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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
MIXED PICKLE 5.

"You are nice little boy" said the kindly
old gentleman at the hotel.
Thank you," said Tommie.
"Have you any little brothers?"
YES" said Tommie, 1--WE got brothers TO
burn: but Pm rather short on papas. We've
only got one."-Harper's Bazar.
she-Would you love me more If had a
million dollars?
He-Oi course would. would have more
time.-Indianapolis Journal.
Nature is DountIful and wise;
What would our summers be
If flowers which delight our eyes
Blossomet beneath the sea?
And when the autumn leaves all sere
Are banded by the breeze,
Think what the world would lose in cheer
Ifoysters grew on trees.
Warrington Star.
at hardly seems meet" said the Cornfed
Philosopher, 'yetlt is undoubtedly true that
many young woman is willing to trust with
her heart young man that no butcher will
trust for pound of liver."-Indianapolis
Journal.
1t is unfortunate that Khama's giraffe had q
rough voyage TO England. Seasickness must
be distressing ailment for giraffe.-Pick
Me Up.
Wife-What sweet smile there is on baby's
face, John?
Husband-Yes, he's PROBABLY dreaming that
he's keeping me awake.-Tid-Bits.
Cholly with an air of adoration)-Ah, Miss
Moneybags, how would you, like little bull
puppY?
Miss Money ybags-Oh, Cholly, this is so sud-
den.-The Cornell Widow.
''When does the fathers congress open?"
We've given it up-couldn't get the women
to stay at home and take care of the babies 0
we could get of. f."-Chicago Record.
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POINTED ARAGRAPH

Chicago News.
Where there's a will there's usually g con-
testant.
Snow comes down in the winter and ice
goes up in the summer.
Time flies. That's one advantage it has over
flying machines.
The wind has great deal to do with max
ing the weather vane.
When some men feel blue they get drunk
and paint things red.
The stronger the butter is in the tub the
weaker II is in the market
One word always leads on to another-no
matter whether you ara reading the Bible or a
dime novel
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
PITTSBU RAISING CAIN
New York Mail and Express

1t is to be hoped that the public spirit of
the manufacturers and merchants of Pitts
burg will be equal TO carrying TO artistic COM
pletion the suggested colossal statue OF Tubal
Cain. 1t is proposed to erect bronze figure
OF this ironmaster of Scripture where the Al
leghany and Monongahela rivers join to form
The Ohio, typifying the leading industry of
Piitsburg and holding q. beacon that shall
blaze its light far over the waters and herald
10 the traveller his approach TO this great
center of iron and steel. This bold concep ton
needs the highest quality OF art for its effec-
tive success
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES.

Baroness Hirsch has given Baltimore's Rus
sian night school $4,000.
Since President McKinley's return to the
White House all mail records have been
broken. Every letter is answered.
E. Kuggles Brice, director of the convict
prisons OF Great Britain, will soon visit this
country to study Americas penal institutions.
The Rev. Father Philip Sheridan, q son of
the late General Sheridan, cele bra ted his firs
mass in St. Paups Church, Washington, re-
Gently.
A beautiful monument will soon mark the
last resting-placo of Charles +. Crisp, in Oak
Grove Cemetery, Americus, Ga. The shaft,
seventeen feet in height, will be placed in
position this week.
Governor Lon " Stevens OF Missouri re-
Gently attempted to get himself elected by the
Southwestern Missouri Methodist Conference
as lay delegate to the Baltimore conference,
but was rejected.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia will
spend nearly four weeks in the dominions OF
the Grand Duke OF Hesse. 1t is highly proba-
bic that the Empress will travel incognito
from Darmstsdt to London on a flying and
strictly private visit to the Queen ct Balm oral.
Truth of London denies the statement OF a
Paris paper that the Princess OF Wales has
arranged to go through Father Kneipp's cure
at Woerishofen, Bavaria, next summer. The
Princess went 10 Woerishofen for a couple oil
days when she left Bayreuth in order to see
her sister, the Duchess OF Cum berland.
The late Rear-Admiral John l. worden en-
joyed distinction unique in the service.
After twenty -one years OF sea and twenty -four
OF shore duty he retired on his own appliea-
ton, TO receive the highest sea pay. This he
was enabled TO do by special act of Congress,
Decem Der, 1886, passed in recognition of his
gallantry when in command of the Monitor In
her fight with The Confederate ironclad Mer-
rimac
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IN THE CITY OF THE ANGELS.

