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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

The assertion of the Examiner that it is
supporting Senator Perkins simply be-
cause he has a better sense of humor than
any other candidate may have been in
tended after all as a joke on that gentle
man.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

STANDARD patterns, highest perfection, low
est price. Domestic Office, 1921 Market ST.,
near Sixth
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Knocking at decency," says the slum
panderer, sis true humor."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

The Doodle organ boobies as a merry
Jest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

DR.. Elmer E. Barr, a negro of Chicago, has
been appointed to place on the Cook County
medical staff.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

SEND your friends Townsend's California
glace fruits; soc pound, in rfre-etched boxes. Z"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

The assertion of Mr.. Perkins Demo-
cratic organ that the chief qualification of
a Uni ed States Senator Isl sense of humor
implies an inability on the part of that
organ to distinguish the difference be-
tween the Senate and circus. 1t doesn' t
know toga from a suit of motley.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Connecticut's Legislature will have one ''big
man. in the body He is Representative Mes
senger OF New Hartford, and he weighs $50
pounds
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Sardou's hobby is building himself houses.
In this way he delights in spending his wealth.
On the outskirts OF Nice he spent $3.50, 900 on
a great stone foundation for a palace, but was
from completing it because it would
interfere with the view from tort
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

The Examiner declares itself funny.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Loyal Republicans should carefully con-
slider the tactics of the opposing candi-
dates for the senatorship. They should
take note of which side is upholding the
honor of the Republican party and which
side Is resorting to charges of bribery, TO
vilification, SANDER and the vulgarity of
the sums
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Mrs. J. A. Logan has decided on the Lake
Front Park, Chicago. as the most desirable
place for the Logan statue. She has chosen
point opposite Eldridge Court, about $50 feet
east of Michigan avenue. and the South Park
Board has concurred In the selection.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

The wardrobe of the Prince of Wales requires
the unceasing attention of two men to keep it
in order. When the Prince requires new
clothes letter is sent or his valet calls re-
questing the tailor to be in attendance at
Mari borough House, generally at II AM.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Slandering California is Hearst's idea OF
fun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Samuel NJ shortridge has hired no
Doodle newspaper to SANDER his oppo-
nents in the Senatorial contest. he has
not maligned them nor even misrepre-
sented them. He stands in this contest
upon his own merits and has not found it
necessary to decry those of other men in
order to exalt his own.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
H. BLACK, palnter. 12O Eddy street.

IcEcREAM and cakes. GuiIlet,s, 9O5 Larkir
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

If the Examiner had any fact whatever
upon which to base its assertions that
money will win at Sacramer to, and that
Republican Legislators are waiting to be
bribed. it would publish that fact and give
it page, a picture, a caricature, ten lurid
headlines and forty fake attachments.
There would be a sensation in it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
cALIFoRNIANs in NEW YORK

NEW YORK, n. Y. Jan. DAT the windsor,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Commercial Club of Kansas City has
taken steps to erect statue OF Thomas H.
Pauf0n
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
A sense OF humor is good.

The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

II is conceded on all sides that the
Legislature has begun its work with
degree OF excellence which gives assur-
ance of an economical and business-like
session. The Senatorial contest has net
been allowed to interfere with other
matters and every duty of the first week
of the session has been accomplished with
commendable promptness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Wordsworth declared that for nearly twenty
years his poems had not paid for his shoe
sr,0
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

BUSINESS OFFICE:
40 Market Street,
San Francisco, California.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Last spring Queen Natalie of Servia los a
valuable diamond ring in Paris. After much
vain searching the Queen announced that if
found she would give it to the Little Sisters
of the Poor. 1t has now turned up and the
Sisters are going to rattle it, 10000 tickets at
franc each.
At the Chinese legation at Washington it is
stated that WI Ting Fang, who succeeded
Yang Yu as Chinese Minister to this country,
has spent considerable time in England, where
he studied law and was admitted as a bar
rister He has been in the service of the Chi
nese Government for the past ten years.
II plan now on foot is carried out. Vice.
President-elect Hobart will call the next
United States Senate together with a gavel
made from limb of one of the old apple trees
standing on the farm where ne was born. The
gsvei will be highly embelished, and will bear
an appropriate inscription on god plate.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-11

All. how laughed until cried
Tho well I knew the loyal pride
That lay behind its ill-spelled creed.
Had he not battled for me well,
When once a spiteful boy had said
HE missed and 1 the word did SPELL
My golden locks were "fery red?'
And had he northumberland boy
Saved up his pence to buy a treat,
And then with quaint. transparent Joy,
Laid down the treasure at my feet?
IT'S true scorned his snubby'' nose.
His freckles and his warty hands:
His odd. old-fashioned. homemade clothes.
His servile mien at my commands.
And with girls strange wayward within.
Behind my checkered pinafore.
4 Joined in making sport of him.
Because myself he did adore.
Poor Billy! years have come and gone
Since last gazed into your eyes.
And saw, like some poor wounded fawn.
Your look of anguish and surprise.
And have roamed mid scenes afar,
Have quaffed life's cup unto the lees:
And on my heart is many scar
OF woundings made by hates DEGREES.
And oft I wonder. after all.
II with that little blotted line
That lies beneath times somber pail.
I did not lose my Valentine.
Rosa Pearle. in Chicago Tribune.
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An Interesting Item.

