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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
ADJUSTMENTS

BALDWIN THEATER ashore Acres"
CALIFORNIA 1HEATER-" Miss Helyett"
COLUMBIA THEATER Ruy Bias and "a Man
OF the Grid
MoRosco OPERA HOUSE, The Black Detec-
tive.
ALcAzAR THEATER Jim, the Penman."
1IVoLT OPERA HOUSE Pinafore."
oRPHEUM.- High-Class Vaudeville.
OBERoN.-Grand Concert
sUTho BATHs- Bathing and Performances
1HE CHUTEs AND SKATING RINK-Daily at
halsht street, one block east of the Park.
eAkLAND RACE TRAcK.-Races to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13

ALWAYS the best specs and eyeglasses. Ber-
telling Optical Comp any, 14-16 Kearny st.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
AIIJl1 A.. {

AIG1lO, A.
BY j. G. MUTHER-This day. March 13 Grocer
les, at 9Ol Post street, at IL o'clock.
BY P. ]. 1ARTH-This day. March 13, Fur
niture, 4 Ia McAllisEer er ST., at II o'clocs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13

I think it my duty. dear Mrs. Pink
ham, to tell you what your wonderful
Compound has done for me.
was dreadfully ill-the doctors said
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
THE cHUTES.

EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Great Open-Air Performance.
SPECIAL-Free Pocket Kinetoscopes 10 Children
TO-DAY AND TO-MURROW.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON and EVENING,
OLD FRIENDS DAY.
FIRES Bar rbecue Ali Afternoon
ADMISSION, 100. CHILDREN, Sc.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
NEW TO-DAY.
A Wonderful Statement

From Mrs. MoGillas to Mrs. rlnknam
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
DAcrN0! RACING! RACING!

-CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB
WINTER MEETING. 1896-'97,
Beginning Monday, March 8, to March 20. Inclusive
OAKLAND RACE TRACK.
Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Ihursday. Friday and saturday.
Rain or shine.
FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY.
Races Start at 2:15 p. Nj. sharp
Ferry Boats leave San Francisco at IL NJ. ami
IL go. 90. 80, 2:00, 2:30 and P. NJ. connect
ing with trains stopping a. the entrance to track.
Buy your ferry tickets to she'll Mound
Returning-Trains leave the Track at 4:16 AMI
A:45 p. NJ and Immediately after the last race.
THOMAS II. WILLIAMS JHs Presidents
b. b. MILROY, Secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13

Dancing concluded the evenings enter
tainment.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
MAKING THE TORTILLA.
The Process of Producing Mexico's
Main Article of Food.

