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of the people was matter of quite
decided sentiment with President
Cleveland. Mr.. Cleveland asked the
privilege of being sworn on q little
red Bible which had been given to
him by his mother in his boyhood,
when he first left the family rooftree,
and he took the oath at the beginning
of both of his presidential terms on
this look. which he treasures fondly.
The custom, however, has been for
the United States Supreme Court to
furnish the Bible on which the Presi-
dent takes his official oath, and this
tradition has been carried out by the
clerk of the court ever since that tri-
bunal was established, except on the
two occasions when President Cleve.
land was installed in office. Mr.. Nc
Kinney, Clerk of the Supreme Court,
who has held the Bible Oh which Gar
field was sworn and every President
after him, has always marked the verse
which the President touched with his
lips, and after the inaugural has pre-
sented the book made historic by this
event to the President or his wife.
The first Inauguration of George
Washington in the Federal building
in New York on April so, 1889, was
delayed by the failure to procure a
Bible. Just as the arrival OF Wash
ington was announced to Congress,
Chancellor Livingston discovered that
there was no Bible in the building.
He was Master of St. Johns Lodge
No. of Free Masons, and happened
to remember that there was Bible in
the lodge room. A messenger was
quickly sent to bring the book, and it
is preserved to the present day among
the relics of the lodge.
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stitution, and the pleb, looking upon
these pictures, may console himself
with the thought that the pictures
represent men who in their day had to
do what he was doing. A corps of men
is kept busy waiting upon the cadets,
whose appetites give proof of their fine
physical condition.
To be cadet and O late riser IS an
impossibility. The hours for daily
duty are laid down as follows: Reveille
at 5. 80 a. M, and 6 o. m. on Sunday
police call, five minutes after reveille ;
surgeons call, fifteen minutes after
reveille; breakfast call, thirty min
utes after reveille.
After breakfast the cadets have q
few minutes in which to "brush up, :"
and a. 8 o'clock they are called to
quarters for study and recitation.
They have dinner at o'clock. From
2 till 4 o'clock more study and reclta-
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KISSING THE BIBLE.
Books Which Lips Of Presidents
Touched When Sworn In.

Touched When Sworn In.
The Bible on which Mckinley tool
the oath of Office as President of the
United States ls an unusually hand
some and costly copy of the 1esta-
ments made especially for the occasion
in Ohio and presented to the new
President by Bishop Arnett, of Will
berforce College, colored institution
in the Buckeye State, on behalf OF the
African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Its covers are of tlue morocco with
satin Innings, white satin panels and
gilt edges, with a gold plate in the
center, and is engraved with the fol-
lowing inscription: William MeKin-
ley, President of the United States of
America, Inaugurated March 4, 1897.
The look on which he was sworn
in to the highest Office within the gift
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Swiss Telephones.

In Switzerland, from the smallest
village it is now possible to telephone
to any place in the country at a fee
from two cents to eight cents for the
most distant points on Instruments
through which one can hear with
perfect distinctness, and which are
kept in thorough repair.
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FoRETHOUGHT.

"This butter seems strong" said the
young husband, at their first breakfast
at home.
eyes," she answered; 81 talked to
the market man about that. and he
said it was economy ip the end never
to buy weak butter. He said that even
though this might cost little more.
people could get along with less OF it,
and it would last longer"
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The figure to the right represents
jaunty Eton suit Of navy blue serge,
trimmed with collar and revera
of white pique embroidered with blue,
and worn with one of the dainty cot
ton shirt waists that are now procur.
able for girls from six to eighteen
years of age.
The other two frocks are both on the
blazer style but entirely unlike each
other. The one is developed in wine
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WON THE CUP.

"What are these cups for?" asked
well-dressed man OF jeweler, point
ing to some elegant silver cups on the
counter.
"These are race cups, to be given as
prizes"
eff that's so, suppose you and race
for one?" And the stranger with the
cup in hand, started, the ieweler after
him. The stranger won the cup
Pick Ne Up.
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SURPRISED.

