many mem bers who enjoyed twenty
four-hour sort OF fame by reason of their
idiosyncrasies, and prominent among
the group was Champ Clark, who is now
writing series of articles on the promi-
nent Congressman for the st. Louis Re-
public. His latest contribution is on
Senator Morgan, whose recent handling
of Coils P. Huntington before the Com
mittee on Pacific Railroads is familiar
to Californians. Morgan is an interest.
ing character and Clark is another, so that
the latter's view of the former makes in
teresting reading.
When Senator John T. Morgan of Ala
bama serves the term for which he was re-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

side of Cuba, and they finally had to give
1t up and try the east end of the island
within sight OF the lighthouse at Nue.
vistas. Some forty men for the Cuban
army and a big supply of provisions were
loaded after two attempts. Afterward
they learned that the soldiers had all been
captured by the Spaniards and shot, with
their leader, Colonel Ionic.
One more trip was made and the boat
was then condemned by the Cuban Junta
at New York and It's place taken by the
Virginius, faster and stancher vessel.
Commander Joseph NJ. Fry, an ex-Con-
federate officer, was placed in command of
her. and. luckily for Cooke. the latter
stayed at home this time. The Virginius
was captured by Spanish man-of-war El
Tornado, and Commander Fry and about
nifty OF his crew were tried, convicted and
executed.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The board of visitors of the University
OF Wisconsin has just investigated charge
that President Charles K Adams is "a
born and bred aristocrat.' and has decided
that the charge is unfounded, on the
ground that the president was born on a
farm and worked his way through school
and college.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
The Sea.

Is 1t the sea that CLEANS in merging breadths
VI color dark and wet? Or do the powers
That decorate the corners of the world,
n some vast cruclble dissolve and fuse
Virginal mines of ruby, malachite
Jacinth and chrysoprase, TO pave the floor
Of ocean, rough wit wrecks and skeletons?
Nature Is now about some mystery!
But while watch, ere can mark the change,
The passionate sun flames through the shriyeIed
cloud,
And all the crisp and curling water wakes
Blue as the naked sky that bathes it,
JOHN DAyIDsoN
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

stream awaiting their full complement of
sailors, and as we passed the fort outward
been heard, as we mastheaded the main
topsail yard, singing.
Whisky is the life Of man.
Whisky, Johnny.
viii drink it when can.
Whisky for my Johnny.
DENIS KEARNEY.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20

1he state central committee Of the
sound money! democracy of Iowa has
called a state convention for August 20
in Des Moines.
Hale johnson, Of Newton, ILL.,, was
formally notified in Chicago that he
was the nominee of the prohibition
party for vice president of the United
States.
At the populist convention in Raleigh,
NC, William A. Guthrie, of Durham,
was nominated for governor.
In Michigan the republicans renom-
mated S. 2. bishop for congress IN the
Ninth district and w. S. Mesicls IN the
Eleventh on the 362d ballot.
The sound money democrats of
Michigan will tmeet at Lansing On the
:eth inst. to nominate presidential cleo
tors and to elect delegates to the In
dianapolis convention.
The democrats of the Seventh In
diana district nominated Charles M.
Cooper, of Indianapolis, for congress.
Senator Sherman opened the repub-
lican campaign in Ohio with speech
to large audience at Columbus. Ex-
Gov. Foraker and Gen. Woodford also
spoke.
The Washington populists in conven-
ton at Ellensburg nominated John c..
Rogers for governor.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20
NEAR THE POLL
Nansen Goes Farther North Than
Any Previous Explorer.
Found Open Water In the Far North
Might Have Reached the Pole,
But for Lack of Dogs
and Canoes.

