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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07
MANUEL MULCTED.
Burglars Ransack and Rob the House
Of the Pres id emit of the Council.

X
of the President of the Council.
OAKLAND, CAL, Jan. 6.-CounciIman
W. 9. ManuePs residence, 1928 Chestnut
street was entered and burgIarized Satur-
day night. The marauders came away
with lar.e amount of booty and left the
doors of the dwelling all wide open, in
which condition they were found Sunday
morning by Mr.. Manuel when he arose.
How the robbers entered or when is not
known. 1t is believed that they entered
by the front door and then opened the
other doors so as to be sure of an easy exit
in case of an alarm.
Scattered about the various rooms were
bits OF burnt matches, which left clew as
10 how the thieves had lighted themselves
upon their midnight prowl. As they
entered one room after another they
scratched matches. These were found
even beside the bed in which the Council
man was sleeping. When leaving the
room, however, they had closed the door
so as to deaden the sound of their subse-
quent operations in the house
The booty secured consisted of $40 in gold
and Mr.. ManuePs $125 gold watch. which
was all in the pockets OF his clothes in his
sleeping-room. The money was taken
home from the store Saturday night, as it
was received after banking hours, and Mr..
Manuel considered it would be safer at
home than in the store safe Mrs. Man
ueis purse. containing money, diamond
pin and other jewelry were in the same
room, in plain view, but were not uaken-
perhaps because the thieves were fright
ened away.
The family silverware had been over.
hauled, but little if anything was taken.
A piece of Venetian was carried ont
into the hallway from the parlor. but
abandoned. Mr.. Manuers new hat was on
the front porch; the thieves had evidently
changed their minds about carving It
away. Mr.. ManuePs trousers had been
carried down to the front door to be rum
mayed at leisure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07
'Dockery" Pierce Starts Out.

OAKLAND, CAL, Jan. 6.-Health In
spectOr Pierce started at O'Clock this
m orning to inspect the milk brought into
the city. He took his stand OF East Four
tenth street and Twenty-third avenue.
About sixteen wagons were examined, but
1t Is evident that some more expeditions
method OF testing must be devised unless a
big hardship IS to be worked on the deal
ers. At least twelve minutes is required
Tor each test, and before the wagons were
examined this morning the Babcocll tester
proke and the wagons had to drive four
miles to the Health Office to be tested
only one can of weak milk was found.
a Nobleman's Relative in Trouble.
OAKLAND, CAL, Jan. 6-J. Mooney.
the orother-ln-law of Lord Sholto Doug
tas' was arrested this morning, and in de-
lauit OF $1,000 bail is locked up IN the CITY
JAN charged with an assault with deadly
weapon on a man named Kearney The
assault resulted from a drunken melee
Whlch occurred at Murphy's saloon on
Nlneteenth street and San Pablo avenue
New Years eve.
No Receiver Yet.
OAKLAND, CAL. Jan. 6.-The matter of
appointing receiver for the Standard
Soap Company was continues two weet =
to-day owing 10 the action of T. X. STATE.
Ter IN securing a restraining order in tha
United States Circuit Court against John
Chetwood Jr., assignee of the creditors of
Soap King Thomas.
Killed by the Cars.
w. H. Gardner, foreman of q switch
engine, was killed in the West Oakland
yards tonight. He caught his foot in a
frog and was crushed between two cars
He leaves a widow, but no children
Gardner was for many years associated
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07

FIRED WILDLY IN THE STREET.
One Bullet Went Into a Store and
the Other Nearly Killed
the Suspect.

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL
90H Broad Way Ian
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07
STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE.
MONDAY. Jan. a. p.

