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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22
THEY WANT MORE SPACE
Improvement Clubs Think the
Papers Are Not Fair to
Them.
They Rsjoice Over the Defeat of the
Geary. Street Franchise Ex.
tension.

The Associated improvement clubs met
last night in B'nai Birth Hall. Forty-six
delegates were present from the various
clubs comprising the main organization.
Vice President George r. Fletcher pre-
sided in the absence of President James D.
Phelan.
In the matter of street franchises a COM
mittee reported that the decision on that
very day by Judge Daingerfeld was favor
able to the position taken by the associa.
tion and would probably prevent for sew
eral years at least the passage of the
Geary-street franchise by q Board OF
Supervisors.
The Inconvenience long caused to traffic
on Montgomery street by reason of the
fact that the horsecars pass TO the left of
each other instead OF to the right, was
called to the notice OF the association by
j: J. McEwen. A COMMITTEES, consisting
OF J. J. McEwen, Charles Ellis and Leon
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Samues, was appointed to visit Mr. Vim
ing and request that the tracks be properly
arranged now that the pavement on
Montgomery street is being repaired.
Mr.. Williamson was introduced to the
meeting and proceeded to deplore the
amount of good newspaper slace daily
given to political cartoons and to news
from outside towns. He would have a
change instituted in San Francisco s news
paper offices, whereby some of that space
might be curtailed and more given to en-
couraging the work of the improvement
clubs. He expressed his views in the fol-
lowing resolution, which, after he had
finished reading, the meeting indulgently
adopted:
WHEREAS, This City is awakening from its
past lethaTgy and its citizens have been
aroused to its needs and necessities and are
banding together for local improvements and
to encourage home industries and enterprises
and TO stimulate the consumption OF home
products; and whereas the press of this City
has in times past been mighty factor in en-
couraging such enterprises and has promoted
and fostered home products and local improve
rlents. but OF late and at present is not pub
fishing the local news of this City to any ex-
tent, giving Oakland and the surrounding
towns more prominence than the metropolis I;
therefore be il
RESOLVED That we deplore this lack of zeal on
the part of our papers and protest against this
method of retarding this City and booming
the lesser interior 1owns at our expense; and
be it further
ReSolued That committee of five from this
club be sent to interview the proprietors Of
the daily papers and urge them to again take
hold OF local interests and improvements,
and by their articles encourage all TO renewed
activity.
DR.. Salfeld, ajor McKinne, William
Metzner, J. J. McEwen and w. L. Will
hanson we're appointed committee 10
visit the proprietors of the local journals
an d request more extended notice of news
tens eminating from and pertaining to
1.-The improvement clubs.
The recently organized Polk-street I'M
provement Club made its initial apaear-
ance before the association in the person
OF Nathan Bibo. its secretary, who reported
that his club already has membership of
ia merchants and property owners, ana
purposes to join the association at the next
meeting, when the club confidently
believes its membership will have reached
go.
A special committee consisting of ]. ].
McEwen, a. l.. Fritz and William Metz
ner was appointed to draw UP resolutions
OF thanks to attorneys Samuels and Bag
gett and others so actively instrumental in
conducting the fight against the Geary-
street franchise.
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Knocked Down bv a Car.

M. ]. Williams, a carpenter in the employ
ment of c. Douglass, contractor, had both
bones of his right leg broken yesterday morn
ing. He was on Union-street car on his way
TO work at a building on Filbert street, near
Pierce, and jumped off at Pierce street in front
of q going in the opposite direction, which
knocked him down and broke his leg. He was
taken to the Receiving Hospital, where DR..
Thompson attended to his injuries. He lives
at $50 Howard street.
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SAN FRANCISCO call,

