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The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
.srr.. win.low,. Soothing Syrup

Has been used over fifty years by millions OF
mothers for their children while Teething with per-
feet 1t soothes the child softens the gu ms
allays Pain. cures Wind Collie regulates the Bowels
and Is the be remedy for Diarrhoeas whether ars
Ing from tee.hing other causes For sale by drug
gists In every part OF tho world Be sure and ask
for Ays WinsIow's Soothing Syrup 26c bottle,
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
$40 Rate to Chicago via the Great
santa Fe Route,

The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers
Will be open to the public as we'll An opportu-
nifty 10 visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal
ifornians. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep
ipg-cars OF the latest pattern Modern upholstered
tourist sleeping-cars daily through from Oak
land pier 10 Chicago See timetable in advsrtis-
ing column. San Francisco ticket office GA Market
street, Chronicle building. telephone Main 1881
oakland, 1llS Broadway.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The SIMMER MONTHS

Are you going 10 the country on vacation: : If
So It is no trouble for US to forward THE CALL to
your address DO not let it miss you for you Will
miss it, Orders given to the carrier or left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
Northern Pacific Railway-Ye1lowston
Park Route.

Parties desiring to visit the Yellowstone Park,
or go asst via the Northern Pacific Railway,
should call at No. 63S Market street, San Fran
cisco. for their Railroad and Yellowstone Park
tickets. We can accommodate all that wish TO
m axe the trip regardless of rumors TO the contrary.
stop overs given on all Christian EndeaVor tick
cts. I. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, e3s Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

CoRoNADo.-Atm osphere 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 HoteIdsl
Coronado, $50; longer stay 81 so per day Apply
New Montgomery street. San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
Odd Fellows Banquet.

The members OF the general relief board
of the Odd Fellows of San Francisco Will
give their semi-annual banquet on the first
Sunday in August, and the EN- bers OF the
general relief committee of Sacramento and
of Stockton have been invited TO attend, The
invitation. has been accented
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The German War Office has shown by
successful tests that carrier-pigeons turned
loose on the British coast will make their
way back to stations on the Rhine, but
there remains to be shown any means by
which German army landed on those
shores could ever get back to sweet Bingen
again.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

GEARY STREET-Subscribers City. According
to the official map the north line of Geary
street in San Francisco commences east of
Kearny street and extends from the west line
of the last-named street to where it meets
Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The report of the capture OF pigeon
carrying silver ring stamped ''Ncrth
pole, 142 west 1852, )" is all that some peo-
pie need to convince them that the north
pole has been discovered, that it is 142 feet
high, is inclined westward and in diameter
is AZ inches at the top and 81 at the bot.
TOM
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

@'Mr. Courty asked me to marry him last
night" she blushingly told her mother.
"And what did you tell him?"
81 told him to ask you
f'Ask me!' echoed the startled parent.
"Why. Mary, surely you wouldn't have your
dear old mother commit bigamy, would your"
-Tit-Bits.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

To BLUE GUN BARRELs-D. c. ", City. The
following is given as a method to blue gun
barrels: Apply nitric acid and let it eat into
the m etal little; then the latter Will be COW
cred with thin I'm OF oxide. Clean the bar
rel, oil and tnen burnish.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

POPULATION OF JAPAN-Subs criber, City. At
the time the war broke out between China and
Japan the population of Japan was given as
Al 1888, ,31S. At the close of 1896 it was given
as 1 900 600
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
H.duced Rates for An

To the East via the kio Grande Western Railway.
passing tn rough Utah and Colorado by daylight
cars by all trains. Tickets, sleeplng-car
and full information furnished at II
MontpOmery g
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

1t is said the deepest shaft in the world
is one OF 1900 feet in a copper mine in
Michigan, and as the ore at the bottom is
worth $8 ton 1t has not yet got below the
level of profits and is being deepened
every day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

PAwNBRoKERs-A NJ, West Oakland, Cal. A
section of the Penal Code of California says
it is q misdemeanor for a pawnbroker to
charge more than per cent interest.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

