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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08
0lr. Bradbury's Toot11pick
Habit Brought Him to
Jail, but Nevertheless
He Did Not Feel Like
a Criminal and Rather
Enjoyed the Novelty OF
the Queer Experience,


HIr Bradbury'z tongue SHES ~ the
word "eEpoc-0tate' and nus.es It into
two syIables
'l}y Jove" he continued II would have
EaglTted. again .-'f 1.-The SheTiF hadn't
warmed we just -n -me. That toothpick
habit viii take me 20 Jail again before 1
die It don't s-op it,
We got &. lie Jail and 7 was shown
!nto room. Some II my friends came TO
sec me and we talked uuJ, dinner time
The. oha@el ne about being In Jail and
Z told t1en tHs- a7 GOOD and bigger men
than ! have beca in Jail. i: amt so much
where tHH are -s what you're there for
'j aasnt .n for murder Tm not a
burglar. Ny IC.'s as opcn as any Other
honest mans. ] hadn't committed crime
wurth Swapping "a finger over. They could
pat me lH jail. but they couldn't make
me feel like criminal
MY friends ordered NV dinner on the
outside for me. IT was a good one. but
it's kind Of lonesome working a knife and
fork by yourself. Can't say ! enioved II
as much as some other dinners I've eaten.
after dinner my wiSo came down 10
sec me and spent the evening with me.
Wcmanlkc. she felt Il much more than
did. She was excited ana maddcr than
hornet TO think they'd put me in Jail.
Women haven't any sense Of humor"
OF W!lltu saving seventh sense Mr.
Bradbury has his full quota teIltale
twinkle n his gray eyes bellies the stern,
uuemfing mouth. had expected a sput-
tering frecracker: 1 found instead unruf-
fed serenity.
II don't pretend that I slept very we'll
that night in JAIL confessed Mr. Brad
bury. Don't know that the Jail was the
cause Of it as much as my dinner-indi-
gestion IS as bad out Of jail as In II was
SO dark I didn't know when it was morn
Ing till a guard came to ask me about
breakfast.
Il ate my breakfast and had them tele-
phone TO Mrs. Bradbury that I'd be home
fer lunch I was calculating on getting
out at L. I read the papers and took my
dose III them with q straight face The
time went kind Of Hmpy; Il o'clock, It did
seem, would never come. About 10 the
Sheriff came down 10 see me. He said:
Now. Bradbury, haven't we treated you
ali right" Tn a jallbird. II you have
not, 7 answered Well says the Sheriff,
that's what you1l have to be until
o'clock. They won't let you/out at II.
Now Bradbury, don't make a fuss about
it. wen TX you as comfortable as pos
sible-'
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= WE served my time Ia jail. Tt was ths
longest t~altv-f0ur hours ever
sI- h-t Lv 30 means the hardest
i c~ar-g-foar hours
ar William r. Bra 3buTy million
a.re e-.. ..t.re..r. Just released -t9u me
Ella-r.a. -.... |e a wiser l-r not sal-er
rra-. -.r Bradbury enjoyed his twenty
four t..rs' a.r- il Garauce Eile-
--r E-al-Gr. himself told NC -o
"I -.. - r-r- good riue III f1t.. ha
sa-.. .-- r. e-y at ,-e til.9..1
-o.--...r at..... t.-- fre.s!-s his little
finger .I ..- very good time. indeed,
tu 'a.." repeats Mr. Bradbury, sgl.lt.Ig
rs t-= .Ha Hy four brilliant bat s-t1t---
lated on his g.I.s--taiaed shirt bosom.
- was a..s- ..r es e.-it .--aaIa lI lail
Ea J am ..r.'. continued -lr. Brad. ary.
'Ee-- was tho r-r.ar of the Bradbury
hota. BLOCK below tae family mansion
on Van ... aver .a. Lad sta.kod Dir.
Era- tut Hre with 6Ge fear and tHt-
ter.El written .G Police Court an
mails that The g.lIeous capitalist has
peae.a.. tr throwing the uuwelcome
guest e-" -e.rs However, air. Brad
bury showed not the slightest inclination
20 tlls --- -..e ua 20 the marble flight
'Ihev p.- ~. lu the best room they
had - -lll' sltd Gr Bradbury. 1t
WASN'T at all bad. or course. YOU can't
expect furniture like This t1 JAIL Mr.
BradJ0rg looked adm r.ngly at The gor-
geoUs eg.-a.-baeE satin furniture In the
hotel par-9r "Eat for a 5atI j.: was very
good. Ihe bed was AS comfortable and
clean as any have ever slept in"
The H-.oaairr eEptrt0ra-er tells HIS
experience Z fail with much JUNCTION and
no mai a. Tie neither struts nor squeals
over his Incarceration. He regards II not
as a feather 10 Hts SILK Tile. nor Yet as a
blot on bis esslteheon. To him it has
been simply aa Incident and not an un-
pleasant oEe-
Mr Bradbury vas told at II o'clock IN
the morning that. despite his ducats. he
must so 20 jail Ar go. IN company WITH
the Sheriff and a bluecoat. the capitalist
left the hall ot justice for the Broadway
ieil.
now did I feel riding TO jail, did YOU
-sko Well, TO tell the truth / forgot that
was eollg 20 jail We rode down on the
streotcar. you know and I got to talking
with the Sheriff about other things.
say out 90 rou know 7 came near
sp.tt5ng on the car again. I'm a great fe.-
low for chewing a toothpick, and that
always makes a man want 70 sxpec-
torate.
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ut made me hot to wait until :. but
they'd treated NE so well that / couldn't
kick. The papers the next day had n lot
Of nonsense about my raising an awful
row about it. Don't you believe it
I just waited around and took it with
a grin. They let me out on the second
Of g.
I've read so many crooked stories Of
the whole thing that It's even hard for me
to get It straight. These are the facts
Of the case: TWO years ago ON The Sac
ramento-street car / was chewing a con-
founded toOthpick and / spat on the floor
8 / had been IA the habit OF doing for
forty years. / didn't know anything about