BUSINESS OFFICE Of the San Francisco CALL
71O Market street, open until IL O'Clock every
night in the year.
BRANCH oFFICES-527 Montgomery street,
corner Clay; open until $3.50 o'clock.
S39 Hayes street. open until $3.50 O'Clock.
713 Larkin street, open until $50 O'clock
SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, oper
until o'clock.
2olS Mission street, open until o'clock.
ll6 Ninth street. open until $3.50 O'Clock.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
LICK HOUSE

dOOSE.
|. D J Dewing, Sonora
w b Wood, os Angeles
V f King & W, Merced
} u n Peterson, st Louis
A L Burch, Tehama
c Gray, Arno
p 4 Brown, Victoria
L J Cummings d W, Mo
II Buck, Ukiah
Miss V Stewart, st Louis
L & Blair, Stockton
A ] Foster & W, Grass vi
e j II Mcconnell, Cal
T ] Duffy, san Rafael
G ] Miller, San Rafael
III u Melope, Humboldt
] NJ Fulweiier, Auburn
w r Caruthers, 5 Rosa
g A Grahame, San Jose
j. l. Walker, Fresno
j j Smith. Stockton
a Gonzalez, Gonzalez
ID Il Murphy, Monterey
q Il Mccarthy, st Louis
, HOTEL.
e 5 TomblIn, Shasta Spgs
J l. Aldrich. Ryde
q q Strickland. .FairOaks
w Z Waters, Watsonville
w f Cope & W, Sta Cruz
Miss + Campbell, n Y
NJ j Williams, Vallejo
J sharp, Sharp's Comet Co
Miss May [ ook, do
j IL Zimmerman, do
] + Clapp, Chicago
Mrs + NJ Massey, Cal
j A Hoke. Boston
n II Jack d. W, Peoria
Mrs A Wasers, Watsonv
Mrs III T Merritt, Cal
Mrs Arundeill, sta Cruz
. j V Harrison, Visslia
w + Lorenz, Silver City
II B Dillon, Jackson
p a Buell., Stockton
w + Purnell, sacramento
: HOTEL.
Miss Lane, ST Louis
NJ Lane, st Louis
i. w Stockwell, Los Ang
J McDougall & w, Wash
Mr. ArIon. Chicago
A Z Bingham, Marysville
w l. Brown. Hongkong
Miss + N Mercer, Eng
j X Hill, Boston
ID A stuart, San Rafael
E w Runyan, Red Bluff
Mrs A q Bingham, Cal
n HOTEL.
Mrs IL corell, Lockford
l j w BOYD d. W, Sacto
w Martin, n Y
Mrs Kiel, N Y
i Doyle, n Y
Mrs j / King, Watsonville
Miss r Smith, " atsonvle
j J Allen Il W, Suisdn
Mrs A B Coote, Portland
} Mrs II q McGrew, SnJ ose
] X Rea, Dublin
w w Rollen, colo
Mrs ] A Martin, 5acto
TAN HOTEL.
j . Bush, Colusa
w ] Babcock, Toledo
Mrs Morton, Denver
j ID Lang. ry & W, Cal
A X Zion. Merced
X 4 Francis, San Jose
j p Lewis, Va
III b Richards, Juneau
James Oakes, Colusa
1 Aarucn, SCOTIA
7 Delany, Knights Ferry
J ; Wilson d W, Seattle
'ERN HOTEL
! II Cameron & W, Boston
J Lilts. Petaluma
j. j Powers, Sacto
J Coromann, U 5 N
A Riordan. Portland
Z Hermann, U s n
y BiunquiS', U s II
Il HokansoD, U 5 N
L a Lindo, Los Angeles
w Ratten. Georgetown
II + Mooney, LIS Angelee
p Fennessey, U $ \
J Walsh, Los Angeles
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The Massachusetts, census shows that the
women outnumber the men by more that
10000.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22
Special NOTICES.