NUN DAY, Jan. 2 P.
UNITED STATES BONDS.
Bid Asked. Bid. ASKED
Q Is coup. .10s12 U as reg. .. 1887
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
SCHOOL AND U

Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, who has
been appointed to fill the chair of Sem
itic languages ut Cornell university, was
born in Sweden, of German parents, and
educated in Stockholm, Berlin, and New
York. He is familiar with the Ethio-
plan, Assyrian, Arabic and many other
languages.
Princeton university will celebrate
its sesqui-centennial anniversary with
elaborate ceremonies, ending October
%, just $50 years from the day the char
ter was signed in 1746. President Pat
ton will figure prominently in the eXer
cises. y celebration committee has sen
out a budget of pamphlets bearing on
this and other Princeton matters.
Vertical penmanship, which has
long been required in many county
clerks offices and came into vogue in
the fashionable schools in New York q
couple of years ago, superseding the
English style. has just been adopted by
the Kansas City board of education as
the system which must hereafter be
taught in the public schools.
Most Rev. Sebastian Martinelli,
prior provincial of the Order of Hermit
Fathers of St. Augustine, who is
said to have been chosen as the sue
cessor of Cardinal Satolli, visited the
Augustinian monastery at Villa Nova,
Pa. in 1894. He is about five feet
five inches in height, has dark
eyes and dark hair, and intel
lectual counten9nce. He has n
high reputation for learning, speaks
English fiuently, has been in close touch
with the Irish Augustinians in Rome,
and is said to be fond of Americans. He
lives in the Augustinian convent of st.
Monica. which is not far from st
Peters in Rome.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17

Ii Hung Changes career is strikingly
interesting to young people. Not of
distinguished parents, he first leaps
into prominence by carrying off honors
at an examination where there are 90.
600 competitors. The subjects are not,
as with US, mathematics, geography,
arts and sciences, but the teachings Of
Confucius, theory of government, and
Chinese poetry and history. Passing
this examination promotes Ii into Of
fetal circles, and he becomes a compiler
in the imperial printing Office. But the
TAPPING rebellion breaks out, and the
student is soon called upon to become a
soldier. He raises a regiment of homo
militia, and enters upon the field of war.
In less than five years he achieves honor
and distinction, and then Imperial Gen
eralissimo Tseng Kwo-Fan appoints him
on his staff.-Harper's Round Table.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
HUMOROUS.

-Friend-"Why do you drink
whisky?" Col. Blood-"I don't know OF
any better use I can put it to."-Town
Topics.
-Parke-"I don't suppose, old man,
you can really appreciate how bright
nv children are" Lane-"No; / have
never met your wife."-N. Y. Herald.
Mrs. Wiggles-"Was tina. a good
box of cigars, Ephraim, that ] bousht
for your birthday" Mr.. Wiggles
craftily)-"I never saw q better box
Somerville Journal.
A Poor Rule, Etc.-Radbourn-"My
dear fellow, it is always better to begin
Mt the bottom Of n ladder" Chesney-
Nonsense. How about when you are
escaping from a fire?"-N. Y. World.
well, the bicycle has been the
means of closing our church." rs that
so? Did they really fight over itT"
Eight over it? No; the minister has
gone on a wheeling tour."-Cleveland
Leader.
Just the Thing.-"I intended this
poem merely as a pot-boiler," said the
young man in lofty explanation. That's
a good idea. Take it right home and let
yourfolks start the fire with it."-Wash-
ington Star.
-Farmer-'I guess there's somebody
fishing in our trout stream behind the
barn." Farmers Wife-"How do you
know? Have you found n line and
hooks?" Farmer-No; 1 found IL whisky
flask."-Boston Courier.
Teacher (about to expatiate on the
virtues of the dog)-"Now, children,
can you tell me the animal which is
capable of the greatest attachment to
man?" The Brightest Boy in the Class
IL know: the leech."-Exchange.
The Bellies Strategem.-"Isn't it
rather annoying 10 you to have them
both call on you at once?" asked her
dearest friend. mo; perfectly de-
lightful" said the young woman with
two devoted slaves. you see, dear. I
n on each side of me-" "Weli?"
"And there is such n delightful GOODNESS
between them" "Oh!"-Cincirnati En-
quirer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
Oyster -Croquettes.

Twenty-Five oysters, one-quarter pint
oyster liquor, same of cream, one table,
spoonful of butter, two tablespoonful
of flour, n tablespoonful of chopped
parsley, yolks of two eggs, salt and
pepper to taste. Put the oysters OH to
boil in their w liquor; boil and stir
constantly for five minutes. Take
from the fire and drain. Chop the
oysters very fine. Now put into a
saucepan the liquor and cream. Rub
together the butter and flour; add this
and the oysters to the boiling liquor
and cream, stir until it boils and thick
MS; now add the yolks of the eggs,
stir i've the fire one minute, take it
off, add parsley, salt, pepper; mix well
and turn out to cool. When cold form
into cylinders, roll in beaten egg, then
in bread crumbs and fry in boiling lard
Philadelphia Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
ARE YOU ~LEFT-HANDED?
We're the A~boriginals AmbIdextrous In
Their Practice of Art?