The Process of Producing Mexic0's
Main Article of Food.
The tortilla is typical of old Mexico
and is encountered wherever the in
fiuence of the cactus republic has
reached. It was found as the main ar
ticle of food among the ancient Aztecs
at the time of the Spanish conquests,
more than 3h centuries ago, and the
little hand-ground and palm-fashioned
corn cake has well held its own down
through the ages, being to-day as popu-
lar and in as general use as ever.
Shelled corn intended for this use is
first soaked over night in iimewater un-
til the outer husk of the kernels is loose
enough to be removed by being rolled
between the hands and is then ready for
grinding. This is done by the Mexican
women of the lower class, who often
work in the 7doorways of their homes,
bending over the historic stone hand
mill, called in Mexico a metate. The
mill is simply rough slab of stone
supported by four stocky legs and is
made of volcanic tufa, the coarse grain
of which is best adapted for the grind
cheese or whatever it may be desired to
finely pulverize. The stone handmill
is an indispensable item in the culinary
outfit of the tropical home. The ac-
companying hand piece, looking like
rude rolling pin, is also of stone and
is briskly worked up and down the in
cline of the crude stone table by the
woman as she bends to her work with
a steady swing of body, shoulders and
arms.
1t is claimed that the flour for the
tortilla can be perfectly milled only by
their ancient methods and when one
sees the result of the grinding he is
ready to admit that possibly they are
right,
AS the moist windows of the meal
roll off the grinding board it is caught
in basin and is then ready for being
formed into cakes for baking. When
ready to bake woman takes a small
lump of the heavy mixture and lays it
in the palm of her hand. Then with the
other palm she rolls it into ball and
begins to quickly pat it into the re-
quired thinness, deftly spreading the
fingers to allow it to enlarge its size,
and changing it from hand to hand un-
til it is only an eighth of an inch in
thickness and generally about six
inches in diameter, although some
times as large as q dinner plate.
The plastic cakes are tossed, one after
another, as completed, upon the stove,
called a brasero, and as fast as delicate
ly Drowned and turned they are placed
in steaming heap and enveloped in q
cloth to keep them warm.-Woman's
Home Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Prof. William Morris Davis, of
Harvard university, read paper on
"The Present Trend of Geography" be-
fore the annual convocation of the Uni
versity Of the State of New York, in
session in New York city June 20.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale, in an ad-
dress to the graduates of the Farming
ham (Mass.) state normal school, urged
the pupils to cultivate an enthusiasm
for the history of their own locality,
the state, the nation and the world.
Pope Leo has issued decree maxi
ing sacerdotal the congregation of
Josephites, established at Grammont
in Belgium In 1917 for the education of
the upper and middle classes. All who
join the congregation in future will
become priests. Cardinal Svampa has
been appointed protector of the order.
Senator Joseph Hawley, when in
the class of AT in Hamilton IN. " col
lege, was at the head of band of
sophomores who stole the college bell.
For so years the names of the perpe-
traitors were kept secret, but at the re-
cent reunion of the class they were
made public.
When the Estienne school was
opened in Paris last year lie Figaro
discovered the last male descendant Of
the great family of printers, printer
as all his forefathers had been, and re-
GREETED that the name must die, as he
had family of daughters only. NJ.
Estienne Is now the father of boy,
whom he has named Robert, who will
be printer, too, when he grows up.
John Knox must have turned in his
coffin when the moderator of the gen.
eral assembly of the Church of Scot
land officially proclaimed the titles
which shall be applied to ministers.
Moderators of Presbyteries are to be
reverend" those of synods very rev.
erend," and the single moderator of the
general ASSEMBLY, during his one year of
Office is right reverend" like an Angli-
can bishop.
"A scholar at Trinity college, Dub
lin, stands accused of stealing $4,000
from bank messenger at Limerick
junction. The money, in canvas bag,
was left for moment unmatched on a
bench while the messenger was chang
ing from one train to another, and was
later found in the possession of the ac-
cused, who said he had taken it by ac-
cident with his own luggage.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
AS THEY ARE.

a.,f-constituted sages draw strange fancies
from afar,
"A mock the man who sees and paints
things earthly as they are:
c-h.v ike to mount to airy heights on fan
sy's feathery wings.
mt scoff ut those who tell stern truths OF
eartb-lifes' common things:
psrbap they mount so high. that things so
plain to people here.
rom dizzy elevations In distorted shapes
appear
nd vet we live in daily touch with haggard
things and poor,
NE see the lowly sphere In which men SUI
fer and endure;
r,s touch Of poverty and pain the over
crop OF Ills,
rbs dissipation and distress which curses
ere II kills;
AN these are near us every day. stern
spectres of each hour.
what wonder that some paint 1t all in
words Of plying power?
Wa cannot always soar aloft mid sunsets
golden bars,
roat with the eagles in ozone among the
silvery stars,
e.u out on seas of crystal to the islands
Of the blest.
Ind bask In Gains and tropic palms which
glorify the west:
Some must 90 uaiiy where the cuy's
pulses beat.
And note the misery which lines full many
squalid street.
Hare settle dregs left fostering there by
eddies Of LIES sea,
where demons Of most horrid mien feast
long in ghoulish glee;
where passions fired by alcohol make cess
pools black with lust;
whore happiness Is hollow and joys crum-
Bile into dust
where vice carouses, bussard-like, on hu-
man carrion fed.
where conscience wears coat OF mail
and principle is dead.
Some painter with the pen must sketch
these things with faithful touch.
Not palliating evil or condoning over
much:
Not softening the slooms of hell or padding
lurid truth
With sllken words as cushions used to
break the fall Of youth:
Let human beings yet uncursed see these
things as they are,
And knowing what has peopled hell sheer
on unscorched. afar.
We need the faithful art which shows the
plain, unwelcome fact,
Which scorns disguise or vain deceit In
purpose. word or act:
Which, not despislng fancy, yet the truth
unvarnished knows.
And does not care to paint the reptile pos
ing as the rose.
We human beings may not yet soar bird
like in the air,
30 near the sun that dazzled eyes SEE
neither i'll nor care.
But see, reveal and then relieve soul-sorrow
everywhere.
I. EDGAR JONES.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07

