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asked me why didn't go for soldier. I bad
got the army fever and it was just what I
wanted. So said, but am big enough?
CHE looked at me and called a soldier, and
told him to give me his gun. Then put it at
charge and the soldier pressed against the
bayonet with his chest till it hurt him, but he
couldn't push me back, so Captain King said
Pd do, and enlisted. That was July 1, 1861.
was then just IL years 1 month and days
old, but was big for my age and strong"
Young Fairbanks was at once sent to Wash
ington, and joined the army of the Potomac,
where he at first followed the fortunes of GEN
eral Mcclellan, and saw most of the awful
fighting in Virginia and Pennsylvania. To
substantiate his claims he has the testimony
of R. II. Weber of 2225 Larkin street, who
has been a letter-carrier il this City for many
years. Weber was then young man of 20,
and in the long marches through Virginian
swamps he often carried his boy comrade' s
gun and blankets as well as his own.
When Fairbanks term of service expired he
enlisted for three years in Company h OF the
Seventh New York Heavy Artillery. He was
ordered to Fort Reno, just back of Washing
ton, but was employed by Grant in the in
fantry, and was at Fort MeHenry, in Maryland,
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COAST EXCHANGES.

The organization of boards of trade, such
as that which has been instituted at PaIo
Alto, according to the Times of that place,
would, if generally followed throughout
the State, go long way toward insuring
greater prosperity. The Palo Alto board
is composed OF fifteen business and profess
sional men, and is named the Retail Mer-
chants Protective Association. The fol-
lowing from its constitution explains its
aim:
"The objects ard purposes of this asso-
citation are as follows: To foster, encour-
age and develop the mercantile and home
interests of the city of Palo Alto; to coll
lect, preserve and circulate useful informa-
ton respecting said city; to encourage and
procure wise and helpful legislation and
oppose and defeat the enactment of all
laws and ordinances which may iniuriously
affect the mercantile interests of said CITY:
to promote integrity fair dealing and good
faith among, and adjust and determine all
disputes and differences relating to bust
ness matters between its members; to
forward the improvement of streets,
roads, avenues and public parks; to
increase and extend railroad and
transportation facilities; to aid and en-
courage the erection of needed pub
lie buildings, the establishment of new
manufactures ana the advance of local
improvements; to encourage all like or
CARNATIONS in other towns and cities; to
act in unison with like associations; to
discourage the practice among wholesale
merchants and jobbers of other cities of
retailing merchandise, and to encourage
all residents of Palo Alto 10 patronize
home merchants and industries, and gen.
orally to strive with united efforts to in
crease the wealth, industries, influence,
trade and population of Palo Alto"
Summerland also has organized a Board
of Trade, but on somewhat different lines.
It's bylaws declare the purposes of the or
ganiZation to be: ITO call attention TO
the oil and gas fields of Summerland and
to invite capital for developing the same;
TO encourage manufactures, the building
OF wharf at Summerland, and the i'm
proyement OF all roads leading thereto:
to advertise the peculiar advantages of
Summerland as health and pleasure re-
sort, and promote any and every enter
prise calculated to bring an honest, in
dustrious class of permanent settlers to our
town. In general the object of this asso-
citation is to assist in forming an intelli-
gent public sentiment whose foundation
shall be just pride in our fair town and
county, and which when properly directed
will make this the most attractive place
upon the Pacific Coast
Messrs. Blake, Shurtleff and Bremen,
publishers Of the Trinity Journal, an
nounce the completion of the fortieth
volume of that able and attractive paper.
The Transforming of the enormous water
power of the california mountains into
electric energy for industrial purposes is
proceeding with giant strides. The Clear
Lake scheme, already noted in these col
umns, has taken definite shape, and its
proportions are gigantic. The Napa Regis
ter, quoting the Rev. Richard Wylie, one
OF the wealthy promoters of the scheme,
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KEEP UP THE FIGHT.

