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$50 Much for sperits-of- Cats-a- Fl ehtIn."
Well Mother she went on at that rate
till late bed time-never missed a lick
nor jumped a cog. And even when she
got through and took out and quit,
didn't say nothin. But yet still at the
same time it was my own private per-
sonal opinion that her head was as big
as a hamper basket and as level as a
squash. She was the doctor in this
case, and there was nothin left for me
to do but to take the medicine like she
had fixed it up So bright and early the
next mornin saddled up and lit out.
| didn't start out to go anywheres in
particulr. The mainest thing with
me was to ''stir round some."
then give my horse the ribbons and
naturally of course we soon rounded up
at the old Scroggins place. But Blew
he want at home. He was way off some-
where's down in the woods paster playin
doctor as best he could to a sick mule.
BY roamin and ramblin around promiscus
for some time finally at last I found
him. He was foolin and physicin with
his young mare mule, Kizzie.
Things are comm top side down and
wrong side out with me, Rufe," says
Blew, land you know when they start
to comm wrong they most in generally
always come in flocks and squads and
droves. The best COW on the place laid
down night before last and said her
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
THIS DAY AL II A. NJ.
GR0CERY AUCTION.
Church and Duncan Streets.
FRANK w. BUTTERFIELD, Auctioneer,
19 Montgomery st.

