The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10

From roof, door, window burst the flames;
The house became furnace dire;
The firemen fled from the battle dread
'Gainst the flashing spears Of the conquering hre
Then mothers cry the great throng thrills
''Ny child! Ny child" was ali she said.
The people they heard but no one stirred,
For surely the child in the flames was dead
But seei The furnace has swallowed a form
Cremation alive is a terrible thing
There's stiffness of death, as, with bated breath,
The crowd tells seconds full slow of wing.
See! Staggering from the oven of fame,
The hero precious burden bears.
"'ris trampr" aloud cries a man in the crowd
''Who has saved the daughter OF Banker Shares"
o, many a summer has bloomed since then;
That child is maiden fair 10 behold.
No village queen is so loved, ween,
And none with richer dover of gold.
And who, pray tell, is the new cashier
In the splendid seventeen-story bank?
'Tis the tramp whose deed proved glorious lead,
And brought him fortune and name and rank
The bankers daughter to-day he weds-
The brave and the far shall be one to-day
What a lesson this tale to the tramp in jail!
(You see these things on the stage in the play)
beautiful girl, it appears, has been hypno-
tized and led to the marriage altar under the
spell. She loves not the man she married and
fain would be divorced. Should there be no
hypnotic Intervention with reference to a legal
severance of the tie that binds that couple,
then the husband should be exiled immedi-
ately after the decree is pronounced. Other
wise that poor girl will be doomed to live in
terror of meeting that ex-husband without the
restraining influence OF courD and of being
yanked right back to a marrying parson in the
same old confessedly effective way.
Can it be that the late Victor Emmanuel
King of Italy, was in reality the father of the
long-toed shoe? 1t is related that it was his
custom 10 allow the nail on the great toe of
either foot to grow during the whole year,
cutting off the appendix, which might be an
inch long, on the first OF every January. Then
the court jeweler polished these toenails till
they assumed the brilliancy of cats-eyes, and
set them in gold mountings surrounded by
diamonds. Superstition regarded these be-
diamonded toenails as "talismans." This is
possibly clew to the origin of the shoe with
the extraordinarily long toe. the late king
didn't go barefooted, and he certainly didn't
roll up his toenails.
A delegate to the Women's Convention de-
clared that "savage women had more freedom
than the modern wife," 1t may be added in
like way, that savage man had more freedom
than the modern husband; wherefore, we
IeJOlCe lHdt we are ClElllZeu.
Rev. NJ. G. Hart of Melbourne, Australia, has
taken the bicycle as topic fer his pulpit and
is putting the modern invention to fresh
and glorious use. lie has preached a sermon
from the text Ezekiel. 10:xiiD: "As for
the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hear
ing, % wheel!" The clergyman is positive
that If the prophet Ezekiel lived to-day he
would ride bicycle.
The bike the modern preacher took
His sermons text TO he:
"For roadway well-defined they look
Who on their wheels we see;
And so the highway of the King
The Christian aye should keep;
The slider-back doth perils bring;
No faith should fall asleep.
"Oil your machine, good work to do,
The Christian, we can prove,
Gods oil of grace must trickle through
To keep him on the move.
Good company assures a man
More pleasures on the wheel;
Good company's thing which can
Augment Christians veal.
"The little sins that men commit
Are punctures in the tire:
If sinners do not mend bit,
They'll never pass the wire.
The wire IL is the Christian gate
To Eden, If you like.
The lesson heed ere all too late
The lesson of the bikew