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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
TUGB0AT MARRIAGES.

matter Of grave concern 10 many people
is the decision of Judge Allen OF the Su-
perior Court, delivered in Los Angeles last
Saturday, that sea marriages entered into
for the purpose of evading the California
law are not valid. The frequency OF such
unions in this State makes this decision
most important, and the result of it will
no doubt be to make this mode of tying
the nuptiai knot very rare in the future.
Judge Allen says: "The Legislature, in
amending the marriage law in 1895, evi.
IDENTIFY had in view all these difficulties
and sought by one stroke to define a course
OF conduct, and no other, which would
result in marriage. No agreement, con-
tract or act OF the parties not in strict con-
formity to the existing laws OF this State
creates marriage in this State or subjects
the parties to it's duties or obligation.
unless it shall have been entered into in
some other jurisdiction under the laws of
that jurisdiction, in which case its validity
will be recognized"
In the particular case to which this de.
cision refers the girl who married Norman
was a minor, and the Judge continued: !:
Norman is not the husband of this girl
and has no authority over her, and
being minor her father is entitled to her
custody and control"
1t will be noted that although in this in
diyidual case the girl who married, or
supposed herself to have married, was
minor, the decision does not confne itself
to the invalidation of marriages of minors,
but makes them all void when not in
strict accordance with the State law. In
asmuch as all of these tugboat marriages
are entered into because they could not
legally be contracted on land, if the Su.
preme Court sustains Judge Alien the
whole collection of these law-evading
unions will be nullified. Il will be very
serious matter to members Of families
who have been accounting themselves
legitimate.
The decision could not of course affect a
genuine sea marriage. which is recognized
by all nations and is founded on a natural
righ', but the practice of leaving the Cali
fornia shore to run out for a few miles
on the sea, tie the knot and then return,
does not come within the spirit of justice
intended by the permission OF sea mar
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
PERSONAL.

R. A. Boggess OF Sulphur Greek is in town.
f. K Arnold of Honduras is on visit here
F. P Smith of Guatemala is recent arrival
The Rev. C. Ben Ham Of Napa is in the City.
g. R. S. Tucker of Juneau, Alaska. is in town.
]. Warren Achorn OF Boston is on visit
here.
L. Scarce. a banker of Orland, is q late az
rival here.
C. A. storke, the attorney, of Santa Barbara.
sMaior F. L. Denny of Washington, D. c., is
at the Palace.
S. N. Griffith of Fresno came up for short
stay yesterday.
Dr. A. B. Talbot of Philadelphia is late ar
rival in the City.
DR.. Ernest Kerloch of this City has returned
and is at the Occidental.
L. A. Danenheuer and Mrs. Danenheuer OF
New York registered at the Palace yesterday.
George D. Johns, wealthy resident of
Pueblo, Colo. is at the Palace. He arrived
here yesterday.
Mrs. George Tiffany of New York, Miss Tiff
fany and Miss Jane Howe Lewis are at the Oc-
eidental. They arrived yesterday.
Charles w. BeaIs of the Curtin-B Beals Mer-
camille Agency was thrown from buggy on
Laguna street day or SO ago and received
several scalp wounds.
L. L. Reed, the founder of Reedley. the i'm
portent twheat-shipping town in the San Joa-
quin Valley, is at the Grand, accompanied by
III. NJ. and E. K. Reed.
John ]. Arundel, the millionaire owner of a
number OF guano islands in the South Pacific
and interested in various other enterprises, is
among the recent arrivals in the City.
]. N. Quail a newspaper man of New York.
who for some years occupied responsible
place on the Herald and has since been with
the Journ al, arrived here yesterday. He is, so
it is stated. to take the place of ]. j. Livernash
as news editor. Mrs. Quail, Victor Quail and
Miss Jessie Sperry, of New York, accompanied
him here.
Mrs. B. Botto OF New York, who some time
since contracted the Klondike fever, and who
set out promptly for the new Ell Dorado, has
arrived in the City and will leave here on an
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THE SONG OF MOST OF THEM.

