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The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

NHE Lob-Lo1ly- pohed Sinbad in the
 ribs and Sinbad aughed-laughed
 so that his spectacles fell from his A nose upon the Market street pave ment and broke both lenses out But that did not seem to make any diff ference with Sinbad's sight. Katy and Charlie picked up the pieces of lens and looked through them and found that they did not magnify one bit But that is neither here nor there, except that 1t shows that Sinbad only pretended that his eyes were poor.
 "V-e-r-y we'll" said Sinbad, when he was through laughing; that will do very well. And the children? Well, they will think it out of sight"
 The Lob-Lolly led the way and I and Sinbad and the children-Charlie and Katy-followed. When we came to Lotta's fountain Sinbad said that he was thirsty, and he was about to go over for a drink when the Lob-Lolly said that he knew a trick worth two of that. He would call the fountain over. So he did, and the fountain actually came to us.
 It hoisted itself slowly and painfully from its pedestal and clumped heavily over the paving stones, and its drink ing cups clinked against it's sides as it wobbled.
 Tt is a landlubber," said the Lob Lolly, "and it hasn't got its sea legs on yet"
 Dash my tarry toplights!" answered Sinbad. "I have lived two thousand years in Bagdad and never have seen anything like that"
 "Bagdad is slow" remarked the Lob Lolly. You have to come to San Francisco to learn; but you'll do, after a while. Bah What is this? Plain water? I would not call a fountain off its base for that! Ho, there! Soda water if you please, and nothing less for my young friends
 How the fountain gurgledi
 Sodawater it was! There was hiss ing sound within the fountain like steam, and directly there leaped from every side of it the best ice-cold soda water l have ever tasted. Where the lettering is on the fountain telling how L0tta gave 1t to a thirsty city there started into view labels mentioning that vanilla and lemon, chocolate and rose, catnip and cauliflower, orgeat and pineapple. strawberry and banana, onion and mince pie, and don't know how many more syrups. were to be had there
 Ia, ta, ta raI Ia, ra tan tivy! Did you ever hear the tune the pied-piper of
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
MVl|a and L5MoN*.

the room, the door was opened to a considerable extent.
 Safe, thank goodness"-in reply to my question. Then, locking around in a bewildered way at the general hap hazard fashion in which the furniture stood-"Why, what's the matter? Afraid of the burglar?"
 Then, breaking into very hearty laugh. she said: "Oh children, the burglar is nobody but your own mis- chievous brother, who thought to play a joke on you. He was also the tramp who came to the door with such a tale of woe, and whom you so generously wasted your sympathy upon. He says the supper Aunt Honora prepared for him tasted awfully good and he in tends buying each of you girls me mento with the money donated to the wants of his seventeen children"
 Aunt Honora, dear soul, looked em- barrassed, and l for one was speech
 Clara MdLter.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
LITTLE GRETCHEN.
BY FLORENCE E. TILLEY.
SAN FRANCISCO.

One morning, one of those exquisite mornings that are to be had only in Hol- land known as the home of the wfndmills, little Gretchen was enjoying her usual morning walk.
 In this place nearly everybody raises ones own vegetables, and Gretchen, s this is how she manages to get her usual stroll She is walked up every morning an hour or two before breakfast. and with her willow basket on her arm she goes out to gather up the vegetables for the day.
 Innocent little Gretchen never dreams of the quaint little picture she would make for some artist.
 At last Gretchen has gathered up all she needs So she starts for home on a new route. This leads through pleasant lanes and through fields with brooklets by their sides.
 In the house breakfast has been pre-
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appeared every day in all the papers. At last the father had an idea that if he would disguise himself as a man with tins to mend and go through the surrounding towns he would perhaps find his child. So he went and into every small town, travelling day after day, but it seemed of no avail and he began to think that his search was fruitleSS.
 One day he happened to go to some little far away town. He had almost given up all hope and this seemed to be the only town he had not visited He went around all the morning until beggar woman lived. He knocked at the door and waited a while, but mo- body came.
 At last he heard somebody coming up path which led to the house. He turned, thinking it was some women, when, to his surprise and joy, he saw his own child He knew her, although she was dressed in rags and differed much from the bright happy child Of fifteen months ago.
 At first she did not recognize her father in his disguise, but as soon as she heard his voice she uttered a cry of delight and rushed into his arms They were then interrupted by the ap- pearance of an old woman, who came to see whom "her child" as sh, termed her, was talking to. As soon as she saw MT. Gray she knew it must be the child's father and she confessed her guilt, saying she had stolen the child one day while she was walking in the woods because she wanted hei to sing while she begged, as she made much more in that way than she would otherwise.
 The old woman asked for mercy and MT. Gray was so happy at the recovery of his child that he almost forgot all about the old woman and saio yes" for he was thinking of the good news he would carry home to his wife-not only news, but his child.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
THE LOST CHILD.
BY JULlETTE DRlSCoLL,
SAN FRANCISCO.

