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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
WITH YOUR COFFEE.
He's a pra ctical Christian"

"He's practical Christian"
"Yes?
"Oh, yes. For example, when we had that
severe drouth and the rest of the congreg alton
wanted 10 hold services and pray for rain, he
stood out for Sabbath school picnic. Detroit
Journal.
"You murderous tdiotw exclaimed the man
who had been run down by a scorcher. "Pll
make you pay dearly for thisp'
"You oughtn't to kick" grumblingly replied
the scorcher. Think how much harder you
have got it if had bumped agin you with one
of them old-fashioned solid tires."-Chicago
Tribune.
1t seems strange that strong drink should be
considered aweaknesS-Philadelphi Record
The wireless telegraphy scheme should be
tried in Alaska. The country is fully equipped
for the seryice.-Chicago Tribune.
AS to the best way to go to the Klondike, &C
counts differ, but q good many who have been
there say the best way is to go slow.-Chicago
News.
Longevity must be very healthy profession,
to judge from the number of people who have
followed 1T for one hundred years or more
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Forundred (proudly)-Note this magnif-
cent business block. I own every foot of the
ground on which it stands
Old Gent-Ah, yes; I remember this locality
very well. 1t was here your grandfather had
his junkshop.-New York Weekly.
'Do the police suspect anybody Of the MUIR
der?"
"Yes"
'Whom do they suspectT'
"Oh, that thew don't know - Roxbury
Gazette.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
REAL GOLD IGGINGS
New York World.

Kansas, Nebraska anc Oklahoma will sell
this year not less than 95, ,0O0,000 bushels OF
wheat at more than half dollar bushel net
price to the producer. The other wheat-grow-
ing States will reduce even these figures to
insignificance by their results. There is m ore
gold in good agricultural soil than in any
klondike placer ever yet discovered, There is
truth yet in Irving's story of the old Hudson
River Dutchmsn whose digging for treasure
under the inspiration of dreams gave him
greater wealth in cabbages than he had
dreamed of in the chests OF gold.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
JUSTICE IN BliLVILLE.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
"a new trial has been granted you" e1-
claimed the lawyer, rushing in.
Thanks" said the prisoner, in easy tones,
looking up from the morning paper. "May
ask on what grounds"
"You were convicted" replied the lawyer
''of having killed man with 32-caliber bali
but the experts have discovered that the ball
was of 35-caiber.
"It is as / expected" said the prisoner.
"Sit down and rest yourself"
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
MENELEK BARS TOURISTS.
New York Tribune.


Pestered beyond all endurance by the nu-
merous foreign visitors from every quarter Of
the globe, Emperor Menelek has now made
known thai no one will be allowed to enter or
travel in AbyssInia unless intrusted with some
official mission by his Government to the
Court of the Negus or else provided with a
granted in cases where the traveller is prop
erly Endorsed and warmly recommended
by the recognized executive OF his native
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
TIE SUMMER MONTHS.

so, It is no trouble for us forward THE CALL TO
your address Do not let it miss you for you will
miss It, Orders given TO the carrier or left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
"Mrs. winsIow,s Soothing svrup >.

Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
for their children while Teethng with perfect
success. 1t soohes the child. sotens the gums al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether
arising from teething other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and
ask Tor NJ rs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c bottle
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

A SENSIBLE ARTICLE.

woodland Democrat
The San Francisco CALL of Sunday has a
very sensible ar tiele on the subject of equal
ization. 1t takes the position that San Fran
cisco has nothing to gain by denouncing men,
bers of the State Board Of Equalization as
pickpockets and thieves, when every body else
in the State credits them with being honest,
capable and high-minded public officials.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

