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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-06
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THE OVERMAN GIRLS
Bore an UnenViable Reputation In
Walla Walla-Considere Black
matters.

PORT ANGELES, WASH, Jan. s. - A
prominent man of this city, while speak
ing to-day of the Brown scandal in San
Francisco, said that in 1888 and 1889 he
knew the Overman family in Walla Walla.
The father kept hotel and the girls were
in dressmaking esta blishment. The girls
had the reputation of being blackmailers,
and were started in business by prcmi-
nent merchant, who advanced them $1,000.
clerk in his store was compelled by
one of the Overman girls to put up $500,
but friends afterward recovered it. 1t is
also said that these girls made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to blackmail an attorney
who was about to get married and who is
at present practicing law in Tacoma. The
young ladies always dressed well and were
prominent in church affairs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-06

history OF the charge which has been made
so much OF. l am not ashamed of it, and
l know the good Lord will not allow me
to suffer for an act | never committed |
was the victim of designing persons, who
took advantage of my helpless condition.
All this | can and will prove at the proper
time -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-06

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Stockton, Market and Ellis SITS.

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HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE.

TAINTED BLooD-Impure blood, due
to serious private disorders, carries myriads Of
sore-producing germs. Then come sore throat,
pimples, copper-colored spots, ulcers in mouth,
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-06
HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE,
stockton, Market and Ellis SITS.

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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
OFFICIAL ORDER TO THE SHERIFF.
TO KEEP ORDER AT FRANK
FORT.
ENTER ASSEMBLY If NEEDED.
CLEAR DURING JOINT SES-
SION.
NO SENATOR CHOSEN AS YET.
Quiet Close After the Stormy Weeb
Experienced by the Kentucky
SOlOns.

FRANKFORT, KY, March 14.-Gov.
Bradley this evening issued his first
official order commanding the sheriff
of this county to preserve order in the
capitol building, and if necessary to
enter the joint assembly at the re-
quest of the president The order COM
mands the sheriff hereafter to clear the
rotunda and keep persons out Of it
and out of the cloak rooms Of the SEN
ate and the house while the Joint as
sembly is in session, except Senator
blackburn, members OF the assembly
and constitutional officers. It also or
ders the sheriff not to let any per-
sons enter either house except men,
bers and such other persons as the
president Of the senate and speaker
of the house may indicate.
A resolution introduced in the senate
today to allow only members and con-
Ventional officers on the floor will be
adopted on Monday. AS the rules Of
the senate are the rules of the joint
assembly this will exclude James and
Walton, the expelled members, from
the floor. This seems likely to cause
trouble on Monday.
Gov. Bradley says he will not call an
extra session. The house passed the
necessary financial measures some time
ago, and the senate has failed to pass
them. He says he will leave the re-
sponsibility with the senate if it does
not pass them.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
THE TRAMP AS A STUDY.

Generically the tramp is a member
of society who will not earn a liveli-
hood by work. This definition is a broad
one, and includes the tramp at one ex-
treme who will not work because his
wealth permits his natural inclination
to indulge itself, and the tramp at the
other whose natural inclination finds
means, independent Of riches, for self
indulgence. The conventionalities pre-
clude the application. Of the term to
the wealthy loiterer- and conf1ne it to
the nickelless men Of the highways
and hedges, who as all who have fol-
lowed Josiah Flynts interesting series
of articles will admit, is a unique fell
low, with traits of his own; an anomaly
in busy world, an exception to the
universal impulse to activity, and
a standing refutation of the primal
curse.
There are natural and artificial
tramps Now and then there comes
into this busy world Of ours a child
who sis born tired" and who never
recovers from his WEAKNESS. He makes
the natural tramp. He shirks work
as cat avoids water. Errands and
chores are the aversion of his boy
hood, which he transfers, as he de-
velops, to manual labor of any kind.
He is dullard in school, "a laggard in
love and a bastard in war;" he is a
sluggard always and a drunkard when
he can be. He embodies all the sinister
"ards." The artificial tramp is a de-
generate. Born without the impulse
for work, a mixture Of pride and ne
cessity is the only spur that keeps him
in the industrial procession. Driven to
distasteful tasks, they are drudgery
instead of a pleasure. Some day he
''lost his job" He tastes the luxury of
idleness and likes it., eHe seeks work
rather hoping he will not find it. Mon
eyless, hunger compells him to ask for
bread, at first under the guise of work,
later undisguisedly. When begging be-
gins, pride departs; and the sole motive
for work disappears. The discovery is
made that he can live without work.
ing. The philosophy dawns on him that
all he gets by work Is aIliving, and why
work if he can get it without. Through
these two sources come the nomads of
trampdom. - "l
The tramps view of hi.lself is more
lenient than the worlds judgment of
him. Usually heregards himself as
worthy collector of bad debt. Con-
vinced that the world owes him liv-
ing, he duns the world ceaselessly for it.
Every day he presents his little bill for
liquidation, and takes the percentage
of payment doled out with protest that
payment in full is not made He feels
himself a much-abused- individual,
obliged to live scantily both as to food
and dress while a rich debtor with
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
WHAT THE NATION READS.