The action of the State convention on
the railroad funding bill by no means re-
lieves the people of the duty to continue
the fight down TO the moment of its final
disposition by Congress. Although the
State, through the medium of this con-
vention, has expressed its views, there are
many other ways in which effective work
can be done. Persistency is an indispen-
sable factor in any contest.
Mayor Sutro has deplored what he takes
to be an appearance of apathy on the part
of the people. If such feeling of indif-
ference exists it will be the strongest
weapon which the railroad can use against
us in its fight before Congress. There is
no question of q division OF opinion in
California on this subject. Every one not
a friend of the railroad and enemy of the
State wants to see the funding bill de-
feated. If there is an appearance of apathy
it is not founded on any lack of under
standing of the terrible consequences
which would flow from the passage of
that measure.
In all such movements the popular wish
appears dormant unless it is strikingly
made evident by the force and industry of
leaders. Under the present condition of
affairs in California the power of the rail-
road is so great that fear may exercise a
REFRESHING influence to a considerable ex-
tent. The merchants of San Francisco
know what it is to be terrorized and made
to suffer for speaking their minds. They
remember how they have been punished
by artful determinations in favor of their
rivals who were less bold. Farmers know
Th OF &c IN {hai- lranS
country warehouses on the pretext that
cars to move it could not be found, in case
they had dared to antagonize the railroad.
For this very reason the present state Of
affairs offers an exceptionally inviting OPP
portunity for able and fearless leaders to
present themselves and inspire courage in
the timid and energy in the slow. The
hand OF destiny is uplifted against this
enormous power that is so antagonistic to
every principle of American institutions,
and the beginning of its downfall is at
hand. Those who have the courage and
the patriotism to step into the breach at
this grievous time will make for them
selves names that will live in the history
of the State, and, as victory will surely re-
ward their efforts, the people will natur-
ally turn to them as leaders in the further
progress of the State.
Every town and city council, every
Board OF Supervisors, every body of citi-
zens organized for local or general adj
vancement can pass resolutions against
the funding bill and forward them to Con-
gress. Every trades union and every sort
of labor organization can do the same
Clubs can be formed in every community
for the purpose of fighting the bill and
making the popular sentiment of antagon-
ism effective. We have but just entered
upon fight for State and home, and it is
the duty of every citizen to put forth the
best effort that he can.
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LOOSELY DRAWN LAWS.

It would be natural to expect in newly
organized government making laws based
on a constitution that the attention of the
higher courts would be for a certain length
OF time considerably taken up in constru-
ing the laws and settling the question of
their constitutionality. But it would be
also expected that within a reasonable
time the law-making bodies would acquire
the art OF framing intelligent enaetments
and exercising little judgment on the
score of constitutionality
The successive Legislatures which Cali
fornia has sent to Sacramento have not
given exhibition either of Judgment or ex-
perience in this regard, and yet we have
been organized as a State for more than
half century. Every Legislature leaves
batch of wild enactments that bewilder
the people, disarrange important public
concerns and crowd the courts with use
less actions. The latest discovery is that
th& teachers pension fund law is so badly
drawn that no custodian for the fund &C.
cumulated by the assessment of teachers
can be found to have been provided for.
This makes the law imperative, besides
other radical defects which have come to
light. The whole thing will have to be re-
enacted.
The fee bill has proved another source
of great annoyance. Worse than any
other, however, is the condition of the pri-
mary election law, which was aimed to
make the forming of political convention
part OF the regular election machinery of
the State. That nothing like intelligent
attention was given to its framing is shown
by the fact that, although it provides for
the selection of thirty electors in each pre-
cinct who are on the last assessment roll
to serve as q body from which five
election officers are to be drawn, it is no
torious fact that some precincts do not con-
tain thirty voters possessing the property
qualification to serve as such officers. For
the overlooking of that fact no excuse what
ever can be imagined.
1t is thus all along the line. Legislative
committees are appointed principally for
the purpose of -eeing that the often insane
and generally loosely drawn bills presented
are put in intelligent shape before submis-
sion to the respective houses for action. This
precaution has not produced the desired eff
feet, and the result is an unsettled condi-
ton of affairs and ceaseless litigation. 1t
might be interesting some time to make a
careful estimate of the damage which the
State has suffered from this sort of care
lessness and incompetency. Unless a
higher standard of intelligence is estab-
ished in the selection of members OF the
Legislature, it will be necessary to estab-
lish court having power to determine the
sanity and constitutionality OF all meas
ures before they are placed on final pas
sapa
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CAMP MEET1Ne SONG.