Y ou might talk Of South sea Islands and the COM
forts they have there,
OF your Zulu and your Hindoo from the kraal and
jungle lair;
But Los i ngees outdoes them. when our "CIty
Council' meet
They'll provide lifs-savlng stations for the mael-
slroms OF the street.
Then how Pile in the evening meath the lec-
trio lights aglow
To go gliding through the slush- pools while ths
fetd Zephyrs blow.
And your baseball won't be in It, Two and fifty for
seat
at our afternoon regattas 'mong the duckponds OF
the street,
Oh, then come. you pleasure seek ers-all you
merrymaking souls;
Come-you heroes and you gallants from the
tropics to the poles;
Now's The time TO show your prowess-there is not
man y feat
Equals extrlca,ing ladies from the mudholes Of
the street.
T. d. s. in Los Angeles Herald.
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HE BENEFITED HUMANITY,
Jewish Messenger.

There is an oriental story of two brothers,
Ashmed and Omar. Both wished to perform a
deed whose memory should not fail, but which
might sound their name ana praises. Omar,
with wedge and rope, lifted an obslisk OF its
base, carving its form in beautiful devices and
scnlpturlng many strange inscription on its
sides. He set il in the hot desert to cope with
its gales. Ashmed. with deeper wisdom and
truer though sadder heart, digged d well to
cheer the sandy waste and planted about it
tall date palms TO make cool shade Tor the
thirsty pilgrim and to shake down fruits for
his hunger.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
CALIFORNIA AND COOLIE LABOR.

@OLLIs P HUNTINGTON, in a notable speech at a ham,
given at his residence in this city, frankly declared
himself in favor of increasing the amount of Chinese
labor California His argument that the upbud
of industries requires the service cheap labor
would furnish maintained they should not
only be admitted to California but encouraged to come
The views of the mind dominant will of the
great monopoly may be shared by Others but not
boldly expressed Nevertheless the organ company the
EUeng Post has venured to them with only very
of conceamen declares that the opposition to
privilege of COMING
California is "the nconderable argument that has
used against the annexation of Islands.
Perhaps if proposed to annex China
nit all her swaming coolies to land Hunting
ton would still insist that the danger would
not be considerable.
He but poor for welfare OF white working
the danger admission of the Chinese in
Hawaii the freedom California
argument against annexation 1t is in
able objection that is urged the from Californian
! standpoint
Eastern people may object that annexation of the
islands will involve without compensating adyan.
ship would entail evils that might great
closely contested elections that the annexation country
without the of the natives would OF the
fundamental principles of law but they would
do the evil of opening With them
that might be inconsiderabe argument With the
decisive issue.
1t in vain the advocates attempt to evade
this menace to California labor by declaring the danger
that the Chinese not come here
under the treaty. ;hat they would they
common-sense of the people ophistre
Hawaii under the stripes part the
united States whether as Territory State all the
pie living will right pass freely
out the Union have those reside We
have repeatedly pointed treaty which an
nexaon proposed to come
here after annexation The danger therefore
outside offices Huntington is dominating
influence and possibly supporting patron. the argument
based upon it will not be regarded inconsiderable
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
CALIFORNIAN, IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Oct 19-At the St Cloud-R
Abbott; Vendome-R. L. Knapp; Gilsey-E B.
Perrin; Imperial-Mrs. E. II. Price; S.urte-
vant-W. Andrews; Murray Hill-Mrs. H. W.
Senle; Windsor-Miss Barmore; Imperial-S
Peyton. J. Dieterich and Bernhard Paulsen
left the ST. Cloud and sailed on the Lain for
Bremen.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
IN SHAKE PEARE'S COUNTY.

Under the significant heading. .In Shake
speare's County" lone who enjoyed it' sends
to the Birmingham Post the following ex-
qulslte little story. At the close
OF the Tanning of the Shrew -
last night Miss Rehan led forth a gent:eman
IN ordinary attire to share with her the p'aud-
It's OF the audience. The following was over
heard by the writer when leaving the theater;
~ who was tnat came out with her at the last
Was it the autnor?'
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
I'M WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 19.-Archbishop
Kiordan OF San Francisco arrived in Washing
ton to-day to attend the annual meeting OF
the board OF directors of the Catholic Uni
versity, which NEE Is tomorrow. He is at the
Shoreham. Professor David Starr Jordan OF
the Stanford University is at the Arlington.
He comes to Washington on the seal-fisheries
matter
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
RAN FAST ENOUGH TO LOSE.
Bodie MinerIudex

Henry George is running for Mayor OF New
York. Long years ago we mad footrace with
him, and he could run just fast enough to lose
the drinks, which was what we ran for. He
will run for Mayor in the same way. But he
would make fine official all the same.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
JUDICIAL iNEFrICIENCY.
Indianapolis Journal.

