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The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-04-18

Il is downright mean in Tom PIatt 10
time his Investigations 80 that they make
Dick Croker's European outings appear
compulsory.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-04-18

United States Senator-elect HAYWARD,
Of Nebraska, IS a guest Of the Raleigh.
He is a thorough Republican, and VIII
take the seat vacated by Senator Allen,
POpulist, who. since his retirement from
the Senate, has been made a Judge Nj.
Hayward comes 10 Washington with 4
reputation for ability Of high order, and
his friends say he is sure Of taking high
rank in the greatest legislative body in
the world.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-04-18

Another royal Princess Of the reigning
houses OF Europe Is 70 follow the exam
pie Of Princess Henry OF Prussia, and
visit the far Orient, fer il has been az
ranged that Princess Marie OF Orleans
Bourbon, daughter Of the Duke OF Char
tres and sister Of the dlsreputable Prince
Henry Of Orleans. IL 10 spend next
Christmas in the China seas. or else 81
Bangkok, with her husband. Prince Wal
demar OF Denmark, and the yOungest ard
sailor son OF the King OF Denmark. The
Prince is sailing very shortly for Siam
and China, on board the Danish cruiser
Fyen
The Prince will find at Bangkok a
Frenchman OF the name OF Plessls de
Richelieu. acting as Admiral and COM
uander-in-chief of the Siamese Navy.
He deserted as a common seaman ron
the French Navy while under sentence
OF death for striking an Officer This
sentence has long been annuiied- He Is
a descendant OF the house OF Rich-iied
10 which the great Cardinal Of that name
belonged,
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Old Dundee.

Where docks now line the river front
and merchantmen float, shaggy, natives
padded their little craft and fished They
were hardy and adventurous, and, con-
tent neither with gathering shellfish on
the shore nor with hooking the salmon
and sperling they attacked and captured
the larger visitors to the firth, notably
the porpoise. They hunted, too, and, with
venison from the forests and beyond the
Law and fish from the river, no doubt
Jared sumptuouSly every day.
These hunters and fishermen lived on
Tayside at a period so remote that the
most cautious guess concerning 1t takes
on a shade of recklessness Less than
twenty years ago they were found to have
left a record of themselves in a rubbish
heap known in scientific nomenclature as
a kitchen hidden" Raking through the
debris of the life primeval disclosed, says
Mr.. Lamb, "shells of edible mollusks
mixed with a quantity of burned wood,
pieces of bone artificially- split, porpolse
bones, deers' horns. and stone impie-
ments'' No doubt was thus left OF the
occupation and mode of life of the set
tiers.
Now comes the remarkable part of the
story. The hidden" was covered with
earth twelve feet deep, either detritus or
the result of a landslip," and eight rect
above the excavators found twelve stone
collins of the Roman era. ages must
have elapsed" says the antiquary, be
tween the time when the Stannergate was
inhabited by these early fishermen and
the Stone Period, when the interments
took place"-Good Words.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
RAN OVER THE HILLS
Olympic Club Athletes Enjoyed an
Outing at Sausalito.

