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The San Francisco call., 1896-11-22
RIDING A PoRPOIsR.

Great Fun for Two Hardy Boys Livin z
on the Shores of New York Bay.
1.-TWO boys, each about or 10 years old,
living on the shores OF New York Bay, the
sons of fishermen, started one day." the
.narrator,said. "down to the beach to look
on at the hauling of seine. Crossing a
stretch of salt meadow on the way to the
Beach the boys heard a sound like heavy
breathing in the tall grass. Hunting for
the source of it, they found young por-
poise, four or five feet long, that had been
left stranded by the recedIng tide.
Near by there was drain, leading
down TO the beach. A drain IS depres-
sion like the bed of brook in the mud
and sand of the meadow. The rising tide
comes up the drain as in a channel and
spreads thence over the adjacent ground.
The current, running with the receding
tide down the drain, often scoops out IN
the beach, in front of the grass line,
pear-shaped pocket, with little bar In
the middle of the broad end toward the
ocean. At low tioe this bar may be dry,
or nearly so, while the pocket within is
ANi. at high tide there may be on the
water enough TO float big fish. The
Wfpoise the boys found had come over
par, crossed the pocket and gone up the
drain and off into the grass at high tide,
Ihere was water enough for him then.
Dut ne got caught in the grass when the
tlde went down and so was left there.
Where the porpoise was when the boys
found nm there was about TWO inches of
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the new State" he said Yesterday. eThe
best of it is, too that beef is commanding
much better price than formerly, a price
that makes it very profitable to the grow
ers. 1t is the same way in the sheen in
dustry. Mutton is steadily going up, and
wool is advancing in way to make the
sheepmen feel as though they had some
right to live. Every industry in that re-
mote part OF the country is beginning to
thrive. 1t is expected that settlers will
begin coming in again, and that we will
go along prosperous.y."
Mr.. Kensington has mined for gold and
silver. and been a freighter as we'll as
cowboy. He is ready shot, one of the
most lnerring In aim among the Wyo-
ming cowboys He has never been in San
Francisco before, nor in any city pre-
viously that is larger than Helena, Mont.
He will visit Los Angeles before his re-
turn.
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formerly worked with ]. w. Glrvin g. Co.,
in the rubber-goods business. and has
latterly been in the same business for
himself. He, with two friends, have con-
ceived the idea of EN- barking in the
the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.
They endeavored to buy suitable vessel,
ana, failing, determined to have one
built.
The sloop, the name of which will be
announced on Thursday, is 46 feet long
and 15.4 beam. 1t Is provided with a
cabin and can be handled by two men,
with help to load and unload.
1--WE will deal in potatoes in the winter
and melons in the summer, with all other
kinds OF river products" said Mr..
Hackett yesterday. 1--WE expect to find
plenty of trade, and will carry everything
but passengers.
"One feature of our enterprise will be
hunting parties. Sunday2 No, sir. We
don't intend to do any Sunday work. l
am manager and won't allow it. OF
course, if parties hire our boat on Satur-
day and reach their destination on the
same night they can do what they please
But 1 am etermined to have no Sunday
work."
The ceremony on Thursday will consist
of flag presentation, invocation, songs
and little speechmaking.
1t will be particularly dignified by the
presence of coIored ministers, invitations
having been sent to the following clergy
men: Rev. H. ]. Calls, Zion Church;
Rev. M. Duncan, Baptist church; Rev
Mr.. Anderson, A. NJ. E. church; Rev.
Mr.. Edwards, A. M. E. church OF Oak
land; Rev. Mr.. Allen, Baptist church,
Oakland.
the master of the little sloop will be
Charles Cham bers
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same color with slight changes in letter
ing the rare varieties are made by piecing
For instance, the 1-franc French empire is
made by taking the 80 centimes, dark ca ?.
mine. with the bottom label from the
franc of the republic.
T. Bicolored stamps with the center re.
versed, which are extremely rare. are
made by cutting out the center and re-
versing it on another copy of the same
stamp. For instance, the 1869 United
States Is cent, "a cent and so cent have
been made by this process.
3. BY chemical means the color is
changed. For instance, the 10r. blue oi
Brazil is changed into the I0r. black.
o. Stamps which have been cancelled bv
pen and ink have their cancellation marks
removed by chemical means. and these
stamps are then sold as unused.
z. Counterfeit cancellations are fre.
quently made on genuine stamps which
have been surcharged reprint or ''speci-
men,"
8. Counterfeit surcharges are extremely
common. They can be made on an ordi-
nary printing press.
y. False water-marks are sometimes
made by printing the stamps with wood
cuts, using a certain kind of oil. or thev
are made by pressing the design of the
water-mark on the stamp and then re-
moving portion of the paper by rubbing
with pumice-stone.
10. Very rare stamps of which a portion
has disappeared have had these portions
added.-Harper's Round Table
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Joe Davis, a Fourteen-Year-O1d
Traveller Who Never Pays a
Cent of Fare.

