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The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
OLD AND NEW FURNITURE.

Early in the second decade of the century the fashionable cabinetmaker of that day made for a New Yorker exiled to Philadelphia a quantity of mahogany furniture. The bill for that furniture has recently come into the hands of a cabinet maker of to-Cay, one that loves his trade and its traditions and that makes faithful reproductions of the very articles named in the bill of more than eighty years ago. The old bill and the present cabinetmaker's scale of prices afford an opportunity for interesting comparison, and the comparison shows that prices in that period of nearly a century ago have undergone no very marked change. The chairs made by the cabinetmakers of eighty odd years ago at something more than s21 each now fetch $25 each, and the change in the prices of other articles is less rather than greater.
 Meanwhile the cost of the raw ma terial has somewhat increased. Tools are perhaps better than they were in those early days, and the wages of the journeymen are somewhat better now than then. Profits, or at least so much of profits as is represented by interest on capital invested, have decreased. Meanwhile the demand for cabinet made furniture has by no means in creased In proportion to the increase of population. for by far the larger part of the furniture now made is turned out by the wholesale from factories equipped with labor-saving machinery unknown in the early part of the cen- tury It is owing to the fact that most of the demand of to-day is supplied from this source that the price of cab met made furniture of the best quality has not doubled and trebled in the last eighty years. The cabinetmaker of to- day is indeed, in better situation than the old-fashioned shoemaker and
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
GAVE HIM MORPHINE. Clever Trick of Woman to Obtain
 the Deadly Drug.

Lenora Lewis, a middle aged woman, was arrested Sunday morning and charged with vagrancy. While confined in the City Prison yesterday she feigned illness and was removed to the Receiving Hospital. A short time after she sum moned a young man named McCann, who was passing the rough ward. and asked him to take sealed note to Carroll's drug store at Market and Stockton streets McCann delivered the note and was given a suspicious looking package to be hand ed to the Lewis woman. Suspecting that it contained poison McCann, on reaching the hospital, told pr. Maher of his sus- picions. The latter opened the package and found that 1t contained 50 grains of morphine.
 Dr. Well, the police surgeon. was in- censed when he learned of the trick, and at once communicated the facts to the police. To-day. 1t is said, warrant will be sworn out for the arrest of the drug gist charging him with selling morphine without q doctors prescription.
 The doctors at the hospital are con- vinced that the woman sent for the drug intending to commit suicide.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
RACHELoRs' BASKETS.

Everybody has heard more or less about baby baskets, and most women at one time or another have dressed and fitted out one of those dainty affairs with all the little toilet articles, pockets and so on that go with them, but new basket has appeared in a haberdasher's window. The novelty is the bachelors basket. It is the same basket in shape and size, about two feet long by one loot wide, and a little deeper than the cuffs. It has, how ever. a cover of the same wicker material to keep out the dust. This basket is to be had without any ming. anu may be fitted with sachet pads on the bottom. sides and inside of cover, plain or shirred, in the fancy delicate. hues most admired by the prospective owners. These pads are to be filled with sacnet powder of his favorite perfume ana tied in place by ribbons finished with love knots. large and handsome sash bow of the same tint adorns the top of the cover and smaller bows of narrow ribbon finish the corners. The basket is intended to keep the collars. cuffs and fluffy ties In shape without mussing them, and is great improve ment on the collar and cuff bo--es and tie holders.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
JULES VERNE oUTDoNE.

Simon Lake. the inventor of the sub marine boat Argonaut, built by the Co., lumbia Iron Works and Dry Dock Com pany, Baltimore. has been talking inter- estingly of his 200-mile trip under and on the surface of the Chesapeake Bay in his wonderful little craft. He says:
 During the trip we made various ex- periments to demonstrate the practica- bility of our system of submarine naviga- ton. The whole trip was made with our own power. The Argonaut was handled very easily either under the surface or when running on the bottom. and we proved that the boat was perfectly sea worthy. On hard bottom, where the wa ter was comparatively clear. the door was opened and it was a beautiful sight We picked up a few oysters as we were travelling along. We discovered that we could see farther under the surface at night with our electric lights than in the daytime. The greatest distance seen in the bay was about twenty feet. We hope to get into the ocean next week, where we will get clear waters, and see much farther. Our divers were sent out from the boat and demonstrated the entire practicability of our system"
 MT Lake expresses confidence in being able to destroy mines laid to protect any harbor in the world.-The Seaboard.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
PUBLICATION DURING RIoTING.

