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The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
FIREWORKS
shipment and at reg uiar

In wood boxes for shipment and at regular
factory prices.
Children's Assert ment 80 pieces es3,.......u..$lt0
Children's ssor ment. 140 pieces. $500
Special Assortment, $50 pieces S3 90
Exhibition Assortment, larger pieces - %
Other AS, ,or mentS $f oU, Sll0U, SlI oU
Firecrackers by the box soc, S5c
Firecrackers by the box 81, So $2,25, 81 30
To psdoes, 10 packages for................... sc
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
THE LAST NOTE LEFT BY SUICIDE NORTON.

Tell dear father for Louis Loupe ,oo
Ny
gambling.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
HURRAH

fun and froIic you'll want to fit the folks
with things to wear and provide liberaiEy
your visiting friends, who will come in on
in the next ten days In great numbers.
store is the place.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
NEW TO-DAY.
i,
CALL!

NEGLECTED TO GET FLAGS FOR HE
Fourth ehaveth
ompIete upnent 70
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01

Store will be open Saturday t7. Closed all day Monday
Dining 9th floor will Monday
We Shoe nes extra good
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
fatal FLOODS IN RoUmANIl.
Sirty Soldier, ond Many Women an
Children Dro,pued

Chitdren Dro,Cned
GALATZ, RoUMANIA, June 80 loren
tiaI rains have fallen here, causing rivers
to rise, and in some cases to overflow their
banks. Lake Bratisch. near the city, be-
came badly swollen. temporary en-
bankment was built. but to-day the waters
burst out and deluged part OF Galatz.
Sixty soldiers and many women and chill
dren were carried away and drowned.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
BUNTING.

Bunting by the yard or piece, and Paper Deco
rations, or early or late tome.s.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
Muslin Flags on Sticks.
LANTERNS,

Flags sold in any quantity from single one up
o. S. regulation Bunting Flags fram feet to ]S
feet, and even longer q. makers prices
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01

Bryan Comes Taiktm0 All the Wav.
CHEYENNE. WYo,. June 30.-W. J.
The herald., 1897-02-21
That Seems One of the Proba.
biIities in Currency Reform
A VERY LIKELY SUBSTITUTE
Will Be Found in the Elusive Little
Nickel
HedicaI Men Object to the Present Penny Ex-
periments to Find Successor
to Begin Soon

NEW YORK, Feb 17.-It is among the
possibilities of the future that the minor
coins of the United States government
will be cast in nickel and alloy Recent
experiments with aluminium and various
alloys having proved unsuccC ssful, the
attention of the house committee on
coinage has been turned toward finding
some substitute which would answer the
purpose, as it has been decided that it
would be unwise to continue the use of
copper as at present.
1t is not the intention to use pure
nickel of course, for the coins. The
United States five cent piece of to-day
really contains only 25 per cent of nickel
the balance being of copper. This seems
difficult of belief on account of the bright
appearance of the coin, but the fact is
due to the nickel giving more than any
other metal it's own color to an alloy
Only one country in the world uses
nickel for coinage without combining it
with any other metal-Switzerland. 1t
is found in the coming of the metal
The herald., 1897-02-21

town that has Chinese quarter 1t Is al
most unuestionably true that there are
any number of cases of leprosy of which
the authorities know nothing. This sit
uation is a standing menace to the health
of these cities. Yet there seems to be
no way of remedying the difficulty, as
the friends of persons sun ering from
the dread disease will conceal them at
almost any cost to themselves Under
these circumstances 1t seems so strange
and foolish to me for any one who un-
derstands medical science to. form the
opinion that leprosy is not contagious.
Every scientific fact resulting from lep-
rosy investigation goes to prove that
leprosy is contagious How it is posi-
BILE for person to contradict conscien-
tiously a bic scientists who have inVesti-
gated the matter is something which
cannot comprehend"
1t is not claimed that the anti-leprous
serum which DR.. Ashmead proposese to
use in the hospital for lepers, should he
establish one, is a preventive of leprosy.
1t is rather a cure. The serum is clear,
amber colored liquid, and is procured
from horses. The method of inoculat-
ing the animal and the source of the
virus with which the incubation is made
are as follows: A person afflicted with
leprosy is bled at the jugular vein. This
blood is taken and kept for day or two,
herewith BY the time ten or sometimes
twenty days have passed, the entire sys-
tenn of the animal has become inoculated
with the virus taken from the jugular
vein of the victim of leprosy. Then the
horse is in proper condition, and the anti
leprous serum may be obtained from it
in the usual manner.
1t has been stated always, ever since
science has established a record of the
disease, that leprosy could only thrive
and be cultivated in the human system.
This statement is again proved by the
incubation of the horse. To inoculate
an animal with the virus of the disease
taken from man, produces no i'll effect.
For some reason the system of the lower
brute creation is absolutely impregnabie
to the effect of the deadly poison which
fills the veins of man and slowly sapS
away his life by the most dreadful dis
ease of which any one knows
The manner of injection of the serum
is the same as that adopted and prac-
The herald., 1897-02-21
Hospitals to Be Established in
the United States
AN ABSOLUTE CURE FOUND
The CarrasquiIIa Serum Now Being Ex
perimented With by Scientists
Upon the Results Of These Trials Depends
Future Action-Dr. Ashmead
Tells the Facts

