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The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
THE ANGLER.
Sportsmen Who Have Left This City
for the Trout Streams.

Sportsmen VINO Have Left This City
for the Trout Streams.
Carey Friedlander, Alexander Hamil-
ton. president of the Country Club, and a
party of sportsmen left this City last
evening for Boca. The expert fycasters
will whip the Truckee River to-day and
tomorrow, and as they are well supplied
with Henry SINNERS best killing front
flies, it is presumed that they will land in
this City Monday morning with baskets
well filled with beautiful rainbows.
John II. Grindley and wife are rusticat-
ing at Independence Lake. Mr.. Grindley
is, without question, one of the most ex-
pert lake fishermen on earth, and as Jack
Sammi has posted" him on the ways and
means OF catching cut-thIoat trout the ex
press company Will doubtless nave ito
hands full delivering packages of fish in
this City TO many friends of the 'fiowery'l
Grindley.
Alexander McCord. John Lemmer. John
Berges and friend who pretends to be
f1y-caster, visited San Andreas Lake last
Thursday. Fishing was first class and the
anglers had very little difficulty in filling
their baskets with steelheads. Mr.. Me-
Cord, who got enthusiastic over the sport
OF hy-cas ting, has left an order with a
prominent rod-maker for first-class rod
for tfy-casting. Sufficient to say that Mr..
McCord with his black gnat flies" dis
counted gentleman of the party who
boasted OF being the only member who
could cast fly properly.
w. p. Fuller. Frank Fuller, George
Stratton and Jack McGlynn left last even
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
THE OARS MEN.

Crews That Left Here Yesterday
for Stockton-The Regatta.
The much-talked-of Stockton regatta
takes place to-day on the Stockton Chan
nel The oarsmen entered in the different
events are In the pink of condition, hav-
ing trained faithfully for the contests since
the I'll Campo regatta on May 80 last, and
If nothing unforeseen happens to dampen
the ardor OF the sculIers some very spir-
lted contests Will be witnessed.
10 offset the action of the local senior
barge crews the Stockton rowing clubs
nave induced the Pacific Coast Amateur
Athletic Association to arrange an inter
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
THE FIELD OF SPORT.
What the Oarsmen, Athletes and
Cyclists Are Doing.

In wheeling the great event of the sea-
son will be brought off to-day at Peta-
luna. As will be seen by reference to the
cycling columns thousands of people are
expected to be present to witness the
great racing events, and, as an exceeding
Iy warm day is promised, all lovers OF
lemonade will be in the swim.
The pastimes of to-day consist of base
ball at the Presidio and Folsom-street
grounds, coursing at Ocean View, Pacific
Inanimate Target Association shooting
contests at Alameda Point, cricket at Ala
media, lawn tennis tournament at San
Rafael, handball in the professional pail
courts and Yachting on the bay.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04

and they have all agreed to postpone their
pleasure for that period.
"Any one who shoots doves at the present
time is in reality guilty of murder of the worst
description" said John Fitzgerald, the crack
ala k OF the Spoonbill Gun Club, "and l arr.
one of them. l went out the other day and
bagged three dozen. picked my birds by
killing the old ones and strong flyers of the
first brood. The last bird 1 shot was very evil
dently hard hit but did not fall watched it
and saw it light in a tree. then went over
and found the bird stone dead, sitting on her
nest in which 1 found there were two little
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
THE BOXERS.
Choynski Signed Articles to Meet
Slavln = Ryan and Green
MatChad

Manager Gibbs of the National Athletic
Club does not like the manner in which
his partner. Groom. transacts business.
Groom, it appears, has learned thing
or two from Gibbs about clubs and how
they should be managed, and as a result
he now has about concluded to play lone.
hand in the game.
Gibbs is kicking in the traces, and saws
that Groom cannot pull the wool over his
eyes.
"lf Groom wants to run a club singly."
said Gibbs, 'let him go ahead. but he
must find some other name than that of
the National Club"
1t appears that Groom offered a purse
OF 5000 for contest between Choynski
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04

The second baseball game of the Califor-
MIA League series takes places to-day at
the Sixteenth and Folsom streets grounds,
when Stockton and San Francisco will be
the opposing teams.
Following Is the makeup for SATURDAYS
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
Sacramento Snortinr Naua

SACRAMENTO, July s.-one DAYS shootinv
among the doves in this county has demon.
strated to the sportsmen OF this city that the
dove season has opened two weeks too early.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
Following ]
game:
g. E------

On Sunday the Oakland and San Jose
teams will play. The players who win
participate and the positions they will oc-
cupy are as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
DOCTOR SWEANY
A Series of Professional
TriumphS.

