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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
A CRY FOR VENGEAN NCE

of the harbor where murdered heroes h tremb the coffin where the dead side by side pleading of heo tombap Columbia's
 
 the ourm as dasa of fttinga rom he its guns will and dplain to San Francisco March 2. A.
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 should have misconstrued my regard for von I acknowledge I did encourage you somewhat; but. then. I thought you were q man of the world and too sure Of your self to allow an idle summer filtration to become a serious matter with you. And, besides, you coulu not begin to support a wife in the luxury I'm accustomed to. What! you're going out West! Well, l think it wise ioea. They say the chances there for a young man are. excellent Now. I've got to go and dress for the Hanpton. so good-by, and whenever you have time I will a4ways be glad to hear from you.
 IScene g. Room of Mrs. Hampton in the Palace Hotel San Francisco; two years later. Enter Mrs. Bulow, fellow-tourist, with New York paper in her hand.]
 Mrs. Bulow-I have just received the DiurnaI, and there. big as life, is the pie ture of pretty Carrie Compton and a full account of her marriage to that fellow of the Russian legation with the big rent roll and unpronounceable name. It was an aWfully swell affair, and all the mem bers of the different embassies came in their uniforms. I would have given any, thing to have been present. It must have been immense. By the way wasn't young Mason very attentive there at one time Mrs Hampton-Y es; but she threw him over, and he lett.
 Mrs. Bulow-What became of him?
 Mrs. Hampton-Oh. don't know. I be- lieve he came out West here with the in- tention of making a fortune. Come on; if you're ready we'll go out. GScene B. Coroner's office, same even ing. Dasher, reporter for the Morning Lark. at the telepnone. talking to his editor.]
 Dasher-Hello! Yes, this Is Dasher. Anything doing? Nit: that is. nothing : worth very much. Barbary Coast
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City employees who sell their salary warrants to several different brokers are causing the Auditor some annoyance. It may be assumed that the brokers do not exactly enjoy it either, although the public does not feel any impulse to shower sympathy upon them In the interest of good government however, the employment of men above indulging in swndling would to suggest itself
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Of course there has been no occasion for tearing down the English flag flying over American posses sions at the north. If the flag happens to be flying there the English themselves will take it down. and that without any row England an the United States may have occasional misunderstanding but they are both civilized.
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LONG TIME BETWEEN WARS.
Indianapolis News.


 This country has never been as long without a foreign war as 1t has been since the war with Mexico. The war of 1872 with England began twenty-nine years after the revolutionary war closed. From 1915, when the second war closed. to 1S46 when the Mexican war began, was thirty-one years. and from 1S4S, when the Mexican war closed, to the present time is fifty years. According to the law of cycles foreign war is due.
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Evidently the Italian duel does not partake of the pacific and innocuous character for which the French encounter is justly celebrated Either this or the gentleman who met another gentleman on the field of honor at Rome, and killed him, was guilty of serious mistake
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Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 51o Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1042
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George E. Goodman, prominent bank CT from Napa, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace.
 L. J. Parks of Houston, Tex, who is visiting the coast on his bridal tour is registered at the Palace with his wife.
 Henry Weber and F. E. Weller are two Milwaukee business men who are out here on visit. They are at the California.
 General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacihc and George Crocker nave returned from their trip over the Texas division of their road. They went as far south as Durango, Mexico, and thorough ly inspected the different properties of their line, returning home by way of New Orleans. MT. Kruttschnitt, when asked as to who would succeed to the place left vacant by the death of A. D. Wilder. said that he had not as yet decided but would go over the matter in a day or two with MT. Fillmore and decide on the one to be appointed
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08

SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SORE THROAT, etc, should be constantly supplied with Brou7rs Rronchfnt Troches" Avoid limitations.
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The Spanish press to be pleased with Minis ter Woodford This is pretty hard thing to say oi any American, but the evidence is indsputable
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NOTHING contributes more to digestion than the use of DR- SIEGERT's ANGosTURA BTTTERs. See that You get the genuine
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08