She-"There were only ffty-six
signers of the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence. ..
Lord Ninkumpupe.-"How very re-
markable! In England, doncher-
know, you can get thousands Of sigma
lures to almost any sort Of docu-
ment. PUCK.
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academy are equally severe; but the
men who have outlived the hardships
of the preceding terms are likely to
survive and are finally graduated and
their names sent to the War Depart
ment, with the recommendation of
the Academic Board for commission in
the army.
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A NATURAL GIFT.

"Gee!" was all he could say when
she told him he was the first man she
had ever kissed.
"Do you presume to doubt me?'
asked the lady Indignantly.
"Me? Never. I was just thinking
how remarkably we'll you did without
practice. ."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A FETCHING CLIMAX.

He-"1 love you madly."
She-"Who could blame you?"
81 want you to be my wife"
81 hear you"
"My family would welcome you with
open arms"
"That would be nice.
"We would make our lives q con-
tinual honeymoon.
"Splendid idea."
81 ain rich"
"My darling !"-Harlem Life.
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A GOOD WAY TO HANG.

First Tramp-"What do they mean
by hanging man in efigy9"
Second Tramp--''That's when they
just string up stuffed figure of him"
First Trsmp-"Well, if wuz goin'
ter be hung, I'd like to have it done
that way !"-Puck." ..
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TRYING HARD.

Mr.. Harduppe-''Of course, as you
are 60 wealthy, I feel that in asking
you to marry me l ought to tell you
how poor my own circumstances are"
Miss Gotrox (reproachfully) y)-"Why
don't you make an effort to improve
them?"
Mr.. Harduppe (surprised)-"Don't
you think I am?"
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HIS TWO SUITS.

Nipper-"Look here, old chap, I've
been advised to go to Thompkins, the
tailor. Did you ever go to himl for
anything?"
Clipper-"Oh, yes; got two suits
from him; one dress suit, ope lawsuit.
Thompkins is very expensive man, ]
tell you."-New York Times.
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UNRELIABLE MAN.

"George told me that one of my
golden hairs could draw him like
q team of Oxen" 49,.
"Yes?"
"And then when the harness broke
down he asked me if I had rope in
my pocket"
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ANATOMICAL.

Teacher" "What popularity, if any,
do you observe in the anatomy of the
frog?" .... .- -.
Pupil-'The frog consists of q pair
of legs with enough other meat thrown
in to hold them together" ."-Chicago
Tribune. ... ..,..
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very effective on a black hat with
green ribbon and black tulle or killed
chiffon, which is one Of the special
features of millinery.
The fashion of wearing the hats well
tilted over the eyes promises to con-
tinue throughout the summer, and
certainly the shade given to the eyes
is very acceptable even though it is
not always becoming.
The misses frocks shown in the
large sketch are chic to degree, and
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A LESSON.

He placed a ring upon her finger
and then lovingly kissed her hand.
She Indignantly drew back.
"Please remember, Jack, that there
is place for everything she said.-
Town Topics.
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CASH AS WE'LL AS CONFIDENCE.

The Young Pastor-"What I want
to do is to get them to open their
hearts to me-"
The Old Brother-"What you'll
have to do will be to get them to open
their pocketbooks to you"
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COULDN'T BELIEVE BE WAS CROOKED.
"Our cashiers defalcation was 8
great surprise to u.s."
"Why" ..
"He wrote such beautiful upright
hand. Chicago Record. .
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SIMPLE.

Snake.Liar-"And I went down into
the hole hundred and eighty feet"
Listener-"But the rope was only 8
hundred feet long"
Snake.Liar-"Yes, know; but I
doubled it. Puck. ,...
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EGGING HEB ON.

First Hen-"Why don't you revenge
yourself on the master for killing and
eating your husband?".
Second Hen-"Oh, I'm laying for
him. Judge.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
How 1t Ended-Egging Her On
Couldn't Believe He Was
Crooked-Anatomica
Simple, ETC.. Etc.

Before he was wed
He said
He wanted wife whose head
Contained the 'ologtes
Taught In the colleges,
But be married his cook instead.
philadelphia GALL
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SPRING WARDROBE.
WHAT FASHION AND FANCY SAY
1T SHOULD CONTAIN.
Tailor-Made Suits the Feature of the
Fashions of the Season-Red In
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
Children's Frocks.
Especial New York Fashion Letter.) .

