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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
SLOUGH OF DE7PoND FOR ONE.

Washington Post
Mr.. Booze declines 10 join Mr.. Mudd in his
tight on Mr.. Wellington. With Mudd and
Booze on opposite sides the contest will be
sure 10 he exciting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

THE SWEDISH CHURCH.. B. N, City. The
commandment asked about IS in the Swedish
Evangelist Lutheran church. the same as 1t Is
IN other Evangelical Lutheran churches.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

The TIvoLI-Subsc riber, City. In 1875 Kre-
at the corner of stockton and Suffer stree Is.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

THE UNIyERsITY-D. A.. City. The course at
the university is four years in each study ex-
cept in agriculture, in which there is spe.
cial course OF two years.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

LAUGH-A D. City The poem commencing
s'Laugh and the world laughs with you" is to
be found il the "Poems of Passion" by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
IMPARTIAL EQUALIZATION.

suggestion of The CALL that equalization
abolished and the of the Board Equalization
elected by State large The approval moreover
come well fitted pronounce gment
jec The Governor the Mayor Congressman Mcguire
Cook District Attorney Fooe
officials well citizens of eminencs in public affairs
nding the proposal warmly
ing its adoption.
argum for the proposed change simple per-
fecy plain The officials charged duty
equazng throughout the State should subject
no influence whatever They
equal regard of every State
therefore should be elected they intended be
of particular districts Their constituency
wide their jurisdiction and they
the assessments OF all counties alike they should be
responsible to the voters of ALL
We impartial the
by equalization districts. The Equalizer
from certain district fail feel that
any is the representative of district
State He will inclined guard the his
constituents in doing he has sacrifice the interests
Others 1t law of human that mpes him to look
for his cay first and long as he responsible
the district and the State he will continue
To desired change will require
amendment and the Governor has announced through The
CALL he recommendation
next session of the legislature important therefore, that
campaign of education carried through
the State in order that understand the object
extent OF the proposed amendment
The issue which affects equally all portions of the
commonwealth The proposed change will be in the inter
est OF district than of Others 1t is TO the
welfare of all by providing that member OF the Board
Equalization shall represent all the people instead of those of
particular district only This should be made and
contemporaries of the interior unite
with US in advocating the reform
President Barrios Guatemala
in the executive chair.
Irving Terry having quares
No philosopher has arisen explain why railroad
accident invariably followed by others OF similar
until the calamies form group of three
The idea that the word OF returned miners after
Kondke be depended being disspated
back openly avowng that they
.
If railroad passes paid in negative friendship
vague commodity upon which eminent an
authority W. H. Mills the Southern Pacific places high
William Jennings Bryan evidently arge
quantity of this brand of friendship.
An Alameda County contractor returned home
after absence of several days stating that
has been blank, comfortably, pressionaby blank
building the Hall of Justice could find
of similar frame of a peace the cruel world
would deny them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

1t is said Secretary Ayers illness may delay
cision concerning Pedro Perhaps this reversal
effect. way which dallied with
decision is enough to ma Ike almost any sick.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

EPILEPTIC FITs-F. H. c., City. Children
suffering from epileptic fits are taken in and
cared for at the Home for the Care of Feeble
minded located at Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County. That is al institution supported by
The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
CALIFORNIA glace fruits. SOC To- rownssnr.'

SPECIAL fnforma ton daily TO manufacturers.
business houses and pubic men by the trest
Chipping Bureau (Allen's, $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

The LONGEST REACH-H. P, City. Walcott,
the fig hter, has longer reach than Green.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

The ootpad to have developed liking plying
his calling vicinity of Mission and New Montgomery
Nor only disadvantage that
section abors There also published there of the
blazngy yellow of yellow journals.
Perhaps Playwright Belasco and Play wright Gassaway
could divide the responsibility for THE Heart
Maryland there would number play.
wrghts clamoring for share
Men who back Klondlke with hundred
dollars ought to refrain from mysterious reence by which
they indicate to the creduous hundreds
sands.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

Naturally the who started into the KIondke
panied by babes arrived the journey
numbered and two little graves marked the trail.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
THE EDS TIDE.
Chicayo Inter Ocean.