IScene 1. Draw ing room, Madi- son avenue. New York. Time. after noon: year 1Ss5.]
 Girl, speaking- I'm so sorry, MT.
 N1ae0o fhaf u0n
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rounder shot himself through the head, but as you're crowded for space, I don't think 1t is worth more than a short two head. Yes-yes. Mo- Well, good-by, I'll come in shortly and write up. Whats that? Oh, ha-ha; I guess you're right. So long,
 Heading clipped from the Lark the following morning: GOULD NOT STAND SUCH TRASH. Unknown Man on Barbary Coast Kills Himself After Reading the New York
 Diurnal.'
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Irish h-Americans announcing their willingness to fight for the country. Nobody doubts that they are willing, and the purchase of ship named the O'Higgins would do nothing to diminish their zeal
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It is strange commentary on the uselcssness of certain people that the principal regret felt in con nection with the shooting of Mabel Heating and her husband is that they may recover.
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Spains objections to the approach of American warships may grow acute than 1t is at present
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08

House paints, wood stains. floor paint, varnishes and liquid glue in small cans for family use in Artists Material De- partment at SanbOrn 6 VailS.
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Cal. glace fruit 5Oc per ID at Townsend's.s

Best eyeglasses. specs; 15c. 8 4th st. :
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
AN INDUSTRIAL MARVEL.

D statements published in The Call yesterday
 h the Mayors of Los Angeles, Sacramento, San
 A/ Jose Napa, Marysve, Fresno, San Diego and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-04-23
liquid orbs, half protruding from the

LIQUID orbs, half protruding from the
head. IL
s They soon became quite tame and
would allow me to put my hand into
their cage and give them fruit and ber-
ries. After about two weeks I procured
cocoanut, sawed 1t in two, and taxi
ing half of it made in 1t little door
way. When put this into their cage
they seemed to go wild with excite.
ment and delight. In and out they ran
through the little doorway a hundred
times in succession. Finally they
pulled their nest to pieces and rebuilt it
in the cocoanut hut. .:
Their fayorite fruit is nuts, which of
course they cannot crack, and vet they
get at the inside very cleyerly, for with
their sharp chisel teeth they dexterous-
~ gnaw a hole through the hard shell
and then scoop out the meat from the
interior. They are fond Of nice pears
and apples, and one such fruit will last
them both week. They get no water;
the apple or pear does for drink.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-04-23

suasion they kindly consented to give
exhibitions of some simple feats. !, Their
snail tricks. that are known TO every
American girl who rides wheel. filled
the Vollenders with wonder, and one
Of them. more venturesome than the
rest, asked to be allowed to sit on the
saddle. Of course, she had to be held. a.
When asked il they. would like to
have bicycles introduced in Vollenda1n,
they looked wistful. but shook their
heads and glanced furtively at the IN len,
as much as to say, They would never
allow it." I.zs I,
One Of the little boys Of Vollendam
cried when the American girls started
away, so the Chicago girl good asured-
" brought back her wheel and put the
little fellow on it, allowing him to rest
his big wooden shoes on the pedals.
This so delighted him that he stood up
and lost his balance and fell over the
handle bars. He pointed to his wooden
shoes and laughed, as much as s. say
that they were the reason why wheels
were not known in Yollendam. IL
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-04-23
Making skeleton Leaves.

One of the prettiest of natural orna-
ments for scrap books or for framed
cards or for other decorations are
skeleton leaves-that is, leaves from
which all the substance has been re-
moved with the exception of the ribs
and the larger veins. Nature some
times makes skeleton leaves, but it
does not always do this work perfectly:
and our boys and girls don't want to
wait all winter for her to complete her
task. They can do the work much
more easily themselves.
Gather a number of large, perfect
leaves of different kinds and place
them in a pan of rain-water, to which
a trace Of yeast has been added AL
low them to stand until the soft mem
braneous portion has become soft.
Then hold them one by one in running
water and everything but the ribs and
veins will wash away, leaving only the
leaf skeleton. If you wish to bleach
the skeletons out to an ash color place
them on a little shelf in the top of a
tight soap box. On an iron dish or
plate in the bottom. lay some live Goals
and sprinkle over them few pinches
OF sulphur. The fumes will bleach out
the skeleton leaves, leaving them beau
TRULY white and delicate.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-04-23

