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THE ORIGIN OF YANKEE.
An Englishman Wrote in 1777 That
It Was an Indian Word of
Hon+emptI1olIs Meaning

Major w. A. Guthrie of Durham, in
addition to being an able lawyer, an
astute politician and an admirable gen
teman otherwise, is fond OF literature
of the best class. He likes to search
through rare books and papers. Some
years ago, at the sale of the effects of
some aged citizen, he bought two rusty
looking volumes for mere tritie along
with other books. On examining the
books he found them to be Travels
Through the Interior Parts of America,
in Series of Lectures by an Officer OF
the British Army" They are the let
tiers of Lieutenant Thomas Aubrey.
He was taken prisoner at the battle, of
Saratoga during the Revolutionary
war. From there he was sent pris-
oner to Boston, and later was marched
with many other prisoners of the Brit
ish army, who had been captured at
various places, to Charlottesville, Va.
Mr. Jones, a large planter of Virginia
and a member of the Continental Con-
gress. had rendered his plantation and
negro quarters to the Congress for q
prison camp. From this plantation
Aubrey wrote many of his letters. All
the prisoners were paroled. This off,
Ger spent his time in riding about the
country around Charlottesville. The
letters were to a friend of his in Eng
land. Later the letters were published
in two volumes and were dedicated to
the Earl of Harrington, Viscount Peter
sham, colonel of the Twenty-ninth
Regiment of Foot. They begin August
s, 1875, and run to October 80, 1881.
The letters are full of interesting and
instructive reading. In volume II, page
46, written from Cambridge, New Eng
land, November 25, 1777, is history of
the word Yankee. Before the Revolu-
tionary war the Virginians called the
New Englanders Yankees; from then
TO the civil war everybody that was not
Of the New England States called the
New Englanders Yankees, and during
the civil war everybody north of the
Mason and Dixon line was called Yam
kee.
AS to the word, Lieutenant Aubrey
wrote in 1777: 1T may not be amiss
here to observe that the etymology Of
this term is derived from a Cherokee
word, Eanl1ke, which signifies coward
and slave. This epithet Of Yankee was
bestowed upon the inhabitants of New
England by the Virginians for not as
sisting them in a war with the Chero-
KEGS, and they have always been in
derision by 1t. But the name has been
more prevalent since the beginning of
hostilities; the soldiers at Boston used
it as a term of reproach, but after the
affair at Bunker Hill the Americans
SlOTled IN II. 1anKee Doodle Is now
their paean, a favorite of favorites,
played in their army, esteemed as war
like as the 'Grenadiers' March. 1t is
the looms spell, the nurses lullaby.
After our rapid successes we held
the Yankees in great contempt, but it
was not little Notifying to hear them
play this tune when their army
marched down to our surrender"
Such is the history Of the etymology
Of the word Yankee. Chariot OBJ
server
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COLD BATHS.
Their Injurious Effects Upon the
Anemic and the Old,

