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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
A Neglected GRAVEYARD.

Seven-year-old Willie Elsie Of 2722 Gold
en- Gate avenue was playing Klondikt
Yesterday with some little fellows of his
own age AT the junction Of Golden Gate
avenue and Stanyan street, and in dig
ging for gold unearthed some human
bones and the fragments of a coffin
Pieces of the shroud and pair of boots
were also found. The gruesome relics
were taken to the Morgue, but neither in
quest nor autopsy will be held. The site
on which the bones were found was a
cemetery many years ago, and when the
bodies were eXhuIned some were for
rraf
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
He Is Subjected to a
Heavy Fine.
OTHER CHARGES TO ANSWER
HE CONDUCTED A DRUGSTORE
WITHOUT REGISTRATION.
The Judge Pays Attention to Men
Who Practice Medicine With
out Diploma and Wants
Them Arrested.

F. E Rockstroh, proprietor of q drug
store at Seventh and Howard streets, has
got himself into serious trouble through
violating the law by selling poison with
out a physicians prescription, and also
for conducting the store without having
a registered pharmacist in charge.
He was. convicted on Saturday by Judge
Treadwell on the charge of not register
ing the sale of opium to John keenan,,
and appeared for sentence yesterday. The
Judge took occasion to express in forcible
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
In the Divorce Court.

Anna NJ. Klaymann has been granted a
divorce from William Klaymann on the
ground Of failure to provide. Christian
Abraham was granted divorce yester-
day by Judge Daingerfield from Augusta
Abraham on the ground of extreme
cruelty. The custody of the four minor
children was awarded to Mr.. Abraham.
Suits for divorce have been fled by Mary
J Cook against James Fl. Cook for failure
to provide. and Grace /. Cretser against
Frank e CretSer for cruelty.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
No Fear Of Any desperate" or
idle" Characters.
Most Of the Men Have Positions at Home
and the Others Can Get Them, So the
Examiners Excitement Is CauSeIesS.

B = = + u u : : E = i ): 3 :: :=::" &: 4"
- mud UTOn General Shafter for using
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
Cordelia Botkin's Case.

Judge Carroll Cook made an order yes
terday granting Cordelia Botkin, con-
victed of the murder of Mrs. John p.
Dunning, fifteen days further stay of ex-
ecution. The bill of exceptions prepared
by Mrs. Botkin's attorneys has been flied
bllt not vet settled
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
Mrs. Terry Held.

Mrs. Mary Terry, alias Mrs. Kriesten-
sen, alias Nellie Brown. was held to an
swer yesterday before the United States
Grand Jury on a charge of counterfeiting.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
Arion Verein.

Members of the Arion have expressed them
selves thoroughly pleased with the Zinkand
in all its appointments.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15

y TAYING at the Palace. where he ar
rived last night from the China, the
4 J vessel that brought him home from
- his mission in the Philinnines is Phil
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-28

PETERSON BROS. & CO.. Grain and
Commission Merchants.
JOSEPH AUSTRIAN, Of leopold 4
Austrian Transportation Company.
d. v. PURINGTON, Brick Manufact.
urer.
II. GRUSENDORF. Lumber Dealer.
RUDOLPH Il. RHODE, Wholesale
Druggist.
JAS. Il. McELROY, Of Jas. Il. McElroy
& Co., Real Estate.
ALBERT +. OTTO. Capitalist.
H. +. SHIELDING. Capitalist.
THOMAS B. MARsTON. Attorney.
DOLEsE & SHEPARD. Contractors.
NJ. II. KIIIGALLEN. Real Estate.
ALFRED KOHN, Wholesale Grocer
A. J. ]. MILLER, Lumber Dealer
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-28

LEICHT l. BARTHOLOMEW, Brew.
ers.
RUDOLPH BRAND. President United
States Brewing Company.
GEORGE W. KELLNER, Of Schmidt
Brewing Company.
T.. G. UIHLEIN, President Schlltz
Brewing Company.
JOHN ,CUDAHY. Packer.
MICHAEL CUDAHY, Packer.
LACKNER & BUTZ, Attorneys.
GEORGE BURY, Attorney.
WILLIAM vOCKE. Attorney.
JURGENs & ANDERSEN, Wholesale
Diamond Merchants.
ANDREW G. LAUSTEN, Of the Lin.
seed OH Trust.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-28
MOVE YOUR FACTORY
CHICAGO HEIGHTS.

