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The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
FRATERNAL MENT.
Sherwood Council, C. o. F., Gives an
interesting Entert ainment to
Its Friends.

The entertain nment and social that WAS
given recently by the members of Sner-
wood Circle Companions of the Forest, to is
friends in the circles hall, Foresters' build
ing, was one of those pleasant social gather
ings for which this circle IS noted. As usual
there good attendance and the pro-
gramme that was presented was decidedly en-
tertaining. This affair, which had been
arranged by Mrs. Sarah Charpiot, Mrs. Kate
Howard and Mrs. Josephine Hartley, included
q few select numbers, ''the dressing OF the new
woman" collation. and dancing. There was
a banjo ana guitar duet by Messrs. Miles and
Marion, a recitation by Miss Emily Berger:
vocal solo by NJ. Abrahamson, "the pet OF
Sherwood Circle,"a guitar duet by the Misses
Minnie and Tiliie Patterson, a vocal solo by
Mrs. Dr. Brackett and short addresses on the
order by Mrs. Sarah Beverson, supreme grand
chief mpanion; George Berger. supreme
grand left guide, and Miss Lena Schweitzer,
supreme grand inner guide.
Then came the dressing OF the new woman.
There was on one OF the walls figure OF
woman in bicycle costume. Ten individuals
were selected to dress her, and each, bind
folded, was given q garment to pin 10 the fig
ure. There was fun watching these individ-
uals place the several garments where they
did not belong. Those who came nearest
placing garment where it did belong were
awarded prize. There fine COLLATION.
and then followed dancing.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
THE TEXAS WATERMELON
San Antonio Express


Compare the watermelon crop of Texas with
the Washington monument at Washington.
D. c. The monument is 55215 feet high and
1465z feet square at its base Build monu-
ment of Texas 10000, 900 melons. PACK the m
solid. and they would make a column 1928
feet high, 1451a teet square at the base In the
bottom layer there would be "a, ,528 melons.
occupying 21.462 square feet. TINS calcula-
melons-iourteen inches long and nine inches
in diameter. These 10000, 900 watermeIons
would weigh in the aggregate the enormous
total OF 500 1000 900 pounds 1t would REQUIRE
10000 freightcars and 1900 full trains of
twenty-five cars each to transport them. The
trains, with not foot of space between them.
would cover distance OF ITO miles.
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PERSONAL.

J. Monahan of Fresno is stopping at the Cos
mopolitan Hotel.
Charles Rule, stock-raiser OF Duncans
Mills, is at the Grand.
DR.. D. R. Taggart, physician OF Bakersfield,
is guest of the Lick.
DR.. George E. Goodman Jr., the Napa banker,
Is guest ut The Palace.
G. W. Boggs, grain merchant of Tracy, is at
the Russ, accompanied by his son.
Samuel NJ McMurtrie, contractor OF Port
land, Or, is registered at the Palace.
l.. NJ Mage, wife and daughter OF San Jose
are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
C. C. Merriman, a vineyardist and winery
man of Fresno, is registered at the Grand.
NJ. E. Wise and wife of Lordsburg, CAL, are
visiting the City, and are regis tered at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel.
c. Beckfort, an extensive cattleman OF
Williams Arlz, is among the guests at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel
DR.. F. 4. Gailison, physician from Point
Arena, arrived at the Russ yesterday and Will
make this City his future residence.
Baron A. de Senarclens OF Liege, Belgium,
arrived at the Palace yesterday, having come
in on the morning overland from the East
George F Becker, member OF the United
States Geological Survey at work on this coast.
arrived al tne Palace last nlgnt lor u lew uhyS
stay,
]. B. Fuller of Marysville, one Of the State
bank examiners, arrived yesterday at the
Califoraie, accompanied by his wife and
daughter
II. o. Bax-Ironside, an attache of the British
embassy at Washington, is at the Palace, ac-
companied by his valet. He arrived yester-
day from Panama on the City of Sydney and
is westward bound on pleasure tour of the
world.
State Senator John J. Boyce of Santa Bar.
bara is at the Decide nta. He Is on his way
home from steamship trip TO Alaska, which
he took for rest and change advised by his
physician.
Among the arrivals yesterday at the Palace
we're: W. H. Palmer, wife and two children,
end Mrs S. Taiiaferro and two children, all of
Houston, Tex. and on their way homo from
Central America.
Martin F. Sosa OF Sonsanate, San Salvador
arrived at the Palace yesterday from Cen trail
America, accompanied by his daughter, and
will remain here several days for pleasure and
recreation. He is a prosperous hardware mer-
inland from the Pacific.
Leonard W. Coleman OF Keswick, the seat of
the big Iron Mountain copper mines, near Red
ding, is at the Palace. He is secretary of the
company, which is an English concern, en-
ploying $50 men in the mines and $50 men in
the smelters. 1t is the largest copper property
on the Pacific Slope and employs one OF the
biggest forces of miners in California.
c. L. Bradford, a former journalist and now
merchant and real estate dealer of Hilo, Ha-
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by preparing to go to gold basis. This is
what has caused silver to go to Its lowest eoo
and destroyed the alleged parity between the
white metal and wheat.
Last spring, even after Mckinley was In
augurated and Congress was engaged in extra
ordinary session, Mark Hanna held back the
season. and until late in June it seemed there
was going 10 be no summer. This backward
ness of the season gave promise OF failure
of crops and consequent famine and distress
in this country about election time. relying
upon this condition tor success, the Ohio
Democracy met in convention and declared
for calamity and free silver, and kicked the
Popuists out of the camp.
prosperity tnat is spreading over the Nation
and totally burying in the sea OF forgetui-
ness the awful panic that hung like pail over
this country throughout the tenure of Demo-
cratic supremacy. Remarkable man, this
Marx Hannal
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WHAT MARK HANNA HAS DONE.
st. Mary g Graphic.