Oh, It amt so mighty long twell you hear de trum-
pet blow
Sinner git yo' ticket fer de trainl
Eff you want to ter get ter glory you must whip de
boss and go
Sinner, git yo' ticket fer de train
Yonder is de raInbows a-shinin';
Satan fer de sinner is apinn':
He's a-waitin night en- day
Twell de sinner come his way
Oh sinner, git yo' ticket fer de tra!Dl
Oh, de sky is gwine to roll up, en- de moon1I tu'n
ter red
Sinner git yo' ticket fer de trainI
Is you gwne ter let de trumpet wake de sinner up
in bed?
Sinner get yo' ticket fer de train
Yonder is de rainbow ashinin';
Satan fer de sinner is a-pinin;
He's singin' er his song
Twell de sinner come along
Oh, sinner, git yO' ticket fer de train!
Chicago Times h rald.
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A GIGANTIC sTEGosAURUs ON BROADWAY.
Reproduced from Popular Science.l

and a head which, if it were not so dispropor-
tionately small, might suggest the beak OF the
bird to which the comb belonged.
Like the megatherium, the stegosaurus could
support itself upon it's tail and two hind legs,
a posture that seems to have been possible to
many of the earlier animals, but which is now
possessed only by the different species of kan
garoos. The forelimbs had as much freedom
of action as a human arm, the fore feet or paws
were provided with five fingers, but the large
and powerful hind legs had only three toes,
covered and protected by heavy hoofs. The
most curious part of the external anatomy of
the creature is the great plates that, placed in
a row along its back, gave it the appearance of
the comb OF cock, of which mention has been
made, and the most curious part of its internal
anatomy is that it had two sets of brains, one
in its skull and another ten times as large in
the regiou of its launches. Its solid bulk, If
placed across d street of ordinary width like
broadway would completely block it, stretch
ing across from one sidewalk to the opposite.
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A MONSTER REPTILE.

If the eyes of our reader could open in the
Jurassic Age, on the eastern slope of the
Rocky Mountains, he might behold the
strangest, ii not the largest, reptile that ever
existed; not that its proportions were at all
contemplate since it measured at least thirty
feet from head to end of tail-but its anatomy
and external appearance were beyond COM
parison the most extraordinary that ever ex-
listed, says Popular Science. Even the mon
ster mammal, the megatherium, was an ordi-
nary, commonplace sort of creature in COM
parison. This is the great roof lizard or stego-
saurus. In appearance it resembled what?
The gigantic comb of some almost inconceiv-
ably great cock. A comb with legs and arms
distantly suggesting those of human being
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS

Joseph Fairbanks, who served as private in
the Federal army from July l, 1861, to June
%. 1865, and has been a resident of San Fran
cisco most of the time since then, claims to be
the youngest veteran of the Civil War who car
ried musket in that great contest between
the North and the South
81 see that John E. Watson claims to be the
youngest veteran of the war; he said yester-
day. HE isn't, though, and I can prove it.
He didn't enlist till 1864. Why, man alive, I'd
been fighting four years then and had been in
over twenty battles and was still only about
the same age IS he"
Then Mr.. Fairbanks told of his experiences
He was newsboy of Albany, N. Y, and favor
tie among the officers of the camp near that
city. They gave him many privileges not ac-
corded other youngsters.
zone day William King, captain OF Company
I OF the Thirty-fourth New York Infantry,
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when mustered out of the service with an hon
orable discharge.
1t was not till long after the war that he
suffered materially from the wounds he re-
ceived in the service. Latterly he has been
unable to leave his bed, and has been reduced
to absolute want, his pension of $11 month,
increased by what his Oldest boy makes selling
papers, being the sole support of large fam
lily. He is too proud to ask help, but has from
time to time received assistance from old COM
rades, who have sent food and clothing ana
money to his home ct 501l Norfolk street. He
is a comrade of Lincoln Post No. 1, G. A. R.
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Mrs. winslow,s soothing syruu,

has been used over fifty years by millions Of moth
ers for their children while Teehing with perfect
success 1t soothes the child. softens the gums a.
lays Pain cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and ia the best remedy for Dinrrhoeas whether
arising from teething other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure AMI
ask tor Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 26S
bottle
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REDUCE your weight, use vrettos' Belt.
NEW TO-DAY.

Isn't it a mistake to put
ALL the convenient, COM
Portable and pretty things in
the home ?
Shouldn't the office have
some !?
It should have a desk,
anyway a handy and re-
spectable-looking desk.
$50 for one like picture.
Solid o a k-nicely pol
ished.
Roomy-convenient.
Carpets Rugs Mattings
CALIFORNIA
FURNITURE COMPANY
N. p. Cole & Co.,
lI7-123 Geary Street.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is perfectly dry soft
and mild, and is entirely free from the msts COM
mon further north. Roundtrip tickets by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotel del
Coronado, $50; longer stay 81 so per day Apply
New Montgomery ST., San Francisco
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The anti-funding convention did its
work well and now comes the time for the
people to act strongly in support OF it.
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The recent war furries have enabled
John Bull to spot his foes, but where are
his friends?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Up to this time the third-term move
ment has done no more than oscillate be-
tween the White House and Wall street.
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The Congressional committee has sat on
Bayard long enough and should now be
ready to give the whole House a chance.
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Bridget, everything in the house is
covered with dust; can't stand it.
Bridget-Do as 1 do, mum; don't pay any at
tenuon to it.-London Tid-Bits.
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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