Elsewhere in our pages today will be
found an interesting computation con-
cerning the half-dozen books which
have been most read by the citizens
Of this republic during the last six
months. A compilation of booksellers
statistics shows that the volumes which
have had the largest sale in thirty-three
cities are: "Beside the Bonnie Briar
Bush and "Auld Lang Syne," by Ian
Maclaren; 'The Adventures of Captain
Horn," by Frank Stockton; "My Lady
Nobody" by Maarten Martens; "a
Bachelors Christmas" by Robert
Grant, and ''The Master" by Zangwill.
This list is in its way most reas-
suring sign Of the times. It shows that
in literature as in politics you cannot
fool all Of the people all the time.
The casual observer of life and letters
would have ventured the prediction I'M
hesitatingly that the most prominent
books of the last six months belonged
in part to the literature of gore" and
in part to the neurotico- erotic class Of
works. Scum has a way Of rising to
the top, and the productions which
have gotten themselves most talked
about lately have belonged to one order
or the other. However, it seems that to
get talked about is not a guarantee
Of the most extensive sales. Neither
Grant Allen and George Moore nor yet
Anthony Hope and Weyman are found
on this list, which will repay analy-
sis. 1t contains two volumes of homely
Scottish stories which appeal strongly
to humanity's finer feelings, and touch
the springs of emotion in every heart;
one humorous novel; one novel by a
writer whose ethical bent is his most
distinguishing characteristic; one vol
ume of short stories compounded Of
equal parts humor and sentiment, and
one lengthy and serious novel which
is written sometimes ponderously, often
brilliantly, always earnestly, and which
endeavors to show candidly all the in
f1uences that went to the making-up
of a strenuous, hard-pressed life emerg-
ing late and hardly into a success which
was as much moral as artistic These
are the books of the last six months,
and the lesson of their popularity
should be writ large that all who
write may read it. They indicate, per-
haps, that the claims of literary art
are not supreme in the eyes of our
reading public, but they show a demand
for the literature of human tenderness
and sympathy for healthful pathos, for
ethical seriousness and for humor. The
combination is auspicious While we
demand such qualities in our reading
matter, the country is still safe.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
ABYSSINIA AND ARMENIA.

The decision of the English govern
ment to offer assistance to Italy by
ordering an advence upon Dongola is
in sharp contrast with her refusal to
interfere in the Armenian trouble. It
brings into bold relief the criminal
cowardice of a nation which does not
hesitate to plunge into expensive mill
tary operations against the brave and
Warlike tribes of Northern Africa, but
will not strike a blow to succor a.
Christian people harried mercilessly by
their Moslem oppressors. There is no
particular reason why England should
take a hand in the Abyssinian trouble
or any disturbances that might grow
out of it, until her own outposts should
be attacked. Her occupancy of Egypt.
although understood by everybody to
be permanent, is still claimed to be
tentative. All that she pretends to
wish to do is to keep the peace. The
difficulty and enormous loss of sup
pressing the last outbreak in the Sou
ooLp Will oEti eau llLO Upper HSypC,
have not been forgotten. A rational
policy would seem to dictate that there
should be no attempt to stir again to
life the embers of that great conflagra-
ton marked by the siege Of Khartoum
and the death of Gordon. Yet without
apparent provocation Great Britain is
ready to move in the old direction at
an unknown cost Of men and treasure
This is the proof that it was not the
ordinary perils of war that held her
hand from interference with the abom-
Unable atrocities of the Turk. Where
there is one reason for her to resume
military operations in Africa, there
were thousand why she should have
occupied Armenia and guaranteed the
safety Of its people from a merciless
persecution. AS between the two, the
world will feel far greater admiration
and sympathy for the brave Shoans.
who have been fighting in self-defense,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
A UNIVERSAL BELLIGERENoy.