THE following notice appeared in
 every morning paper in the town of x, and the people of the town
 were very much excited over the "A announcement, which read thus: "A large reward offered for the re- covery of a child, aged 5, has fair hair and blue eyes. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the child will please re- port to station C.
 Yes, it was true, pretty little Ruby
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
LITTLE BOYS AND
 LITTLE GIRLS.
RY ELLA cosTElLo BENNETT.

BY ELLA COSTELLO BENNETT. Little Bessie strolled along, looking trim and neat,
 Dress of dinity so fresh. lace be-trim- med and white, Broidered skirts, so smootnly lroneo lalthough out of sight,. Golden hair curled gracefully, floating all around,
 Bessie seemed fairy vision tripping OCT the ground. - Then stroiled Tommy Jones along, with his coat askew, Necktie twisted to the side, dlrt rom cap to shoe, Mud bespattered; rents ana tears neWly made that day; Bessie spied him coming, so she looked the other way
 Little girls were ever naughty,
 Little boys were ever naughty! "Bess.'' said Tommy, coming nearer, don't you want to playY Bessie looked askance at Tommy; "Bes- sic, please do, say Let's play school, you be the teacher, You %le can 1s vhs Whtp o'f me, if you want, Bess, won't even holler. Tommy coaXed and Bessie nsteneo' iohS- ing to consent, For she was a bit coquettish, ana she only meant, Just to let him beg and coax her; then ..You look awful nice," said Tommy. won't you play? Please, Bess.' ,'Tonmy Jones' you look too dirty. rom my hung his head; Bessie scolded all the longer, seeing rom turn red. ~ Tommy then was getting angry, st1ll ne didn't show it, 'Til a little impy whispered, ''Take some mud and throw it. Tommy needed, quick he gathered mud and let 1t fly Right on Bessie's neat belongings; Bes- sic could but cry!
 Little girls were ever naughty,
 Little boys were ever naughty! '"Tommy Jones, how could-how could you ever be so mean? Just because said Tommy Jones, you looked so nice and clean, l thought I'd make you LOOK ike me ana fix your dress with dirt; I didn't mean to hit your race, though Bessie did it hurt? I'm sorry if it did, I only meant to hit your dress; Say, won't you please forgive me please" and Bessie answered yes ''Now let me kiss you once, said rom my that will make it well. - And I promise if you'll let me, sure-Ill never tell.' And Tommy, waiting not an answer, gave a hearty smack; Then fearing Bessie would De angry Tommy took it back!
 Little girls were ever naughty,
 Little boys were ever naughty
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

NuR little friends, the Pumpkins,
 are preparing to conduct war
 upon land, and it will be ob- ] served that they are having
 lively time trying to find a Spanish spy who has been reported to be in Camp Hardtack, hunting for their plan of campaign.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

Our young friends must not expect "Brer Uncle Sam" to have an unbroken series of victories over "Brer Spain. /" Indeed, the Spanish rabbits have come upon the scene to-day with a "moni- tor" which looks very dangerous to "Brer Uncle Sam"
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
SOME JUDGES ARE SLOW.

Some of the judges of the boys and girls stories are slow. The opinions up to date are as follows: For the girls, 4; boys, 8; doubtful, 2; yet to hear from. 6.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

Hameline played? Not more children followed him than there now came forth when the Lob-Lolly, making a trumpet of his hands, signaled them to leave candy stores and doll shops and toy counters, and come to him.
 Children" said the Lob-Lolly, put
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

pared by her father, for her mother is unable to be about
 for she loves to drink in the pure air, but she being the oldest Is obliged to help, and yet she brings in great deal Of sum- shine with her quiet ways to her poor invalid mother
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

was cold, stormy night. We sat close by a blazing fire trying to drive away the homesick feeling
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

ME Lob-Lolly poked Sinbad in the ribs and Sinbad laughed-laughed
 so that his spectacles fell from his
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-06
Calming Him Down.

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water and douse all over him
There's plenty o. ways to calm
man down If woman will onl,
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An Old IRsn.