TowNsEND's California GIace Fruits will keep
all winter. Just the thing for miners and trav-
elers; SOC lb. 627 Palace Hotel building.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The gold fields that have been discov.
cred are good, and there are Others.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

1t will be the best tariff we ever had, and
that means the best times we ever had.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The heavy importations of coal under
the low duties of the Wilson tariff help
TO explain the small wages paid the coal
miners. and now that better protection is
to be given the industry the strike should
be settled by conceding better pay to the
workers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

An experimenter in Florida is said to
have devised a method by which an ounce
of sugar candy can be made from eight
ounces of watermelon pulp, and if the
process is of commercial value the melon
patches of the future will have millions in
them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

1t is reported that there are fifty-seven
frog farms in successful operation in vari-
Gus parts of the United States, and event.
ualIy the frog industry may be almost
equal 10 the spring chicken business.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

DIXON AND HAwK1Ns-T. e H, Oakland, CAL
George Dixon and Dal Hawkins have never
met in the ring. They will have their first
meeting tonight
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15c, up. Sundays, 74O
Market St (Kast's shoe store) weekdays 65 4th-
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The talk of the gold Democrats about
returning to politics is worth about as
much as Sullivan's talk of returning to
the ring.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The story about the Kansas City off,
cials putting convict women In mems
clothes and setting them to break rock has
been exploded. The City Council discussed
the matter, but the women OF the commu-
nifty got after the Councillors and made
them drop it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The doctrine of protection is now recog-
nized as right in all sections of the Union
and by intelligent men OF all parties, so
another Republican principle becomes in
corporated permanently in the laws of the
Nation and passes out of the arena of par
tisan strife.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

If Rockefeller succeeds in combining
the sugar busine SIS with the oil business,
he may arrange for making a sweet oil
combination that will enable US to culti-
vate the olive tree for ornament only.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

One set of Canadians are clamoring
for the exclusion of American labor from
the Klondyke and another set are asking
permission for their ships to trade between
Alaskan ports as freely as American ships.
The Canadian gall is evidently duplex
arrangement.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The whole world appears to be coming
our way, and coming at once.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

should be erected to Seward, who bought
Alaska for US when we didn't want it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

Ex-Governor Campbell is reported to
have said: "Ohio will go for free silver
this year by the mere force OF gravity" 1t
i. evident from this the ex Governor be-
lieves the State is going down hill.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

spFcrAL Information daily TO manufacturer,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Anen's), $40 Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

America will be called upon this year to
furnish the rest of the world not only
with wheat but with the gold to pay for it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

"WoULDNr be without 1t for worlds p was the
emphatic declaration OF lady in reference to
Ayers Hair Vigor.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

Those who are thinking OF. going to the
Klondyke should bear in mind that even
III the first rush it was not every body who
struck pay gravel.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The clean-ups of the Klondyke are large
but those of Wall street are larger.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The Alaskan gold-fields are very good for
these degenerate days, but they will have
to increase their output good deal before
they equal the California placers in the
brave days OF old.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The report that some of New York's
Four Hundred are going to the KIondyke
is not wholly surprising. The Klondyke
is British, you know.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

Weyler says: my first thought always
is the glory of SPAIN" So it seems his
cruelty is the result of taking a second
thought.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

ALI sorts of American securities went
down under four years of Cleveland, but
four months of Mckinley has caused them
to rise again.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

''That little Mrs. Sieper seems to be awfully
unpopular with all the other women in the
house." suggested Bungler
"No wonder, you just ought to see the bar
gains she fiuds," responded the retired busi-
ness man. who reserves the big chair on the
porch.-Chicago Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The music of the concert has been too
much for the Sultan after all, and he has
about decided to get out of Thessaly 10
get rid of the band.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

Now is the time to expand our COM
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

If the concert of Europe under British
lead succeeds in getting the Turks out of
Thessaly. the Sultan may organize one of
his own to get the British out OF Egypt.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

Sir Julian Pauncefote is trying his hand
at another arbitration treaty, and while ii
is a good deal like game OF solitaire, il
seems to amuse the old gentleman and
does no harm.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The lucky miners will take notice that
California is the best place in the world in
which to settle down and enjoy a change
from the boreal-blasted climate of the
frozen zone.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
California Council, N. U.