@F NOTICE Is HEhEBY GIVEN THAT
@>S the Maria Kip Orphanage of 63S Folsom ST.
San Francisco, CAL, has received the following
orphan aud halt orphan girls from June 30 to
October ], 1896: Maggie May MacNaughton, 9
years; Sarah Hilda Reis, years; Mary King z
years: Eliza King. years; Ida King, years:
Mathida Edith KalDer. 10 year,: Jeanette AL
bretta Brown. IL years; Grace Hubbard. 10years:
Annie Hubbard, years: Henrietta Hammer 20
months; Florence Spicer. IL years.
RSS7 BAD TENANTS E5kCrED, $3 CUUk
ESS GAS FIXTURES MADE To ORDER;
e~S cheapest place in the city. IL. HUF
SCHMIDT. 1913 Golden Gate ave.
E1ss BAD TENANTS kJECfkD FOR S4:
We collections made, city country. Pacific
Collection Co., AIS Aontgy Sc, roomK Te.. e5Su.
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G c Mcdonald, Los Ang
L M Rockhill, Grinsby
Henry Maine, S Rafael
p Bulmore & W, Modesto
H b i thompson. St6n
Aaron Buckingham, Ca
n L Nicholas, n J
j " Eckert, Merced
l. Agnew, Santa Rosa
G Stewart, st Louis
p Il Irving, S Barbara
] L Ormant, Salt Lake
n w Mountain, Placvll,
A Badt, Merced
L Gioi, Sausalito
B > Wat kins, Napa
AIRS G l. Allyn, Cal
4 FTaylor, Sacto
B V Sargent, Salinas
G NJ Martin & W, Volta
Mrs L G Yancey, Cal
G. J Miller. San Rafael
7 Wolfe, Los Angeles
u Allen, Portland
,GRANI
Mrs f L Berney, Colusa
q Gurnee, Oakland
g III Kelsey, Redlands
J B Hoyt. Birds Landing
w G Garrison, Stanford
Mrs Campbell, n Y.
Mrs j o Walker, Sacto
G " Edy, Montgomery
Mrs + d Vanderlips Cal
Miss Vanderilp, Fresno
j Z Forrest Il W, Cal
J w Cox. Mont
It Il Hayes, Boston
q z Owens, Penryn
Mrs J Wa ers, Watsonv
J. E ST John, Tucson
Miss Merritt, Woodland
e Randall, Walnut eve
II Il Adams, HOLSTER
B Ii Knapp. Holllster
K Meecham & W, Cal
IL 9 II Ops ipson, ,Stocktn
Wk koihrin, sacrament
PALACE
NJ F O'Leary, st Louis
DR. A Lane, ot Louis
: + Block, n Y
w q Kavanaugh, U S n
Mrs 4 w Mercer, China
G L Dennis, Reno
w II Hammond, Oklnd
r & Cummings, Du Dlin
II : Nichols. kedlands
q G Hewison & ", Cal
II Gottschalk, Chicago
J b Baker, Stockton
BALDWI
Mrs j F Iangford. Bodie
Mrs % Carpenter. U kiaI
" ] Currier & W, Sacto
Mrs w Martin, X Y
X NJ Speakinon, n Y
Dr NJ Pritcnard, Scenic
Valley
MrSM Il Harris, Watson v
w IL Pyburnt. Salinas
+ Medhurst IL w,sn jose
r b McGrew. San Jose
+ q Gou q. Jackson
Miss X Forbes, Sacto
CoSMOPOLI
] Young, Benicia
Z 81 des Gracais. Goiusa
Miss CronIn, Boston
+ simpson, san Jose
g Gurdan & wilmington
J J. Rice & W, n J
Carter Williams, Colo
A r. Lew, Modesto
G. + Let turof Il ". Iowa
J Grugant, Halifax
J Allison, Windsor
NJ D Smith, Cal
NEW WEST
] II Sullivan &w. Bostor
III Barnes. Pe.aluma
i B Channel, Berkeley
A q . Struve, u ) n
] Myers. U 5 y
+ G Carson, Bakersfield
II Feate, U S n
II Harvey, U S n
I J Pepper, Los Angeles
q 4 Holman. Sn Rosa
w r Jantz, GeorgetoN n
J. watson, u ) n.
L a Brure, Arcata
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


