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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23

The tendency to make heroine of the
young woman across the bay who DELHI
erately committed murder is already
manifest. Yet there is nothing really
brave in shooting a man who has been
given no warning, and has not been guilty
OF capital offense. The young woman
should be shut up and hysterical report
ers, he and she, should be shut up also.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23
MEN AND WOMEN.

Prince Victor Napoleon has just attained the
age of SO.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23

The Goliath, battle-ship of 1880 tons,
building at the Chatham dOckyard since jan
uary last, is being pushed rapidly toward
completion. Six hundred men are working
overtime on the ship, and the ways are being
laid for the launching which is expected to
take place some time next Ocober.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23

The sea captain who says he passed
close to collapsed balloon, but did not
stop to investigate, probably thought it
easier to tell lie of this easy style and
not bother with details. Many sea cap
tains from time to time are said to OBJ
serve marine serpents OF imposing magni-
tude, yet when they get 10 describing the
color of scales the length of neck and the
blazing beacons that serve as eyes, it is
their habit to get sadly mixed. The cap
lain with the balloon yarn was merely
cautious.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23

One of the murderers now in San Quen-
tin and hopeful of having a disagreeable
sentence to hanging committed to impris-
onment for life seems not unduly san
guine. His was a double killing, more
than ordinarily brutal. According to the
mercy extended to the assassin with only
one victim to his credit the assassin
who has achieved two can reasonably ex-
pect clemency little less than tender.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23
NEWS Or FOREIGN NAVIES.

The Swedish Government has selected the
Yarrow type of water-tube boiler for use in
several torpedo-boats building at Stockholm.
Latest advices of Japanese warships build
Ing in England give three battle-ships of
14,S0O tons each; two armored cruisers, each
of $500 tons, and one armored cruiser Of
10000 tons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23

1.-THE silence of the silver orators" remarks
the Los Gatos 4afL sis becoming oppressive"
Some people are hard to satisfy. What does
the Mail want. anyhow?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23

AT the recent naval review at Spithead the
batile-ship Prince George was Illuminated
with 1870 electric lamps 1t has been calcu-
lated that the entire electric light display
aggregated 739, 800 candlepowers; that it took
$3.50 horsepower 10 supply the current and
that The mileage OF lamps was ffty-lour miles,
the lamps averaging FIVE and one alf feet
apart
The Press., 1897-03-04
A Prophecies Confounded.

One of the most diverting tales told in connection with the art of anagram making relates to certain Dame Elean- or Davies, wife of Sir Joshua Davies, says writer in Lippincott's Magazine. She lived in the time of Charles I and was a constant croaker and foreteller of evil. At length she made herself so ob- noxious to the government that she was cited to appear before the court of high commission. She fancied that she was gifted with prophetic powers, because the letters of Eleanor Davies formed the anagram Reveal, O Daniel" '" This was not good anagram, as it used the ''l" twice and did not employ the IS" at all.
 She resisted all the efforts of the bishops to bring her to reason, but was at last entirely defeated by a witty dean, who hoisted her with her own petard by making another anagram, not so complimentary to her prophetic in- sight, "Dame Eleanor Davies-never so mad a ladie" This caused her to doubt the reality of her own inspiration, and so utterly disconcerted her that no more was heard of her.
The Press., 1897-03-04
The Sultan and Electricity.

The sultan seems to have curious mingled liking for and dread of cleo tricity. MT. Burgin tells ill Cassell's B Magazine that some years 2 Q he caused to be erected in the grounds of Yildiz kiosk small theater lighted by incan- descent lamps. One day he saw the workmen trenching the walls in order to bury the wires leading from the en- zine room to the theater and stopped the work, insisting that the wires should all be placed in sight on poles, as he feared that otherwise they might be used to produce an explosion. He had also an electrical boat on a small lake, an English dogcart driven by cleo tricity, and a tiny electrical tramcar, upholstered in blue satin and gold, which runs in circle. It is said that he has never yet ventured inside any of these vehicles, and also that he has for bidden the use of telephones in Con- stantinople lest murde rous conspiracies should be devised over the wires.
The Press., 1897-03-04
The Popular Esthetlcs of Color.