abdomen and (first stroke) then both
quickly flung out, wide apart (second
stroke), just as one has seen a frog
do-who, by the way, is the best swim
ming master in the world. The last
stroke was to draw the legs together
while still out straight with all the
strength the practicing swimmer pos
sessed. One, two, three, she counted,
and the legs were submitting so well
to the training that longed to try 1t
myself. Why had I never thought to
have my boys learn swimming this
way? What a blessing such practical
work would have been on n rainy day.
AS watched the gyrating legs with a
kind of fascination they suddenly be-
came still, and now the arms were In
play with a motion reminding one of
the movement Of oars. Madge by this
time knew was there and beckoned me
nearer. "Now watch my hands and
arms, aunty," and with the palms down.
ward she held them to her chest, the
elbows close to her sides. First move
ment," she called out; then out shot
the arms forward, side by side; now
Second movement" was called, then
with the hands turned thumbs down
ward she swept them as far as possible
away out into the sea of air, and third
movement" was accomplished.
Over and over again the girl prac-
ticed these movements, and day after
day it was kept up until arms and legs
became flexible and were ready to take
as naturally as ducks to water. The
exercise was soon followed out with
as little thought rs one gives when
walking "leg over leg as the dog went
to Dover" After all, this Is the true Sc
cret of learning to swim-to use the
arms and legs in the water with as lit
tie thought as one gives to their mo-
ton on land, and II this has been at
tanned while beating against the air
only think Of the pleasure Of using
these motions in the cool, clear water.
Once the leg stroke is conquered in
learning to swim more than half the
battle is fought; the arms afterward
fall in naturally to their share in the
water propelling. DR.. Walker says this
may be attained to perfection by those
who can't manage to practice in ham,
mock by lying across the wooden foot
board of bedstead, using pillow un-
der the body and clutching the mattress
with the hands to preserve the proper
balance. Beware lest anyone come
across such scholar In such a swim
ming school, for he will surely be
clapped into straightjaoket and car
ried off to Bedlam. Practicing in due
seclusion, however. there is no reason
why young and old should not come to
their holiday-maling this year armed
yes, and legged = for speeding
through the water as speedily as on a
bicycle going downhill.-Emily Ford,
in Chicago Inter Ocean.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
AN ELEPHANTS FOOT.
One of the Most Ponderous Pieces Oi
Animal Anatomy.

One of the Most Ponderous Pieces Of
Animal Anatomy.
Anyone who ever glanced at the foot
of an elephant must be aware that it is a
ponderous piece of anatomy, but it's
actual size is best illustrated by an
anecdote.
Two men in the Central park zoo were
speaking on this subject, and one of
them thought the circumference of the
foot must measure ut least four feet.
His friend laughed at this, but the
younger man, after second time gaug-
ing the size, insisted that his guess was
correct.
"Nonsense-quite impossible!" ex-
claimed his friend.
And then, as the younger man still
claimed that he was right, they laid a
wager and referred the matter to the
keeper.
"What is the circumference Of the
fore foot of that big elephant?" they
asked.
1.-The circumference of an elephants
foot is very nearly half the animals
height" replied the keeper.
"Will you be so good as to measure
it?" asked the amazed visitor.
And the keeper got long cord and
went in beside the monster, Bazzle, who
stands eight feet five inches in height
"Of course measure while the ami
NAL Is standing squarely on all fours,'
he said. IF 1 were to take the foot up
from the floor, it would not be quite SO
large; small part Of that size is
caused by the spreading out of the soft
matter of the foot by the pressure of
the animals own weight"
He drew the cord around the monster
foot, held it up, and measured it with a
tape line. The figures showed four
| feet two inches.
The man who had lost the bet paid it
with the remark that he did not think
he was paying too dearly for that curl
Gus bit of neutrality-suspicious. Days.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
summer Re.ort FOR Cats,

A New York lady and her daughter
recently opened hotel for cats, and 1t
seems to have turned out paying con-
Germ, for they receive large number OF
both winter and summer boarders. The
cats hotel is situated close to the Hud-
son river, and rejoices in the name of
Naurashaun farm. For three dollars a
cat is boarded for one month, and there
are no extras. Each cat has its own
little home, and even its own yard,
which is turfed. Pussy is an exclusive
creature, and often dislikes to be made
to eat, or, indeed, to mix much with
her fellows. Curiously enough, the only
other boarders taken are parrots and
canaries.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
THE MINISTER'S FEE.
1t Was a Good One, hut He Did Not
Know 1t for Nearly n Year.