Do you recall that time last year,
Upon the Klondike River,
we thir5ted for q & ass OF peer,
And shook with many shiver!
/ Oft since then have wondered why
For gold, in Natures quiver,
She did not have wedge OF PIE
Upon the klondiKe River.
Our boat kept measure with lts oar,
TIL one Septembsr morning
The river froZe II ON snor to shore
Without a minutes warning,
And cut our commiss ry so,
We dIdn't have silver
OF anything to eat but snow
Upon the kiOndike River.
We'd dug four tons OF gold week,
And piled it all around US.
Into glitter ng vel ow peak,
Just AS the wlnter dowfled u.s.
And when the summer Came once more,
although II seemed 1t never
Would come again. we were deau sore
Upon the Kondike River.
For not speck of ust had we,
Of all we mad colec ed,
Because, by gravy. don's you see.
Twas not as we expected,
For grub was needed right along,
And stuff to stop shiver
And s'pou nd Tor pound,n the suffers song,
Upon the KlondiSe River.
So when the warm had killed the cold
And wii.ter time WAS over,
We'd eaten our pile OF gold,
And still were net III clover.
Because we owed board Dill yet,
Which. with our best endeayor.@
VIII wipe the wad th Is year we'll get
Upon the Klondike River.
New York Sun
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT.

Piedmont Par1or of Lorin Gives an En-
tertainment to It's Friends.
Last Thursday evening Piedmont Parlor of
Native Daughters, located in Lorin, Alameda
County, gave very interesting "at home" to
its many friends, and for their entertainment
presented a most excellent programme of in
strumental music, song and recitation. So
deeply impressed were these visitors with the
parIor and the manner in which the enjoyable
social was conducted that hya OF them pre-
sented their names for membership.
This parlor has of late been increasing It's
me embership at q rate that speaks well for the
officers Ali who take part in the rituals tic
work have so perfected themselves in their
duties that it is said by those who have the
opportunity to judge that the limitations can
not be excelled ior beauty of work and impress
siveness. Every one who takes part is letter
perfect. At the last session of the Grand Par
Tor Piedmont declared TO be the banner
parlor for ritualistic work.
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brook, which is held between dams. pleas
ing female figure we'll poised is shown wiring
ing out linen which she has Just washed, and
the water supply OF the fountain comes from
the supposed piece OF linen. The water first
drops into basin represe nting large SHE'LL
and through openings falls into the larger
basin beneath.
The sculptor, Ludwig Brunow, made his
reputation principally in quite different
sphere. His first eginn ings were wood cary
ings, and only comparatively late he began to
work in stone and bronze. In 1873 he made
his first large monument, that OF Moltke IN
Parchim, and since then he has completed q
numb Der of important works, almost all OF
them princes or former monarchs OF Prussia
and other German domains. The fountain,
which has just found a permanent place, had
received gold medal in this spring S art ex-
position in Berlin.
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DESCRIP TfONS.
PICK Me Up.

PICK Me Up
waiter is known by his tips.
A war is the activity of statesmanship, just
as peace is its passivity.
wasp even might have his uses-as an ex-
pert in jams.
waste is most sggravating; it has to be
thrown away by somebody, or on some one,
somewhere-you simply cannot waste 1t.
weather in England is the delightful, de-
licious uncertainty of carrying an umbrella;
it takes the place occupied by state lottery
on the Continent.
A wheels wheel all the world over, till one
wonders whether they have caught the fever
in the planet Mars and how they repair pune
lures at the north pole.
whisky is one mans drink and another
mans poison, it all depends on quality and
quantity.
wife would be better half il she did not
imagine that the fact needed frequent demon
stration.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
THE MECHANICS FAIR.

The annual exposition under the au-
spices of the Mechanics Institute will be
inaugurated this evening. The prepara-
tions for the great industrial fair have
been on scale more elaborate than ever
before, and this fact will assure the people
of the City and the Commonwealth of
California of an exhibition, in scope and
perfection. SURPRISING all previous efforts
in this important field.
The list of inventions EN- braces many of
the most marvellous achievements of the
time, and careful inspection OF the many
exhibits will be equivalent to liberal ed
ucation in the reaches of latter-day me-
chanical progress.
The general public will be more than
ever interested in this years expos tion
on account of the pure-food exhibit. All
aduIterated and deleterious foods have
been excluded and among the SPECIAL
features in this regard will be the analy
sis of food products in modern kitchen
presided over by skilled representative
of the California School of Mechanical
Arts. Every article of food submitted
will be duly tested and certificate
awarded if its purity be demonstrated.
lnc puDlO WihuOoo thCSO tOotos WHiSA
will serve as object lessons to those who
wish to be certain as to the general char
acter OF the goods they purchase,
Tue art exhibit will be replete with
clever works OF genius and many Of the
finest productions of the painters of the
West who have won fame at home ana
abroad. The daily and nightly concerts
will be of rare merit and the Mechanics
Fair will, in every respect, be worthy OF
the most liberal patronage of all the
ppopla
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
wAsHlNGToN'e sUNDoWNERS
Boston Evening Transcript.