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of London-this in honor of her successful
work in Hindoo and Persian literature.
Kaiser Wilhelm is great collector of auto
graphs, and he specially prizes the signatures
of military commanders of the end of the last
and the beginning of the present century, OF
which he has large collection.
President Mckinley receives an average of
sixty begging letters a day. People in all
parts OF the country write soliciting his aid to
get them temporarily out OF trouble. The
other day the total amount requested was
$685. 900.
Prince Charles Theodore of Bavaria, the
royal oculist. has been staying at Meran, in
the Tyrol. and during his sojourn there has
received a large number Of patients of all
classes. On the IL ult, the Prince gave his
one thousandth consultation.
Miss Bertha Stoneman, a student In the
botanical depar tment of Cornell University
for several years, who received the degree OF
doctor of philosophy there in 1896, has been
appoin ted professor of botanyin the Huguenot
College in Cape Colony. Africa.
The Duchess of Fife has followed the exam
pie of her mother and bought spinning
wheel. 1t is very pretty one of black wal
nut, and although 100 years old is still in good
working CODQlllOu. VIII lHlS wheel Lne
Duchess spins her yarn, which she afterwsrd
knits with her own hands into golf stockings.
The Duke of Argyll sits in the House of
Lords now under that title. He has done SO
since 1891, when he was created Duke of
Argyll in the United Kingdom. Previous to
that, when he was only the Duke of Argyll in
Scotland, he sat as Baron Sund ridge, which
was one OF his British (not merely Scottish)
titles.
The Rev. Dr.. Edward Everett Hale, in the
Youths Companion, tells of James Russell
Lowell S first client when he began TO prac-
tice law. Alter Lowell had nervously given
the client chair, taken his hat and sat down
With his notebook TO take notes on the case,
he found that his visitor was a painter come
TO collect bill.
Her Majestyis sixty years reign has wit
messed more than a score of administrations.
presided over by ten different Pfemiers S.
Lord Melbourne and Sir Robert Peel, Lord
John Russell and Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen
and Lord Palmerston, Mr.. Disrneli and Mr.,
Gladstone, Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery
have in succession held the reins of power.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
MILLIONS IN 1T.
Indianapolis Journal.

The wheat crop for the United States is esti-
mated at SOC, ,OoO, 900 bushels Domestic con-
sum ption is estimatedat 3G5, 600 900 bushels.
This will leave 235 O00, 900 bushels for export
at price higher tnan has been known for
years. This is prosperity.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
cALIFoRNIANs IN REV YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 24.-At the Plaza
S. Lobe; Msnhattan-E Livingston; Hoff-
man-C. N. Wingate; Aibemarle-Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Hannah, II. Holmes; sturtevant-
Z. c. Sullivan; Broadway Central-E. Arm
strong; Bartholomew Mr.. and Mrs. I. E.
Brown.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Anybody desiring Southern Pacific
pass just now would be wise to approach
the subject by way of the telephone.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Among the hopes, possibly the vain
hopes of humanity, is one that some
day reporters shall no longer say OF a
suicide: Death was due to despond-
ency." There is always room for the in
ference that when man snuffs himself
out he is not impelled by hilarious appre-
ciation OF life, nor giving evidence OF Joy
too great to be endured.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

CoRoNADo.-Atmosphe is perfectly dry. sos.
and mild. being entirely free from mists COM
mon further north Round trip tickets. by steam
ship including fifteen days board at the Hoteldsl
Coronado, 500; longer stay So so per day. Apply
New Montgomery street San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Klondike tourists can console them
selves in the midst of hardships by real
izng that Joaquin Miller's letters pass
them securely sealed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Probably California is the only State
that grants 10 murderers a final trial after
the court supposed to be of last resort has
passed upon their cases.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Discovery that the Bryan breastpIate of
righteousness is blowholed has IN some
quarters been painful surprise.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

President Faure of France, in reaching
Russia without having exclted single
bomb to flight in his direction, has
achieved considerable of triumph.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

A Chicago paper is so elated over what
it calls the demand for wheat from
France" that it probably means the de-
mand from France for wheat, which is
d fferent
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Nobody wants to knock the chip off
Canada's shoulder, but she'll ioggle 1t off
herself if she does not stop her war
dance.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Kaiser Wilhelm is great collector of auto
graphs, and he specially prizes the signatures
of military commanders of the end of the last
and the beginning of the present century, OF
which he has large collection.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