The Journal of Topical Medicine
has an interesting article on the use OF
the cold tub in tropical countries, in
which it is shown that, health giving
as it may be to those who are young
and vigorous and newly arrived it is
by no means a process to be universally
advised. In the tropics a daily bath OF
some sort becomes a necessity for pur-
poses of cleanliness alone. But the
tub" which is INDUCED in by Euro
peans-that is, immersion in cold water
or. at any rate, water that is distinctly
colder than the body, for say five min
utes-has distinct physiological ac-
ton besides the removal. of dirt, and
the question is whether this is good OF
bad. 1t is pointed out that the shock
is relatively greater than in temper
ate climates, that the abstraction of
heat during the process can be but i'll
afforded, and that the depression OF
temperature induced is difficult to re-
cover from
1t is also insisted on that neither the
circulatory nor the respiratory organs
respond to the stimulus, and that, es-
pecially in the case of those who are
getting on" in years, the digestive or
gans may be congested to a dangerous
extent. We think that all this is very
true, but that it is true for a very large
number of people who live in temper
ate chimes as we'll as for those whose
lives are passed in the tropics. Many
people Whe have as they would say
been always accustomed" to take a
cold tub every morning continue the
habit long after 1t had better have been
given up. They do this partly because
it is a habit and partly because they
dislike the confession of getting old
which seems to be involved in giving
up the customs Of their more youthful
days.
But we are quite clear that unless
good reaction very quickly follows a
cold bath, and follows it without much
'toweling," such tubing is very often
injurious. Whenever a man has to
rub himself warm" or when he finds
that he is not right again until after
his breakfast he may feel sure that his
tub is doing him harm, and that he
would do better to take a warm bath
finishing off with a rapid sponge over
with cold water. For the young, Wig
orous and newly arrived youth in the
tropics the cold bath may be INDUCED
in with impunity, and it may be with
benefit, but as years lapse the tropical
resident calls for bath water warmer
and still warmer, until he finds that he
has best health only when the water
of his bath is not below the tempera-
ture of his body"
And it is the same in temperate eli
mates On the one hand the anemia
of the tropics renders a man more sus-
ceptible to cold, but, on the other hand
the arterial rightly which in temper
ate climates is so common an associate
of advancing years renders men pecu-
liarly unable to bear that sudden dis
placement of blood and that sudden re-
arrangement of the circulation which is
involved in getting into cold water
The Hospital
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
Seeing Bullets as Thew Flv.

'As every sportsman knows" said
an enthusiastic New Orleans hunter.
ut is easy to see a rifle bullet in the
air, and those fired from the new high
power guns are very curious to look
at. Stand a dozen yards to one side of
the mark and let a friend blaze away
at any range with small caliber
weapon using smokeless powder, and
you'll see strange, blush white streak
the instant the bullet strikes home.
The streak is apparently a couple of
inches wide and several feet long, and
is more like a flash of light than any
thing else 1 can think Of With the
old-fashioned Remington or Spring
field carbine the bullet has the ap-
peaerance Of a long black rod, and I
don't know why there should be such
difference in the optical illusion pro-
duced by the smaller caliber. l have
heard some people deny that the bullet
can be seen, but they are very much in
error. 1t all depends on getting the
right viewpoint A few feet either way
will render the missile invisible, but
the right spot is soon found by expert
ment. and after that the thing is as
plain as day. Orleans Times
Democrat
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
Black Images Of the Madonna

The natural explanation OF the circum-
stance of black images Of .Ae Madonna
is that certain woods become darker with
age. the smoke from the votive lamps
occasionally helping the process. In sew
eraI cases, as at Prigny, the images have
been blackened by the fumes from con-
flagrations. 1t is possible that some Of
The question as to whether the Virgin
herself was brunette or blonde opens a
wide field of discussion, but the balance
the text 81 am black (afflicted0 but
comely," was a reference to the Virgin,
and in favor Of the idea that these i'm
ages are intended to be horsewhiped in
spite of their swarthiness and not on ac-
count of It. Their very color, however,
attracts nilgrims.
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POSTUM CEREAL.
ANOTHER DOCTOR.

Coffee May Agree With Some Peo-
-. 70 pie and Not With Others.
=. Until year ago l was a most in
! Tetarate coffee drinker.
=: / have always assiduously abstained
afrom all other forms of stimulants.
.E3neluding tobacco, and hence could
easily localize the cause for the nura-
erCus abnormal symptoms 1 became
Subject to. grew nervous and irrit-
able, became easily excited and expert
= enced a decided loss OF memory, to-
;: 'gether with many other symptoms,
.=indieajng an unduly stimulated nerv-
%:o1S system. My appetite was poor,
!: sight deficient. bowels irregular. Like
=. th6Wsands Of others, 1 could not bring
Y.rIyself to believe that my favorite bev-
- ;eEas:a was the cause OF my abnormal
Expeditions.
x: about year ago a package Of Pos
= iirl:.Cereal came to my office, and I
<==iCoi(ciuded to try it. / was very much
..>dj s.rPpointed with the trial, the liquid
=.Jjcl3lE Eight celored, weak and insipid
..-It' {anked the strong flavor had been
:*fn ,llgIg accustomed TO.
:. !: a concluded, however, I would have
~ ::cultWate taste for it, and hence
:.IIlsts3ed in drinking the almost taste
:. fess :laiXture FOR several weeks. until
3lil23ly / became Disguised with it and
..G.liit; IT,. l noticed, however, an i'm
3. .i5IiQyeiltent in my nervous symptoms.
IL SHORTLY after this my attention was
=: ,ealled*to your specific announcement
. -as-.to the length Of time the mixture
:: GhQNld boil ! took the subject up
again.: following the directions ex
:.p]i&jtfy, ard the result was truly graft
~1yilgg The color, the aroma, the
...taste and everything Except the nerve
.1racking stimulanD was there, and [
. vas. completely satisfied. The nerv-
GUS symptoms entirely went, and all
other abnormal conditions vanished
The experience in my own case natur-
ally led to a conclusion as to the cause
Of the disorders with many Of my pa
tents, and I have had occasion in
numerous cases 10 insist upon the
abandonment Of coffee entirely, and
the substitution of Postum Food Cof-
fee. with highly gratifying results.
DR.. Geo. w Hogan, 113 E. Long ST,
Columbus. Ohio.
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Carbon Pictures on Celluloid Base.