Boston Evening Transcript.
An institution Characteristic OF Washington
is the "sundowner" This term is here ap-
piled to a man who is in Government employ
from o'clock till A, but who has profession
which he practices for the rest OF the day.
There are sundown doctors, sundown law.
yers and sundown ministers. The regular
physicians have for years made war upon
their sundown competitors, and under the
last Administration they succeeded in per-
suading the Secretary of the Interior to issue
an order forbldding the clerks in his depart
ment to practice mediciue. This applied par
ttcularly to the medical examiners in the
Pension Office, who, IL was contended, should
But with that exception there is little or no
restriction upon the practice OF these profes-
sions by the clerical force ef the. Government
The pastors OF many of the smaller churches.
especially in the suburbs, are men who during
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
A UNIQUE FOUNTAIN.

In the square near the Waisenbruecke
Orphans Bridge) in Berlin a monumental
fountain has just been erected, which for
oddity and beautiful simplicity is unique.
The sculptor has attempted TO produce an
artistic picture of washerwoman at her
work, and he has succeeded exceedingly we'll
The base of the statue proper represents a
fl ight of stairs, up which the woman is sup
posed to have gone in order to wash at the
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.

New York Press
Falling in love is all right; it is falling out
of love that hurts.
When o baby yells in certain way 1t is
swearing in baby language.
In the book of woman, marriage is the chap
ter where everybody que sses the plot.
The best time for man to guard against
trouble with his wife is before he gets married.
No man knows how much he loves his wife
until he begins to be afraid she doesn't love
him.
Probably on Judgment day lot of the
women won't get up at all, because they know
their shrouds will be way out of style.
The devil has relations to burn.
Every woman has an overpowering curiosi ty
to see q man cry.
In every girls bedroom tbcre is q picture
of a sad, dreamy-eyed man look ing the other
way.
When woman goes out with her baby and
men look at 1t admiringly, she tries to act
sort OF careless, and as if that was nothing
at all.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Schools Babcock had testified to the cost
of putting in the Prang system, which is
in the neigh borhood OF $1,000. the case for
the plaintiff was closed.
Mr.. Brown made a motion for nonsuit,
and the court allowed the attorneys an
hour on each side 10 argue the law points
involved.
At the conclusion of the argument the
m after yns orders submitted for the con-
sideration of the court
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

riages. II is deliberate attempt to dis
obey the laws OF the land, as Judge Allen
sees it, and the evils which the Legislature
intended to guard against would partially
at least be placed beyond the severe gnty
OF the people to remedy, if a short excur-
sion to sea is not only to bar the Callfor-
MIA law of its effects, but to deprive us OF
such safeguards as the sigh boring States
have thrown around marriage.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
The Native Sons.

Rincon Parlor of the Native Sons will
ini tiate two candidates tom orrow night, and
after the work is over there will be grand
time, for the Alcalde side degree viii be con-
ierred on a prominent member of the parlor.
During the evening there will be a report on
what the parlor will do al the 9th of Ssptem-
ber celebration and there will also be an ad-
dress on KIondike and Alaska, after which re-
freshments will be served.
The Library and Reedng-room Association
of the order meets Friday nigh for the purpose
of discussing a number of matters III connee-
ton with the Improvement OF the reading
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
cALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 16.-At the st.
Cloud, w. T. Jones; Imperial, J. Martin, Miss
A. 6. Well, J. G. Meyers; Holland, L. Boeg
nard; Cosmopolitan, W. II. Brownell; Albert,
A. Carpy, C. Carpy, Mrs. Carpy, Mrs. Cousin,
Miss Cousin; Cadillac, c. B. Fem, B. j. Hoff
acker; Gilsey, E. C. Godfrey; Broadway Cen
tral. w. II. B. Martin Vendome, A. Morrissey
st. Denis Mrs. II. Norman; Grand, D. A. Han
ma; Grand Union, J. B. Galbraith. W. Nc
Carthy is here buying.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

