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Key memorial should consider the ex-
p%erience of the people who erected a
monument to Calhoun in Charleston.
This monument has been taken down
after twenty years, because II was in
artistic and inappropriate. II the Mary
land committee carries out its present
intention as to the design which It has
a~ccepted-we reproduce a photograph
OF the design-the people Of Maryland
will some day regret that the commit
tee should have been SO ill-advised.
The pedestal Is to be thirteen feet high
and the statute Of Key nine feet. We
need not point out the theatric pose
OF the statue. All who have any feel
ing for art will understand at a glance
what we mean when we express the
opinion that the proposed work ought
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birds In storms.

Among the birds. swallows and rocks.
instead OF flying about. remain home
when a storm is brewing, and robins
hide in bushes or seek the shelter of
chimneys. A bee is never caught in
the rain and ants. wasps and spiders
will be found to prepare their nssts
against the coming OF a storm rauy
hours in advance.
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Father. Trap Gun KIN. sop.

Recently Mr.. Joseph Youth of Orr
VILE. O., who had been troubled by
thieves, placed a rife in the smoke
house. so arranged that should the door
be opened the weapon would be dis
charged. His son. Harry. forgetting
about the rife. opened the door the 9TH
day. receiving the load In his stom-
ach and died In 20 minutes.
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Edna Balm. the twelve-year-old
daughter OF John P. Balm, living near
Kenosha, Wis, who caused wide in
terest from the fact that she had been
asleep since March Is. Is, dead. Up to
the time OF her death she continued her
sleep and could not be aroused.
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The recent dedication of the monu-
mental cairn shown in the accompany
ing picture. on Payne's Hill, at Quin.
cy, Mass. recalls an historic anecdote
of the war of the Revolution. When
the ~colonists were fighting the battle
OF Bunker Hill. Abigail Adams. wife OF
John Adams (who became subsequent
ly the second President Of the United
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A MYSTIC WOMAN.
M~ADEMOIsELLE DE WOLsKA A
TELEPATHiC MEDIUM,
She 10 Visiting this Country In Company
with Emma Calve-wm Build q
Home for Defenscless Little Girls Of
h Breton Coast.

HE intimate friend
and travelling COM
panion Of Emma
Calve on her pres
n professional
tour In this coun-
try is Mademoi-
selle de Wolska, q
Polish lady Of dis
t%inguished attain
ments and individ-
uality, whose por-
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jealous Husband's Double Crime.
Frank Mehan, a resident Of Susque.
hanna, vent to the residence Of his sis.
ter-in-law. Mrs. John Stallock, to see
his wife. who had been living apart
from him. and on whose account he was
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PROPOSED

not to be completed. 1t IL the purpose
Of the committee to place 1t on an els-
walton near the main entrance to Mount
Oiivet cemetery. Frederick. Md.-Les-
lies Weekly.
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A Matchmaking machine produces as
many nails In a given time as were
formerly made by one thousand men.
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GREAT COMPOSER.
THE LATE JOHANNES BRAHMS
HAD FIRST RANK.

A short Sketch of His Life-Born .
German and an Austrian BY Choice
HE best works-Honored In Two
E1pires.
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A DEMON OF THE SEA.
CAPTAIN REED sTARvEs HIS
CREW OF SAILORS.
Startling Stories Told by the Survivors
when the Schooner 4. r. Oakcs
Reached tho Port Of New York
Captain Lived on Chicken.

UFFETED about
by the fierce winds
of the Pacific and
thousands of miles
out OF her course
by the t~yphoons OF
the Chinese seas;
drifting helplessly
W h the idl3
breezes might sen J
her. while her r e
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o II A N N e s
Brahms, who is
generally consider
ed to be the great
est contemporary
composer, was born
at Hamburg on
March z, 1888. He
was the son of a
double bass player
in the city theater.
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jealous. Being denied admission, he
shot Mrs. Stallock In the breast, in
flicting a serious wound. He then shot
himself through the heart. and died in.
stantly.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-05-14

MONUMENT ON PAYNE's HILL
States), watched the soul-stirring scene
from Payne's Hill. which is situated
about ten miles from Charlestown.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
THE KLONDYKE CRAZE.