Carbon pictures, done on heavy paper
or celluloid bases. are one of the recent
novelties in the Photographic world To-
day they are made in monochromes of
fourteen different colors from black to
light blue. Few operators are skillful
the city trade is handled by a few men.
Paper with a coating Of gelatine and
carbon on 1t is dampened in bichromate
air in the dark After drying it is ready
for exposure. 1t is placed in contact with
a negative in the usual way, and print
ed by sunlight the time for each negative
ing the carbon paper is soaked in warm
water, and all the unexposed part dis
solved The paper is then stuck face
downward on the celluloid base to be
used. A long application to the water
takes the. paper off. leaving the picture on
the celluloid. This process requires dry
weather and particular precaution in
handling; it's effects are especially fine
when well executed.-Boston Transcript.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

tom part Of the felly or rim and one hand
on the top part. Let the vehicle be moved
ahead a part of a revolution of the wheel.
say one-fourth or less, with foot and
hand retained on the portions of the rim
where placed, then note the difference Of
spaces through which foot and hand have
travelled (2) Take a circular piece of
pasteboard or thin wood to represent a
wagon wheel. Place it on the floor with
side against the wall. Insert a small pen
ell or marker in top and bottom edges Of
the wheel. Then move the wheel one
ei~hth Of \ revolution or so and have the
pencils mark the curves through which
LAey traVeI ana note the difference. OF
course, at a uniform rate of travel of a
wheel each and every point in the rim
moves slower or through less space when
at or near the bottom than when at or
near the top"
DEMPSEY-LA BLANCHE-FITZSIM-
MONS-S. f. H., City. The fight between
Jack Dempsey (NonpareiD and George
La Blanche Cthe Marine) for $500 purse
and $1,000 a side took place March 4, 1886,
at Larchmont, L. l.. and was won by
Dempsey in thirteen rounds.
Bob Fitzsimmons beat Jack Dempsey
in a fight for ST., 900 and the middle-weight
championship of the world in thirteen
rounds, in forty minutes, at New Orleans,
January A. 1891.
for $500 purse, with four ounce gloves,
in thirty-two rounds, in two hours and
seven minutes, in San Francisco, August
q, 1889.
CARTER HARRISON-Rea Covina.
Cal. Carter Harrison, Mayor Of Chicago
who was murdered in his home October
Is, 1893, was not related to Benjamin Har-
rison, ex-President of the United States.
Prendegast. who murdered Mr.. Harrison,
expiated his crime on the gallows in the
city of Chicago July 49, 1894
COLLECTION OF COINs-C Curiosity,
City. If you will communicate with the
curator of the museum in Golden Gate
Park you will probably ascertain what
YOU desire to know about the disposition
of collections of coin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
The Brave Bull, the Cruel spaniard.