probably the most interesting characte-
who ever rode brakebeam or beat his yay
in Pullman car.
Twice has he journeyed across the con-
tinent without paying cent of fare, and
he is now on q tour of all the States of the
Union, after which he will take journey
around the World-'if 1 don't croak, -
says the urchin, "and I guess that's all
right
Joe is typical New York gamin, though
he claims Jersey City as his home port, and
what he doesn't know about ways and
means of gaining possession of the elusive
nickel is not in the lore of the street arab.
mo trouble to make a Iivin' wild me
box and nerve" Joe says, as his sharp,
shrewd eyes glance bout among the feet
OF crowd on the street corner for pair
OF boots that need cleaning. Odd Jobs of
any kind that do not overtax his strength
are in Joe's line, and as his only dissipa-
tion is an occasional cigarette he makes
his way anywhere and manages to get
three meals day.
Cleared of Its wealth of New York slang,
which makes it almost unintelIigible TO
those not familiar with the jargon of the
waits OF the pavement, Joe's story is about
as follows:
Ny mother died about five months ago,
and not liking the climate of Jersey very
'SAA SOASL OuSO W 20 10 california, nav
ing been out here before two years ago,
anc always been treated white. So one
day goes down to the railroad Yards and
starts on brakebeam. Say, that's a hard
graft, hanging on, and your throat and
nose and eyes full of dust
II gets put off at more than one place.
but that don't stop me, and l finally gets
to Chicago and stops a time picking up a
9: few dimes. Then starts again, this time
on freight, and gets to Ogden, and there
] strikes a snap.
Told man what I was making for,
and he lets me get under his seat in the
sleeper. When | gets hungry l punches
his leg and he gives me something 10 eat
They caug 1T on to me at Truckee and l
had TO skip, but made another lump to
Sacramento on beam and gets down here
easy.
Say, this is great place to live. l had
an undershirt when gets here, but it was
too hot and / takes il off. Don't need it,
I'll keep it until | strikes cold country
/ made money enough on my way out to
pay for my room for two weeks and get
meal tickets, and I'm all right, you bet
Hard 10 beat the trains? Nit. l can go
anywhere where they run and not give up
any dough to the corps either.
Another kid starts with me, but he gets
homesick and goes back from Chicago. l
amt got no home and I'm going to see
the world. Say, where does the China
steamers land? Has kid got a show to
get on without being 'coppedP'"
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As French cooks use
Their haut eouts, boullieS. or ragouts:
or, as the line is said TO have stood origi
nally:
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ROBERT DOVES QUEER IDEA,
He Left $50 for the Benefit of Men
About to Die.

He Left $50 for the Benefit of Mon
About to Die.
! Less than decade is wanting to COM
| plete three centuries since Robert Dove.
citizen and merchant tailor, by deed of
gift conveyed to the parish of st.
| Sepulchre the sum of ESQ. The object of
the gift was peculiar. and may best be un-
derstood from the words of the deed itself
which recites that the money was given
son condition that the said parish
forever, with the appreciation of the Lord
Mayor and Bishop of London, here
after at every sessions holden for the
prisoners in Newgate, not exceeding
twelve sessions in the year, shall about
the hour of 10 OF the clock in the quiet of
the night next before every execution
done appoint one to go unto Newgate, there
TO stand as near the window as he can
where the condemned prisoners do I've in
the dungeon, with hand bell given to the
parishioners by the said Mr.. DOVE, and
shall there give twelve solemn towles with
double strokes, and then deliver with
loud and audible voice. with lis face
toward the prison window, to the end the
poor condemned persons may give good
ear" 20 rather long exhortation. which,
at later date, seems TO have been versi-
he'd as follows;
All ye that in the condemned hold do lie
Prepare ye for TO morrow ye shall die.
Watch, all, and pray. the hour is drawing near
That ye before the Almigh must appear.
Examine well yourselves in ume repent
That you N ay not to eternal flames be sent;
And when st Sepulchers bell tomorrow tolls
The Lord above nave mercy on your souls
Past l2 oclockI
As the criminals passed by the church
on their way to Tyburn further admoni-
ton was addressed 10 them and curious
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A COWBOY KING.
Bill Kensington, the Rough Rider and
crack Shot, on the Flush Times
at JRcksons Hole.