reached the
auring lost tie
of them sacrificing
Kondyke OF
impossible Tor claim
III h me next sprng
Dawson
country winter
Sides streams WI" be
experienced to deter
reliable estimate of its prospective
value for gold dggngs
outfits OF
which be
people
beneficial than
be
reue
nearly fifty and there still gold to
Alaska anything like rich there need
n fortune
Dawson easily
determined
should while
solitary joining the rush this winter
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
THE ART OF LISTENIN

One of the busiest of the many busy WON en-
with whom am acquainted, says writer in
Harper's Bazaar, is also the most charming
woman with whom TO converse. She is not a
brilliant, perhaps hardly clever talker, but
one loves TO talk with her, After mature and
thoughtful consideration I have come to the
conclusion that her charm lies in the fact that
she is an admira BILE listener. BY her evident
interest in and sympathet tic attention to the
matter OF the conversation, she brings out all
that is best in the one with whom she talks.
Difident people forget their shyness in her
presence, and leave her with the com forta BILE
and novel conviction that they have, after al,
acquitted themselves rather well. Few per-
sons cultivate the art OF being good listeners,
and yet to listen well IS perhaps even more de-
talker is often over.eager to say his say to ut
ter his Witticism, to tell his anecdote. and his
converse ton is often monologue. The good
listener inspires the talker by strict attention
to all he says, and, above ALL by looking at
him while he speaks.
There is nothing more trying than to find
that your putative listener is giving only par
tial heed to your utterances. 1t is strange
that wel-bred person should be guilty of
the Grass rudeness of picking up q book or
magazine and docking through" IL while pre-
tending to pay heed to the talk of a friend.
The assurance, ~ am only looking at the pic.
hear every word you say is no palliaticg OF
the offense The speaker would be justified in
declining 10 continue the conversation until
the pictures have been properly studied. If n
speech is worth hearing l. Is worthy oil re-
spectiul and earnes attention.
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THE "SUNDAY CALL"

girl but those VINO nave ~
lust
a to me-
Ves Al n .h Ids 80 tho
'NO 49,"
utmost
n
be
be ome
most grapi - 800
o
otanda photographs m
will appear tomorrow
t
Timbutoo who had been so
count
denceon ube &c twill be
cannot be shaken
Will come of
o
host of other features
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
ENGLAND'S GOSPEL OAKS"

bennington (Eng.) correspondent writes:
For physical, histor and social attractions
there is no city in England, or elsewhere, for
that matter that can surpass Leaning ton. 1t
is in the very midst OF the "midlands." anu
the geographic center OF England is marked
by mighty oak in one of the streets of the
town. it is Gospel OAK such as You find
all over England standing in the middle of
roads, usually with iron fences around them
to assist in their preservation. An antigua
rian wasteiling me the other day the origin
of iha term. 1t appears that it was custom
AIRY in olden times, as a landmark for the peo-
Pile, and to prevent the tithe-gatherers from
poachng upon each others preserves, to mark
The boundaries between parishes by plan ting
such large trees in the middle OF the principal
highways While the dis,enters were being
prosecuted and were forbidden to hold public
worship, they used TO assemble under these
trees to read the GOSPEL and hear 1t ex-
pounded by their preachers, because, If their
exercises were interrupted by the authorities
of one parish, all they had 10 do was to move
around 10 the other side OF the tree and get
out of their jurisdiction. Hence they became
known as "GoSpel oaks"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
FISH. ING FOR PEARLS.
The Manufacturer.


The value OF the pearls found during 1896
on the coast of the gulf of Lower Californ a
amounted to $350.000. Besides these, 5000
tons OF musscl shells were exported. the
value OF which was estimated at a further
$l,250,0O0. Pearlfshing forms the sole occu.
patton of the natives, and La Paz, the capital
for this trade In the peninsula, is supported
entirely by this industry. Until few years
ago only native divers had been employed.
and the greatest depth to which they could
dive wa thirty-fye feet, Upon the introduce
ton OF the modern diving apparatus depIh
OF $50 feet was accomplis he'd and while Tor
merly the best divers could not remain longer
than two minutes under water a modern diver
thinks nothing of staying for two hours at n
depth OF 100 feet, although at a still greater
depth the stay is necessarily shortened on ae-
count OF the enormous pressure of water from
above.
Pearl-fshing is mostly matter of good
luck, and this is its great charm for the ma
tives. who are almost without execution
natural gamblers. 1t Is known that not every
oyster contains pearl. and a really yaIua bic
one Is only now and then met with Most of
the pearls which are found in the waters of
Lower California are so-called seed pearls of a
very modest value. The divers do moi
limit themselves to the pearl-oysters: when
ever tney come across a rare piece of coral or
a new KIND OF mussel they pocket these also
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
CHANGE OF SCHOOLGIRLS.