From 1898 to 1895 is but short space
OF time in the life OF an individual,
hardly noticeablel in that of a nation,
and yet between 1.-THE year of the con-
sress or nations lin Chicago, with it's
penehcent purpose of securing uni
versal peace, and today, with war
clouds hanging OH almost every point
OF the horizon, with actual warfare in
many quarters, and everywhere the
most astonishing outbreaks of a war
spirit, there is a space that might fill a
century. The White City of Peace is
being replaced with the white fleets of
naval warfare, and everywhere, here
and abroad, public opinion seems to be
in an infiammable condition, ready to
burst into the red flames Of war. Is
there anything in the theory of peril
odicity of impulses? Are there cycles
Of war as there are said to be of crimes
and OF disease? Have the peoples of
the world swung around to the point
where the impulse to brutality must
find vent in warfare?
How else account for this sudden
outburst Of militarism? Why should
England be considering a budget that
proposes the expenditure by 1899 Of
over a hundred millions on vessels Of
war? Why should the telegram of the
German emperor to the president of the
Transvaal republic be taken as a hos
tile demonstration that warranted put
ting the channel fleet into Immediate
commission2 Why, in response, was
there that outburst of war talk in the
German press? Why is Jameson hail
ed by English crowds when he comes
home from Africa for trial for a das-
tardly assault on a friendly people, if
the war spirit is not abroad? Nor need
we go away from home. Read the de-
bates in congress. We have no concern
with the quarrels Of nations. Our con-
gress should be debating revenue, f1nan-
cial and administrative questions. In
stead Of that the talk is of war and
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and building coast defenses, as if
war with some one was unavoidabI BILE.
See Italy going wild because her armies
were defeated in Abyssinia by people
whom Italians impudently called "reb-
els" but who are simply defending
their country against threatened con-
quest by an alien.
1t is twenty-five years since Europe
felt the shock of battle. It Is thirty
one years since our struggle closed at
Appomattox. 1t measures the distance
between the close of the war Of 1872
and the beginning Of that of 1S46, whose
spirit was not sated by the bloodshed
Of the Mexican war and forced a re-
newal fourteen years later. The cycle
covers longer space than ever. Are
the Ill humors of the blood, durable only
by the phlebotomy Of war, the fiercer
for the longer surcease of strife? AS
the fields and timber increase in sus-
ceptibility to the spark as the drouth
endures, are men more prone to con-
tentions that are settled by battle the
longer peace prevails? How else can
this sudden bellicose condition be &C
counted for?
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15

holds that which would enable him to
enjoy life in serene restfulness did he
but discharge fully and in one INSTALL
ment his obligation. From another
view point the tramp regards him
self as having a mission to demon
strate the inaccuracy of the narrative
of that scene in the garden after the
first tramp had improvidently eaten
the apple, by showing that men can
live and get their daily bread without
the waste of single drop Of sweat of
brow.
Homeless, wifeless, childless, like the
mule, with neither pride of ancestry
nor hope of posterity," the type sur
wives while the individuals perish. So
ciety has always had the tramp with
1t. Cosmopolite, he f1ourishes under
whatever forms society assumes. He
is equally at home under the despot,
whether he be a czar or a majority in
republic, He adapts himself with
the ease of a man of the world to the
brake beams Of palace car or the
trucks of freight car when he con-
descends to accept such aid in his pas
sage from place to place. Simple in
his tastes, he rejects neither the dry
bread nor the leathery pie that charity
hands out of the back door to him.
And when the end comes he can say,
what so few can, that he has made
his life success, for he has lived it
without work. Thus the tramp as a
study; as problem he is quite another
matter.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15