While blue is re-eminently and over whelmingly the masculine favorite, it is by no means so general a feminine favorite The favorite woman's color, standing at the head of the female list, is red. Roughly speaking, of every 30 masculine votes 10 would be for blue and for red, while of every 30 femi- nine votes 4 would be for blue and for red. Red and blue are thus much more nearly equally popular among women than among men. Other relatively marked masculine preferences are for the colors related to blue Cblue violet and violet), and other feminine prefer ences are for lighter red Cor pink and, to less extent, for green and yellow. Further, men confine their selections to relatively fewer colors than do women, and, finally, while all men and women alike are much more apt to choose a normal than transitional color and 8 darker than lighter shade, yet the tend ency to do so (about the same in the former direction) is markedly different in the latter respect Of 12 men 10 would choose among the darker colors and only 9 among the lighter for the most pleas ing color, while of 12 women would choose among the darker and 5 among the lighter shades. Professor Jastrow in Popular Science Monthly.
The Press., 1897-03-04
ON A LOW PLANE.
Japanese Commercial Morality Said to Be
 Below Par,


 Below Par.
 It has long been known to those who had dealing with the Japanese that commercial morality in Japan stands almost on the lowest plane possible to 8 civilized people With few exceptions even those Japanese who prove estima- ble and high minded in all other matters are not to be trusted in business transac- ion In Japan the man who fails to re advantage of his neighbor in bar in is looked upon as fool. The ex- pIanation of this state of things given by Robert Young, who edits Kobe pa- per, is that merchants in Japan have hitherto occupied the lowest rung on the social ladder, being deemed inferior to the tillers of the soil and but little above the pariah class. Up to comparatively recent period trader was but another name for trickster and the pursuit of commerce was held to argue lack of integrity.
 With changed commercial conditions this low standard seems to have re- mained unaltered, so that the Japanese trader is always thinking how he can "best' the foreigner, and he will not fulfill his engagements if by so doing he is likely to suffer loss. MT. Young gives cogent reasons for believing that the mikado's subjects soon will lose the for eign customers they have gained unless their code of commercial morals is ma- terially and rapidly improved.
 Already Japanese consuls have re- ported that the country's foreign trade is seriously injured by merchants who send abroad matches that will not strike, rice that is not up to sample and stuffs the only merit of which is cheapness Guilds have been formed to introduce better methods of business, but they have not wrought much improvement, and the situation cannot be radically changed so long as there is no public opinion to support the application of morality to business. At present the or dinary Japanese trader has no con- science, and until he acquires one the expected competition of Japan in the markets of the world is not likely to be worthy of serious consideration
The Press., 1897-03-04
AUDACIOUS KISSANE.
The Rogue and Forger Was a Typical
 Soldier of Fortune

