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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-20
Stricken by ApopIexv.

MARYSVILLE. April 19.-James c..
wilkins farmer of Erie District, was
found dead in bed at the Sherman Hard
ing farm, near Wheatland, last night
Apoplexy was the cause of death. A
widow and six children survive HIM. The
funeral will be held tomorrow under the
auspices of the Masons and Workmen
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vitrrioI Thrown Into Her Face.

WALLACE, Idaho. April 19.-Helen
Smith, a colored servant girl, was at
tackled tonight by man who threatened
to kill her and who threw vitriol in her
face. She threw up her hands, thus saw
ing her eyes, but her hands and face
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-20
Encampment of veterans.

SANTA CRUZ, April ia committee
of the Central California Veterans As
ISOLATION to-day selected a site near the
beach for the six weeks encampment
during the summer. The association in
cIudes veterans of San Francisco, Ala
media, San Mateo, Santa Clara, santa
Cruz and San Benito counties. INCLUDING
their families about 500 persons Will be IN
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-20
Quinn Gives Bail.

SAN RAFAEL. April 19.-John Quinn,
the turfman, appeared before Justice
Rodden yesterday and gave bonds in the
sum of 500 on the charge of battery pre-
ferred by bill collector ]. ]. Rauer. The
date of the trial has not yet been set.
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Pastor Storms Welcomed.

WOODLAND April ia pubic recep-
ton was rendered to Rev. ]. H. Storms
and wife last evening. Mr.. Storms was
formerly at Los Angeles, but recently ac-
cepted call from the Baptist church Of
this city.
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New Officials Seated.

WOODLAND, April 19.-At meeting of
the City Board of Education last evening
the newly elected members took their
seats. J. ]. Mcconnell, Democrat. was
elected president to succeed George
Banks, Republican
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TWELVE INNING GAME
RESULTED IN A TIE
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.

CINCINNATI O., April ia balk by Brett
ensten in the sixth inning gave the Pirates two
runs The locals tied the score in the same
inning and neither side scored after that. The
game was called at the end of the. twelfth
inning on account of darkness. Attendance,
2400. Score:
Clubs r. H. E.
Cincinnati ..............-....'.'.' e |
Pittsburg ;.:;:,;. ~ pc,tz u 5
Bowerman. Umpires-Swartwood and Warner.
LOUISVILLE, KY. April 1s.-woods was
when they woke up and batted out victory.
Attendance. 1900. Score:
Clubs r. H. e.
0f Batteries-Woods and Kittridge; Griffith.
Callahan and Dopahue. Umpires-Burns and
Smith.
BALTIMORE. April 1s-Doheny's pitching
and shut out resulted New York again played
championship ball in the field. and while Mil
lers pitching would have won an ordinary
for the locals. Attendance 1866 Score:
Clubs f. H. E.
Baltimore ....-...........-..'.'.." 2
Rattdries-Miier and Robinson; Doheny and
Warner. Umpires-Hunt and Connolly.
WASHINGTON. April 19.-Philadelphia had
q walk-over to-day. The Senators evidently are
outclassed by the other league teams. especially
in batting. The pitching OF killen and Dunkle
was wholly ineffective against the visitors.
Attendance, 1000. Score;
Clubs r. H. Z.
Washington ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Pniiadelpnla ...-...s..IO "a
Ratteries-Killen. Dunkle and Mcclure;
Wheeler and Mcfarland COMPREHENSIVE and
Belts
BOSTON, April 19.-The season in this city
was opened this afternoon when the Champions
met the new Brooklyn Club and shut them out
for the second time since the season opened.
The visitors were utterly helpless before Mich
OILS and only once did a Brooklyn man reach
tators who encircled the field the ground rules
were enforced. Attendance, 1900. Score:
Clubs X h. j.;
Brooklyn
Boston 10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Bergen; Kennedy, Nc
F'arland and Smith. Umpires-Gafney and
Andrews
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>

What is wanted of soap
for the skin is to wash it
clean and not hurt it.
Pure soap does that. This
is why we want pure soap;
and when we say pure,
we mean without alkali.
Pears is pure; no free
alkali. There are a thou
sand virtues of soap; this
one is enough. You can
trust a soap that has no
biting alkali in it.
All sorts of stores sell it, especially
druggists; all sorts of people use it.
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Ends Life With Poison

PORTLAND, April 1s.-Mrs. John Muir
ply committed suicide at Mullan this
evening by taking morphine. She had
been separated from her husband for
some time.
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Suicide Of an Unknown.