most old-fashioned folks imaginable.
The men wear magenta waistcoats and
remarkable trousers, buttoned with
huge silver buttons that are heirlooms.
In Vollendam man never loses his
trouser button, but if he happens to
90 SO, a search is ordered all through
the village and no one rests until the
button has been found and returned.
Vollendam is the quaintest village,
visitors say, they ever saw. There are
funny little peak-roofed, red tiled
houses, with the walls painted bright
yellow and covered with old Delft ware
that the people will not sell. The
women wear aprons of bright blue,
with a piece at the top of the bright
est possible plaid. The bodices are of
lowered chintz Of bright yellow, en-
broidered in different colors, and even
the sabots are grass green or yellow.
The little girls dress exactly like
their mothers, and so do the little boys.
in skirts and all, until they are 7, when
they are put in boomers; and the only
way they can be told is by a little disc
the size of dollar embroidered on the
back of their tight little baby caps.
The people of Vollendam never take
up new things. But a few days ago
there was a sensation in Vollendam,
and it was caused by the arrival of two
American girls. They were bloomer
girls, who came over from Paris to see
Holland. One of them was from Chi
cago land the other from a southern
city. They had heard that there were
strange places in Holland, and they set
out to find one of them. e
When these girls arrived in Vollen-
dam they went to the hotel, and there
prepared to go forth, but when they
came out they found a crowd of Vol
lenders around the door, Asking some
one what was the matter, they received
the reply: 'HG
1T is your BICYCLES ~
Vollendam never saw bicycle be-
fore. =. ~
When they learned that Vollendam
had never before seen a wheel, thew
were astonished. After a little per
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-04-23
One Bond Left.

A devoted family of the Society OF
Friends was deeply afflicted. They had
lost their property, and were left al
most penniless. The wife was sad, in
deed, and almost ready to despair; but
the dear old man was cheerful. The
wife was almost ready to course God
and die She was astonished at the
GOODNESS with which. her husband met
his lot; so she asked him one day:
Husband, how is it that you bear
this trouble so well? 1t almost brushes
me to the EARTH"
'Why, wife, we are not quite so bad
~ OF as you imagine. We have one
bond left which we can live upon"
"Why, husband, what do you mean?
Thought all was lost ez,
"Oh, no! Here is one bond, and I
will read it to you. 1t is in the old
family Bible, and reads as follows: 4
will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee.''
His wife inquired: "Do you call that
a bond?"
EYES," he replied; EFT is the word of
God, and cannot fail"
We are writing to some who are in
trouble and need help now. Then take
the Quaker's bond:
II will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee" Gods promises are always ION
demand" and He will be with you in
six troubles and in the seventh He will
not forsake you-Sel.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-04-23
MISSING LINKS.