DR.. Albert A. Ashmead, who has made
leprosy almost life study, is consider
ing the project of establishing in New
York city hospital for lepers The pa
tients of such hospital would be treated
with what is known as the Carrasquilla
serum This serum was discovered by a
famous medical scientist of Bogota,
whose name has been given to the rem
sdy for the most dreadful of diseases.
Specimens of the serum have been sent
TO DIR. Armauer Hansen, Bergen, Nor
way; DR.. Peterson, in charge of the leper
colony at Moloki, in the Sandwich
Islands.
There is at present raging, particular
ly In New York city, a somewhat acri
monious warfare between medical men
as to whether the disease of leprosy is or
Is not contagious. 1t is held by ma
jority of the members of the board of
health of New York city that leprosy is
non-contagious, and not even infectious.
There are at present three inmates of
the New York Leper hospital on North
The herald., 1897-02-21
HUMOR OF THE HOUR

Vinnie-Minnie will never marry until
she meets her ideal? VinNie-A man
who will propose.-Glasgow Times.
The day before yesterday" announces
an Irish paper "Mr. O'Flynn 1ell from
his horse and broke his neck. but sus-
tanned no other injury Bits.
Never Touched Him.-Bostonian-
"Why is it that you Chicagoans always
say, How is things?'" Chicagoan.-
Because we want to know, that's why!"
Puck.
rs this wine of the famous 1865 vim
tage?" ALAS, no! Ii is of the year
1854" That's easily remedied. Why
not keep it year onger?'-FIiegende
Blaetter.
That is very nice. Mabel, but it strikes
me I've heard it before" It's Van Orig
gor's latest" "Oh, that accounts for it,
Most people have heard Van Griggor's
new things before. ."-Harper's Bazaar.
AS to Sleeves-She had been looking
at herself in the glass. Il suppose I'll
get used to it," she said, but after what
we've been through in the last few years
these tight sleeves actually make me feel
immodest. t."-London Figaro.
Dora (sweetly)-"Fred didn't blow his
brains out because you Tilted him the
other night; he came right over and pro-
posed to me-" Maud (super-sw eetly)--
his brains some other way."-Tit-Bits.
A party of trippers from Omaha, visit
ing Blackpool on a windy day, were anx-
ious to hire boat. The boatman, how
ever, intimated that they could not have
one because there was a swell on the Wa
ter. Swell be hanged" cried the irate
tripper. Isn't our brass as good as
his?"-Household Words.
Mr.. Hardacre-"Neaw, Looata here,
Mister man, don't believe you air sellin'
this suit to me at less than cost. You
don't do business fer fun" Mr.. Stick
emheimer-"Vat you say? Don't do
peeziness fer fun, amt I? Wy mein
frendt, if I gan sell dot suit to you fer ten
tollars 1 will haf so much fun dot will
laugh fer joy fer a veek!"-Puck.
Unpardonable-"No," said the mature
but attractive woman, with emphasis,
they are no longer in our set!" What
can have happened?" 1T was "a
financial discrepancy" "As bad as
that?" yes. We have learned that
they reported the cost of their latest
social diversion to be several hundred
thousand dollars in excess of what it
really was. s."-Washington Star.
A lady cyclist in knickerbockers was
riding in the neighborhood of Wareham.
She lost her way, and, seeing country
man in front, rode up to him, alighted,
and said: Can you tell me if this is the
right way to Wareham?" The man
looked her up and down with great at
tention, and then slowly replied: Yes,
miss-yes; you seem to have got 'em on
all right. Tit Bits.
An Irish priest relates the following
story: He says he was called in great
haste to administer the last rites of the
church to a dying Irish sinner in Lon
don. II have but one request to make,
father" feebly gasped the poor peni-
tent What is it, my SOM" anxiously
inquired the priest. 1T is that when I
am dead father, you will put me to rest
in the Jewish cemetery" And what
for?" asked the surprised soggarth.
Because, your riverence," moaned the
dying man, 'it Is the last place on earth
that the divil would look for an Irish
man."
The herald., 1897-02-21