There seems to be consider a bic in Justice
to parents in sweeping changes male in
the schoolbooks the children are forced to
use at the beginning of new terms and in
passing into higher grades. 1t is true
that conservatism can be carried 10 such
an extreme rs to bar progress in edu-
catiye methods, but permission to substi-
tute one book for another for some i'm
largely imaginary, opens the way for
grave evils.
The Board of Education perhaps be-
leves that it is doing what is best for the
minds of the rising generation in author
izing the introduction of new studies, and
new ways of teaching old studies, but in
this regard there are two truths which it
is very important TO bear in mind-trst,
that youths cannot be expected 10 learn
everything in their school days; a
thorough grounding in the simpler studies
that form the foundations of scholarship
would fully occupy all the time OF grow
ing children which proper regard for
their strength would permit to devote to
close mental application. Education now
adays must be carried on all through life,
and many studies can be safely left for
the children accordin ing to individual needs
or tastes after they leave scnool. Trying
to cover too broad a field of culture will
but result in that system of examining"
the mind that brings no permanent men,
tai improvement.
The second truth is that, even il the
children's minds could properly digest
the teachings of so many books, the
parents cannot afford to buy them. a
proper rega rd must be paid to the neces-
sity Of multitudes of worthy households
20 practice small economies. 1t would be
needless to discuss the merits OF the par
ticular books. The new ones may be
most excellent. But the two reasons
given would still hold good against any
but the most conservative, carefully con-
sidsred and gradual changes. No extern
sive change should be made in any one
terms compulsory outfit of books, en- a
sincere effort should be made for the re-
tanning of standard works from term TO
term, so that the younger children OF a
family could, as they advanced, use the
books the elder children had passed
beyond.
There is surely golden mean between
the necessities Of progress and the inn
posing of frequent new purchases of books.
Modern advancement in learning is very
rapid, no doub', but not so rapid as to
necessitate such repeated changes and
additions of textbooks as to overburden
parents and enrich booksellers and pub
jeh
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
PERSONAL.

D McRae of Visalia is in town.
Senator j. NJ. Gillette of Eureka arrived here
Yesterday.
John Harpst, mill.owner Of Arcata, is at
the Grand.
W. c. Fulner and wife of Stockton are at the
Cosmopolitan.
H. Van F. Purman, mining man OF Denver,
is al the Palace.
franklin Janus OF Washington, D. c., is a
late arrival here.
II. Wrightman, a merchant OF Fort Bragg, is
registered at the Cosmopolitan.
Frank Bartlett, the contractor and mill.
owner of Livermore is at the Grand.
Charles r. Drake, well-to-do business man
OF Tucson, Ariz., is at the Palace, accompanied
by his wife.
E. Nicholson and family of Jacksboro, Tex,
arrived fter a tour East, and are staying at
the Cosmopolitan.
Lieutenant D. P. Menefee of the United
States navy arrived from the south yesterday.
accompanied by his family.
Eugene F. Bert, who has been in Idaho Mon
tana, Iowa ana other States in the interest of
business, reached Chicago yesterday.
G. w. Conner, one of the old residents of La
Conner, WASH, who is engaged in business
there aud is well known, is on visit to San
Francisco.
J. F. Lang, who has returned from visit to
various counties on the m other lode, says there
is great deal of work going on at the mines
Old mines have been pumped out, and a good
deal oil development work is bling done on
new properties.
party OF Southern California people who
are bound for the Klondyke, arrived here
yesterday and are at the Occidental. Among
them are the following: l. K. Fisher, Chester
Wade and L. J. P, Fox, of Santa barbara, and
Scot @. Lardin and A. D. Bomard Jr,. Of Ven
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is OF particular interest just now IS Ills
effort to establish an agricultural expert
ment station in Alaska. 1t shows pro-
gressive spirit, and he should be backed
up in his purpose with the necessary ap-
propriation. No adequate test has yet
been made of the agricultural capabilities
OF that vast and valuable addition to our
empire, and now that settlers are pouring
into it, Iured by the promise OF the gold
fields, it is most opportune time TO at
tempt its development in other ways be-
sides mining.
For the next half dozen years at least
there will be such a good market Tor
food in that region that the simplest
crops raised on little patches or ground,
will prove profitable. Under the stimu-
lus OF these big prices good start
may be obtained in the knowledge OF how
to farm that country and the EXTREMIST
nolthward limit crop production ascer-
tanned. An experiment station promptly
established would be of great value in this
way. 1t may be that systematic methods
OF reindeer culture might be evolved by
careful study of the subject, which would
wonderfully help to solve the food supply
aud transportation problems OF Alaska.
The opportunity of the present admin
istration to develop the big territory into
valuable province is larse, and the Sec
rotary of Agriculture may, as an impor-
tant member OF the Cabinet, aid mate
rally in making this one OF the proud rec
ords OF McKinley's reign.
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WITH YOUR COFFEE.

