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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-12
PROPER PRONUNCIATION.
A Novel Method of Instruction
Recently Started in BROOKLYN.

Every Monday evening there is gath
ering OF women and men at the Warren
street Methodist Episcopal Church, all
anxious to learn to speak the English lam
guage as it should be spoken, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. Many nativeb born
Americans attend, and there is a strong
representation OF Swsdes and Germans
whose early education has, pr sumably,
been neglected. An hour is spent in what
is commonly termed the elements of cor
rect oral speech. The teacher is e pro-
fessional elocutionist. Considering that
the cost of the lessons is scarcely dignified
by the term nominal, and that the ex-
pense of similar instruction elsewhere is
fro m So to S. an hour, the wonder is that
such an opportunity to get instruction is
not m ore generally improved.
The school is the only one OF the kind
in either this city or New York. 1t is an
experiment, or, rather, it was an expert
ment. 1t now seems to be firmly estab-
lished. The movement began in New
7 ork City nearly year ago, with head
quarters at Carnegie Hall, in a series of
lectures, and the Brooklyn school is the
first wave sent out from that initial splash.
The originator of the movement was
Richard e. Mayne, writer. The associa:
ton is called the American Society for the
improvement of Speech. The officers are
Richard E. Mayne, president; Hiram Cor
on, first vice president, and Boyd Ever
cit, corresponding secretary. There are
three kinds of work laid out by the plan
of the organization. These are: The in
struction of members, the evolution of
principles to be submitted to the public
schools as educators, and peoples reading
classes President Mayne in speaking of
the purpose of the movement said:
Zone of the greatest defects in our COM
mon speech is drawing. 1t is very COM
mon among residents Of New England,
but 1t is comparatively rare among our
foreign population. The reason for this
is, as l think, the lazy habits OF the Amer
leans They have come 10 be we'll off, as
a rule, and have settled down to an easy
lie. The foreigners, on the other hand.
have to talk earnestly to get living. The
first step in affording popular education
is to eradicate that draw and the next
step is to incuIcate a fondness for beauty
OF sound. 1t is not difficult TO acquire
knowledge of the fact that each syllable
should be sounded in itself. 1t makes no
difference how rapidly one speaks, each
syllable can be kept separate from the
others When the scholars are once
taught to see this point they have it in
their own hands to speak or read with a
great degree of correctness.
GAS to the public schools. they are not
entirely at fault for the quality of the
speaking usually found in them. The
difficulty is in the divided responsibility,
as regards school influences and home in
huences. The home has far greater scope
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child, with a wealth Of golden hair falling
about her shoulders, working along the
streams She is a most pronounced new
woman in her dress. No skirts for her
Not much. A pair of brown overalls
proves much more conve nient and prac-
teal. And she surely looks much cutter
in them than she would IN an ordinary
frock.
Taking her pans under her arms she
Starts out. AT present she is using an
iron trying pan, with the handle broken
off, as the old-time piepan is now too
small The first gravel she comes to she
gives a test, and if no color" shows she
finds another. This way she continues
until it is time to go home to dinner, and
when she does be sure she taxes first
class appetite with her.
OF course, little Mae has never made
any big strikes. And perhaps you think
she has never found any gold. Ii you
think so just ask her to show you the little
bottle of Gust and nuu gets that her mother
is taking care of for her.
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than the school in the matter of social
speech. Percival Chubb, recently, in a
lecture in Carnegie Hall showed how in
struction in the public schools is set back
by failure of parents to cooperate with
the teachers in the use OF correct English.
'As to diction used in every day lie, it
is fact that, excepting trained writers,
the average man used only about one
fourth of the words at his disposal. He
uses one word to express many meanings.
The historian, Macaulay, said that the
Latin language was a barbarous tongue
because it was not capable of expressing
shades of thought as the Greek was. There
is no excuse for men and women to be
slipshod in our language. 1t abounds in
opportunities for beautiful expression.
The aim of the society is to help every one
to talk, not only in more mellifiuous
wav, but also IN way that will make the
speakers more easily understood.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-12
An InfantiIo Prospoctor
LittleMao Carr, Who CIimbsJ Through
Canyons and Washes Gravel
for Golden Nuggets.

