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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-13
HAVE been out to dinner.

7 HAVE been out to dinner.
Now to merely be invited out to
dine is not, I grant you, a very
= wonderful thing, even in the career
of a newspaper worker. But to be
a guest at such a dinner as fell to my
lot upon this special occasion is of a
verify an event.
was bidden-in a commonplace,
prosaic way-to an ideal feast. given
by an ideal host and hostess in an ideal
establishment within which no kitchen
has a place,
The sun had been all day casting it's
most ardent glances through the clear
California air upon beautiful Alameda,
and all nature in that locality looked
not little tired and overheated. My
hostess, however. though she is from
choice her own maid-Of- aIl-work, met
me at the door arrayed in the crispest
and freshest of organdies, and with no
more than the usual faint hint of color
upon her rather thin but smiling face.
You look delightfully."- cool, but you
shouldn't have troubled to get a com
pany dinner on such a day as this"
declared contritely. 'I would not have
come if 1 had not promised 1t must
chained to a cookstove in such weather
as this!"
TT isn't at all short Of It," was the
in these days of conventional and in
sincere politeness-unexpect and
rather discOmposing reply.
There cannot be much real enjoyment
in a meal over the preparation Of which
ones hostess has found reason to feel
TQ11fS TO
treat with dignity, however much 1
wished to HE me to other scenes.
One week before had been fortunate
enough to accompany Mr.. and Mrs.
Danford A Henshaw during one of
their long but enjoyable rambles over
hill and dale in search Of new worlds
to conquer in the shape of picturesque
bits of scenery which they might make
their own by the simple process OF q
snapshot. We had met on the sympa-
thetic plane of mutual camera enthu-
siasm, and before we parted l had been
hOnOred by an invitation to dinner.
1T won't be at all the kind of
a dinner you are accustomed to-"
Mrs. Henshaw had said, with, how
ever no hint of apology in her
tone or manner, but it will be whole
some and good, and, I assure you
which you ought always to eat.
I am sorry YOU broiled yourself for
me-" I said feebly as I followed the
crisp Organdie into the pleasant parlor
where Mr.. Henshaw awaited US. The
best dinner in the world wouldn't pay
for that
We've got the very best dinner in
the world, promise you" declared he,
as he rose to welcome me, but my wife
didn't brOil or bake or boil or fry her
self over it-in fact, we haven't a cook
stove in the house, so she couldn't if
she had wished to. Ours is a home
without a kitchen. you see"
A home without a kitchen! Ny
mental barometer fell tremendously,
for I had eaten sent in" dinners be
fore and considered them a delusion
and q snare, having generally found
them about as savory and appetizing
as chips and sawdust.
The dining-room was very cool and
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THE Sunday Examiner Magazine"
of August 6, in an article entitled
"Chinese Boy Gains Highest Per-
centage in San Francisco Public
Schools" has placed the Chinese
public school Of this city in a false
light and has most grossly misrepresent-
ed the capabilities of our own little sons
and daughters.
The indignant protest that has arisen
from the School Department and from
fathers and mothers upon all sides war
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SCHOOL, WHOM THE Examiner EX-
PT0ITEb AS THE HIGHEST WHITE
CHILD: AND A GREAT MANY RE-
CEIVED OVER 81 PER CENT.
oniv seven pupils and all of the seven
were promoted; but it is hardly fair to
credit such a small class with a school
record of 100 per cent" when the white
classes are so much larger. Alma Tadd'S
class comprised forty-six and of that
number only one failed in the examination
for promotion and three were held on ac-
count of absence through sickness or 9TH
er causes So our boys and girls are not
nearly so stupid as the Examiner would
have the world think.
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gives a class average of

