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The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

According to the Newman Tribune, another
big section OF farming land will soon be un-
der water. The paper states that new can al
which parallels the present canal, but Is
nearer the hills, will be carried to Tracy at an
early date This will bring much of the land
between Newman and the Coast Range under
water. A canal following the base of the hills
has long been desired, and would greatly
augment the value of the land under 1t. The
uew canal will be completed to Los Banos
Creek within a mouth, when work will be
suspen ded until fall.
The Redding Free Press says that the mining
outlook Is increasing in interest every day;
new finds are of daily occurrence and new
men with capital are pouring in from every
quarter. Scarcely day passes that we do not
hear OF some mining sale or OF negotiations
looking toward transfer of mining property.
Shasta County has become en- attraction that
her enormous mineral wealth amply merits,
and is rapidly taking front rank with the best
mining localities on the coast. All of the old
mines in that section are panning out better
than ever, which fact is sure to encourage the
development of new ones.
The growing Of tobacco IN California has
really become an established industry instead
of the experiment ii was few years ago. Ac-
cording to the Champion OF Downey, that sec
tion is deep into the business The big to-
bacco company at that place has enough
plants to set out 100 acres. They are receiv.
ing orders for plants from Riverside, Orange
and San Diego counties. at Is cents per 100.
The pants win be ready TO set out In ten or
fifteen days and are the earliest plants now
growing in California. Sumatra tobacco,
which grows we'll here. will be worth 50 SO
per pound. and the farmer who fails to put
one to five acres In tobacco will regret 1t this
fall when he sees the profits to be made i'll
raising 1t.
Here is an altruistic dream INDUCED In by
the night editor of the Santa Rosa Republican,
albeit we sincerely trust it may "come true":
1T is not improbable that within the next
few months the population OF Sonoms County
will be increased by the immigration of at
least 1000 people. Negotiations are pending
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
With Y0UN COFFEE.

Floor Wa'ker-She complains that you
didn't show her common civility.
Salesman-I showed her everything In my
department, slr.-Detroit Journal.
"Well, did he pay you anything I" asked the
business manager.
''Yes." replied the female collector, che paid
me 9 compliment He said he wouldn't be
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
The Swiftest Train in the West
80 Days to Chicago or st. Louis
az Days to New York.

The Santa Fe Limited has diningcar, buffet
smoking-car and Pullman palace drawing room
sieeping-cars. Leaving San Francisco at p. N.
Mondays and Thursd ays connection Is made at
Barstow with this handsome train. Through cars
TO Chicago, both Pull man palace drawing room
and modern upholstered tourist sleepers, run
daily Tickets also sold via Portland. Ogden, Los
Angeles, Deming or Ell Paso TO all points In the
United States, Canada Mexico or Europe. See
time table in advertising column San francisco
ticket office 644 Market street, Chronicle build
ing. Telephone MAN 1881. Oakland, Ills
Broadway.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
The 70 ERo.
indianapolis Journal,

Mrs. wickwire-what 90 you think the great
powers will do?
Mr.. Wickwire-As / recollect 1t, Fitz says
that he won't fight any one but Jim, and he
won't even do that until Jim goes ana gets .
reputation.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

the Senators more than Cuba and the
tariff put together.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The defect in the makeup of the Turk
is that he won't break away when the
referee says so.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
Room for two, too !

Our lawn and porch furni-
ture got here last week.
It's as different from the
ordinary as you can think of
Enameled green, grassy green
striped with gilt. Green
rests the eyes-it's a happy
change from the bright red of
last year.
Get a hint of the shape
from the picture. Bent wood
armS-extra stout.
settees, 81 75.
Arm Rockers, 81 50.
Arm Chairs, So rs.
Folding cots = some for
SI.75-and extra bedding for
outing parties. No charge
for packing and shipping.
California Furniture Company
IN p Cole 4 Col Carpets
LII Geary Street Mattinr,
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

He-why is it. my dear. that woman
so often buys pair of shoes size too small
for her?
she-Probably for the same reason that
man so often buys hat that IS size TOO large
for him,-New York Commercial Advertiser.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The dry weather IS not very good for
raising crops, but it has strong tendency
toward raising prices, and in one way or
another the farmer will get a benefit.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMER MONTHS.