The Olympic Club held the first cross
country run of this year under the lead
ership of Captain George James yester-
day. Forty-three members took the q
o'clock morning boat to Sausalito, and,
having changed their clothes in the
house of the San Francisco Yacht Club,
the use of which was kindly granted for
the occasion, started at o'clock for a
run through the reservation to Lime
Point, thence over the hills and back to
Sausalito by another route.
All started gaily together, but ere long
the runners had split up into little
lunches according to their rate of speed.
The leaders were Klarman, krellng, COL
Inns, Taylor, Mcconnell, James, DUFFY
Pierson, Cunningham and Davis. f. r.
Butz started out at good pace, but
slowed down considerably; however, he
finished in good condition. Superinten-
dent Kennedy and E. n. Short kept the
pace up and finished in the second bunch.
Klarman, Davis and Mcconnell divided
the honor of finishing first, and the rest
struggled in in little knots of two, three
or four The latest corners reached the
ing trio.
After a swim in the bay and a we'll
earned rest, the party dined at Perrier' S
restaurant res tai The day though distinctly
nedy. E. n, Short. Frank McConneil,
Archie Taylor, George Klarman, C. T.
HewsoSn,, A. DUFFY 8. Davis, ]. Gum unn1in NJ
ham, A. Cooper. w. Bush, j. Johnson. +.
Pierson, n. Paddock, George Hinkel.
Harry Herbert, John Sake, e. D. Moore,
NJ. Collins, Otis Cradle, j. Daniels e.
Conley, D. Barber. George Crol. George
Mcclure, H Monahan, ]. G. FITZGERALD.
a, Stone, W. Shea, B. Homes, George
SS,chleuter, L. Folansbee, ]. Cosgrove, w.
Taylor, H. Dot. George Ransom, F
l.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
CONVENTION OF
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Atlanta to Entertain
Many Guests.
WILL ASSEMBLE IN APRIL
SEVERAL THOUSAND DELE
GATES EXPECTED.
WILL ASSEMBLE IN APRIL
Plans for the Work in Newly Ac-
quired Possessions of the
United States to Be
Mapped Out.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 29-The local
committee having in charge the ar
ran ~emert~ for the Ninth .riennial In
ternational Sunday-school convention,
which is to be held here in April next
in the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton parlors, met to-day and took up
the work of carir for II big gather
ing and looking into other details. The
convention will meet on April 81, 2S and
20 and about 1000 delegates from all
parts of the United States, several
South American countries. Canada,
Mexico, England and possibly India
Will be here. Several days before the
convention the international lesson
committee, of which E2v. John Potts.
DID,, of Toronto, Ont" o, is chairman.
will meet in All, TIA to map out the
Sunday-scLool lessons for the next six
years.
Possibly the most important work to
come before the cow on will be the
study of Whist Sunday-school work can
and should be done in tie newly ac-
quired territory of the United States
and in Cuba. The Baptist. Methodist
and other UNCONVENTIONAL Sunday
school boards have already begun the
establishment Of Sunday schools in
Porto Rico, Cuba, and even Hawaii.
The international organization will
take up this matter, and these new ac-
QUESTIONS TO our territory undoubtedly
Will be taken into the international field.
If the Philippines are permanently ac-
quired the work wi, carried on over
there.
A number of changes in the Sunday
school work will be discussed and some
important changes inaugurated. The
work among the colored population Of
the south will be given especial atten-
ton. Mexico has only recently been
taken into the field, and the work there
must be considered. The convention
does not draw the line at color or race
There will be a number of negro dele
gates, and in view of this fact two or
three of Atlanta's leading colored citi-
ZenS have J zen placed on the local ar
engagements committee
At to-days meetin~ it was decided to
open the convention with a musical
chorus of 1900 voices at the auditorium
in Exposition Park The entertainment
committee, headed by H. H. Cabanos,
includes among it's members Hoke
Smith and Ex-Governor Northen. It
has subcommittee in each of the no
churches of Atlanta. Rev. F. r. Car
ter, pastor of colored church with
5000 members, is leading the colored
people in the matter.
The convention will represent 5000 0a0
Sunday school scholars and about 200.-
900 schools. The largest gathering in
the history of the international associa-
ton is expected.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
WINS THE SILVER TROPHY.
James McCarren on the Subject of
Temperance and Patriotism.

The essay contest between the repre-
sentatives of the parishes with the
Third District of the League of the Cross.
held yesterday afternoon at Metropolitan
Temple, was won by James McCarren of
Company NJ. His opponents in the con-
test were; James Seymour of Company
G, John Dillon of St. Roses Parish, Will
liam Mcmahon of Company II and
Charles Flynn of Company NJ The
judges, who rendered the decision were:
Miss Julia Coffey, George r. Z. Maxwell
and Professor L. Taafe.
The prize awarded was a silver medal
which entities the winner TO compete Tor
the Archbishop Riordan gold medal at
the annual rally of the entire league. The
subject chosen for discussion was ITEM
perance and Patriotism"
The individual ideas of it by the
different essayistS was almost identical.
auditors the fact that intemperence is the
greatest of all curses man has to contend
with A well-detined comparison was
drawn between the sober man and the
habitual drunkard The victory that the
Americans won in the last war was at
tributed not merely to the force of arms
but the temperance of the commanders
and sailors and soldiers who fought with
success against their foes.
A feature of the rally was an eloquent
address by the Rev. Father Dempsey of
st. Mary's Cathedral. In it he reviewed
the subject of the essays and reiterated
the thoughts expressed IN them.
Father Organ of st. Marys Cathedral,
who acted as chairman of the rally, clos
ed the exercises with a prayer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Touching Bit # Patriotism.