the week are clerks in the departments. Oc-
casionally "sund owner" achieves such sue
cess in his profession that it ceases to be Pront
able to give six hours and nalf a day for the
salary which the Government pays. He then
resigns ana devotes himself wholly to his avo-
cation.
The professional schools in the district do
much TO encourage the "sundown" system.
They all have evening sessions exclusively
and almost every young man who comes 10
Washington to go into the departments at
once takes up the study law, medicine or
dentistry
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
Forester. of America.

John ]. Cordy, grand secretary OF the Forest
ers Of America has received and is distribute
ing the proceedings of the ninth snnual
session of the Grand Court of California,
which was held in Marysville last May. Itis
book of 176 pages, which gives Jull ac-
count of all that occurred during the session,
and IL will prove of interest TO the members
of the order. There is incorporated in the
proceedings an account OF the sudden taking
off OF Grand Secretary c. II. Bremen while in
the discharge of his duties the Grand court,
and the messages of coincidence that were re-
ceiyed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Mr.. Huneker tells story of Herbert Spencer
playing billiards with an antagonist who ran
out without giving the philosopher chance
to handle his cue. Sir" said Mr.. Spencer, "a
certain ability at games OF skill is an indlca-
ton of a well-balanced mind. but adroi,ness
such as you have just displayed is. must In
form you. strong presumpGive evidence OF a
misspent youth"
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
THE SIMMER MONTHS.

Areyou going 10 the country on a vacation II
90. it is no trouble for 10 forward THE CALL to
your address. Do not let it miss you for you Will
miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
Business Office Will receive prompt attention.
No EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

In the absence of kaleidoscope attach
ment, the royal duel will be set down as a
protiiless affair.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Ebenezer Foster, who has recently died in
Cleveland, Ohio. was one of the pioneer of
that city. He settled in what is now the
South Sids i'll 1910 1t was a dense forest
frequented by wild animals. He helped to
build the first Methodist church in the regiol
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

An interior journal declares, "Gentle.
men, there is gold on the doorstep OF
every healthy mans house, but it re-
pick it up" That all depends upon
whether or not the owner of the house is
stationed in the front-room window with
shotgun. Healthy men with gold lying
around loose have a habit of doing that
when "intslligently directed muscle is
prospecting on their premises
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
Get Your tickets to the K1ondike.

The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has
put the ma agniicen' steamer City of Seattle into
service tetwe n Tacoma, Seattle Juneau and
pyea Steamer leaves Tacoma and Seattle Au-
gust is and 26 For tickets and information call
at the Northera Pacific Railway Office, 1868 Mar
ket stree:, $ f. L. X. stateler, General Agent.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
Gold en- State Parlor Native Daughters.

That ever active perlor, Golden State. at its
last held meeting had an initiation, which
was conducted in the presence OF a large
mem hip and Mrs. E. Thierbach of La
Estrella Parlor. The parior received a visit
from Miss A. May berry, one OF its past pres-
dents, who is present residing with her
parents in Sacramento. The members greeted
her most cordially. During the evening the
re firing president treated all to icecream and
cake.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

The Cuban war is being more and more
concentrated around Havana and the in
terror of the island is getting pacific from
one end to the other
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

If Andree does not return we shall never
know certainly whether he lost himself or
found the pole and got stuck on it,.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Let US hope the returning adventurer
from the Chilcoot will not make himself a
calamity howler.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

early steamer for the mines. She stoutly be-
lieves she can make fortune in far-off Alaska
and is going to give the land of the midnight
sun a close rustic for it. Mrs. Botto is very
plucky lady, and her friends think she has
good shoTI Of realizing her hopes.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

No matter how large may be the gold
discoveries in other lands Ca ifornia al
ways comes in with larger one.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

There are some people who believe a
tugboat marriage on the hign seas should
be treated as piracy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Charles and Reese Voorhees,, sons OF the iate
Senator Voorhees,, and Miss Halle, MS
daughter and secretary, are preparing '"o-
volume edition OF the Senator's speeches.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

