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The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

the California Casket Company. AS far
as the Caldwells know Captain Baker mas
no living relatives.
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

OF 1885 is not premium coin.
WAGES-J. B., Gualala, Cal. Without
a knowledge of the manner Of payment
of wages Of a firm or corporation, it is
impossible TO answer a question as to
whether an employe must take a time
check or can insist on demand for cash
1t depends upon the custom of the party
paying the wages.
THE OPERA-L. A, City. A girl who
is pretty, well advanced in music, but is
without knowledge of the requirements
of the stage-that is one who has not had
training for the operatic stage-wouId
have but poor show to obtain position
with an operatic company, unless it was
In the chorus. Did she in that position
develop unusual talent and aptitude for
the operatfc stage she would be taken
from the ranks and advanced.
HAWAIIAN DEBT LAVA s., City.
The law of the Hawaiian Islands in re-
gard to debt still holds good. A person
on the islands, even a stranger, can obtain
credit, but as long as he owes a dollar he
is not permitted to leave the island on
which he is. If a man gets hopelessly IN
debt there he may as well make up his
mind that he will have to pass the balance
of his days on the island unless he strikes
1t rich and is able to settle with his cred
itorS.
NIL OF r1OlO r
Camp, Cal. The executive officers of the
District of Columbia are three Commits
sioners, John B. Wright, j. W. Ross and
Captain Lansing II. Beach. who are un-
der the direct legislation of Congress for
the leyying and disbursement of taxes,
and for all public improvements. Justice
is administered by a Supreme Court hay
ing six Judges and a Police Court with
two Judges. The citizens do not have q
vote In either district or national affairs.
POSITIONS FOR WOMEN-L. A, City.
Positions for women in the Custom house
and the Postoffice are under civil service
rules, and application must be made at
each department. Positions in the Free
Public Library of San Francisco are un-
der the direction of the trustees. Appli-
cants must pass an examination to DEM
onstrate fitness for the several positions.
Other positions in the City Hall of San
Francisco are not at this time under civil
service rules.
PROPERTY IN HOLLAND-A E. S.,
City If.a person in the city of San Fran
cisco has a claim to property in Holland
and is Hollander he can obtain all the
information he may desire in relation to
the matter by calling on the Consul for
the Netherlands in the city named, but if
he is a citizen of the United States he
would have to communicate with the rep
resentatives of the United States in that
country If claim to an estate is not
pTESSILtd niAtaiA AAlii ~ StciS, LllCH LilG
property passes to the Government.
GREATER NEW YORK-A., French
Camp. Cal Greater New York, as con-
solidated. is called the City of New York.
1t comprises the county of Kings, the
county of Richmond. Long Island City,
the towns Of Newton. Flushing and ia
maica and the westerly portion of the
town of Hempsted in the county of
Queens The city is divided into Ave bur
olIghs. namely: Manhattan. the Bronx,
BROOKLYN, Queens and Richmond. The
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

WAGES-J. B., Gualala, Cal. Without
a knowledge of the manner of payment
of wages Of a firm or corporation, it is
impossible to answer a question as to
whether an employe must take a time
check or can insist on a demand for cash.
1t depends upon the custom of the party
paving the wages
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Sarah E. Taylor, of Eureka, Greenwood
County, Kansas, writes e" / wish to say
to you for the benefit of suffering humanity,
I had been a sufferer for fifteen years
nearly all the time; and in August, 1896,
was taken with severe cranping pain IN my
stomach. The doctor here said it was due
to gall stones. He relieved me for a short
time, and then there was hard lump about
the size of a goose egg formed in my
right side It became so sore 1 could
scarcely walk about the house, and had
no appetite. I consulted two of the best
doctors in town and they said medicine
would do me no good. 1 gave up all hope
of ever getting well again. One day
thought l would write to you telling you of
my condition. You told me I had enlarge
rnent of one of the 1obes of my liver and
the gall bladder, and advised me to take
your Golden Medical Discovery and
pleasant Pellets, which did according to
directions I had not taken more than
half bottle of each when began to feel
better, and my appetite came back. Now
it is little over year since began to do
my own work. I have taken seven bottles
of Dt. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and seven walls of the Pellets and am
stronger than I have been for five years."
"I was taken sick in July, last year, and
was not able to do any kind of work until
November" writes Mr.. Noel w. Orvin, of
Langley, Aiken Co., S. c. "Had been
coughing up small, hard Jumps of Phlegm
for about a year before 1 was taken down;
then called on a doctor who attended me
for two months, and said that one-half of
my left lung was gone, and advised me to
leave my home charleston, S. c. y, and go
to the country, but did not say what sort of
disease had. I thought it was consump-
ton, and wrote to you for advice. took
four bottles of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, which 1 sincerely believe has
done me more good than all the other
medicines l have ever taken"
n 4 1,-:4,4, 80: d,f,,, &c aea;c+ad
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MADE THE CASHIER
HIS SOLE HElRESS
Captain Baker Leaves
His Wealth TO His
Restaurateur's
Daughter.

