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The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03
War Departnent.

WASHINGTON, April %, 1898.
 To the Governor of California-Sr: Under the act of Congress ito provide for temporar- fly increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of war, and for other purposes" approved April 22. iS9S and calling for 125 GOO volunteers, by direction of the Presi- dent, l have the honor to request you to pro- vide from your State the quota of volunteers follows: Two (2) regiments and two @ battalions of infantry, and four (4) heavy bat teries, to serve in the arms of service desig- nated for the period of two years, unless statement shoVing the organization for artil- lery cavalry and infantry.
 Please cause the adjutant-general of the army to be informed of the time your quota will be at it's rendezvous, 1t will be met as as practicable thereafter by an officer to muster it into service and pay of the United States. The mastering officer will be instruct ed to receive no man, who is over 45 under IS, or who is not In physical strength and vigor. As soon as mustered into the United States service, ft is the intention that troops from your State shall be assembled with others for instruction and service under the direction of the majorgeneral commanding the army at after. It is desirable for reasons stated in telegram of this date that as far as practi-
 The rendezvous for your State will be San Francisco. If. from any cause. it is found nec- essary to change point of concentration. your recommendation is requested. Bands may be organized from the strength of regiments as in the regular army. viz: See paragraph 245, army regulations 1895. Very respectfully,
 R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War.
 All that now remains, since everything Darlington receives the mastering blanks and his detailed instructions. These were mailed from the War Department on Friday, and should reach here to-day or been received by Captain Darlington he will notify the Governor that he is ready and the work of mastering in the Guard will begin.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03

NAVY YARD, MARE ISLAND. Cal.
 April 30, 1898. Sir: copy of letter from the Honora ble of the Navy Is herewith inclosed for information. which you will please
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03
(jpOSSnlal'S Specific Mixture

With this remedy persons can cure them selves without the least exposure change of diet or change in application to business. The medicine contains nothing of the least injury to the constitution. Ask your druggist for 1t. Price, q bottle.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03
Printers Picnic.

The "Koh-I-Noor' lead pencil will out last three others. Tryjt.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03
Wrighfs Indian Vegetable Pills

Are acknowledged by thousands of persons who have used them for over forty years to cure SICK HEADACHE, GIDDINESS CONSTIPA- TON, Torpid Liver, Weak Stomach, Pimples and purify the blood.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03

The eleventh anniversary picnic and family excursion of the Union Printers Mutual Aid Society will be held at Mira bel Park, Sonoma County. on Thursday, May 19 A number of new features will be introduced on the occasion, including games for ladies and children. for which prizes will be given. The committee ha2- ing the matter in hand is working hard for the success of the affair and pleas ant time is assured all who attend.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03

Mrs. Emeric's Will. The will of the late Mrs. H. F. Emeric will be filed for probate to-day by the firm of Reddy, Campbell & Nelson.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-03
NATIONAL GUARD. Work of Mastering in VoI= unteers May Begin
 TO=MOrrOw.

The National Guard of California has but a few hours existence as a State mili- tary organization remaining to it. In less than forty eight hours there Is every probability that the work of mastering in the soldiers will have commenced, and they will become Uncle Sams instruments of war
 Late last night Governor Budd received the following official letter from the War Department confirming the dispatch he received several days ago:
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
Who pleads there at nv door?
Growth in Grace.

The Christian cannot stand still in the
matter of his spiritual development. He
must either advance or fall back. Every
day makes its impression and its differ
ence. Growth in grace is the law of his
being as true, healthy believer. 1t has
its signs which are plain for others to
read, and often plain for him. If we OBJ
serve him exhibiting increased steadiness
of Christian purpose and effort, more fidel-
ity to every duty, more earnestness, more
service, we regard him as growing in
grace. He need not undertake novel
forms of effort. but if he travel day by
day in the pathway of customary duty
with growing zeal we can trust him. The
effect will be visible in his daily occupa-
ton whatever it be. Thank God that we
can prove our growth in grace by the do
ing Of common things. We need not
search afar for the heroic. 1t will reveal
itself in unexpected places and ways to
him who steadfastly does one duty at a
time for Christ as thoroughly as he
can. Often this growth in grace becomes
noticeable first in relation to the Bible.
We find new meanings in it for ourselves.
We love it more. We open it oftener The
same is true of prayer. AS we develop
slowly into something OF the divine likeness,
we learn better how to pray and how to dis
cover the answers to prayer. Many prayer
meeting has been thrilled by a new tone and
spirit filling the utterances OF some perhaps
familiar voice, because it unconsciously re-
veals new inner experience. You cannot
grow in grace and keep the fact a secret
long. 1t will out in look, and voice, and
act. 1t is worth noting that we are not al
ways the best judges of our own growth in
grace. Sometimes others are aware of it
when we are respondent about ourselves.
On the other hand, sometimes others do not
perceive it as clearly as we think they ought
to. Then usually it Is we who are mistaken.
But when we feel our love for Christ grow
ing within us so imperatively that it must
find fuller expression, we need not doubt
longer about the fact of our growth.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
Who Paws the Bills?