We are to be clad in
\ tailor-made garments during
Il the next six months seems
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.

considerable expense trying to get change OF
survey which would move the road about 700
Ieet west OF present survey. By making this
changelthe road would run across one quarter
OF section and leave two quarters almost in
tact.
was given to understand by authority of
lhe comI aDy's chief engineer and managing
directors at all times since our first in terylew,
which was last August, that if the right OF
way would not cost more on the quarter angles
thar they would make tie change. / have
canvassed the distance and have demonstrated
that the change of line would make a consid-
Crabie saYlng In the purcha'e OF right OF way
over land not owne1 by our company, and
agr eed for my company to give hall interest
in eighty acres, to be used Tor town-site pur-
poses, and free right OF way across our place,
which would be over mile in length
have been given TO understand in the last
lew days that they Will not consent TO the
moving OF survey as intended, but propose 10
run on the line which causes US much damage,
ana iurther want right OF way 100 feet VIDE,
with the privilege OF removing trees and vines
and OF making burrow pits TO procure earth TO
grade high enough TO clear irrigating bitches
Whlcn are ABOVE the general level OF the land.
We proposed to them either 20 syphon the
bitches or bring in earth to build up their
proposed grade; This requirement we cannot
consider $1,000 improvement to our place.
On the other hand, making burrow pits
would cause much more than that amount in
damage 10 our property, and would leave
perpetual nuisance in the form of weeds and
stagnant water. We have not given price as
much as we consider the damage on the pres
ent proposed line, and have directed our en-
ergie to trying to make the damage less to our
property and cheaper the right OF way for the
railroad company. AS this property is situ-
ated between two lines, with station four
mlIes ana another six miles TO the west, and
our products are all for Eastern shipment, we
cannot consider ourselves benefited as much
as many that have property greater distance
from stations. Your reference to the feeling of
Fresnoltes cannot give consideration. as ii is
well known that they have not paid for what
they have received from US. AS evidence of
this hold an unpaid judgment against that
county OF over $4,000. Yours respectfully,
ROBERT SMILE.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

match between picked team of fifteen of
Company +, Oakland, and Company G of
this city was won by the latter this morn
ing on the High-street grounds by seven
points. The men shooting and the scores
were as follows:
Company F-Captain wethren 80, Lleuten-
ant Winks 80, Lieutenant Cobbledick AZ. Pri-
vate Kennedy 80. Parsons 3S, Blakeley 10,
Wells 81, Hanson Al, Carney 20. Travis 4 l,
Coyait Al, Sears 33, McGinniss 50, swanson 80,
Leonard 80. Total, $40.
Company G-Captain Simpson Az Leuten-
ant Pickett Al, Major Hayes 80, Sergeant Whit
tick Al, Sergeant Day 40, Sergeant Harvey So
Musician La Due 35. Musician Wolsen 80, Pri-
vate Russell 40 Huff 38, Masten 81 Browning
36, Highly 35, Riehl 80, Born 26. Total, 553.
A New Paper To-Day.
ALAMEDA, CAL, Feb. 14-The Ala.
media Daily Evening Encinal, which was
established September 16, 1869, by f. K.
Krauth, was published for the last time
yesterday afternoon. Tomorrow George
+. Weeks, the new editor and proprietor
will present to the subscribers of the old
paper the Daily Encinal. an eight-page
paper, printed on a new press and from
entirely new type. The appearance of the
sheet will be entirely different and all of
the latest general, State, county and local
news will be found in its columns.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
NEW SHOOTING GROUNDS
A Very Picturesque Spot Sc
lected by the Olympic
Gun Club.
A Trial Shoot-Getting Ready for a
Tournament-Electricity APP
piled to Traps.