1t Is a striking commentary on the ineffi-
cheney OF American judicial methods that
the case OF Durrant, the California church
murderer, should still be hanging in the Su-
preme Court of the United States. 1t never
should nave come before that tribunal. 1t
should have been disposed OF long ago by
the Calfornia courts
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GOLD MINE IN ITS GIZZARD
Sacramento Bee.

Sscramentan brought wild duck home
yesterday. and while in the act of preparing it
for the roasting process discovered IN its
gizzard 81 so in free gold. And still there are
people In this part of the country who are
waiting te go TO the Klondike next spring.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
lRELAND'S POPULATION.
St Louis Globe. Democrat.

Ireiand's population continu ues to decline
The ofhcial figures for last year are $50 ,37S
In 1S45 they were s,295 ,o6l, falling below
100000 in 1850. below 5000 900 in 1856
and below 100000 in 1884. The excess of
plrths over deaths last year was 81 .941, and
the loss by immigration 80, $685. Nearly all
extremely poor crops this year will increase
the emigration, aud the island Will suffer
further decline in population.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

Mary Ann Lee. the mother of the Conted-
crate general, is shortly to be honored by a
monument at Alexandria, Va. Under The
auspices OF the Mary Ann Lee Memorial Asso-
citation bazaar Is to be held this autumn 10
secure FUNDS for its erection. The monument
Will De at the intersection OF two OF the prin.
cipal streets, near historic Christ Church.
where General Lee and his mother worshined
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
HAWAIIS LOAD OF DEBT.

Louisville Courier Journal
The Dole government of Hawaii is young
but t has already increased the bonded debt
from SO, ,O00, 600 10 $4, OOo, 900 and the float
ing debt from $500, 900 TO $3.50 900. That of
course, is an other reason tor annexing Hawaii
for is not national debt a national bless
poD7
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
MRS. winslow's SOOTHING svrrnn

Has been used over fifty years by millions OF moth
ers Tor their children while Teething with nertc.
success 1t soothes the child. softens the euns al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowel,
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas whether
arising from ieething or other causes For sale by
ISIS IN every part OF the world. Be sure and
ask Tor Mrs. w inslow's Soothing Svrrn 25cahortIs
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

CoRoNADo.-Atmosphere is perfectly dry soi.
and mild, being entirely free from the mists com
mon further north. Round trip TICKETS by steam
ship including fifteen days board at the Hotel isi
eoronado. $50; longer stay 81 so per day. Apply
4 Ne" montgomery street. san Francisco or A,
w. Baney' manager Hotel del Coronado, late Of
Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs colorado.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

@"Jackson has an advertisement in this
paper which reads: Come back and Pll ha
good"
HAS his wife left him?''
mo; it's the cook."-Chicago Record.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
FLATTERY OF IMITATION.
GIobeD Democrat

The counterfelting OF certain lines of Ameri-
can manufactures is reported to be a new
industry in Germany. But as rule American
goods are like American girls, ana cannot be
successfully initiated.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
CALIFORNIA glace fruits, SOC lb. Townsend,s. /.

The record of the largest number of
notes struck by a musician in twelve
hours is said to have been made by we'll
known player, who struck 1,030, 800 notes.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
BoDIE CROWS OVER STOCKTON
Bodie Miner Index.

A Stockton poker player raked Gown the pot
with three kings and Immediately died of
heart disease. a Bodie gambler would sweep
the table with a lone deuce and never sweat
hair.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
BY WAY OF SUGGESTION.