When the riots broke out in Milan re- gently the compositors of the Corriere della Sera were unable to reach the office. and in order to fill up the editor was obliged to use a long article in type entitled ''The Reform of Architecture" It cut a strange figure beside the graphic accounts of the disturbances then going on. Stranger still than the publication Of the article was the action of a we'll known Mlanese artist, who went to the office next day, while the crack of the soldiers rifles could still be heard in the neighborhood. to discuss the ideas on architecture expressed in the article and to ask permission to write a reply The difficulties of publication increased by de- grees. The supply of paper began to run out, gas was lacking for the engine which drives the printing machines, and the workmen who remained in the printing room received notice from the rioters to cease work out of sympathy with the men employed by the Secolo and Italia del Popolo, which had been suppressed by the authorities However, the Corriere della Sera overcame all these difficulties, thanks to the loyalty of its workmen.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
A SUPERB ARMY.

It is natural that the veteran of the Civil War, being human, should be crit ical respecting armies of which he Is not part. Yet as he salutes the new volunteers on their way to the tropics he invariably comedies their physical superiority over the soldiers of the six ties. This superiority is an obtrusive fact to all who remember the events of that other war. The average age is lower and the stature, weight, strength and agility higher. Under Lincoln's first call some attmept was made to impose conditions of enlistment, but 1t amounted to little more than the tenn porary rejection of persons who lacked inches in height. Later, even this lack was not bar to enlistment. Yet the men of the Civil War were not weak lings, North or South, but displayed prodigies of endurance and valor that surprised mankind.
 army is a revelation and a rebuke to those doleful persons who have de- plored the imaginary deterioration of the American. The examinations con- ducted by army surgeons are severe enough-nearly as exacting as in the case of persons who apply for enlist ment In the regular army-and the ap- high percentage of young men with physical qualities above what is re- garded as the average.
 The superb physical appearance of the new troops is significant. An army of nearly 300,000 young athletes sug- gests a people as far advanced in bodily vigor over those of ~eneration ago as this army is over that of the sixties. Habits of personal hygiene that were then exceptional are now general. The prominence of athletics In college life is merely reflection of the widespread interest in health-giving exercises and sports. The necessity of a sound body to a tolerable existence is universally recognized, and the popularity of wheeling. golf, tennis. boating and other outdoor amusements is a result of an intelligent study of hygiene. Be- fore the advent of croquet some thirty years ago life was carried on indoors as far as possible.-Washingt Post
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
LORD BYRoN's MOTHER.