Democrat remarked 10 the Graphic the
other day that Mark Hanna is going to be the
ruination of this country. This remark in
spired the following summary OF what Mark
Hanna has been accused of by Democrats and
through the commission of which acts he has
incurred their displeasure:
He sent evil spirits across the ocean with
instructions to blight the crops of Europe and
create a demand for American wheat in
foreign markets. The blight came, and the
foreign demand followed CLOSELY upon its
heels, and American wheat went up to a dollar
a bushel.
He sent another evil spirit to Japan and in
splred the people of that country 10 go on 8
gold basis. He also gave this same evil spirit
paramount instructions to turn its attention
to Peru and Salvador, and those two countries
have since repeated the Crime of 49, by
adopting gold basis of finance. He has sine Q
cabled the spirit TO try It's hand in Mexico, and
now tho land of the greaser is trying to
emerge from the slough of financial despond
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HIS REVENGE.
Spare Moments.


"Oh, yes; think Pm beginning to pick up
the game, now," chuckled the little man in the
railway carriage as he Rugged his packages
and smiled at his friend who sat next to him.
81 don't understand, my friend"
mo ? Well, you see, it's q kind Of open
question at home as to which of us. the wife or
l, is head of the house. Last Christmas she
had saved up enough of my own money to buy
me some presents. What got was q damon q
ring, so small that she had to wear 1t; lot OF
toilet accessories for the dressing.table. and a
pair of kid gloves that happened to be her
size"
Wouldn't 1t be we'll to assert yourself; just
enough, you know 2"
well, to-morrow's her birthday, and you
see all these bundles ALI presents for her.
There's a pair OF boots made to my measure
ments, three neckties a half dozen big linen
handkerchiefs, briarwood pipe and four
pounds of smoking tobacco. They're all for
her," And the little man laughed till be
dropped most OF his packages
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
MEN AND WOMEN.