Who pays the bills? Who feeds TIE
drunkard's children? Who provides for
the drunkard's wife? Who supports the
beggarly tramps who having wasted their
money In drink, wander about the country?
Who repairs the losses caused by the fall
ure of Incorporate merchants and reckless
and half-intoxicated business men? Who
makes good the damages caused by the
blunders Of drunken workmen, and the
hindrances of business caused by the
sprees of Incorporate employees? Who
pays for the railroad wrecks caused by
drunken conductors and engineers? Who
builds the asylums where crazy drunkards
are kept? Who supports the idiotic chill
dren of drunken men? Who pays the at
torneys, and juries, and judges who try
drunken criminals? Who pays the ex-
penses of trials and commitm ents and exc
cutions occasioned by the crimes OF drunken
men? Who pays for the property destroyed
and burned by drunken men? Who builds
and supports almshouses, which but for
drink might remain unoccupied? Who en-
dures the suffering, and losses, and brutal
ity, which are due to the recklessness and
insanity of drunken husbands and fathers?
Who pays for the inquest held on drunk
ards found dead by the wayside? Who
pays for pauper's coffin, and for digging
a grave in Potter's field, when the last
glass has been drunk?
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
Interpreting God to Men.

One of the gravest hindrances to the
spread of the Gospel is that men do not un-
derstand Gods dealings with them. This is
true not only in reference to missions but
also in Christian lands, in our own commu-
mites. The mystery which often shrouds
the motives, and even the actions. of the
divine Being was SO depressing to the be-
lever before he surrendered himself to
God that he ought not now to wonder
that unbelievers are perpiexed and re-
PEELED by it. 1t is his mission to
help them in regard to it. He is to
be Gods interpreter. He has learned to
trust. He has experienced the safety and
satisfaction of unfaltering faith in spite of a
prospect no matter how threatening and dis
couraging. He has learned something of the
heavenly Father. He therefore may serve
as link between God and his fellowmen.
He is in sympathy with both. He can tell
his fellows what he has found out about
God and duty. He can tell them this look
ing also at the matter from their point of
view, for once 1t was his own. Here is
where much of the strength of the Christian
lies as worker for souls. Let him recall
his own earlier groupings after God, it may
be even his own disregard of God, and let
him mentally put himself once more in the
place of him to whom he would appeal.
Then let him make his plea with courtesy,
tact, kindliness and unaffected SINGER ty,and
he will not wholly fail. If he do no more at
first, he at least will make an opening for
future efforts which ma" sr""Aad
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
A Little Suggestion.

There exist in many organizations which
sail under the name ''fraternal," customs
of conviviality that have no business there
that are sources of temptation to the mem
bers, and to outsiders the cause of much
scandal. There is no reason why, at this
late day, men can not gather to transact
business, or even for sociability. without
the introduction of liquor. Beer-parties
among people with any pretentions to re-
flnement are out of date as occasions of
entertainment, and the societies that still
adhere to this old ignorant custom are far
in the rear Of the procession. There is in
deed a marked improvement of late years
in this respect, but unfortunately there
are still organizations not only unobiec-
tionable but praiseworthy in every other
way, whose record in this matter is not
clear. Total abstainers In such societies
should make their influence felt on the
question, and should do all in their power
to combat and defeat q ustom which is
not conducive to the good of the members,
either morally or physically.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
stuning Live Fowls by Machinery.