A. Windross to N. c. Crittenden, lot SO, block +,
Beulah Park property, East Oakland; So
Charles ]. and Sarah NJ. Fox to George Chain ers,
lot on S line of Durant avenue, 100 w of Audi
street or College avenue, w so by s 1SO, block 8,
properly OF College Homestead Association,
Berkeley; $40.
ing the 40 feet OF lot g. block l9, Berkeley Villa
Association Berkeley; $40.
Thomas W. and Minnie downing to Fred NJ. and
Emma j. French, lot z, block G, King tract,
Brooklyn Township; $40.
]. w. Phillips, Clara K. (by attorney ana 1rV-
ing c. Lewis (and attorney to Helen E. Mum.
roe lot on n line of Washington street, 90 w OF
Bassett. w so by n 125, being lots 81 and 80, nap
of Phillips resubdivision block IT'S, Levy Tract,
Brooklyn Township; $40. -
Andres de Santos to Filomeno Mendes, lot on W
so by w 15O being lots II and 1S, block lS Mary
A. Fitch HON mestea1, Alameda; $40.
Henry a. NJ. de Chesne to Marie F. and ID. A.
Nj. de Chesne Jr lot on Sc corner Of santa cara
avenue and Webster street, Z 14O by ~, Ala
media; also lot on w line of Grove street, 90 > OF
Alden avenue % by w 80, block ID, map OF
Henry subdivision of Whitcher, Brockhurst and
Rowland Tract, Oakland; also personal property;
gift.
Charles F. Hall to Louis F. Manowa, lots A and
As. block rs, map of northern addition 10 Brook-
Iyn, East Oakland; $40.
Daniel J. and Margaret CoughIn TO Chrlstlna
Barclay (wife Z. ~ lot Sc corner OF Delaware
and Hamilton streets, + 11OxS 5u, De1ng poruon
of range g. Hardy Tract, Berkeley; 500.
Jesse f. cooley 10 Eva M Hare, lot on w line OF
MIvia street, 100 Rose street, n SOxW $50, pc
ing the \ 80 foot lot 8. block Is, Map OF Berkeley
villa Association Property.
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panum, your head is softly reversed, the
ends of your mustache are turned on one
side and the operation is complete.
So quickly has it been all accomplis he'd
so new the sensation that you want it all
done over again. You have been shaved
by a married woman In Alameda.
The novelty has caught on and Frank
Bexen is doing convention trade since
his wife started in to assist him.
Mr.. Bexen was born in Metz, and during
the Franco German war was member OF
one of the Prussian companies of light
dragons. After the war his occupation
was gone and he had to look for some
thing to do. Eventually he came to
America, bringing his wife with him.
Three years ago he took shop on Ala
media avenue, few doors from Park street,
"Why did my wife help me2" said he.
"Well, you see, my man had to go away
to Los Angeles on business, and l had to
get q new one.
"My wife said to me: Never mind get
ting any more strange peoples. You can't
afford to get a good man when you shave
for 10 cents. / just help YOU
II said all right, and l taught her how
to shave me-"
Mrs. Bexen says she does not mind
shaving now. She is glad to do 1t to save
expenses.
Her five little ones trooped in as 1t was
just past the noon hour and took their
smiling mother with them to get dinner.
Alameda Cyc1ers.
ALAMEDA, CAL, June 1.-THE Ala
media Cyclers had handicap club run OF
five miles to-day from San Leandro to
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department, will be opened after the hoii-
days. It is centrally located in the old
high school building at Twelfth and
Market streets.
The normal training department is sup
piled with a complete outfit and the
classes will be large. The establishment
of the school has long been regarded as
necessity, and all the ninth grades west of
Lake Merritt will be transferred to it. The
course of study will be so arranged that
graduates from it will use nearly years
time in gong through the high school.
The principal who was elected at Fri
days meeting, P. M. Fisher, is an edu
Gator with State reputation. Until the
withdrawal of the State appropriation for
its maintenance he was the editor of the
Pacific Educational Journal.
The new principal has been teacher all
his life and is a self-made Pennsylvania.
Thirty years ago, when very young man,
he taught school during winter and worked
as a plasterer during summer. When but
1S years of age he was elected principal of
the Mayersdale school with two assistants.
He graduated from Mount Union College,
Ohio, in 1876, and came to California
year later. While resident of Irvington
Mr.. Fisher was elected County Superin-
tendent of Schools in 1882 and served one
term of four years. Since that time he
has been employed as a lecturer and editor.
an effort was made by DR.. Myra Krose,
School Director, to secure the appointment
as principal for Mr.. Faulkner of San Fran
cisco, but P. NJ. Fisher proved to have a
big majority of the votes in the board and
captured the prize. The salary is $4,000 a
year.
There is some doubt as to whether the
money nece ssary for the establishment of
the manual training school can be OBJ
tanned from the current tax levy. This,
however, will not affect the establishment
of the grammar school, which will open
after the holidays. A special teacher will
be appointed to the manual training
school, which will be quite independent of
the grammar school.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
TO join THE 0LYMP|cS,
Tempting Offer Being Considered
by a State University
Athlete.
San Francisco's Great Athletic Club
Tenders a Life Membership
to Ralph Lloyd.

BERKELEY, CAL, June 4.-Ralph B.
Lloyd, '99, one OF the University's most
promising athletes, has received from Gill
of the Olympic Club an offer of life
membership in that organization if he will
join.
Lloyd has taken the offer under consid-
Grafton, and it is possible that the near
future will see one more of the u. C's
prominent athletes captured by San Fran
cisco's great club.
''If join it will be with a proviso that
l shall not be compelled to enter any field
days or contests under Olympic coIors,"
said Lloyd. with such a condition I can
accept the offer of the Olympic Club and
still enter for the college in all events. y
Lloyd is one of the best athletes the
university has at present. He received
over th irty medals during his preparatory
school and freshman days, and was one of
five who were regarded as worthy of being
sent East last term.
Lloyd now holds the university record
in the pole vault and has several times
beaten the champion. Edgren, in the shot
put, besides doing good work in the ham,
mer throw.
1t is probable that he will abandon the
pole vault and confne himself to the shot
put and hammer throw in the future, as
the increasing weight which serves him
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
a BIsHoP FROM UTAH.
He Lectures at the Pythian Castle on
Mormonism.