Mamma {sevel ely)-Daisy, you have been at
my workoox again! Pm afraid that every
thing tell you goes in at one ear and out of
the other.
Daisy (@tat Swell mamma, why don't you
top one of zem up?- Pick-Me-Tp.
"My wife nearly loses her mind in INNER"
Chow dreadful What is the cause ?"
"When she goes shopping whatever she buys
is always 10 cents cheaper in the next store"
Chicago Record.
"Bertie, you cruel boy, how can you hear
your baby sister cry?"
"Why, that's easy-everybody in the block
can."-Truth.
Darling is an ex perienced yachtsman, isn't
he ?'
al should say SO You ought to see his collec-
ton of champagne corks."-Chicago Journal.
From the beginning of darkness every vehi-
Gle must have a lighte1 lantern. Darkness
begins when the lanterns are lighted.-Flie-
gende Batter.
Grooper-was 1t Joglin's ability that got him
that $4,000 position?
Hoovar-Yes; his ability toget it-Roxbury
Gazette.
Every few days there is something in the
papers about practical joke that ends with a
death"
"Yes; but that isn't the worst of it,
"No?'
Not isn't the joker who dies. Chicago
journal.
men may be democratic, but women cling
to monarchical institutions"
What makes you think so?'
"They never arrange festivity of any kind
without rigging up somebody as king or
queen."-Chicag Record.
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SECRETARY WILSON'S WORK.

Secretary Wilson, who has been con.
Quoting the work OF the Department. of
Agriculture with such commenda bic en-
ergy ever since he was placed at its head,
must feel great glow of pride in being
able to make the splendid report he does
of the advance in that part of the Nations
industry over which he is appointed TO
exercise fostering care. The Manu-
facturers' Record reports him as saying
that the increase of farm products and
cattle during the past year has amounted
to hundreds OF millions of dollars, and
has been roughly estimated at $500, 600, :
0o0. The increase o. the wheat crop alone
is estimated at $75, 100000 to $780, DOC, OOo
and there has been general increase all
along the line.
1t is a great Office to preside as the Ma.
tional guardian over a division of the
country's industries capable of such
enormous i'm provements in one year, and
upon the incumbent OF it is placed a great
responsibility. OF cours. the bulk of this
large increase is due to causes over which
the Agricultural Department has no more
control than over the tides of the ocean,
but it would be difficult to estimate how
large part Of the effect is produced by a
weil-timed suggestion, or piece of accu-
rate and important information promptly
and widely disseminated among the
farmers. The great forces that create crops
and fix prices are not subject to the Sec
retary's control, but he can help the hus-
bandmen to learn how to take advantage
of these forces. and he has shown himself
wise and energetic in performing that duty.
feature of the Secretary's work which
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
GORMAN'S GAME.

