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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05

The steps which lead to it go down,
down, quite little ways below the side
WALKS of this alley back of Mission street,
and your feet are among blown bits OF
refuse and dust and the cobwebs cling to
your body as you go by.
A woman with wrInkled and shrunken
visage and unkenpt hair thrust herself
part way through the door. She had a
little plaid shawl. faded and ragged,
caught up about her neck and one lean
hand held il in its place.
liza gust of north wind had not suddenly
dashed roughly against Us l fancy L should
never have seen beyond the outer door,
but The woman shivered slightly with the
cold and drew back. and followed.
as this Mrs. Rice2" l asked. 1 had
been told that the mother OF the we'll
known actress Fanny Rice lived there;
that for years she had kept to herself
down in the dirt and filth and squalor of
this back alley, refusing all offers OF
better habitation from the daughter, who
was abund antly able to give it 10 her, and
preferring to keep her identity unknown
and be as she wished.
The woman to whom [ spoke made I'M
Ineligible sound and moved across the
Ozark AID narrow room 10 narrow bunk
Fiat must have served her for led and
Ma bled the rags about upon it and sat
ol The edge of it and looked at me.
Mere was one chair in the room and
one bare little stand, on which sat a
bowl and a partly broken cup. Tne floor
was uncovered; the one window, which
was about level with the sidewalk, was
barred, although one could never have
seen anything looking from the light of
day INTO the uinginess of that room. a
rusty stove, with but three unsteady legs,
occupied small corner all TO itself. Or
one unpapered wall of the room were two
shelves. On the upper shelf lay Two dusty
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those photographs were all the idols she
had and Fanny Rice as much goddess of
bounty to her as any Venus could ever
have been to those who worshiped her"
The speaker crossed the room ana
lifted one OF the pictures from the shelf
where 1t was lying. Soiled it was from
its contact with the dirt of the place and
yet when the woman had carefully busted
it On her apron and handed it to me IL
was certainly a sweet face that smiled
from the card board, and in the girls
handwriting across tie back was traced:
ITO my dear mother, from her loving
daughter Fanny"
There's not many girls in the world
who wouldn't have forgotten that
mother" said my new-found acuuaint.
ance, as we climbed the steps to the side.
walk together. The papers did not speak
we'll of her when she was here They said
she couldn't act, and couldn't sing. and
lots of other things, and it made me hate
them. They didn't any of them know
how faithful she'd been all these years
how she left her friends that were like
herself, and came to see the old woman
whom she couldn't make like herself lust
to make the old lady happy. Why, she
was more dutiful and kind to her than
manv girl is to a mother whom she
should be proud of and love dearly. I
used to want to tell people SOL
III tell them so !" said, and thanked
her and hurried away before she rscoy.
cred from her surprise.
saw Fanny Rice when she was here
last, and l did not think she could sing.
nor had any idea that she could act, and
she had lost most of her youthful pretti.
ness; but think if she ever comes again
to the city where her mother lies buried
in an obscure and unknown grave. 1 shall
go and see her and be glad that she Ia for
the good she tried to do.
MURIEL BAILY.
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for the next time I saw her she was dead
in this room and this old woman was
here"
she died suddenly ?" asked, a queer
feeling creeping over me at her tone and
the strange actions of the other one.
why" she said, 1.-The house fell on
her-that Fihh-street house. don't you re-
member, that fell and hurt so many
peopleY She was passing at the time and
was killed. Nobody knew, when they
dragged out the poor old creature. that she
was the mother of woman who is known
from here to New York. and this woman
led the way here and she was buried and
nobody said anything about it. Even the
newspapers didn't get hold OF il.
And the daughterP'
81 DON'T think she knew until she came
on because there was no one to send her
word. She was travelling with the COM
pany andino one knew where she was. The
neighbo-s say that when she came out she
drove up here, but 1 don't know what she
didior said, for she drove away again and
never came back. and this woman has
lived here ever since, just as the mother
lived before, although no one knows who
she i, and she won't tel.
"The old woman's herbs are just as she
left them. l don't think they've been
touched. You can tell they haven't been
busted. The only difference is that the
top shelf used always to be kept clean.
and that was the only p ace in the room
that was clean, because on that shelf she
kept the photographs that Fanny Rice
sent her. 1t was a kind of shrine, you
know. an humble one, but still guess
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of advice with letter containing PROPOSE.