~ ~ AA3AS Is
Their Practice Of Art?
DIR. Daniel &. Brinton discusses the
question of left-handedness in North
American aboriginal art. If hands
worked in the past as they do to-day,
then in primitive times the left-handed,
it would be supposed, were not many.
Take 100 Americans, and from w to
four per cent. only are l~eft-handed.
This two or four percent. may do gen.
eral work better OIL more easily with
the left than with the right hand. In
the &c per cent. of ri%ght-handed peo-
pie there may be some few who are am
bidextrous. Has this proportion al
ways been the same in the human spe-
cies, and does it obtain to-day among
savage tribes?" DR.. John Evans, as
quoted by Sir Daniel Wilson, believes
that there was a manifest predomi-
nance of right-handedness among the
paleolithic fiint-workers of southern
England" On the other side, De Nor
t%illett, after a careful study of 354 stone
scrapers coming from France and
Switzerland, arrives at the contrary
opinion. In the University of Pennsyl-
vania, among a collection of flints Of
the very earliest types, found on the
Libyan plateau, near Abydos, there are
two, both of which, DR.. Brinton writes,
are made for a left-handed man. 1t is
difficult to describe, without giving
great space to the subject, how the
archaeologist can exactly determine
whether a tool was to be used in the
right or the left hand. Studying 200
stone or flint blades coming from vari-
Gus parts of the United States, the
largest proportion was made for the
right-handed. But, nevertheless, there
was "33 per cent. for" probably left
handed persons, or, as DR.. Brinton
writes it, "for persons, as l prefer to
believe, = II y who were ambidex-
trous." That there must have been
left-handed artists becomes more clear
in this way. Ask anyone to draw a
profile, and almost invariably the right
handed person makes the face looking
to the left, while the left-handed per-
sons sketch is to the right. In ex-
amining, then, a collection of AMER
lean aboriginal rock drawings there is
a pr~edominance of profiles looking to
the left, but not %infrequent occurrences
of proiles in the opposite direction,
Dr.. Brinton comes to the conclusion
that De Mortillet was correct, also that
there were more left-handed or am
bidextrous American aborigines than
Europeans. Perhaps, as DR.. Brinton
indicates it, the specialization of hands
came with a more recent CULTURE
American Anthropologist.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
Happy ~Klingenberg.

The happiest place in Europe is said
to be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1t is
the one prosperous spot where every
body has work and an income, and
where there are no taxes, either Local
or imperial, because the income of the
municipality suffices for everything and
leaves a bonus for distribution besides.
Happy ~Klingenberg! 1t is all due tc
n little wisdom and foresight on the
part of the local administration many
years ago. There are valuable beds OF
fireclay in the neighborhood and these
the municipality had the prudence not
to sell to make the fortunes of other
people, but retained for the benefit OF
the town. The profits pay all taxes and
the inhabitants get the surplus divided
among them. Young men going into
the army received this year a present
of IS marks each.-Tit-Bits.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
"REFINEO S~ASSIETY."
The Arizona Landlord Was Rather Proud
of the People Around Him.

N vas I AOoN
of the People Around Him.
what we pride ourselves mostly on il
our sassiety," said the landlord of the
leading hotel in Waycross, Ariz., to a
guest from the east, who told the story
to a Star reporter.
You couldn't find more refined sas-
siety anywhar in this country thar
right hyar. My darter plays the pianer.
sings and talks four la~rguidges, not
countin' Injun. She's full of fun, but
she kin give any woman anywhar cards
and spades an beat her bein' ladylike.
It's her thet's raised the tOne of sas-
siety 10 what you find it hyar."
At that moment there was a sound
from the street as though a riot had
started. We rushed to the window and
a crowd of excited men, women and
boys were following a man who was
bound and being driven along the mid,
die of the street.
what does it mean?" I asked.
Nothing much, but eff you want tc
see fun come along. My darter told me
they was goin' to do it this morning
You see there's been a tenderfoot hya1
fur three days, a regular dude; wasn't
no harm in the Teller, Is'pose, but things
was gettin' dull. so Maggie made uF
that she'd lasso him and 1 sees cotched
him. Thar's a heap of fun in that gall
Washington Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
N H FATHER.