The announcement that Senator Cor
man will in all proba bility retire from the
Senatorial contest in Maryland, following
so closely upon the adoption of an evasive
money plank by the Maryland Demo-
Gratis in their recent convention. will
occasion no little public curiosity as to
the tactics Senator German is pur-
suing. The man has for so long a time
teen eminent in American politics that
whatever he does is q matter of consider
able public interest, and at the present
time his course is made more interesting
by reason of the peculiar conditions
which confront him and his party.
Senator German is one OF the most con-
spicuous of that class OF statesmen popu-
larly known as bosses" lie has won
fame as an organizer of party machinery
rather than as leader of men. His name
is associated with no great public policy.
He has never been the cha pion Of any
particular principle of governmental
action. He does not shine as an orator.
His hold upon the Maryland Democracy
and his long possession of seat in the
Senate have been due vi oily to his ability
in managing caucuses, arranging pro-
gram mes ana 80 ulTeC Ing conventions as
to be able TO determine their action.
The announcement that sach man is
to retire from politics is suggestive OF a
trick. 1t seems on the surface to be q
dodge for avoiding his enemies by lead
ing them to believe that he is out of the
fight The inference Of trick in this
case i, strengthened by the report that in
retiring from the Senate Mr.. German
seeks 10 find way to gain for himself
the Democratic Presidentia nomina ton
in 1900.
This portion OF the story is almost in
credible. The Presidential bee by its
buzzing has confused the brain of many
an astute state. nj IN. and 1t is not easy TO
set limits to its power in that direction,
but nevertheless. it is not likely that q
man of Germans political sagacity has
perm tilted himself to be deceived into the
belief that he could ever be elected Presl-
dent or even receive his party nomination
for the Office.
Whatever may be the real intent OF the
! man, it is certain ne is playing at this
time very interesting game in politics.
He has prepared for himself platform
that, like morning mist. can take any
form, according as the winds may blow,
| and it now remains to be seen what he
will do with it.
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MEN AND WOMEN.
Goethe once presented set of his works
Harvard University.


Goethe once presen ted set of his works TO
Harvard University.
The wife of Senator Stewart ayows her inten-
ton of chaperoning q party to the Alask an
gold fields next spring.
The intelligence comes from Vienna that
Verdi is engaged in the cheerful occupation OF
composing his own requiem.
Sir wilfried Laurier the Canadian Premier,
has received the gold medal of the Golden
Club. "in recognition of exceptional and dis
tinguished services in the cause of the progress
OF international free exchange"
The Special Persian Envoy, Nasr ul Mulk,
who came to England to announce the Access
sion OF the new Shah, and who is an Ok
ford graduate, has returned to London pri-
vately, and is visiting in his private capacity
many of his old university friends.
Commander Philip Hichborn, chief con-
structor of the navy, has presented to the city
of Hartford. through Senator Hawley, the
igurehead of Admiral Farraguts flagship, the
Hartford and it Will probably be placed in
some public position in the city.
1t is ported that the bank account OF Will
liam Jennings Bryan shows an average net
gain of over $500 per week during the irst six
months of 1897 from the sale of his book and
speeches-and it was all made from those who
are shouting for The free and unlimited COIN
age of silver.
Three of the most popular women lecturers
those who give peasant drawing-room talks
are Mrs. Sangster, Miss Repplier and Kate Up
son Clarke. These three ladies are all promi-
nent as literary workers. and in their lectures
have great charm of manner ombined with q
very general knowledge of social and political
events of the present
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ONE HONEST DEMOCRAT.
New York Snn.


If innocence of accusation makes a man
great, the greatest man in the United States
is the Hon. S. d. McEnery, junior Senator of
Louisiana, the only Democrat in his part of
Congress 10 vote for the tariff bill. For this
act al the old hum Bugs that have shouted for
tariff for revenue only as the Democratic
principle have denounced Senator McEnery as
traitor to the faith of his party. Yet Senator
McEnery, as a politician, had as clear moral
right 10 vote for the Dingley tariff as any Re-
publican.
The first thing that the Democratic party
did after obtaining Office on the pledge TO
make a revenue-only tariff was to betray their
promise and pass tariff for protection. When
Mr.. McEnery was chosen Senator he said in so
many words to the caucus that nominated
him that he believed in the policy OF protec-
tioa. And when next his party met in ma.
tionsl convention TO make a tariff Plank 1t
threw the reyenue-only principle away. If
the search be for Democrats who have been
honest on the tariff question. the first man
found will be Senator McEnery