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gated more in 1893, being $27, 800 900 in
that year against s25, 200,0 900 during the
past year. Forty years ago there was
not a dollars worth of trade between
the two countries, and ten years later
the combined exports and imports did
not exceed S2,300,000. But in 1878 the
exchange of goods aggregated $19,000,000
and increased to double that figure ten
years later. Our imports from Japan
have multiplied tenfold in the past
thirty years, and our exports more than
twelvefold. In exports to Japan there
has been remarkable gain in the past
two years.
Last year we sent out more than $780,
000 900 worth, and the year before S13,
900, 900 In 1895. however. the exports
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-23

years. The highest percentage in the
history of this country, aside>from that
of 1897, was in 1926, over seventy years
ago, when nearly IA per cent of our en-
tire imports came from Asia. In the
export trade the United States has
made no greater improvement. Last
year the exports to Asia amounted to
$44, 800, 900, but this was only 3R per
cent of our entire exports.
What is true of Asia as a whole is
largely true of individual nations. Our
largest trade with any one Pacific
country is with Japan which last year
aggregated SAG, 000 900 in exports and
imports. This is the largest total trade
with Japan in our history, although
our imports from that country aggre-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-23

And that anniversary of the great day the
Hatchards gave dinner party in their house on
Mossley hill, where six guests were present, whose
names can easily supplied, bowl filled with
roses stood in of the table that ali could
writing thereon that without
sion circumstances violation of taste
the into conversation eleven times,
praise of the in discussion of the pattern
1Oueen AIMEE, with reference Of
Irish bog oak once in verifcaton of the fact that
much ingenuity turned the searchlight honour, and
ton. When the ladies left the room there look
when the other mems cigars were fully lit TOMMY made
finished, with some pauses, speech which may
eloquent paper, but which the audience
will forget: There's somewhere in the
Bible said. pretending that his cigar draw
ing which runs something this Saved by faith
nd [ at that bowl I remember hat
was saved that way, but it wasn't my faith: if
was the faith of you three men,"
oo00oo0000
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ny Wqqd have other b P had the %
heart beat who would be- Il 9ot6inga tax :
f hing gsE Bad hap 5P
the nj t5sa WV Ss$
at
e ahe df s y9g ~s Rssed
arms sna sls E bas s and aHdsad
for he aa hsB nn9 s aa and
'I'll never Say a word against the Scots
m ro bo trials no Which they ad so
no R2s ss saa PsSSf sass w
f9F give S6 Eno sad h9R qHs Rom how
Dc e5F to s5s h it Mr.
ard this morning pG He sad- ,rts b, I'm
full al the and win forget it And who
have 4s o Sds and HH do Ne Sot to
.a Its good of them to think about the children but
You unfeeling, Tom. at the best
@ %Ren naa saved tnem up and them d ito 70
come quite t sgperog What think Of kind
your @ shivslnE ar, fold5
YOU did She call between ne and 81
es fae% ssS she was last
afraid that might get at all but IN 50
saw Of course, that She Just repeating Mr. Beaz
~ Tom ungrate{@I, and for punishment
yss qSs s{ ~s04s has any
a so 5ha S
Pss sa 9u not H3T
fhSn sB95s Ct sqf ha
through this strait, speaking good word for
800 Yes NIacfarlane came office and
oed and as he Wa LEAVING RaP he
securities for $4,000 at the bank; too you may
m % for M TO be has
minded gn dr om som net is MTqng oh
the couch, and I'll battle forehead With eau de
IN mo IVA am not i'll arq don't any pettlng
Sgsa 6sd ssdsd Would s Not
you must not send fT the doetoT else you will
opt s to m my mnq . qq rg6
van S The mT Sgar 0 Rsa a IN this
a thy y9q a ge the
get nice little for you and his wife kissed him
himself Wien Vas Se Believes m me s ahd
after al ne said and please God they will not be sa
aad s
n ny hand scotch ua take the ruler 0o ont
scqundr that letter ne ao1 Rdain Mas las;
@ Pfs 5oSan &e Rf
or two Stand up, old man. and do the thing properly
There we're ready F''
July Z, 1897
Dear SirIt will be in your recollection that in Ii1v
1887 obliged to make decomposition with nv credi
tors while trading as corn merchant the stye
of Thomas Hatchard & Co.. and that they were good
enough to accept the of shlings pence in
the pound. - "
Immediately thereafter, as you may be aware I be-
business broker, to the kind
assistance of certain of other friends
here had considerable success.
81 Gf %y Shin
and which is morally due
1857 and it affords much personal satisfaction to dis
charge this obligation.
therefore beg to nclose check the amount ow-
ing to with cent compound interest.
gratitude for consideration years ago
O 600 90 . . 90 . 0000000000o o.
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M. Gautier, the well-known optician.
is making good progress with the con-
struction of the giant telescope intend
ed for the great exhibition at Paris In
1900. The aperture win be 1.25 meters
(49.2 inches) and the focal length sixty
meters (196 feet 10 inches). while the
estimated cost is $780,, 000 An eoua-
torial mounting and dome for such
gigantic instrument may we'll be con
sidered impractieable, and ACCORDINGLY
the telescope itself will be rigidIv fiyad
in a horizontal position on supports ~
masonry, and viii receive the light Of
the heavenly bodies after refiection
from movable plane mirror about
seven feet in diameter. The plane mir
ror is thirteen inches thick and weiebs
about 5000 pounds, and it is curious
that of twelve disks cast for the pur-
pose the first one turned out to be the
best. This has been in process of grind
ing for seven months, and is not yet
finished.
There will be two detectives, one
Photographic and one visual. which
will be easily interchangeable at will.
1t is expected that a magnifying power
of 5000 will be usefully employed.
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AMEENG[E9 lB = LA I II, ,,,,,