John Murray's new edition of Byron's works contains several letters of inter- est Tn letter written by John Byron the poets father, to his sister, from the Continent, whither he had fled from his creditors, he thus refers to his wife: With regard to Mrs. Byron, am glad she writes to you. She is very amia ble at distance; but l defy ycu and all the apostles to live with her two months for, if anybody could live with her, it was me. Mais jeu de mains, jeu de villains. For my son, I am happy to hear he is well; but for his walking, 'tis impossible, as he is clubfooted."
 Byron himself found 1t no less diffi- cult to get along with her. He writes as follows to his half-sister Augusta in 1894: T seize this interval of my aim able mothers absence this afternoon again to inform you, or rather to de- sire to be informed by you, of what is going on. For my own part. 1 can send nothing to amuse you. excepting rep etition of my complaints against my tormentor, whose diabolical disposition (pardon me for staining my paper with so harsh a word seems to increase
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
CAMBON NOTIFIES MKINLEY
LIST DIFFERS FROM THOSE
 PREVIOUSLY GIVEN.
of Montero for Cuba Indicates a Purpose to Go Into the Islands Future
 Government.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The State Department to-day received call from M. Thiebaut, Secretary of the French embassy and in charge during the ab- sence of Ambassador Cambon. who bore a notification from the Spanish Govern ment of the military commissioners for Cuba and Porto Rico. Under the peace protocol each Government was to name It's military commissioners within ten days, their meeting to begin within thirty days. The ten days were up to- day and accordingly Spain gave the official notice of the appointments. They are as follows:
 For Cuba-Major General Gonzales Parade, Rear Admiral Pastor y Lam dero, Marquis Montero.
 For Porto Rico-Major General Or tega y Diaz, Commodore of First Rank Vallarino y Carrtsco, Judge Advocate Sanchez del Aguila y Leon.
 The foregoing official list differs from some of the lists given in previous dis patches, which have included Admiral Montijo, General Blanco. General Ma cias and several other prominent Span ish officers.
 Considerable significance attaches to the naming or MarQulS honteIo Oil tue Cuban commission as it Indicates purpose on the part of Spain to go into the future Government of Cuba He is the only commissioner, Spanish or American, taken from civil life. He is Secretary of the Treasury of the Cuban autonomist cabinet and all his interests are connected with the government of Cuba rather than with the military question of the Spanish evacuation of Cuba He is named, it Is believed. in order to carry out Spain's desire to have an understanding as to the future government of the islands being inti- mately familiar with the questions of the civil administration of Cuba. As secretary of the Cuban treasury he is also familiar with questions affecting the Cuban debt.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
JUDGE oBLIGEs A CRIMINAL.

Obviously the thing when one Is sen- fenced to twelve months imprisonment is not to lose ones presence of m1nd If you do 1t may cost you month and five days extra incarceration-a seri- ous matter when time is jail. A prfs- oner represented this to Judge Murray at the sessions the other day. He was sentenced to twelve months imprison- ment. and he appears to have accepted the result like a philosopher, his only comment being to ask the Judge to make it one month more. His Honor was staggered by the request, but was quickly enlightened. It seems that in any sentence over twelve months prisoner is entitled to remission of two months and five days for goo1 conduct, but with sentences of tweive months and under there is no rebate. It is the principle I suppose, of taking a large quantity at a time. His Honor at once saw the reasonableness of the request and gave the extra month as desired.-Sydney Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
RICKETTS, MEN AND THE G. A. R.

At meeting of Pickett Camp of Con- federate Veterans recently 1t was unani- mously decided to accept the invitation of the Grand Army organizations of Phila- delphia to be their guests during their re- union, August to 14, inclusive. The in- vitation was considered in executive ses- sion, and the generous hospitality of the Grand Army veterans received warm praise from many members. The mem bers, including the survivors of Picketts division, are asked to become the guests cost of their transportation even being paid by their hosts. About 100 Confeder- ates, members of Pickett Camp and sur yivors CT Picketts division will attend the reunion. The reunion, or encampment, as such gatherings are called in the North. will be held in the celebrated Washington Park, on the Delaware River, eight miles from Philadelphia. It is need less to say the ex-Confederates anticipate having time such as they never enjoyed before-Richmond Dispatch.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
ASTOR BATTERY ARRIVES
 AND WADES ASHORE
Hardships Confronting the Blue
 Flooded Fighters From New
BY SOL N. SHERIDAN.

