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The Summer Girl.

When each returning season brings
The robins and the roses,
The fair and fluffy summer girl
Her charming face discloses.
She dances by the mountain lakes
In snowy tulle and spangles,
Or mingles with the breakers roar
The tinkle of her bangles
The yiolets delicious breath
About her family hovers,
And makes her dainty presence known
To all her train of lovers.
From slender foot so trinity shod,
To bright and wavy tresses,
She seems a being only made
For moonlight and caresses.
But when the summer days are done,
And last good-bys are spoken,
/ wonder if she dareS to count
The hearts that she has broken.
Yet dewy woods and fragrant fields,
Sweet hooks and f1owery places,
Would be as deserts bleak and bare
Without her airs and graces.
-I1eSlie'S Weekly
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Ruined by the Government.

"Yes, SIR" said the old mountaineer,
ST wuz a man with considerable fam
lily connections, but I'm all alone in the
worl' now"
well, death must come to all of us
its only question of time
but it warn't death. sir, or Proyi-
dence, that robbed me of my own; it
wuz the Government, sir-the Govern
ment! / had seven boys that wuz tryin
to earn homes livin' maxim moon :
shine liquor, an the Government
swooped down on 'em one dark night,
an landed the last one o. 'em in the
penitentiary; an now, from the hon
orable lofty station of maxim liquor on
the sly they've come down to maxim
shoes fer Government that can't whip
a handful of yaller niggers out in the
Philippines"
.sAnd what are you doing for liv-
ing?" he was asked
'sOh, I'm a-makin' of tmoonshine' IL
quor!''-Atlanta Constitution.
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A Sonnet.

tFrom the Barrack Room)
How smooth and soft it feels, a dainty
thing,
This little hand I hold within my own,
And press with eager. lover like caress
It's passive loveliness, worthy a king.
So wanton pink. like rose half blown
That promises perfection none the less
And yet it is a sad, sad coquette / ween
A queen of all coquettes. a knaVish hard
That lures ten fold with neer a tell tale
blush,
And ventures all in one bold play between
Her rival suitors, who expectant stand
Beneath the spell of fortunes mystic
queen,
This blond, Elusive, old-time bobtailed
flush!
r twentieth II. S. Infantry, in Ma
Mia (P ID Freedom.
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Trust Those who Have Tried

I SUFFERED from catarrh of the
worst kind and never hoped for cure, but
Oscar Ostrum, As Warren ave- Chicago,
Ill.
/ SUFFERED from catarrh: it got so
bad / could not work; used Ely's Cream
Palm and am entirely well.-A. c. Clarke,
341 Shawmut avenue, Boston, Mass.
A 10c trial size or the soc size of Ely S
Cream Balm will be mailed Kept by
druggists. Ely. Brothers, Sc Warren
street New York
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After Many Years.

And the grandson laughed: "Hoi Hor'
While repeating the very latest Joke.
But it filled his heart with woe.
When the old man sadly smiled and said
MY boy that's a good joke, / know
laughed myself when [ heard it first
Some fifty-odd years ago"
Chicago News.
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We are never rendered so ridiculous
by qualities we possess, as by those
which we aim at, or affect to have
From the French.
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The Best PRESCRIPTION for Malaria

Chill Tonic. 1t is simply iron and quinine
in tasteless form. No cure-no pay
Price, so cents.
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ELECT TRICITY.
l have made a success Of treating
this complaint with my new method
of applying Electricity to the parts
while the patient sleeps. 1t never
fails. Ten thousand cures In the
past five years is my record. No
drugs, no knife-simply the life-glv-
Ing current scientifically applied ac-
cording to my. special method.
ARE YOU AFFLICTED
II SO, as you value your future
health, cure it now. You can see
that 1t is destructive to vitality. My
method Is safe, certain and perma-
nent. Cases of twenty-five years.
standing cured in three months. If
you cannot call, write for my book
with full information
DIR. nj. A. MCLAUGHLIN.
700 Market street, San Francisco. and
corner Second and Spring streets,
Los Angeles
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Free Exhibition Dai|y.
PROF. MONTAGUE'S
TRAINED
COCkATO0S.