california COunCli, Os
At the meeting of California Council No. $50
of the National Union, that was held last
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

We are promised the tariff bill to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

The mining trade should be ours,
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

No PREMIUM. H. N, City. There is no
premium on hslfdime of 1887.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

These technical expressions has their draw backs
you'll find;
They do all right fur matter; but they don't re.
lieve the mind.
This "atmos pheric presSure' is phrase Orter
please
But the pressure on yer feelin's is the thing you
wanter ease.
They kin talk Of aqueous vapor with benev olent
designs,
And anus us by the picters drawed with 'isother-
NAL lines"
But with me, the only words that rely seems to
touch the spot
Is the candid declaration that it's all
fired
hoti
Washington Star.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
JULY IN THE EAST.

excuse
A man fur tryin' language that he doesn't mostly
It's nonsense to be offerin' to relieve man that
squirms
Beneath the broilin', blisterin' with scientific
terms.
They may tell of 'diathermancy," explainin' how
it acts,
But 1t don't make no apology fur downright bot
tom facts;
For when you've finished readn' bout the only
thing you've got
Is the solemn proposition that It's all
Hrad
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
WITH YOUR COFFEE.

Johnny Barr-Pa, what's an egot1stf
Handel Barr-An egotist my son, Is a man
who thinks all the world but himself is riding
low-g trade wheels.--Puck.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

It's good thing we annexed Alaska.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

How the old blue laws have faded out" said
the reminiscent boarder. Every one OF them
is now dead letter."
"Tbat is a natural sequence" Asbury Pep.
pers kindly explained, "of their being un-
called for."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

First Lady-There goes young Mrs Pedi-
gree. l suppose she bores people TO death
telling the bright things her little boy says?
Second Lady-Oh, no; fortunately he SAYS
such dreadful things they can't repeat them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23

question?
Pa-Certainly my child.
Tommy--Well, where Is the wind when i,
doesn't blow?-Punch.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
CHARLES Nj. SHORTRiDGE,
Editor and Proprietor.

BUSINESS OFFICE:
71O Market Street.
San Francisco, California.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

that of Plato or Seneca. Let him 60 OH
and scatter seeds Of virtue and patriot
ism ali over this broad land. We can
afford to pay him for it. for we do not
live for ourselves, but for our children.
Indeed, a state or q nation could not
spend money more wisely than to em-
ploy a number of great and good men
to teach the people by popular lectures.
Some years ago 1 heard Prof. Proctor,
the great astronomer. deliver three hc-
lures on astronomy, and I have had
far 0 respect for the science than /
ever had before.
The Christmas holidays are here, and
we have gathered our boys from New
York to Mexico, and our happiness is
only married by the thought that they
r soon to leave us for their distant
homes and we may not see them any
o in the land of the living. But the
Lords win be done.
Once more / must do what I can to
help a poor old soldier who wants to
find some officer or member of his
command by whom he can prove his
eervice in the late war. His name is
G. N. Stewart His post Office Is Yark-
borough, Gordon county, Ga. He joined
the first Georgia regulars in February,
1851, company C, Capt Cannon COM
manding, and served three years and
two months, and was then transferred
to the navy yard and was taken prison
er, carried to Point Lookout and kept
in prison until June, 1865. I see by
Col. Avery's records that Col. II. D. D.
Twiggs commanded that regiment.
VIII some survivor who knew Mr..
Stewart in that service write to him or
to me? The old man is an invalid and
very needy.-Bin Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