A gentleman who was sailing up and
down the coast last summer in his yacht
told me that one day he put in at Glouces-
ter, and had no sooner come to anchor
than he noticed that all the flags in the
town were flying at half-mast. He had
had no opportunity to hear the news for
two or three days, and was inclined by
the half-masting of the flags to suppose
that some public man had died in the in
terval. Perhaps some general had fallen
in the war, he fancied. He lost no time in
going ashore and making inquiry. Then
he learned that all these signs of mourn
ing were for private soldier belonging
in Gloucester who had died in the service
of his country and whose body had been
brought home for burial. The yachtsman
was much impressed by this incident. As
a man who had travelled abroad he felt
sure that in no other country would the
flags of whole city be half-masted as a
token of mourning at the death Of COM
mon soldier, and he was proud of the pub
lie sentiment, at once intensely patriotic
and sincerely and unconsciously demo
cratic which prompted such an honor
Boston Transcript.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Grewsome Statues.

Seeing that flower fads and even i'm n!
mortelles, have but their day, the mes so1F9 row
for some original and en Of beir T Beloved
one. and they discovered it, too. Briefly,
they fbeI by re1 ets fbe o b
ton of the pagan gods and changed the
body Of what was once "a by aee6 @ fEe
Cemetery of Pere Lachaise, where it lies
in triple coffin Of gass ben T6e ao G9rp pnd
washed in a Solution of silver, was placed
in galvanopIasG bath d The ceIu Wt +
the Individual and, to use a Hibernicism,
strikngy feike The d 9n01ove %ho5 5e
bring about this curious transmutation
confidently hopes that in m future all pgiDIIic
But the statue-erecting mood no longer
prevails in Paris Just now Indeed mo nJ
would gladly demolish many of the ex--
listing monuments to dead celebrities, ana
quite a number of living ones to boot
London Telegraph.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Prussian Compulsory Service.

Compulsory service has been in force In
Prussia since 1917, and in 1871 1t was ex-
tended to the whole of the empire. Every
German. with exceptions similar to those
in France, must serve twelve years in the
army or navy. The term of service in
cludes two years with the colors in the
standing army Ghree years in the caval-
ry and artillery four years in the re-
serve of the standing army two years in
the Landwehr and four years in the Land,
strum. On leaving the active army and
passing into the reserves the men may
be refused permission to emigrate during
their first year of civil life.
After the standing army has been re-
cruited to it's full strength each year the
surplus conscripts are enrolled in the
Ersatztruppen, and for twelve years un-
dergo annual training. Until the age of
AZ all Germans, whether they have served
in the active army or only in the Ersatz-
truppen, are liable to be called upon to
serve in the Landstrum. In the infantry
men of good education are allowed, under
certain conditions, to purchase their dis
charge after one years service.-Cham-
berS Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Found the Needle After IL Years.

In the summer of 1881 Miss Emma J.
Keener Of Marion, O., swallowed needle
one inch and fourth long, which she had
used in sewing. At the time it gave her
much alarm, but, suffering no incon-
venience, she was advised to await re-
suits, as nothing could be done but to let
it have its course. The following year
she married Jacob W. Berry. She is now
the mother of six children, but has not
suffered from any serious illness. occa-
sionally complaining of a distress in the
stomach, which was attributed to indi-
gestion. For three days past she has
complained of something pricking her in
the pit of the stomach, which sensation
increased in violence, until last evening
she discovered a sharp point protruding
from the stomach just below the eusi-
form cartilage, and, upon grasping it,
brought out the broken needle, three
fourths of an inch in length. The ques-
ton now that troubles the patient is
what has become of the other piece of
the needle, and how did it become broken?
She is suffering no inconvenience, but is
somewhat nervous over the result.-Cin-
cinnau Commercial Tribune
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
ENGLISH SWORDS.