The Rogue and Forger Was Typical Soldier of Fortune
 The hero of the following story, Kis- sane, had been prominent business man in Cincinnati He was tried with others and acquitted on the charge of burning the steamboat Martha Wash ington to secure insurance, and after ward was sent to the penitentiary for a large bank forgery:
 Into the Walker Nicaragua expedi- tion, made up for the most part of linen of strong character, tired of the hum- drum of common life and ready for a career which might bring them the sweets of adventure or the rewards of fame, Kissane now, on coming out of the penitentiary, threw himself with all the abandon of his daring nature. He ar- rived at Nicaragua Feb. 1, 1856. Un- der an assumed name he was soon ap- pointed and commissioned assistant commanding general, with the rank of major, and ordered to take charge of the commissariat of the army. He showed such ability that Walker soon promoted him. For eight or nine mouths he had the entire finances of the country in his hands, and but for his careful manage ment the filibustering scheme, it is con- ceded, would have met an earlier de- feat.
 When General Walker marched to Rivas, he left Granada in charge of Kissane. The latter made sudden sallies on the neighboring haciendas, and, cap- turing the wives and daughters of prom inent Nicaraguans, held them as hos tages to be exchanged for money or pro- visions. He is reputed to have made a fortune in the sale of confscated hacien- das and vouchers Under his direction cathedrals and convents and private dwellings were pillaged of gold, silver and jewels. The plunder, which filled six large cedar chests, was melted, packed in small bulk and shipped to New Orleans Robed in priesrly vest ments and carrying the holy eucharist, Kissane led triumphant procession through the streets of Granada. His au- dacity and bravery won him devoted followers. Few, if any, of his compan- ions in arms suspected his early history. Nevertheless the tropics did not shield him wholly from memory of the past Recognizing in one of the youthful fol- lowers of the army the son of man who had testified against him in the Martha Washington case, Kissane had the young man arrested on some trumped Np charge and shot down in cold blood.
 At the collapse of the expedition Kis- sane caused to be published in the pa pers accounts of the heroic death of himself under his new name. Mean while he escaped from the country to Panama on board the United States sloop of war St. Mary's, Captain Davis -Lida Rose McCabe in McClure's.
The Press., 1897-03-04
Bret Harte,s .soverland. Enemx.

In The Atlantic Monthly MT. Charles Warren Stoddard, describing the ap- pearance of Bret Hartes "The Luck of Roaring Camp" explains the story of the woman who was opposed to it's pub- lication. There have been many render ings of this incident. MT. Stoddard's s version is unquestionably the correct one.
 In the August number of The Over land Monthly (1868) appeared ''The Luck of Roaring Camp" If MT. Harte had been in doubt as to his vocation be- fore, that doubt was now dispelIed for ever. Never was a more emphatic or unquestionable literary success. That success began in the composing room, when female oompositor revolted at the unaccustomed combination of men, tai force, virility and originality. No doubt it was all very sudden and unex- pected. It shook the editorial and com posing rooms, the business office and a limited number of worthy people who had seen ''The Luck' in manuscript as they had never been shaken save by the notorious Californian earthquake. The climax was precipitated when the justly indignant editor, whose motives, liter ary judgment and good taste had been impeaohed, declared that "The Luck of Roaring Camp" should appear in the very next number of The Overland Monthly or he would resign his office. Wisdom finally prevailed, the article appeared, The Overland's success was assured, and it's editor was famous.
The Press., 1897-03-04

Olga Nethersole is beyond question the greatest English speaking, emotional actress of the present day. Everyone who witnesses the tremendous expenditure of nervous energy incident to her wonderful performances, re- alizes the excessive nervous strain and tension incurred and the consequent loss of nerve force and physical strength. No one, there fore, is more capable of knowing what most quickly restores and recurerates loss of nerv- ous energy and power than she, and no one is more competent to advise those whose nerves are weak, who a-e i'll, o1t of order or run down in nerve CT physical strength, just how to be restored to health and vigor. She tells everybody to use Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, for she knows that this grand medicine is the best thing in the world to make people we'll and strong.
 Miss Nethersole s:-''I have used Dr..
The Press., 1897-03-04

Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy and have found it most strengthening and in vigorating tonic and restorative. When weak, tired, nervous or run down, or when l cannot eat or sleep well, have found it a sure re- storer of energy and strength to the body" If you feel weak, tired, nervous, irritable and nerveless, if you do not eat or sleep well, if you wake tired mornings, with dull feeling head, no appetite, tired and without energy or ambition to work, if you have headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, female complaints or liver and kidney disease, get at once this great restorative, pr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It will surely make you well. Dr. Greene's Cathartic Pills are the most perfect pills for biliousness and constipation. Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th St., New York City, the successful physician in curing nervous and chronic diseases, can be consulted free, personally or by letter.
The Press., 1897-03-04
The Reason Why.