SANTA CRUZ. April ia young man
name unknown, was put off a train at
Leonards this afternoon. He immediately
drowned.
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Nancy Hanks Has a Foal.

BOSTON, April 1.-THE Journal will
say tomorrow that Nancy Hanks, 2:04,
has foal by Meddler, the well-known
thoroughbred. The foal is a f1lly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-20

To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinne Tablets All
druggists refund the money II II fails to cure
2c. The genuine has l.. B. 2. on each tablet.
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were terribly burned. She says her as
sailant was Gus Smith, a cOlored man
living at Wardner. The officers cannot
find Smith
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-20

CINCINNATI, O., April ia balk by Brett
enstein in the sixth inning gave the Pirates two
runs. The locals tied the score in the
inning, and neither side scored after that The
game was called at the end of the twelfth
inning on account of darkness. Attendance,
Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-04-29
New YorIk,s L1tt1e shons-

New York. with all it's greatness, is in some respects the most condensed place on earth. Down in Mulberry street there is a shop just wide enough for a cobbler's bench and hardly long enough to permit three customers to stand in line. Here the industrious doctor of soles sits al day long and plies his trade, interrupted occasional ly by a customer, who obscures his day light.
 There are cigar stores So diminutiye that a man can scarcely turn around in them. In Broadway, not far from Herald Square, is a place for the sale of the fragrant weed in which a cus- toner can hardly lift his arm without knocking down a box of cigarettes or pile of stogies. It's the proper thing for the purchaser to back out of the place after cautiously applying the match to his recently acquired cigar.
 Smallest of all is a restaurant near the South ferry, where there are a shelf and three chairs, and the pies are placed on edge. On busy days those who desire the particular brand of crullers, stew and coffee offered there for sale are obliged to wait outside the door for place at the shelf.
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The Original Rock of Ages.

Sir William H. Willis, member of Parliament for Bristol, writes of the origin of Augustus Montague Top lady's grand hymn, ''The Rock of ages" as follows:
 "Toplady was enc day overtaken by heavy thunderstorm in Burning ton Coombe, on the edge of my prop arty, q rocky glen running up into the heart of the Mendip range, and there, taking shelter between two massive piers of our native limestone rock, he penned the hymn"
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A Giant Moose Head.

The largest moose head on record is in the possession of AIr. ". F. Sheard of Tacoma, Wash It is the head of an Alaskan moose and the antlers meas ure from tip to tip feet 6 inches. The widest moose antlers in England wee in the possession of his royal highness the duke of Edinburgh. They measured 59H inches across or %-tnch under feet. The Alaskan specimen, 6 inches higher than a 6-foot man, is also immensely wide and massive in the palm" of the horns.
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DIAMOND PAVEMENT.
THE KIMBERLEY ROAD CONTAINS FOR
 TUNES IN PRECIOUS STONES.

The Public There Travel on High Road
 literally Growing With Dianonds-one
 Small Piece of Road the Size of Bed
 room Yielded S10O, ,OoO Worth. .
 It Is not often that it is given to man, outside of the favored gentle men who figured in the stirring story of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp and kindred productions of rich Orient al imagination, to travel daily on a highroad literally grooming with dia- monds. When such an unusual priv ilege is vouchsafed, it would appear to be the proper thing to admit that one might love the very ground be walked on. Until few years ago there was such a road, and it was neither q vision of the pipe nor the press agent. It was located in the Kimberley dis trict in South Africa, and when a man walked over it he walked over millions of dollars worth of the prec- ious stones.
 Five thousand dollars a yard was the record of some parts of the road. The diamonds are not there now, so it will do the gentle reader no good to take a ticket for Kimberley and seek to find q fortune in the street It seems that when the diamond mining industry was some years younger than it is to-day, there was a yeXing scarcity of water in the Kimberley country. So, when miner couldn't get a sup ply of water to help him in his search he had to do the best he could and hustle around with his tools in the dry earth. He would spade here and there, until he struck a lump of earth which held the eagerIy-sought prize. Then he would abandon the little mound of earth his spade had overturned and seek for diamonds in another place After q while, several years in fact these mounds amounted to consider ble obstruction to travel and further digging. The loose earth was in the way, but no one would volunteer to cart it away. Finally the Kimberley municipal council offered to use the dirt in macadamiZing the roads around the city which was branching out and reaching quite respectable proportions. The offer was gladly accepted by the mine owners, and the mounds were cleared away.
 Nearly d score of years after there was drop in the diamond market. The price of the stones fell and, in order to bring about q return of high figures, the mine owners decided to restrict their output This neeessitat- ed a big cut in the pay roll, and, as a result, the Kimberley district was soon over-run with unemployed miners. Then some of the wise men in the land came to the conclusion that they might pick up a few overlooked gems from the highroad if they could get muni- cipal permission and a plentiful SUD- ply of water. They got both, for each year a portion of the road which had been strengthened by the mound dirt was turned over to the men, and they worked in it with astonishing results. Diamonds to the value of $200, 900 were recovered yearly for several years. From one little piece of road no bigger than bed room there was taken S100.000 worth of diamonds
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An Old Honse.