Are you going 10 the country on q vacation . II
so, 1t is no trouble for US 10 forward THE CALL to
your address. Do not let it miss you for you will
miss It. Orders given 10 The carrier or left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

In his latest poem, Rudyard Kipling
called Canada ''the lady of SHOWS" and
the Canadians are now protesting that the
epithet is an insult to the climate.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Mark Hopkins Institute OF Art.
The Spring exhibition is now open daily
from A. NJ. to 5P NJ and grand concert every
Thursday evening Open Sundays.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Advocates of International arbitration
are not pointing to the concert of Europe
with any visible amount of pride.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The large number of girls who have
arrived in New York to seek employment
in domestic service is all right from some
points of view, but where is the chance of
the American girl in a competition Of
that kind?
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

When the Presidents message on the
Cuban situation is read Morgan will have
an opportunity to achieve fame by re-
naming silent and letting some one else
talk
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Now that the New Workers have their
great city, they are haunted bv carkin e
fear that Tammany may gobbIe the whole
thing, and are already halfway sorry that
they made it so big.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

If. the increased duty on beer is not
stricken out of the tariff the makers OF
beer mugs will have good chance to fur
nish the country with complete new
outfit of slightly smaller holding ca
paclty.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

A GOLD QUARTER-E H, Lorin, Alameda
County, Cal. The little piece of octaSonal
gold you have is one of many that were issued
by California jewelers. in 1854 and stamped
nremium on them. In fact they may be had
Ia san Francisco for 25 cents apiece.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The first notable result of the establish
ment of Greater New York has been q
combination of Chicago and St. Louis to
pool their issues and go for the big
metropolis like a thousand of brick.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

While We are preparing protection
breastworks, Europe is bombarding our
industry with manufactured goods. and
the shot is landing fast and heavy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The merchants of New 7 York are said to
have been so pleased with the increase of
retail business caused by the influx of
visitors to attend the Grant celebration
that they are now trying to get move
ment to have tombs erected along River
side drive for all the deceased oignitaries
in the country.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS,

LECTUREs-Reader, City. There is record
OF the number of lectures that have been de-
Hvered in San Francisco during the year 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

THREE SoMERsAULTs-F. ]. F., City. 1t was
the younger OF the Jordan family who turned
a triple somersault at the Orpheum some time
ago. The work was performed over the net,
hands of one of the elder mem bers of the
90, itv
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
Cuba claims attention this week.

Mckinley will say the right thing in the
right way.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

CHRONIC constipation is a troublesome and
dangerous disorder. The surest and safest remedy
is Ayers Cathartic Pills.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

PREMIUM ON NIcKEL-T. P. S., Oakland,
Cal. The only excl for which a premium is
offered is one of the date of 1877. For such
rs cents is offered.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Cal. Poor's Manual of Railroads in the United
States gives the names of all the superintend-
ents mployed on the various lines. The book
NAV be seen in the Libraries and at railroad
offices.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

AIdrich will probably explain the sugar
schedule puzzle next Thursday.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Amid all the adverse criticisms of the
way in which she treated her invited
guests at the Grant monument dedication,
New York has one consolation: Sir Julian
Pauncefote has written letter cordially
thanking the city for its generous and
courtly hospitality. tits we'll understood,
of course, that Sir Julian has a great
reputation for diplomacy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

'I think the retreat from Larissa was the
most natural thing
"Why?"
GAS soon as Turkey made it hot for Greece,
why of course the latter ran."-Philadelphia
North American
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The Presidents message on Cuba prom
ises to be the big event OF the week, but
there is no telling but tha: the unex-
pected may happen and eclipse it alto
petber
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

If the House of Representatives would
adjourn for the summer and leave Speaker
Reed and Jerry Simpson to meet twice a
week it would be just as satisfactory to
the public.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Several Eastern papers that have always
abused Senator Tillman are now patting
him on the back and urging him to use
his pitchfork on the muck OF the sugar
scandal
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The Santa Rosa Eeentng Press has come out
as six page daily. The increase in size be-
came necessary on account OF increase in
subscribers and advertising. This is sign
that one section OF the country, at least. is re-
covering from the effects of four years of
Clevelandism. Other sections are following
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
Railroad Tickets to the East via Rio
Grande Western and Denver and
Rio Granda Railways.