A lady happened to remark to an ath- letic friend that it was very strange that most of the bad bicycling accidents seemed to happen to women-and could he account for it-were they more ''foolhardy?'' ''Not at all. , he replied ''The real reason is, think, that wom- en cannot judge distances. Now, from his earliest youth up a boy is trained through his games to accurately meas ure yards and feet. You will see a woman rush in between two carts where a man could tell you to a certainty that it would be impossible to avoid an acci- dent It is just the want of trained eye that does the mischief. "-Philadel- phia LedQar
The Press., 1897-03-04
Grant on the Battle of the Wild,

Grant on the Battle of the Wilderness.
 The general in chief, Grant, talked for some time with officers of the staff about the results of the battle of the previous days. He said in this connec- tion: "A1l things in this world are rela- tive. While we were engaged in the Wilderness could not keep from think ing of the first fight I ever saw-the battle of Palo Alto As looked at the long line of battle, consisting of 5000 men, felt that General Taylor had such fearful responsibility resting upon him that wondered how he ever had the nerve to assume it, and when, after the fight, the casualties were reported and the losses ascertained to be nearly 60 in killed, wounded and missing, the en- gagement assumed a magnitude in my eyes which was positively startling. When the news of the victory reached the States, the windows in every house. hold were illuminated, and it was largely instrumental in making General Taylor president of the United States. Now, such an affair would scarcely be deemed important enough to report to headquarters. '' He little thought at that moment that the battles then in progress would be chiefly instrumental in making the commander himself pres ident of the United States. General Horace Porter in Century.
The Press., 1897-03-04

The human body is an-epitome in Nat ure of all mechanics, all hydraulics, all machinery of every kind. There are more than three murdered. and ten me chanical movements known to mechanics to-day, and all of these are but modiflca- tions of those found in the human body. Here are found all the bars. levers, joints pulleys, pumps, pipes, wheels and axles, ball and socket movements. beams, pirders, trussess, buffers, arches. columns, cables, and supports known to science. At every point mans best mechanical work can be shown to be but adaptations of processes Of the human body, a revela- tion Of first principles used in Nature. WILLIAM GEORGE GoRDAN In March Ladies Home JournGJd.
The Press., 1897-03-04
One Way tn be HannY

Is to attend to the comforts of your family. Should one catch cold or cough, call on E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs; w. P. Fuller, Somers; Odell & Jones, Staf- fordville, sole agents, and get trial bot tie of Otto's Cure, the great German Rem edy, Free. We give it away to prove that Asthma, Consumption, and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Large sizes soc and 25c. Il
The Press., 1897-03-04

DANGER OF THE GR1P-The greatest danger from La Grippe is of it's resulting in pneumonia. If reasonable care is used however. and Chamberlain's Cough Rem- edy taken, all danger will be avoided. Among the tens of thousands who have used this remedy for la grippe, we have yet to learn of single case having result ed in pneumonia, which shows conclu- siveld that this remedy is a certain pre- ventive of that dread disease. It will -ffect permanent cure in less time than any other treatment. The 9 and 50 cent sizes for sale by w. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs; G. L. Philips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-03-04
Eleven Times Around the Earth.

Just think of itI Eleven times around this globe of ours" in the space of 60 seconds! Can you imagine any thing that moves with such remarkable speed? Sound travels only 12 1-2 miles per minute, and rife ball (if it's speed were not diminished by resistance)16 1-2 miles. Light passes through distance equal to 2 1-2 revolutions of the earth in one minute, but electricity travels so astonishingly fast that it is able to com plete the circr :t of the earth II 1-2 times in 50 seconds. St. Louis Republic.
The Press., 1897-03-04