WhNe Of i hpph un0 hzmeda
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Top p h churches W tn
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
YANKEE INGENUITY DID IT.
French Peas Which Have Been Held
in High FavO.. for Years Are
Now Home Grown.

Only a few years ago practically all
the canned peas consumed in this
country were imported from France,
the famous petit pois. At tina: tune it
was deemed impossible to produce the
required quality in this country, con-
sumers desiring firm, even bright green
goods, and though sulphate of copper
was used in securing that color it made
comparatively little difference with the
trade. American packers, however, ex-
permented with the object Of pro-
ducing a pea the equal of the French
article, and how we'll they succeeded
wnow an old story. Starting with good
seed, and under careful cultivation, the
American pea now equa rs the imported
product of France. and our packers
have built up an industry which has be-
come an important feature of the great
canned goods trade Of the country.
The careful selection of seed has re-
suited in variety having all the desira-
BILE qualities of t. e French product and
requiring the addition of no coloring
subs tances to make them attractive.
American canned peas stand on their
merits. Wisconsin and New York are
the leading pea-packing states al
thopgh others are rapidly developing
the industry.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
Daily Floating Population.

1t seems an easy matter to compute
"the floating population" of the land,
but to estimate the real population
afloat is quite another task. A recent
computation as to the population afoat
on the Atlantic, however, calculates
that last year there was daily average
of 1861 vessels at sea, with 44,So9 men
in their crews. Every day also 1904
steamers, with crews numbering 3d.
1853 men and 32,656 passengers, were
afoat on the Atlantic. This made a
daily average for the year of 5,155 YES
sells and 13o,272 persons spread over the
whole Atlantic surface.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
A BRACE OF PARADOXES.
Two Odd and Interesting Little
Problems for the Young Folks
to Ponder Over.

Paradox No. 1.-Tf you started from
Chicago and walked due west, and it
were possible for you to walk on un-
interruptedly in the same direction,
how far could you walk without ever
deviating from your due westerly
course. and where would you arrive
finally?
"Oh, that's easy!" you exclaim. Il
would walk around the earth and ar
rive back in Chicago"
Very well. Let your answer stand
for the present, and take this: TWO
geese are here in, Chicago, one stand
ing facing the east and the other
facing the west, and at the same mo-
ment they start and fly directly as
they faced, the one east and the other
west. How far do these two geese
travel before they meet face to face?
Ask your friends to help you solve
this. They Will probably take hold
with avidity. and the answers they
give you will be amusing. You your
self probably think it's easy-too easy.
in fact, to worry about. Half way
around the world. you say? Well. you
are mistaken. The correct answer de-
pends altogether upon the distance
which separated them in Chicago when
they started. For it does not follow
that the two geese, when one stands
facing the east and the other facing
the west, are back to back. They may
be face to face. Do you catch on?
Do
born at exactly the same moment in
the same town. Fifty years later both
died at the same instant in the same
town, yet one of them had lived 100
days more than the other.
Now, do not ask your friends to help
you solve this problem, as you did with
the preceding one. Buckle down to
it yourself, right now, without read
ing any farther. No; there is no catch
in it.; it is plainL straightforward
proposition and though it is labeled
paradox" it may not be paradoxical
m the least when you read the ex-
planation, which is this: Each of these
two men made so trips around the
earth, one of them always travelling
to the west and the other going always
in the opposite direction. Now. he
who went west around the earth lost
a day on each of his trips, and in so
trips was so days behind the station
ary stay-at-home inhabitants of his
native town. He who travelled by the
east gained one day by each trip. One
of these men, therefore, had seen 100
days more than the other, though they
were born and also died in the same
village at the same moment, and reck-
oned time by the same calendar.-Chi-
cago Times-Ierald.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
THE MURISTAN.
Historical Site In Jerusalem Graut-
ed to Germany for It's
New Church.