He Lectures at the Pythian Castle on
Mormonism.
John E. Booth, Mormon Bishop and
member of the first Legislature of Utah,
delivered an address in Friendship Hall,
Pythian Castle, last night to the California
Mormon Mission and large audience.
He replied to a denunciation by the Utah
Presbytery of the Mormon faith and the
refusal of the Presbytery to extend the
hand of fellowship to the Mormons.
The bishop proved to the satisfaction of
the miss ion members that there had been
an apostacy from the primitive church /;
that none of the so-calIed denominations
that denounced the Mormon church were
following strictly Christ's teachings,
and showed that the Mormon people were
following the teachings of Christ. He
then asked why the hand of other Chris
tian people should be withdrawn from
his church.
He also spoke Of the divinity of the
sacred Book of Mormon, demonstrat-
ing that it is the history of the ancient in
habitants of this continent, OF which the
American Indians are now a remnant.
The question OF the hereafter was taken
up and treated from a scientific stand
point,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
WOMAN'S NEW VOCATION,
Alameda Possesses a Lady Bar
Der Who Has Many
Customers.
She Is Married, Has Five Children
and Helps Her Husband in Order
TO Save Wage Money.

ALAMEDA, CAL, June 14.-'You want
a shave, sir" Certainly" 81 Just call
mine wife. Sunday mornings l always
pretty busy"
His wife came. A neat, comely woman,
below medium height, of about 80 years OF
age, clad in blue print waist and skirt OF
black, with white lawn apron in front.
She came to the chair and stood mod
estly waiting to begin.
Then she looked and felt it was business.
The head-rest was screwed into position,
and before you could realize 1t your face
was coated with a creamy mass. You
closed your eyes and succumbed to the in
evitable. The action was the same, the
result so far was no different. and you won
dered why you came. But imperceptibly
you feel the delicate touch of light, soft
hand gliding over your cheek, slight me-
tallic think-thiEk murmurs in your tvm-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
PROGRESS OF
nD|V|NE SCIENCE, !"
Three Thousand Believers
Claimed in This
Country.
BEGAN FOUR YEARS AGO.
From This City It Has Spread
Into Every Part Of
the Country.
OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
"To Present the Science of Life as
the Basis of All True
Education"
OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION

Mrs. NJ. E. Cramer, president of the In
| ternationaI Divine Science Association,
| gave an interesting account of the third
| International Congress of Scientists re-
Gently held at Kansas City at the weekly
meeting at the home college of the associa-
ton held yesterday at 1860 Seventeenth
street. An audience OF half hundred
people filled the parlors OF the CrameI
residence to hear of the work done at the
congress.
The International Divine Science Asso-
| citation, which at present numbers some
5000 members, scattered all over the coun-
try, was founded four years ago in this
City by Mr. and Mrs. Cramer. The OBJ
iects of the association, as stated in the
constitution, are:
TO unite scientists and metaphysicians
Of every name in practical cooperation
who are interested in the work of dissent
mating knowledge of the truth of being,
and practically demonstrate the unity
which all scientists claim, by working with
that unity of purpose which is everywhere
manifest in the works OF God; to call Inter
national congresses, National and State con-
ventions at any time the association may
deem advisable to publish divine science
III QluC1ChI Aoh lteS6NSi ~ R4N
sent the science OF life as the basis OF all
true education"
At the time of the organization OF the
| association the following officers were
elected to serve for four years:
NJ. E. Cramer, president; Mrs. C. s. Alden,
| recording secretary; Mrs. r. NJ. Daniels, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. S. A. Eckman, as
| sistant corresponding secretary; W. II. Dan
| iels, treasurer. Advisory council-C. l.. Cramer
| (chairman), W. B. Shaut, NJ. L. Green, Carrie
| S. Alden, Sarah A. Eckman, Mrs. l.. Anderson,
| w. H. Daniels, A. b. Kinne, NJ. E. Cramer,
NJ. D. Shaut, Rosaltha NJ. Daniels.
Since the organization of the associa-
| ton three international congresses have
been held. The first congress was held in
this City in 1894, and few representatives
| from outside of the State were present. In
the following year second congress was
held at Chicago which was attended by
representatives from all over the country.
At the third congress, recently con-
cluded at Kansas City, between 800 and
1000 were present. The session lasted
| from the 18th TO the 18th of last month
and was characterized by remarkable en-
thusiasm throughout. The work OF the
congress and many incidents OF interest
were related yesterday by Mrs. Cramer to
her listeners. On her return from Kansas
CITY she conducted a class in Christian
science at Denver for three weeks, and, be-
! sides many converts, among whom were
some of the wealthiest people of the city,
effected some remarkable cures through
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tion governing the Board of Public Works.
Should such a change be made it Is to be
hoped that it will produce better results
than the one referred to.
Every year, for perhaps decade, there
has been an annual camp-meeting at Beu-
lah Park. Each time the holiness people
assemble there are frances" and "prophe-
sying" and numerous conversions. There
is nothing more or less sensational about
the meeting now in progress than at any
previous one. While the teaching is
strictly biblical. the leaders are very or
dinary evangelists, who preach much that
is good and some that is entirely imprac-
ticable. Among such a gathering of re-
ligious extremists there are some who are
| so constituted that they are liable to go off
into a faint. Having become nervously
and mentally exhausted they swoon and
when they revive, in their semi-bysterical
manner they tell of "YisioDs" that they
have seen while in the "trance." There is
nothing that they tell of having seen that
does not bear witness of having originated
in the impressions gained from the ad-
| dresses listened to before fainting.
| Nothing that has yet been revealed" is
! to be compared with the vision of John on
Patmos' lonely isle. Yet the story of the
disciple has never been pronounced sensa-
tional, but as soon as the effect of it and
other biblical stories is seen on mind
much weaker than that of the apostle all
the surroundings become lurid with
"sensationalism." There is also without
doubt a suggestion of hypnotism in the
trance process. A youth who was 'under
the power" last night was carefully
watched, and he had every appearance of
being in hypnotic sleep similar to that
seen in places where there is no sugges-
ton of supernatural or divine power. The
present revival at Beulah Park is big
disappointment compared with a good
old-time Southern Methodist cam pmeet-
in. S. w. B.
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GENUINE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Received by a Congressman Who Sent
Home Flower Seeds.

Received by a Congressman Who Sent
Home Flower Seeds.
A New England Congressman recently
sent one of his constituents package of
flower seeds for the lattersss wife, and re-
ceiyed a genuine Yankee acknowledge
meht. The latter thanked the member
for the flower seeds so kindly sent, 'in-
cluding sweet peas and other varieties of
long, unpronounceable, unintelligible, ro-
mantle names. We have planted the
seeds, the letter continued, ''and if they
grow we will use the names to train the
vines on"
In the same connection one tells at the
capitol of q visitor to committee-room
who found Congressman's clerks busily
directing seed packages"
"What are you doing2" the visitor
asked.
"sending out garden Seeds" was the
answer.
s'Seeds?'' said the other. "This late in
the season you ought to be sending out
vegetables. Wv Washington Post.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
Christian healing, of which she will speal

on Sunday next
The home college of the association is
conducted by Mr.. and Mrs. Cramer, and
consists of a primary course, dealing with
the basic principles of divine science; a
training course, for training in the practice
of healing; Astrological course, which aims
to give knowledge of the Scriptures and
the practical application of the science;
and normal course. which develops and
fits students to teach.
The fourth International Congress will
be held next year at ST. Louis, where there
are a large number of mem bers of the as
sociation. The Business Mems League OF
st. Louis has already donated the use OF a
hall for the congress. On next Thursday
evening the annual meeting OF the associa-
ton will be held in this City, the financial
reports will be made and time will be set
for the election of officers to succeed the
present officers, who have served since the
organization of the association.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
ALAMEDA COUNTY.