BUILDINGS BOUGHT: LUMBER, SASHES,
- doors, mantels etc, for sale. 1855 Mission St.
W ANTED : JOB LOT PICTURE-FRAME
w holdings. w. sToTT, All Ninth. Oakland.
WANTED-2 COUNTEkS; IA FEET; SHOW
w cases: shelving: for store. w. T., box 103, Call.
GOOD CAMERA 4x5; THE PREMO SR, OR
VI the Pony Premo ST.. preferred; must be cheap;
cash. G. c., box 19, Call Office.
OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT: JEWEL
" ry, watches repaired. MUND, 1882 Mission.
CELL YOUR BOOKS, CLOTHING AND JEW
- elry TO 4. KLEIN, 109 Sixth st.: send postal.
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COMPETENT YOUNG LADY WISHES
~ place as stenographer; wages not so much an
OBJECT as to gain experience Address Steno, box
So, call Office.
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AGENTS MANTED.

AGENTS WANTED.
A GENTS TO CANVASS; som Ell HING NEW;
"A sells on sight; large profit. 2l1a Third. rm. s..
EEMALE SOLICITORS AT ONCE. APPLY
Il to DEMETRAK & CO.. from IL TO l O'clock,
cor. University and Shattnck aves.. Berkeley.
CEEDS, WATER-FJLTEhS, AT REDUCED
- price. HOLLAND. SIT Broad way, Los Angeles.
A GENTS-HULlDAY BOOKS; FOUR BOOKS
II represented by one prospectus; first agent re-
ports 80 orders in four days; F. Person. manager
subscription Department, THE whitaker &
RAY CO., 723 Market St
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CtTUATION WANTED TO DO LIG HT HOUSE
~ work; willing to ass st with children refer
ences given. Addr IS W. w :, box AZ, Call Office
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

RkFINED YOUNG LADY WOULD LIKE
IU home with respectable lady, or as companion; /;
can give references Address r. F., box IA, Call.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

NOVA SCOTIA SCOTCH GIRL WISHES
~ housework and cooking in an American fam
lily: can give references. Address 2uS Leaven-
worth ST.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

COMPETENT WOMAN WISHES SITUAIIoN
- in small family TO do general housework. l42
Dolores =. bet. 9th and 28ih.
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FURNITUKE FOR SALE.


0Uk NEW sIORE Is COMPLETED AND We
" are In It; four floors, running from Mission to
Minna ST.. in all IN acres of floor space are
packed with household goods Of all kinds, parlor
bedroom and kitchen outfits Of ali kinds and in
endless variety; IL you are thinking of purchasing
anything needed in home, from pair OF Dian
kets to completely furnished house, pay us a
visit; it COSTS you nothing; our numbers 1OI7,
NOONAN.
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SITUATIONS wANrED-FEMALE.

L AIDES REQUIRING FIRST-CLASS HELP
IL of any natio ,ality will please call send
their orders to MISS CULLEN, 323 Sutter ST.
Tel. Grant l20.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

CITUA1ION WANTED BY A WHOM AS
~ working housekeeper: country preferred: no
objection 10 children. Address MRS. G., 21l
Fourth ST., room 81.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

DELIABLE WOMAN WISHES A PLACE A.
IL working housekeeper; best of references; cit,
preferred. Address Housekeeper, l423 Bush ST.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

QUARTZ GOLD MINE IN CALAVER As
" County for sale at great bargain. For particu.
lars address Z. d. JUDD, 1424 Park ST., Alameda,
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

M IDDLE-AGED WOMAN WISHES TO DO
1I light housework: wages Sc to SO per month;
good worker; city country. Address 3121a
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22

DELIABLE YOUNG WOMAN WISHES A
LII situation in hotel rroomIng-house AS chamber
maid: wages $40 Address S. e., box 10, this
off
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d ELLA b Lii MIDDLk-AGED WOMAN WANTS
LII q place 10 do housework or wsit on sick LADY,
terms moderate; fond of children. Call $50 Mis-
sion
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HELP wANrED-Continued.