The trumpet, sounds again, and the
espada takes his sword and his muleta
and goes out for the wild scene. This,
which ought to be, is not always the real
climax. The bull is often by this time
tired, has had enough of the sport, leaps
at the barrier, trying to get out He is
tired Of running after red rags, and he
brushes them aside contemptuously; he
can scarcely be got to show animation
enough to be decently killed. But one
bull that saw recently was splendidly
running about the arena with the sword
between his shoulders, and that great red
line broadening down each side of his
neck on the black; like a deep layer OF
red paint, one tricks ones self into
thinking.
He carried two swords in his neck, and
still fought; when at last he, too, got
weary, and he went and knelt down be-
fore the door by which he had entered
and would fight no more. But they went
up to him from outside the barrier and
drew the swords out of him; and he got
to his feet again. and stood to be killed.
The Saturday Review.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
A Legislator in Two States.

John j. Upchurch lives on the boundary
line between Florida and Georgia He is
a wealthy mill man, and SO popular on
both sides Of the line that he alternates
his public services as legislator between
the two States. He represents Charlton
Count Ga, In the lower house of the
Legislature at the present session He
was a member of the Florida Senate at
that body's last session; before that he
was sent to the lower house of the
Georgia Assembly and further back was
in the Florida House and Georgia Senate
in alternate Observation-Disclosures Sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15


the lions protected by horse blankets
worked perfection so far as 1t Went and
managers congratulated themselves on their fore
sight and good fortune.
They had important member of their dumb brute
family required entirely different treatment This
immense fellow, with coat thick the bark on
redwood tree did not to be satisfied with the
weather conditions ordered by Professor Harmon 1t
appeared be too for him and he pned for his
cline. What the Chutes people did to amellorate
the suerings of the Polar bear is best told in the Ian
guage of Impresario Phil Hastings:
I'VE kept tab o the big bunch of hair from the
Arctic circle, said Phil, land concluded that the tenn
perature too high for him; that his feet too
hot and that the proper caper to insure his
fort and safety by putting him Ice and providing
electric wind blast. This was done. We actually paved
his cage with slabs of the real thing and assured our
selves that the only expert Polar bear
in the country.
Somehow this did not suit; piled in more Ice
without regard to the matter of expense. Much
alarm, bruin began pining at rate that us lie
awake nights. Alas too late, discovered that
fatal What the trouble? Why, that
product of the Polar regions cold We
ck and windblast act and he did the resaid carefully
ice and died. The weather too frosty for him."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
The Force of Habit.

ct guess there's something the matter
the Tenth Battalion boys recently HE
got home. about II o'clock Wednesday
night and went to bed about midnight.
and half an hour later. when ] went up
to his room. he was curled UP on the
floor He had just pulled the clothes off
the bed and crawled into them. I asked
him about 1t, and he said he never wanted
to sleep on a bed again. Said he had a
bed in San Francisco. but 1t was too soft
for comfort. Albany Argus.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
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Truth In an OhitI1aru

William Harrington died at his home,
near Pleasanton the other day, leaving
considerable riches and a respectable fam.
lily. and this is part OF a curious obitu-
airy notice given him by the Observer:
His greatest fault was the extravagant
use Of profanity. 1t was almost impos-
sible for him to engage in any sort Of
conversation with man, woman or child
without using it. He no doubt often
swore unconsciously. kansas City Jour
nal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

A DOLLAR OF 1SS4-Subscriber, City.
A silver dollar of 1854 will not bring the
possessor a fortune, as it is not pre-
MUM coin. Such can be purchased at an
advance of 80 cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
Fnnthall at the Presidio.

The Jacksons and Princetons, formerly
Company M, League of the Cross Cadents,
will play game of football Sunday after
noon at the Preside athletic grounds,
with the following lineup:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

IN CASE OF WARN. D., City. In
case of war and the necessity for draft
the military authorities will not exempt
a man on account of his religion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

GERMAN IN EVENING SCHOOLS
H. j., City. In San Francisco the only
evening school in which the German Ian
guage is taught is the Humboldt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

Cream Balm Is placed into the nostrils, spread
over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is
immediate and cure follows. 1t is not dry
ing-does not produce sneezing Large soc;
Trial Size Toe; at Druggists or by mail.
ELY BROTHERS. So Warren St. New York
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