At lowest possible rates, with through Pullman
buffet and tourist sleeping car service every day.
Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permitting
stopover at Salt City on all classes OF tickets
Detailed information and tickets furnished a. Ia
Montgomery street. or 314 California sIrss-
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

CoRoNADo.-Atmosphere is perfectly dry. soft
and mild. being entirely free from the mists COM
mon further north Round trip tickets. by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotel del
Coronado. $50; longer stay So 80 per day. Apply
New Montgomery street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
COAST EXCHANGES.

Redding is about to expand industrially un-
der the acquisition of q steam laundry of the
most approved pattern, according to the Free
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
"n1rs. windows Soothing Syrup"

IfBs " IHBtO" . SOO0hIfHS SyI UP
Has been used fifty years by millions OF
mothers for their children while Teething with per
feet success 1t sooihe the child, sotens he gu
alIays Pain. cures Wind Collie, regulates The Bowels
and is the be remedy for Diarrhnas whether aris-
ing from teehing or other causes or sale by drug
gists In every part OF the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. ~insow's Soothing Syrup. 25c bottle
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The Fresno Erpositor has proposed that rice
planting be tried in that fertile section, and
thinks the result will prove successful, in
which conviction it is fortified by number
OF concurring correspondents.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

A New York clubman entertained thirty
guests at supper at which nothing was
served but beefsteak and beer, and vet
according 10 the New York Press. the bill
amounted to $93 81, or more than So a
plate. 1t will be seen that the price of
beef must be very high In the Eastern
metropolis, or else the New York capacity
for beer is something to astonish West
erner.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

cA11yoaMA glace fruits SOC lb, Townssnd,..
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-Postage Free:

BUSINESS OFFICE:
s1O Market Street,
FAN Francisco, California.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

The railway across the Andes, which Is
to connect Valparaiso with Buenos Ayres,
is said to be approaching com pletion, and
communication between the two cities
will then be shortened from twelve days
to two and half. Large results in COM
mercial way are expected from the new
line, and We may profit by it in California
II we develop our South American trade
with proper enterprise and sagacity.
1t is announced that the Zoo in Gen.
tral Park, New York, has been increased
by the addition of a military monkey, a
horned owl and kinkaiou. The military
monkey was doubtless left over from the
staff of some Governor after the Grant
parade. the horned owl could have been
easily gathered in from the tenderloin on
the night after the procession, but from
whence came the kinkajou, or what is his
other name, are things we cannot even
guess at.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

EDITORIAL ROOMS:
SIT Clay Street.
Dhons Main-1s7&
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17

Paul Lindau, the weIl-&nown, German
novelist, playwright and newspaper cor
respondent and the present intendent, or di-
rector of the Meiningen Theater, was recently
arrested in Athens as spy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
THIS AND THAT.