This troupe of Australian yellow crested cock
atoos will perform daily our stores this week
9, and m, and at go ago, $3.50, 4:3o
and $50 P. m The exhibitions take place in the
Downstairs Departments.
Roman chariot race by six cockatoos
Triple horizontal bar act by two cockatoos.
Trotting race by four cockatoos
Rolling globe act by one cockatoo
Waiting and quadrilles, steeple chase and
many other novel feats, concluding with new real
istic fire scene, introducing the cockatoo fire bri
gade with real working steam fire engine real hose
cart. etc.
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A remarkable case of salvage is that
of the steamship Milwaukee, which last
autumn went ashore at Port Enrol,
near Peterhead. Finding it impossible
to float her. as a large part of her fore
end was inextricably jammed, she was
cut in two with belts of dynamite
cartridges, no less than $40 pounds OF
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Moths fly against the candle flame
because their eyes can bear only a
small amount of light. When, there
fore, they come within the light of a
candle their sight is overpowered and
their vision confused, and as they cam
not distinguish objects they pursue tae
light itself and fly against the flame.
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The Austrian Minister Of commerce
is contemplating the Introduction OF
motor cars for conveying mail bags to
and from railway stations, and also for
the collections of letters from the mail
posts.
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An engineer in Tunis has invented
deep sea diving apparatus which has
been tried without accident at depth
of ia feet near Cherbourg. The IN
ventor declares his purpose of search
ing for the hull of the Alabama, which
lies where she was sunk by the Kear-
sarge, off Cherbourg harbor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-25
sHALLENBERGER HERE.
The Assistant Postmaster General
Pleasantly Entertained.

Hon. w. S. Shallenberger, Second As
sistant Postmaster General of the United
States. and wife were the guests of honor
at an enjoyable sightseeing party given
in their honor yesterday by John D.
Spreckels. About twenty-five guests en-
barked on the tug Relief and were
steamed to all the points of interest on
the bay. The outing on the bay included
a trip around Angel Island, past Belve-
dere and Sausalito landing at Preside
wharf Some of the party were returned
to terra firma in time for a pleasant drive
through Golden Gate Park to the Cliff
House.
Among those who attended the outing
were: Hon. w. S. Shellenberger and wife,
Hon. E. F. Loud. Hon. w. w. Montague
Postal Inspector Munroe, Postal Inspector
James w. Irwin, l.. H. Bricker and wife,
D; Coyne. wife and daughter; H. P.
Thrall superintendent railway mail ser
vice; James Fish and wife. Harry Lewis
H, F. Dodge and wife, Mrs. E. w Sny-
der, T. ]. Ford. superintendent of mails
D., S. Richardson and wife, Miss Susie
Esbey, Sam Caches, Mrs. M. e. Edwards,
Mrs. S. c. Clinton, E. A. O,Connor and
wife, j. B. Stevens. Mrs. E. NJ. Cole, Miss
E. Binner, Miss l.. Lyman, Samuel Part
ridge and John D. Spreckels.
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SMALLPOX CASE
REPORTED TO
HEALTH OFFICE
Little Cause to Fear
Contagion.
ISOLATION OF THE PATIENT
VICTIM rs ROY WINCHESTER, a
STENOGRAPHER.
DR.. O'Brien Says the Case Is Prob
ably Sporadic and That All Proper
Precautions Have Been
Taken.
VICTIM IS ROY WINCHESTER, A
STENOGRAPHER.

A case of smallpox was discovered Mon
day in the house at 57 Ellis street and
was reported to the Health Office by DR..
William A. Harvey. The patient is Roy
Winchester, a stenographer in the en-
ploy of Hobbs, Wall & Co.. AS soon as
the nature of the disease was determined
the patient was removed to the MacLean
Hospital on Douglass street, from which
place he was again removed to a cottage
on CaSelli avenue, where both patient
and nurses will be isolated until the dis
ease has run its course. The house
where Winchester was living at the time
he was stricken with the disease has
been thoroughly fumigated and dis
infected under the direction of officers of
the Health Department.; the same course
has been pursued at the MacLean Hos
pital.
Il have made a thorough study of the
case and it's history said Health officer
'Brien yesterday, and L have found
nothing to cause me to fear an epidemic.
1t is case of variola, or continent small
poX, and is, so far as | am able to aScer-
tain, sporadic; that is to say, it is not
due to contagion The patient had not
visited the water front the Preside,
and has not been in any of the places
where it would be possible for him to
have become infected with the germs of
the disease from any known source. DR..
Harvey very properly reported the case
had become sufficiently developed to
arouse suspicion as to its virulent nature
This has enabled US to take all proper
precautions to isolate the patient and pre-
vent the spread of the disease by con-
tagiOn.
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KILLED BY A DOCTOR.
Mrs. Lucy Lahl Died From the Effects
of Criminal Operation at Hands
of an Unknown Person.