pie are going to have q good many feel.
ings roughly revised.
Fer France Is doing things she would
have shuddered at a year or two ago.
And not in colors only. French novel;
lists are expressing their grief in
French newspapers over Parisians who
wear fortunes in big diamonds wits
tailor gowns. That began with the
scramble to show all ones possessions
on all occasions before the tar. / have
not seen any such lamentable lapses,
but I have noticed another thing over
which cutlery is beginning to arise;
perfumes are used to s~uffocation. and.
as il abuse of the more delicate odors
was notenough, theaters, concert halls
and churches are redolent of musk, long
tabooed, but now brought forward as
according well with the violent colors of
the autumn years Of the century. The
aforementioned moralists attribute it's
use to the ~'nouveaux arrives" but by
such reckoning there must have been
a deal of jumping of the hedge of the
charmed circle very recently. At any
rate, French women of all classes are
taking to perfumed gloves, which were
about the only articles Of dress LEFT to
add scent to. But enough of Jeremsads.
France IS queen of fashion stin, Though
she may be pulling down the walls Of
her palace, and so let us return to
clothes as they are worn.
Here are q few Of the best Of the
promenade dresses i have seen in Nice:
A velvetc costume Of bishops purple with
q broad edge of chinchilla at the hem.
For the bodice, a bolero of the velvet
edged with a soft lace Of cream color
verging to gray. Cascades of a similar
lace fell over the bodice from the Shout
ders. The bolero opened upon a vest
of grayish mousseline de sole laid in
fine plaits and having a dainty lace coll
lar. The sleeves had small puffs of The
purple velvet at the shoulders. Below
the puffs close wrinkled sleeves of gray
velvet came to the wrists and ended in
lace ruches. There was a folded belt OF
gray velvet and q broad hat of gray vel
vet with black plumes.
A dress of soft reddish brown cloth
of a dead leaf tint, as nearly as the color
can be described. This was worn by q
young French girl. The-skirt had a wide
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
ELLEN oSBORN's LGTTER.
The Gay World on the Bright
Shores Of the Mediterranean.
Adcq = Vice In Decentralization
Callers and Costly Fabrlos Dis-
played o. tho Promenade
das AneIals.
TcopVrlrht. IS97.1

Ntces France.-From two. o'clock in
The afternoon until half-past three it
s. summer in Nice. The sun shines
doUn upon the broad, bright curve OF
the Promenade des Anglais, where the
Mediterranean laps It on one side and
palms : green and yiolets sweet upon
Ahe other. There is the sound Of music
3rCm the casino on the ietty; there is
the damp, warm smell Of roses, and
Nhere is the gay panorama of women
ander rainbow-hued parasois. who 1oll
@Ron the benches and radiate that full
Joy Of life which is in warmth and
sunshine. French officers in brilliant
unif0rms pass and repass. invalids lie
hack ia wheel chairs, and American
girls chatter bad French and stare
&ranRly at the tall Englishwomen who
Rit splendidIy erect in perfectly APP
pointed carriages, the petite French
women who whiz BY on 'bicyclettes'
and the rouged habitues Of Monte Carlo
who promenade BY twos and threes
with faces young and old at the same
time. With its immense hotels and iEz
iumbie Of fashionable folk, feeble folk
and fast folk, Nice is the winter Sara
toga Of Francs.
Nice Is Saratoga too in the brilliance
81 Its costumery. All France for that
matter is w~allowing in paintpots. The
Eurple and gold put on to welcome the
ezar last autumn demoralized the dress
shakers and swept away the soft deli
cate tints and the delightful half-tones
Of color that have given Partisan ele-
Eantes their reputation since the time
when the memory of woman runneth
aOt to the contrary. Like Saratoga,
Nice is a little extreme. but it is true OF
Paris as Of the Promenade des Anglais.
that never before were such blows OF
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