Know 1t for Nearly a Year.
Many stories have been related of the
odd form adopted by eccentric young
people in presenting the marriage fee
to the minister, but not one have heard
that quite equaled in unique method the
story told by the minister of an Epis-
copal church in the northwest section
of the city.
A young couple was to be married,
and each party being scion of a
wealthy family the minister naturally
looked forward to q generous reward
for his offices.
The ceremony was performed, and
the groom, at the proper time, handed
the minister an envelope little larger
than the ordinary size, and the con-
tents appeared to be of such soft thick
ness as to satisfy the clergyman that
his hope had been realized.
In the privacy of his own apartments
the seal was broken, when, alas! all
pleasant anticipations faded away, for
there was but-a pair of gloves-a very
fine, very elegant pair, tits true, but
still only gloves.
And so the man of God swallowed his
disappointment and laid the souvenir
away.
Nearly year afterward, when a spe-
cial occasion called for their use, the
minister bethought him of the gloves
and brought them to the light.
He found considerable difficulty in
fitting them to his hands, and, upon ex-
animation, lol in each finger, neatly
folded, was fresh, crisp five-dollar bill.
And now the reverend doctor makes
careful search of any unusual object a
marriage fee may take the form Of,
lest that which may appear frivolous at
first may prove blessing in disguise.
Baltimore Telegram.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
The "CnpituIntion..,

In the discussion of terms of peace
between Greece and Turkey, frequent
reference has been made to Turkeys
demand for the abolition of the capitu-
lations. These capitulations are the
provisions by which Greek subjects res
ident in Turkey share with the subjects
Of other independent powers the right
to appeal from Turkish tribunals to
their own consular courts. There are
several million Greeks living in differ
cnt parts of the Turkish empire, and
among them are many active business
men, and some of large means. Turkish
courts are VIGOROUSLY oppressive and
corrupt, and 1t would be a serious mat
ter to these millions of Greeks IL they
were left without appeal from their
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
5 DOCTOR RENh'S ....
5 AMUSEMENT CRUSADE.
BY JEANETTE 5. BENTON.
Observation-Disclosures

THE pretty suburb of Hyde Park was
in riot of greenness and bloom I'M
der the hot June sun. The bay-win-
dowed and balconied Merrill house
looked terribly imposing to John Hath
away rs he went slowly up the broad
walk. A sound of merry girlish voices
foated through the window, and he
walked still slower. He was diffident
man, and would much rather have faced
battery than gone through with the
errand he was bound on; but he must,
and big, strong man as he was, his eyes
grew wet as he thought of the reason.
He rang the bell.
81 should like to see Miss Rena Mer-
rill," he said to the servant.
She looked little surprised. then di-
rected him to a chair in the hall, and
went into the parlors. a moment later
a girl came out, very pretty girl, airy
and proud-looking.
'Did you wish to see me?" she asked,
wonderingly.
He crushed his hat nervously in his
hands.
"Yes, marm," he answered. 81 sup
pose came on very queer errand, but
/ had to-"
And his eyes filled with tears.
"Of course you don't know us. My
name is John Hathaway. We live back
here about three blocks. But we know
7 all about YOU. Time and time again we
have heard Of your beautiful speaking,
and my wife has wanted to hear you
always. Since she has been sick she sort
of seemed to have 1t on her mind all the
time. Yesterday she heard the doctor
telling me he was afraid she couldn't
pull through, and she said: John, II 1
om going to die, there's just one thing
want. want you to ask Miss Merrill
to come and recite for me- Sick people
get fanciful sometimes, you know" he
said, alphabetically. II hope you'll ex-
cuse the liberty"
thing?" the girl repeated. "Why, how
funnyl i am sure 1 don't know" look
Ing doubtfully at the unmistakablc
work-day aspect of the man before her.
docs she want me to come now%
"The doctor didn't say how long it
would be-" he answered simply.
People who did not like Rena Merrill
said she was spoiled. Possibly she was,
but something in the pathetic hopeless
ness Of the visitors voice and the sad
ness of his homely, honest face sudden
ly touched her.
"Of course I'll CO." she said impul-
sively, pinning on her wide, white hat;
now, too. I'll be back sometime" she
remarked cavalierly to the wondering
girls in the doorway; "just amuse your
selves until / come"
The man hurried ahead, and stood
waiting in the doorway of trig, box
like little house. Everything was clean
and still; an air of solemn expectancy
brooded over the place.
A woman came into the entry. Her
lace was portentous and important
looking.
Have you got herr" she asked, in a
loud whisper. "It's an awful queer no
'ion for a dyin' person to take" she
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07

How to Learn to Swim without 0oS
ing Near the Water.