The bicycle, as we'll as the Bible,
now forms part of the missionary's
outfit.
In August nearly 100000 pounds of
fish, valued at $4,000, were landed at
Gloucester, Mass.
In ten years the school attendance in
though the population has not in
creased in any such proportion.
Sutton-in-Ashfield, in Nottingham.
has given birth to more famous crick-
eters than any other town in Eng
land.
sShaw's Saw Shop is sign in Port
land, Me-, and a paper there suggests
that it is. a good test for articulation
in prohibition state.
It is estimated that more than $4,000
fishermen go out Of New York every
Sunday and that they spend on an av-
erage of 81 each on the sport. ..
In Boston court, few days ago,
man engaged in manual labor testified
that he was obliged to work twenty
one hours out Of the twenty-four. #
a number Of Roman graves have re-
Gently Deen lald pare at Cologne. The
Buffalo has more than doubled, al
place has been secured from spoliation
by an extensive Enclosure
IT don't see how q brilliant man like
Professor Dusentrais can put il so
ml1sh time talking to that insipid Mrs.
Moktaqu Tue. " oh he's only stropping
his intellect. - Chicago Journal.
Caller Nellie, IS your mother in ~,
Nelli Mother is out shopping" Cali
serWh hen will she return, Nellie p
Nellie (calling back damma, what
shall say now Harper.s Bazaar.
Ss He understand scribbler has
made g big hit With his novel. Ididn.tj
know he was clever. Z She he Isn't
clever; he's ahrewd. His Characters
:don't.talk about M hing but bycicies. +,
philadS iphia Record
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for a good while, and then he fixed u
a marvellous little automatic blotter
He bored a smooth hole through the
back of his desk and threaded piece
of stout; string through it. To the end
Of this which hung down at the back
he tied an iron weight; the other end
he brought up through the hole and
fastened by two strings to a stout blot
ting pad having celluloid back.
Then he fixed a smooth board SO that
the pad would slide up readily when the
weight went down. After that when
he needed the blotter he seized ii. drew
it down over the book, pressed it on
the spot to be blotted and then let 90
Of it. The weight at the. back of
course jerked It quickly out Of the way
leaving it ready for the next time. Is
this way the young bookkeeper was
able to do more work than the man
who had the place before him. and 81
he hasn't had his salary raised It isn,t
because he does not deserve it, '=..
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PIGEON DROPPERS" I'M LAW.
The Meaning of This Term just Flu
cidated in Kansas.


In the trial of case in a police court
at Lawrence the other day the lawyers
were puzzled to discover in an old city
ordinance the words pigeon dropper,"
which were evidently used to demon
strate certain class of criminal, says
the Kansas City Journal. No one, how
ever, knew anything about the class or
their methods, and discussion was
started which lasted for several days
and brought out all sorts of explana-
lions. Finally F. w. Reed solved the
riddle He said that forty years ago,
when he was in business in New York
city, the term was common one in DO
lice court circles. About that time a
new confidence game was started
which required brace of confederates
to successfully operate it. They would
pick up man on the streets who look
ed "easy," when one of the confederates
would go ahead and drop what appear
ed to be a big roll Of bills The Sec
ond confederate, keeping pace with the
victim, so as to arrive at the spot
little in advance ofshim, would pick up
the roll. Turning then to the victim
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v HATS OF GREAT MEN. 4
something ION About the Size Of Their
jt9$sj$ $a+ Heads. 53,i y..s l 4 &sfs

som'etflng About the size Of Their
h # #.5% Heads. IL 0
#5 At : recent meeting of the Kildare
! Archaeological Society a hat worn BY
Daniel O. Connell was exhibited. There
was no mistake about the article, for
SoConnell, mindful Of the company he
occasionally frequented, had written
MS name inside. That seems to have
Deen a. superogatory precaution, for
the nat was so large it would have been
useful to but few Of O'Connell's con-
temporaries. The chairman putting it
on partially disappeared from view Of
the alarmed audience, the rim of the
hat coming down to his chin. It is
stated that ''the width of the hat was
eight and a half inches; it's longer d.
ameter ten inches" re,
l have garnered some particulars of
the sizes of the heads of eminent men,
put have come upon nothing so big as
this, writes H. w. Lucy, in the Strand
Magazine. Mr.. Gladstone requires
hat OF the size of 73s, exactly Lord Mac
aulay's measurement. Lord Beacons-
field wore hat of inches, an unde-
signed but characteristically courtly
Imitation of the Prince of Wales, whose
hat is of the same size. Charles Dick
ems, the late Lord Selborne and Mr..
John Bright wore hats 77s size. The
late Earl Russell wanted an eighth
more. Charles Dickens hat would
+ 1rr
half an inch. Louis Philippe and,
strange conjunction, NJ Julien, wore
hats of ~. An illustrious man of re-
cent times who took the smallest hat
on my list was Dean Stanley, for whom
6% suficed. For his friend DR.. Thomp-
son, Archbishop of York, hat of full
eight inches diameter was necessary.
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Deer Nice az Pets.