was shared and his
saS speeches about hospitals ne was mean
grafton to gensraton ike h apeee Of the ses
his Cheek gas now be b gut and snesk too y G5 oe
1tPaRt ss de- HIM sb
Ga we5t oe 6Rs One never
FesS hm to IA s al
his h9use v he ng sba
Father" and Freddie could not sit still He did it
IN one nour and twelve minutes and 1T fifteen sec
Thirteen and three-fths seconds Macfarlane spoke
he he had never yard; but didn't the fellows
IT II had leg myself" Macfarlane growing
took m and he didn't bgag about oxIey
5 hs 6aS Footing
Tunnns % baughfe T T soundbeFgh
low What did old Tommy do for2 Freddie Rsa
and R sha ae Smoking
fSssy FoTHS
sdPcaoR ,d for his boys @ himself for hsT cir
Mdd S% n a2H h as gohe h that his
she i can a help er ARB and az eey
S Join Join the rope and haul Tommy on
RPa took k the rar out of his mouth and
u.s. an we were could I'D the that go az ng men he's
wouldn't take from others and it would be
jolly decent thing to do
You're all right, Freddie'-Oxley evidently
pleased-"and were with C'shouder shoulder,
said Macfarane lighting his pipe with care
Now the first step let Tommy that
going stand BY him he'll not throw OH up
the sponge"
I L here cried Beazley w round this t minute
hat We haven't the old days the e ns
and that we know hes white man, and in fact
That win help nightly; up our
plans" said OXey
And that was how three joined in conspiracy
for the business and social and personal salvation of
Thomas Hatchard
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II

GLOW late you are, Toms o'clock and how tired
you look poor fellow! I've been thinking about all
They ought have been for everybody know that
1t wasn't fault.
No, / don't think everybody could know that, Amy
don't know it myself, and men have good
know the opposite. Well, yes, l = =
rather sick at the meeting; and worse afterward,
you Do you that they said things? Tell
me- share every with darling.
from him-no 1 won't tell you his name, for he be-
haved very handsomely in the end Perhaps didn't de-
served any kind words that said before the
day done. But mind about me just now; tell
me how got on Wasn't it your visiting day? did
$50 you thinking in all troubles!
his wife put her round Hatchards neck-"and
afraid should be deserted because you victim
lied by those speculators Now confess
We'll know, Amy, society is not merciful
think women the cruelest of all. What hits
poor wife s suffer. If her husband
= I mean has acted foolshy, well, say, has lost
miserable. It's beasty shame and afraid
II would be sitting all alone to-day because we are
poor. Do you know, Tom just tiny bit nervous
too would have told this morning
worlds. And I have splendid news to give YOU
friends true steel. Now question
Tom whether and about the difference
between acquaintance friends Mention of
families would expect to stand by in
trial.
1.-THE OxIeys o course, wife, and-I would have said
Beazleys and let yes, the Macfaranes, al
though their doesn't allow them to show what
they feel; right?'
ITO man (and woman), they all called to-day-the
women, l daresay the called And
they all said the incest things and what is best they
said the things they did
my word shall separate-do really think
would chaf to-day?
shoulder, and / shall describe everything 2:9O
when began to watch the clock and wonder whether
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PURPOSES Oh
Copyright. 1898, by John watson.