II there is any thing on earth can raise
the wind for silver it is the Senate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Cleveland and Huntington are hard
pair to whip at one session, but Congress
ca do it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Nothing is inactive this year except
things that are hopelessly stagnant.
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Democracy will hold a National Conven-
ton, but hasn't decided what to hold it
for.
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By this time Huntington has discovered
that nobody has really wished him happy
year.
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THINK of the thousands of sufferers who on &C
count of impure blood have endured hours of pain
and spent much money for different medicines, who
after taking Hoods SarsapariIla have been cured.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

A visit of the British flying squadron to
the Bermudas might be made profitable to
US as an object lesson in naval extension.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Since Cleveland began his second term
the increase in the National debt amounts
to S306, 147, 729, and there is more to come.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Bonds may suffice to tide over the deficit
in the revenue, but they make no check on
foreign competition with American labor.
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SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers.
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's) $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Cleveland must have been standing on
tiptoe when he wrote his Venezuelan mes
sage, for he has not been living up to it in
his foreign policy generally.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Huntington is said to be distributing
secret circulars in Washington, but there
is no certainty that the distribution is con-
fined strictly to circulars.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Cleveland issues bonds on his own re-
sponsibility, but it was the deficit tariff of
the freetraders that gave him occasion to
do so.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Baroness Ito lady companion)-The begin
ming of this novel is horribly duh. Have the
goodness, Fraulein Brockhardt, to read the
first two or three chapters for me: will then
go on with the fourth.-Feierabend.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

If the Democratic party could see its
way clear to adopt at Chicago platform
denouncing Cleveland the convention
wouldn't have to advertise for candidates
to stand on it.
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In trying to cover the deficit with bonds,
Cleveland is true to the Democratic in
stinct of believing that any fault can be
concealed by committing bigger one.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

The deficit tariff is bad from a financial
point of view, but it is much worse when
considered with regard to its effect on
American industry.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Pierre Lott is writing a romance called '.Ra-
moncho," about smugglers on the Basque
frontiers. 1t will be ready next summer.
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Any funding scheme that would give
the monopoly grip on California for fifty
years to come would enable it to grow so
strong it could not be shaken off for an
other fifty years.
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The New York people promised the
Democratic committee such pure water
that the delegates to the convention
wouldn't want even a milk shake, and
straightway the committee voted for an
other town.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

The Chico Chronicle-Record has undergone
a complete change of management. V.
G. Richard retires and e. E. Wood and C.
W. Clough succeed him. This strong old
paper will continue its able work in ad-
vancing the prosperity of one Of. the richest
sections of California
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

Canon Muller of Fulda has arranged the old
Saxon epic, "Heiland," describing the life of
Christ, as q mystery play and set it to music.
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The selection of Chicago as the site of
the Democratic National Convention is
said to be goldbug victory, but We shall
see whether they can hold the fort when
the silver men storm it in July.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

The grave of Grimaldi, the great English
clown, is in st. James churchyard, Penton-
vile, London. Nine. Grimaldi, his niece, has
started movement to have a monument
erected over it.
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King Humbert of Italy has received a new
pet. 1t is q young lion, caught near Kasssla,
and is kept in stable of the Palazzo San Felice
Rome. Its attendant is native of the Tigre q
tall, robust youth, who speaks Italian well.
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sunday-school Teacher-Why were only Noah
and his family saved in the ark?
Small Boy-Cause Noah was good, and didn't
ask nothin'. The rest wanted the earth, an
they got it.-New York Weekly.
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The Redlands Cstrograph has completed
its seventeenth volume and is as hand
some in appearance and energetic in char
acter as ever. 1t could not be otherwise
with Scipio Craig in the editorial chair.
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State for the purpose of connecting with
the Valley road at Fresno and also to make
a southern terminal at Los Angeles. The
statement appears to be based upon tan
gible probability, and developments will
be watched with much interest.
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1t was inadvertently announced in these
columns recently that Messrs. Ruggles &
Reuck had sold the Lodi Sentinel. 1t was
the Reuiem-Batdqct that thew disposed of.
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w. G. Holloway, the talented young
editor and proprietor of the Oakdale
Leader, is being overwhelmed with Jour-
nalistic congratulations over his mar
riage to Miss Elsie Emery, an accom-
plished young lady of Oakdale.