How TO Learn to Swim without Co.
ing Near the Water.
Madge was determined to know how
to swim. To be sure, there was no water
within many miles Of her home, but q
fortnight was shortly to be spent by
her close to that most lovely swimming
ground, the Long Island sound. She
had firmly made up her mind that, in
all the bravery of her new bathing
suit, she would calmly walk in waist
deep and then strike of, swimming like
a frog. before the eyes of the aston
ished family. all this to take place the
very first day they all went bathing to-
gether.
Such a picture, in the minds eye.
formed the most delightful surprise
that any girl of 10 could possibly inn
agine, but how was 1t to be managed,
with no place for practice? This IL
the very question am setting out to an
swer, for, as Madge accomplished her
design and became an expert swimmer,
and yet obeyed the command, Don't
go near the water" there Is no reason
why other girls-and boys-should not
prepare themselves for summer fun,
and also lose forever all fear of drown
ing, by practicing the same means used
by her.
This wonderful swimming school was
held on the back veranda; the apparat-
us that held her in position to prac-
tice to a nicely the most practical leg
and arm movement imaginable was
nothing more nor less than an ordinary
hammock. The only teacherwas a silent
one, consisting of few directions she
had read, given by DR.. Walker, written
out and hung where she could consult
them. When first saw this figure,
with its arms and legs moving SO
strangely, it seemed as II the back
veranda had suddenly become the play
ground of crazy girl, instead of the
Madge who, from toddler Of two, had
made this the jolliest sort of spot as
soon as mild weather began. My conf
dence in this rather tomboy child was
very great, so uttered not sound, but
watched and listened. There she was,
in her gymnasium suit, face downward,
and just now was practicing the leg
stroke. The legs were tucked under the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
LONG-HEADEo PRINCE.

One of yictOria's Grandsons Displays
Rare Financial Genius.
At the age of 10h years Prince Alex
ander of Battenberg, son of the late
Prince Henry of Battenberg, Queen Vic
toria's son-in-law, has proved himself
such genius for financiering that it is
unlikely he will ever find himself in the
"hard-up" condition of his father, who,
until his marriage to Princess Beatrice,
the queens daughter, had difficult
task to make both ends meet.
Little Prince Alexander recently APP
piled to his mother for an extra allow
ance of pocket money, which was
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
she Didn,t Think So.

Nora was in her night dress. Mrs.
Strong, having given her good night
kiss, reminded her gently, as usual, not
to forget her prayer to God that she DO
made good little girl.
"Must ask Him that every night.
mammal" Nora asked, gravely.
"Yes, little one" her mother replied
Nora was thoughtful for moments
Mamma" she said, in an injured tone.
"is such a dreffully bad little girl az all
that?'-Demorest's Magazine
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07

promptly refused. He thereupon wrote
the queen, telling her of his grievance,
but her majesty only reiterated the good
advice Of her daughter.
The prince, of an age when money
talks and good advice" is lost, prompt
ly sold his grandmother's letter for
four pounds and ten shillings, and APP
prised her of the fact. 1t is reported
that her majesty was somewhat upset.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
SUMMER.


'Tn the dusty weather
Midges fly about,
Katydids and crickets
Keep up quite a shout:
And the great grasshopper
Climbs up In your frock:
And the silly lassie
Blows the four-o'clock.
oh. the heart Is weary
Through the lengthy days,
All the earth Is painting
In the suns warm rays.
Sitting on the doorstep,
Knitting grandma lace
Oh. hate the SUMMER"
Cried little Sour-Face.
"Blush and bloom OF roses,
Cherries hanging high.
Daisies In the meadow,
Blackbirds In the sky!
Beautiful deep shadows
Up the grassy lanes!
Bushes red with berriesi
Soft, delicious rains!
Flying down the strawstack,
Hiding In the hay
Fun and light and laughter
All the livelong day!
Helping with the baby
AS the hours ny!
Oh. love the summer!'
Cried little Smiling Eyes.
Louise r. Baker. in Youths Companion
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-07
slow I'm operntion.

DIR. Elisha Kane, the arctic explorer,
on being asked what he thought of a.
certain after-dinner speech, replied
that it was like an arctic sunset. ''What
do you mean by that?" asked his friend.
1T was bright aud interesting" replied
the doctor, shut provokingly long in
operation" San Francisco Argonaut.