Vardo, Aug. 15.--Dr. Nansen, the re-
turned Arctic explorer, says the Fran
drifted with the ice, in westerly direc-
ton, to "a degrees, and he expects the
,essel,'wiH eventually arrive at Spitz--
bergen He. adds that wherever they
penetrated they found the ice broken.
Large patches of waterwere also found,
$500 meters deep. Below the depth of
100 meters the water, was .appreciably
warmer, probably owing.fto the gulf
stream. Rocky scars, of which the ex-
plorers' had no previous knowledge,
prevented entrance into the. Olenek
river for days.
In consequence of the scarcity of dogs
with the expedition, DIR. Nansen was
compelled to turn back at 86.15. He
adds that if he had been provided with
sufficient number of dogs and canoes
the pole would have been reached. ~
,s''@2@2 Had to Kill His Dogs.
DIR. Nansen adds that during the win.
ter when there was no bears flesh to
feed the: dogs, he killed the weakest dogs
and fed them to the others until the
whole pack was killed. He and Lieut.,
Hansen started en- May 10 to try to reach
Spitzenbergen. After travelling for six
weeks .on snowshoes, dragging sledges
partly over land and partly over sea ice.
they reached the quarters occupied bv
f. 6. jackson, of the Windward expedi-
ton. The members of this expedition
were found to be healthy and DR.. Nan
sen and his companion remained with
them for six weeks until the steamer
Windwcrd arrived with supplies for
jackson. When the steamer started on
her homeward voyage DR.. hansen and
Lieut.. Hansen accompanied her to this
place.
The land voyage was most arduous,
but extremely valuable scientific re-
suits were obtained.
In 1895 DR.. Nansen reached the north
coast of Franz Josef Land and built
. stone house, in which he lived the
whole winter.
The Jacl<son-Farnsworth expedition
arrived at Franz Josef Land the follow
ing spring. a-. 4.
OF Value to Science.
Stockholm: Aug. ia dispatch
from Christiania to the Unserland saws
that Prof. Mohn, who is now at Vardo,
states that the scientific results of DR..
Nansen's observations are magnificent.
Several unknown islands were dis
covered and their positions determined.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20
RiOTiNG AT CLEvEL AND,

More Bloodshed by the Brown Plant
Strikers-Four Men Shot.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 15.-One of the
most dastardly attempts at premedi-
tated murder ever laid at the door OF
organized labor took place here Friday
night, it being the outcome of the
great Brown strike that has been go
ing on in this city for.the past three
months. AS the result, four men are
wounded and two will die almost any
moment. -
On June rs the great Brown Hoist
ing and Conveying Machine company
discharged its 500 employees because of
threatened strike. Since that time
rioting has been the chief pastime of
the strikers and their thousands of
sympathizers. Two lives have been
sacrificed through the trouble and for
weeks the works have been run under
military and police. protection, and the
800 nonunion men escorted to their
homes by armed officers to prevent
murder. The striking workmen put
up a big fight to beat the Brown COM
pany, but have signally failed. Ever
since the trouble began the strikers
and their sympathizers have carried
on guerilla warfare against the men
who took their places, They have as
saulted them, stoned their houses and
boycotted them at the stores.
About week ago the five companies
of militia were withdrawn from the
Brown works and the police protection
taken away. The strikers applied for
court injunction and were refused,
and since then have become doubly re-
vengeful. Friday night party of ten
strikers went to the corner of Wade
park and East Madison street and laid
in wait for party Of workmen who
came by on their way home from the
Brown works. There were nine men
in the little group of workmen with
their dinner pals. Without a mo-
ment's warning the strikers rushed
from behind saloon, where they were
in hiding, and with a cry of ''scab" be-
gan shooting into the crowd. A few
Of the worlmer we've armed and re-.
turned the fire. The battle lasted
aboutasthree minutes, insswhichs about
30 shots were fired, when the strikers
fled. III 81.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20
Will boycott Armour Meats.

Denver, Col, Aug. 14.-The National
Retail Butchers Protective association.
now holding it's annual convention in
this. city, has instructed it's police COM
mittee to enforce the boycott previously
ordered against all meats handled by
the Armour Packing company. This
action is taken because it is alleged the
Armour company undersells the retail
crss in restaurants and hotels. It was
unanimously resolved to continue the
Fight on New York city department.
stores which sell meats.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20
THE GRAND ARMY.
Plans for the ThirtIeth National Encamp-
ment at st. Paul.