COOK, $50; SECOND COOK, $50: WAITER
~ and pantryman, $25 HOTEL GAZETTE,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-08
FELT HONORED.

Because He Had Met a Bigger Man
Than Uncle Sam.
An hour after midnight the other
night a patrolman found a man seated
on the steps of the postoffice with his
elbows on his knees and his head in his
hands, says the Detroit Free Press, and
giving him a shake the officer said:
Come, old man. this is no lodging
housep'
mo, sir" replied the man, as he
reused up, '..this is the postoffice
knew it when I sat down here. 1t is
seldom 1 mistake postoffice for 1odg-
ing house. Did you suppose I was labor
ing under the impression that 1 had
turned into cheap room on the fourth
floor back and left orders to be called
at o'clock in the morning."
you'll have to move on" replied the
officer.
isn't this government building?"
Eyes, SIR
Owned and run by the government
of the United States?"
Yes, SIR
"And has Uncle Sam ordered me to
move on?''
"No, sir, but 1 have, and you don't
want to linger over an hour"
my dear sir" said the night hawk,
as he looked up, ARE you bigger man
than Uncle Sam?''
81 am. sirY' replied the officer. as he
dallied with his club.
"Then I bow to circumstances and
will move on. Could you spare me a
photograph"
mo, sir!'
''Wil you give me your autograph? ?"
mo, sir!''
Then let me gaze at you for half a
minute to indelibly impress your feat
ures upon the tablets of my memory.
That will do, and I thank you. 1 have
met bigger man than Uncle Sam, and
1 shall be able to describe him to the
children gathered at my knee. officer,
tap me over the head with your club"
There it isr' said the officer as he
fetched him one on his battered old hat.
''Thanks-thanks awfullyI 1 have not
only seen bigger man than Uncle Sam,
but CD ! zz boomI a q SO"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-08

district He is a spare, 1iry sort of man,
and as MS life has been pat IN at hard
work his constituents and very large
section of the south outside of his dis
trict seem to have taken it for granted
that he can stand anything. Another
hard worker apparently is Hon. George
II. Noonan of San Antonio, Tex, who
represents 81 counties of the most di-
verse climate, people and productions.
He was judge of the district court for
33 years, and his Democratic friends at
tribute his election entirely to the high
character he sustained in that office and
his resulting popularity. Judge Noonan,
however, will not listen to such an ex.
PLANTATION, but thinks it was all on ac-
count Of the Wilson bill putting wool on
the free list. His big fight will be for
restoring the Mckinley rates on that sta
pie.
Gains For silver.
Among the very distinguished new
men from the south is General James A.
Walker, the only Republican from Vir-
ginia, and it adds not little to his rank
that he carried his district by some 3, 900
against Cyclone Jim Marshall, who car
ried it by some 5000 in 1892. 1t is
worth noting that General Walker is also
a radical silver man, and it may be said
in general that the big percentage of ex-
treme silver men among the new Repub-
licans is one of the surprises of this
congress. He talks it, too, with more
than the average freedom, and is very
confident that an overwhelming MAORI
ty of the Republicans of the south would
vote for the free coinage Of silver at once
if it were put to a popular vote. The
general, as everybody knows-for he is
a man Of national reputation-was one
of the most brilliant soldiers in the Con-
federate army, having commanded the
famous "Stonewall brigade" and Early's
division in the latter part of the war.
I have been much interested in the
reasons given by those southern Repub-
licans for their being here and for the
general political revolution of 1894,
but, after all, it seems that the enthusi-
asm of the politician nearly always over
comes the Judgment of the man, for
each is confident it was due entirely to
the particular feature in which he takes
most interest. Hon. J. II. Huling of
West Virginia, for instance. attributes
it altogether to the tariff and the slight
which the Democrats put on the indus
tries Of his state, while the North Caro-
lima men think treason to silver" had
a good deal to do with it. 1.-The man
who beat Billy Wilson" is the popular
title for Hon. Aston Gordon Dayton,
who has been great success as law
yer, but admits to some surprise at his
sudden promotion to a congressman. OF
course he thinks the tariff did it all,
and that West Virginia is to remain Re-
publican. J. II. BEADLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-08

