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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

I'D L ever lUOh IKE IHdl! w ClA'
hardly" said James w. Giryin
on Saturday, when he was asked
about the picture IN The Call Of
@ September 2 that had his name
under it.
"And vet that is a picture OF James W.
Giryin all right. for 1 happen to know him
WelI-to my sorrow, l might Almost say.
Do YOU know that that man mas oeen the
bane of my life almost from the day he
was born and was unfortunate enough
to be named James w. GirVln' the same
as myself? 1 have run across lhat man
everywhere, in all sorts of ODD ways ana
places. He has opened my MALL cdSheo
nv checks. been mistaken for me by nun
dreds Of neople from San Diego TO san
Francisco and back again; in fact, at one
time he actually made my life mlseraole'
He was always where I was expected
and generally got there first ana MS
name being the same as mine, people
talked to him as the real James W. 1ir-
vim and looked on me as an lmpostor
And it was a singular fact that many Oh
the bills he contracted were presented 10
me for payment.
"You would hardly believe 1t possible
for two men to cross each others paths
as we have done About the first time
ran across him was in this way: | owned
lot in Piedmont Cemetery, Oak!ano,
which had the name James w. GlrNIH
painted on a post at the foot. On one
of my visits to the cemetery 1 could not
find the lot; at least. not the lot with
my name on it. The lots were all ABOUT
the same size and looked very much allke
and. as 1 had been away for some years
since the post was put up, / thought
might have mistaken the location: went
to the same lot several times 1eel1ng sure
it was the right one, but somebody else s
name was on the post. | went to the
superintendent of the cemetery and asked
him if James W. Girvin didn't own a lot
there.
:" oh, yes was the answer. I'll take
lot I thought was mine-the one with the
other name on it. 1 showed him the new
name and then he told me to go to the
office and we would look up the records
Now. what do you suppose was the re-
suit? The other James w. Girvin had also
bought a lot in that same cemetery about
the same time I did, but few weeks be
fore my last visit had sold 1t to his
father-in-law, being in need of funds. He
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02
Northern Pacific Railway.

Upholstered tourist sleeper through to ST
Paul every Tuesday night. No change. This
car is nicely upholstered in leather and is ex-
tremely comfortable in every respect Pullman
sleeping cars of the latest pattern on every
train. Tickets sold at lowest rates to, all points
East T. K. Stateler. Gen. Ast 63S Market st.
San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02
Chean Rates

September 2s to October inclusive, the San.
ia Fe Route will sell tickets to Chicago at very
low rates Occasion, cornerstone laying
Government building and fall festivities. Get
full particulars at 62S Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

The reception given to Dewey has probably in
clined Sampson to wish a good many times that he
had steamed at once into Santiago Bay and smashed
the Spanish as Dewey did at Manila but in cases Of
that kind after thoughts don't count
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage
of the round-trip tickets Now only $50 by
steamship. including fifteen days board at ho
tel: longer stay 81 so per day. Apply at New
Montgomery street. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

While the Venezuelan boundary dispute is still in
the hands OF arbitrators the people OF the country
have started revolution, gone through with it and
returned to their cock fights all OF which shows how
much easier it is to fight thing out than to talk it
out.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

Natural gas found at Heathfeld. Sussex
is being used to light the railroad sta
ton there. This is said to be the first
practical use to which natural gas has
been put in Europe
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02
MMrs. winglow,s Soothing Syrup

Has been used for fifty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while Teething with
perfect success. It soothes the child. softens
the gums allays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regu-
lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for
Dtarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or
other causes. For sale by druggists in every
part of the world. Be and ask for Mrs
MinsloM,s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

II the rebels of Venezuela suffered as many en-
counters as the various correspondents credit them
with the country would be practically depopulated by
this time
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

The Navy Department has decided evidently that
the men who fought with Dewey the Olympia
shall not be Hobsonized 1t has ordered the flagship
to Boston, where, if tradition is to be believed, the
girls will give the Jackies the frozen face
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

A safe-cracker was discovered the other night at
work in the Sperry Flour Mill at Fresno He claimed
that he was only amateur, but his selection OF
place OF operation gave him the lie The condition
of his clothing showed that he out for the dust
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

Another religious conference has demanded that
Roberts of Utah be denied seat in Congress because
he is Mormon, but as it demanded at the same time
the abolition of the canteen in the Soldiers Home
the condemnation of the Sunday newspaper and base
ball games, and denounced Sunday travel, Mr.. Rob
erts will find himself in SO much good company he
will hardly feel the full severity of the attack on him
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

Certain important changes have been ordered in the
French army. The French people have reason for
congratuation in the fact that whatever the changes
may be they can't be for the worse.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

Chief of Police Lees ought to join the Society for
the Suppression of Vice He might learn something
to his advantage in treating with the solution of moral
evil which affcts the northern part of the city
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

The Fresno burglar who robbed safe to secure
money with which to send his wife and child East will
probably compromise by taking little journey him
self.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02
ADJUSTMENTS.