at Jscksons Hole.
"Bilp' Kensington, the cowboy king of
Jacksons Hole, the queer little valley in
the mountains of Northern Wyoming of
which Captain Bruneville wrote, and
which has been winter resort for hunt
ers. traders and trappers since the earliest
times, is in the City.
Kensington was one of the men who
distinguished themselves in the cowboy
war of few years ago. He is a type of
the border character, and although he
does not carry an arsenal with him in the
metropolis, he nevertheless wears the garb
OF the frontier, and his hair and mustache
are long and picturesque.
He came down by way of the Mort bern
Pacific and Oregon. The early argonauts
to Oregon and Washington used to camp
and Best their horses and cattle at Jack
sons Hole. and Kensington, who is a ma
tive of Wyoming, wanted to see some
of them. Two or three of them, who are
his relatives. reside near Roseburg.
He saws that since the war among the
cattlemen in Wyoming the cattle and
sheep interests had advanced rapidly.
81 have never seen SO many cattle aud
sheep as now exist in the northern part OF
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custom prevailed of presenting each un-

custom prevailed of presenting each un-
happy wretch with nosegay.
A further condition of Doves gift was
that the greatest bell was always to
't.towle" as passing bell on the occasion
of an execution until 10 A. NJ. or the Sher-
iff' s officers returned from the execution.
The vestry of St. Sepulchre, though some
what economical, took good care of their
bells, for after the great fire OF
1865 we find that all the broken
bell metal was ordered recast into
"three sound and tuneable BELLS
which were to be of equal weight with
the quantity of metal delivered. The
other three bells belonging to the church
apparently escaped injury from the fire,
for on the 10th of March, 1868. the vestry
ordered a frame to be made ito hang the
six bells in the steeple."
The tablet recording Doves request is
still in existence, but the injunctions are
no longer regarded, the charity commits.
sioners having taken possession OF the
funds, which are now applied for the bene.
fit of the Discharged Prisoners Aid So
ciety. The great bell OF st. Sepulchre has
not been tolled on the occasion of an exc.
cution since August, 1890, when Manteau
a Belgian, was hanged for the murder of q
felloW-cOuntryman.
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NEW TO-DAY.
in the Bud.

Influenza or Grippy Colds are
quite epidemic and need to be "nipped in
the bud" Treating Cold in time saves
lot of trouble, as three-quarters of all
our sickness comes from taking cold
don't take cold, take Seventy-seven; a
few doses will prevent and it's continued
use will "break up' a cold that "hanps
on.'' That means escape from Catarrh.
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, all Lung, Chest
and Head troubles. A good deal, you saw.
for quarter. but it is true of s.sS.,: the
best goods are done up in small parcels. a
vial of sss7" just fits your vest pocket;
handy to carry, always ready for use.
Every one has a kind word for Seventy
seven, DIR. Humphreys precious cure for
Colds, Grippe. influenza, Catarrh, Coughs.
Sore Throat.
Dr. Humphrevs' Homeopathic Manual OF Dis
eases AT your ruggist's or Mailed Free
Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt OF 25
cents, or five for 81. Humphreys Mod. Co
Cor. William and John Streets New York.
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water, stretching all around on the levee.
among the roots of the grass. 1t was deep
enough to keep the porpoise moist, but
that was about all.
"The boys set about launching him,
pulling him through the tall grass 10 the
drain. There might have been six or
eight inches of water in the drain, not
nearly enough TO float the porpoise, but
enough to make it a great deal easier to
move him, and in the drain the boys got
him along without very much effort down
To the pocket on the beach. There was
water enough for him there and the MIN
ute the porpoise struck it he started of on
his own account, but he couldn't get out
1.-THE pocket was perhaps thirty feet long
and twenty feet wide in the widest part,
with water enough in the greater part OF
II Tor the porpoise to swim In. AS he
swan around in the pocket, the boys
thought it would be a good thing to try
riding him, and they did. The porpoise
was wet and slippery now, and riding him
was like riding creased pig. One boy
would hold him the best he could, while
the other mounted him. Then, as likely
as not the porpoise would dart forward
| suddenly before the boy on his back had
| got good hold and slide out from under
him and leave him sitting in the water.
Then the boys would head him of and
| get him partly ashore, where they could
nanoie hlfn petter aHG tTy asaih' ney
! took turns at riding him. Sometimes
| they would go four or five feet on him and
| then roll off or slide off or be shaken off
| into the water; sometimes they would get
across the pocket on him, and two or three
times, when the porpoise went that way,
they managed to hold on and ride the
whole length of the pocket on him.
"All this was great fun for the boys, but
pretty rough on the porpoise, but the por-
| poise's turn came finally. When there
was water enough on the bar the boys let
him go and away he went out 10 sea
| again. New York Sun.
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Hints for Stamp Collectors.