The youngest prospector in the country
is little Mae Carr, who lives up in the
Trinity gold fields. This little girl is not
one of those who came on the tidal wave
OF the late gold craze, but SIZE has lived
there all the three years of her life. Her
father is engaged in business up there,
and so is Mae for that matter.
almost from the time Mae was able TO
walk she has been bunting gold. 1t might
even be said that she was prospector be-
fore she was able to walk. When she was
still in the crawling stage of her career.
she used to spatter around in the streams
near the door of her home Before she
was two years old she had found a good
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-12
A Dogs Useful Penchant.

A resident OF the Hotel Berkeley is the
owner of a fine ST. Bernard ,.og which de-
serves a gold mccall. The deg has de-
veIoped strange penchant 10: stopping
runaway horses and the last time the sto D
was accomplished just in time to save a
party of ladies from serious injury and
perhaps worse. His master was driving
down Portland avenue last SATURDAY.
when he was startled by cry of Look
outW He turned and was just in time to
wheel his horse out of the way of run
away which was tearing down the avenue.
Just ahead was party of ladies in dan
ger OF what seemed certain death to some
of them when the dog, who had been fol-
lowing, and who seemed by instinct 10
comprehend the situation, gave a leap and
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A new and important ind ustry has come
into existence in Santa Clara County
which bids air in time to rival The fruit
drying. This is the preparation of dried
vegeta bles for the market, which at pres
ent is generally confined to the short sea-
sons a the driers between the ripening of
the different fruits. Just lately the vege-
tables have been usurplng the place of the
apricots, but they have now already be-
gun to give way in turn to the prunes.
On approaching drier it does not take
one long to decide whether fruit or vege-
tables are being prepared, for in the latter
case a pungent odor rushes out to stin g
ones eyes and crawl uncomfortably up
ones strils-for the trail OF onions is
over the land. Within lively scene is pre-
scented. Men are hurrying to and fro
bearing trays and boxes, while long rows
of women and children sit busily peeling
potatoes and carrots, which, togethe with
the onions, form at present the staple prod
uct. When boxes of potatoes and carrots
are filled, they are poured into a large
hopper, and from there fed to machine
with rotating knife blades, which cuts
them up into small slices quarter OF an
the potatoes undergo is simple, and for
carrots and the other minor vegetables it
is. practically the same.
After being sliced the tubers are slightly
suIphured in a chamber built of wood.
Here great discrimination must be used,
for, if they are sulphured too much, the
potatoes will taste of the fumes; if too
little, they will not contain enough anti
septic property, and bacteria attracted by
tie starch will develop. Moreover, a
little sulphuring is necessary to preserve
the color of the vegetables as far as pos
sibe and to prevent decay.
After this process the potatoes are not
spread out in the sun, but put into an
evaporator. The latter looks like a small
Ferris wheel, and is inclosed in sort of
brick oven with glass windows. Within
this il revolves close to hot-air pipes for a
few hours When the moisture is suffi-
! GENTLY evaporated the cars of the wheel
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Here Is a New Indus try
Down Near San Jose There Is q
Place Where Vegetables Are
Dried Like Fruit.

are emptied through the windows, and
their contents are now ready for shipment
in sacks.
When this stage is reached the sliced
pota toes resemble dry chips, and it takes
six o. seven pounds of the fresh to make
one pound OF the dried.
By their pungency onions possess the
power of warding off bacteria, and are,
therefore, only slightly sulphured to pre-
serve their color They are next evap-
grated until one-third of the moisture is
expelled, and then placed in trays in the
sun, just as is done with fruit. The drying
process shrivels the onions so much that
it takes twenty parts of the fresh to make
one of the dried. While the onions are
being cut up the moisture coming from
them is very disagreeable and hard on the
eyes of the employees.
When carrots are evaporated it takes
about n inc paris of them to make one
dried part. Perhaps the drying process
used in the case of both carrots and pota-
toes might be improved upon were
stea employed. By using the latter
the starch IN the potatoes would be partly
cooked and steriliZed, and after this the
tubers could be evaporated in chamber
similar to the one above described. In
this way the potatoes could be rid of
sulphur, well dried and vet capable of
being quickly soaked, and there would be
no chance for bacteria to develop.
Other vegetables than these mentioned
are at present in process of development;
but so fer the industry has proved very
nrotiteble as eyinced by the increased de-
mand for dried vegetables all over the coun-
try, but especially in the mining regions.
EUGENIA B. MABURY
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DAVID a. WALKER JR. PUBLlsHEt