Mrs. Lucy Lahl, a bride of ten months
and only II years old, came to
her death yesterday morning at the hands
of some INSCRIPTIONS physician, name
and whereabouts unknown.
Coroner Hill was notified yesterday by
DIR. c. A. Glover that the young woman s
death was from peritonitis, and that
therefore it was a matter for investiga-
ton by the Coroner DR.. Glover said that
he had been called to attend the woman
shortly before she died, and had discov-
cred certain suspicious facts which i'm
PEELED him to report the case. Autopsy
Surgeon Zabala held an autopsy on the
body at the undertaking establishment
and found that the deceased came to her
death because of criminal operation by
some person unknown. An inquest will
be held this afternoon.
Miss Hdhf was Miss Walden. Ten
months ago she cIandestneIy married a
car conductor named Lahl, who lived with
her while and then left the city. He
is now believed to be in Los Angeles.
The Coroner has obtained a clew which
may lead to the discovery of the guilty
musician.
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Hobart and Rev James Sunderland
Oregon Baptist State ConventionaReV. Gil
man Parker Rev f. W. Day and Rev. j. w.
Howell.
to discuss a memorial to be presented to
the American Baptist Educational So
ciety. This memorial, prepared by com
mittee some months since, was read by
the Rev T. G. Brownson. 1t was intend
ed to outline comprehensive plan of
campaign to promote unity OF spirit and
effort in the denomination and in harmony
with existing societies to further the vari-
Gus mutual and common interests, es-
pecially the planting and maintaining of
Christian schools.
1t was apparent from the start that
there was a decided difference of opinion.
After two hours of fruitleSS discussion
the questions involved were submitted to
a special committee to report back at a
meeting to be called later on. The chief
objection raised to the report was that
it provided for work to be done twenty
five or fifty years hence. 1t was the con-
sensus of opinion that the most should
be made of the educational facilities now
at hand.
the Rev. Dr. Blackburn of Oregon on
"Our Need of a Theological Seminary on
the Coast was postponed until to-day. 1t
will be read at the meeting of the Bap-
fist Educational Society.
The Rev. E. r. Bennett spoke briefly
on the question. Is the demand for q the,
illogical seminary on this coast SufnC1ent
to justify and to demand earnest organ
lied effort to establish and maintain such
a school? He held there was a pressing
need for the school. The distance from
| educational centers makes it seem i'm
| practicable for young men to secure such
preparation for the ministry. as they real
| lie what is demanded by The Importance
| of the work. Partly owing to this there
are few Baptist young men entering the
ministry. Only one or two graduates from
the University of California in the past
thirty years, one Congregationalist and
two or three Methodists. In California
100 pastors, only thirty of whom have en-
joyed seminary training. With a well
located seminary as the center of de-
better counsels would have prevailed and
activities would have been unified. | sug-
gest we plant our seminary at the seat
enter into some form of cooperation With
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a seminary in Berkeley. speaking of it
as a great field for missionary work. He
hoped the day would come when the uni
versity campus will be surrounded with
UNCONVENTIONAL colleges.
The work of the convention will be con-
tinued to-day
The following programme has been ar
ranged for to-day:
Second session-9:3O a. m, conference and
free discussion from $50 to IL o clock on the
following subject: rs the Establishment of a
Baptist Theological School on the Pacific Coast
Desirable and Feasible?'' Eminent brethren
from the East and West will take part in the
discussion; Aims and Methods of Theological
Education A. S. Hobart, d D.. Yonkers N.
Y; discussion; election of officers.
THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION
SOCIETY.
First session. p. m, devotional exercises;
2:l5. presidents address: appointment of COM
mittees enrolment nominations and reso-
1utions; report of the board; appointment OF
committees publishing department. mis-
sionary department, Bible work and finance;
3:15 a review of three-quarters of a century S
work by the general secretary; Ais, general
business and discussion.
Second session-7:45 p, m, an evening with
the chapel cars; address by Rev s. B.
Jacques, manager chapel car Emmanuel, and
an illustrated lecture by Boston W. Smith,
general manager of chapel cars.
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eraI district and two States in Mexico.
During the year there had been one death,
nineteen designations and thirty-two ap-
pointments. The number of missionaries
on the field at the close of the year is ia:
The Baptist Missionary Training School
reported:
Your executive board has not been un-
mindful of the widening Of home mission
the United States and her new posses
sions, as will be evident from the follow
ing action, taken by unanimous vote
of than body at the regular meeting held
April a. 1899, few days after the close
of the fiscal year. In one sense, such ac-