of advice with letter containing PROPOSE
ton.
What would lead one rather to adopt the
second hypothesis is the manner in which the
letter dwells on the officers profession, pro-
fession destined to give impor tance to the in
formation which the anonymous writer pro-
poses to deliver, and on the equivocal manner
in which it speaks Of the firing manual of the
artillery.
These two hypothesis enable one to explain
the origin of the note. Found, as we know, in
the paper-basket of foreign embassy, it was
thrown there either as thing without I'M
portance coming from an agent whose ser
vices could no longer be utilized, or with the
object of saving a real traitor and in this way
OF putting the Bureau of Information OF the
Ministry OF War on the wrong track.
On such feeble proof they would never have
dared to take Captain Dreyfus before coun-
Gil of war if he had not been Jew and if the
pressure OF the anti-Semitic band had not con-
strained Minister without character or cour-
age. But even then that council of war would
have acquitted him if General Mercier, in de-
hance of all justice, had not communicated TO
the judges document which, according to
him. established the guilt of Captain Dreyfus
The existence of this document, unknown
to the accused, unknown to his counsel, GEN.
eraI MERCER himself has revealed to every
body. He did this in the newspaper the
Eclair on September 10, 1896. According to
the Eclair, it was letter in cipher written
by German military attache in Paris to an
Italian military attache and containing this
phase: Decidedly this animal Dreyfus is be-
coming too exacung." These details are in.
accurate. General MERCER, who had lied al
ready, when he was interviewed lied again
and communicated to the newspaper informa-
ton that was partly ia lse. The letter submit
tod tn fha Of in, nj nhn
1t was written in French and contained not
the name Dreyfus, but the initial 3D.
Is 1t likely that this German military
attache, having succeeded in winning from
his Government a captain of the general staff ,
a precious agent, whom he would safeguard,
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seemed so incongruous 10 think of their
being clasped around that girls elegant
silks. You couldn't some way have
thought of her as being any ones mother
She wasn't like that l can't explain, but
she was different"
But she had the mother love-" said.
mo; 1t was more like the affection of a
patient animal that would crawl about
faithfully and lick the hands and feet of
the master than the full love that a
mother should have. That's the reason
that l think her mind was turned, else
she would not have been so different from
her child. l never saw the daughter on
the stage, but the IN other used to go and sit
way up In the gallery. She used to wear
the old clothes that she had. Fanny used
to give her others, but she wouldn't wear
them, and after the play was out she'd
creep around to the stage entrance and
stand in the shadows and watch until
her daughter came out with her friends,
and laughing and talking got into her
carriage and drove away, and then the
mother would creep home through the
darkness of this alley and go down these
steps into this bare, cold room and lay
herself in this bed and pull these bed
clothes up around her and go to sleep
alone.
'The last time l saw the old lady was
the me that she read me Fanny's
letter saying she would be in the city
soon and would be so happy to see her
mother and ali that. remember that
was unkind enough to think that would
not have been glad to have claimed her
for my mother. But she never saw er,
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how. But one would imagine that the
hrst rather than the last child would have
had the Joy of life within it. for the
mother must have had youth then, and
some degree of hope and strength. And
when she had struggled and worked and
wanted for six childish lives there woula
seem TO be little Joy left Tor the seventh.
ibid she 90 anything for her support
or did her daughter care fjr herP'
Tie little woman laughed cheersullv.
"See those bags and tins on that shelf2'
she asked. "Those are filed with herbs.
The old lady had an idea that she could
cure people with those-cure anVthin q
from sore zoe to consumption. She used
TO have imaginary patients and she was
always doctoring herself. 1 don't think
she ever would have died a natural death
She was dreadfully old. l could never
have guessed her age. She was older than
this one, l think" she said, indicating
the silent woman at her side, whose ace
l could never have imagined in tbou.
sand years.
but anyhow, in spite OF her age and
previous condition, and present con-
dItion, too,' she SAID brightly, "the
daugh ier was cool to her, and she was as
devoted 10 the daughter as a slave. Her
only thoughts in the world were of her
herbs and her child. The last letter she
received from Fanny before she died she
brought over 10 my house and read TO me-
and in il the girl said she was just count
ing the days until she would be clasped
once more in her mothers arms. And |
RENE mber that | looked at the lean arms
covered with the ragged garments, and it
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pretext of ill health, though in the best Of
physical health.
1t is also regarded as significant, in view
OF the closing sentence of the fateful
memorandum, that he attended the ma
neuvers despite the fact that ne was not
assigned ana in strict propriety had no
right to be there. Testimony is also COM
ing 10 light indicating that he has cher.
ished secret hatred against France in
general and the army in particular.
The more Esterhazy turns about TO face
new accusers the more does be seem to
become immeshed in his explanations.
NJ. Scneurer-Kestner knows the real
culprt.
II Esterhazy is not the traitor the Sena-
tor would have proclaimed that fact many
d avs ago E. d. CoWEN
GENUINE.
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himself methodicalIy to disentangling the
threads of this mystery. Now ne de-
cIares without reservation that he knows
the truth, the whole truth, and that he
will tell it.
"Dreyfus is, according to him, the victim
OF a frlghtfuI Judicial error. II this is
(.oved, we cannot prevent ourselves from
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he would not challenge public discus
sion of the mysterious evidence which he
seems to have obtained until all the
efforts of others who insist on legally
securing reopening of the Dieyfus case
have failed.
Paul de Cassagnac, the imperialist ed
itor, insists that the revision of the trial Is
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.