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-02-11

returned the five cents to Christine, be-
cause he knew he should yield to the
temptation to make faces through the
lnothole again. f. #g..:.
Christine turned a little pale when she
heard this about Mr.. Pigeon, and she
put on her thinking cap. She couldn't
go to school like the others, she couldn't
go skating; in fact there were so many
things she couldn't do that it would
have been very discouraging to one who
believes less firmly than Christine did
that things as well as people were going
to be better; but that gave her all the
more time to wear her thinking cap.
And Christmas thoughts were pretty
apt to blossom into deeds some way.
Christine had made the Christmas
wreaths of evergreen and holly from
their own Pippin Hill woods, and she
had sent two beauties to Miss Pigeon,
who had promptly returned them with
the message that she didn't want such
rubbish littering up her house: Now
when they heard that sad news from Mr..
Pigeon she was making valentines. She
had very dainty knack with both pen
Gil and brush, for a 14-year-old girl. and
her valentines were more beautiful
than any that could be bought in. the
shops, or so the Bloomsboro' young peo-
pie all thought. -~
The fashion of sending valentines
might ware elsewhere, but it always
fourished in Bloomsbury perhaps be-
cause Christine Bell kept it up. She
sent them to the very last people who
expected to have q valentine-to neg
lected old people and forIorn sick peo-
pie, to Biddy Mcguire, just from the
old country, and kilt" with homesick-
ness, and to Antony Burke, the old
miser, for whom no one had civil
word and who, perhaps, didn't deserve
one. And for every valentine that was
disregarded or thrown impatiently
aside, dozen made little warmth and
comfort in a sad heart; for nobody has
yet begun to understand how great is
the day of small things.
Christine was more mysterious than
usual this year about her valentines;
she colored when Peggy said she would
better send one to Miss Pigeon, but they
never thought she would; they thought
she was only sensitive about her Christ
mas wreath. When Mr.. Pigeon went
away he gave Christine an old desk that
he had had ever since he was boy. It
had initials and hearts and anchors cut
into it and was whitfield at every cor
ner; you would have known if you'd
seen it anywhere that it had belonged
to a boy. But Christine would have it
in her own room; she thought it was
beautiful. 1t had his boy-letters and
diaries in it. and she had laughed and
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q ''In the first place, it's too dreadful
to be true, and in the next place he
would have told us" said Peggy.
But it really proved to be true. Mr.,
Pigeons sister-his own sister!-had
gone to law to obtain share of her
grandfather's estate. which he had
failed to bequeath to her because she
had gone contrary to his wishes iu
some way, and the only share that she
would have was that old estate on
Pippin Hill. Perhaps the law might
force her to take something else as
her share, since he had held posses
sion there SO long; but she was Kitty,
and he should give it up to her. That
was what Mr.. Pigeon said in answer
to the indignant remonstrances of the
Bells. She was Kitty; that was all
he would say; perhaps it wasn't much
of a reason, but the Bells understood.
We all know what it is to give up things
to people just because they are ky
or Polly or John.
So it happened that the Bells dear
Mr.. Pigeon went away to little house
that he owned down at Pequanket Mills
and Miss Mehitable Pigeon came to live
at the old place on Pippin Hill and
owned half of the high-top sweeting
tree.
And the very first thing she did
it was September when she came-was
to threaten to have Tommy Bell ar
rested, because when he shook their
side of the tree her side shook too, and
she said the top of the tree leaned to-
ward their side and more apples fell
there, so when the apples were picked
and divided she must have an extra
bushel. She threatened to have their
yellow kitten drowned because he
scampered after the flying leaves in her
garden, and, she did have their cross
gobbler killed because it ran after her
red morning gown, as a gobbler will,
you know, and gobbled at her. He
wasn'tmuchl loss, and she sent him home
plucked and dressed, with the message
that she should have eaten him if she
had not feared he would be tough.
She complained that Becky's peacock
squawked and Dicky's guinea pigs
squeaked, and the vane on their stable
had "a rusty squeak" that kept her
awake nights; and if one of the little
Bells mounted the fence she came out
and ''shooed'' him off as if he were a
chicken.
Christine, who was inclined to look on
the bright side and to think we'll of every
one, said that she would probably grow
better when they got better acquainted,
and she gave Tommy and little Rufus
five cents each not to use their bean
singers over the fence or make faces
through the knothole.