AS a dressing and color restorer PARKER's
HAIR BAIsAM never fails to satisfy.
HINDERcoRNs the best cure for corns Is cts.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Prospectors crowded into unseaworthy
vessels feel aggrieved when official author
ity stops them, but after all little delay
is preferable 10 drowning, and in ice
water at that.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

The enterprising speculator who is to
take 2OO young women to the Klondike
shows wisdom IN selecting them in Bos-
ton. There may be frost in the Klondike,
bul according to popular theory the Bos-
ton girl can give as good as she gets in the
matter of trigidity.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
CALIFORNIA glace fruits. SOC lb. rownssnd..

SPECIAL informa tion daily to manufacturers.
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
HOW 1T LOOKS.
Chicago News.

chicago NEWS
From where we stand 1t looks as If Brother
Hanna had rigged up o Chilkoot Pass ior the
Ohio Democrats
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

1t cannot be denied that a politician
who travels on pass would be wiser to
refrain from getting farther away from
home than he can ride safely and COM
fortabIy on 4 bicycle.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Reed of Chicago has been
elected member OF the Royal Asiatic Society
of London-this in honor of her successful
work in Hindoo and Persian literature.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Apparently there is no profit in wife
beating, as practiced in San Jose. A man
who tired it there has been sentenced to
$50 days in Jail and a $1,000 fine. The
probability that lie will find other meth
DDS OF amusement hereafter is almost akin
to certainty.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Before the TRANSPORTATION company of
Indians on the Skaguay trail tried to in
augurate the process Of charging all that
traffic would bear the monopolists ought
to have realized that with every patron
carrying a gun the traffic would be apt TO
fix the limit itself.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

Some Washington bicyc!ists are dis
pleased al the regulation iorbidding the
use of low handle bars, and yet to ask q
man to refrain from making a monkey of
himself ought not 10 be regarded as a
hardship.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

OF course the eight-year-old boy who
fatally shot his little playmate was dis
missed, the killing being judicialIy pro-
nounced accidental. Nevertheless, the
incident throws a strong light upon the
1nutility of permitting children to use
loaded shotguns as toys.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

The good people of Winters who want a
law closing the postotfice there Sundays
can at least have the consoling thought
that there is no law com pelling any one
to 60 to the postoffice who feels an i'm
pulse to stay away.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
MEN AND WOMEN.

Andrew Carnegie is a freeman of seven Scot
tish towns.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

The Cleveland Steel Company, that has
Just contracted to supply 10000 tons of
rails for electric roads in Ireland, must be
excused from accepting the view that the
wave of prosperity Jailed to keep its d ate.
If Professor Elliott of the Smithsonian
Institution could only rig some gearing
and bells to his maxiilary bones so as to
transmit their power the wheels of indus
try might be made to hum at slight ex-
pense.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

The Boston young man who claims to
have been hypnotized by an actress is not
solitary instance by any means, but has
merely found new name Tor the OLD, old
process OF being played for sucker.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

President Mckinley receives an average of
sixty begging letters day. People in all
parts OF the country write soliciting his aid to
get them temporarily out of trouble. The
other day the total amount requested was
$4,000
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

loaded shotguns as toys.
1t is pleasing TO learn from Demo-
cratic sources that Mr.. Bryan's habit of
riding on passes is entirely commendahle.
He has been accused of nothing else. To
accuse man of doing something COM
mendabIe is surely not an act to stir his
friends to a degree of wrath suggesting
apoplectic possibilities. What's all the
row in the Bryan camp about, anyhow?
G. A. Jones of Ell Modena recently pre-
sented to the Santa Ana Blade two water
melons of heroic size. whereof, after
ample description. the editor says with
feeling: "Mr. Jones generosity is highly
appreciated and his benevolence worthy
OF wide publicity" Doubtless this is the
case, and THE CALL. conceives it sim pie
duty to lend 10 such deserved publicity
the greatest width possible.
With fine satire the Toronto Star ex-
claims: ''lf only Uncle Sam could see
himself as others see himW Perhaps
Uncle Sam is lax in primping before the
glass. He is too busy seeing his neigh
bors and keeping their hands oHt of his
pockets even to notice whether or not his
hat is on straight. Yet when Uncle had
within his own domain gold discoveries
probably greater than those of the Klon-
dixie nobody caught him in the act of
initiating a pig, four feet in the trough
and squealing with dismay because he
couldn't gobble rythiDg in sight.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