FRS. CHRISTINA KRONE CALD-
MI WELL is an heiress. She has just
lVt come into the money of Captain
A'A Oliver H. Baker, and thereby hangs
1 tale of an old mans admiration and his
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20

The general idea that blushing Is
due to fullness Of blood in the brain
is incorrect, according to the new
theory of a French expert. 1t arises
from the relaxation Of the arteries Of
the face, neck and breast, thus allow
ing an extra quantity of blood to rush
70 the skin. Those arteries have in
their walls layer of rings of muscu-
lar fiber. which contract or relax ac-
cordlng to the condition of the patient,
and so permit the arteries to become
more or less full of blood. When they
are extra full. which occurs in weak
ness, the patient bushes.
Blushers are more liable to redden
In damp or stormy weather than in me
cold days of winter or the hot days of
summer. If this glowing of the face
were the result of emotion, why this
difference? If it be due to weakness
the fact assumes the appearance of
probability.
There are two closely allied causes
of blushing. One is named "ereutho-
phobia," that is the ordinary cause
weakness and the extreme sensitive
ness and other conditions caused by
1t. The other is designated "erytho-
phobia," and is the fear that one will
blush unconsciously at awkward mo-
ments.
The latter Is a peculiar form of the
disease The individual in uueStion
although not given to blushing, be-
comes gradually possessed with a fear
that he will do so at some inopportune
time, and this fear grows upon him
until it completely masters him and
makes him grow red in the face when
there is not the slightest reason for it.
At the most simple question the color
rises and he is placed in the most az
surd situation. He is looked upon
with suspicion, because other people
accept his confusion as consciousness
of guilt; he recognizes the fact and, OF
course, his condition grows worse.
Weakness is responsible In this case
also for the deploraSle state of things.
for when the sufferer is taken in hand
and gets "braced up" he smiles at his
former fears.
1t must be very strong emotion that
causes a flush to come to the face of a
really healthy man or woman. What
ever they may feel they will not show
It any more than they will show fear
when confronted by great danger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
Locusts as Food.

London Post: In Morocco at this
time entire wagon loads of locusts are
brought to the market in Fee, because
they form regular article of food for
the Moors who inhabit this part Of
North Africa Here, also, the locusts
are eaten in every style, picked sailed
simply dried, smoked, or in any other
possible way, except raw. The negroes
on the northern coast of Africa prefer
locusts to pigeons, and they eat from
200 to 300 at a sitting. They remove
head, wings and legs, boil them for
half an hour in water, then add sal.
and pepper, and fry them in vinegar.
In a similar way locusts are prepared
at other points in Africa and Asia.
Preserved in salt pickle they form a
staple article of commerce. Locusts
in Africa are also compressed, when
fresh, in barrels, and are then dished
out like butter at meal times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20

Drifting.-Monday, July 81, drifting
in worship, l Kings 12:25-23; 1888,
"a; Tuesday, Aug l, steps well-nigh
slipped, Ps 73:1-2S; Wednesday, Aug
q lest we drift, Heb. 2;1-4; Thursday,
Aug. 3, repentance and steadfastness,
JOB 11:14-20; Friday, Aug. 4, his heart
is fixed, Ps. 112: Ito; Saturday, Aug
5, be steadfast, unmoyable, l Cor. Is:
50-5S; Sunday, Aug. 6, topic, Drift
ing" Eph. Ala; Jas. Ills
1t is never safe to let any one but
Christ choose our work for u.s. When
Christ calls us, we have found our call
ing, and not before
The wind of doctrine may be the
greatest aid, pushing our heavily bur
dened ships lightly over the sea of life;
or if it blow wildly and uncertainty, it
may wreck our vessels.
Life is so short and our powers so
feeble, that only steady purpose fixed
on one goal can carry us to success.
1t is only for little while that a man
can ride two horses at the same time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
There's a Breeze in Our Alley