There are thousands upon thousands in
this land to-day who are praising his
name, because he has made their lives
happy and brought sunshine into their
homes On Friday afternoons he treats
free OF charge the poor who call at his
office. The following are among the dis
aasac he
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
'EHms: Six Months so cents.

little hatchet, we point with pleasure
to his history and say, he stands pre-
eminently at the head of Americas
honor roll as statesman, soldier or
citizen. His was not brilliant mind,
but the great underlying principle was
a love for truth from which there was
no deviation and today he occupies,
after lapse of century, place in
the hearts of the American people
which no other may ever achieve,
We are not in sympathy with the
idea of instilling into the mind of every
young person that he may become a
Garfield and climb from the tow-path
to the White House at a single bound.
This country needs artisans and labor
ers, our mines are to be delved into,
our factories are to be kept humming
with sounds of industry. All these
lines are avenues to success and sue
cessful workers must be found in them.
Let us, therefore, fit ourselves for some
useful occupation, if it be not high, it
at least can be honorable.
In doing this we fulfill our duty to
the state and to ourselves. If there is
man who deserves honor above his
fellows, it is the American artisan
whose achievements have given us the
wonderful inventions of this, the close
of the nineteenth century. We may
not reach the glory-crowned height
occupied by an Edison or Westing
house, but that should not deter us
from doing our duty in whatever line
we may be found.
All honor to the working man, and
while his breast may not be covered
with medals of honor won on some
hard-fought battlefield, yet within the
sacred precincts of his own humble
home may be found those who delight
to do him honor and whose love may
be to him brighter galaxy than all
the medals that ever glittered on SOL
dier breast. Young men, duty is obli-
gatory. 1t requires obedience, truth
fulness and honesty. Let us obey its
precepts and when the morning stars
shall have sung together, when the last
battle has been fought, may we have
lived such life that its review may
encourage us to draw aside the curtain
and look into the great beyond.-By
1917 in Huntingdon (Pa.) Reformatory.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
ONE ON THE CAPTAIN.

A story that was current among the
sailors of the San Francisco whaling
fleet, a few years ago, is instructive as
showing how even savage can be in
strumental in rebuking the scoffer.
The captain of whaler, being in need
of provisions, went ashore on one of the
Fiji Islands in quest of something
suited to his needs. Meeting tribal
chief he offered some cheap calico in
exchange for whatever native luxuries
the eXigencies of the moment might
produce. After examining the quality
of the goods, and detecting their flimsy
character and unwashable nature, the
chief reproached him for bad faith in
trying to impose on his ignorance, add
ing that the Christian missionaries
taught them that honesty was white
mans virtue and it seemed strange
that the captain should engage in such
tricks. The captain enraged at what
he termed the "impertinence" of the
chief, began abusing the missionaries
VINO CaugnC Cne SaVageS Jne CrlcKS OF
trade. He denounced their religion as
false and the bible as old women's
talk; telling the natives they were fool
ish to listen to the missionaries tales
of Christ. The chief, after patiently
listening to his diatribe, pointed to
rock-built oven in the distance, and
said: "Do you see that pile? That is
where we roasted our victims for the
cannibal feasts before the missionaries
taught us how wicked it was to eat
one another; and,' continued the chief,
| ''you can thank God and that old wom-
ans bible that you are not in that oven
now. Now get" And the captain got.
SINBAD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23