the ordinances until the conductor called
my attention to the one pasted mp. / read
the thing through and said why don't
YOU have cuspidors. then. on the cars
We had a little wc-dy tiff and when
got of the car I told him VINO ! was and
where I could be found If l was wanted
The conductor reported the case; Il
was tried and l was fined. We lived here
a long time and I'm pretty well known,
so ] suppose they were glad to get some
body like me TO make an example OF.
This last time I was riding on the Lar
kin street cars. chewing away on quill
toothpick as usual The conductor knew
who I was, and I believe he was lust
watching me, hoping I'd spit on the floor,
The first thing ! knew he says. Here, I'll
have you arrested for doing that
7 wasn't conscious Of splitting. But
there was some saliva on the floor about
as big as q l0-cent piece I suppose
must have put II there, but I'll be blessed
II I knew It. I told the fellow I didn't
mean to, but he called in policeman.
The policeman had to squint pretty
hard to find the drop. but between the
conductor and me he located it and or
dered me to come to jail. We both
thought I'd just have TO explain the thing
and that would end it.
But they pushed It, and the Judge who
tried It had been the lawyer on the los
ing side IL q former lawsuit I had He
chalked up. even by ordering me TO, jail
without the alternative of, a fine. Every
body knows the rest; I appealed the thing,
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That's my theory IN insurance, and II
may be foolish; but according to my cal
culations that's the way I've made half a
million. I haven't a stick nor stone that's
insured.
"They say I'm the only man who ever
made the Spring Valley Water Company
kneel I don't impose on any one. and I
don't allow any one to impose on me.
Twenty years ago Spring Valley tried
some funny business on me. I told them
TO shut off their water and bored q well
In my yard.
THAT well supplied not only my own
family but people I'm the neighbCrhood.
It brought me In $500 q month. Eight
years ago I stopped it, I'm not saying
whether Spring Valley paid me hand
somely. You can judge for yourself.
Twelve years ago J agreed to bore
sone wells in Golden Gate Park 7 had
sent in q daredevil of a contract that the
Commissioners couldn't refuse. Some OF
them said ! could never do it that way
I don't care how Bradbury gets Il
there said the late Frank PiXley; let
him carry It In his hat il he wants to-.
We'll, I got water. and by quicker way
than that. In the six years that L man
aged the water supply I saved the city
SIS 900. They'd been using Spring valley
instead Of boring for water
Mr. Bradbury has your true disdain for
material wasted. once on q tlme ne jour
neyed to New York and registered st this
Waldorf-Astoris. He was taken to
room by a clerk The room had q waiHs-
coting OF wood so highly polished that It
Runudged If you looked at II. It Dained his
carpenter instincts to see such wood
wasted on the human potpourri Of a no
tel THE clerk punched a button and n
swallow-taH appeared" relates Mr.. Brad
bury. YOU'D Of thought he was dressed
for the opera The gentleman will dine
says the clerk. Swallow-tail punches tbs
button and swallGw-tan number two
comes up with the bill OF fare.
''I looked at 1t and calculated that I
couldn't get my three square meals FOR
twenty dollars. There's been a time in my
life when I've spent less than that for 8
months living
IT pass" said millionaire Bradbury OF
the West to the astOnished swallow-tau
hunzeys Of the East, and bag and UNI
brella he straightway moved from the
Waldorf-Astoria,
Mr.. Bradbury Is not the only member
Of his family who has diamonds. Not long
since he acquired by right Of mortgage a
paWnshop. The jewelry which he could
not dispose Of he gave to his wife and
niece They have a heterogeneous collec-
ton Of jewels found only behind the three
golden balls.
Mr Bradbury loves the sparkle OF the
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but they sustained him and TO jail went.
I'm not ashamed of it, either for
served my time like a man. I'm not
ashamed Of anything in my life I don't
mind telling that when I came to San
Francisco in '5S had just SO. gave that
$40 in part payment on SIS month car
penter shop. I lived on scarcely nothing
until I got a contract to build a house.
The man gave me lot in payment and
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from that day was all right.
I've paid out in wages since I've been
IN San Francisco one million and a half
dollars. 1--at'u give you an idea Of how
many things I've been interested IN.
People say that I've got cranky no.
tions; but I haven't come out of the small
end OF the horn just the same. One Of
my ideas IS not 10 insure my property.
I've had two big flres-the biggest when
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my planning mill on Brannan street burned
down.
Guess you'll insure now. Brad?' said
my friends. I'd just take out a little
notebook and show them some arithmetic
that would paralyze them. I was in a
hundred thousand dollars more than II
had insured. The money I would have
put into insurance used otherwise at IN
terest had brought me that much more.
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WE served my time Ia jail. Tt was The
longest taluty-four hours I ever
sl..- hut lv 10 means the hardest
tn-r-E-foHr hours.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16
THE QUEST OF A TOOTH.
How Lady Was Discounted by tho Dis.
appearance of Golden Tooth.