Every day strengthens the belief Of emil.
nent physicians that impure blood Is the
cause Of the majority Of our diseases.
a. q basis for the formula of Browns Iron
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by this hsnous old household remedy are
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IMPORTANT

Notice by Board of Registration.
The board of Supervisors of
Registration for Lancaster county
met this the 7th day of March,
1898, and organized by reelection
of w q y Porter, chairman and
Montgomery Caskey secretary.
According to notice already
.tven, the board will not keep the
ooks open for the registration of
electors between the consecutive
days in each month until thirty
days before the general election
this year.
Electors who registration in
1896 and 1897 and still remain in
their respective polling precincts
are not required to register. Those
who have moved from one pre-
cinct to another will have to cor, a
forward and have their certlfica'
changed to conform to their Or,
ent precinct.
w G. a Porter,
Chairman.
j Nj Caskey,
Secretary.
ancaster, S c., March I, 1898.
az" Pay Up.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10

A French statistician has recently
drawn up very interesting docu.
ment showing in what time certain
frontier towns at various periods could
be reached from Paris. For conven.
lent purposes the statistician has
chosen the years 1850, 1882, 1884, 1854
Snd 1897. In 1860 it took five days
to go from Paris to Calais. One hun.
dred and thirty-seven years later,
1882, the duration of the journey had
been reduced to sixty hours. In
1884 it had fallen to twenty-eight
hours, and in 1854 to six hours and
forty minutes. To-day one of the
boat expresses takes three hours and
fortytwo minutes. The journey to
Strasburg took 2lS hours in 1850, 108
hours in 1882, ten hours and forty
minutes in 1854, and to-day a matter
eight hours and twenty minutes. The
difference for Marseilles is still more
phenomenal. From fifteen days in
1850 the duration of the journey was
reduced to eighty hours in 1884, and
to-day it takes twelve and a half
hours. The distance from Paris to
Bayonne two centuries ago took 38S
hours; to-day it occupies eleven hours
and eleven minutes. Brest can be
reached in thirteen hours and thirty
seven minutes, while in 1850 it took
270 hours. Finally for Havre, ninety
seven hours was considered quick
travelling in 1850. 1t took fifteen
hours in 1882 and seven hours in 1884.
To-day it is matter of three hours
and fifteen minutes
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10

'Perhaps if had not hesitated the
first summer 1 met you, might have
had show" said Alan deliberately.
"But I'm a slow fellow when [ really
care, and did so tremendously adj
mire you. That Davenport slid in
ahead Of me and had Co step out"
Sara clasped and unclasped her purse
nervously, but said nothing.
The next summer was better" said
Alan, continuing with rather bitter
smile. 81 had long vacation, and
You were good tome. You were South
all the winter, and thought you were
glad to see me-poor fool that was!
Davenport didn't turn up at all that
year, and didn't feel sorry. was
glad you'd turned him down, because
L was heathen, and I didn't know
that even the truest and best of girls
can make man suffer like the dickens.
l know it now"
Sara's face was very white. She
looked at Alan, though it hurt her to
see the tired look in his eyes, and her
lips trembled.
"Oh, Alan, why didn't you tell me?"
she cried, with a little sob in her voice.
Glow could L know that you cared?"
my dear, my dear, how did care"
he said slowly. ''How do care still"
The color came back to Sara's face,
and queer little smile brought the
light into her eyes.
Il am what is accounted lucky fell
low," Alan said in the same strained
voice. 81 have had comforts and pleas
ures and luxuries all my life, and have
not cared for one of them. 1 would
give them all for that which L want
most and cannot have"
you're spoiled child" said Sara
with an odd little laugh. "You cry,
and you don't know what you cry
for
81 don't want to know any palmer
than do now," Alan gravely replied.
cts too confoundedly hard to bear"
"You never asked me what I
thought" said Sara gently. "Hasn't
it entered your head that q girl cap
care, sometimes, too?"
The train slowed up for station
with great deal of noise and a hustle
of people passing up and down. The
old gentleman rose sleepjly and tum-
bled out upon the platform. He
passed down, and it was quiet again.
After time band of men with mops
and brooms appeared at the door of
the car and began to clear up. The
conductor, coming to decision after
much hesitancy, stuck his head in at
the other door:
Randolph Street," he called. Gas
far as we go. All out, please!"-
ma Lee Walton, in the Puritan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Tuberculosis is in England and
Wales the cause of fourteen per cent.
of all male and 49, of oil female
deaths.
Some interesting observations con-
cerning the physiological effects of
electric currents have been made by
M. Dubois. He finds that the effect
depends much more upon voltage than
upon intensity.
Lord Kelvin holds that the internal
heat of the earth has nothing to do
with the climates. The earth, he says,
might be of the temperature of white
hot iron two thousand feet below the
surface, or at the freezing point fifty
feet below, without at all affecting u
climate.
The mean death-rate in Italy-a
mean which takes account of deaths by
malaria, pellagra, and by the chronic
malnutrition of so many unfortunate
regions-has sunk in few years from
twenty nine per 1000 to below twenty
six. That OF Naples, on the other
hand, from 1879 to 1895 shows but in
significant oscillations-from 31.9
to 29.3.
In the French navy it has been found
that the electric search light employed
on men of war injuriously af-
fects the eyes of seamen who have to
work about the light, aud dark blue
spectacles are supplied to them for
protection. Brown eyes are less af-
fected than gray or blue ones, the rea-
son suggested being that the former
are more heavily charged with pig
ment.
A corduroy road made of small cedar
trees, which were in a perfect state of
preservation, was unearthed the other
day thirty eight feet below the surface
of the earth, seven miles east of Ash
tabula, Ohio. Professor Carl Wright,
teacher of geology in Oberlln College,
who has visited the spot and examin ed
the wood, gave it as his opinion that
the wood has been where it was found
since the glacial epoch.
A difficulty encountered in the pre-
paratica of foundations for the Paris
international Exhibition of 1890 is the
character of the banks of the Seine,
which are formed of stone and earth
filling, resting on fine sand, easily
washed out during periods of flood.
This difficulty is b eing overcome by a
new system, devised by M. Louis Du-
lac. Wells about two and one-half
feet in diameter, placed about six feet
between centres, are sunk to varying
depths down to about fifty feet by
means of special pile driver, having
a boring weight of conlcal form and
these wells are filled with lime and
cement concrete, which is rammed
hard by second weight of different
form.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10
New Trade For Women,