1t looks little like reform. An Ohio woman
offers to trade "a '97 bicycle for frst-class
baby carriage"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

New York going to have Chinese play. OF that
superior town, allegation takes ioy but it Is
not alb coming to San Francisco for ideas.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

An Alameda County contractor has returned home
after absence of several days stating that
been blank comfortably, pressiona bly, blank
Perhaps the genmanly but somewhat lesurey
building the Hall of Justice in the Gull
similar frame of peace cruel world
would deny them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

SEVEN up B., Tracy, Cal. This CORE
spondent writes: -Four persons are playing
seven up A and b are partners aud So are
ana D. 4 and B have six points, c and d have
fv points. 1t is AS deal ana STANDS ms
and and plays without trump. Is that the
proper way to play the game?' The answer t.
Thai is that c has right TO so play, for in
doing so he trusts his partner helping nj m out
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

WORD WANTED-S. s, City. This CORE
spondent writes. al want the missing word in
the following sentence The sentence IS by
standard author and should like to know his
name: We have no: enough and are put
TO very awkward shifts for want OF some
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

If railroad passes be paid for in negative friendship
that vague commodity upon which an
authority W. H. Mills of the Southern Pacific places high
William Jennings Bryan evidently ke lage
quantity of this brand of friendship.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
ANSWER 10 CORRESPONDENT.

ALCOHOL H., City. There is no such thing
as $50 per cent alcohol
ATTRACTS GoLD-J B., City. Mercury is
metal that attracts gold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

No philosopher has arisen explain why railroa
invariably followed by others OF similar
until the calamilies form group of three.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

Colorado gentleman of seething tenn wants
fight duel with the Attorney General of that State The
General having of the challenger
will op off his in the interests of fair play
which let proceed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

GRAPE SEEDs-X. Y. ", Oakland, Cal. A
person who eats grapes should, as matter o:
prudence not swallow the seeds. In num-
Der of cases grape seeds have found their way
into tne vermiform appendix and produced
appen iicHis. If person fears that grape
that sucn a person can do is not 10 eat grapes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

idea that the word of miners
Kondike be depended is being disspated.
era back openly avowing that they
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

Irving and Terry having another of those ouarrels tn
they ought be able pay regular advertising
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

SULLIyAN-RYAN-W. H. H., City. John L.
Sullivan and Paddy Ryan fought with bare
knuck!es for $4,000 and the champion ship. In
a ring pitched in front OF Barnes Hotel, Mis-
sissippi City, Miss, on the 7th OF February,
1882 Nine rounds were fought and Sullivan
wOn tho FIGHT
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

EXCURSION TO IRELAND-Q., Oakland. The ex-
curston to which you refer in your communi-
cation is one planned for 1898 from various
parts of the world to Ireland in eommemora-
Iion of the one hundred tn anniversary OF the
organization OF the Young Patriots OF Ireland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

While be admitted the Georgia murderer who
OF the Coroners jury at the inquest his victim
peculiar advantages arriving
sion it is learned that he made u>e of them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

President Barrios OF Guatemala have found
in the executive chair.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

The agitator-Why were you not at the meet
ing of the unemployed to-day?
The worker-Too busy.-Cinc1nnati CONNER
cialTribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

The people sent the Anderson knowing the
be unworthy of sailors confidence have had
narrow escape from being guilty of wholesale murder
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

ave let our typewriter girl CO."
"What was the trouble?"
"Why, she didn't take enough interest in the
business to pry into our private letters. Chi
capo Record
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

'Shlt d { IdSI
The electricity working up to-date : 1897
model bui glar smiled and sighed big sigh OF
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07
Not q Chump.


I was sitting in the sanctum of a
Kansas country daily talking to the
editor when a brawny 6 footer came
in and interrupted us in a rather
belligerent manner.
"See herei" he cried, addressing
the editor. You've put something
in the paper about me that's got to
be corrected. You hear2'
We heard. Any one within a quar-
ter of a mile couldn't have done
otherwise.
Whats the m~atter7" meekly
asked the editor.
well, you said in your paper
that Jake Billings fell from a rail
road train while slightly i%ntoxicat-
ed That's a lie. amt such a chump
as that. / was bilin drunk--rip roar
in drunken | wouldn't have done
it. UNDERESTIMATE Fix it up. I'm no
chump!'-Chicago Times-H Herald.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