Mrs. J. A. Hayes, the daughter of Jefferson
Davis, lives at Colorado Springs. She has two
sons, the elder of whom, by an act of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature, Is to bear the name of
Jefferson Hayes Davis.
DR.. W. L. Abbot of Philadelphia, who has
made valuable dona tions to the Smithsonian
Institution, has now given a collection of
birds from the Malayan peninsula containing
1000 birds representing over 200 species.
Queen Victoria, it is said, has travelled more
miles than any other European ruler. Since
1912, the year she first entered a railway car
riage, her record, according to an English au-
thority. is 100000 miles. The Prince of
Wales has about 100000 miles to his credit.
1t is reported in Atchison, Kans., that J. d.
Harmon, the famous Missouri laugher, is dead.
Harmon had q guffaw which could be heard
for many blocks, and it was so contagious that
he was a great attraction when he visited
Atchison to sell the products of his farm.
Harmon lived few miles across the Missouri
line.
Birmingham bookseller was intervie wed
the other day respecting the ways of some of
his distinguished customers. Asked how Mr..
Gladstone orders books he replied: Gle re-
turns the catalogue marked, with the instruc-
L.
Chamberlain" "Weu?" "Oh, he buys books
of reference-useful books. 1 have sold MIN
many SUCH Then Mr.. Ruskin is another old
customer of mine" ''Aud what was his pc.
culiaf1ty?" "Well, If he bought f9 los worth
of books, he would send me check Tor E10,
and say, Give the ch ange TO the packer"
Henry o. Tanner, the negro artist, one OF
whose paintings has been purchased by the
GOparnmant m al.
lery, was born in Philadelphia about thirty
Eve years ago. He Is the son of Bishop Tan
ner, formerly of Philadelphia, but now o; Kan
sas City, Mo. When young Tanner was still in
the twenties he became drawing instructor iE
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Later he
went TO Paris and there became pupil oil
Benjamin Constant. He exhibited in the sa.
Ions of 1895 and 1896 his pictures then at.
tracing favorable criticism.
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bull to help i'm out of difficulty. He had
been sued for non-payment of debt amount
ing to $4O0. He owed the money and was will
ing to pay 1t, but it was absolutely out of his
power to settle at once. and the creditor re-
fused to give him more time. II little time
were given he could eas1ly square the debt.
What do you want the money for?' asked
Trumbull.
"'For negro girl who helps my wife about
the house.
''Then Trumbull, after rejecting bit, told
the ma n that if he didn't want to pay his cred
itor couldn't make him. The client said il
was just obligation and ne would pay but
inasmuch as he couldn't get any extension ne
would have to get Trumbull to fight the cas- e
in the courts. Well, the case came up for
trial and the court decided for Trum ulrs S
man on the ground that there was no consid-
GRAFTON. 1t was held that Illinois was free
State and had been ever since the Virginia
ordinance of 1887, which sought to limit
slavery to the country south OF the Ohio
River.
whether the debt ever was settled after the
decision in favor of the de- btor / don't know,
but so far as further trade in darkies was con-
eerned that decision ended things But it Is
curious TO note that even after this the Illinois
legislature passed a law forbidding negroes
TO come within the borders of the State and
as penalty provided that any who old so
should be arrested and sold at public auc.
tim -
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TOLERATE NO MORE DELAYS.

Tow that the Board of Supervisors has determined to
a thorough investigation into the of delay in
of the Hall of Justice, It's to be hoped
early action of sautary kind in the premises will put
candaous disregard of duty which has aroused
widespread indignation against the procrastnang contractors
Fmsy longer be tolerated The contractors
prolific of retexts for deferng operations At
lack another dearth of stone then the
underpinning and next old well the site
filled Three months have thus been consumed and
engaged construct the municipal building
shift blame to the shoulders of the architect
To-day Hall of Justice site practically deserted Property
in the vicinity damaged by the
listing condition of affairs.
The of the contract provid that in due dill
exercised the construction of the building the
shall charge OF the work. de-
ducng the account of the
No further OF time should granted If the
abide by their agreement the contract
should their Too much leniency has
already Public patience has been exhausted
in
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
The Chosen Friends.

West Berkeley Coun Gil of Berkeley gave an
entertainment and dance in its hall recently
at which there were present number OF visit
ors. During the evening there was banquet
at which the following named were guests:
". II. NJ JACK W; L; raIry' NJ. Faulson, a
Unity Council No. 179, DR.. D. Marconay Miss
Berdick, Mrs. Beebe. Mrs. Strubm, Mrs. Keat-
ing, Mrs Kelly from Charles Ii. Randall Coun
ell No. 201.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Mary Buell. of Forest
Hill, a district deputy, was married to w.
Clark of Forest Grove Council Their many
friends wish them all happiness.
Grand Councillor Boehm arrived in New
York City August % after pleasant trip.
The representatives of the Grand Council
that is TO meet in Louisville, KY, on the goth
inst. will leave this City on The 18th insI.
Last Wednesday Sacramento Council gave A
very pleasing entertainment to its friends,
who turned out in great mum bers. There was
a fine time, and the event of the evening was
q bean party.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

baby is little pink bunch OF yell.
The more 1 think about getting married the
oftener make up my mind not to.
If some folks were the devil on visit to
heaven they would get awfully homesick.
woman loves her husband for her ch IL
dren; man loves his children Tor his wife.
Every man reflects lot about women, but
the married mems reflections are generally
not fl to print.
Just because man won't cheat a streetcar
won't lie ABOUT the amount of money his vaca-
tion has cost him.
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WITH YOUR COFFEE.