92 2-7 per cent.
In Alma Tadd's class at the Haight
School Miss Mary A Haswell principal
and Miss c. Sweeney teacher, the aver
ages were as follows: No. l, 80; No. 2,
81 40; No. 8, 81 3-5S No. 4, 81 1-5; No. 5,
81 Is; No. 6, 81 1-5; and No. 7, 81; which
gives an average for the first seven in
the class of 81 Al per cent, or 5 2-7 PER
CENT HIGHER THAN THE CELES-
TIALS. In other words, the first seven
of the Haight School class did as well as
and even better than Wong Book Yue.
DOZENS AND DOZENS OF WHITE
ERT DOUGHERTY OF THE MISSION
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= last Sunday night the whole town
gathered to rejoice with him and
wish him many additional years of life
in which to enjoy his new-found happi-
ness.
At this reception. in addition to other
guests, there were four generations of the
families of the just married couple, the
great-great-gr of Mr.. Davis, re-
Gently born in Florida, being too young
to take the journey across the continent,
even with so laudable an object in view
as offering congratulations in person to
his aged relative.
Mr.. Davis has been for years a spirit
ualist lecturer, and before entering that
faith was for q long time q clergyman
in the Congregational Church His i'm
promptu speech, delivered in response to
the address of congratulation made BY
Rev M. E. Taylor, who of1ciated at the
wedding, convinced every one who heard
It that he has lost little II any of the
forensic fire with which he has electrified
audiences since his early youth.
Though lacking only nine years Of the
century mark Mr.. Davis Is still sprtghtly
and is able to run UP and down the hills
surrounding Summerland, on which are
the homes OF his children and the children
OF his wife. He is over six feet tall and
bears himself erect; his eyesight Is good
and his memory remarkable, taking him
back even TO the days before the war with
England In 1872 and 1913.
Lucy Elizabeth Crossup Bennett-Davis,
the bride, is a native Of Nova Scotia
where many of her family still reside.
Several Of her children are residents of
San Francisco, where also live a num-
Der of her grandchildren and great-grand-
children. She carries her eighty-six years
lightly and speaks with confidence OF
many more to come, as her father, she
states, met an untimely death at the age
Of 100, being killed by a falling tree
branch while he was at work in the
woods. This is her fourth voyage on the
matrimonial sea. She was so wears old
when her youngest daughter, Mrs. Kemp
ton, was married, and Mrs. Kempton Is
now q grandmother. These generations
live In cottages clustered about that in
which the newly married couple will
dwell and above these, on the same hill,
ID the home OF George Davis, q son of the
groom whose roof shelters as many gen.
erations of the Davis family. Recently a
reunion of the Davis family was neld, at
which there were present ninety-six de-
scendants of the Rev. David Davis. Mrs.
Davis positively knows of but twenty
three direct descendants, although she Is
certain that her family is very large.
The bride is owner of the coZy little
home In which the marriage took place
and here the couple will hereafter live.
Mr.. Davis draws a pension from the Gov
ernment for the death of a son in the
Civil War and this, with other small
means, makes them independent OF their
many offspring. FRED T. DUEN.
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T ANITA BARBARA, Aug. 1o-Desptte
\ the fact that he is almost a cente-
marian the Rev. David Davis of
y Summerland is a bridegroom. and
last Sunday night the whole town
rrafharad I a l.I-
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KILLED BY FRENCH OFFICERS.
British Resident In Paris Subjected
to Bitter Persecution.