psychological origin, and this theory
has been accepted as applicable to ac
quired habits and appetites. The to-
bacco and opium habits have been de-
clared susceptible to treatment and
numerous compounds have been in
troduced claiming the curative virtues
necessary to overcome their cravings.
The appetite for strong drink is con-
querable and succumbs to remedies
baneful to it's cause. If bad habits are
durable, why not crime? Bad habits
and crime, both being wrong, are the
effect of the same cause, the difference
being merely one of degree; the one
being directed against self, the other
against self and others. AS the lesser
evils is bridled with the check rein of
scientific treatment, infusing renewed
vitality to the vitiated moral and phys
ical strength, rejuvenating long settled
habits and wrong ideas to fresh reali-
zation of their depravity, there remains
legitimate room for inference in the
fact that as one discovery suggests ex-
periments for another, or the use of
something previously known, the ad-
vancing march of intelligent research
will yet produce the crime germ. AL
ready step has been taken in this direc
tion by professor connected with the
Smithsonian institution, demonstrate
ing, by forty experiments, that the color
of sin is pink, and not scarlet as rhe-
torical phrases have heretofore pictured
it. The question naturally arises,
what is the terminating cause of this
pink kishness, and wherein does it re-
side? Its location and study might lead
to it's removal and the restoration of
the passions to their natural tempera-
ment.
One of the great questions of theology
is whether child is born with an affec-
tionate or cruel nature? Probably this
could be partially answered by ascer-
tanning the color of the perspiration of
a crying infant. If pink it would tend
to prove that the germ of sin is inher-
ent in the race The discovery of this
evil parasite would possibly result in
bringing to light the parent-germ of all
disease, as the 'woes Of man, being
largely the result of his own folly and
ignorance, have their origin in yielding
to the insidious allurements of wrong
When this discovery is made, and
turned to account, the convicted horse
thief will be sentenced to partake of a
certain number of doses of bi-chloride
of something or another, and his satanic
majesty, in all his ''pinky" hideousness
paraded under the microscope for the
eXecratiOn of mankind. H.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
DUTY.

Duty is imperative. We may desire
to change the import of this, but con-
strue it as we may, nevertheless, the
obvious fact remains that duty is not
optional; nay, emphaticalIy reiterate
that it is stern command, emanating
from a source over which we prima-
rily have no control. Duty is mani
fold, branching out and far-reaching
in it's influences, affecting not only our
selves and those environing us, but in
a measure of no insignifcance, influ-
encing those more remote than we may
at the first conjecture. 1 have some
where read that not single word that
we ever spoke has been lost, but that
it continues to vibrate on and on
through the region of impenetrable
space throughout the countless ages
of eternity. If this be true in regard
to cur speech, how much more forcibly
must it strike us that our actions will
continue to effect others for ages after
we have been called from the stage of
active life? If the words we speak,
the thoughts we think, the actions we
commit, have such mighty influence
on those around us and are so far.
reaching in their futurity, let me ad
monish you, my associates, thus assem-.
bled, to be diligent in controlling your
actions, your thoughts as we'll as your
speech, that the influence which EN-
anates therefrom may have tendency
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
CRIME AND THE GERM THEORY.

Crime has its genesis in the perver
sion of right to channels of wrong,
growing to sin by wilfulness and to
crime by studied and continued prac-
tice, in defiance of all law, both human
and divine. All wrong is not sin, nor
all sin crime, the degree being meas
ured by gravity, and the responsibility
by mental capacity. The true criminal
is one imbued in crime, who advances,
or expects to advance, personal ends at
the expense or injury of others, and it
is no more correct to brand first Of
fender criminal than to call man a
wine. Crime, being the sum of sin
and wrong, is unnatural, antagonistic
to every principle governing the ex-
istence of all created things and des-
tructive of the teachings of nature and
natures creations. The universe is
established and directed by inexorable
laws of right and order, implicitly and
punctually obeyed by all planetary
bodies and organisms OF creation, ab-
horring wrong and steadily pursuing
the eternal paths of right. Vegetable
life is nurtured, reared and has it's exist
ence in Interchangeable regulations that
cannot be violated without incurring
the inevitable penalty of death. In the
lower animals the inherent desire fol
satisfying the pangs of hunger impels
them to their prey by an instinct that
teaches them that the destruction OF
species other than their own is nat
ural, and in conformity with the laws
of right. When cat springs at a
mouse she obeys an impulse she can
not help, but accepts the existence OF
the mouse as wrong from her standard
of right, and with an instructive knowl
edge that it's capture would increase
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
Vol. IX.-NO. 81.
A REFORM ALTON.