Preliminary to a two-day open-to-an
bluerock and live-bird tournament to be
given, beginning next Sunday, by the
Olympic Gun Club, number of members
braved the rain and went out to Ingleside
yesterday to have first shoot and trial on
the clubs new grounds.
Picturesque is exactly the word that de-
scribes the new grounds. They are the first
for live-biTd shooting in San Francisco,
and are naturally as fine as can be found
in this country. Both the bluerock and
live bird sections command view OF Lake
Merced and the Pacific Ocean. Two bulk
heads, score boxes, platforms and traps
are in, and shed has been erected for the
shelter and convenience OF marksmen.
The tangle shot pull an electric con-
trivance for the release of traps, was tried
the first time yesterday at the grounds.
This is the invention of Thomas R. Bar
ney of the Olympic Club and is the first
practical application of electricity to live
bird traps in the United States. The
shooter has no knowledge of which one of
five or any number of traps Is going to be
released, and it further prevents possibiI-
ity of collusion. a nan stands behind
the shooters, and by levers on a sort of a
dial arrangement releases the traps. 1t
worked yesterday to perfection. In the
forenoon there was little live-bird shoot
ing, but no attempt at scores was made.
In the afternoon the following scores at
bluerocks were made:
Otto FeIdner IL, A. Blank 6, Naurman IL
Neus tadter z, E. Schultz s. Fred Feudner g.
Whitney IL, Grant 8, f. Schultz 8, E. A. ShultE
4, Wagner IL, Wiegel g. Alderton 10. O'Don-
HaiRht IL, Owens ID, A. Blank IL, Grant z, O.
F9udner 2, Alderton 10, Shaw 13.
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BOXING At PLEASAN TON.
A Clergyman Asks the Trustees
to Pro ibit Such Exhi.
bitionS.
Pub ic Opinion in the Town Seems
to Be About Evenly
Divided.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRASc1sco CALL,

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,
90S Broadway, Feb. Ia.
Some weil-known sporting men have ar
ranged for prizetght at PIeasanton, and
the quiet little town does not intend TO
allow 1t if it can be helped. The Trustees
are not unanimous on the advisability of
stopping the fight, which has been the ab-
sorbing topic of conversation in the town
for two weeks. a special meeting of the
Trustees failed to accomplish anything.
A petition against prize-fghting being
allowed in the town has been drawn up
by Rev. Mr.. Wilson of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Charles White, Philip
Kolb, c. Il. Wise, George Detjens and J..
n. Arendt, and it has numerous sigma
lures.
Trustee Martin does not think any
action should be taken. He says there is
no town law governing prize-fghts and he
can see mo harm in a colored man and a
white man battering each other for the
of sport"
Mr.. Gray, another Trustee, takes a diff
ferent view of the matter, and Trustee
Hortenstine would like to stop prize
fighting, but cannot quite see the way.
The matter will be decided at the next
meeting of the Trustees.
The affair that is creating such a dis
turbance is the Turner-Nichol contest be-
fore the Antelope Athletic Club next
Wednesday.
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DEVILS SURPASS MAN.
Professor Bacon on the The
ology of Evil
Spirits.
He Says There Is No Virtue in a
Belief in the Unity Of
God

BERKELEY, CAL, Feb. 14.-Professor
Thomas r. Bacon of the State Unive rsity
preached to the Uniiarians in Stiles Hall
this morning on the text, Thou believeth
that there is one God; thou doest well !;
the devil also believes and trembles. But
wilt thou know, o vain mau, that faith
without works is dead!
Devils seem to be great theologians at
times said Professor Bacon. "At the
period when James wrote the words of the
text the belief in the unity of God was a
rare one. but it appears that the devil h ad
gras sped it, not merely one or a few of
them, but all. We do not really know
a great deal about the devils. Only in the
Bible do we learn that they exist and then
our information is vague.
'All is inference and con lecture beyond
the simple fact that they exist-that
some where in the moral universe are dis
embodied spirits given over to evil.
"Unhampered by the observations of the
flesh such beings would naturally be ac-
quainted with spiritual truths. They
know that God is one as fact and as cas-.
lily as we see and know that grass is green.
Doubtless the theology of the devil is
far more accurate than that OF any men.
"Our knowledge that God is one is little
to our credit. Our fathers found it out
long ago and handed it down to us as the
multiplication table or the fact of the
rotundity of the earth"
Professor Bacon announced that the
pulpit would be occupied next Sunday by
Professor Griggs of Stanford and that DR..
Alger, the new pastor of the church, is
expected to arrive during the following
week
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
THE HANDBALL COURTS,
t. f. Bonnet and Il. 1IaIoney Defeat
r. Linehan and Nj. j..
KilRaIson.