A large firm of furniture removers
in London have recently added to
their staff a lady whose special bust
ness it is to advise newly removing
householder concerning the disposi-
ton of his belongings.
She takes all the responsibility
about the placing of each chair, table
and knickknack. The householder
simply leaves his house one morning
as usual, and returns at night to his
new dwelling to find all the furniture
in its place, and everything indie
scribably improved and homelike.
The 'adviser" has a most refined
taste, and this, added to the knack of
being able to picture the look of q
room with any possible arrangement of
the contents, enables her to transform
the most unpromising material into
veritable ''bowers of ease and de-
light"
Her fee (half-a-guinea per room) in
cludes three visits-to the house in
order to view the furniture she Is
about to place-to the new residence
to note the size and disposition of the
rooms, and final one to see that her
instructions are being carried out by
the furniture removers.-New York
journal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10
Owls Now in Favor.

Owls are the latest trimmings" for
women's hats. From time immemorial
the owl has been known as the bird of
night. shrinking from the glare of
sunshine and finding the greatest com
fort in dark caves and the hollows of
old trees. coming forth only at night.
but now, under fashions latest de-
cree, this bird of darkness is in evil
dence on every side, and his broad,
flat face, small eyes and hooked beak
surmount fresh, rosy, youthful faces
and form by contrast strange frame
for the female faces they adorn.
During last summer a few ultra
fashionable women had two or three
great owl heads crushed in among the
wings and ribbons ON their travelling
hats, and from the very oddity of the
idea the hats were striking and stylish.
Not content with heads, fashion has
now decreed that the whole bird shall
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10

There are over 45O, 900 miles of rail-
way in operation in the world, and, ac-
oording to Robert P. Porter, the CEN
bury will close with over 100000. OF
the present number, just about one
half are in this country. The cost of
railroads all over the world, thus far,
has been s36, ,Gs5, 900, 900, and it is esti-
mated that the street railways cost
$1,000, ,000,0 900. The railroads employ
almost 8, 900, ,oOOpeople. These are big
figures, but the railroads represent a
vast interest in the worlds wealth,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10

In his recent address before the
English Church Congress, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury gave some ad-
vice to workingmen, speaking as a
workingman himself He had been
left fatherless, he said, at the age of
thirteen, and had been obliged to earn
his own living since he was seventeen.
He had known what it was to do with.
out fire, because he could not afford
1t, and to wear patched clothes and
boots. He learned to plow as straight
as furrow as any man in the parish,
and he could thrash as we'll as any
man. If, he added, the nottingham
would practice self-restraint, would
nsver waste his wages in drink, but
find happiness in the love of home
and family, he would find little of the
burdens of life or of the inequality
which was inevitable.