there that the operation is very slow and
expensive. This, therefore, puts an end,
according to the belief of the coinage
committee, to the project of coming any
United States money out Of the metal
without alloy.
C. w. Stone, chairman of the house
coinage committee, said when ques-
toned regarding the subject, that he
had received information that the ex
perience of Austro- H hungary and Switz-
erland, as far as pure metal was con-
cerned, was of such a nature that the
coinage without alloy would only be car
ried on to a limited extent. That nickel
however will form a large component
part of non-slver United States coins
of the future, seems beyond question.
To be sure, the experiments with alum
mum were not satisfactory, but it is not
altogether certain that aluminium may
not yet be found useful when combined
with nickel. The metal has never yet
found a place in the currency of any ma
ton although there has been any amount
of talk concerning it. and the expert
ments in the Philadelphia mint were
watched with the keenest interest by the
representatives of foreign nations In
this country. 1t was held by those who
caused the experiments to- be made that
the very light weight of the metal would
give the cents made a decided advan-
per.
OF all the alloys to be obtained from
copper, tin, nickel, and aluminium in
different combina tions not more than
fifteen or twenty were found entirely
satisfactory. 1t is barely possible that
one of two of these alloys may be ad-
vantageously utilized in general COIN
age. With the aluminium, however,
great difficulty was found, during the
experiments, because it was hard to an
neal. When heated, it would suddenly
run like butter, instead of becoming
plastic. There was trouble in rolling it
into the long strips from which the disks
were cut out preparatory to stamping.
Like the nickel, it was found that it
could not be worked with sufficient ease
and rapidity to make it practicable for
coming on a large scale.
The mint experiments include combi-
nations of nickel, copper and zinc, form
ing the alloys known under the head of
German silver, copper and tin, which
produce bronze; aluminium and copper
which make aluminium bronze. German
silver has been used for coins by one of
the small South American states, and
proved fairly we'll adapted to the pur-
pose. This was what led our own gov
ernment to experiment with German
silver. 1t has been for centuries the
ustom in various countries of Europe
to use bronze for small coins. In the
series of experiments which has been
carried out, bronze was utilized, and it
is possible that in the experiments
which are likely to be tried before many
weeks, it will be given another test
1t is safe to say, however, judging from
past experience, that aluminium bronze.
in arv form. will he found evcee1ir e'v
The herald., 1897-02-21

ticed at the Pasteur institute. In fact,
it is known as the Pasteur treatment.
About five cubic centimetres of the
serum are administered at a single dose.
one dose every twentyfour hours being
considered sufficient. The effect of the
administration of the serum is, Prof.
Carrasquilla says, very gradual The
professor has made, he declares, nuner-
Gus experiments in Bogota, which have
proved entirely successful. From these
he has been able to observe the exact
progress made under the influence of
the serum. The first change noticed is
that the patients skin begins to lose
that ghastly, chalky appearance so
characteristic of the disease.
This gradually changes more and
more, and then the wrinkles in the skin
begin slowly to fade away, and finally
the appearance of the patient becomes
the same as it was before the disease
made its appearance.
There will be no experiments made
with the serum in the United States un-
til after it has been tried by the scien-
lists of Norway and Russia When the
results of those trials are made known,
DR.. Ashmead proposes to utilize the
benefit gained by this experience in be-
half of the lepers of the United States.
The herald., 1897-02-21