7HERE history legend doubtless havn its basis
fact, that Pythas having condemned DEATH
had desire to visit his family and arrange affairs be-
fore going hence that his friend Damon apprcang situ
aton offered himself substitute agreeing Pythas failed
to return in time undergo the unpleasant penalty Of having
incurred the wrath of Donysus involved dying
distressing fashion But Pyhas back according sched
ne and the tyrant did the him. sO
so far as known, they lived happily
Circumstances have changed, original of Damon
Pthias having done the bohey love business period
B. C., and analogous a
Sternberg. who may Pyhia
up-todae Mahoney who excellent
Damon PyhIas Sternberg in JAIL where he
Damon Mahoney outside where make bold assert
he ought not 10 be- Yet does he the
stands weeping by the his falling melancholy
kerpunk, and instead of offering suffer place
begs PythIas be loose
much
Damon Mahoney has studied his lines. To enact his
role properly 1t is for him not merely wall dole
fully, but offer himself substitute. him
stripes and then Pythas sernberg go Free
sius ted by public objection In
fact there suspicion that Damon got
Pyhia in akng them from the fire. only burned
played for sucker If Damon guilty of trick gross
vainy ascbes his wang riendship pr1ckng
There petition for the setting OF Pyhias
be given his liberty Damon willing
place. Even the other Damon did justice
justice then crude affair
present generation is toned
To drop all figures the fact that Sernberg
convict and Mahony State Senator by the of Stern
bergs wants the prisoner released. Well good
is humane emotion II Mahoney will Quentin
offer don the Sernberg serve too short
tem-urey less rigorous than being exeeutedhere will be
no objection to cemency If the hand, Mahoney
wants his pal turned to do uncIean woaas
probabitythen objection will be nigh There
be chorus of dissent in which the Mahoney
Sternberg will be utterly swallowed up.
Anyhow the Damon and Pythias racket is played
Damon is bogus Pythas Their friendship an
human il
marked by decided and deserved frost
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
THE CLERGY AND FOOTBALL
New York Evening snn

The clerical reformers have entered on q
new crusade against football. And yet some
of our divinity students have been the fierce 81
and sturdiest OF football players while fitting
themselves TO fight the devil.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

1t becomes plain what the Supervisors were doing
during that painful period when they was
to be pefxed TO the they already had They simply
the interim OF suspense in sharpening apiece.s
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
BOUND 70 HAVE a "RoY {"
Washington Post

washington Post
Atlanta has a boy preacher who is hnt 9
years OF age and quite eloquent The es-
teemed Constitution may urge him Tor The
Democratic Presidential nomination in 1900
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

SPECIAL informal ton daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Chipping bureau (ALen's), $40 Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
THE PARSEES AND THE GOLDEN PALACE.

o
ana rich and costly
Is harvest OF gitsprobahy
exhibited
ORR
number
is
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

NEGLECT your hair and you lose 1t. PARKER's
hair BALsAM renews the growth and color.
dINDERCoRNs, the best cure for corns, 15 ctx
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

The people of this country like Prince Bismark but the
fact that he does not approve of the Monroe will
disturb them. The truth
in saying frankly that the Monroe doctrine
rved with special pleasing admirable an old
gentleman Bismarck.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

San Francisco policemen drill we'll reason to
believe that squad of them marching against gambling
game would have a tendency to break it up.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

Perhaps the old wandering streets with
thousands OF dollars hidden her clothing
TO be hoped not only she sane al
good working order for that
plenty of people whose wits work all right be glad
relieve her of the coin and who make speciality doing
OF missionary work defty Jail yet
in corraling them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

Perhaps the fact that English
to death in Cuba under the tender administration of Weyler
will dull edge glish sympathy for Spain
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

The for de the release OF
be he and there rasca who
ought be with him and still outside 1t fails to
touch the popular heart
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

Durrant and everybody else living California
congratulated the approach of
shall be hanged The has been pleasant
particularly there been it. The
OF Durrants guilt heavily people
himself grievous to be borne
He ought to find the of being gaows
positive relief
What C. o. Brown intends to do is not clear, beyond
fact that having been bereft reputation wants to
Others similarly deprived Mr. Brown instead of getting his
back in this unholy fashion, ought oblivion OBJ
lvion is general PRINCIPLES
but Brown to get it assumes
mi ASPECT of a snan
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

E. kuggles Brice. director of the convict
prisons OF Great Britain, will soon visit this
country to study Americas penal institutions
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

The Rev. Father Philip Sheridan, q son of
the late General Sheridan, cele bra ted his first
mass in st. PauPs Church, Washington, re-
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

REGENTs--Minie, City. II you are unso.e @ 10 20
l.t 49, simnIy SEND your card without any
vited, slp of rpegret upon It, that it will reach
woiIs W., I'D living the reception on the DAY set
fnr 1 or the day alter
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

HOLSTER STATES G., City. There is no GER
..tn+T, az m how indiana came to be called the
Hoo.ier State, but the following IS given "a as to
how the nickname was brought sD9as Sas Wbo's w t
T"Who's mere? and that was corrupted
in m HOosier
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

The classified ads'' of Chicago morning
paper recently contained the following, says
the Times. Herald:
M
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-10-09
DeYious Definitions.