Poultry raising has become a
science No longer do the feathered
beauties run free picking up the sue
culent caterpillar and scratching for
grain It's too expensive.
In the first place caterplllars aren't
good food for chickens; in the second,
grain thrown on the ground is wasted;
ir the third place, they run off their
fat if obliged to trot around and pick
up their food.
On the great poultry farms where
fowls are fattened for the London
market the birds are imprisoned in
long rows of coops. At feeding time
along comes boy wheeling a queer
barrow that looks something like a
tool grinders kit, except that it has a
big hopper on top. In this is ground
and mixed food.
Opening each cage door in success
sion, the boy takes out fowl and
holds It under his arm. Deity he
opens its bill with his fingers, inserts
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

One Glass of Wine-Persons Who Think
That 1t Changed the Course of Politics
in This Country-An Ante-BeIlum
Episode and Its Results.
The following story from the Atlanta
Constitution is an unusual article to appear
in temperance column, but it may serve
to point lesson in sobriety as well aS
another: 1t is said that a single glass of
wine probably wrecked the Democratic
party In 1860. The story is worth telling.
After the breaking up of the National
Democratic Convention at Charleston the
party in Georgia held a State Convention.
Great excitement prevailed. The leaders
of the party could not agree. 1t was
critical period.
The majority report indorsed the seceders
or boilers at Charleston, while the minority
report opposed their action. The leading
champion of the minority was Herschel V.
johnson, and his followers were confident
that his eloquence and logic would carry
the day.
1t is quite likely that such would have
been the case but for an unfortunate mis-
hap. Ex-Governor Johnson began his
speech before the noon adjournment on
the second day, and concluded after dinner.
Old men who remember that speech say
that it was a powerful argument, and the
impression gained ground that after the
noon recess the speaker would demolish
blows.
But the over-confident friends of the
minority report were doomed to d1sap-
pointment. johnson felt the strain of the
morning session so much that he was un-
able to eat anything. and he took glass
Of wine upon an empty stomach to strength
en- himself. This was a fatal mistake.
That one glass of wine perhaps changed
the destiny of the nation!
The great orator resumed his speech, but
the wine had nauseated him. He was
hazy, verbose and unintelligible at times.
His style and argument lacked valor, con-
sistency and positiveness. His friends
looked at one another In despair. The men
on the other side were eXultant. 1t was
evident that the speaker had damaged his
own cause.
Then Howell Cobb and Henry R. jack
son followed each other for the ajority
report. They spoke with an air of expec-
tant triumph and captured the convention.
The majority report was adopted. 1t Is
unnecessary to follow the history of the
next few weeks. The National Democracy
was completely disrupted and put two
tickets in the field Lincoln was elected
and the country was plunged into civil
war. Had johnson succeeded in inducing
the Georgia convention to adopt the con-
servative ideas, it is safe to say that other
Southern States would have fallen into
line with our commonwealth, and the Ma
tional Democratic party would have re-
mained united.
This is the story of what little glass OF
wine did. 1t ruined great party, caused
a disastrous war, and besides the loss OF
life, cost the South over four billions of
dollars. Perhaps this is rather specula-
tive, but there are many who believed it a
generation ago.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
OUR TRADE WITH THE WORLD.
Details of Great Reductions in Imports
and Increase in Exports.


and Increase in Exports.
The details of the reduction of $113, ,000,-
300 in our imports and of the increase OF
1928 900 900 in our exports in the nine
months ended September so, 1898, are
shown by the monthly summary of COM
merce and finance just issued by the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics, at Washing
ton, DC
To every grand division of the world we
have increased our sales, While at the same
time we have decreased our purchases
from every grand division except Asia and
Oceanica.
To Europe we increased our sales from
s56S, sos, ,159 to S666, 1886, $50, while our pur-
ehases were cut down from 1882, ,394, 94S to
s240, 1868, ia.
To North America our sales increased
from S94, ,s42 $50 to $10s, ,93l S37. while our
purchases fell from $S4, ,51l 1866 to 6,04s,-
519.
To South America our exports increased
from S24, ,S71 ,545 to $25, ,323, ,942, while our
imports from that part of the world fell
from SIS, ,656 ,642 to S63, ,513, ,S73.
To Asia and Oceanica our exports in
creased from S45, ,7S4. $40 to S54, ,495, ,3S2
our imports also increased from sS5.0o4,-
867 to $50 259, 960, this being mostly due to
an increase in imports of raw silk for uss
in the factories OF the United States.
To Africa our sales increased from S11,-
934, 1888 to SIS. .555, OFT, while our imports
decreased from $S.lS6. $50 to S6.674.S27
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
The snelp-in South Africa.