difficult to work. The complexion of the
coin formed of such combination Is not
one which lends itself to the approval of
the ordinary coin expert. 1t has yell
low, brassy appearance, which resem-
bles gold, and this, of course, is highly
Objectionable, and something to be
avoided in all coins of small denomina-
ton.
1t is a fact not generally known that
for long time past careful study has
been made by government experts of the
coins of various nations of Europe to
see if in any way the small coins of the
United States government might be
improved. No little carping criticism
of these coins has been heard. There
are all sorts of charges made regarding
them One in particular is in reference
to the copper cent, which certain medi-
cal experts claim is frequently the cause
of spreading contagious diseases. The
custom of many persons of placing coins
in their mouths is far more widespread
than would at first be believed. Inves-
tigation shows that at least 20 per cent
chat is the minmum-of the coins of the
lower grade in daily use, are frequently
held in the mouths of their owners.
This statement is not conjecture, but the
result of investigation as careful and
painstaking as it is possible for such in
vestigation to be.
The medical experts hold that the
coins of copper offer an uneXcelled ave-
nue. over which the disease, whatever 1t
may be, of a conta gious sort, may move
from one person to another. The bare
contact of coin of copper with the hand of
a person suffering from a contagious dis
ease, in the first stages thereof, would
hardly be sufficient to infect the coin.
If that same coin, however, was placed
in the mouth of one whom disease had
stricken, then, it is held, the germs of
contagion would find Judgement, and
thus be carried to fresh victims. This
is one of the causes Of the quiet but de-
termined effort to legislate the copper
cent out of existence as much as possible,
and to substitute for it a combinat ton
that will be germ proof.
Therefore it is an absolute certainty
that within a comparatively short time
the experiments will be continued, and
it is likely will not cease until somethin e
is found that Uncle Sam can coin as
cheaply and which will last as long as
the copper cent. 1t is somewhat curious
The herald., 1897-02-21
EXAMINED BY THE CENSORS
All Books and Newspapers Published in Rus.
sia Pass a RigiL Scrutiny

Geroge Brandes of Copenha gen, who
has passed several winters in Warsaw.
has been writing an account of his ex-
perences with the Russian censors. At
ter suffering considerable annoyance
at their hands, he went to their office to
see what they were like. He says
LAS l entered l saw in the mailroom
an enormous quantity of newspapers
and books in postal wrappers, some
spread out and some heaped in great
piles. That was the days mail. Every
newspaper that is received is ta..en from
it's wrapper and examined. Whatever
displeases the censors is blackened Ev-
cry book is opened and looked through
There is consequently no calcula BILE date
for the arrival of this class of mail.
Sometimes you get five or six newspapers
in a day and sometimes you do not
get a single newspaper in five or six
days. In q separate room sit those CEN
sors who handle the local newspapers.
In consequence of the censorship nearly
all are evening newspapers. In conse-
quence of the censorship also they are
not able to catch the afternoon foreign
mails, but must wait until the next day.
They are poor. The number of subscrib-
ers to one of them is seldom more than
1900
"A newspaper man is usually obliged
to write articles on the same subject
Tor several OF them every day to make a
living At II am. all the proofs are
sent from the newspaper office to the
censors, who cut and slash accoMing
to mood or prejudice, influenced largely
by personal animosity toward the writ
ers, by the number of favors to be ex-
pected from the editors and by the
amount of the bribes already given. AL
most all articles in which anything of
importance Is said are written therefore
in, n 1fx s,l,s An
reading. The language is abstract, in
definite and ambiguous. The reading
public, however, has been educated to
read between the lines. At o'clock the
proofs are sent back to the editors.
What has been marked out must III re-
The herald., 1897-02-21
LOVE AWhEEL
Some four score years or more ago.

Some four score years or more ago,
In Puritanic age,
Priscillas greatest treasure was
Her wheel, then all the rage.
And many spin on it she took,
And truth. too, many reel
The while she looked so dainty, many
Heart she needs must steal.
Small wonder John came counting, and
with
Love quite lost his head,
So swiftly did the noiseless wheel
Obey her steady tread.
While every revolution took him
Farther on the way;
All, maids were sweet and love was fleet,
Fen though austere the day.
And yet, methinks, times have not changed
So greatly, after all;
AS tribute, just as many hearts,
To our own maiden fall.
When on the highway spinning in her
Tam and cutaway,
Dan Cupid on her shoulder rides,
With arrows keen to slay.
His little belt is hung with hearts,
Gay cyclerS, have a care;
Lest "scorching" past rowing dart
Should catch you unaware.
What though one held the spindle; one
The handle bar clasped tight;
Aye were maids the same sweet pattern,
Love but love through times despite.
Minnie Mcintyre in Kings and Queens of
the Range.
The herald., 1897-02-21
DREDGING IRON FROM THE DEEP
Famous Mine In Quebec Beneath the Waters
of Luc La Tortue