We never could enjoy our rest be-
tween pair of good blankets with our
horses and cows resting" (?) on bare
plank or cement.
The pigs will, if given the opportu-
nifty, do much cleaning where threshing
was done out doors; so will the chick.
ems, and without tearing the ground
up SO much.
Let those who are building up their
flocks and herds not neglect to head
them with the best animals obtaina-
BILE. These can be bought right, while
scrubs are dear at any price.
When it comes to quality, there is far
less difference in the best butter made
by deep and shallow setting and by GEN.
trifugal separating than dairymen
were formerly led to suppose.
A ton of butter taken from the farm
removes scarcely any fertility, while a
ton of wheat removes about $3.50 worth
and ton of corn about five dollars
worth. I Surely, the dairy farm should
improve.
II would be good thing for the coun-
try, both from a financial and hui
manitarian standpoint, if there were
more veterinary surgeons and fewer
"hoss doctors." There really is no more
noble profession than that of the
skilled "vet."-Agricultural Epitomist
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
PERSPECTIVE OF ARTISTIC $500 HOME.

color; dinning-room terra-cotta; kitch-
en- and pantry are painted steel gray.
The foundation is of rubblestone, 49,
inch wall. The first story and second
are sheathed with fence flooring and
SIDED with three-inch siding, having
building paper between the siding and
sheathing. The chimneys above the
roof are of yellow brick, and capped
with stone. The chimney brace is Of
wrought iron, as shown.
There is an ornamental iron gas lamp
light on the stone rail of front steps, as
shown.
The entire basement is concreted.
The drain pipes lead from down.
spouts to catch basin, and the sewer
pipes from sewers to cess pool. All
work is to be done in the very best man
ner, and only the very best materials OF
each kind are to be used dthroughoutth this
building. At completion the house
must be left broom clean, all ready for
occupancy. G. A. w. KNIT.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
THE FARMING WORLD.
GOOD WINTER RATION.
Green Cut Bone Is u Good Substitute
fnr Wnrn,a md IuaeCfa