The Observation-Disclosures
petroolriituig is being introduced into
progressive South Africa as into other
parts of the world The snelpaardel-
neutrality-suspicious. is, as
the reader will doubtless have noted
at a glance, the mellifuous Dutch
uame of the quick-horseless upon
ordinary y-road-running- petroleum car
riage or motor car soon to be familiar
object in johannesburg as already in
Amsterdam.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03

he is usually accompanied by his
twelve-year-old son Hugh. 1t was on
one of these trips that the photograph
was taken. On this occasion the
younger Shaw carried the camera.
They had had tiresome tramp through
the woods when Mr.. Shaw, looking up,
saw large wildcat ready to spring.
Raising his rifle and standing ready
to fire should the beast attempt to
spring, Mr.. Shaw kept his eyes on the
cat, while Master Hugh pressed the
button. The result is the picture. Mr..
Shaw, the next instant, fred, and the
cat fell to the ground mortaliy wound
ed. Mr.. Shaw has the wildcat mount
ed and he keeps it in his house.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
TOOK A WILDCATS PHOTOGRAPH.
Boy Photographers Father Shot the AMI
NAL Directly Afterward.

BOY Photographers Father Shot the AMI
NAL Directly Afterward.
To photograph wildcat just before
shooting the animal is feat which few
hunters have ever accomplished. It
was done recently by William NJ. Shaw,
of Greenville, Me-, and the photo
graph has just been reproduced in the
New York Sun. Mr.. Shaw, who is a
rich lumberman in the Moosehead re-
gion, owns most of Sugar Island, one
Of themost picturesque spots in Moose
head Lake. On this bit of land is
situated the camps of the Nighthawk
Club, whose membership is largely
drawn from sportsmen from New York
and Boston.
None of the campers is more en-
thusiastic sportsman than Mr.. Shaw,
who combines with his tastes as a
hunter those of the artist. He is de-
voted amateur photographer and has
taught the art to all the members of
his family who are able to handle a
camera. On his nearby hunting trips
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
ROUTE

Leave Boston and New England points
every Wednesday via Chicago. Colorado
Springs and Scenic Route.
Southern Route leaves Boston every
Monday via Chicago. Kansas City, Fl.
Worth and El Paso to Los Angeles.
These Excursion Cars are attached to
Fast Passenger Trains, and their popu-
Iarity is evidence that we offer the best.
Write for handsome itinerary which
gives full information and new map.
sent free. Address CHAs. KENNEDY, sos
Broadway, New York.
JOHN SEBASTIAN, G.. P. a.. Chicago.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

God-and I-GrOwth in Grace-Interpret-
No Need to Ask-How the Church
May Be Cured.
Who stands there at my door?
Unkempt, in rags, on faltering feet,
Unsheltered from the MONDAY heat2
God knows-not l.
Mayhap in other years
A mothers holy tears
Fell in loves shower upon that sin-bowed
head;
Mayhap in better days
He won fathers praise.
God knows, not l, how far those feet have
fled
Who knocks there at my door?
In tattered, faded shawl clutched fast,
With eyes half-bold, half-downward cast
God knows-not l.
Long since, in summer hours,
She gathered joys sweet flowers,
Nor dreamed that sin was waiting just
before
Those eyes were true and bright,
Not c1ouded as tonight
lhe stands there shelterless outside my
door.
Who pleads there at my door?
soul, clad in the dreadful rags of sin.
And saying low, ''Will no one take me in?"
God hears-and l.
SOUL Ny heart-doors are wide,
Here dwelleth One who died.
Whose blood has cleansed me from darkest
stain.
Come in, and shut fast the door,
Alone thou art no more,
With God, we two, at last our home shall
gain.
Ada Melville Shaw, in Zions Herald.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
Necessity For Total Abstinence.