CAMP DEWEY, HEADQUARTERS FIRST CALIFORNIA REGIMENT, BEFORE MANILA, July 27.-The AS tor Battery was landed in the rain to- day, and is a fine looking body Of men despite the bad impression it created in San Francisco. The men came ashore in cascoes from the Newport and stripped and waded into the surf to bring their goods ashore just the same as though the blue blood of Man haitian was stranger to their veins. The rain falls here as in Biblical times, and liberties with fine-blooded bodies as with the most common clay. I fancy John Jacob Astor would have held up his hands in horror and a chill would have run all along the avenue and out Riverside drive if the swells could have seen their pets of clubdom pattering about in their bare legs while the surf sported with them and tropical show CT drenched them-and yet that is pre- cisely what we, who were so fortunate, being upon the ground first, to be better clad, were witnesses to, and that is what war on the Island of LuZon will mean to these men who have crossed a continent and an ocean to fight-and to many men as brave who have not come so far. It will mean much tire some marching over muddy roads, much sleeping in damp clothing, much suffering from hunger and fevcr, many graves, perhaps, in miasmatic swamps haunted by the small green lizards, whose cry, "Guckooi guckoo!" makes night more a solitude here than any where else on earth.
 All this will come later, when we have the natives to deal with-to hunt down in the tropic jungles as we once hunted the Indian of the plains Just now the boys are all eagerness to get into Manila and settle the case of Spain. The one prayer is that General Merritt and the admiral will move-and move quickly.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
END OF THE REGATTA.
Drowning Accident Mars the Last
 D~7's Sport at Astoria.

ASTORIA, Aug. 22.-At the last day of u. au.,a tne second race between the outrigger skiffs was the most interesting event Ochs, Dennis and Thomas of San Francisco were the first entries and they made beautiful race. The start was fair and the first half-mile was made with scarcely lap between the boats. Ochs made the buoy first and turned be1ore Dennis. Thomas, who followed inside, close to the wharves, turned last, three laps behind Dennis. The finish was very exciting. Ochs was first. Time, Il :45 4-5. Dennis was second and Thomas third.
 In the gig race between two crews of the United States steamship Columbine, Lun, the cockswain of crew No. l, won from Jones, No. 2, in 14:52 4-5. The course was a mile and a half.
 The Whitehall rowing race, between Mace Grant and Jack Hill, mile and half, was won by Hill in 20:10 20.
 In the free-for-all-sl race the Pearl and Columbia of Shoalwater Bay made an interesting contest, the Pearl winning Time, 26:51, over a seven and half mile course.
 The first fatal accident of the regatta occurred this afternoon during the fishing boat race and resulted in the drowning of John Patio of Charles Wilson's boat A stiff breeze was blowing and the boats were coming in on the home stretch when Wilson's boat was capsized, just after rounding the tank buoy.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
with age and to acquire new force with

with age and to acquire new force with time.
 "The more I see of her the more my dislike augments: nor can so entirely conquer the appearance of it as to pre- vent her from perceiving my opinion; this, so far from calming the gale, blows it into hurricane, which threat ems to destroy everything, till. ex- hausted by its own violence, it is lulled into a sullen torpor, which. after short period, is again reused into fresn and revived frenzy, to me the most ter rible and to every other spectator as- tonishing.
 "She then declares that she plainly sees that I hate her, that l am leagued with her bitter enemies, viz, yourself, Lord C(arlisle) and MT. H(anson), ana, as I never dissemble or contradict her, we are all honored with a multiplicity of epithets, too numerous, and some or them too gross, to be repeated. In this society, and in this amusing and instructive manner, have I dragged out a weary fortnight, and 1 am con- demned to pass another or three weeks as happily as the former"
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
MILITARY ROADS IN CUBA.

General Roy Stone, formerly the road expert of the Agricultural Department, and now on the staff of Major General Miles, has undertaken to solve the problem of road building in Cuba in a manual Issued for the use of the Fed eral troops operating on the island. Except in the immediate vicinity of a few of the larger cities, and for about forty miles eastward and westward from Havana, there are no roads in Cuba which could be used by military force in the transportation of troops. supplies and artillery.
 General Stones manual gives in- structions for the construction of prac- ticable and solid roadways, the founda- tion being fagots or fascines of guava bushes, which grow in luxuriant profu- sion throughout the island. Roads built
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23

than the ordinary corduroy road, the bundles of bushes packing together as solidly as compressed bale of hay or cotton. The fascines are laid length wise, one bundle overlapping the other like shingles, and all are bound to- gether and covered with a thin layer of earth. The construction of roadways on this plan will probably be one of the first undertakings of Shafters corps of engineers, since without such efficient aids in campaigning the movement of heav'- siege guns would be practically impossible in the vicinity of Santiago Philadelphia Record
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
WATER EFFECTS ON THE TEETH