New York, Oct. IA dispatch u INC
Times from Paris says: A great SEN
sation has been caused here by the
murder of an Englishman named Der
rick, by French detectives at Dieppe
Derrick was SO shockingly injured that
a surgical operation had to be perform
ed on him. with the result that gam
creme interviewed, and he died
Derrick was set upon at the same
time as his master, wealthy English
man named Captain O'Neill Murphy
who is a brother-in-law of Sir Charles
Wolseley and a cousin by marriage of
Lord Wolseley, the British commander
in-chief. Captain Murphy had incurred
the wrath of the Dieppe casino officials
because he had caused a director of the
Petite Chevaux at Calmis to be con-
demned for swindling The Calais and
DieDpe casinos are under the manage
ment Of the same man, an adVenturer
and jail-bird named Bloch, *
Bloch with the assistance oflthe local
procueur of the republic, otherwise thes
public prosecutor, an official whom he
had under mis- protection, caused Cap
tain MurpEy's footsteps to be logged.
and finally a. night assault to be made
upon him, as a result of which Derrick
lost his life.
Captain Murphy is one of the most
respected English residents of Paris.
He is a brother of D. F. Murphy of
San Francisco. In spite of his pass
port and credentials he was hauled off
to Jail, stripped and measured, and
finally sentenced to eight days impris-
onment for protecting his own house
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girth. needed a visit to the harness
makers. but judged il would last the
day out, 50 he started for Clear lake.
The morning was cool and the birds
were singing here and there. although
most of the choIisters had stopped
their regular singing lessons early in
the summer The dew upon the jewel
weeds made the blossoms look even
more Ike jewels and the piumes of
golden rod were bright in the morning
sun.
IF that old gnome knew what he
was talking about I'll have fine luck,
and those Methodists are great on fish.
Why, I'll I'LL this wagon full and sell
them all before II O'Clock"
So thought Tom when he started out,
but after driving a mile or two he
began to doubt whether he hadn't been
dreaming, and he actually got out and
caught dozen crickets and a handful
Of fat grasshoppers, lacking faith in
the enchanted bait. Although why
it wouldn't have done as we'll as any
bait, enchanted or not, ii might have
puzzled him TO explain.
A ride of an hour brought him to
Clear lake. 1t. was well named, for
there was no part of it so deep that
you could not see the bottom. But
there did not seem to be as many fish
as usual. Here and there Tom saw a
big bass or a pickerel, but for the most
part the water looked like the business
part of a great city on a Sunday, so
few citizens were on the streets.
He baited his hook with one of the
crickets he had just caught. but all
though he rowed to some of the best
fishing places on the lake and f1shed
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II Saves children.s Lives

Whites Cream VermifuEe ifsl,~ez /
xra,fr child against one serious danger 81 s.
II . promptly ribs IL Of worms It ac3;a !,
ttssoroIreaIy. but IS Just as harmless IS e I.
cSiIdreIl's remedy should be. Has bea1s
sold for years and received the waruesra
IA YOUR child is peevish, restless. m ~
breafh Is bad, IL it picks its nose 49,
STARTS I'M IT'S SLEEP, suspect the presence
of worms. Health and right growtr
cannot come until the trouble : re-
moved. Cream VeFmifuge cannot faila =
Price. % cents.
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1899

the upper road was the wrong one. SO
delayed him that it was $50 o'clock
when he finally drove into the camp
meeting grounds. Half past six and in
a nalf hour his fish would vanish,
He uncovered his stock and found
himself at once the center of an eager
crowd, who bought his fish as fast as
he could sell them. All might have
gone we'll in spi,c of his slim margin
Of time if he has not made a mistake
in giving change TO a short. stocky lit.
tie man with a long, waving white
beard. 1t took him so long to rectify.
this mistake that the clock in the Pres
byterian church at Oldfeld sounded Z
while he had yet 100 big fish in his
wagon.
IN an instant every fish, bought and
-unbought, disappeared, and a great and.
angry clanlor arose among the breth-
rem and sisters Tom was called many
names not becoming to camp meet
ing, and he would have been roughly
handled if the man who had made the
fuss about his change had not taken
him under his protection. He jumped
in the wagon alongside of Tom, and
Selling the reins, he drove out of the
grounds, lashing his whip right and
left. to free himself from hindering
hands.
Once away from the clamorous crowd.
the roadway became aStonishingly IA
miliar, and Tom found they were not
a mile away from home. He turned to
question his kind Companion, and he
was gone. In his place there was the
voice of the gnome.
You see my boy, that it was no sort
of good to give you such a chance to
sell fish, because you didn't seize 1T
properly. In the first place, you fritz
tered away your time with ordinary
bait, then you were inattentive TO the
instructions of the man you met, and
then your harness broke through Your
neglect, and so you're out a days time
and all the nice fish are lost forever"
They were passing a huge rock, and
Tom felt cool breeze pass his face
and then the voice was silent.
He drove home silently himself until
he remembered the money that he had
received for the fish. Tom was an hon
est boy, and he knew that he had no
right to keep the money, as the fish
had not kept, so he took it out of his
pocket. There We're three big handfuls
of dollars. dimes and quarters. He was
passing over a bridge, and he flung all
the money into the brook. Il never
could return it to the owners, but I
won't profit by it,
After that he felt happier, and drove
home whistling
His father met him at the barnyard.
What luck?" he asked.
None" said Tom with a smile.
"You might have known there was
no such thing as enchanted bait" said
Ezra, with superior air.
And yet, if he had known what we
know
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He then crossed the Sierra. Nevada
mountains and pitched his tent on the
allSali lands which Are now covered by
the business part of Virginia Citys He
4 became interested IN the siIveE mines
of that region, and contributed largely
TO! their Development,
Later he settled in Kansas. He be-
came prominent In its early struggles
and was active In the free soil agita-
\ ton. He was the first mayor Of To-
peka, Kan.. and for many years he
was a member of the supreme court of
Kansas.
During the civil war Mr. Dow was
an inventor, and was engaged i'm the
manufacture IF a waterproof cartridge.
Tt was known as the Dow cartridge,
and was used extensively in the army
for Misunderstanding guns.
After the war Mr.. Dow Went TO
South America, where he engaged in
several mining enterprises. He also
conducted a considerable business in
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the installnlent of some of the largest
guns that have eyer come to this state
on the high hills between Sutro heights
and the Old city cemetery. The fortifi-
cations: when complete. will be the
best at this port. as the guns Will COM
mand a. full sweep Of the ocean for
miles along the COAST They would be
particularly destructive. Ia a hostile
fleet endeaSoring "a elFter the bay.
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THE STRANGE
ENCHANTED BAIT.