Copyright
~ YOU have agreed to accept seven-and- txpence
| in the pound from Hatchard?' Oxey said n
friends after luncheon the club. Il could not
\ attend the meeting, but hear that the affairs
~ showed badly"
Yes took the sum he offered and Of
course it would have done good to put him in
the bankruptcy the dividend
Very likely should only have netted half but
excitement Beazley established himself
purposes the hearth-rug-he had recently taken
municipal politics.
You that Hatchard foolishly, and
ought not to have got into such hole. suppose
are right Tommy always sanguine chap
'Sanguine has nothing to do with it, OXley, and l
fancy know that there's than judgm
at t1atchards door. Of the longestheaded
by falling market but that is why a fellow
should take in friend he could lay hands What
do you say, Macfarane?"
That most phlegmatic and silent of Scots said
the proposition that ought his friends
person could deny, Macfarlane sign.
I'm afraid that it is rather bad case" Oxley ad-
mtted with reluctance, but I'm for Tommy
in fact and things he would be the first to con-
denim other times. loses his moral presence
mind
Aacfarlane indicated consideration, agree
ment.
THAT sounds very fine Oxley," burst Beazey 'but
It's very dangerous doctrine, would some
curious transactions. Hatchard knew quite well
when he hopelessy bankrupt he ought not have
borrowed THOUSAND from you and five hundred from
Macfarane and me; business losses enough
Had none" murmured Macfarane to himself.
Il angry continued BeazIey, that got hold
of him afterward in Fenwick and gave him
sound talking to as got in this city; he'll
% GOO % e. 90 a % o. q a ~ ~ 0 70 0 a a a a n ~
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. HE United States should have no
concern with militarism or impe-
rialism; we are a pacific power"
said a prominent American to a
- oO11rca
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
Stop! Women,

And consider that in addressing Mrs.
Pinkham you are confding your private
Ills to q woman-a woman whose ex-
perience in treating woman's diseases
is greater than that of any living ply
sician, male or female.
You can talk freely to woman when
It is revolving to relate your private
troubles to man; besides, man does
not understand, simply because he isa
man.
MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING
INVITATION. 4.
Women suffering from any form of
female weaknessa sareinvited topromptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. ALI letters are re-
ceived, opened, read, and answered by
women only. A woman can freely
talk of her private illness to woman.
Thus has been established the eternal
confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and
the women of America which has never
been broken. Out of the vast volume
of experience which she has to draw
from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge that
will help Your case. She asks nothing
in return except your good will, and
her advice has relieved thousands.
Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very
foolish if she does not take advantage
of this generous offer of assistance.f
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
A Cretan Custom.

In Crete a number Of individuals Of
ten choose young girl, who must be
pretty-no difficult matter in Crete.
They inform her parents Of their in
tention, and the needful consent is nev-
er withheld. Then a priest Is sent for
and told to begin the ceremony. He
takes a very long girdle and joins all
the men with it in circle, In the center
of which the young girl is placed. Then
the clergyman recites a number of
prayers and winds up by giving his
benediction to all present. The mo-
ment he pronounces the last amen the
circle and its center stand in the rela-
ton of brothers and sister to each 9TH
er to all religious and social intents and
purposes. Each and every one of the
males is bound in honor to protect that
girl throughout her life, but none of
them can take her for his wife. She is
and remains their sister to the end of
her days.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
The Oldest Plow Maker,