prominent East End woman was
the heroine Of comedy of mishaps
few days ago that was decidedly I'M
pleasant to say the Ieast, says the
Cleveland Plaindealer.
She has what may be technically
called game tooth. 1t is artificial,
and helps to I'LL out the complement Of
natural mOlars 1t is a handsome
gold-mounted tooth. but it sometimes
plays its owner unpleasant practical
tricks. on the day in question it act
ed up badly. The lady loves apples,
ana was tating one. or rather had Just
taken a bite out of rosy checked
Baldwin when she felt the tooth 20.
When she drew away the apple the
tooth was imbedded in it, She put it
back in its niche and twisted ii tight
and fancied il would stay. Then she
went down town.
She tool Cedar car and seat near
the door. It was "A chilly day and the
door didn't shut tight, and pretty soon
She felt a draught \ second or two
later her face wrinkled. her eyes
closed ana She gave violent Snepzc.
lmmediattly after she heard som thing
tinkling on the floor. With ii gasp of
II.
I hen She peered under the seats. and
looked up the aisle, and tried TO dis
cover the missing incisor's wherea-
bouts. Pretty soon she thought she
saw it on the floor. several seats ahead.
Just as she arose to yet it the car slack
ened up, and n hasty glance showed
her that some intimate acquainIanCcs
was coming aboard She felt that she
must secure thai tooth before they
were seated. After they were once in
side and had recognized her there
might be no chance to get the tooth I'M
less she rode way around the Water
street loop
Besides, somebody else might pick it
up, and it was too valuable Il jaw deco
ration to be carelessly dropped and O.
serted. She slipped into She aisle .nu
hurried forward She went one seat
too far. Then she turned and saw il
and stopped with outstretched hand.
Cedar avenue is a rough road in spots.
As she stopped the car bounded for
ward with a corkscrew lurch, and the
tooth seeker was thrown violently and
diagonally forward. her head striking
the lap of one of her aristocratic ac-
quantances with a dreadful thud. Her
aStoniShed friend. who was just sitting
down. received her with a suppressed
/ grOan
Hastily gathering herself up and
Strengthening out her smashed hat she
munbled something about the horrid
road, and with flaming cheeks STUN
bled back TO her seat
And the fate of the guilty tooth is un.
known.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16