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But instead of growing better their
new neighbor grew worse. She had the
mutual fence built up ten feet high, she
had the branches of the sweeting tree
Topped off where they interfered with
the fence, and Christmas seat thrown
down to the ground so roughly that it
was broken. She said she had let peo-
pie impose upon her all her life. and she
wasn't going to any more.
Papa Bell, who was an easy man and
absorbed in his business. said he sup
posed that so many children and squeak
ing things did make them troublesome
neighbors; but he thought they should
have to demonstrate with Miss Pigeon
about the fence, because it took away so
much of their sunshine. Christine begged
him to wait; she always would believe
that people were going to be, better, and
she knew there must be something good
about Miss Pigeon because she looked
like her brother-'only the twist
seemed to be in her mind, poor thing!"
1t was November when Christmas
seat was thrown out of the tree, so she
could not have used it any more that sea-
sonany way; and when anyone asked her
how she was going to do without it in
the spring. she always answered.: "Per-
haps Miss Kitty will be good by that
time" But that transformation didn't
seem in the least likely to anyone else.
She never forgot that Mr.. Pigeon had
said she was Kitty. though how she
could ever be Kitty to an ybod Y was more
than the other young Bells could under
stand. IT, :n 5-y !. =. Z. Y r. gs
Christine would bow to her, too, and
smile. shyly, although Miss Pigeon only
scowled dreadfully in response. Far
more difficult to forgive than their own
wrongs was the injury she had inflicted
upon her brother. He wrote to them
doleful letters which showed plainly
how homesick he was for the good air
and the good ellowship Of Pippin Hill.
One Of the neighbors who saw him ut
|; Pequanket. said one would hardly know
him he had .'pined away !. %.
After that little Rufus (honorably)
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cried over them. And now she had
found in that old desk material for the
very queerest valentine she had ever
made; and although she liked to share
the fun Of making her valentines with
the others, she was a little secretive
about that.
What should the paper be but leaf
from one of the old diaries: one side all
written over in an uniformed, boyish
hand; and this is what was written on
it, the ink faded by time:
IT cant bare to rite becos l,ity has the
Fever and cant bare knot to rite heco5
it semes like telling somebody. she held
mi hand ttte when she did knot now eny-
boldly last mite and did knot let them
send me to bed the fellers say If she does
di hav other sisters but they are knot
hity the fellers do knot understand wen
enybody sails she will ever hav DO like
our augusta haty sails the Tom Tinker verse
and that mems me as is rote on the LIST
leef Of this dry mi name is Thomas Tink-
ham Pigeon hity has gott Temper but so
hav Good Meny People and she is Good
way inside and she Is hity and she and /
will alwys liv together but I cant bare to
rite eny more for want to now what the
dokter sails. they say Teller must he A.
Man but wen it is atty cant bare
= Here the words became ilegibie on
the old yellow paper: there were blots
and sanudges us Of tears. Though valen-
tines are supposed to be dainty, Chris
tine didn't try to clean it bit! And on
the unwrittcn side. instead Of painting
any of her pretty flowers or drawing
hearts or cupids. she only wrote the
Tom Tinker verse; which Hitty had
lovingly quoted to her brother: x, !.
!" Tom Tinker's my true love. and i am his
H ri gang along VII him his budget to
bear y g., d. AZ 5sz5.%ss $ 81
It certainly was a very. queer valen-
tine. Christine thought it would prob
ably bereturned, even more scornfully
than the Christmas wreath--if Miss
Pigeon should guess who sent it-and
she would be likely to guess that it
came from the Belfry; for she knew that
her brother had given them many Of
his belongings. '},s
s She sent it with fear and trembling.
and she told none Of the Others, Tor the
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Copyright has expired on Robert
Browning's earlier poems. including
Pauline" .Paracelsus," ''Sondello''
and 'Pomegranites. y
Among the books recently translated
into Japanese are Darwin's Origin Of
Species" Westermark's .'History Of
Marriage" and Rants ''Critique of
Pure Reason" .1s
Lord Roseberry. having said that he
does not consider London favorable to
the production of literary work, it is
pointed out that Gibbon,y Milton, DR..
johnson, Keats, Fielding, Richardson,
Grote, Browning and Macaulay did
most Of their literary composition in
the metropolis. r
Hall Game is one of the few authors
who have not been attacked by the
gold-making fever. He. at any rate,
does not fall into the error of overpro-
duction, for since he finished 1.-THE
Aanxman" he has been entirely occu-
pied with his new novel. 1.-THE Chris