.Orpheun1-vaudevine
California-"A Yenulne Yentleman'
Tivoi-"The Mikado.'
Columbia Much Ado About Nothing"
Alcazar-'Innocent s a Lamb
Grand Opera House-''Rp Van Wnke'
Chues Zoo TheaterVaudeville afternoon and
evening.
Olympia, Mason and Ellis streets-Speciaies
Mechanics Pavion-Mechanics Fair Philippine Ex
hfbit
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), SO Mont
street. Telephone Main 1912.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

JOHN c. HEENAN-H. ]. Nc, Tine
maha, Cal. In 1857 John c. Heenan, the
"Benicia Boy fought John Morrissey in
New York In 1860 he fought Tom Sayers
in England, and in 1853 he fought Tom
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02
Cal. glace fruit SOC per rb at Townsend's. :

Secretary Gage will make Washington
his home afte- retiring from public Of
fee This is what Chicago hears. He
possesses a fortune of S500,000 or so, and
will not need to return to active business.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

One of the queerest villages known is in
New Guinea, and is called Tupuselei.
The houses are all spported on piles, and
stand out in the ocean a considerable
distance from shore.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

- I'D I ever look like that? Well,
hardly" said James w. Girvin
on Saturday, when he was asked
about the picture IN The Call of
- September that had his name
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE.
PERRY LUKENS JR................29 Tribune Buidin
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

CARDS-X., City. If Miss Johanna
Wellworth marries Charles H. Youngbody
her visiting cards after marriage should
read Mrs. Charles II. Youngbody." 1t
would be proper for her to have her resi-
dence and calling days written or en-
graved on the lower left-hand corner of
the card.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

CHICAGO NEWS STANDS.
Sherman House; P O. Co.; Great Northern HOes
Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

NEW YORK NEWS STANDS.
waldorf Astoria Hotel; a. Brentano, 81 Union souar
Hotel
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

WASHINGTON ID. c. OFFICE ......... Wellington Hote
j. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

SMOKESTACKs-A Subscriber, City.
The smokestacks of the United States
transports are painted red, white and
blue, with the red at the top, because
that is the proper way to paint them.
blue on account of the predominance of
the color in the fag-seven red stripes,
six white stripes and the blue field.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS
G. c. CARLTON. .......... Herald Square
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

c. GEORGE KROGNESS.
Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building,
Chicago.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

HE'LL GATE-J. F. J., City. The blow
ing up Of Flood Rock, which obstructed
navigation at He'll Gate, New York har-
Dor, occurred ON the 10th of October, 1885.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

TWENTY-FIVE GENT PIECE-Sub-
scriber. A 25-cent piece of the United
States coined in 1875 does not command a
premium from dealers but dealers charge
from so to IS cents for such.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAvIEs.

Contracts for twelve torpedo-boat
destroyers have been given out by the
British admiralty to half dozen private
shipyards in England and Scotland
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-02

Italy contemplates building four S0O0-ton
armored cruisers of the Brice type, but
carrying smaller guns, namely eight s.
inch and eight 6-inch. Although the
money has not been voted the ships have
already been named the Genoa, Piza,
Venezia and Amalfi. They are to have
$4,000 horsepower and a speed of %
knots. Italian builders and the Arm
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