If the luck OF the Kondikers is as big
as the chances they take there will be gold
enough found along the Yukon next year
to pave road over the Chilcoot.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
WITH YOUR COFFEE.

watts-Is DR.. Pilze as good physician as
DR.. Bowless?
Potts-I don't know, but ! know Bowless
doesn't think so. He always turns his prae-
tlce over 10 Pilze when he is called out of
town for any length OF time.-1ndianapoli
Journal.
you've got an awful cold, Smithers. Why
don't you go to doctor and get him to give
you something Tor it?
"Give me somet thing for it? Man, he can
have it for nothing and welcome. me."-Cincin-
natl Commercial Tribune.
"The trouble with your machine" said the
scoffer in the buggy, probably is that IL was
tired when you started out"
"Yes, sir" answered the cyclist by the road
side, still applying his airpump vigorously,
"but it's getting its second wind."-Chicsgo
Tribune.
When the chorus girl loses her job she is out
of work. When the same thing happens to a
star she is at liberty Record.
"Of course will be home.ier some day.
she whispered.
Impossible" he said gallantly; and he
| marvels that she sent his presents back.-De-
troit Free Press.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

"Her hair always looks so perfectly lovely"
Why? Because she uses Ayers Hair Vigor.
That's the secret Of its lustre
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Margaret Reid, the young Indianapolis
singer, was chosen for the part OF Mlcaela IN
Carmen at Coyent Garden aud is said TO
have done we'll The title role was taken Dy
another American singer, Zelie de Lusan.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17
MEN AN WOMEN.

Emile Zola intends to make visit to fepers'
burg in order to deliver there three lectures
on the mos. recent tendencies in life ana
literature.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

SPECIAL info orma ton daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by III Press
Clipping Bureau (Alien's), $40 Montgomery. 9
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

The New York Times commends the
evasive money PLANK of the Maryland
Democrats on the ground that any DEM
ocratic platform which does not indorse
the Chicago heresles and the tenets OF
Bryanism is good thing this year. 1t
will be seen that in the gold camp not
only are small favors thankfully received,
but anything that is not kick is counted
as favor.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Vermont, like other New England
States, delights in boasting of her Puri-
tan heritage, but she does not stick to the
traditions OF the pilgrims, for according
to recent statistics. out of population of
332, 422, only 106.3 315 were church COM
municants, and of these less than half be-
long to churches having any historical or
doctrinal connection with Puritanism.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

A Santa Cruz paper notes that Tennes
see belle has created local sensation by
jilting poet and marrying butcher.
Yet, ere she may hope to attain 10 the
fame OF the Missouri belle who forsook
the imm ortal Joe Bowers, it must de-
velop that her butcher has red hair.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

Before Anarchist Golli was tried it was
announced that he would be sentenced
to be garroted, which shows that in some
countries at any rate the decision of
court upon clear case is not considered
as i'm possible Of prediction.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

CALIFORNIA glace fruits. SOC TO- rownssnd',.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

When the chorus girl loses her job she is out
of work. When the same thing happens to a
star she is at liberty.-Philadelphi Record.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

The estimated wheat output of Fresno
County is said to be only about two-thlrds
of full crop, but. fortunately prices are
rising and the net income of the growers
may be satisfactory. At any rate the
farmers have the satisfaction of knowing
they are not losing at both ends and their
short crop has not to go to a market of
Democratic prices.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

The rush for gold in the wilds OF Trinity
will cause the oPening of roads, and then
will come the orchards and vineyards
which will make prosperity permanent.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

In deciding to join forces with the re-
voting tribes of Chllral the Ameer of Al
gnanistan may not have lost his senses. but
there are big chances he will lose his
throne
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

The surost way for the Gear and the
Kaiser to Carry out their intention 10 sup
press anarchy would be 10 establish and
maintain the fullest freedom of spe ch.
When the fool anarchist has liberty ard
license to blow his lungs out in froth and
fury he hardly ever takes the trouble to
blow out the brains of some one else with
gunpowder.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-17

The extent of the severity o; the base
ball season in the East NAV be estimated
from the fact that the Boston Journal
calls for the appointment of special police
men to act as umpires.