"Why," asked Pat, SIS he came hiccoughing
into the Qnippery, sis the humble goat always
held up as the synonym for intoxication, Tor
instance-iul as q goat?'
81 cannot guess" answered Tim, "unless'-
ana he paused meditatively and looked at Pat
as if he expected an invitation-'unless 1t is
because he is always ready to throw morn
into anybody. y."-Pittsburg News.
Bleecker lat Asbury Park)-Did you ever try
to get any thing to drink here?
Dey-Yes. tried it once, but I'll never try 1T
again.
Bleecker-What was the matterf Didn't you
succeed?
Dey with q wry face)-Thet is just what was
the matter. 1 did succsed.-Puck.
Mtnnie-NelIie is q regular genius. She puts
her frizzes up in tin foil off champagne corks.
Madge-And why off champagne corksY
Minnie - Because it makes 'em tight
Judge.
"Johnnie, hope you are not beginning to
swear?'
"oh, no. not till am as big as papar'-
This Witty World.
she-Mr d'Auber is welded to his art.
He-Well, there's nothing mercenary about
the union.-Life.
He (trembling)-I have one last wi-wish to
ask you before we part In anger forever.
She (sobb1ngly)-Wha-what is it. George2
He-Wi-wlll you me meet me next Th-
Thursday, as usual?
She-I wi-will, George.-Tit-B Bits.
Preachleigh-what do you expect on the
day of judgment?
spendthrift-supplement proceedings.-
Truth.
Nervous Philanthropist ION Summing e1-
cursion)-Can you tell zne if this is Little
Erebus street, my man?
uspicous-looking Party-Yes.
Nervous P-Er-Rather a rough sort of
thoroughfare, isn't it?
Suspicious-lookiug P-Yus: 1t is a bit thick.
The further yer goes down, the thicker 1t
gifts. lives in the last house. 1Exit Philan-
thropistl-Punch.
She-I know that am not good-looking, but
people forget my face when sing.
He-Won'tyou SIM now ?-Fliegende Blatter
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SLAVE DAYS IN ILLINOIS.

"Illinois was nominally free State, ard yet
there were good many negroes held in bond
age there prior to 1844," said c. W. Morris of
Chicago to a Washington Post reporter. "My
grandfather had about 100 slaves and my
father possessed a small bunch. 1t was due to
Lyman Trumbull that the system played out
in Illinois. 1t was while he was young law
yer in st. Clair County that the incident hap
pened that caused the abolition OF the traffic
in human property.
"a client walked in to his Office in Belleyille
one day and said that he wanted to get TT um
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
A WOODLAND SUMMONS.

Maiden frank and free,
Leave the town with me;
Leave the city for the woodlands,
For the fields of emerald corn,
For the meads wi. h running streamlets
singing praises to the morn;
For The hills that bound the distance,
Crowned with purple diadems;
For the sunshine on the dewdrops,
Decking trees and plants with gems.
NJ alden sweet and fair,
Young and debonair;
Leave the city's smoke aud hurry,
Never-caasing toll ana pain,
Noisy streets aud nOisOme al evs
Love of gold and greed of gain,
Where the soul is cribbed an d cabned,
Where the heart has lack of room,
Where the ghosts of want and hunger
Stalk around in robes Of gloom.
Maid Ell dear and free,
Nature here we see
Nature in her rob OF beauty,
Glowing IN her summer dress,
Free from artificial fetters,
Free from sorrow and distress.
Soothed by sound of running waters
Charmed by hum ming of the bees,
Let us rest within the shadows
Ofthe grand primeval trees.
THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH, in he Independent
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MADE FRIENDS WITH BLOOD.
HOUNDS.
Mobile r egister.

Most people know that the "Uncle Toms
Cabin style of 'bloodhounds" have no exist
ence outside of fiction. Hounds are used to
track escaping criminals, but they are mere
trackers. They are not after the mans blood.
In Bullock County last week negro detected
in the act of burglary was pursued by a pack
of dogs. When they caught up with him he
patted them on the head and put them on the
trail of another negro whom he mad seen pass
ing. The would.be burglar was captured by
other means.
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wall, is at the Occidental. He has come here
to conclude several deals in coffee lands with
men in this City and to invest capital in the
formation of joint stock company to engage
in raising coffee on the island OF Hawaii, the
largest and most productive of the Hawaiian
group. He will take some coffee machinery
back with him.
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!. Mrs. winslow's soothing syrup /,

Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
ers for their children while Teething with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child. softens the gums, al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas whether
arising from teethine other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and
ask Tor Mrs.W inslow's Soothing Syrup. 25cabottle
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10

w WIDESPREAD comment occasioned by Hon. Will
w liam J. Bryan's article on the Return of Prosperity
and the of Silver, and the public generally
will he erafed to learn Sunday will
appear Reply the Statements OF the Nebraskan Orator.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed of Maine.
No man in Republic is competent to speak
the white metal the which
have produced
America brany speaker of the House Representa-
tves faaoies OF pessnstic aga.ors by
the sled ge- hammer blows of his sound logic
His clear reasoning his large mental grasp, his
great knowledge political and financial history
his perfect familiarity with the National of
most authority the real value Of
the propositions Mr. Bryan Sundays
Speaker Reeds Reply will be deeply interesting to
citizen will constitute strong and popular feature
of
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10

CORONA Apo.-Atm osphere is perfectly dry soft
and mild being entirely free from the misss COM
mon further north. Round trip tickets. by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotelda
Coronado. $50; longer stay 81 so per day. Apply
New Montgomery street. San Francisco.
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CAMPBELL'S PREDICTION.
Pittshurg Dispatch.

IIIt5Uufs DIspHLCl
Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio always was
man of pretty good judgment, and he never
displayed it better than when he announced
that dollar wheat aud 50-cent silver would
damage Democ. attic prospects in his native
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10

"War is sil1' remarks the distinguished Weyler.
From watching that dvdua however bad arrived the
conclusion that something else.
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When distinguished a visitor Pony" Moore pro-
country good there several of recev
ing One ignore it, another to bow in
silent cquiescene third to reach for the Moore jaw
teaching by the impact the lesson well
parrot the monkey would that the third
method the popular one tried the
who put in paid fine cheeriuly indicate
solid enjoyment on his part.
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half of Mrs. Mack, New York prison for murder
is true may the laugh
and that would be only beginning
o what is Justly her dues
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10

Golden Park pronounced by travellers among the
beautiful the world and it belongs the people of
Mission just those any part of the City,
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statement is ahoat that the potato crop Is bilo
bushels short, the being the first intmaton that Mr.
Pingree been neglecting his duty this year.
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GERMANY'S TALKATlvE RULER.

THE feelings of Europe have wrought into
bordering disquie by the EN-
peror William Coblentz. On they
similarly disturbed yet
come of There been formed giving undue
weight to peror says His speeches analyzed
correspondents find in them every
ger The the analyses cabled United
States promptly feels sympathetic appre-
hension squnt
condition is unchanged and falls wondering what
surprise the Emperor will spring next He is
ousy here than required column of
print
Emperor William is of the worlds remarkable
exats his kingship undny there doubt That
regards bigger Omnip
intimate than they observer will question
Yet several years the throne
is firm strength manifested retirement
Bismarck enough excite admiration, though
tnged with dsapprova He proposed rule and
light to which is entitled dimmed by
of powerful Prince He sought notorety
display of innocent the pride he
is part of his vanity When the
writing play painting picture bestridng
charger the field of review be be making speech
He can't help The music to him.
German the length of adversely crtczng
utterances which but for this attention
and quickly forgotten They accept
idea within his sounding
swahed the fate of nations and that warordy Shrek
the will be heard. But take this join
the Emperor his of his powers Germany
strong country well ntrenched by constitutional
strictly defined From limitations the Emperor
He think he the time
for undeceiving him.
that the Emperor bares his mind
would bring upon Car shower of bombs
President of Francs from power proves while
indorse his words respect
the people have always paid their sovereign, that in their
place for him. that possesses quail
cannot be dscerned by reading of his famous
bursts OF thought even scanning between the lines
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II Italys rife shooting eighty times minute shall
prove successful King Menelek may have
chasing Humberts troops out of Abyssnla next time
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Congratulations girl New York who married
Chinese will kindly forgive the natural suspicion that
she has married above her station?
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CALIFORNIA glace fruits, soc lb. rownssnra.

SPECIAL in rma ton daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10

duty present remaining in London Jail for beating
say cheating landlord Yet she is probably
be comfoed The title right in jail with her.
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Objection has been by members of local Sunday
the assistant pastor kissed them in 'atherly
way" The girls will be sustained in their objection. That
way kiss Sunday maid who approached
where the age of appreciation and discretion.