tian." which is now completed. It will
be published serially.
NJ. Jesserand, one of the none too
numerous Frenchmen who write en-
English subjects with minute personal
knowledge, is about TO publish another
of his volumes on topics of quaint his
torical interest. This time it is 1.-THE
Romance Of Scots King" meaning
James l., who lightened his imprison-
ment by writing verses and making
love.
Bit by bit the immensely valuable
real estate in Denver once owned by
Senator Tabor has passed out Of his
possession, till now the only property
standing in his name consists Of 16 lots
surrounded the family homestead.
This, too. will 60 to creditors next
week under foreclosure. There are
mortgages On it, amounting, with in
terest, to S35, 600, and the house and
land will hardly realize that amount.
Not long ago Tabor was ranked among
Colorado's richest men, but misfortunes
of various kinds have left him practic-
allY Denniless
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was such tried and trusty friend, and.
it he was GO, such a congenial compan-
ion. He was always ready to 60 fishing
or coasting with the boys. or to take
the girls to drive; although he was
bachelor and lived alone, and had a
double carriage and the largest sleigh
on Pippin Hill-because he had so
large heart, Peggy said. He, knew as
much about the wild things in the woods
as 1.-The Hunters Own Book" and on
a rainy day or when one had the mumps
OR the measles he would tell stories
by the dozen-stories that were worth
telling, too, for he had been " round the
world and home again." and knew all
there was to know about cannibals and
buccaneers and wild men, and all such
distinguished and interesting people.
1t happened that the only houses on
the tip-top of Pippin Hill were the Bel
received that name because Papa Bell
always spoke of his children as his ''small
fry;" anyway, that is what everyone
in Bloomsboro' called it) and the old
Pigeon house, which had belonged to
this Mr.. Pigeons grandfather. The
houses backed up to each other, and
there was a mutual backyard fence,
80, of course, it was very desirable that
the neighbors should be friendly anu
"congenial; more than this, there was
a mutual apple tree. The gnarled old
''high-top sweeting" was directly on
the boundary line between the two es-
tates. and the mutual fence had been
cut in two to make space for it. Its
branches were low and spreading, in
spite of it's high top, and they spread
very impartially over the Bells smooth
lawn and over Mr.. Pigeons orchard,
and dropped their delicious fruit-early,
the first sweet apples that there were
almost as evenly as if it were measured
on each of their owners land. The
only difference was that the August
sunshine Lay longer upon Mr.. Pigeons
side, SO the first red and yellow. mellow
and juicy apples dropped upon his or
'chard grassland he tossed them up
to Christine in her seat in the low
crotch of the tree, the seat that he had
made for her. 49,
1t was Christine who thought the
smost of Mr.. Pigeon and he of her, be-
cause they both had twist, Christine
said. She would always speak of he-'
. trouble cheerfully, even jokingly. You
would scarcely have thought that. she
minded it ct all: it was spinal weak
mess which had bowed her shoulders aud
'twisted her head to one side The
Others didn't mind much when Chris
tine was left out Of things: they were
4 q rough. merry set, but Mr.. Pigeon
had always remembered her. His
twist was in one Of his legs: he had to
4 wear an uncomfortable iron boot, and
walked with q queer, sideways mo-
tion. III 5355sfss
When Becky, who. was II and was
called the Blooms oro' Budget, because
che carried all the news. came home
with the dreadful intelligence that Mr..
Pigeon was going to move away, no
one would believe It. u 3. s
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Growing Better.

The world grows better, SO they say:
More gentle. dignified and sunny.
Perhaps 10. one VIII think some day. u
That comic valentines. ars funny
VasllngtonS Star
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"WHAr small mind Mrs. Venlynne has ~
''Naturally. She has given her husband SO
many pieces of .:'-TitcBits.
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Valentine to q Sick Doll.


Dolly, dolly darling!
O, dolly. dolly mine!
They laugh because tell them
That you are my valentine.
They think that shall have. dear,
A doll in place OF you: -
Now. don't be frightened. dolly.
Tor that's what Ill never do. H.,
I know your nose IS melted: ,
Az know one eye IS gone: ~
My father said this morning
That you really were forloru.
But that's the very reason
Why you should always DO
The very dearest dolly
In the whole round world to me.
II my nose should get broken.
II / hooked queer and wild,
Would my mamma exchange mo
For another bran-new child7
Helen Marston. In Our Little Onea.
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IT may comelast, but st. Jacobs Oil is the
best to cure sprains. It ought to be first.