BY CHARLES BATTELB LOOMS.
Copyright, 1899. by Charles Battell
Loomis)
Tom JoveIand was going fishing. It
was S o'clock at night and he was out
by the barn. digging for worms and
getting cricSets from beneath the
stones that made walking so unpleaS-
ant in the barnyard II his father
had been anything of a farmer he
would long ago have rid the place OF
its crop Of stones, but that would have
made il harder 10 get cricl0ets, and.
like Tom Ezra Loveland dearly loved
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the expectation Of ma hoganys and other
native woods Returning 10 this coun-
try Mn. Dew settled fn Colorado. whsra
He again engaged III mining The town
Of SiIverton was largely developed
through his efforts.
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against armed thieves, who had at
tackled it in the name of the law
The British consul is attempting to
bring the murderers Of Derrick to JUS
tice. English feeling is intensely en-
cited about the incident which IS likely
to have important con sequences
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FOR COAST DEFENSE.
Government to Begin Work On Large
.s Piece of Engineering at Frisco.

San Francisco. Oct. 14-It is stated
that the government will begin work
next week on one Of the largest pieces
of defensive engineering To be placed
at any port of the coast The project
has long been under consideration, and
now the plans are all prepared for the
Workmen to begin
1t is the. construction of huge works
Of masonry, earth, sand and rock for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15
LORENZO DOW IS DEAD.

Pioneer Miner Passes Away at His
Home In New York.
New York, Oct 14-Lorenzo Dow is
dead at his home in this city. aged. u
years. He was born in Paris. When
the gold fever broke out in 1919, he
went to the Pacific coast. and for sew
erai years was engaged there in pros
pectIns for and In operating mines.
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for good hour, he caught only three
fish Then he absent mindedly put on
one of the enchanted worms. and the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-29
J. W. Colt Buys KRIS Kringi-.

LEXINGTON. Dec 2S-J. ". Colt OF New York.
owner OF Ben Eder. has bought through DR..
Robert Bryan OF this city. the race horse Kriss
KrinQe. lie is I years old. BY spr ngook, out
OF Bruno, a sister to u. W. Johnson. by Iro-
auoIs He has been the most Sensational
selling platter In the West He will be shipped
to New York next week.
Mrs +. O. Pepper hns sent to Flkton. Md. TO
be trained by W. VI. Rogers. ten heal OF thor
oughbred yeurings by imp. kantaka. and out
OF highly bred mars They are TO be raced
next season in the East.
Mr.. J.. ID. Morgan Of New York. has had
ahipred IN him Ave head OF hunting horses.
three-year-olds. from the farm OF Or. Norwood.
On the same car. i've head Of trotting. hre 4
odor" schessinger Of Vienna. They are for
breeding purposes.
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COLUMBIA STILL LEADS.
HER TWo CHESS GAMES WITH HAIR
YARD RESULT IN DRAWS.
Yale Player, Gain on the Princeton Men
and Maintain Third Positiob-sewsii Of
Columbia Has the Best Individual Rec.
.-L VIII, Pnrru nf HnrNArd Rannnd.