The following are some of the varieties
of tricks practiced by unscrupulous per-
sons:
1. Ordinary perforated stamps with ex-
ceptionally wide margins have their per.
forations trimmed off, and such STAN ps
are offered as rare unperforated stamps.
2 Ordinary perforated stamps with wide
margins are reperforated with the rare
perforations. This is frequently done by
an ordinary hand punch.
5. Where stamps are printed in the
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-22
BEATING HIS WAY
: ROUND The GLOBE
Little Joe Davis, Traveller
and Philosopher,
). Arrives.
A Typical Jersey City Gamin
Who Never Pays Rail.
road Fare.
Eats Three Meals a Day and Pays His
Room Rent-Rode in a Pull
man Car.

Joe Davis, traveller and philosopher,
Is In town again after an absence of two
years, and is doing business at his old
stand. which is anywhere that he can find
pair of boots to black.
This young nomad-he is but II years
old, and exceedingly small for his age-is
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TO TRADE IN
RIVER PRODUCTS
A Little Enterprise Which
Will Be Launched on
Thanksgiving.
No Sunday Work Will Be
No Sunday Work Will Be
Allowed on the Sloop by
It's Owners.
All the Colored Ministers to Be In.
vited to the Christening-Me.ons,
Potatoes and Rubber.

There Will be an interesting ceremony
on Thanksgiving day at Oakland Greek.
when sloop will be christened with
appropriate ceremonies.
The christening ceremony will mark
the launching of a private enterprise by
J. A. Hackett. colored man, who
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-22

The .'Printers' Bible" is so called be-
cause ii contains curious typographical
error In the one hundred and sixty first
verse OF psalm cxix. which is made to
read, Printers have prosecuted me with
out a cause" instead of princes"
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Their haut-gusts, buOllies, or ragusts.

heir haut-guStS, buoIliesi or ragusts.
Part ii. ] 59S.
But a haggis contains minced meats.
and the derivation of the word is more
likely to be that given by John Hill
Burton, no mean authority on such sub
ject. Writing of some French words, and
some words of French origin, which crept
into common use in many parts of Scot
land, such as gigo.. ashet, ETC., he alludes
to Burns song on the haggis as national
dish, and adds: Yet there can be no
question that this potent pud ding is the
ineal descendant of the French hachis."
Jamieson's explanation is as follows:
"Dr. Johnson derives haggess from hag
or hack. The last is certainly the proper
origin; if We may hedge from the Sw.
term used in the same sense, hack polsa,
q. minced porridge. Haggies retains the
form of the S. V. hag. In Gael it is tagais,
as there is no b in that language; Arm.
hacheis, FIR. hachis. Notes and Queries.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-22

GENUINE plum pudding made from Califor-
MIA glace fruits. Townsend's.
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Haggis.

Some writers have said that the deriva.
tion OF the word is traceable to haut gout
signifying a highly favored dish. "Hudi
bras" has:
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-06-17
Hard soap md Hard Monax.