shToad color aimed full at ones eyes
Against the green of the palms and tbs
white marble of the palace hotels, street
dresses Of sky blue velvet or rose color
.er yellow have indeed the advantage
THAI one takes them, like the rest of the
magnificent spectacle. with easy cred.
@nce as a scene out of fairyIand. AS d
young American woman said to me
this afternoon; Its not real; the stage
Is set for an opera and the chorus is
coming on"
As she spoke ruby seemed for the mo-
'Enent to dominate the moving pageant
with its wine red sparkle and glow.
Pnrasols OF ruby silk, toques and capotes
of ruby velvet, knots of ruby ribbon in
the hair and at the waist, and, just
where it lent most emphasis to the pic
ture, a long ruby satin cloak brocaded
with black. made things look as if
the red calcium light had been turned
-an.
Five minutes later the picture was
green. then it was violet and by and by
ell ~parti-colored with blue and green
ailks worn together and combined with
@rmine. "A girl in acream-coIored gown
wore a cape Of sable fur mixed with
Gream-colored lace. The lace was
caught on one shoulder with a knot of
pink roses and on the other with a
bunch Of black ostrich plumes. Her
lint had a black velvet crown and the
hrim was smothered in roses. Long
black plumes swept a half circle and
touched her cheek. A Russian countess
erore . turquois blue cloth dress under
a long cloak Of dark green velvet lined
with sable. A broad collar Of white
Lace covered her shoulders and was
knotted with greenish-white ribbons.
Her bat was Of gr~eenish-white velvet
wfth trimming Of turquois blue ribbon
and yellow roses. A girl with o dark,
piquant face sat on q bench with a
mian in q coat wonderfully frogged and
braided. She poked the grass with a
yellow parasol hounced with black lace.
and all her costume was in black and
yellow. Her dress was yellow silk
with black velvet ribbons running
about the skirt from a little below the
hips TO within a foot and a half of the
hem. The yellow silk waist was made
with a black velvet vest and a bolero
edged and barred with black velvet.
Her hat was Of yellow straw with black
ribbons, black lace and yellow flowers.
Straw hats are almost as comma in
Nice as felt or velvet ones.
And through il all the music throbbed
and the tinkie Of the glasses came from
the open windows of the cafes above
ehe bathing houses along the shore. 1t
did not seem as II ia real life the richest
- turE would be slashed into little bits
to make up with lace and feathers and
fibbons, or as e ermine would be dot
ted all over with flowers, or jewels
worn with such reckless profusion out
OF doors. One accepts it at Nice with
the theatrical settings of mountains and
water and olive groves and orange
Trees but when It comes to everyday
fix5ng. II French fashions conquer as
they have IN The past, q good many peo-
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
REMARKAeLE PIGS.
Habits OF the ROoters Of the South Sea
aslands.

H -
Habits OF the ROOters Of the south Sea
aslRnds.
When the pig is not only q domestic
animal, but a family friend, as he APP
pears to be in the Marquesas islands, he
develops unsupported cleverness. "In
the South Seas" one of Robert Louis
Stevenson's last books, gives many in
stances by way of proof. MANY
islanders live with thsir pigs a we do
with our dogs" Mr.. Stevenson OBJ
served; both crowd around the hearth
with equal freedom, and the island pig
is a fellow of activity, enterprise and
sense
HE husks his own cocoanuts and
l am told-rolls them into the sun to
burst; he is the terror of the shepherd.
Mrs. Stevenson, senior, has seen q pig
fleeing to the woods with a lamb in his
mouth; and 1 saw another come rapid
ly-and erroneously-to the conclusion
that the Casco was going down, and
swim through the flush water to the
rail in search Of an escape.
at was told us in childhood that pigs
cannot swim; l have known one to
leap overheard, swim 500 yards to shore,
and return to the house of his original
owner.
II was once, at Tautira, a pigmaster
on q considerable scale. At first, in my
pen, the utmost good feeling prevailed.
A little SOW with a bellyache came and
appeared to us for help in the manner
of a child; and there was one shapely
black boar, whom we called Catholicus.
for he was q particular present from
the Catholics Of the village, and who
early displayed the marks of courage
and friendliness.
mo other animal, whether dog or pig,
was suffered to approach him at his
food, and for human beings he showed
a full measu of that toadying fond
ness, 10 common in the lower animals,
and possibly their chief title to the
name.
Zone day, on visiting my piggery, !
was amazed to see Catholicus draw back
from my approach with cries of terror;
and If / was amazed at the change, l
was truly embarrassed when / learned
its reason.
Zone Of the pigs had been that morn
ing killed; Catholicus had seen the muir
der, he had discovered he was dwelling
in the shambles, and from that time his
confidence and his delight in life were
ended.
we still reserved him a long while,
but he could not endure the sight OF
any two-legged creature, could we,
under the circumstances, encounter his
eye without confusion."-Youth'a COM
panion.