OF Luc La orfue
Lake ores are abundant in northern
Europe, but so far as the writer's knowl
edge extends Luc a la Tortue and a
neighboring lake are the only instances
of the kind in North America. The ore
is extracted from our lake mine by hand
and by power. The shallow margin is
divided into sections and allotted to
suitable parties who may desire to work
them and who are paid at specified rate
per ton of ore raised. The men gener-
ally work in a company. Their imple-
ments are a shovel, a strong circular
sieve and rough handbarrow. When
work is to be begun the workmen re-
move shoes and stockings and use their
feet in searching for ore, which lies
imbedded in the soft sand, nothing
coarser than sand. except ore cakes, be-
ing found in the lake. Guided by their
feet, the workmen put down their SHOW
els and bring to the surface quantity
of ore and sand, which they throw into
their circular sieve. This is then held
below the surface of the water and made
to rotate to and fro until the soft sand
is washed away from the ore, which is
then thrown on a scow provided for the
purpose or carried to shore. When
sufficient quantity has been collected, 1t
is carted to the railway near at hand and
loaded on cars. From the deeper part
of the lake the ore is raised by means of
a steam dredge. The captain of the
dredge moves over the lake and, putting
down pole and working it about on the
bottom, can easily learn where there is
body of ore suitable for dredging. The
dredge is then moved to the desired spot
and work is begun. The ore and sand
are brought up in buckets on an endless
chain and thrown into a long, revolv-
ing screen, adjusted and inclined so as
to deliver it upon scows moored to the
dredge. In it's course down the screen
the mixture of ore and mud is acted upon
by the water which is thrown upon it
with considerable force. By this means
the mud and sand are washed out of the
screen and the clean ore is deposited on
the scows.-Popular Science Monthly.
The herald., 1897-02-21

placed with reserve articles held in type
for such emergencies. The censors do
not object to foreign works on natural
sciences, but they almost invariably
exclude or expurgate histories The
word free" is forbidden. Last winter
a Warsaw newspaper published a receipt
for soup which was to be cooked over
a free burning fire. The free was cut
out as dangerous to the existing order,
and "a burning fire. appeared in all it's
Pathological loneliness. New York
Commercial Advertiser
The herald., 1897-02-21
As Others See Us

The growth of giant corporations in
the United States, of vast and farreach-
ing trusts and combinations, is trans
forming the business of the country into
an industrial feudalism, very similar to
the military feuda.ism of Europe in the
middle ages. One sees in the great re-
public industrial barons and their
armies of paid retainers, corresponding
to the men-at-arms of the ancient nobil
ity of Europe. 1t is becoming almost
impossible in the United States for any
man not connected with monopolies to
do an independent business. Competi
tion is crushed out and the small manu-
facturer and trader are being driven to
the wall.
Young Americans of energy and in
telligence without a pull" and unre-
lated to the managers of the vast indus
trial combinations, are finding remuner-
ative employment more and more diff
cult to obtain, and, despite the fact that
the great west is lying but a tenth part
developed, are looking towards this
country and other foreign lands. This
is a plain statements of facts witch pri-
vate letters received here by business
mon, and the testimony Of able and rep
resentative men of affairs, confirm
Mexican Herald.
The herald., 1897-02-21

to trace the history of the copper cent,
and to note it's decadence in point Of size.
1t is not unlike the evolution Of man
from the giant Of prehistoric days to the
specimen of the present. Unlike man,
however, the copper cent seems likely to
be evoluted into infinity.
The herald., 1897-02-21
WHAT It Is


Just little sunshine,
Just a little rain,
Just freezing atmosphere,
Then it's warm again.
Just a little hacking cough,
With us for day;
Just bronchitis, tonsilitis,
Or pneumonia.
Just little maiden,
just word or two.
Just a case of married life
That's the thing to do.
Just a score of hungry mouths,
Open night and day;
Just hustle, brain and muscle,
Countless bills to pay.
Just few friends here and there,
AS things ebb ana flow,
Just little lingering,
AS we see them GO
Just little laughter,
Just a little song;
Just a tired feeling,
Lasting all day long.
Just little sunshine,
Just a little rain,
Just a sojourn here awhile,
SThen we're off again.
Tom Mason In Life.
The herald., 1897-02-21

The various reaper manufacturers of
the country made timely and effective
protest against placing the portrait of
Cyrus H. Mccormick on proposed new
issue Of treasury notes. The idea
smacked too closely Of an advertise
ment of one brand of reapers. The
government isn't in the advertising
business.
The herald., 1897-02-21

Galveston will soon find that 1t is not
the only pebble on the beach Port Ar
thur is destined to cut into its export
trade cIoea1v