Green Cut Bone Is u Good Substitute
for Worms and Insects.
Now that the supply of bugs in the
fields is inaccessible, fowls must be pro-
vided with a substitute which will form
q meat ration. That meat of some sort
is necessary for both old and young
stock is generally-accepted fact.
There is nothing in our opinion which
SO thoroughly fills this want as green
cut bone. With the invention of the
modern green bone cutters the problem
Of feeding this most excellent meat ra-
tion is easily solved. Different breeders
have different ideas as to the manner
Of feeding. We advise three times a
week, and little at first until the hens
become used to it. Fed as separate ra-
tion it gives better results than If mixed
with other foods. In this way we can
easily control its consumption, and it
Snswers the purpose of meat ration
more thoroughly. 1t is good for both
old and young stock, and especially val
liable for growing cockerels. AS COM
pared with other food. we consider it
very cheap. The material, the green
bones, can be had for an average Of
half cent pound in any butcher
shop. Cutting them up is matter Of
but little time and labor, depending
upon the number Of hens to be fed. The
best bones to buy and which cut the
best are ribs. These, if chopped into
small pieces an inch or two long, will
fit the machine and are easily cut up the
required size.
There is nothing in modern poultry
culture that has gained so firm hold
among the fanciers and breeders as
green cut bone. That it is not used as
much as It should be we are convinced
A few hesitate to use it because of the
cost of the machine, but if one stops to
consider that this expense can easily be
made in the increased egg yield we
think this objection will be overruled
From experiments in meat of different
kinds, both cooked and raw, we are in.
clined more to the latter. Raw meat
is more natural substitute for bugs
worms and insects. Fowls crave fol
raw material and devour it more raven
ously. Green cut bone is raw meat ra.
ton. 1t is cheap, it is beneficial in
many ways, both as food and tonic
It is easily obtained and easily fed, ant
is paying investment.-Country Gen
| tleman.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.
Yet He Did Not Resort to False
hood.

hood.
A benevolent looking old lady had her at
tention called to a small street urchin who
was crying as if his heart would break.
"Come, come, my little fellow, don't cry.
Has some one hurt you or are you afraid OF
something?"
"Nome, but I'll get licked when git
home"
What have you been doing that you'll
81 lost dime, an pap'll whip me when l
60 home"
"Oh, we will fix that for you. Wipe
your face, and will give you another dime,
so there will be no trouble on that account" I"
When he got the dime his face frightened
like the sky after a shower. He was not the
same boy. In fact, in his tones and look and
talk there was change that was almost mar
velous.
"Now," said the good woman, run along
and be good boy. But before you 60 you
must tell me what your father gave you the
dime for"
"Yesum. He gave it to me to git hin,
some beer, but left the bucket around the
corner"
"That's too bad. I'm sorry your father
drinks. | hope. when you grow up you will
never drink a drop"
"Nome, / won't"
"Maybe if you look right carefully you
can find the dime you lost. Where was 1t
you dropped it?"
Il didn't drop it, l lost it; jist lost it,"
"But where did you lose it?"
Fright aroun' ther' in the alley"
"But how did it happen that you lost
IT was pitchin' pennies with the feller.
an they got it all. Cincinnati Commercial
| Tribune.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
seIectIon Of YOUNG sow,.

In selecting young sows to be used
as breeders, care should be'taken to Sc
cure those that are well developed and
give promise Of making good feeders.
They should be well fed, and made to
develop as rapidly as good health will
permit, for the feeding habit and con-
stitution Of the mother is supposed es-
pecially to impart to the young her own
digestive system, and it is natural, there,
fore, to conclude that the thrifty, rap
dly-growing young sow will impart
those characteristics to her offspring.
Early maturity, together with vig-
orous constitution, is now the desired
end sought BY all swine breeders and
feeders.--Prairie Farmer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
IronicaI Ifs.