ton belongs to the records of the next
year but it seems fitting to incorporate
it in this report. 1t reads as follows:
Realizing the great possibilities for
Christian work in Cuba and Porto Rico. and
impressed also with the grave response
bIlity resting upon Christians of the United
states to enter upon this work 1t is the
desire and intention of the Woman's Bap-
fist Home Mission Society to extend It's
work into these islands, and. convinced
that the best results will be accomplished
by the close and cordial cooperation of the
home mission societies operating there. the
board of the Womans Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society hereby expresses its willing
ness to become responsible, under existing
conditions, for the support of qualified
women missionaries. approved and appoint
ed by the board of the American Baptsr
Home Mission Society. within the limits
of financial ability.
After Miss Burdettes report came an
innressive feature of the meeting. the
Introduction of seven active missionary
workers.
Miss Ida May Egli told of her work in
the Chinese mission school and kinder
earten in San Francisco, and was fol-
lowed by Miss Abbie G. Ross, worker
in the same field Miss Lima j. Hag-
strome of Oakland, Miss Sabrina Erick-
son of Los Angeles and Miss Hulda Lof-
gren of San Francisco recited their ex-
perience in working among the Swedes.
Miss Julia e. Pennoyer, general mission
arv for California. and Miss Rose J.
Clark general missionary for Colorado
also spoke of what is being done in their
respective localities.
"In a nutshell five minute talks by
representative women opened the after
noon session Mrs. J. ]. Croum of Utah
had this to say concerning her work:
1T does not take very long to tell OF
the work in Utah, for there are hardly
500 Baptists in Utah, but there is much to
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tell of the needs of Utah. One of the
great mistakes we have made as re-
ligious body coming West IS that we
have not left our literature behind.
Mrs. Jacks of Southern California fol-
lowed. She brought greeting from the
southland, and told of the work in the
field in which she labored.
Exercises by the Chinese children of
the mission school. led by their teacher,
Miss Martha j. Ames,. pleasantly inter,
r hII the routine They were foI no fS
Wamsley of New York read an excellent
paper on How to Interest Children and
Why. Among other things Mrs. VANS
ley had this to say:
why interest the children? First for
their own sake. The information will be
useful and broadening, but the training
received will be far more useful child
can no more be educated to a life of re-
ligion and faith without the exercise of
personal activity than heroic deeds can
be accomplishing with words only. We
need the childrens cooperation. We
want them to be ready to take our places
and carry on the work we have begun
After Mrs. Wamsley had disposed of
the children question Mrs. John III. Chap
man delivered an address on THE Mis-
sion of the Women's Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society. In the course of an elo-
quent paper Mrs. Chapman thus appealed
to the women:
Women of God. we must save the
homes There has been much written and
said in this age of progress about the
women, there are women, who are clam
oring for the ballot and for an equal
footing with the men; women who covet
mans privilege and power; women who
ape his dress and initiate his manner.
| am not here to speak word of censure
to such as these but l am here to point
out 70 you as women place of power and
honor that God has reserved for you
alone, a place so high and sacred that to
change to any other sphere must be to
take a lower place. If home be a type
of heaven then woman must make 1t so;
if it be the fountain head of our natural
life. then the waters will be bitter or
sweet as woman wills"
Miss Jennie l.. Peck. who has been la
boring with the colored women in Texas,
followed Mrs. Chapman and told of her
colored woman. Miss Nina S. Everett,
who has been doing missionary work in
New Mexico, called her paper "Mexico's
Millions.
homa Territory was the last speaker on
the afternoon programme She told of
her experience in the Indian Territories,
and showed how the missionaries had
finally won the confidence of the noble
red man by love, kindness and forbear-
anCe.
The church was thronged during the
evening session with an appreciative au-
plauded as they told of the growth of
Baptist institutionts of learning.
In the absence of Rev. j. B. Gambrel
the Rev. Kerr Boyce Upper. pastor of
was the principal speaker. He chose for
his theme "A Plea for Christian and De
nominational Education" He presented
many facts respecting Baptist institutions
of learning. He said:
The denomination has seven theological
seminartes with 1900 students; twenty nine
women colleges with 1000 students; thirty
three schools for negroes and Indians
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WOman's Home Mission Society and
Pacific Coast Conference Open
a Weeks Anniversary.
Notable Gathering Of Leading Religions Workers
Reports Submitted and Papers Read Addresses
by Missionaries and Five=Minute Speeches
by Representative Women.