Belfast is the great tea drinking city
Of the United Kingdom.
The piano manufacturers Of Germany
turn out over 1000 pianos week.
The Chinese government telegraph
lines now comprise above $500 miles.
Bishop Tugwell says gin is the
standard currency in some parts OF
Africa
To give pain is the tyranny; to make
happy is the true empire OF beauty
Steele
The fat man of the Missouri legisla-
lure is Senator Martin. of St. Louis.
who weighs 300 pounds.
The debt Of London is $1SO. 900 .OOO
OF the annual tax to meet this Sc, ,OOO.-
900 goes as interest and 50, SOC, coo into
the sinking fund.
The British Isles comprise NO fewer
than 1000 separate islands and isIets.
without counting mere jutting rocks or
isolated pinnaeles.
College fraternities have fourteen
representative newspapers, with a COM
oined circulation of $3.50 copies each
issue-Printers' Ink.
In the state OF Navada. which is pop.
ularly supposed to be the poorest in the
country, the tax rate is exceptionally
low, while a large surplus has accum-
ulated in the school fund.
\ restaurant in New York displays
the sign. Oysters Cooked One Hundred
Ways" and a German in Berlin has
written a book in which he describes
$40 ways to cook potatoes.
\ submarine cable between Emden
and Vigo, over eleven hundred miles in
length. is now completed. II is re-
garded as the first installment of a
transatlantic cable between Germany
and North America, via the Azores.
They threw the broad mantle of char
ity over her This is too much" she
faltered. There had been great
changes in the modes since the mantle
Of charity was made, and there was in
deed more of it than was absolutely
necessary Detroit Journal.
Shopkeeper-"What can l show YOU.
sir?'' Absent-minded Professor
want-let me see, what do l want?
Dear me, I can't for the life OF me re-
member what it is. Well well. il
doesn't matter; give me the nearest
thing you have to it."-LOndon Tit
Bits
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07

The treaty between Russia and China
about which there were various ru-
mors and denials six months ago. has
been published, and shows Russia n
have obtained very valuable conces.
sions in return for her friendly Of
nees. She is to be allowed to extend
her great Siberian railroad through
Manchuria to Kirin; to connect Vladi-
Tostok with Port Arthur; TO maintain
as many troops in Manchuria as she
may find necessary to protect her sta
tions; and to fortify Port Arthur and
use 1t in case OF war as a base of onera.
tions. Moreover, Russian officers are
to reorganize the Chinese army. These
concession, elastically interpreted. will
give Russia virtual control of Man.
churia and the Liau-Tong peninsula
and will enormously enhance her DOW
er and prestige in Asia.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DIR. W. l.. EGAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence; Hardy Street. first door
south Of Carter House. ONCE at
Coleman * MasonS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07

Emperor William employs twSSvv
Salets.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
HISTORIC NAMES.
jean racine's Place in French Li;ers.
ture-His style.

Jean Racines Place In French Iitera.
ture-His style.
Educated like Eliachim. 81 the
shadow of the sanctuary" Jean .,acine
(1639-99) stands in French literature
as the most melodious and many sided
wielder of Alexandrine verse the ma
tional twelve-syllabled heroic verse of
France. says the Chautauquan. There
is something feminine, tender, appeal
ing and pathetic in this pupil OF Port
Royal which places him in vivid con-
trast with his passionate and manly
rival, Corneille, as one might con
trast "Euripides the human with his
droppings of warm tears" with the
rugged and gigantic figure of Aeschy-
lus towering like his own Prometheus
to heaven. The great drama. of Ra-
cine-"Phedre," "Andromaque," +" Brit
annicus," etc.-traversed almost the
whole field of antiquity and by their
covert and hattering illusions to the
great king" prepared the way for his
ostentatious reception into the aeade
my. His scrupulous, irrepscachable
style, the splendor and opulence of his
Imagination, the grand forms VI mon
archial courtesy under which his
Greeks and Romans, kings End queens
address each other, the infinite charm
of his idiom, the subtle grace of his
transitions-"that most difficult mas
terwork of poetry" as Boileau called
it-make the tender and melancholy
profile" of this great artist stand out
In captivating relief on the coins and
In the pages of contemporaries.
The one regal incident royalty su-
preme over all others, connected with
the institution in the eighteenth CEN
tury, is what might be criled the
Coronation of Voltaire" (16,4-1d7S).
Francois Marie Arouet-''Voltaire"
was an assumed name, like "Moliere"
and Button been repeatedly re-
tected on presenting himself as a can
didate and going round, as in duty
bound, soliciting the votes of acade-
micians. but in 1746 he gained admit
tance and varied the monotOny of the
eulogies on Richelieu and Louis by
presenting magnificent picture of the
great French writer's and the univer-
salty of the French tongue, leading in
1855 to the abolition of these cut-and-
dried panegyrics and q substitution of
orations on the celebrated figures IN
French history.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
Bullets Detected by Electricity.