The Sorbonne is by no means satisfied
with simply allowing its students to
listen to courses of lectures. 1t therefore
provides on a large scale a system of
conferences or cours fermes, which arc
designed to drill the student in special
problems and questions, as we'll as for
explaining and developing in detail
those subjects which the professor can
not fully dwell upon in his regular
course. Tho instruction here is given
mostly by assistant professors, but it
must not be inferred from this title that
they are tyros in science. In the depart
ment of mathematics the teachers at
the Sorbonne include men who, in addi-
ton to holding a very high rank among
the mathematicians Of the world, have
displayed that force and elegance in
treating their subject which has long
been a feature Of French science and
who have prepared textbooks unequaled
for clearness and precision.
Heretofore admission to these courses
has been mostly confined to holders Of
the French baccalaureat, but there IL
no regulation absolutely requiring this
qualification. If any American student
who has taken hin bachelors degree
wishes to enroll himself at the Serbonne
MS q student, he will experience no diff
ficulty except that arising from the in
creasing numbers who flock thither for
instruction. At a conference at which
the writer was present the number at
tending was so great that any individ-
ual must have felt himself somewhat
at o disadvantage. Professor Simon
Newcomb in Forum.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

The following instance Of longevity
in a bird may be of interest to your
readers: Ny cousin, Mrs. c., had a
siskin given to her in 1881. 1t had been
bought at O dealers in 1879. In the
autumn Of 1884 it escaped out Of the
window while flying about Mrs. CT
dressing room, Us it had been in the
habit Of doing every morning. Every
effort was made to get it back. but 1t
could not be found. Mrs. @. went away
for the winter and did not return until
the following spring. Her gardener then
told her that during the winter a siskin
had squeezed itself into a cage of his
which was hanging outside his cottage.
The siskin was cent mp to Mrs. G. and
evinced the greatest delight at seeing
his mistress. In fact, there is no doubt
that it was her bird. From that day
until its death in September. 1896, it
could never be induced to leave its cage.
though the door was often left open on
purpose. London Spectator.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07
John Browns Ancestor.

It seems that John Brown of Ossa-
watomie had n narrow escape of not be-
ing born, fer Winslow tells how his
Mayfower ancestor, Peter Browne. the
carpenter, with John Goodman, wan
dered of in the Plymouth woods one
day In January, 1891. and lost their
way chasing a deer and were out all
night. hearing the lions roar and al
most freezing their feet. Finally, "it
pleased God, from a high hill they dis
covered" Saquish and Clark's island in
the bay. and so gotfback to the "rande.
vous," as Winslow terms the fort on
Burial hill. faint with travel and
want Of victuals and almost famished
with cold" Had they never come in
Kansas might be a slave state, but
it was otherwise ordered. -Boston Let
ter to Springfield Mass Republican.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

" frlcypRE& uIs9 THIS
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

NJ oticial viewing ard hofos done
VII thg be.t q = iistsction.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

A novel device for generating
electricity consists OF ahollow cane
in which a long, slim battery is
placed, the induction coil being
placed close to the handle and sur
rounded by two removable bands at
tached by wires to the coils for use
as poles in giving electric treatment.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

in Britain, of coarse, members CT
parliament receive 10 salary, but IN
Now Zealand. they recaico anG1llly
$500; japan, $500; South Anstralil,
LOCO; Victoria, 81, 800; France, 81
800; Queensland. 50, 0oo; Canada, s2.-
600; Brazil, 81, 900; Mexico, 50, 000;
United States, $4,000
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

An umbrella dealer cautions against
the double use for sun and rain Of a
rain umbrella. Silk wears, he says, as
long as its oil lasts, then it splits and
cracks and is gone. The sun dries out
the oil, hence its harm. A folding UNI
brella is to be found at some OF rhe
shops which will pack in an ordinary
II inch satchel. New York Post.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

Net lcns AGO Il lady in Japan, during
q slight illness, had As p!Iysie.alt n
Attendance.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-08-07

Jimmy--Father, what have yez the
bell in bed wild yez fur?
Mr.. Conne1s--Don't be afther askin
me sooch a foolish question, Jamesy.
Don't yez pfather want to waken him
self at foor o'clock in the marnin?-Up
to Date.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-17
The Poet of Methodism.