The Muristan, the site of the new
German church at Jerusalem, was
granted to Germany by the sultan in
1869. 1t is in the middle of the city,
near the Church of the Sepulchre, and
no spot was richer in remains of the
Latin domination-to say nothing of
the Saracenic ruins. In the reports of
the Palestine Survey there is photo
graph of fine Gothic window by Lieut..
Kitchener II. E.-to-day the sirdar
That window, together with portions
of cloisters, a belfry and rich double
doorway, belonged to the Church of
ST. Mary, built in 1130, little earlier
than the beautiful church outside the
walls known as the Tomb of the Virgin,
the gift of Melisinda, wife of King
Fulk The bazars east of the Muris-
tan, notably the meat market, are
medieval, and west of it lie buried be-
meath the soil the buildings of the great
hospice of the Knights of ST. John.
The kaiser will find at least one an
cicnt trace of German crusaders at
Jerusalem. The Birket-es-Sultan was
made by the Germans to water their
horses, and was known in Latin times
as the German Pool. Theodoricus men,
tions it first. The greatest German
work in the past was, of course, the re-
building of the walls of the city by
Frederick H., in 1929. But the en-
peror's work lasted only ten years,
when the walls were destroyed by Arab
hordes under the emir of Kerak.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
POETESS GRINDS CORN.
Member of = Famous Literary Family
Runs a Grist MIL in New
Jersey.

Mrs Ada Cranahan Norton, poetess
and member of famous literary fam
lily, runs a gristmill at Hightstown, N.
j., and thereby, with the addition of
what is brought in by her pen, earns
good living. Mrs. Norton is daush-
ter Of HoWena Cary, eldest SISTER of
Alice ana Phoebe Cary. whose verses
are known throughout the world. She
owes most Of her literary standing 70
Alice Cary who gave her much assist
ance and crcCrrcgencnt at the start.
In 1898 she moved with her husband
to ITightStown. n J., and took charge
with him Of a quaint little flour mill,
built in such n fashion that the ma
chinerv could be easily run by a wom-
an. Three years ago her husband died,
and since then Mrs. Norton has had
sole charge. She has built up reputa
tion for herself and her mill since then,
and farmers for ten miles around drive
to the little mill with their corn, al
though there are mills nearer home
to which they might go.
Unlike most mills, the one conducted
by Mrs. Norton has the wa ter wheal
actually in the building. The lower
part is inclosed In it's former days
the wheel and lower part were open.
and in winter the wheel was very apt
to be frozen and, bee colning imnova-
bic, would cause the poetess untold
veXation. All this is done away with
by her little scheme of inclosing the
wheel.
Mrs Norton lives in house scarcely
100 feet from the mill, large, artistic
and considerably older than the mill.
The mill is in peaceful, poetical place.
The poetess does not forget her lit
erary work, and even when engaged
in her duties at the mill her fancies
keep busy.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
OF PASSING INTEREST.

The largest Bible in the world is a
manuscript Hebrew Bible in the vati-
can, weighing 800 pounds<
The assessment of taxable property
in Nebraska is $167, 7,S3O,822, as COM
pared with $165, 1876 for last year.
A hemlock tree recently cut down in
Appleton, Me-, showed 800 grains, and
the tree was nearly four centuries old.
A bugle on which the charge was
sounded that sent the Light Brigade
to destruction at Balaklava was sold
at auction in London recently for $3,-
935.
The italian criminologist, Dr.Fer-
riana, found that of 1900 juvenile
criminals, 1,112 were idlers. The pre-
vailing crime was theft, being 1882 of
the whole.
Twice year the Caspian overflows
and strands millions of fish-sufficien
to feed the whole of central Asia, if
advantage could be taken of these i'm
mense resources given by nature.
DR.. E. Casgrain, of Quebec, has built
a motor sleigh for winter use. Ihe
poweris derived from Bollee gasoline
motor, and the driving wheel has, in
stead of the ordinary pneumatic tire,
The cries of sea birds, especially sea
gulls, are very valuable to sailors in
misty weather. The birds cluster on
the cliffs and coast and their cries
warn boatmen that they are near the
land.
a wooden tire studded with spikes,
which catch the ice. The sleigh is sup
ported by this wheel behind and two
runners, one on either side, like out
riggers. The sleigh, in fact, is sort of
ice catamaran.
The flesh of young giraffe, especially
that of the young cow, is extremely
good, somewhat like veal, with game
like flavor. The tongue, from 1s to 20
inches long, is also very good. But the
marrow bones afford the greatest
luxury to the South African hunter.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
THE LADY WON.
An Amusing Occurrence in q Blg Once
Building Elevator In
Chicago.