Some people seem to take a morbid
delight in making themselves and
other people miserable. If they have
no real troubles to worry about, they
manufacture artificial ones, and their
mills never shut down. They grind
out just about so much misery, wheth-
er the market is brisk or dull. They
are like old, rusty pianos, they have
not been tuned for forty years. They
are so full of discordant elements that
no harmony can be evoked from them.
Play on any key and you evoke moth
ing but jangle They whine and
sigh, but they never sing. And yet a
Christian. above all others, should be
forever singing at the heart. A sure
recipe for cheerfulness is to be always
on the alert for some pleasant thing
that may happen to us. A washwoman
in a miserable tenement house was
asked how she kept singing in her dis
heartening surroundings. "Oh, be-
cause there is always a breeze in our
alley" She might have said it was
because she had singing heart with
in her. To every such soul God giveth
songs in the night.-Louis Albert
Banks, d. D., in Preachers Magazine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20

The best thing in this world is a
good man. The greatest thing in this
world is a great good man. The first
thing that a human being should rec
ognize about himself is that his char
acter is his distinguishing feature. 1t
is not the amount Of money, the amount
Of power, the amount of brains that a
man has that is his distinguishing
feature, but his character. Whatever
fellow-men may temporarily say or do
what separates him from others and
gives him his individuality is his good
ness or lack of goodness, according to
its degree. Money, power and brains
have their place. and they do exert an
influence in temporarily deciding
mans position and recognition But
the standard of the ages, by which any
one and everyone Is tried, is character;
and in Gods sight, which is the final
and determining sight, men are what
they are in their wishes and purposes.
1t is not, then, too much to say that
the supreme ambition of a persons
acter. Everything else however i'm
portant. is merely subsidiary. Beauty
of person, brilliant achievements,
acuteness of intellect, sway of author
ity, are secondary. while goodness is
primary. G. X Mcclure
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20

A tragic story of feminine revenge
comes from Vienna. The Count and
Countess Napodano lived happily to-
gether until the count fell in love with
the daughter of the local doctor, Con-
cetta Devajo by name, charming girl
of IS years This count deserted Is
wife and eloped with Concetta Devajo.
The countess Napodano obtained a di-
vorce from her husband, who then
married Concetta. Two years later
Count Napodano and Countess Con-
cetta returned to Matuggacci. The
Countess Napodano was on her death
bed. She sent a message tc the Coun-
tess Concetta that she would like to
see her before she died. The countess,
wishing to humor the wishes Of the dy
ing woman, went to see her. AS the
fresh young face of her rival came near
her own the dying woman raised her
self and by an almost superhuman eff
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
Lies Arena.

How utterly opposed to the thought
of Jesus Christ is all asceticism, all
religious isolation and retreat from
the world! His aim was not to get his
followers out of the world, but to get
them into the world. Society, not sol
itude, is the natural home of Chris
tianity. The Christian is not to flee
from the contagion of evil, but to meet
it with the contact of health and holt
ness. The church is not to be built on
glass posts for moral insulation, but
among the homes OF common men for
moral transformation. What use is
a light under bushel? 1t must shine
where there is darkness. The place of
need is the field of duty, and, though
we are not to be of the world, we are
to be first and last in the world and
for the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
Immortality Of Goodness.

Thousands of men breathe, move
and live, pass off the stage of life, and
are heard of no more-Why? Because
they do not partake of good in the
world, and none were blessed by them;
none could point to them as the means
of their redemption; not a line they
wrote, not word they spake could be
recalled; and so they finished; their
light went out, and they were not
remembered more than insects of yes
terday. Will you thus live and die, o
man immortal! Live for something.
Do good and leave behind you mon
ument of virtue that the storm Of
time can never destroy. Write your
name in kindness, love, and mercy, on
the hearts of thousands you come in
contact with year by year; you will
never be forgotten. No, your name,
your deeds, will be legible on the
hearts you leave behind, as the stars
on the brow of evening. Good deeds
will shine as the stars of heaven,-Dr.
Chalmers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
The Amenities of Life.