been snug balance in the treasury.
In response to a continued call for spe-
cifics for young women and children. II was
decided, with the approval of the society
as represented at the annual meeting held
in Rochester last May. to assign to the
young women and older girls the raising
of $4,000 for the purchase of property in
Dallas. Texas. TO be Used as a home for
the Missionary Training School, affiliated
with Bishop College located at Marshall
To encourage the young women and help
the enterprise, the first $1,000 was given
by an elect lady in New Jersey. Up to
the close of the year the additional gifts
Of the young women amounted to hut
s5Ss 20.
The children asked To support the
kindergarten in the City OF Mexico The
expense incurred in the inauguration and
maintenance of the school from November
!, 1895. TO the close of the fiscal year was
1922 Is. The amount received from the boys
and girls. S249 u.
The total number of auxiliaries report
ing for the year is 1851 and of these 213
are women's circles and young ladies' so
cieties and 222 children's bands. One hun
dred and forty-four missionaries hav,
labored under the auspices of the societ,
during the whole or part of the year
The work has been prosecuted It ninety
different stations or centers in thirty
seven States and Territories. the Fedora
district of our own land and in the Fed
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thirty-six colleges and universities with H.,
600 students, and sixty-four academies s ana
schools with 600 students. 1t has $685.
000, 900 invested funds.
These schools must be made distinctiveiy
Christian. Students must be taught Blole
authority. Every professor who is in OPP
position to, silent about divine truln
must be banished, as he sows seed OF
infidelity in the hearts of students In
tellect is a desirable qualification, but spirit
is better. With the manly mind must also
be associated the sovereign soul. without
spiritual life in the educated young men
their genius will be but "A fatal gift; their
talents a gittering sham; their eloquence
personality of college life until II gloWs III
the brightness and beauty of the sky
The Bible should be taught in Baptist col
leges. 1t is the fullest and richest thesaurus
of wisdom and knowledge. No such poetry
as here, nor philosophy, nor history, nor
biography. nor morality. 1t is above all OF
the books that fill our libraries and thrill
our hearts. Our students are Ignorant OF
this suhlimest work of God: We must de-
mand that in connection with the mastery
of art and science and literature our edu-
Gated youth have their souls attuned TO
the music of eternal principles.
"Our Educational Attempts and
Achievements on the Pacific Coast was
the title of an address by President T
G. Brownson of California College. He
said in part:
Baptist educational work on the Pacific
Coast began first in Oregon, then in Cali
fornia and last in Washington. Colfax Col
in 1873: Grace Seminary in 1889 and Seattle
University in 1890 The last two have lost
their property. Colfax has done fair work
Los Angeles University started in 1887; Cali
fornia College was formed in 1870. but
moved to Oakland in 1886. Middle Oregon
Academy is four years old. McMinnville
College is the oldest Baptist school on the
coast. chartered in 1859. but preceded by
another school almost ten years earlier.
We have the beginning of a theological SEM
mary in Oakland
Our educational achievements four
fod-the accumulation of property; the
gathering of students: the uplift to the de-
nomination and the storage of experience
for future guidance. We have accumulated
nearly 5000 900 worth of property and more
than 95 per cent of ii has been raised on
this coast. Our schools have been excep-
tonally well patronized and have sent out
some splendid students, such as President
II. L. Boardman of McMinnville College;
DIR. Franklin johnson of the University of
Chicago DIR. E. K. Chandler, of Bishop
College. Texas; the Rev. ]. w. Brougher
of Paterson, n. j.; Chaplain c. c. Bate