A REVELATION FOR WEAK WOMEN. - Weak. nervous women who suffer from female complaints. irregularities. dis charges, backeacha, etc, get no sympathy because they "lOOk we'll" No one hut the physician knows what they suffer- and no one hut great specialist in female dis eases like Dr. Greene. B West 14th St.. New York City. the most successful phvs'- elan in curing these complaints, has the knowledge. skill and remedies which never fail to cure. Women should know that Dr. Greene can he consulted hv mail free. Write the Doctor. You can thua get his opinion and advice in regard to your case free. Write now-it may result in your cure.
 The more I think of it I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see some. thing and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk fol one who can think, but thousands car think for one who can see. To see clear ly is poetry, prophecy and religion-al in one. .-RuskiD.
The Press., 1897-03-04
A Mathematician.

"You mustn't detain me-" said the man who was hurrying down the ave- nue. My time is valuable
 ssDo ye reckon thet five minutes of yer time is worth 25 cents?'' asked Meandering Mike, quickening his pace so as to keep in step.
 ''Assuredly."
 ''Well, was goln ter give ye hard luck story tIhet 'u'd last five minutes ex- actly I've timed it ter run jes' thet long. But eff yell gimme the 20 cents change I'll let ye off with one minute, an we can't neither of us feel thet we've been took advantage of. Washington Star
The Press., 1897-03-04

RHEUMATISM QUICKLY CURED.-After having been confined to the house fo, eleven days, and paying out $25, in doe tor bills without benefit, Mir. Frank Dol son of Sault Ste Marie, Mich, was cured by one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Baln costing 25 cents and has not since beer troubled with that complaint. For salt y w. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs c. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-03-04
Dovar N Fl Oct Qt 1eoa


 MEssERs. ELY BROS :-The Balm reach ed me safely and in so short a time the effect is surprising. My son says the first application gave decided relief have a shelf filled with "Catarrh Cures" To- morrow the stove shall receive them and Ely's Cream Balm will reign supreme. Respectfully, MRS. FRANKLIN. FREEMAN. Cream Balm is kept by all druggists. Full size 50;. Trial size 10cents. We mail it. ELY BROS, 56 Warren St., N Y. City.
The Press., 1897-03-04

BILIOUS COLO. Persons who are sub iect to attacks of bilious collie will b. pleased to know that prompt relief may ne had by taken Chamberlin's Collie Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, and i taken as soon as the first indication of tn, disease appears, it will prevent the attack
 For sale by w. W. Lathrop, Staffort Springs; G. l.. Phillips, South Coventry
The Press., 1897-03-04
At Q Bookstore.

Customer-But this book bears date prior to the invention of printing.
 Dealer in Rare Volumes-So much the more valuable, sir-so much the more valuable. It is proof of it's an- tiquity. It was only after the invention of printing, you know, that the counter feiting of old volumes was possible.- Boston TranScriDt
The Press., 1897-03-04

FROM CRIPPLE CREEK. the big fire in cripple Creek, took a very severe cold and tried many remedies without help, the cold only becoming more settled. After using three small bottles of Cham lerlin's Cough Remedy, both the cough and cold left me, and in this high alti- Jude it takes a merit orious cough remedy to do any good. -G. B. HENDERSON, editor Daily Advertiser. For sale by w. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs; c. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-03-04
Comets are sometimes disturbed by the gravitating power of the planets.
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-Ol

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you package of GRAIN-O the new food drink that takes the place Of coffee. The children may drink 1t with out in Iury as well as the adult. All who try it., like 1t. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains and the most delicIte stomach receives 1t with out distress A the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grOcers.
The Press., 1897-03-04

Chicora, Pa., "Herald" Richard Vensel reports One Minute Cough Cure the great est success of medical science. He told us that 1t cured his whole family of terrible coughs aud colds, after all other so called cures had failed entirely. Mir. VenseI said 1t assisted his children through a very bad seige of measles. One Minute Cough Cure makes approximation very easy and rapid. W. D. Heald, Stafford Springs; G. L. Phillips, South Coventry.