AT recent rifle meeting in Switzer-
land it was discovered, according to a
Geneva journals report, that the steel
jacketed bullets of the marksmen
were swerved from their course by the
influence of telegraph and telephone
wires running alongside tn range.
Experiments were then made at Thun
by placing four steel cables parallel
with the range. and about 4. yards
distant from it, and sendi-.- . cur
rent of 5000 volts through them. The
effect, it is said. was to turn the bull
lets so far from their course that the
deviation amounted to "a yards on A
range of go yards The bullets on
being taken from the targets were
found to be .nagnetized. Next. on an
artillery range of 5000 yards. the
electromagnetic influence was gen
Grated 2eo yards in front of the targets
and 40 yards to one side. The pro-
jectiles were swerved II degrees from
straight line.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
PRODUCE MARKET.

The followingprices are paid I'm Ard
more for the farm products named:
Butter, 10 and 15c per 10.
Chickens, SIPS TO sl.5O per doz.
Eggs, I0c per doz.
Sweet potatoes, 65 and 75c per bu.
Irish potatoes, CSC per bu.
Apples, tnorthern) $3.50 per bbl.
Onions, 81 per bu.
Cabbage, &c and Sc per 10.
Hay, 500 to $500 per ton.
Corn, 30 to 35c per bu.
Oats, 25c and &c per bu.
Wheat, so cents per bushel.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
MOSAIC AGE HIGHLY LITERARY
Moses Could Have Written the Israel
ilish Law.

Moses Could Have Written the Israel
Iish Law.
At first the Tel el-Amarna tablets
were declared TO be forgeries and Rem
an gave expression to the critical
skepticism on the subject in his annual
address on oriental discovery. says the
Contemporary Review. Very soon,
however. the most stout-hearted cham
pion of illiteracy of the ancient east
was Obliged to yield, and the critics"
were forced to admit that on this point,
at all events, they had been in the
wrong. But it was with a bad grace
that the admission was made, for it
did not require much penetration to
see that the discovery deprived them
of what | may term their base of op-
erations. Just as VOLTS skepticism in
regard to the age and authorship OF
Homer rested on his belief in the late
date of the use of writing for literary
purposes in Greece, so the really strong
argument of the critics" against the
Mosaic age and authorship OF the pen
tateuch was that neither Moses nor
his contemporaries could read or write.
The Tel el-Amarna tablets have come
to upset this supposed fact and 10 show
that the Mosaic age was a highly liter
airy one. 1t is amusing to watch the
undisguised reluctance with which the
critics" have swallowed the unpal-
atable fact that, after all, Moses could
have written the Israelitish law.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07
Deceptive Appearanoes.

Barber (after the hair cuD-Shave? d?
Brooks-No; | shave myself. Barber
(sarcastically)-Oh. l thought perhaps
you were merely suffering with a skin
disease of some kind.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-03-07

When it comes to printing briefs
the ARDMoREITE is the leader Best
of work on short notice.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-06
OVER FIVE THOUSAND NEEDED.
TO Carry on the Free kindergarten
Work Next Year.

Twenty-one ladies were present At
the regular monthly session of the
Free kindergarten Association in
Queen Emma hall yesterday morning.
Mrs. W. f. Allen presided in the alb
sence of Mrs. c. NJ. Hyde Miss Edith
Eldredge acted in the capacity of sec
rotary.
Mrs. Harriet Coleman reported that
the revenues for the past quarter were
SlQG1. and the disbursements $4,000.
Mrs. f. VI. Swanzy, the treasurer, has
healthy balance on hand.
The members of the Association
have pledged S1d0 for the coming year.
The total yearly pledges now aggre-
gate $500. OF this amount the bust
ness men give 500 and the Japanese
$3.50. Aside from the pledges will
come the contributions.
\ close estimate of the expenses for
the year is $1,000. Last year the dona-
tons to the general fund amounted
to $1,SO0. This does not include the
gift to the Portuguese kindergarten
by Mr.. Athcrton.