Nobody-A prominent woman's hus-
band.
Statistician-A man who can prove
that figures always lie.
Gossip-A deadly gas that is always
fatal to friendship.
Thunder-The only reliable weather
report yet discovered.
Hammock-An article used as g
spoonholder at love feast.
Perambulator-A good thing that
but few men care to push along.
Pedestrian-A person who is always
getting in the way Of bicycle.
Matrimony-A sort of trust for the
protection Of infant industries.
Because-Eve's legacy to her daugh.
tiers as an excuse for the inexcusable.
Experience = Something rybody
gets after it is too late to make use of it
Definition Something looked up in
The dictionary to-day and forgotten to
morrow.
Faith-The thing that makes bald
headed man invest in bottle Of hail
restorer.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-10-09
NEW THROUGH PASSENGER ROUTE
From Colorado. Utah and California.

The Chicago Times-Herald of August
9th says that on September 18th the
new passenger traffic alliance between
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul R'y
and the Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific
R'y goes into effect, and on that date
the lirst palace sleeping car will leave
Denver for Chicago. This will be At
taehed to the regular night train for
Omaha, aud will be delivered at that
point to the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St.
Paul R'y. On October 9th, tourist
car route over the Southern Pacific,
Rio Grande Western, Colorado Mid
land, Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific
and Chicago, Milwaukee 4 ST. Paul
R'ys will be inaugurated. Tourist cars
will be run once week between San
Francisco and Pittsburg via Chicago,
leaving San Francisco every Saturday
morning. These facilities will furnish
first-class and tourist service BY very
popular combination OF routes for pas.
sengers from California, Utah and Col
orado 10 Chicago and all points East
thereof. For further particulars, time
table folders, rates 81 fare etc, call or
the nearest coupon ticket agent, or ad
dress Alex Mitchell, Commercial Agent
Chicago, Milwaukee < 81. Paul Ry
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-10-09
Notice 81 Assessment.

West Branch Canal Company Iorattmn ~
W ~ principal place Of business. Blarkfssit.
naturalization ~ Canal FTopCTty, Biug.
ham County. Idaho.
Notice IS hereby given that. At a meeting
Of the BOARD Of Trustees. hold on Saturday.
September 18th, lsH. Assessment No IL. of
thirty-age az cents per share vas levied upon
the capital stock ri their corporation. paya-
bic 10 John Montgomery, Secretary and Treas
urer, East Main and Idaho streets Blarkfoot.
idaho.
Any stock upon which this assessment en- Al,
be unpaid on Monday. the nth day OF Soyetp.
Der, l-H, will be delinquent and advertised
for sale at public auction, and Unless pay
ment IL made before. enough Or each parcel
Of stock will be sold on saturday. tho 18th day
Of November, isg7, - pay said Assessment
with cost Of advertising and expense 81 sale.
JOHN MONTGOMERY.
Secretary aud Treasurer
West Branch Canal Co
Blackfoot. Idaho, September 30th, 1871.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-10-09
Delinquent Notice.

TUE Riverside Ditch Company Location 81
principal place Of business Blarkfrot.
bingham County. Idaho.
N0TICE-1'here is delinquent upon tho fol-
lowinG-describcd stock on account or Assess.
ment No. 10, levied on the 18th day Of August.
1891 tho amount set opposite tho names Of
aforementioned Stockholders:
Names. Cert'f. No. Shares Amt,
a. ID. Morrison, % 70 ii
l.. 9. Main, 43 rs n
And In accordance with law and the order of
the Board Of Directors OF tho corporation
made on the 18th day Of August, isg7, enough
Of each parcel of stock above descrIbod
shares Will DO sold At public auction al the
ofico Of Blackfoot Lumber Company, Black
foot, Idaho. at . O'Clock p. M, on Saturday,
the 9th day Of October, 1871, TO pay dellnaucni
assessment, cost Of advertising aud expense
Of sale.
by order Of Board of Directors,
JOHN p. PORTER,
Secretary and Treasurer Riverside Ditch &c
Blactfoot, Idaho. September 20, 1851.