A REFORMATION.
Tom Jones was a drunkard;
There was no doubt of that.
You could tell by his nose,
And his coat and his hat,
And his ragged old trousers!
where could you match 'em?
Or where find woman
Who ever could patch 'em?
His wife never tried it.
Twas not cause she wouldn't;
The reason was this:
The poor woman couldn't,
For this pair of trousers
Was Toms only one,
And what would he do
While the patching was done?
One evening, quite sober,
Tom came home to tea,
And after while
To his poor wife, said he:
''There's something miss
And I've missed it for weeks,
Say, what has become
OF the red in your cheeks?'
what one person loses
Another one gains.'
His pale-looking wife
With a sad smile explains,
Become of the red? Tom,
You know where it goes;
You stole it to redden
The end of your nose"
Tom thought for minute,
Then said to his wife:
Its wrong, and know it,
To lead such life.
And now, my dear wife,
I'll do as ought err
And he Joined the Good Templars
And drank only water.
And now he helps roll
The great temperance ball."
And keeps to his pledge,
Beer, cider and all;
And he VOWS a Good Templar
He'll always remain,
And on his wife's cheeks
Bloom the roses again.
B. 7. Warner
Evening star., 1896-12-21
IKE WALTON'S BOOK.
Copy of His Complete Angler Sold
for $1,16O.

Copy of HIS Complete Angler Sold
for 81, .6O.
London Cable to the New York Sun
A test of the market for old and rare
books is the current price of copy Of Isaak
Walton's Complete Angler. published in
1853. One was sold this week at auction
fc- 81, ,760, which is record price. In 1879
a fine copy, in choice binding, was offered
for SEQ, and the seller appended an apol-
ogy for fixing 50 high a price. He ex-
planned that, with one exception, a copy
had not been offered for twenty years. The
exception was one example, included IN
set of five editions, sold fer $34O and af-
terward resold for $50 in 1889. Another
copy that came under the hammer pro-
duced $500. BY 1891 the value had mount
ed TO $1.550 though in the following year
a copy fetched no more than 81 900. 1t is
not the Conlpeat Angler alone which has
gone up in price. Many seventeenth and
eighteenth century books are constantly in
increasing demand A good deal less than
generation ago the first edition of the.
Vicar Of Wakefield could be got for SO,
but in 1892 a copy sold for $3.50. The orig
inal issue of Gray's Elegy, which was first
published at siXpence In 1I51, mounted
from $50 in slSS> to $50 in 1873.
Evening star., 1896-12-21
FOOD IN THE ARCTIC.
Birds Have No Dimculty in Finding
Sustenance Amid Snow.
From he New York Eya

Birds Have No Dimculty in Finding
Sustenance Amid Snow.
From the New York Evangelist.
The number of birds that go to the
arctic regions to breed is vast beyond
conception" They go not by sands.
but by millions. to rear their young on
the tundra. The cause which attracts
them is because nowhere in the world
does nature provide at the same time and
In the same place "such a lavish prodigal-
ity of food That the barren swamp of
the tundra should yield food supply SO
great as to tempt birds to make journeys
of thousands of miles to rear their young
in land of plenty. only to be found be-
yerd the arctic circle. seems incredible.
The vegetation consists of cranberry, cloud
berry and crowberry bushes. Forced by
the perpetual sunshine of the arctic sum-
mer these bear enormous crops of fruit.
But the crop Is not ripe until the middle
and end of the arctic summer. and II the
fruit-eating birds had to walt until 1t was
ripe they would starve, for they arrive on
the very day of the melting of the snow.
But each year the snow descends on its i'm
meE sc crop of ripe fruit before the birds
have time to gather IL. It is then pre-
served beneath the snow. perfectly fresh
and pure. and the melting OF the snow dis
closes the bushes with the unc0nsuuned
last years crop hanging on them. or lying.
Evening star., 1896-12-21

ready to be eaten, Non the ground. The
frozen meal stretches across the breadth Of
Asia 1t never decays and is accessible the
moment the snow melts. Ages have taught
the birds that they have only to fly to the
arctic circle to find such a store of ''cryst al
lied foods as will last them till the bushes
are once more forced into bearing by the
perpetual sunlight. The same heat which
frees the fruit brings into being the most
prolific insect life in the world; the mos
quito swarms on the tundra. No European
can live there without a veil after the snow
n elts; the gun barrels are black with them,
and the cloud often obscures the sight.
Thus the fnsect-eating birds have only to
open their mouths to fill them with mos
quitoes, and the presence of swarms of
teEder warblers, OF cliff chans, pipis and
wagtails in this arctic region is accounted
for
Evening star., 1896-12-21
SHE HELD THE TRAIN
And DeRed the Conductor to Make
Her Get Out of the Way.