Chicago has the oldest plowmaker in
the United States. His name Is David
Bradley, and he is at the head Of big
manufacturing company on the West
Side. MI. Bradley first worked at the
business in Syracuse, N. Y, in 1882. In
1885 he came to Chicago, which then
numbered about $500 inhabitants and
a camp of several thousand Indians, to
help erect the first iron-foundry estab-
lished here. Mr.. Bradley was the first
man to bring pig-iron into Chicago. In
connection with the foundry which he
helped build was a machine-shop, and
the establishment soon began along
with its other business the manufac-
ture of plows. Mr.. Bradley, by the
growth of his business, was finally
forced to build little town of his own,
which is known as Bradley, Ill. Mr..
Bradley has passed his S5th birthday,
but is still hale and hearty, and thor
oughly enjoys the prosperity which
hard work has brought him. The ac-
tive business has been surrendered to
his sons.-Chicago Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
Where Duels Are Fought

More duels are fought in Germany
than in any other country. Most CT
them, however, are student duels,
which culminate in nothing more SC
rious than slashed cheeks or torn
scalps. Of all German university towns,
little Jena and Gottingen are most de-
voted to the code. In Gottingen the
number of duels average one a day,
year in and year out. On one day, sey.
eral years ago, twelve duels were
fought in Gottingen in twenty-four
hours. In Jena the record for one day
in recent times is twenty-one. Fully
1000 student duels are fought every
year in the German Empire. In addi-
ton to these there are the more serious
duels between officers and civilians.
Among Germans of mature years the
annual number of duels is about 100.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
KODAK IDENTIFICATION.
Little Camera Led to Meeting of Long
Separated Brothers.

OCPdA oACA DIOLHerSs
Two brothers named Wilcox were
graduated at Ann Arbor. Just after
that event they went hunting in north
ern Michigan. One day William left
their camp and did not return. The
woods were searched, streams dragged
and lakes sounded, but no trace of the
missing man was found. Weeks.
months and years went by and nothing
appeared to prove that William VIII
cox was yet among the living. The
brother began his career as a teacher
ana advanced rapidly in his profes-
sion, with only one sorrow, that of a
lost brother, intensified in time by the
death of their parents. The latter left
considerable estate, but as the death
OF William could not be proved it's set
tlement was delayed.
A camper in northern Wisconsin re-
Gently returned with some photo
graphs. One was of a hermit seen
there. A woman who saw it recogniz-
ed it as that of William Wilcox. The
camper said of the hermit: HE was a
fine conversationalist, and through his
ways and all the outer debasement of
tramp we could detect the gentleman
and man of learning. Of himself he
would not speak a word, except that
his name was Wilcox and that his
manner Of living was his own choos-
Ing. He brought us berries and fish,
saying that he cared nothing for mon
ey beyond enough to carry him
through the winter, and for that pur-
pose $40 was all he wanted His hut
was seven or ten miles north of our
camp, and 1t was twice a week some
times he would come tramping down
the railroad track with berries. The
picture Of him was taken by two
young men who were of our party.
The woman who recognized the picture
sent it to brother of Wilcox in New
York, who then sent letter address
ed to the hermit at the postoffice near
est to his supposed locality in the Wis
consin forest. 1t was a letter full of
pleading to return home, and telling
him Of the death of the father and
mother. He was urged to come, as his
presence in the Michigan town where
the Wilcoxes lived was necessary in
settling the estate. After many weeks
the missing man got the letter and an
swered it; said that he would go to
Ann Arbor, but that nothing could
keep him in civilization again. He
wanted no part of the estate, not so
much as would pay his railroad fare.
He would not ride home, but preferred
to tramp it through the woods, across
the straits of Mackinac, down to where
they desired his presence. He came,
signed away his share Of the estate and
went back at once to his Wisconsin
hut.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26

Children new to California should be
cautioned against eating castor beens.
Three children at Coronado and their
nurse were severely poisoned recently
by eating them. Speaking of the Incl
dent, the San Diego Union says: 'It
requires double handful of the beans
to make dose of castor oil, and yet
three beans have been known to kill a
man. There is bitter principal in the
covering of the bean that is very poi
sonous, and gives a most agonizing
collie"
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
Wall OF A FLAT DWELLER.
MIR. Weckenday's Remarks on New York
Apartment Bathrooms.