Yale Players Gain the Princeton Men
and Maintain Third Positiop-sewsll OF
Columbia Has the Best Individual REQ.
ord, with Perry of Harvard Second.
The important fourth round In the intercol-
leglate chess tournament. In which students
from Columbia, Harvard. Yale and Princeton
uniyersities participate. was played Yesterday
at the Columbia Grammar School The Har-
ward men were plttsd against the representa-
tves Of Columbia while the Yale men were
fighting their brethren from Princeton. The
latter two games were finished before the
adjournment. the fight ending N points
in favor OF Yale. but the other two games
lasted long In the evening sitting with the
result that both games were drawn. thus
making the positions Of Harvard and Columbia
unaitered. the latter still leading. Yale is a
good third and Princeton last.
On tho frat board Rico played his favorite
queens pawn opening. which. with the assist
anoe OF his opponent. Fslk. aeon turned into a
stone wall. At fret black treated the opening
very cleverly and obtained a fair position. but
later on he INDUCED In moves OF purely
waiting character. Rice tried very hard to
effect break on the kings aide. yet the posi-
ton at the adjournment, while somewhat n
favor Of white. was likely to be blocked.
The game between Perry and sewall. while
somewhat different In run from tnat on the
frst table-this game being queens Rambt
deolined--was characterized BY exactly the
same features. Perry tried to carry through
an attack on the kings side. while sewall DON
fined himself to waiting tactics. This game,
too. had to be adjourned at O'Clock. In the
evening sitting they played on for forty. jven
even they agreed to draw. 49,. ,,
Hunt had to contend on the third board
against a Petrotf defence, adopted by Cook.
an opening which turned into regular four
knights game and subsequently into aRiuocn
piano. The Yale representative obtained bot.
ter pos ton and after forty moves the de'eat oi
the rrincetonian seemed only matter OF time.
He fought pluck lily until he was mated.
The nrst hve moves on the fourth table be-
tween Henley and Morgan were identical with
those made on the third table. Mornan out
played his adversary. by two ineIcusable err
rors. however, he threw away his advantage
with the upshot that Henley remained with
one avn TO the good In the end game. When
within an ace OF Scoring Henley Numbered.
lost his passed pawn and the game was drawn
alter ilfty-one moves. The games In detail:
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Fred Kapps. Prof. Jimmy De Forests heavy
weight has been matched to box Gus Rubin
in Troy on Jan %, In twsnty-round bout.
Charley Con. Billy Madden's clever middle
weight. has been matched to box twenty
rounds with Dick Moore OF st. Paul, at Troy.
on Jan. 10.
Charley Jeffries. brother to champion Jim
JefIriss Ia going to enter the heavyweight III:
yisIon In the near future. He Is clsver and
strong and 10 a nard hitter
Young Critic will make his temperance In
the ring on Jan. u at Chicago, alter an absence
OF nearly two years. He has been matched to
box Jack Lewis in u six-round contest.
Tom Murphy, brother to Australian" Billy
Murphy Ia now on his way to this country TO
mset any good 1873 FOUNDER. Tn! se who have
seen Murphy night predicta bright future for
him here. $3.50,
The London sPorttng ~ states that that VIII
whipped by George DIXON In this country. has
Eeen matched TO box Nat Smith at Newcastle
on Jan. ~. for $1,000 side and purse OF
$1,000.
Ceoree McFaddsn says II II 10 true that Spike
Sullivan will insist on a postponsment 81 Ihelr
aght he will demand Spikes forfeit; McFad-
dan said yaste rdHy to reporter OF THE SUN
II have an abscess on my LETT ear and my hands
are also In bad shape. but will 20 on Win tho
battle and Sullivan must do the same