And Dehed the Conductor to Make
Her Get Out of the Way.
From the Chicago Times -HtSald
Before 1 came to this part Of the coun-
try was an engineer on railroad down
SOUTH said a railway man. 1--WE used to
make a lcng run and We were pretty slow
about it. While on that line I had some
very cdd experiences. l remember one day
when we reached the junction station a
woman came up to me and asked me to
bold the train for five minutes. She said
that her daughter wanted to take the train
to the city. 1 told her that it was impossi-
BILE for me to hold the train for her.
81 dent see why she eXpostulated. I
think you might do little thing like that
"I tried to explain to her that trains ran
on schedule time, and, like time and tide.
wait for no man, or woman, either, for that
matter But she wouldn't have it. and
finally just as we were about to start, she
shouted Indignantly:
well, I'll just see about that
Il laughed, but soon / ceased to laugh.
For what did that old woman do but get
right on the track about three feet in front
of the engine. She sat herself there firmly
grasping hold of the rails with both hands.
The conductor signaled for me to go ahead.
as our stop was over But 1 couldn't do it
as long as she remained on the track for l
would kill her certainly l called to the
conductor, and he, impatient at the delay,
came up. I explained the situation to him.
He was as mad as 1 was, and. going up to
the woman he told her to get OFF the track.
''I just won't she replied. until my
daughter gets on board your train.
He pleaded with her some more, and
finally declared that he would be compelled
to use force.
Just you darer she cried. 'Pll sue you
for damages II you dor
''This opened a new complication, and we
reasoned with ourselves whether we had
better remove her by force. Just as We had
determined upon a course of policy her
daughter came up, and, seeing the old wo-
man on the track, kissed her goodbye and
got on the train, while her mother called to
her:
"'Go ahead. Mary Ann. You have plenty
of time, though, for I will sit on the track
until you get on board
"And then. when Mary Ann was safely on
board and we were about ready to run over
the old woman If necessary. she calmly and
slowly got up and waved me a goodbye,
calling. as we pulled out of the station:
I hope I've teached you fellers grain
OF perliteness.'
Evening star., 1896-12-21
A Cracker Idyl.

From the New York Herald
'.Dadr'
Arbustine Bagg's voice trembled slightly
and faint flush came to her nut brown
cheek as she spoke. She was shy young
girl of nineteen years and just ten times
that number of pounds.
What say, Arbustine?" replied her pap
briefly.
Arbustipe slowly stirred the fat in the
kettle OF soft soap she was "b'ilin' " and
glanced sfyly toward her dad from the
depths of her pink calico sunbonnet. A live
coal popped out from under the kettle ana
fell on her bare brown toes. She kicked IL
away while her cherry lips softly naurmur-
ed Dang it all"' Then she said:
Dad. Hank Moon was over hyar ag'in
las right. He wants me to go to the inooii-
sinners picnic with i'm
Does, hey?"
'Yes-an' that amt all. dad
don't be SO blamed meechin bout it,"
He wants me to marry i'm"
Il reckoned as much. Arbustine Bagg,"
said her father coldly. But he shan't hey
ye! Ye hear me, he shan't hev YET No gal
O. mine shell marry a Moony'
Dad" said Arbustine. do you know
what Hank done at the shootin' match over
at Hind's Cross Roads a-Mondayg'
He shot twenty-nine pigeons out O. thir-
ty."
"Humph"
An his bull pup licked ev'ry other dawg
thar"
"Ye don't mean IL"
AN Hank licked both o. the jackson
boys with one hand tied behind i'm, an he
won a fire pipe fer 5umpin' ave feet high
er'n any other man at the shootiu' match"
"'Lawd-a- mighty, Arbustine, how hev
misjudged Hank. Marry i'm? OF course ye
shell marry i'm. an that right airly; an
ye shell hev good feather bed an the lit
tie red Eeifer TO start out with. You and
Hank kin Eey my blessin' at any timer