The presentation of a sword to Lord
Kitchener (writes correspondent in
vests for the moment the swords gener-
orally of our warriors with a certain Spe-
cial interest. 1t is useful to know, per-
haps, that the average price ~of a line
mans sword is guineas, while guards
mans costs CT los. The cavalry sword
is 3415 inches long and weighs 2 pounds
ounces. 1t is an admittedly imperfect
and thrusting, and SO is slightly curved.
The wit of man has not yet devised a
sword which will be perfect as both d
cutting and a thrusting weapon. The best
cutting sword should be heavy and curved
to allow it to be drawn as you would a
knife through piece of meat. Our Indian
cavalry have the curved swords and our
war Experience has proved, however,
that a slight punctured wound is much
more deadly than a severe cut. An army
surgeon who had had eleven years expe-
rience in India once stated that, while he
had seen the most trifiing punctured
wounds terminate fatally, the most fright
ful cuts were cured. Now the best thrust
straight, not heavy, broad and curved.
Our sword is neither one thing nor the
other, but, like SO much else in this en-
pire of ours, compromise. 1t is slightly
curved toward the point. Still, on
the whole, it seems to have served
pretty well at the Omdurman charge. The
officers swords, it may be mentioned, are
generally made of the very best steel OBJ
tainable, namely, ingot cast steel. The
metal. however, does not affect the cost
appreciably. What enhances that is the
workmanship, which may be carried to
a very high artistic point, as the Sirdar' S
sword proves.-London News.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
PARIS rs PROVINCIAL.
Thinks Only of Dreyfus and Thinks
All the World Does So, Too.

1 went out on Sunday to little town
just over twenty miles from Paris. 1
dined in the inn-a couple of cyclists from
Paris yawning at the other side of the
table, local notary and a couple of
friends at the top. Afterward, having no
French money, l proposed to pay the bill
with a sovereign. A sovereign is currency
in the remotest village of Norway, in
Turkey, in Egyptian mud bazaars. where
a white man Is hardly ever seen. But the
French innkeeper, twenty miles from
Paris, had never seen a sovereign and
never heard Of one, and he absolutely
declined with the utmost politeness, to
bid more than 20 francs for 1t.
That is parable of the present state of
things in France. In England we are
troubled and grave, preparing our fleets,
regretful that France will be our enemy.
that France insists on having war; But
If war came nobody would be more utter
ly astounded than France. France is
paying absolutely no attention to the
Fashoda question. If we declared war
France would consider it a most unpro-
voked aggression, just as she regards the
present plain speaking of our journals as
mere mud throwing, such as she is ac-
customed to read in her own press about
the Dreyfus affair.
France, in brief, is just now interested
in something else-pamely, the affair.
And 1t is utterly impossible to persuade
her that what absorbs her does not equal
ly absorb the whole world. The queen of
civilization is wholly and hopelessly
provincial.-London Mail.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
One Wav to Go Hunting.

A remarkable occurrence is reported
from Millau (Aveyron). Two broth
ers named Perie, living at Peyreieau
learned that in a crevasse in the rocha
near their village was cave frequented
by a large number of more or less wild
beasts. They decided to trap them, and
devised the following cruel plan.
Taking to the entrance of the crevasse
live fox which they had captured, they
soaked the poor animal in petroleum, set
1t on fire and drove 1t into the beasts
den, after having constructed before the
mouth of the crevasse barricade suffi-
GENTLY strong to check any rush that
might be made by the inmates.
The latter, maddened by the terrifying
spectacle of the burning fox, which
dashed about in all directions in its
agony. made a desperate rush for the
exit fighting and tearing one another in
their wild efforts to escape.
In less time than it takes to tell, the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30