VOLUME NORTH BERKELsY7 AUGuST H. 1897 NUMBER Id
on HALF SHELL.
Teller her is printed type leer ana WIN g"
but to get there some way
DID, and berkey boy 1t wall cost
copy five cents, but only ten cents per month.
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sized nugget, and knew that it was vaIa-
able. OF course she had seen miners at
work, and soon learned that they were
looking for the bits of yellow metal.
Before Mae was two and half years
old he was full-fedged prospector, an1
used tin pieplate Tor panning out. She
seemed to play into remarkable luck, and
never went out without finding some
thing.
AT first Mae used to work around her
home, but as she grew older she went fur
Their and further away, until at present
she works up in the most lonely canyons,
and says she is not bit afraid.
1t is an odd sight to see the bright
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-12

Guanaiuato is city of Mexico built in
a hollow where three gorges dip and meet
1t is noted for the Pantheon and its fine
buildings built with variegateo stone
which seem to have all the colors of the
rain bow.
The Pantheon covers over ten acres of
ground, which are incIosed by walls per
haps ten feet high, and there bodies are
laid in cham bers as in the vaults of other
cemeteries. Below is an immense sub
cemetery, where the bones are carried at
the expiration of the chamber leases, or
when nothing remains of the dead but
whitened bones. A winding stairway de-
sends into this great charnel-house,
which is nearly 900 feet long, 20 feet wide
and more than 20 feet high. The bones
and skulls of over $4,000 Mexicans are
piled up at either end OF this "store-
house." indiscrlminately without refer
ence to ownership.
The Pantheon was at one time said by
arch biologists to contain the tom bs of
kings, but without DOUBT the notion OF
burial in caverns was taken from tie his
torical facts surrounding the Catacombs
beneath the ba,ilicas in Rome, the city OF
traditions and noble men.
There in the district lying close TO the
Appisn Way the basilica OF St. Sebastian
was erected. Under its massive walls ex-
tensive burial vaults were excavated, which
became famous as place of pilgrimage.
According to history, the first Christian
catacombs were built early in the second
century. There the bodies of st. Peter
and St. Paul rested for year and seven
months previous 10 the removal to the
basilicas which bore their names.
With the latter part of the fourth century
a new epoch in the history OF Catacom bs
arose-that of religious reverence. They
were rega rded with special devotion and
beca me the resort OF large bands of pill
grims, for whose guidance catalogues of
the chief burial places and holy men
buried there were drawn up.
Day by day the wing prayed among the
dead and superstition had it that those
who came there and prayed for forgiveness
would be safe from the torments of damna-
ton. This superstition was in vogue for
countless ars.
Within a century afterward the Gaia
combs sank into decay. They were de-
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extensive alterations in the construction
and decoration of the caverns, which
thereby lessened their value as authentic
memorials OF religious art
There in the caverns of death were found
again the bodies of men unknown. The
discovery OF the Roman catacom bs showed
vast labyrinths OF narrow galleries three
to four feet in width. They were inter-
spersed with small chambers excavated at
succe ssive levels in the volcanic rock.
The galleries themselves are the ceme-
teries, and the Christian dead were buried
in long low horizontal recesses excavated
in the vertical walls OF the passages, ris-
ing tier above tier like berths in ship.
Red matter was found there in larg
quantities, not blood but the remnants of
the purest wine which is thought to have
been consecrated to act as a religious
charm. 1t is said again that after en-
balmed bodies were laid in the excava-
tons the wine was poured in and the
hand of Time eft no trace. Other spots
were discovered where bodies had been
laid, but only through the presence of
quicklime, which had fastened the de-
structiou OF some human frame Other
bodies were lying here and there, dried to
mummies by the dampless heat.
Now those formerly sacred places used
for worship and the burial of the dead
have been converted into historical
caverns for the advancement OF science,
and the Catacombs and the traditions
with which they were surrounded have
passed into oblivion.
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vastated partially through the barbarian
invaders, as we'll as from neglect OF those
who should have been their guardians
The relics were mostly removed the pr
grimages naturally ceased, and by degrees
the very existence OF these wonderful SUP
terranean cemeteries was forgotten
Poverty had also taken the place OF
wealth and aff1uence, and the traditions
of the Christian tomb builders beneath
the waters of the sea sank into utter in
significance. The custom OF subterranean
interment died out, and vaults above the
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earth were used. The old superstitions OF
those in former years was so completely
tabooed that the extreme measure was
taken and the dead were laid to rest in
open vaults where they might be seen at
anv time. The bodies buried in the gloom
and darkness were forgotten.
Six centuries had ELAPSED when the ac-
cidental discovery OF a sepuichral cham
Der by some laborers revealed to the
amazed inhabitants of Rome another city
concealed beneath their own. Bosio,
Roman arch@ologist, devoted his life to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-12