1t seems strange that strong drink should be
considered a weakness.-P Philadelphia Record
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

The wireless telegraphy scheme should be
tried in Alaska. The country is fully equipped
for the seryice.-Chicago Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-Postage Free:

BUSINESS OFFICE:
40 Market Street
San Francisco, California.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25

AS to the best way to go to the Klondike. &C
counts differ, but good many who have been
there say the best way is to go slow.-Chicago
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21
Origin OF the Word Thrift.

Every day when We open the news
papers and read the political discus
sions in it's columns, we are sure to
come across something about the tariff.
says "Harper's Round Table" Every
one knows the meaning of the word
tariff; but it is not generally known
where II originated. 1t is of Moorish
origin. and descended to us from the
time when the Moors occupied a goodly
part of Spain. In those days they built
a fort to guard the strait of Gibraltar
and they called 1t Tarifa. 1t was The
custom of these people to levy duties
according to fixed scale, which they
adopted and changed from time TO time
even as much as we do our own tarifr
laws, on the merchandise of all ves-
sells passing in and out of the Mediter-
ranean. They claimed the right by vir-
tue of strength, and for years nettsd a
rich income.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21

ties or sixties OF seventies wanting 10
be useful, but they so served the world
and Satan in the earlier part OF tacir
life that they have no physical energy
left for the service Of God. They sac
rificed nerves, muscles, lungs, heart
and liver on the wrong altar. They
fought on the wrong side, and now,
when their sword is all hacked up and
their ammunition all gone. they enlist
for Emmanuel. When the high-met-
tied cavalry horse, which that man
spurred into many a cavalry charge
with champing bit and flaming eye and
neck clothed with thunder, Ia worn
out and spawned and ring-boned and
spring-halt, he rides up TO the great
Captain OF our Salvation on the white
horse and offers his services. With
such persons might have been, through
the good habits of lifetime, crash
ing their battle-ax through the helmet
ed iniquities, they are spending their
days and nights in discussing the best
way OF curing their Indigestion, and
quieting their tangled nerves, and
rousing their laggard appetite, and try
Ing to extract the dart from their out
ragged liver. Better converted late than
never! oh. yes; for they will get to
heaven. But they will go afoot when
they might have wheeled up the. steed
hills Of the sky In Elijah's chariot.
There is an old hymn that we used to
sing in the country meeting house
when | was boy. and l remember
how the old folks voices trembled
with emotion while they sang it. l
have forgotten all but two lines, but
those lines are the peroration of my
sermon:
Twill save us from a thousand snares
To mind religion young.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21

The monument to the memory OF
the Father of his Country which the
State Society OF the Cincinnati OF
Pennsylvania has erected in Paramount
Park, Philadelphia, is the most inn
portant group Of sculpture ever raised
in America. The society. more than
eighty-fve years ago. projected it as
tribute from his comrades in arms
The almost insignificant sum at that
time contributed has been so care
fully handled that 1t has acquired the
vast proportions Of a quarter Of q mil
lion of dollars, and IL Is now the proud
privilege OF the original Cincinnati to
fulfil their trust, and to present this
beautiful structure TO their chief city
It's dedication. May Is inst. was an
event of national significance and i'm
portance.
The collection OF subscriptions for
this monument was commenced in 1911
by men who fought in the Continental
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21

Over much of Oklahoma the amount
of moisture in the soil is considerably
greater than is usual at this season
of the year. At the Experiment Sta
ton at Saltwater the rainfall from
January to March 16 was All inches,
compared with a little less than two
inches for the full three months last
year. Frequent observations are made
at the station rs to per cent of mois-
ture in the soil. A few hours after the
close of rain of LEO inches, which had
fallen in twenty hours, the first foot of
three classes of upland prairie soils
were found to contain the following
percentages of moisture: Fall plowed,
22.5; prairie grass, 25.6; "alkali spot"
lass covered, 20.S. The first had a
gain o, about ten. the second little
over and the ,Sird about w per cent
ne compared with then, moisture con-
tent two days previously.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21
One Cause of Freak RIiis.