&C Havens to Alfred s. Barney, lots 33 and
34 block E, Oakland View Homestead Map OF
lands Oakland View Homestead Association, OAK
land, quitclaim deed; SIS
Alfred s. and Marian E. Barney to Ellen ii.
Chabot, same, Oakland: $40
Matthew and Margaret McDOnough to Mary de
Labrusse lot on n line OF Fifteenth street, 81 w
OF Kirkham, w so by lO4:9. oeins lots 10 ana
49, block $50 Scotchler Tract. Oakland. $40.
Margaret Piover TO Catherine ]. Meyer, lot on
NV corner of Pacific and Campbell streets, n
25:7 by W 74:9 being lot 26. block 466, map OF
Gibbons properly, Oakland; gift.
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Haywards. The object was to have a try
out among the members before choosing
reDresantatiyes for q troOhv race

Haywards. The object was to have try
out among the members before choosing
representatives for trophy race.
Only ten started, and finished as fol-
lows: Ramsay, Jacobsen, Hurley, Curtis,
Kleupfer, Fortner, Cumbers, Nissen, Bull
lion, Roos. Hurley made the best time,
which was given as II minutes 20 seconds.
Nissen, who was the only scratch man,
finished last but one. A good deal of
grumbling manifested itself on account of
tandem teams pacing the handicap men
The Democratic Muss.
OAKLAND, CAL, June 14.-One of the
Daggett delegates stated last night, and
he said he was speaking on authority, that
the Alameda Daggett delegates will be
seated without doubt at the convention.
His grounds for saying so were that the
other rolls being declared null and void,
ffty-six Democrats were prevented from
voting; and also that the other side re-
sorted to stuffing at the Park street
booth.
The Foote-Laymance section discounted
the statement, and said there was moth
ing in it, as they had their credentials.
Should they be unseated the result would
be similar to that which ensued when the
Alameda Republican party was ousted,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
No OmciaI Historians.

OAKLAND CAL, June 14.-Local city
and county officials are not historians.
Yesterday was the one hundred and nine
teenth anniversary of the adoption by
Congress of the National flag. In many
cities the day was recognized by gener-
Gus display CT stars and stripes. Not a
flag futtered in Oakland and no one ap.
peared TO know anything about the days
significance.
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onarre1 at Rlair,s Park.

OAKLAND, CAL, June 14-Fred Dono-
van and Thomas Jones, boys, quarreled at
Blairs Park this afternoon. Donovan
drew his penknife and during the fight he
cut Jones on the cheek. Jones was treated
at the Receiving Hospital and Donovan
was taken by constable to the County
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well in the latter events is drawback in
To Build New Schools.

well in tie latter events is a drawback in
the former.
To Build New Schools.
BERKELEY, CAL, June 14.-The Board
morrow night at the Town Hall. 1t is
expected that the construction of new
school buildings as provided for by the
recent special election, will be among the
matters discussed.
Deacons Installed.
BERKELEY, CAL. June 14.-The new
South Berkeley Presbyterian Church in
stalled its deacons at the regular service in
Ashby Hall this morning, the Rev. F. ].
Akers preaching the sermon. The deacons
are Messrs. Wright, Randall, Dargie, Dill
lon and Bochrer.
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Manual Training School Will
Also Open if Funds
Permit.
LONG RECORD AS A TEACHER.
The New Principal Has Been an Edu
Gator for More Than Twenty
Years.

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
908 Broadway, June IA.
The new Central Grammar School in
which will be located the normal training
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tion governing the Board of Public Works.
Should such change be made it is to be
hoped that it will produce better results
than the one referred to.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-15
lUGOVkENf RANK, <. OF ?.