The Bank of England has a reserve of
only about EDS. 600, 900 in gold; but Eng
land, though having the largest trade
and interest to defend from one end of
the world to another, has admittedly no
need to make any preparations so far as
cash is concerned, as she is able 10 raise
the very largest sums of money at a mo-
ment's notice.
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caught the lines of the runaway between
his teeth, his great weight bringing the
frig htened animal to his launches just as
/ he was about to strike one of the ladies,
who seemed too terrified to move.-Min-
neapolis Times.
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the personal investi-
ga ton OF these cav
ems, and for his re-
searches was called
the true Column Gus OF
the hidden world.
Dean Milman, hear
ing of the entran ce
into these places and
the general devaSta.
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ton which was at that time going on,
said: 30 irreverent reverence which con-
yerted the catacombs from hidden ana
The herald., 1897-09-09
REDoNDo

REDONDO. Sept. s.-Regular Corre-
spondence.) The yacht Rambler, Capt.
Hansen, left here this afternoon for San
Pedro, at which place party of scientists
Will embark for the Channel islands, where
search for relics will be instituted
f. w. Thompson. the agent of the Re-
dondo and Los Angeles railroad, returned
from an extended trip through the north
ern part of the state yesterday.
Mrs. w. Jackson and family of Los An
geles, who have been domiciled at the
English block the past five weeks, left for
their home today.
II. Vail of the Redondo Land company
was in Redondo today on business trip.
D. j. Mcdonald of the Needles is regis
tered at the Redondo hotel
J. Cox of Los Angeles has taken a cot
tage here for the summer.
Among the arrivals at the Redondo hotel
are: John c. Beatty and wife of Los An
geles, Mrs. Harriet A. Wareing of Santa
Ana. E. Elk Dahl of Santa Ana E. D. Nc
Clees of Santa Ana. j. r. Searles of Phoe-
nix. j. Seymore of Chicago.
Miss A. Sterling of Los Angeles is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Hess for few
days.
The schooner San Buenaventura left here
this afternoon with load of hay for north
ern ports.
DIR. Hollingsworth of Los Angeles was
visitor here today.
Mrs. j. 7. Conley of Los Angeles, who has
been sojourning at the beach for the past
two months left for her home today.
J. 7. Towel of Los Angeles was in Re-
dondo today.
The herald., 1897-09-09