any definite time when your silver dol
lars shall either be retired or lose
their legal tender quality. 1t simply
prepares the way, lays the foundation,
for such law. When you have voted
for it without knowing it then the law
will be made.
The committees present law says;
"Silver dollars may be exchanged for
gold" at the treasury. There is no
present law which says even SO much
as that gold "may be exchanged for
greenbacks." Yet Secretaries Foster,
Carlisle, and Gage have done it, there
by pntting an endless chain in motion
which it is said now necessitates the
speedy and permanent retirement of
greenback. When the Secretary "may
exchange gold for silver dollars, there
by insuring their equality with gold at
all times" Wall street will vote silver
below par and then the Secretary must
redeem silver in gold to restore the
parity. Thus a %'silver endless chain
will be set going which will call for the
permanent retirement of silver in ten
years or less time. You object that sill
yer is a f~avorite with the people and
never will be below par with them.
The same things are true of green
backs. Your objection shows that you
are not at all up-to-date. Wall street
is running the government, not the
people. And those people who vote
for a law without knowing it, probably
never will be in shape to run the gov
eminent. If people aspire to run the
government take time by the forelock,
and Wall street and its agents, the re-
publican leaders, by the hair of the
head. Hold them down, or they will
hold you down. There is an irrepressi-
BILE conflict, but perhaps you have not
found it out. Silver democrats, silver
republicans and populists have. If the
regular republican don't mend his
ways and keep his eyes skinned he will
soon be skinned all over. We would
not mind that, if it is the republican
taste, if we did not come in for our
share of the SHINING. You should new
er involve innocent parties.
Now. Honor bright, Mr.. Republican
don't you know very we'll that you will
be altogether ecstatic when silver and
greenback arc retired and all business
is done with money borrowed from
bank. Won't do no such dang wayl
Oh, yes, you will; to repeal these laws
when once made would "disturb bust
ness, the business money lenders and
exploiters. 1t don't matter about yonr
business.
Home, Tenn. F. J. RIPLEY.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02
HarrisOn's DisapprOyaI.

Indianapolis, Jan. 2O.-It has been
whispered here quietly for many weeks
that ex-President Harrison is very
much opposed to the expansion policy
of Mr.. Mckinley, although he has re-
fused all overtures to make his views
public, saying he would not discuss the
matter in the newspapers.
To quite a large party of friends re-
Gently theformer President discussed
the Philippine scheme with consid err
able warmth. In opposing it he said:
"Mr. McKinley's policy of expansion
will defeat not only him, but also his
party"
This was in refereno to the Presidents
denomination. and also to the result of
the presidential campaign in 1900.
On other occasion, after referring to
the present status of the Philippine
question. he remarked:
"The President has a bear by the tail
and doesn't know how to let go of it."
All Of Gen. Harrison's friends, in
Guiding ex-Attorney- General Miller
and Justice Woods of the federal circuit
court of appeals, are opposed to Mr..
Mckinley S policy. Judge Woods said
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02
The Rogeasville Sledgehammer re-

The Rogeasville Sledgehammer re-
lates the following; "a story comes
from Sneedville that the finding of an
old over coat by John @. Ferguson, of
that place, in O hollow log, on a noun
tain side, and in n of The toughest
portions of Hancock county, revivees
the fact in Mr.. Ferguson's mind that
something owe q year ago he met a
who wore a similar overcoat to the
one found, near the same place, and
that the man told him he had lost his
road. and asked him about the direction
he should take. Mr.. Ferguson gave
him the information he asked and went
on his way, never thinking of the Incl
dent agrin until the finding of the over
coat. The coat when foun had several
Bibles wrapped up in it. On examining
the coat several holes were found in
the cape and through the shoulders
These were supposed to have been bull
let holes. At the Tina Mr.. Ferguson
met The stranger on the mountain there
was a ''blind tiger" being operated in
the same neighborhood by some tough
citizens, and the theory isithat the man
found his way to that place and was
possibly suspected of being arevenue
officer and was murdered by these
mountain moonshiners."
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02
DON'T DISTURB BUSINESS.