When the sweet breath Of roseate child
hood flutters
A little breast, untouched by earth-born
fears;
When the small voice its plant OF weak
The embodied innocence of angel spheres.
Who can portray the joy with which a
mother
Marks the unfolding of the infant mind?
Unmatched her yearning love is by another
Affection in the ken of human kind.
And in the days when childish footsteps
faltered,
The parents first delight was watching
Those budding lives. their tender care un-
altered,
Their hearts unchanged, except to love
the more.
The depth of their affection what can
measure?
Constant to us, alike in sun and shade:
We bear the record In fond memory's
treasure,
Craven in characters that will not fade.
Then let our warmest sympathies be glow
ing,
As heavily upon the staff they lean;
Ills theirs to reap sweet fruit of bitter
sowing;
IT'S ours to love and serve for what hath
been.
When. spent with age and untold burdens
bearing.
They near the outlet of life's tangled
maze,
May We our noblest mission find in cheer
ing
The gloom that haunts the evening of
their days.
Then say not. with the wording, shallow
hearted:
They shall receive their due reward on
high"
Ana write their filial love to the departed
On marble tombs, their name to gloriry.
But let our kindliest feeling find expression
Ere tyrant death hath reared the bearded
grain;
Too soon the cold earth-chamber claims
possession,
When flowers are strewed, and tears are
shed, in vain.
Peter Grant, in Chicago Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
Lighting a Large City.

Thirteen thousand lamps, gas, cleo
trio and naphtha, are required to il
Illuminate the streets, avenues, parks,
docks and bridges Of the city of New
York. The number of electric lights,
slowly but visibly superseding gas
lamps for purposes of street illumina-
ton, is $500, and the city expends in
q year more than 81, 900 for light
ing. The appropriation this year il
exactly $685. $3.50 for lighting the high
ways and public property.-St. Louia
Republic.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
PICTURESQUE RONDA.
A Spanish City on a CraS Where the Peo-
pie Are rs Savage as Their Home.

Then he went to Ronda, which is q
dream of picturesqueness. There is in
c%ongruity in the thought that you car
make the journey thither as simply as
if you were going from New York to
Philadelphia. The town, as j. walked
through it, seemed commonplace at
tirst-"ommonplace that IS, for n south
ern town. where one accepts marvels II
color and light as matters of course.
His impression IA one of awful glar
ing heat: of donkeys, and dOnkeys, and
more donkeys everywhere; of little low
houses so white that one could hardly
look at them; of glimpses into long,
cool entries, where people were forever
standing waiting for an inner door tn
open. And then, suddenly, there be-
fore him was the bridge flung across
that wonderful chasm-the bridge that
joins old to new ROnda; the bridge that
so many artists, since the days of David
Roberts, have tried to draw or paint,
%despairing even while they sought to
record the strange, almost exaggerated.
picturcsqueness of the wild mountain
gorge, with the little white town look.
ing down so fearlessly from its dizzy
post.
There is something in the contrast
that seems to suggest-but with n diff
ference the gay villages that nestle sc
cunfidantlyat the base of Nesuvius. The
strangest part of it is that until one
comes to the bridge one does not know,
except from the guide book, that the
gorge is there at all. Who could sup
pose hat the river, apparently at least.
would force its way through the very
highest part of the mountain? There
is n little Alameda, where n a stand,
leaning against the railing, and gaze
down for 1 do not know how many
thousands of feet. 1t is here, of all
places. that one realizes the awful
height of the p%recipice; but it is from
below that one sees the marvel best and
most comprehensively-from far below,
where one can follow the windings OF
the white road along the very edge of
the cliff, and under stately white gate
ways, and look to the bridges hanging
1T Ine air. as IL WE'RE dCTOSS the IOdlIHS
stream, as fantastic and unreal and en-
trancing as any Arabian Nights picture.
1t is only as it should he to find the
people as fantastic as their high-built
town-so grisly and ghoulish, indeed,
that It is hard to talk about them; so
savage in their n that they
drive the more timid traveller
quickly away and back to civilization.
When anyone ONE to draw the great
from the appropriate point be-
the sport of the leading citizens
is to gather in crowds upon it, and
throw stones upon the rocky hillsides.
starting an avalanche which makes the
who has been foolish enough to
go there drop his work and run for his
life. Still, l suppose, n must pa
somehow for the privilege of visiting
the most sensational place in Spain. Its
position, its magnificent
its beautiful little valley.
the finest fruit in Spain is grown,
its encircling crown of sierra. make uF
TO a certain extent for The discomfort
nf staying in its horrible boarding
house. among the savage brutes of its
population.-Elizabeth Robins Pennell
in Century.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17