II; minimum, So; mean, SO.
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL
FORECAST.
The weather is cloudy over Washington Ore
gon and the plateau region, partly cloudy over
California and clear in Arizona. Rain is fall
ing on the Washington coast.
The pressure is highest along the Oregon
coast and lowest in Montana. The pressure
has fallen quite rapidly over the northern
Rocky Mountain region.
The changes in temperature have been slight.
In the great valleys of California the maxi
mum temperatures ranged about 70 degrees
Conditions favorable for continued fair,
warm weather in California Monday.
Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty
hours ending midnight, January 30, 1893:
Northern California-Partly cloudy Monday;
continued warm; light, generally northerly
wind.
Southern Californa-Fair Monday; fresh west
wind.
Nevada--Partly cloudy Monday.
Utah-Cloudy Monday.
Arizona-Fair Monday.
San Francisco and vicinity-Fair Monday;
continued warm; light northerly wind.
Special from Mount Tamalpais-Clear; wind
northwest, 1e miles; temperature, 50; maxi
mum. 62. G. H. WILSON,
Local Forecast Official.
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FHN CALLS CALENDAR.
January. 1899.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

branch of the United States photographic
Office located in the Merchants Exchange. is
maintained In San Francisco for the benefit of
mariners without regard to nationality and
free of expense.
Nayigators are cordially invited to visit the
office. where complete sets of charts and sail
Ing directions of the world are kept on hand
for comparison and reference. and the latest
information can always be obtained regarding
lights dangers to navigation and all matters
of interest to ocean commerce.
The time ball on the tower of the new Ferry
building at the foot OF Market street, is hoisted
about minutes before noon and dropped at
noon 10th meridian by Geographic signal re-
ceived each day from the United States Naval
Observatory, Mare Island, Cal.
notice stating whether the ball was dropped
on time or giving the error If any, is published
in the morning papers the following day
W. S. HUGHES,
Lieutenant, U. S. N. in charge.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Return of the Bear.

Late last evening the stanch old reve.
nue. cutter Bear, Captain futile, r. c. S.,
steamed into harbor, four Gays from Sc
attic This is the return from a long,
perilous cruise in northern waters to the
rescue of the whaling crews stranded at
Cape Barrow. She left Seattle Christ
mas day. 1897, loaded with food and cloth
ing for the castaways, and the story of
her gallant plunge through the ice has
been told. The rescue was successful
and the men were returned to civilization
some time ago. The vessel will refit and
otherwise prepare for her coming summer
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Strange Funeral Customs.

In an interesting history of his parish
the Rev. James Murray of Kilmalcom
enjoyments of the people we must not
fail to notice funerals; and he calls at
tention to a curious custom which was
prevalent in connection with them. 1t ap-
pears a sieve containing clay pipes filled
with tobacco was handed around just be-
fore the cortege started. Then the mourn
ers smoked, and when the kirkyard was
reached, as the grave was being filled.
each stepped solemnly forward and cast
his pipe "amang the moods. Notes and
Queries.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30

stupefied hunters saw their barricade in
vaded by an avalanche of various kinds
selves and struck out right and left with
clubs and knives. At last all the beasts
We're killed, though the hunters did not
escape scot free. When the dead animals
We're two badgers, seven wild rabbits,
three martens, eleven weasels, one pole
cat, four foxes, five hedgehogs, nine
squirrels, seventeen snakes, six owls and
fifteen bats.-LOndon Mail.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
The English Blue and White.

In 174S George II accidentally met the
Duchess of Bedford on horseback in a
blue riding habit faced with white, and
was so pleased with the effect of it that,
a question having been just raised as to
the propriety of deciding upon some gen
eral dress for the royal navy, he imme-
diately commanded the adoption of these
coIors, a regulation which appears never
to have been gazetted, nor does it exist
in the records of the Admiralty, although
a subsequent one in 1857 refers to it.
Journal Of the Archaeological Associa-
ton.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
Prize FIGHT at Needles.

NEEDLES, Jan. ga prize fight of
ten rounds came off here this afternoon
between Dummy Rowan of CINCINNATI
and Billy Lewis (colored) of San FRAN
cisco. There was hard fighting all the
time. Rowan seemed to be the better
man, but both were badly punished ana
the contest was declared draw. was
for a $500 sta and was witnessed by
1000 persOns
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
DISAPPEARS FROM
PACIFIC GROVE
Search Made for the Body Of F
w. Ellis, a Prominent
Citizen.

Grove, 29.This has
He last at Friday the
found letter signed by Ellis and received
the
The letter mailed
A
a daughters.