In the fascinating sea tales of other
days Of commerce the old time mari
ner tells you of calling at this or that
port 'fOl orders" The ancient New
England sea captain when fitting out
for a long voyage was obliged to carry
a big chest of gold with him. and play
banker merchant and accountant. as
well aS navigator. wherever he went,
10" thorr were no means of banking
and ~ WY of circulating drafts ex-
ccpi ht the slow and uncertain process
Of mail clrried in sailing ships. The
only way Of communication between
III" master of a ship and his owners
during voyage WAS TO fix upon some
port before starting at which the ship
YVES to "call for orders"
What marvellous changes time has
since wrought, TIE shipmaster of to-
day NAV 20 to sea with but very little
ready cash in his chest: for he can do
banking between Hong Kong and Bos-
ton aS Quickly and handly as it once
coul be done between Boston and
Salem. He need not make long detoms
to reach some port that has been fixed
upon nj which to wait for orders"
from his owners for, though he be at
the farthest ends of the earth,
some one of the 100 cables now
spread upon the bottom Of the worlds
great and little seas will bring him in
to ready communication with the bust
ness and banking end of things.
The first successful cable lines be-
tw"er tie United States and LIrope
were put into operation in 1866. In
that year our commerce with Europe
amounted to $GJ2. 232, $50. Last year
il had reached the sum of S1.219 1885,
9@G Our commerce with the whole
world in 1866 amounted to $7S3671,-
5SS. Last -ear it had amounted TO the
enormous sum of 81 SAT ,531 .9S4. If it
would not be fair to assert that this
vast commercial expansion" has been
due to ocean cables, it Is certainlv no
tXaggcration to say that the facilities
they have given business by which to
cXpeditc ocean carrying have counted
for r.ore commercially than any other
existing agency known to men who 90
cOwn to tie sea in ships. The 1,500
submarine telegraphs now lying at the
bottom of the waters have an ag-
gregate length of 10000 miles and
cost upward of S250,000000. They
transmit annually more than 100000
messages. They touch all the grand
divisions of the earth, and from coun-
try to country and island to island
the worlds wants, thoughts and senti-
ments are being transmitted constant
ly.
Yet submarine cables have hardly
begun to demonstrate their ultimate
usefulness. 1t is true that there are
nearly n score Of them across the At
l3ntic three Of which span the shorter
distance between South America and
the African and South European coast
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16
JAPANESE WOMEN.
Remarkable Change Of the Social Con.
dition. u Japan

The status OF woman IN Japan has
changed 10 remar gable extent in the
last few years. II IL al .n;arIaDle rule
that with the ADVANCE OF civilization in
any country We tint charging liberty
for women and the concession Of great.
~ rights o. them
I'll" .IapaLese wo lau OF to-day nnds
herself N ii very different condition
from that which su rounded her moth
or II ler youth anG This change is one
Of the most convincing evidences Of
Japan wonderful Advancement.
II appears that in spite Of the I'M
favorable conditions under which lap
enrSr women Of the generations pre-
ccd!ng the present one have lived they
they still have asserted themselves to
q marked degree in the literature of
their country.
W &. Aston. in his recent History
Of Japanese Literature" tells Us that
a large and important part Of the best
literature that Japan has produced
was written by women.
\ good share of the ancient heroic
poetry of Japan is the work of women.
The two greatest Japanese books
which have come down from past cen
turtles are by women.
II would seem that with her larger
liberty and her Immensely improved
opportunities for education the Japan
Csc woman would become much
larger contributor to literature and
art than she has ever been before
Though the progress of women in
social and legal rights has been rapid
in Japan il Is due that country to say
that it has always maintained a lib
erality toward women which was 10
be found in no other part Of the east
There has ever been great contrast
between the status and opportunities
Of woman in Japan and in China. But
Japan a She moves forward in mill
tary power, industrial enterprise and
governmental reforms is also advanc
Ing to higher and nohler theories of
the just rights of women.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16

scorching rays OF the run in torrd
weather in the simplest manner pos
sible. The device will also ward off
the rain from the exhibition grounds
Il the inventors assertions are founded
on facts
She has applied for and obtained the
privilege Of erecting her colossal UNI
brella In the grounds, and the manag-
ers are eager to find out what will hap
pen 70 1t the first time one of those
thirty mile gales comes whistling down
the Seine In the meantime Nine.
Percha- Giverne has probably closed a
contract to fash a soap or soup adver-
tisement on the inside Of that parasol
to the delight and profit OF some manu-
facturer and the everlasting benefit Of
The assembled multitude.
Never Correcj without mise.
In correcting the little ones try to
arouse their moral sense. showing that
You are deeply gricyed at their con-
duet. and the Withholding of some
little treat or Of some delicacy at tea
time IS a deterrent in many mild cases;
but restriction in diet or to give dry
bread IS not right. rs II may prove in
furious to growing children. Never
punish for an accident, however an
noying 1t may be. a child may break
n valuable vase owing 10 the weak
ness Of his little fingers, but this
should not be punished, while II he
throws two-penny tumbler down in
n rage or out OF naughtiness this is n
decided offence. Let us have SYM
pathy with the little ones, and try
TO see things with their eyes, which
Is the only way Of being just to them;
but LET us not forget the dictun Of the
father Of the great philosopher, Locke:
Remove hope and fear, and there Is
an end Of all discIpline"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16