Rub together three tablespoonful of
butter and one quart sifted flour. Add
the beaten yolks of three eggs, three
cupfuls of milk and n teaspoonful of
salt. Beat thoroughly and then stir
in the beaten whites of the eggs and
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
When well mixed pour into well.
CREASED waffle irons and bake at once.
Toledo Blade.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
Would Take Anything.

sour statesmen" yelled the orator,
are about to take steps"
"You bet they'll take EN-" cried the
professional cynic, "if they amt nailed
down.--Indianapolis Journal
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17

Scene: A cottage on Loeb Awe-side
Lady Tourist Ito the cottager's wife)
And are these three nice little boys
all your own, Mrs. M~cFarlane?" Mrs.
McFarlane-"Yiss, mem; but him in
the niddle's q lassie." - Household
Words
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-10
WHAT IS A GUARANTEE.

1t is this. II you have a cough
or cold, a tickling in the throat,
which keeps you constantly cough
ing or II you are afflicted with any
Chest, Throat or Lung trouble,
Whooping Cough, &C., and you use
Billiards. Horehound Syrup as d.
rected, giving 1t fair trial, and no
benefit is experienced, we authorize
our advertised agent to refund your
money on return Of bottle. 1t never
fails to give satisfaction. II
promptly relieves bronchitis.
Sold by Kalteyer & Schuchard,
A. Dreiss, F. Kalteyer & Son and
James Clavin, druggists, San An.
tonic, Texas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-10
How to Play Hockey.

Mr.. E. P. Battersby contributes
an important article on "How to
Play Hockey" to the Windsor
Magazine, which should be read
by all lovers of athletics. Refer
ing to the best kind of stick to play
with, says:-"Let 1t be not too
heavy and too straight. A heavy
stick will make slogger, and will
spoil even good pair Of wrists.
A straight stick will mean drib-
bling with the ball to far away
for effective control, and a loss OF
co mmand when the ball is under
YOU. Wherever in the field you
mean to play, begin with a stick
under tweG:y-fouf ounces, and
whose foot is bent at right angles
to the handle. And, having the
right stick, learn how to use it
how to dribble, how to hit. Prob
ably most men pick up their
knowledge Of either at the cost OF
their club; but there Is a more ex-
cellent way. Instead of going
for a run at the commencement OF
the season to get into condition,
throw down a couple of old cricket
balls on to the turf and chase
them round the field, driving them
ahead few yards at each stroke,
one after the other. When equal
to keeping them together, going
your best pace, add a third, and
you will mend your wind, your
waist-play, and your mastery over
the ball more in half-an-hour than
with a dozen practice games. And
the art OF dribbling should be over
looked by none, for it is an ad-
vantage to every player to learn
the game in the forward line; a
future back thus makes sympathet-
ic acquaintance with the difficult
ties of his own attack, and he
will be all the better back for
Knowing how to dodge an oppon-
emit, provided he never forgets that,
in his position, dodginess is a ne
cessity or a vice. On the other
hand, every member Of a team
should be equally skilful in the
art Of hitting, yet let it be remem-
bered that with so much insistance
on the art of hitting, ones first
advice to every young hockey
player would be never slog.'
Now, in treating Of the methods
Of hitting, there are three points
to be Observed
l. No part Of the stick must be
raised above the shoulder.
2. The-ball should never be lifted
from the ground.
3. Itshould always be passed by
the striker to one of his own side."