ga long and bitter experience in
apartments forces me to observe" said
Mr.. Werkenday, shivering as he hoped
on the oilcloth of the bathroom with
his bare feet, "that the architects who
plan the ordinary fiat of commerce do
not bathe. Idon't judge this from their
appearance, because they are a particu-
larly clean and nice lot of men. But l
rannot believe that any one with the
least respect for the Importance of the
bathroom could treat it with such ar
shitectural stepfatherliness.
''It always is showed away in dark
sorner as far from the bedrooms and as
hear the parlor or dining room as posi-
BILE. 1t always is dark and ventilated
by an airshaft up which there blows
perpetually a dismal draft that has
something on it's mind and groans about
it all the time. 1t ought to have some
thing on its mind, for it is sure kill
er. Then, of course, the bathroom, be-
ing the only place in the house where
one takes off all his clothes and gets
wet all over, is the place which most
frequently has no heating appliances.
again, why do SO many architects
build the washstand in the hallway in
stead of in the bathroom, where it be-
longs? I don't know whether they think
that man enjoys taking his bath in
sections or whether they act on the
theory that he ought to take it gradual
ly, preparing himself for the bathtub
by degrees.
81 asked an architect once why he
did it. Well, said he, we hardly ever
do differently except in private houses.
HAS only the privateer, then, as the
Europeans call him, the right to take a
complete bath in one room, or has evo-
luton produced species of fatters who
naturally are incapable of doing it?
81 suppose that the smallness of bath
tubs is explained by the lack Of room.
Of course every fathouse bathtub is too
small for any one except an infant, and
1 have noticed, not without some awe,
that in each new fiat into which we
move the bathtub is smaller than it was
in the one preceding. AS am growing
stouter each year, a genuine misfortune
for one whose finances make third or
fourth fiat necessary, am sure that if
we make two or three more moves we
will, on this scale of bathtub decrease,
find bathtub into which I will not be
able to get at all. New York Press.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
LA GRlSETTE.

All, Clenlence, when saw thee last
Trip down tbe Rue de Seine,
And, turning, when t,1y form had passed,
| said, I'VE meet again,
/ dreamed not in that idle glance
Thy latest image came
And only left to memory's trance
A shadow and name.
The few strange words my lips had taught
Thy timid voice to speak,
Their geatler signs, which often brought
Fresh roses to thy cheek,
The trailing of thy long, loose hair,
Bent DER my couch of pain,
All, all returned, moro sweet, more fair
Oh, had we met again
walked where saint and virgin keep
The vigil lights of heaven.
l knew that thou hadst woes to weep
And sins to be forgiven.
watched where Genevieve was laid,
lznelt by Mary shrine.
Beside me low, soft voices prayed.
Alas, bat where was thine2
And when the morning sun was bright,
When wind and wave were calm
And famed in thousand tinted light
The rose of Notre Dame,
/ wandered through the haunts of men
From boulevard to quay
Till frowning o'er St. Etienne
The Pantheon s shadow lay
In vain, in vain! We meet no more
Nor dream what fates befall,
And long upon the strangers shore
My voice on thee may call,
When years have clothed the line in moss
That tells thy name and days,
And withered, on thy simple cross,
The wreaths OF Pere-la- -Chaisel
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inhamed condition Of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube
When this tube gets intiamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it IS entirely closed deafness is the re.
suit, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to it's nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an infamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars fo1
anv case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
FL. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Winslow mail., 1898-02-26
The Usual Way.

There are some society girls who like
to marshal together all the trophies of
season, in the shape Of euchre prizes,
german favors and invitations galore to
all sorts of functions, where they may
be seen of men and bring green eyed
glances of jealousy into the eyes of
other girls not favored quite SO much
but the queerest effort of this kind that
ever came under the notice of the writ
er was pyramid of empty candy boxes
stacked up from floor to ceiling i'll cor
ner of the parlor. The largest was, of
course, at the base, and there was every
make and style, gradually diminishing
to the top. This dashing girl, with the
immense capacity for destroying candy,
excepted every male visitor to add to
the number as she started a plant in
each of the other corners of the room.
Of course tremendous rivalry went on
among her visitors and admirers to get
the finest and most unique native and
imported boxes. Strange to say, she
married man who had never added a
lone box to the pile, but he helped to
destroy some of the most toothsome
offerings Of other fellows. New Or
leans Times Democrat.