which, as Mr.. Lee says, society should
look less at the crime and more at the
criminal. Men Of this sort have lost,
by coming under the bane of the law,
the self-respect which alone kept them
from evil courses. They feel them
selves separated from the rest of the
community by badge of evil; consid-
er that, by their descent in the social
scale, they have acquired the right to
break the law whenever it can be done
with impunity. Acting along this low
level, they pass the remainder of their
lives alternating between periods of
freedom, in which they prey upon the
public, and periods Of confinement at
the charge of the same public, which
have neither physical nor moral terrors
for them.
In all such cases as this the evil
doer should be sent to a reformatory
where he can receive the only treat
ment that is of any possible benefit to
him. What he needs is not confinement
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labor not too hard, and comfortably
fed and housed, but scientific course
of treatment for the crime habit. He is
as much victim of disease as a dipso-
maniac or the mildly insane He re-
quires the sort Of physical and moral
discipline that will stir to life in him
the rudiments of a sense of respon-
sibility to the community and to him
self. Left to the operation Of our or
dinary criminal laws, he goes lower and
lower until he either breaks into fla
grant offense or joins the ranks of the
pauper and the predatory tramp. Near
ly all such persons are amenable to
right treatment. It is for them, as
well as for first offenders, that reform
atory methods are designed. The law,
as it now stands, overlooks one of the
most difficult and yet the most impor-
tant departments of penology, and one
of the most necessary applications of
the rule that the final effort of society
must be the cure instead of the punish
ment of the offender.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
MAY DO MICH COON.

The union of st. Paul owners of real
estate in an association to promote
their own and public interests is
move that may be Oh great benefit to
them and to the city. Just at this
time there is a variety of questions in
the air in dealing with which
such an association as this should
have a large influence. BY broad
ening the basis of membership.
so as to make eligible any one
piece Of real property, the association
is made representative, and may be-
come virtually an assemblage of the
taxpayers of the city. It IS perhaps
to some such body as this established
as a permanent force in our public life,
rather than to any association organ
lied on political or even on non-parti-
san principles that we may have to
look for the greatest impetus given to
local reforms. Men are not long in
sensible to that which touches them
in the pocket The owners of st. Paul
property have a greater stake than all
others in honest and economical gov
ernment, and in the promotion of what
ever will reduce local expenditure. and
it is high time that they make their
influence felt.
While the first meeting of the asso-
citation considered chiefly, as was nat
ural, the present condition and the
outlook of the real estate market, thew
also devoted attention to such local
affairs as bear directly upon the bur-
dens of land and property in st. Paul.
They considered with favor the new
assessment which is now going forward.
and which promises to place values on
relatively equal and just basis for
perhaps the first time in the history
of the city. What is still more impor
tant, because it lies yet in the future.
is their advocacy of a consolidation
of the city and county governments.
This is the next hill that we have to
climb. There lies the only very large
saving tha. we can accomplish in ex-
penditure without injuring the city or
impairing the efficiency of any depart
ment Of the public service. No one
will deny this now, or argue against
the change; yet it will be found when
the legislature meets, unless an active
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15

campaign has been carried on before
hand, and candidates have been
pledged to their duty, that consolida-
ton will be defeated in 1897 just as 1t
was in 1895. The occupants Of sine
cures and the politicians who want
more Offices to distribute are dead set
against this reform If the association
of real estate owne.s take it up in
earnest, and back it with their formal
influence, 1t will be raised above de-
feat.
1t is encouraging to find those most
largely interested in st. Paul real es-
tate taking so sensible and cheerful a
view of the situation. All are convinced
of what is unquestionably true, that,
while this city, in common with all
others in the country, has been passing
ampled depression, it is now emerging
into the sunlight Of prosperity. The
market prices of real estate here have
not only felt the shrinkage from boom
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below actual values on any reasonable
computation that the time has now ar
rived when an investment in real es-
tate is the most surely profitable that
any man can make. Such an oppor-
tunity is not long neglected. Capital,
in casting about for an occupation
that combines present security with a
reasonable assurance of future profit,
can find nothing today that at all ap-
proaches in either respect a purchase
of city real estate. This means that
revival of activity, and at least q
partial restoration of prices, is immi-
nent. 1t will be promoted by such ac-
tion as this association has taken and
has indicated. First come such local
economy and reduction of municipal
expenditures as we have carried
through. Next in order will be firm
and active real estate market once
more.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15

and only repelled foreign invasion of
their country, than with the degenerate
agents of the lewd and barbarous
Turk. But. while England sets her
military forces in operation to prevent
a further outburst of the fierce love
of independence among the peoples Of
Africa. she leaves the Christian Ar
menians to their fate. 1t is frank
confession of the, worst that has been
charged against .her on account of her
position on the Eastern question.