The question is to what extent the all kaline earth salts in drinking water af- feet the decay (caries) of teeth has of late been studied in several quarters Statis- tics have been collected by Rese in sev- eral localities in Bavaria and by Foer- berg in Sweden. These nave revealed the interesting fact that the extent of de- caying teeth bears a definite relation to the hardness of the water, in other words, to the quantity of calcium and magne- sium salts in the earth through which the water passes The harder the water the better the teeth; the smaller the quantity of these salts, the greater the decay of the teeth.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
"JACK sTRAW's CASTLE
A Famous Old English Inn in Pro-
 cess of ModerniZation

Jack Straw's Castle, on the heights of Hampstead. says the London Caterer. is in process of transformation at the hands well-cooked chop and bottle of good wine after ramble on the Heath. Wash ington Irving introduces the inn in his ss1Tales of a Traveller" and it has always been a hostelry beloved of artists. Here. too. the old Courts Leet were held. As a fact. the ancient face of the Castle Hotel is to be preserved but the interior will be entirely changed, the low rooms and bar being replaced by loftier apartments and a modern buffet.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
Boy Burglars Caught.

James Johnson. aged years, and Charles Meyers, aged 13. were lodged at the City Prison after midnight, charged with burglary. They were caught coming out of 535 Folsom street. and had in their possession a pistol and an accordion about week ago the same boys stole from the same house a gold watch and chain and $50 in money.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
HYPNoTIzED BY THE WASH {,

The British steamer Howick Hall. on arrival at Colombo from home, says the Bombay Advocate of India, had to re- port the loss of her third officer on the way out under rather unusual circum- stances The officer. Francis Barnes held the same office on a sailing ship before he joined the Howick Hall recently This was his first voyage on steamer: and he was frequently seen looking over the stern rail- and a few days before making Colombo, when the sea was very rough, he was seen by another officer peering
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
Shoplifters in Court.

Tillie Feis and Ella Shearer, the two girls arrested in the Emporium Saturday for shoplifting. appeared before Judge Mogan yesterday. They were represented bv counsel and pleaded not guilty. At their request the cases were continued till Friday. The Shearer girl Is still in prison, heinz unable to procure $200 bond.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23

the old-fashioned harnessmaker, but he is hard pressed by modern machinery.
 That human nature has not greatly changed in one respect during the last eighty years is shown by the fact that the Philadelphia customer of eighty years ago failed to pay his bill for year after his furniture was delivered. New York Sum-
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
THE GLORIOUS PATHS OF PEACE.

THE GLORIOUS PAIfiS UT PEACE.
 After a hundred days of war the United States will enter on the paths of peace better prepared than ever to make them glorious These paths are broader and more inviting than any nation ever had laid out by benefcent Providence, and if rightly followed they will lead to many a glorious victory that will be no less renowned than those just won in war; Pittsburg Post.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23

over the stern Later on he was missing: The vessel was turned round at once and boats were launched. but. though much time was spent in looking. for him, no trace could be found. He must have been hypnotized by the wash of the screw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-09-22
TROOPS FOR THE ISLANDS.
Strength of the Armies OF Occupation
Fixed by the President and
His Advisers.

Washington. Sept 19.-The number
OF troops which will be necessary for
garrison duty in the Manila, Cuba,
Honolulu, and Puerto Rico campaigns
was decided upon Saturday at a con-
ference between the president, AS
sistant Secretary Meiklejohn, and Cen
Miles. 1t was believed this question
would be postponed until the military
commissions had finished their work
but the matter was taken up Saturday
and settled.
The army of occupation for Cuba
will be $4,000 men, that for Manila 90
GOO, Puerto Rico 10000. ard Honolulu
5000. This will necessitate sending
about 1900 men to Honolulu, 5000 to
Manila, and, of course $4,000 10 Cuba
besides those now there, making in all
$4,000 men. The movement for the
islands in the Pacific will begin at
once, but troops will not be sent to
Cuba until about the middle of Oc-
tober