IRELAND-J. NJ H., City. The great
est length of ireland is from Fair Head,
in Antrim, to Crow Head, in Kerry, 1906
miles. Its greatest meridional length is
but 225 miles Its greatest breadth be-
tween the extreme points of Mayo and
Downs is 1872 miles, but between Galway
Bay and Dublin it is but 120 miles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

QUARTZ MINING-G. M, Oakland, Cal.
P. H. Miller, whose name figured in an
article published in The Call recently in
connection with quartz mining in Daw-
son. is a man Of medium height, middle
aged, somewhat bald and has a sandy
mustache He was for a time engaged in
mining in Colorado.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
POOR OLD POLAR
BEAR WIS COLD
An Icy Mistake That Caused the Demise
OF Bruin at the Chutes.

Francisco
the
The
and
mix ID matter badly. An
all knds of weather To-
had night the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

Advances made on furniture and pianos with
or without removal. ). Noonan, 1o17-1o23 Mission.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

MAN AND WIFE. s., City Man and
wife divorced in California cannot marry
again in that State within a year from
the time the divorce was granted. There
are those who have been divorced in that
State and married again. A marriage
that is legal in any other State in the
Union is valid in California.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

SEX IN THE UNITED sTATEs-L.,
Livermore, Cal. Until the census of 1900
is taken it will be impossible to give fig
ures as to sex in the United States. The
latest figures on that subject are those of
1890, from which 1t appears that there
were at that time 80 O67 $50 males and 30,
554 $40 females. The figures for Califor-
MIA were, ,059 males and 50S,071 females.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

EMBELLLEMLNI IN PENN6i IVA-
MAG. P. Y, City. In the State Of
Pennsylvania If a person, acting under a
power of attorney, comes into the pos
session of money for account of his prin-
cipal and fails to account for it or appro-
PIRATES it to his own use, he is guilty of
a misdemeanor, the penalty for which is
not more than $1,000 or Imprisonment for
not more than three years.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-22
About Grundell,

When w. E. Rowell, Superin
tendent of Public Works, was seen
yesterday In regard to the dis
appearance of the Collector of
the Bureau of Public Works, JIG.
Grundell, recently, he said:
Il don't know whether Grundell
has gone away or not. l know
that he is short in his accounts
and L know also that he has NOT
drawn his last months pay. His
wife, who is in the city, has in.
structions to draw the money. Fol-
the past few months Grundeli has
left all the money he collected IN
this Office"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-22
Dreyfu. Gets Many Letters.

Rennes, Sept. l2.-Matthieu
Dreyfus has returned here and
visited his brother this morning
10 the prison. He found him still
bearing up we'll. The prisoner
has received an enormous number
of letters of sympathy since Satur.
day. He spends the greater part
Of the day in reading them.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-22
Antiope's Cargo.

The balance Of the British ship
Antiope's cargo of nitre has been
sold to the Hawaiian Fertilizer
Co., Ltd.
The Antiope moves over to the
Railway wharf this afternoon to
discharge.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-22
Dssertsrs.

Late last evening or early this
morning two seamen deserted
from the British cable survey
cruiser Egens, lying in the stream.
There is reward out for the ar
rest of the fugitives who came
ashore in citizens clothes.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-22

DR.. Graves, who had been
Bishop of Limerick for thirty
three years, is dead at the age of
81 years. His sister was the wife
of Leopold Won Rake, the Prus-
sian historian.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-22

Twenty eight deep water yes
sells are expected to arrive in this
port before the first Of next
month.
Twenty six vessels are in the
harbor today; IL of which are
American, 4 Hawaiian, 3 British
and German.
PASSENGERS DEPARTED.
For Lahaius, Maalaea, Kona
and Keu, per stmr Mauna Loa,
Sept 22-Mrs j w Richard, Mrs
Gibson, Miss Gibson, Mrs Kama.
la Aiyua, Emily Maniuwa, j X
Nahale, ID Logan, j W Raas, Ii
st Goar and wife. Miss Blum, A
Makekau, G Costendyke, Mr. Elm
beck, Doctor McWayne, b. f.
Dillingham;, Mrs j sherman, III I
Hayselden, wife, servant and
child.