The oldest house in America is in St Augustine, Fla. In 1864, is was built by the monks of the Order of St. Francis and the whole of the solid structure is composed of coquina, a combination of sea shells and mortar which is almost indestructable. When Francis Drake sacked and burned the town this was the only house left in the trail of destruction It has been purchased by the well known antiqu- arian, J. w. Henderson, who will make 1t his winter residence.
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A Wonderful Garnet.

The Queen of England is possessed of one of the most remarkable articles ever made in prison. The superintend- ent of Agra jail two years ago received an order to weave a carpet sf special design for her majesty. On it 2S of the deftest conyicts of the establishment have been engaged. The carpet meas ures 77 feet by 40 feet, and is estimat- ed to contain no fewer than 20,000,000 stitches
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A Black Record.

has such a black record for wrecks as the narrow Baltic sea. The number in some years has averaged more than one a day, the greatest number of wrecks recorded in one year being 154 About 50 per cent. of these vessels became total Wrecks, all the crews be- ing lost
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serrinr a DonbIe Purpose.

The cut shows a hotbed that is built against the southside of the poultry house, serving all through the winter as a sunny scratching place for the fowls. These are shut out at the ap- proach of spring and the hotbed started. About the time the plants are started the fowls will be getting out
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shnI,eaneare hv Heart.

Garrison Y. Shall, a convict in the Connecticut State prison, knows all of shakespeare's plays by heart, having learned them during the last fourteen years of his imprisonment.
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Rock of ages, cleft for me,
 Let me hid myself in thee.
 Let the water and the blood Erom thy side, a healing flood, Be of sin the double cure, Save from wrath and keep me pure. Should my tears forever flow, Should my zeal no longer know, When I rise to worlds unknown And behold thee on thy throne, Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.
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RCTBED AS A POULTRY RUN.

RCTBED# AS A POULTRY RUN upon the ground, while all through the deep snows of winter they have an exceedingly sunny space to run in. Make the hotbed large enough to give sufficient scratching space. The room can we'll be utilized with early plants in the spring.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-08

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 7.--4 p. M.-Spot cotton
increased demand; prices 1-32d higher: Ameri-
can middling fair 3-32d; good middling
$3.50 q: middling 3l7-32d low middling
II-32d; good ordinary 8 5.32d; ordinary 2 81
The sales OF the day were $4,000 bales, OF which
1000 were for speculation and export, and in
GUIDED 1900 American; receipts - bales, in.
GLIDING - American.
Futures opened and closed firm at the adj
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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 1892