From the last quarterly statement of
the Board OF Control oil the Endowment
Rank, knights of Pythias, ending Dec.
81, 1895, we CLEAN the following interest
ing information:
Number of Members. .................. 4i,05s
Amount Of endowment. nt....,........... 49,, i75,0OO
New members last quarter .... 1918
Received last quarter. .....-.....,.. S278,3O9
Paid death benefits last quarter. $s39, ,2o8
Of the $239, ,258 paid out, $4,000 was
paid on the death Of Alison Dawson, of
Reno, Nevada, and $1,000 on the death
of Thomas Fl. Sandow, of Virginia City,
Nevada, or total of $1,000 paid to New
ada beneficiaries for the last quarter.
There were III deaths during the
quarter, and the endowment paid was
$239, POS. 10 and for the year over $3.50, 900.
Since the organization OF the endow-
ment rank $a,79l ,S79 has been paid.
The number of new sections organized
since October 81. 1895 numbers 121, dis
tributed throughout 28 grand domains,
and the number of new members for the
year 1895, was 8,763.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-15
WEDDING BELLS.

On Tuesday evening at the residence
OF the brides parents, Miss Clara Elaine
Marker and Mr.. Chas. Stoker were united
in the holy bonds of matrimony, Rev. f.
F. Brown of Winnemucca, officiating.
Miss Pearl Marker and Miss Coral Stoker
acted as bridesmaids and Mr. Bert Stoker
and Master Edwin Marker as grooms-
men. The bride WAS very becomingly
dressed in white silk. A large number
of relatives and friends OF the bride and
groom were present.
After the ceremony refreshments were
served and at late hour the company
dispersed, wishing the young couple all
happiness and prosperity in their new
lie.
Following is a list of the presents
MIR and Mrs Marker, Bed room set
Mr. and Mrs H Stoker, Carpet
Mr. and Mrs. n Barstow, 10 doz spoons
Mrs Mary Barstow, s. in cash
Coral and Bert Stoker, Lamp
Miss Addie Stoker, Dinner set
Edwin Marker, Center table
Pearl Marker, Table
Miss Delema Frazer, Table cover
Miss Mande Rutherford, Berry spoon
Chas Mckay, Silver button hook
Miss Agnes Reid, Table cover
Phil Triplet, Elko, sugar spoon
Mr. and Mrs Dumas, Brides cake
! Willie and Lester VanReed, Table linen
Mr. and Mrs Downs, Table cover
Mrand Mrs John Hill, $40 in cash
Mr. and Mrs Westfall and I 15doz silver
Miss Clara A. Taylor, table spoon
Miss Ida Campbell and yHead rest &
Joe Williams sofa pillow
Mr. and Mrs Donelin, Comforter
Mr. and Mrs Cozzens, Rocking chair
Ar and Mrs G w Peltier, u doz tea and
table spoons, y doz forks and knives
Mrs Ruddell, Linen Toilet set
-Wm Pinniger, Reno, Perfume case
Mrs l. n Carpenter, Bureau scarf
Mr. and Mrs l. Feliz, 4 doz table spoons
Mr. and Mrs Mcintosh and (Center table
Miss McFarIin, B + Lynip IL berry dish
Enterprise Store, berry set
Mrs Joseph Marzen; Fan
Mrs Joseph Hill, Fan
MIR and Mrs Walter Davis, a doz COB
let's and napkins
Mrs and Mable Briggs, Head rest
Mr. and Mrs Welsh, Table linen
Mr. and Mrs Harrison, u doz towels
MIR and Mrs Morgan, Elko, y doz spoons
Mr. and Mrs O'Kane, Caster
Mr. and Mrs Wightman, Cologne bottles
Mr. and Mrs Chas Briggs, Bed spread
and towels
Paul Reid, 80 lbs of -four
Emmitt Reid, Toilet case
Francis Reid, Work basket
Cecil Briggs, Mirror
Geo Coffin, = doz pie plates
Dan Owens = doz napkins
William Carpenter, Ton of hay
Steve May, 100 lbs Of -four
Toy Lee, China fan