People who ride in "lifts" in this city
acquire some queer experiences at
times. The calling OF the floors where
passengers desire to debark or embark
not infrequently produces some anus.
ing situations. 1t all depends on the
style of the person making the an.
nouncement. OF course, conductors
are mute participants to the game.
Here is one happening which is certain
ly out of the usual rum, says the Chi
cago Chronicle.
Half a dozen passengers entered an
elevator in big downtown Office build
ing. Doctors Office there almost to
the exclusion of other professions.
One boy with a package asked to be de-
posted at the second floor. A woman
stood mute while a medical man
thought he would leave at the fifth.
The conductor turned an inquiring
head and the remaining passengers
with one voice Ginning in full chorus
shouted: =
"Tenth."
"Seven up," murmured a gentle
voice AZ the car reached the indicated
floor.
Two men seeking the tenth floor
glanced at each other with grins Of ap-
probation a. a stenographer, and a
pretty one, by the way, entered the car.
She seemed unconscious OF having
created more than passing interest,
but the conductor was alive to the stu
alton.
"The lady wins" he muttered to him
self as he gave the lever yank and the
car shot upward again.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
MINI psOta's Ancient Rocks.

Prof. Winchell, of Minneapolis, con-
siders the greensboro of Minnesota the
oldest known rock, and as representing
he original crust of the earth. The low
er series of it is purely igneous, the
upper. or "clastic," series consists of
greensboro, more silicious rocks and
conglomerates, more or less altered by
heat. Hitherto it has been supposed
that the Laurentian granite and ig-
neous rocks of Canada were the oldest
rocks. The silica and potash of the
upper greenstones of Minnesota be-
speak, he thinks, primeval alkaline
ocean with silica in solution. From
this ocean comes the great stock of the
worlds potash in the Archaean rocks
London Globe.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
WAR ENTHUSIASM COOLED.
Their Friends Gave Them Such q
Wonderful Farewell They De-
cided Not to Go.

In a small Virginia town two ven-
turesome young negroes, dazzled by
the wareglory talk of the enlister,
made him a verbal promise to meet
him at the depot on certain day and
sign their papers and 60 away to the
camp which he represented. The day
came and huge crowd of their people
went to the depot to see them off. The
two lads were the heroes of the hour,
and bore themselves with much swag-
gering jauntiness, until preacher
called the crowd to order that they
might all pray for their departing
brothers.
In that prayer he held out no hope
of return, but resigned them wholly
to death and the Spanish bullets. "Oh,
Lord, desc boys is been mighty dancin'.
banjo-pickin' young uns, but, oh, Lord,
when dc shells is a-bustin' round 'em
sabe dey souls, even if dey bodies is
gwine down to de black pitt" The ex-
citable crowd caught the spirit of the
prayer, and began to wall as if already
at death scene. Funeral hymns took
the place of jests as in solemn process
sion they filed past the two heroes and
mournfully bade them farewell for
ever, at the same time loading them
with messages to departed friends.
"Good-by, Jim, eff you does happen
to go to Heaben an you sees my man
dar, jes' tell her howdy fer me-"
Farewell, Dick, farewell; we gwine
to miss you considerable when de pos
sums gifts fat; am when we's eatin'
watermillion we gwine wish we could
drap leetle Of de juice onto your
burnin' tongue way down yonder in
torment"
The ordeal was too severe for the
would-be sons Of Mars. They wept as
loudly as anyone over their supposi-
tious death and punishment, and gazed
longingly back the way they had just
come. Under the wailing admonitions
military honor lost it's charm; sud-
den beauty budded about their cast
off hoe-handles and haloed their for
saken plows; and so, confessing the
error of their recent choice of an Oc-
cupation, they turned their backs on
the tented field and went instead to
the cotton patch. The chagrined en-
listing officer, having no signed papers
to hold them, was forced to submit to
their latest decision.-Chicago Times
Herald
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20


spark
So life is spark; and life is a fire;
And life is 4 fame rising higher and higher.
One free breath Of nc-.llre ere hone dies i'll men
And the tast-tading em5cra will wake. again.
Thousands Of people die of wasting weak
en1ng diseases every year who By all rules
of nature and reason ought to be restored
to health and strength. The medicines
they receive from the average doctor ac-
Cording to regulation, stercotyDed practice
are mere temporary palliatives; they do not
reach down deep into the vital organism
where the spark CT life lies dormant wait
ing to be awakened.
In nun,berless cases where every other
remedy absolutely falls DR.. Perce's Golden
Medical Discovery breathcs its strong vi
talizing power upon the sluinbering forces
of life and wakens them into active energy
It quickens the digestive and d-inakiiig
glands and empowers them to supply fresh
rich nourishnlent to all the organs and it's
sues; i1nbues the heart and lungs with vi
tality; destroying and excreting naturally
from the system the bile poisoned dregs
which lurk in the circulation, thus building
up new constitutional vigor and activity
II took severe cold which settled on my
lungs and chest, and suffered intensely" writes
Mr.. Harrison Smith, of Gapcreek, Ky. II
tried several of our best physicians, and they
gave UP al hope of my recovery; they said had
consumption and could not live more than a few
weeks. took five bottles of DR.. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery and am sound and we'll to-
day. feel better than have in ten years."
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
Cats That Don't New