time up points but lost it all. The
American Car stocks rose points eacl.
but the preferred receded to the ieyel
at the opening. Pressed Steel Car pre-
ferred advanced a point in the CLOSING
deals. The American Hoop stocks were
strong om reported large earnings, rising
3 for the common and Ia for the pre-
ferred. st. Paul showed some npsist-
ance, but gave way with the other
Changers when intimations were heard
OF opposition to am increase in the div
dend rate ON the part Of the directors.
When the rate was announced i'm the af-
teanoon the stocks slumped NEARLY >
points and broke the whole market. The
Dividend rate still continues ut 213 per
cent.
Declines in the railroads are quite un-
ifolnlly between ] AND per cent inGild-
ing the prominent Changers, Southwest
erns, pacifics, Trunk Lines. and South
western railroads. Stocks which luye
had a recent sharp advance show VIDE
declines. Colorado Fuel, Hooking Val
ley, Jersey Central, Northern Pacific and
Republic Steel stocks and Tennessee
Coal and Iron are instances; though the
latter stock recovered its decline.
Money on call commanded > per cent.
most OF the day AMID went as high as
6 1ser cent with only few exceptions
below per cent.
There were further transfers to the
South today and the banks are still los
Etg on baTanCe to the interior. The hard
ness of money did not avail to lower the
rate of sterling exchange, i'm view OF
the increase of discounts in london
which also had the effect Of raising the
rate of sterling exchange i'm Paris ami
Berlin.
Iondon's sales of about 10000 shares
of stocks here helped ito keep up the
exchange rate.
Bonds showed a weakening tendency in
sympathy with stocks, Kansas and Tex
as seconds being notably affected. Total
sales tpar value) 1,523 900.
United States bonds were unchanged
in bid quotations.
Total sales of stocks We're 100000
shares, including: Atchison. 5000; At
Gibson preferred, 1920; Chicago, Bur
lington aEd Quincy. $500; Rock Island.
$3.50; Louisville and Nashville. $3.50;
Manhattan Elevated, S.3T0; Missouri
Pacific, 5000; Missouri. Kansas and
Texas preferred, $3.50: Ontario ana
Western, $3.50: Philadelphia and Read
ing first preferred. 1880: Chicago. Mil
waukee arid st. Paul. 29.550: Southern
Pacific. 1880; Southern Railway pre-
ferred, 5000; Union Pacific. 11,140; Tn
ion Pacific preferred. S.499; American
Steel Hoop, 81 go: American Steel Hoop
preferred. 5000; American Steel and
Wire G,400; American Tobacco, 1850:
Anaconda, 1860: BqoqlSlvn Rlanifj Tran
st, 36.392; Colorado Fuel and Iron, s.
$50; Federal Steel. TOO: American
Sugar. 23.TG0: Tennessee Gcal and Iron,
1922; United States Leather. 30,425;
Republic Iron and Steel, 1926.
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STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Sept. THE market sue
cumbed to the combined influence OF a
hardening rate for call money and the
depression of foreign stock markets ON
account of the gathering war cloud III
South Africa. A few of THE highly spec
ulatiye Industrial Speciadties We're mark
cd UP in the early dealings and at differ
emit times during the day in am effort to
resist the decline. The attempt proved
unayaiIing 10 overcome the depression In
the general list and the maniDulatiye
stocts in somh cases finally weakened,
though q few retained a net advance.
Tennessee Coal was marked up a point
at the opening, bat that was the highest
Of the day. Sugar, Tobacco, Brooklyn
Transit, Federal Steel and a few other
stocks among the most prominent In
ilnstrials yibrated both above and below
last nights prices. Pullman was at one
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THE SLUMP IN ST. PAUL
NO CHANGE IN DIVIDEND RATE
IS ANNOUNCED.
AND ST. PAUL DROPS NEARLY FIVE POINTS
This Breaks the Market. Declines in the Rail-
roads Of Between One and Two Per
Cent. Money Transfers to
the South Continue.
the South Continue.

New York, Sept. Good attendance
of buyers and demand for cotton goods
fully up to the average. Bleached cot
tons strong and against buyers in ali
grades. Brown goods, both heavy ana
light i'm first class shape and marked
very firm. Denims, ticks and other
course colored cottons firm average sales.
Prints without change, ginghamts firm,
woolen and worsted goods division quict
at previous prices. Jobbers here very
busy in all departments and going well
ahead of last year.
COTTON.
New York, Sept. T.-~After making a
steady start with prices points high
er to one lower, the cotton market be-
came very active and advanced sharply
on covering and investment buying.
Wall Street parties gave the market very
generous support. The upward move
ment. however, met with considerable
resistance from influential local bears,
as well as from parties representing the
foreign contingent Nevertheless the
upward course of prices was not per-
manently checked until the advance had
reached a net gain of s to Ii points, al
though there We're numerous periods of
partial reaction under the attacks of
hearish houses. The advance was large
~ due to fears regarding the character
of the bureau reportN to makes its APP
pearance next Monday. The sudden in
crease in the demand for spot cotton
ut Liverpool also had much to do with
the Improvement here. A good many
buying orders, carried over from last
night cut some figure in starting the
market upward early this morning. Bus
mess quieted down little in the early
afternoon, when prices took a little low
er level under liquidation, some selling
with confidence on the expectations OF
depressing movement at the ports and
interior for the week. There was no
general selling movement in the after
noon. however, as predictions pointed TO
continued dry weather in the South, the
weather map and private advices, in
fact, remaining decidedly bullish. A
few selling orders came in from outside
sources; but they were promptly met
with good buying. The market closed
steady Z to s. points net higher.
NEW YORK.
New York, Sept. 7.-Cotton futures opened
steady.
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souTA.OUNp
Ar Raleigh Y 10 am III 10 am