Handba1 enthusiasts crowded the San
Francisco court yesterday, as several in
teresting games had been scheduled. The
event of the day was q game in which Il.
F. Bonnet and e. Maloney played against
r. Linehan, the overland swiper, and M.
]. Kilgallon. Bonnet played great game
and he and his partner won the final by
three aces.
NJ. Mcneil and Phil Ryan disappointed
their friends. They had been hoasting
about their ability to vanquish any team
in their class, and Robert Shea and George
Mcdonald took rp the challenge RYAN
and Mcneil were not in it from the start
and Shea and Mcdonald defeated them in
three straight games.
and M. J. Kilgalon will play a game in
the San Francisco court against J. Q. Nea-
Ion and Al Hampton, which should be
well worth seeing.
Owing to the wet weather there were no
games at the Union court yesterday.
Following were the games played in the
San Francisco court:
Robert Shea and G. Mcdonald defeated M.
McNeill and P. Ryan, Ill, 21-19, 21-16:
j. J. Hogan and NJ Basch defeated George Ma,
guire and J. Foley, 21-10. 17-21, 2I-6; E.
Thomas Ryan and W. Darius defeated j
Brown and P. Barry, 21-16, 7-21, 2l-I3; J.
Hinze and Jean Vogelsang defeated D. O'Brien
and C. Callahan, 21-1O, 8-2l, 2I-I5: r.
Murphy and Ed Toy defeated ]. Lawless and
NJ. Edwards, 2l-16, 10-2I, 21-14, 2I-I6:
E. Maloney and T. F. Bonnet defeated R. Line.
han and NJ. J. Kilgallon, 16-21, 2l-9,
Pip, 10-21, 21-lS; T. Hutchinson and NJ
Mcclure defeated P. Kelly and ]. Pendergast
21-9, 1921, 21-16.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

ditions is g. So seconds. Twenty dollars
was put up on the result and there were
many side bets by friends of both men.
The men at the Presidio Post are not
pleased with the order that says that they
shall not play bali at the post on Sunday,
and i'll order to pitch and eaten tney
must now go 10 Golden Gate Park.
The board of examiners has had num-
Der of sessions, examining officers sent be-
fore ii for examination for promotion.
The old gun mounds that were at the
western end of the Preside parade
ground are being removed.
The following named generals are to be
p aced on the retired list during the current
year: Maicr General Thomas II. Ruger,
April 2; Brlgadier- Frank Whea-
ton, May s; and Adiutant-General George
D. Ruggles, Septem Der B.
A new undress cap, recommended by
the quartermaster-genera has been SUBJ
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
track. The case was reported to Coroner
Baldwin, who will hold an inquest to-
morrow afternoon.
SCORE SENATOR BEARD.
He Kills the Annexation scheme of the
EncinaI City Fathers in the
Senate.

ALAMEDA, CAL, Feb. 14.-The citizens
of this place are wrathv over the action of
Senator Beard of Warm Springs, and they
believe that he gives them good cause
to be.
On the north side of the city, situated
along the southern shore of the tidal
canal, is a strip of land thirty feet in
width, known as Harrison street. 1t i
not down on the original city grant, be-
longs to no one seemingly, and if any on
has Jurisdiction over it it is the Board
Supervisors.
The city applied to the Legislature 70
an enabling act to annex it. There being
no inhabitants on it an election could not
be held.
Assemblyman Waymire introduced the
bill in the House and requested Senator
Beard to do likewise in the Senate. He
expressed his Willingness, and up to the
first of last week il was supposed that he
had. But one of the city officials, on look
ing the matter up, found that the bill was
not there. Beard is said to have declared
that the City Trustees could go where it
never freezes.
The only hope the bill now has of pass
ing is in the shape OF an emergency
measure, and as it is not probable that
any such action will be taken Harrison
street must rem ain out in the cold another
two years.
Company G Wins.
ALAMEDA, CAL, Feb. 1.-The target