In South America there is race OF
cats which does not know how to new.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
AN ALASKA HORROR.
Greedy Indians Murder and Rob
Prospectors.
Not Satisfied with Reasonable Pay the g
Red Fiends XIII : ShiDvrecked
Grew OF Whites--NYany
Livcs Lost.

The number Of lives lost in the rush
to Alaska in the search for gold prob
ably never will lee known. Iud t!lc man
rer in which hundreds Ci persons have
met GC2. h IN the viids of Alaska viii
ever remain the subject Of speculation
among friends and .atiyes The latest
reports tell OF tie late OF IS persons
VINO are said to have been killed while
TRYING to enter tie mouth of rhe kus-
lokUim river last June on the little
steane er Jesse. The story has just been
brought from that section in a letter
to Burneson ard Chilcott, who were
part owners in the wrecked steamer
The letter was written by a hunter
and trader on Nuiniyak island, 100
miles from tie mouth Of the Kosko}-
win, and in il he claims 10 have posi-
tive information that ali hands were
rescued frCn, lie steamer and the barge
when they went ashore in tie breakers,
only to meet death at the hands of
sava~cs. According to Marsten's letter
his wife. who is an Indian woman, paid
visit to ber relatives at the Irouth Of
wreck of the Jesse. While there she
attended feast given by the Indians,
during the progress of which the In
dians got drunk on a kind of liquor
made by themselves. While indulging
in the general debaucn they quarrelcd
over the possession of certain articles
taken from the shipwrecked crew.
~; hx-S
ing them in possession of many valu-
able articles of wearing apparel,
watches, breech-loading rifles and
abundant supplies of provisions.
She made inquiries of her grand
mother, an aged squaw, who related to
her how, when the Jesse and the barge
Minerva went ashore, the Indians as
sisted in saving the whites and the
cargo OF the barge, and after the whites
had esta blished camp the Indians de-
manded pay for their services. They
wanted nearly everything the whites
had, not leaving them enough to last
the party through the winter. The
whites offered reasonable amount
which did not satisfy the Indians, who
lintleuhdtSly ESSdH ii"uAuHS ~ TONY
possession of everything.
A council was held and it was decided
| to kill all the whites, which was done
the next night while they were asleep
| The bodies were taken to the sea ir
canoes and thrown overheard. Nothing
| was known of the fate of the unfor
tunate prospectors for nearly month
| after the wreck, when several bodies
came ashore badly decomposed. The
Indians then reported that the Jesse
and the barge had been wrecked and
all lost. =
Report was made to an agent of the
Alaska Commercial company, who Wis
tied the scene and identified the bodies
of Capt. Murphy and Rev. Mr.. Webber
Moravian missionary, who with his
wife and children joined the expedi
ton at Dutch Harbor and was going
to establish a mission among the saw
ages who murdered him. 1t is further
stated that the Kuskokwim Indians
threaten to stop the whites from pros
pecting in the Kuskokwim country, as
hey claim it is their hunting and fish
ing ese1ve.--Port Townsend wash
| Telegram.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
HOW IT BEGAN.

Mrs. Dixon-Your husband paid me
such pretty compliment yesterday.
Mrs. Hixon-Indeed! What did he
say?
"Why, he said that I looked younger
and handsomer than ever"
"Oh, I'm not much surprised at his
saying that. The doctor told him
the other day that he was threatened
with softening of the brain."-Chicago
Evening News.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
Force of Habit.

Butcher, do many people complain
of your tough meat?"
'No'm; after my customers has bin
a-eatin' my meat awhile they don't
know tender steak when they gifts
it."-Detroit Free Press.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-01-20
Gid Their LIPS.

Fashionable japanese young ladies,
when they desire to look attractive,
gild their lips.