Ar Raleigh Y 10 am III 10 am
*Dally.
Nos 403 ard 4O2-"The Atlanta Specials.
Solid Vestibuled Train of Pullman Sleepnrs
and coaches between Portsmouth and Atlanta,
also Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and
Chester, s. @.
sos al ard 48 -"The s. A. [. Exnress.' Solid
Train, coaches and Pullman Sleepers between
Portsmouth and Atlanta. Company Sieepers
between Columbia and Atlanta.
Both trains make immediate connections
Atlanta for Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans,
Texas, California, Mexico, Chattanooga, Nash
vile, Memphis, Macon, Florida.
I'll. S. LIZARD, G. r.. and p. A.
Raleigh. N. G..
III. ST. JOHN, Vice Prest. and Gen
Manager.
III. w. GLOVER, Traffic Manager.
" &c. McBiaE, General 6upt.
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The Aetna Life'S Fifteen payment
Life and Endowment Policy in
Competition.
~ Ia So. h

4 These policies issued by the Aetna
enables it's agents to offer strong :
inducements to prospective insur- :
: ants in competition with those of Z
! other companies. Taking the aver {
age rate of ten leading companies
at an age OF twenty-five ON the
twenty payment life plan, we find :
that the premiums average S92.63
for a $4,000 policy, or $5,9o2.60 Z
for the twenty years. The Act 4
na's fifteen-payment life, at the
! same age, costs $297.20, or S4,4oS
D for the fifteen years, the difference q
in the premium for full term being
81, 1880, equal to a dividend OF =
80 per cent. on the annual pre-
miums for the whole premium pc =
riod after the first two years. The :
COMPARISON corresponds with this :
!. for other ages. The simple pre- :
I sentation of this comparison ought
! to be convincing argument when
} clearly made, especially In view of
the fact that paid-up policies are ;
more favorable to the assured of
the fifteen-year than on the TWEEN
tyyear plan. The large dividend
paid by some of the companies
! has long been one of the strongest
claims made by them. Adividend
of 80 per cent. deducted at the
beginning of the year has so much
to be said in its favor that the :
Aetna seems clearly to be giving
points to its competitors.
, Mr.. J. d. Boushall, general agent, &
! Raleigh, N. c., can give further in
formation.
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Don't Try to Make Money
But Watch Others Do 1t.
And Dream About it Yourself
Have Won SD to invest?

Have you $25 to invest?
Will you invest it?
If you have and viii, write US for par
ticulars.
Fortunes are made from small capital
nj speculation in stocks and grain.
Now is the time to make money.
Write us for particulars or for any
information on the market. Reference
furnished.
SOUTHERN INVESTMENT CO.,
Marine Bank Building, Baltimore, Md.
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NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON, N. o.. Sept. 7.-Turpentine
dali at 434a43A; receipts GO.
Rosin firm at 90a95; receipts 4l2.
Crude turpentine steady st -, S260 and
$500; receipts 81.
Tar firm at S1.80; receipts lq2 barrels.
CHARLESTON, s.. c., sept. 7.-Turpentine
firm at 43 t-2; sales - casks.
Rosin firm; sales - barrels. Quote: b, c
sl.15; x, $1.2O; M, $l.5O; $ls5; W &, s2.25; W "
$50.
SAVANNAH, Ga, sept, 7.-Turpentine firm
with sales o5 $50 at A, aue 446 asked; closed
firm at A; sales $50; receipts 1902
Rosin firm; sales 302; receipts 1921. Quote
A. b, O., IS; u, IS; e, 95; II, Sl00: c.
H.IO; H, sl.20; /, Sl.25; X, $3.50; Nd, Sl.65; N
81 90: W <, $40; W W, $40.
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NV YORK
New York, Sept. 7.-C Cotton futures opened
steady.
LIVERPOOL.

SPOT cotton closed quiet at an advance of
3-l6c; middlfng uplRnds l-2; mlddling gulf
6x; sales ll5 bales.