Senator Forney. of the Kansas state
senate. has a young daughter who tells
why her father introduced so many
freak bills in the senate. whenever
he ran up against anything he didn't
like. she says. "he would come home
and write bill again II. There is one
of his railroad bills, for instance. We
drove to town TO church one night, and
there was a freight train on the cross
ing, and It kept us there for twenty
minutes. 1t annoyed pa dreadfully. and
he went home and wrote that bill to
prohibit trains from obstructing cross
ings more than five minutes. Then one
night somebody stole all our chickens.
The next day pa wrote his chicken bill.
But you will notice that the bill doesn't
protect ducks. Pa don't like ducks.
And he said If anybody wanted to steal
them 1t was all right-the ducks was
punishment enough. Whenever pa sat
down TO write a bill we always knew
that something had happened to him. 8"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21
Don't Eat Unle.. You Are Hungry.

There Is a good old maxim which
runs as follows: I'm time of peace pre-
pare for war" and this is as true ia
connection with the question of diet In
health as in other things Too many
people assume that because they enjoy
fairly good health, no improvement
need be effected in their diet. but that
this position is eminently untenable
none who carefully consider the sub
ject will deny. Those whose practice
brings them into contact with the
Weather classes have frequently an
opportunity of estimating the bad eff
fects of improper diet. AS regards the
poor. they are unable to procure meat
on account of their poverty, and, as a
result, their diet is composed largely OF
carbohydrates. In the case of general
sickness, or even without unfavorable
climatic conditions, both classes seem
to be unable to resist attacks of dis
ease Ii Is for the most part the APP
parently healthy people who are so
quickly stricken down by disease. while
the chronic invalid may pass through
unscathed, and yet no one seem to I'M
derstand that conditions were present
which predisposed the healthy man or
woman to disease, and that these pre-
existing conditions were largely due
TO want of attention to diet ut would
be well for those who feel so sure that
they are in perfect health to consult
doctor for instructions how to avoid
disease. One very common mistake is
to eat when not hungry simply be-
cause 1t is meal time" and act not
one whit less stupid than that of re-
plenishing ones fire because one hears
ones neighbors coal-scuttle rafting.
regardless of the fact that there is
plenty of coal already on. and that any
addition thereto would be mischievous.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21
TRESTLE GAVE WAY.
PASSENGER COACHES co DOWN
AN EMBANKMENT.
Floods Had Undermined the supports of
Bridge Over Which n santa Fe
Train Passed Near Ardmore. l. t.
Many Persons Seriously Injured.

Fifteen passengers and one OF the
train crew were injured. some OF them
fatally. No one was killed outright.
The train consisted OF six passenger
coaches and one Pullman. All save the
engine, express and baggage cars and
the sleeper went through the trestle.
which had been washed out by high
water. Many of the passengers had to
chop their way out OF the coaches.
The seriously injured are:
T. f. Sparks, Oakman. Ind. T.: in
jured in chest and back, probably ia
tally.
G. G. Crawford. Hurd, Ind. T.; elbow
dislocated and right arm fractured.
w. l.. Irwin, Kansas City; cut on the
neck.
l. f. Hale, news agent, Fort Worth
bruised on hip and side.
j. NJ Order, express messenger.
hurt internally; cannot live.
r. j. Crawford, Fox, Ind. T.; ankle
sprained, badly cut and bruised.
w. NJ. Forbes. Lebanon; head. hand
and arms cut and hip injured.
0. l.. York, Palo Pinto. Texas; hip
hurt.
J. f. Piper. Ladonia; head cut, shout
der dislocated.