Some people in their ardor for work
or the serious side of life neglect that
which makes it beautiful and attrac-
tive, says Lady Battersea; they forget
that Dame Nature Is not sparing with
her amenities; that she embroiders the
meadows with gold, that she trails the
water lily in her streams, that she
paints the sky with colors that drive
the artist to despair
Time is not wasted in adding to the
amenities of life; the comfort and ele-
gance Of our living rooms, the careful
arrangement of flowers, the harmony
of color and the sweet strains of mu-
sic, all add to the pleasure of exist
ence And these pleasures bring about
legitimate happiness, such happiness as
is not locked up in one persons breast,
but overlooking, makes the lives of
many brighter Fine manners are not
veneer; they are pervading real
ity; they add delicate charm to the
most beautiful form and face, as we'll
as to the homeliest; we may liken
them to a radiant sunset, which in it
self may not be of any practical use in
the universe, but which can and does
glorify equally one OF Natures sublim-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20

est scenes and the quiet meadow OF an
English homestead.
AS there are color blind people in
the world. so there may be some to
whom beauty in its many and differ
ent shades does not appeal; but these
are exceptions to the general rule Of
human beings. We can all cultivate
one form of beauty-beautifu man.
ners-and in so doing we are really
adding to the graces Of the soul and
the heart on which depend the ameni-
ties of life:
For manners are not idle, but the
fruit
OF royal nature and of noble mind"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
knowing Christ.

Christ came into this world to reveal
the unseen Father. While he stayed
with his disciples in human form, they
could see him, love him and obey him.
AT length he went away from them,
and with their natural eyes they could
see him no more At first it seemed
to them that they he'd lost him. But
when the Spirit was given they found
him again. not with their eyes and
ears of sense, but with their hearts.
He was never more real to them while
he was with them, walking and talk
ing with them, than he was in the
years that followed, when there was
no visible presence before them. When
they spoke in his name they knew that
he was speaking through them. When
they were called to suffer for his sake
they endured as seeing him who had
suffered for them, but now was crown
ed with glory.
Peter wrote to believers who had
not known Jesus in the flesh. and re-
ferred to him as friend, who having
not seen, We love; in whom, though
now We see him not, yet believing, We
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full
of glory; receiving the end of your
faith, even the salvation of your souls"
1t is thus that we must know Christ.
1t is not enough to know about him
We must know him. True Christian
experience is not merely becoming ia
miliar with the life and character OF
Christ by reading and study, so as to
be able to describe his excellencies; it
is learning of Christ himself through
personal acquaintance just as we learn
OF any one who becomes our close
friend. We begin to know him and
trust him, and as we know him better
we trust him more As trust grows,
love grows. A sanity man said, Il
know no other friends so well as |
know the Lord Jesus Christ" Though
he had never seen him save with the
eyes of his heart, yet Christ was as
real a person to him as he had ever
known.
This experience is possible to every
believer in Christ. Some one asked
Miss Havergal how the promised pres
ence of Christ could be realized. She
said In two ways; first, believe the
promise; second, recollect it." Christ
says he is with us all the days. He
means just what he says-that he, the
living Christ, is with each one of his
friends, all the days. The promise is
one of the wonderful present lenses of
the Bible-"I am with you" He said
it, therefore it is true. Beside every
disciple he is actually present all the
while. Let us believe it. believe it
with our heart. But ofttimes in the
very moment when we need to realize
this presence, which is not visible, to
our eyes,we forget the fact Of the pres
ence, and thus lose the comfort. the
strength, the peace, which tina. blessed
presence has for you, and you will en-
dure as seeing the invisible Christ
The Westminster Teacher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
FLEMISH OAK.
The Favorite Wood for Fashionable and
Artistic Furniture.