Charles, and not John, Wesley IS
said to have been the first upon whom
the "%opprobrium' Of being a "Metho-
dist" was cast. He was the first to
celebrate the sacraments apart from
the church, the first to hold service
in regular church hours. Charles is
best known as 1.-THE Poet of Metho-
dism.' Nearly 5000 of his hymns
were printed, and it is estimated that
at least one-half as many more re-
NAMED in manuscript. He was a
thorough scholar. He seems to have
read the classics in the original ms
other people read them in English. No
one can doubt his sense of humor, for
there is a story that he used to repeat
Virgil's lines rapidly in Latin when
he suddenly became angry, lest he
should say too much and say it too
intensely. Charles was a singular
of the progressionist and the
tive. 1t would appear that he opposed
in turn almost every one of his broth
er's wide projects and was Il great
sticker for eclesiasticism. On the 9TH
er hand, he endured much for Metho-
dism, being mobbed, arrested and in-
dicted as "a vagabond," and even rs O
traitor.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-17
DECEMBER WHEAT ST. 90.
This Is the Highest Notch Touched
Since the 1901 Corner.

Amid the widest excitement seen ON
the Chicago Board of Trade within the
memory Of the Oldest trader December
wheat sold for $1.O0 Thursday. This is
the highest mark which the cereal has
reached since the historic combine of 1891.
During the four hours of session Il rise
of ~ cents over the opening price was
recorded. The Chicago price was IL tents
over Minneapolis and Duluth, lO cents
over New York and cents over st.
Louis.
AT this price the wheat Of an eighty
acre Kansas farm, land value $50 per
acre, was worth more than the land itself.
the farm equipment and the house and
barn. Not IL farmer in Minnesota or the
Dakotas with 2,4O0 bushels of wheat, the
product of eighty acres last harvest. but
what could have sold his grain in Chicago
Thursday for more than his land would
bring, and have a few hundred dollars to
the good.
If the pace of the first few minutes had
been maintained during the rest of the
session it is probable that kernels of wheat
would have sold as high us diamonds at
the close. The cereal shot up to S1.ooH
ut n bound and the holders of big wheat
contracts could have disposed of them
at this stage without any trouble. When
Sl.O5 was bid for December wheat some
of the bulls thought the temperature was
getting rather high and dumped IL lot of
their claims. This action had the effect
of easing the market and checking tempo-
rari!y the efforts of the more aggressive.
Ten minutes of comparative quiet reign
ed in the stormy session, and then the
bulls by n coup started the figures their
own way again. So complete was the
surprise that many of the dealers declar-
ed that they expected to see the price sail
up to Sl.oO before the end of the session.
AT S1.O6 the explosion of IL Krupp gun
could not have been heard above the pan
dclnonium. The bulls forced the cereal
by fractions of IL cent up to S1.O7. Here
their foemen made Il temporary rally and
brought another elevator full of grain
into their midst. \ half hour of deadlock
resulted. but the dealers with the horns.
metapliorically speaking, concentrated
their forces m Il weak point in the other
ranks and shot the price to $1.09, the high
water mark Of the day md of six years.
Then succeeded the usual slump as the
time for the clang of the gong approached
and December closed at $1.O7.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-17
,ou.e. Of the NATIONAL legislature. n

houses Of the national legislature. The
Presidents message, read between the
lines, does not indicate that he has aban.
doned Cuba, but rather that he hopes in
the future to achieve the practical indie.
pendence of that island should Spain's
present efforts to restore peace prove
fruitless, and by methods which will be
the fruits of natural causes, and which
will not necessarily bring on war between
the United States and Spain.
Other topics which will be sure to cause
much talk throughout the world, and
some Of which may be the subject Of ac-
tual legislation, are revision OF the immi-
grafton laws, bankruptcy, pooling by rail-
ways, rehabilitation of the interstate com
MERGE commission, prevention of scalping
Of railway tickets, the Central Pacific
Railways debt to the Government and
the of the Government under
the Dingley law.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-17

among the 1000 people who are now
camped in Skaguay Pass. Not Eve per
cent of them will get over and the others
are coming back. l found men only
twenty miles away from the town. and it
had taken them forty days to get that far.
Horses get down i'll. the SHOW and mire
and hundreds of animals have their legs
broken and must be shot. The bottoms
of the canyons are covered with the car
casses of dead animals that have been
rolled over the cliffs. There will be much
suffering and starving this winter among
the people camping in Skaguay Pass. 1
saw one poor man, who had mortgaged
his home in Seattle for $500. gave his
wife and children $3.50 to keep them this
winter, and spent $500 for his outfit. He
could not get across the fake pass and
returned to the town of Skaguay to sell
his outfit. The eight or ten outtitters of
that town all stand together. and he could
get no more than $40 for his outfit. The