No doubt, moderation in the use of in
toxicating drinks is all-suff1cient fer in
dividuals, and nothing more need be de-
sired for them. But for a great and Il
desperate evil, as the abuse of Intoxicating
drinks admittedly is a remedy more power
full and effective seems to be imperatively
called for Statistics prove that melan-
choly procession of drunkards is annually
marching to an untimely grave-to the
house of eternity. Half measures will not
cure this evil; it requires the whole sacri-
flee of generous souls sufficient in number
to make the necessary lasting impression
on society.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03

Before the Mills Hotel opened in New
York City, D. O. Mills, its founder, stipu-
lated that no liquors should be sold in any
of the stores in the block, and in spite of
numerous offers of twice and three times
the rental asked for the stores, this restric-
tion has been rigidly enforced, and there
is at least one city block in the crowded
resident districts south of Washington
square in which there is no saloon.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03

in its mouth a tube connected with
the hopper, presses his foot upon a
lever under the barrow, and pumps
until the crop is full-iike blowing
up bicycle tire with foot-pump.
One charge of food is rammed down
that fowls receptive gullet; and back
he goes to his cage to ruminate on a
world of queer things.
Thus deprived of exercise, the birds
grow fat very rapidly. With the ma
chine one boy csn feed $50 fowls in
an hour.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03
Temperance Notes.

Deep drinking means shallow thinking.
Drink does not Danish care, it invites
and fosters it.
Beer glasses are very poor glasses through
which to view the future.
Passaic City record., 1898-12-03

lutheran Churches in Milwaukee.
The Lutherans have twenty-nine congre,
cations in Milwaukee. Wis. Il.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-07-18
PORTO RICO'S TRADE.
The Foreign Commerce of 1896 Exceeded All
Previous Records by Fifteen
Million Dollars.

Washington, July 18.-In view Of the
present war plans, a comprehensive
statistical report of the trade of Porto
Rico, just prepared under the direC-
ticn of Mr.. Frank II. Hitchcock, chief
of the foreign markets section Of the
agricultural department. and approved
by Secretary Wilson, is Of unusual in
terest. 1t shows for the first time the
figures Of the m for the year
1896 of Spain's eastermost West India
Island. During the calendar year 1896,
the foreign trade of Porto Rico, ac-
cording TO the official returns, attained
a total value of $36, 624, 100, exceeding all
previous records and being a gain in
the year of more than SIS, 900, 900. In
1926 the total imports and exports
had an average annual value Of S33, $40, =
535, as against $24.961, PIT in 1SS7-91.
Imports into Porto Rico generally
have somewhat exceeded exports, but
in 1896, for the first time in over a
decade, the value Of merchandise
shipped to foreign markets was slightly
greater than that Of the imported
wares. Tho exports for 1896 had a
value Of $18, 81, 43O, decidedly the largest
on record, while the imports for the
same year, SIS, 282, $50, were surpassed
only I'm 1894, when the foreign goods re-
ceived amounted to $40, 086, 1886. The
foreign trade of Porto Rico is conduct
ed chiefly with Spain, the United States
Cuba, Germany, the United Kingdom
and France, having an average an
nual value Of $9,SSS,0 74, which was 2S.8t
per cent. of the total valuation placed
upon the islands commerce. The United
States ranked second, the value of the
goods exchanged averaging $6,Si5. 252 a
year, or 19.9i per cent. of the total
Cuba's trade with Porto Rico amounted
to 13.41 per cent. of the total, having
an average yearly value Of 1906, 220.
The islands exports consists almost
entirely Of agricultural produce. OF I'm
ports, manufactured articles do not
greatly exceeded the agricultural
Coffee shipments increased notably
during the decade, 1896 reports beinG
the largest of the twenty a treated
by Mr.. Hitchcock, SIS, $50, 900 p unds
valued at 1881 900. The average an
nual shipment, 1926, was SlO,S 72, OO
against S4,945, 900 in 1SS7-91. On tn,
other hand, sugar, molasses and to
bacco showed marked declines.
The cOffe exported goes most exten
slvely to Spain and Cuba, these tw,
getting over half. Most Of the suga
and molasses is destined for the United
States, with Spain a second customer
Spain and Cuba receive most of tn
tobacco.