If your enemy is too big to whip you
should forgive him.
If man has plenty of sand he always has
lots of grit.
If the office has no salary attached it is
obliged to seek the man.
If some men would conceal what they
know they would be more popular.
If justice was really blind she wouldn't be
able to wink at her favorites.
q If woman's grief happens to be wrinkle
even time cannot heal it.
If men were serpents all the women would
want to be professional snake-charmers.
If man trusts to luck for his happiness
he will be in luck when he gets it.
If you convince man against his will
you may have to do it over again next day.
If you monkey with buzz-saw you may
be compelled to write shorthand the rest Of
your days.
If the foolhardy man was only foolish it
wouldn't matter so much; but he is always
hardy and lives to a ripe old age.-Chicago
Nnwa
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
Ar Cure for con.umption.

There are now six sanitariums in
Germany at which consumptives are
treated by constant exposure to air
at low temperature. Currents of cold
air are allowed to pass through tho
bedroom at night, and during the day
as much of the time is spent in the open
air as possible. The pure, cold air
quiets cough, lessons temperature, ar
rests night sweats, improves appetite
and modifies or arrests the course of
the disease. Observations made in
these sanitariums have developed the
interesting fact that it is exceedingly
rare, indeed, that infection of healthy
persons by contact with consumptive
inmates is observed.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
The Motormnn,n Pie

Here is melancholy story of motormao
and his luncheon The car was nearly ready
to start at the beginning Of the route, when
woman got on and took her place on the
front seat along with the driver, "stern,
married-looking mar" who had a basket be.
side him, and was somewhat hurriedly eat
ing his luncheon. The woman began ask.
ing questions, and the man, as she left him
opportunity, continued to snatch now and
then a bite. By and by at the ring of the
bell he let on the power and the car started,
while he. held in one hand great slab OF
cherry pie" A few blocks down the street
an. iimpish child danced across the track
suddenly so near the car that the gripman
put on the brakes, and the woman with the
inquirinS mind rose to her feet in alarm.
The danger passed, she sat down again heav-
ily. The stern.faced gripman had ceased to
eat his pie. "You don't have much time for
meals, do your asked the woman with the
inquiring mind. "No'm," replied the grip
man, sadly. Where's your pie?" went on
the woman with the inquiring mind.
You're sitting on it." he said.-Washing-
ton Post.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
Not Up in Nautical Lore.

At sea, as many people know, time, in.
stead of being reckoned by hours, is divided
into watches of four hours each. From
four o'clock to six, and six o'clock to eight,
there are half divisions, nautically termed
dog watches. In an insurance case the coun-
sci asked an old sailor what time of day ccr-
tain collision occurred, and received the re.
ply: about the middle of the first dog
watch" In summing up the case the bar
rister enlarged upon the information thus
impaired, as follows: "You can imagine, gen.
tlemen Of the jury, the care which existed on
this occasion, when, as appears from one 1 q !
ship and her cargo and the lives of passen.
gers and crew were intrusted to what, gens
Slemen?-why, to the mere watch Of dog!'
English Paper.
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BARRED sMoKEHoUsE.

smokehouse. The lower barrel has q
small door through which to replenist
the smoldering fire in the iron kettle OF
the inside. The bottom of the box has
holes in it similar to those in the top
the upper barrel being raised to show
these. The front of the box is hinged
to admit the meat. The upper barre
has neither top nor bottom and servei
merely as chimney to provide some
little draft and to carry off the smoke
Two small holes in the lower barrel ad'
init air to feed the smoldering fire.
American Agriculturist.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-29
OIL for burning prtckn.

The adaptability of oil for burning
bricks and pottery is recenr discovery.
By forced draught the heat from the
burner can be directed at uniform
temperature toward any part of the
arch of the kiln. 1t costs 80 cents to
burn 1000 of brick with wood at $5 per
cord; with coal, so cents. The cost is
38 cents when oil is used. With wood
10 men are required every "a hours.
Using oil, two men can do the work.
Only six days are required for burning
the kiln with the new method, instead
of seven or eight, as formerly. The
bricks are better, because with forced
air draught the temperature of the xii
is entirely under control.