county in the near neighborhood, and
found the one at Tippecanoe across the
Santa Ana and the one at Aqua Mansa
across the same were in urgent need of
repairs to the extent of $500 to $1,000 each,
and it was ordered that work commence
at once. 1t was also ordered that the
bridge across Lytle creek on Fourth street,
towards Rialto, be covered with asphaltum,
and that the same be done to the bridge
across the Cucamonga wash, near the
Cucamonga winery. Specifications were
presented by the county surveyor and the
clerk of the board was authorized, to ad-
vertise for bids. to be opened Monday,
September 9th. 1t is very necessary the
work be done before the fall rains.
Papers were filed late this afternoon BY
the attorneys for H. j. Allison, the janitor
Of the high school. Judge H. C. Rolfe and
&c. L. Allison against the board of educa-
ton. claiming that the said janitor had
been discharged August 31st from his posi-
tion, where he was receiving ss5 per month,
having been engaged September Z, 1895, and
that the discharge was illegal, as the JAM
itor is an ex-soldier of the late war and
cannot be discharged except for neglect OF
duty.
Edward Dolland, native Of California.
aged 26, resident of Los Angeles, and Lillian
Belle Sell, native of Minnesota, aged u.
resident of Ontario, received a license to
marry. j. 4
The herald., 1897-09-09
SAN BERNARD1NO

SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. S.-(Regular
Correspondence) The economic side OF
the city board of education has SHOWN
itself in cutting down the expenses Oh
running the schools the coming year. Tues
day night the board made its demand 1or
money with which to run the SCHOOLS put
ting the high school at $1,000 and the gram
mar grades at $3500. total of $lO50o, as
against $16.500 last year. when they re-
ceived $S250 for each. There has been
shaving down on salaries and every other
branch of the business this year. The de-
posed janitor of the high school, II. j.
Allison. put in his bill Tuesday night for
$40 for two months to date. The board
offered to compromise with Ss0, but the
janitor prefers to go to law, as he has
lawyer right in the family. The board
audited bills to the amount of $3.50 for re-
pairs during vacation. Schools commence
Monday, September goth.
When the ex-city treasurer, r. T. Blow
went out of Office he had on his bond only
three men who were financially able to pay
the deficit caused by the failure OF the
First National bank where over $1,000 was
tied up belonging to the city. These three
were G. M. Cooley, Dr. Ben Barton and
John Barton. The bank has paid so per
cent on the deposit and to settle the rest
Mr. Cooley proposed that the three solvent
bondsmen should pay over the deficit and
take the half-paid certificate and secure
what they could on it. To this the others
agreed. Mr.. Cooley deposited his third
and went up on the mountains with his
family for an outing. DIR. Ben Barton put
up his third, but in settling John Barton
put up the certificate for his third so that
Mr.. Cooley proposes to go to law to secure
revenge for being done up in the house of
his friends.
At the meeting of the board of city trus-
tees Tuesday night the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Thomas Prindiville
as policeman was filled by the appoint
ment of John A. Henderson. The fruit
dealers asked for an ordinance imposing
license on the fruit peddlers. and the case
of the vegetable and fish pedders came up
incidentally with it. and the city attorney
was instructed to draw up an ordinance
The herald., 1897-09-09
SANTA BARBARA

SANTA BARBARA, Sept. S.-(Regular
Correspondence The teachers institute
will be held at the high school building,
Santa Barbara. Sept. 9th, 2Sth, 29th, Both
and Oct. 1st, and the transportation COM
panies have made reduced rates to teach
ers and their friends Special attention
will be called to the books to be selected
for home reading for the different grades,
which will be discussed along the follow
ing lines: "The Value of Fairy Tales and
Fables" myths and Legends, "Stories of
Travel and Adventure" History and
Biography" 1.-THE Value of Literature in
the Teaching of Ethics, of Expression, of
History" Are There Best Books For
Children? What Are They?" Poetry and
Fiction From the Teachers Standpoint"
and 1.-The Teachers Relation to the Home
Reading of Pupils"
The report of the county auditor shows
that the amount of money that ought now
to be in the county treasury is $59, 299.7O.
Licenses to wed have been issued to Oliver
Crother. a native of Nebraska, aged "a.
and Imogen Wood, native of Ohio, aged
25, and both residents of Summerland, and