Methodist Bishop William Taylor Of
central Africa has introduced among
the natives Of his diocese circulating
medium Of bars Of yellow laundry soap
As the progress Of civilization has not
yet extended so far as to induce the gen.
tie African to wash himself, or anything
elso, the new currency has proved satis-
factory and is now in general use.
If some of our Populists or silverite
papers find their way to Africa, wo may
expect to hear ere long that some dusky
Bland or Stewart has found that by cut
ting the bars Of soap in two and stamp
ing each piece zone bar" the wealth Of
tho African people will be doubled An
other financial genius will discover that
unlimited issues of fiat or soft soap,
consisting Of palm leaves stamped "cno
bar soap by the chief of the tribe. will
cause TIE elephants to grow mere tusks
and the date trees to double their crops.
Prices will go SO high that only giraffes
can reach them, and there will be so
much soap that some Ct it can be even
used to wash with. There is evidently q
great field fer our cheap money agitators
i'll Africa. If they should all emigrate,
nobody would gricve. D.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-06-17
Money Must Have Yalue.

Every standard measure must have
the dimension or quality it is designed
to measure Other qualities are unim-
portant or of secondary consequence.
The yard must have length, the bushel
measure must have capacity, and the
measure Of value must have value By
this is not meant value in use, as the
value Of air and water, but value in ex-
change, which is the only known value
to political economy. All talk about
any other kind Of value in this connec.
ton is only shallow attempt to evade
all inevitable conclusion. It is just as
easy aud as rational to imagine yard
stick without length. or gallon meas.
ure without capacity, or pound weight
that weighs nothing, as dollar with
out value. This property Of value in
heres in money as stubbornly as the 9TH
er properties inhere in other standards.
ID. ". McClung in Money Talks. -
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-06-17
From all Coupon Stations the System Rate of One
Fare for the Round Trip

TO San Francisco meeting of the Society
Civil lngneers June 15 1Gh 3d. 24tb $500
ean $4,000 from ouston and at coresonngy low
points, good to return within sixty 0 days SALE
To Chicago
limited. to July 14th for =
TO Psurg PaAay 23d 2h account National Prohibition
Convention, limited for return to May 3ls.
TO St. Louis MoJune sh 9th 13h 14h 15 Repub
hcan National Convention limited to June 2lSt return
10 San Antono-From all stations Texas Bapss'
Young Peoples Conventions June 3d. and State Sunday School
veno June 25th trip maximum
$780, final limit to return June Goth Tickets also received deposit
for sde trips to Mexico and other points
10 Richmond, VaAcconnt Confederate Veterans Reunion,
June Goth and 2 good within twenty days
OF sale at rate less than one fare.
TO Buffalo, YAecount National Teachers Association,
30h and July 1st with limit July 13h and privilege
ting with Joint for further exteon fare plus
81 for admission
To Washington, D. Gully 81, 4h and 5tl
the round trip with privilege Of extension July 3st by
lepoSing with Joint Agent -
To St Lous-July 18th, 2st account popuist and
American Silver Conventions limited to July 9th
fnl particulars Will be furnished application Local
of Sunset Route. j. PARKS
Assistant General Passenger Agent Houston Texas
S. +. Is. MORSE
General Passenger and Ticket Agent, New Orleans
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-06-17
Free Coinage Not American.

The agitators who try to get support
for the silver standard by pretending
that it is the only and original American
system arc either very ignorant Of his
tory or think the people are. Silver was
used to measure values thousands Of
years before America was discovered,
and it might still DO the principal
money metal CT Europe wcro it not for
the great amounts Of gold mined III
America during the past four centuries.
There is no record that the Indians
ever used silver as money, their medium
of exchange being wampum, the real
American" currency
The attempt to create prejudice in
favor Ct the so cent dollar by claiming
that the men who want it made our
monetary standard are patriots" and
"true Americans is too childish for
argument. Every schoolboy knows that
cheap silver is the money Of the paupcr
Hindoos and Chinese. How, then, can
it be more American" than gold?
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-06-17
A Chance to Make Money.

I have berries, grapes and pea
ches, a year old, fresh as when
picked. | use the California cold
process, do not heat or seal the
fruit, just put it up cold, keeps
perfectly fresh and costs almost
nothing; can put ny a bushrl in
ten minutes. Last week 1 sold di.
rections to over 100 families; any
one will pay a dollar for directions
when they see the beautiful sam
plies of fruit. AS there are many
people poor like myself, | consider
it my duty to give my experience
to snch, and feel confident any one
can make one or two hundred dol.
lars round home in few days. l
will mail sample of fruit aud com
plete directions, to any of your
readers, fol eighteen two cent
stamps, which is only the actual
cost OF the samples, postage, etc,
to me. FRANCIS CASEY,
Is st. Louis, Mo.