Everybody knows the fresh. wet
smell ~ the earth after rain a
smell noticeable AZ times. though less
powerful iu dry weather Clarke Nut.
tall has discovered that the smell Is Of
microbc origin lie has not only
found the bacteria and given them the
pleasing name Of "cladothrix ordorl-
fera" but has produced them by ar
tifcial culture and noticed their char.
actcristic odor in gclatinc The mi.
crobes develope only In moist sur
roundings In dry dust they merely
remain latent or In a state OF suspend
ed animation
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16
Tho nivinr Rcrnrh.

The greatest diving featcvera achieved
was in moyingthecargo Of the ship
Cape Horn, wrecked off the coast Of
South America when a diver named
Hooper made seven descents to a
depth Of over 200 feet, remaining at
one time forty-two minutes under the
water. An authority states that the
greatest depth TO which a man has
been known to descend does not ex.
coed 800 feet-which IS equivalent to
a pressure Of eighty eight and one-half
bounds to the square inch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16

lines But TIL great Pacific which
now looms up rs promising the best
field If all for profitable cabling is as
yet practically ninvaded by wires. 1t
not liable 10 long remain a fact,
however, that very body Of water ~
ing between t.e inhabited portions ~
the earth but his the grandest has
been crossed ana recroS>ed by sub,
marine telegraph wires An inevitable
result Of our INVASION of the East
was 10 quicken the project Of Il cable
across the Pacific via Hawaii and con
Meeting the Philippines with the trade
centres Of China Japan and Oceanica
II is rapidly u process Of materializ-
in2. and then we shall have the whole
world ''at arm length" so 10 speak.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16

For years owing to the general depression
horses many farmers gave up breeding and to-day
yearng colts Good horses during the dull times b
always brought good prices. The trouble in the past has
farmers bred to inferior horses being unwilling fair
order their Stock result of this has been
country with Scrubs which just much good horse
and after reaching three four of earthly ac
How fine carriage be found this Od
how many fine stylish horses sixteen hands high, weighing G
in neghborhood these horses
demand and bring from three hundred dollars There
great demand carriage the city, but they must
good size, style and action To these horses breed
SIZE style action Do with cheap stocks imrove
have by breed better than you already
the get CURRITO beautiful horse sp
size and royalty bred He has record the ourthheat
of 2173 His colts from small all fine good
stylish and have lots of speed This grand young
number of colts, all of whom speak for themselves
To give the farmers chance who have fine large Mares
privilege given proves be with oal
RlTO has proven fOa getter
GASPARD by Sea King, and out of producing mare
grand having number of the finest colts coun
size style and action.
Mr. Chas Hargett President Frederick County Ayr
tural Society, has by GASPARD that hard beat
Arthur Potts Mr. John Weller besides my show
kind of colts you from this handsome horse.
sixteen hands high and weighs twelve hundred poundsuS
horse to get carriage and coach horses.
GASPARD will stand the for $15 make Gk
only solicit fine, good Mares want other
Here is chance for the farmers breed the
colt from either of these horses and something
be proud of for days Get rid plugs
costs much raise poor does good
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-16


gestion and nutrition, as Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Men and women az
iicted with shortness Of breath, heart dis
ease, suffocation, dizziness. spots before the
eyes, liver pains" and similar ailments
have been promptly and perfectly cured by
the use of Golden Medical Discovery"
Thomas A swarts, Of Satisfaction c.. Column
bus Ohio, Box Io3 writes I was taken very
sick with severe headache, then cramps in the
stomach, and my food would not digest then
kidney and liver trouble, and my back got 80
weak could scarcely get around. At last had
all these at once, and gave money TO the doc
tors whenever I thought they would do me any
good but the more doctored the worse got,
until six years passed. I had become 50 poorly
I could only walk in the house by the aid Of
chair and got so thin had gf1tn up 10 die,
thinking that could not be cured. Then l saw
one Of my neighbors, who said, Take my ad-
vice and use Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and make out Of yourself
The frs, bottle helped me and after had taken
eight was weighed and found had gained II
pounds. ] have done more hard work in the
past eleven months than did in two years be-
fore and am healthy to-day and do not feel
anything like dying cannot give Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery too much praise"
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