THE real trou ble with the United
States treasury has nowhere been more
truly or simply depicted than in the fol-
lowing from the American of Philadel-
phia. 1t says:
The government is certainly in need of
additional revenue, but deficiency in
revenue is not the cause of the export of
gold which results in the drain on the
treasury gold. The demand for gold for
export arises simply because we are uu-
able at the present low prices of our ex-
ports, prices made low by the apprecia-
tion of gold caused by discarding silver,
to export enough cotton, wheat, pork,
corn and other produce to pay for our
imports and meet the charges on our for
eign debt, freig hts due foreign shippers
for carrying the American trade and ex-
penses of Americans aboard, that have
been made doubly burdensome by the
appreciation of gold as represented
by the decline in the gold
value of the produce which we
vainIy try to export in large enough
quantity to meet our Indebtedness abroad.
So long as we are unable, because of
the low prices at which we are obliged
to dispose of our produce, to meet our
foreign indebtedness in full on account
of interest and freight charges and ex-
penses of Americans abroad, as we'll as
TO pay for our imports, by exports of
merchandise we must export gold. The
demand for gold for export falls on the
treasury, and the consequent drain is due
directly to the low prices we receive for
our products, not to an insuficiency of
revenue, as Mr.. Dingley declares. Nor
is it due to the expansion of our paper
currency as MIR. Cleveland aud his secre-
tary declare, but on the contrary to the
unwaEranted contraction of the metallic
basis on which this rests, which has led
20 fall in prices unparalleled in rapidly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-08
NEW MEN IN CONGRESS.
Thirty-four Republicans From Sixteen
Southern States.
CAREER OF CONGRESSMAN SETTLE

OF North CarOIfnR-The New Member
and the Speaker.
WASHINGTON, January 6.-Taken by
classes, the southern Republicans in con-
gress are by far the most interesting
class, being SO very new and, as it were,
SO very unexpected. In fact. the south
has been Democratic SO long that many
have forgotten their history. Hon.
George II. Noonan has been referred to
as 1.-THE first Republican congressman
from Texas. F" He is an able man and a
very solid one, but not the first of his
party from that state. In the first years
of reconstruction the cotton states, from
Roanoke to the Rio Grande, were al
most sohdly Republican, and when the
first Democrat from Texas, Captain Con-
nor, entered the house in 1870 Ben But
Ter made such a furious fight against
him that he would certainly have been
ousted if he had not been Federal vet
eran. Indeed it was not till 1875 that
the Democrats had a majority from the
old south. But this is only a reminis-
cence.
New Men From the South.
From the 16 states once called the
south there are in this congress "a Re-
publicans, but % are from the five border
states and from the old Republican
stronghold of east Tennessee. In the
Fifty-third congress there were 2, of
whom 3 were from the border states and
2 from east Tennessee, leaving from the
real south only the colored Murray of
South Carolina and Hon. Thomas Settle
of North Carolina. AS the latter gentle
man is the sole Republican survivor of
the Fifty-third congress from the south
and is credited with having engineered
the fusion which captured North Caro-
lima he has attained rather dizzy promi
hence, but he bears it well. He has had
q phenomenal career, indeed, as a pre-
cocious youth. He was admitted to the
bar at 30, elected district solicitor at 81,
elected to congress at 81, and now, at
the age Of 80, is IN his second term and
the recognized leader of his section.
The new men from the south have
borne their honors most becomingly,
but some of the gangs which followed
them here have amused old spectators
by their refreshing innocence.
Hon. Alonzo Craig Shuford of the
Seventh North Carolina district is a
tri1e aggravated by the fact that the
newspapers and the first official list of
this congress set him down as a Repub-