Plans for the Thirtleth National Encamp-
ment at st. Paul.
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 15.-The thir-
tieth national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held in
st. Paul from August 81 to September
5. "A rate of one cent per mile has been
granted for encampment travel by all
passenger associations, outside of $50
mile radius for St. Paul. Within the
$50 mile limit from st. Paul, and
throughout the northwest generally,
the rate will be one fare for the round
trip. The tickets will be good for Is
days, but may be extended to Septem,
Der so by special arrangement. Hotel
rates will vary from one to six dollars
per day; boarding rates. from one
to three dollars. Free sleeping quar-
tiers will be given veterans coming with
their departments. 3$% 20
The route or the G. A. r. parade.
Wednesday, September 2, is less than
two miles long, all down grade on as
phalt streets, free from street car tracks
and shaded for most of the distance.
The column will move at ten a. m. It
is expected that about 10000 veterans
will participate in this parade. The Of
fetal programme promises many
parades, receptions, reunions. camp
fires and the like. Members of the
Boys brigade, wearing white caps, will
be stationed all over town TO give in
formation and act as guides, without
charge. a&f@@>& III
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20
Democratic Headquarters.

Washington, Aug IL Senator Jones,
chairman Of the national democratic
committee, has issued an official state
ment locating the headquarters at Chi
cago, with branch in Washington. A
part of the campaign committee snf-
icient to conduct the business of the
campaign for the present has also been
appointed The gentlemen selected so
fur are: John r. Mclean, Ohio; D. Il.
Campau, Michigan; j. D. johnson, Kan
sas; Clark Howell, Georgia; Bradley
Smalley, Vermont; Thomas Gahan,
Illinois.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Iowa democrats in convention at OF,
tumwa nominated a ticket headed bv
L. 81. Karr, of Osceola, for secretary OF
state. The platform indorses the Chi
cago platform. Gen. Weaver and Hor-
ace Boies were selected as electors at
large.
The democrats in state convention at
Wheeling, w. Va, nominated Gen. C. c.
Watts for governor.
The independents and democrats of
North Dakota nominated a fusion ticket
at Grand Forks headed by R. B. Rich
ardson, of Pembina. for governor.
The populists in convention at Spring
field, ILL.,, nominated a fusion ticket
headed by John P. Altgeld for governor
with the understanding that the demo
Gratis will indorse the popuiist candi-
dates for electors.
Hubert Arson Newton, the oldest
professor in active service in Yale uni
versity and head of the mathematical
department, died in New Haven, aged
&c years.
A vast assemblage gathered in Madi-
son Square garden in New York city
to witness the notification of William
Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall as
nominees for president and vice presi-
dent on the democratic ticket.
Robert McKelley died at Upper San
dusky, O., at the advanced age of 81
years. In 1s45 he was appointed register
of the United States land office by Pres
ident Polk.
Mrs. Lucy F. Moorehouse, who was
nominated by the national prohibition
state convention in Michigan for the
office of superintendent of public in
struction, cannot make the race, as the
attorney-general says that woman
cannot hold an office for which she
cannot vote.
The following congressional nominal
tons were made: Michigan, Fourth dis
trict, f. L. Hamilton (rep.). Missouri,
Sixth district, David De Almond (dem.)
Kansas, First district, Rev. H. r. Ballou
(pop.); Fourth, John Madden (pop.).
Virginia, Eighth district, J. +. Rixey
(dem.). California, Second district, G..
J.. johnson (rep.) rencminated.
The Tennessee republicans in state
convention at Nashville nominated G. N.
Tillman, of Nashville, for governor. The
platform reaffirms the St. Louis plat
form and indorses Mckinley and Ho-
bart.
Chicago has been chosen as the head
quarters of the democratic national
committee.
4 s /. $ 4 r Il ft
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Ii Hung Chang ON sllxor.

london, Aug. 2.-Ihe Times report
of 9 visit to the Bank Of England by Ii
Hung Chang says that Ii observed while
there that the question Of bimetallism
could only be settled by the silver-using
and producing countries, and that
therefore China, Japan and America
must decide the question.