While rambling one evening in the
woods I sat down on a rock close by
a shaded bank all overgrown with soft,
green moss and feathery ferns. Not
far away there was an ancient tree
stump with a hole running in under
s cath it, and what should see peep
az from the hole but the head of a
little reddish brown animal
On rolling over the stump discover
ed beneath it some Withered grass
carefully rolled into a globular nest,
says writer in st. Nicholas. Cautious
II drawing my ndkerchief around
this il tied 1t up with whatever
lit contained and hurried home
with my treasure. On emptyine
il into box covered with wire
gauze / found that had CAP.
tureds two beauti fully delicate and Gle.
cant creatures somewhat larger than
mice. Their fur was thick and soft and
their feet were white. But their CHIEF
beauty lay IN their eyes great, BLACK
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"A KENTUCKY MULE. 4
CorDcrasker Cavalier Tells Of wild
Animal OF His Native state. #

CorDcraaker# Cavalier Tells Of q Wild
Animal OF His Native state.
The well-to-do farmer Of republican
proclivities was in Washington looking
for pie for the next three years and a
nall, not so much for dessert as for q
steady diet during that period, and
while he was looking around he found
time now and again to talk a bit on
other subjects, says the Washington
Star. One evening it was mules I'll
be doggoned," he said, "if haven't got
mule out home that ought to have the
championship belt for kicking. Why,
by zucks, one morning tried to make
that dern mule haul a CARLOAD of rocks
from creek about half mile to the
stable and he just wouldn't stir a leg.
All he would do when I tried to make
him go forward was to move the other
way, so to beat Mr.. Mule at his little
game took him out of the shafts and
turned him head on to the cart and
started him up. Then he wouldn't
move either way, but just stood still
and began to kick. Not a one-legged
kick, either, but the real thing with
both feet, and, gee whillikens, how he
did launch them out into the atmos-
phere. I was sure I never would get
him now, for I couldn't get near him !;
but all of a sudden noticed that every
time he kicked he kicked so hard that
he couldn't hold on to the ground with
his fore feet, and so dragged himself
about a foot or two, according to the
ground he was on. That gave me an
idea, and just stood by and when he
showed disposition to quit nagged
him a little and he went to kicking
again; and I'll be blamed if he didn't
get that CARLOAD of rocks to the place
l wanted it at mighty near as soon as
if he had just hauled it there in the first
place and made no fuss about it," One
or two men coughed short cough, but
when the Kentuckian looked around
they seemed to have recovered from
their pulmonary attack
isn't that scar on your forehead
where he kicked you once?" inquired
one of them.
"Not exactly"
II understood some one to say So"
said the party with the cough.
Somebody's mistaken, that's ALL
How it happened was that one day
was coming into the front gate and the
mule was about 100 yards away, up at
the other end of the big yard in front
on the house. My hound made break
for him, and as the mule whirled to
run away he let one leg fly at the dog,
and the force of the kick, missing the
dog, was such that the shoe flew off
and whizzing through the air took me
a clip over the eye as I stood at the
gate watching the two animals, and
came mighty near settling my earthly
accounts right then and there. You
see, a mules shoe is hardly as light as
a lady's slipper and when it is hurled
100 yards through the air it is just the
kind of thing you ought to stand
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o.. ur6s
That temperance of feeling and Of words
Is health of mind, and the calm fruits OF
i leisure
Have sweeter taste than feverish zeal
affords:
That reason has Joy beyond unreason,
That, nothing satisfies the soul like
truth,
That Kindness conquers in and out of
If youth could know, why youth would
not be youth.
If age could feel the uncalculating urg-
~ence,
The pulse of life that beats in youthful
veins,
And with its swift, resistless ebb and
surgence
Makes light of difficulties. sport OF
pains;
Could once, just once, retrace the path
and find it
That lovely. foolish zeal, so crude, so
young,
Which bids defiance to all laws to bind
it,
And flashes in quick eye and limb and
tongue.
Which. counting dross for gold, is rich
in dreaming,
And. reckoning moons as suns, is never
cold.
And. having naught has everything in
seeming,
If age could do all this, age were not
old!
Susan Coolidge in Congregationalist.