The Favorite Wood for Fashionable and
Artistic Furniture.
More and more beautiful are the
articles of furniture made in Flemish
oak-the wood that now seems the
greatest favorite for fashionable and
artistic furniture, says the New York
Post. For the dining-room and library
its richness and elegance of effect can
hardly be surpassed. If some house,
keepers still frown upon the dust-har-
boring quality of its elaborate carvings
the argument is met by art lovers with
the word that the most beautiful things
need care and that carved Flemish oak
richly repays the effort needed to keep
1t clean. Massive sideboards are
shown in the long, colonial design,
whose single shelf is supported by
wonderfully carved little men, four
teen and eighteen inches high, with
pointed boards. The massive dining
room table which accompanies the
sideboard has still more and larger
specimens of these same droll-looking
little fellows. The beautiful Flemish
oak chairs for dining-room and library
have sides and backs in stamped
leather of rich and subdued colors. In
some of them a coat of arms is dis
played-anybody presumably-an it
was the admission of the salesman
when the question was asked that this
than any other. The library tables are
as often covered with the same
stamped leather and left with their
beautiful stretch of dark, highly pol
ished surface.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
NAPoLEoN's BELT.
He Wore 1t on the Day of His Imperial
Coronation.


Coronation.
The waist belt worn by Napoleon I.
on the day of his coronation in Notre
Dame is in the possession Of French
family living in Paris, and counted
among their greatest treasures. This
belt IS so small that it is suspected the
emperor must have had a bad quarter
OF an hour when he wore it, or was
really the slender little creature his
tory paints him r. that age. The relic
is composed Of crimson velvet, en-
bossed with exquisitely chiseled gold
eagles, and is starred with monograms
in gold fligree. A leather case in
which it has been confined has kept
the belt in perfect preservation. This
French family can not be persuaded to
relinquish this souvenir to any of the
Napoleonic collections, and until now
the secret of it's habitation has been
unknown, though it was well under
stood such a belt had been worn by
Napoleon and that it disappeared at
ter the coronation. How some girls
would like to get hold of that belt to
wear with their tailor-made shirt
waists. Boston Herald
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
A Deadly Danger.
its fangs into his very vitals.

It's IdIlgS INTO his very VltdlS.
Should a man think he has consump-
tion," you ask, "just because his appe-
tite is poor and he is losing flesh and he
has little cough and general feeling
of weakness and incapacity?"
No: that doesn't necessarily mean con-
sumption, but it means that the system
is being steadily undermined it is
losing force and vitality; it is being
tainted with bilious poisons that the liver
hasn't power to throw off and any day
that which is now only probability may
suddenly develop into certainty.
my wife had hemorrhage Of the iuurs She
had ten hemorrhages and the people all around
here said She would never be well again, " said
Mr.. w. A. Sanders, of Hern, con Co w. Va,
in very instructive letter WI zen to DR. r v.
Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y. " But s'-c began to take
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical ] covery and she
soon began to gain strength ard flesh After
taking ten bottles she was eHffg6lp 7ceH Should
just use it, and if any one disputes the merits
of this almost omnipotent medicine they may
enclose self addressed envelope with stamp,
and I will answer the same as written in this
letter"
But the time to use this medicine is non
while the little weaknesses are slowly
breaking you down. Awaken in time and
throw off the deadly danger before it
strikes you in vital spot This glorious
Discovery" will give you appetite and
digestive power, pure blood and solid SUBJ
stantial strength
Write to DR.. Pierce about your condition.
He will send you good, professional ad-
vice, free of charge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-20
Yankee Brag.

Apropos of the proposed anglo
American alliance" the story of Hor-
ace Greeley's neat rebuke of the Eng
lishman who once agreed with him too
literally may be worth telling. Mr..
Greeley was discussing, in a general
company, the faults and needs of his
own nation. What this country
needs" said he, in his piping voice ard
Yankee accent, lis a real good lick
ing" 1t happened that there was an
Englishman present, and he promptly
said, with unmistakable English ac-
cent: quite right, Mr. Greeley; quite
right. The country needs a licking"
But Mr.. Greeley, without glancing in
the Englishman's direction, or seeming
to pay any attention to the Interrupt
ton, went on in the same squeaky
tone: "But the trouble is, there's no
nation that can give it to u.s."