The republican voter who is not
afraid to know what his party is doing,
and proposes to do, in congress should
scan closely the monetary bill recently
reported from the Coinage Committee.
This is said to be the only general bill
that has come before CONGRESS from
that Committee for years, and it may
be supposed the committee made the
n supreme effort of its life in giving
birth to this bill. And the committee
seemed in great haste to get this bill
before congress, fearing perhaps that
the thing might go back on them. This
committee is eight republicans to six
democrats, and republicans voting sol
idly for, and democrats solidly against,
makes this bill a distinctly republi-
can measure.
The republican party being a mutual
benefit association formed by money
lenders, manufacturers, and great com
mercial and transportation corporations
to give themselves favorable legislation
and the others having drawn their div
idends-in the Dingley tariff and the
like-it is quite natural that the money
lender and creditor now demand their
share. If their demand is not complied
with and at once, they might conclude
to accomplish their purpose through
Cleveland democracy, and thus the mu-
tual benefit association, or republican
party, would be more or less busted.
Indeed, gold-bug democracy, is more
to the taste of money lenders than is
gold-bug rep%ublicanism, since gold-bug
democracy approves high tariff and the
trusts and fools, things in which the
money lender and creditor have little
interest. It will be remembered that
when the Dingley tariff was being made
the gold-bug organs were impatient
and went SO far as to say: eff congress
is not going to do anything toward car
rying out the will of the people as ex
pressed in the election of 1S96-the
money question being the main issues
the best thing congress can do is tC
adjourn and go home" And hence We
are more than two years from that cleo
ton and still nothing has been done fol
the money lender and creditor. NJ
wonder, therefore, that the republican
party is now being urged with a mighty
urge to hurry up the cakes. AS the bill
just reported by the coinage committe,
provides for the payment of govern
ment obligations in gold-a proposition
which was rejected by the present Sen
ate by a vote Of two to one when tn
Teller resolution was up the bill
stands little chance of becoming a lay
before the 4th day of March. In tina
event, bankers and other money lend
ers and creditors are likely to say t
Mr.. Mckinley: You called an extra SEES
sion to reform the tariff which wa
hardly an issue in '96, now give us a
extra session for the money questio,
which was the issue in that election
And If the extra session is not forth
| coming, no doubt there will be a sti
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

Brownlow men. Col. Tom Baker, mar
shal for the western district Of the state;
Mayor Rule, of Knoxville; L. I. San
ford, of Knoxville; Judge Campbell, Of
Elizabethton, and a large number of
other politicians have been invited.
Judge Campbell is an avowed candidate
for congress against Colonel Brownlow
and he is a big Evans MAI. ,
The anti-Evans people claim that a
meeting of the gang will be held in the
custom house on the afternoon of the
banquet, Mr.. Evans has announced he
would be here, aud it is generally I'M
derstood here that the plans for the
fight will be made at this meeting.
The Brownlow people here are on
the watch and say they are ready to
moet Mr., Evans aud his friends any
time. Collector of Revenue A. j. Tyler
of Knoxville, who was recently here.
stated that Colonel BrOwnlow. and hii
friends were aware of the tactics of the
ats and would attend to them at the
proper time.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02
EnlOC Resigns

Louisville, Jan 28.-B. A. Enloe edi-
tor of the Louisville Dispatch, has re-
signed. In a card to the Courier-Jour-
nal, Mr.. Enloe says ''the paper is the
tool of corporations" and adds:
81 leave it in the hope that the power
Of the two thousand stockholders of the
Dispatch in Kentucky will, if brought
to bear on Mr.. Carter, the president of
the company, and his independent as
sociates on the board of directors, vet
a V the Dispatch, which is the solitary
beacon light of the bimetallists anon g
metropolitan dailies in the southern
states. If it can not be saved from the
shameful fate Of a bond slave of the
all-powerful and all-prevading money
power, it is the duty of those who Gre
ated it to sacrifice it, rather than see it
sent to a grave of infamy, to the dis
honor of the party and the cause that
gave it birth"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

Senator German has never posed as
an alarmist, but he never fears to speak
the truth because it may be alarming.
Just before the Senate passed the regu-
lar pension appropriation bill, which
carries $145, 900, 900, Mr.. German made
a speech, calling attention to the fact
that although it was estimated that the
war with Spain would add 50, 900 names
to the pension roll, unless our troops
were recalled from the tropics before
the sickly season, no provision, what
ever, had been made in the bill for the
increase. Mr.. German concludes with
this significant prediction: "Within
three years from this date, the pension
roll will amount to $165, 00O, 900. If you
add to that, the cost of maintaining
your army Cone thousand dollars a man,
the American republic will in the yeal
1900, expend more for its army and pen.
sioners than any other nation on the
face of the earth. That is a fact, which
the American people will have to face
and they ought to know now, in ad
vance, what is coming to them, if thu
schemes and projects which are being
forced upon us are carried out"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

The Nashville Banner says: cat last
Our Bob is free, as free as q bird, as
free as the wind. He can go whitherso-
ever he listeth and no carping critic
can call him back to the drudgery of
duty. He can unquestioned roam Mt
will and at large. He can play hide and
seek in the woods of wonder, he can
Gull at ease the flower of fancy, he can
float on seas of sentiment, he can pillow
his head upon the golden tinted clouds,
he can o a above into limitless space
and play familiar with the stars, he can
hang to- comets tail and throw a mill
ion kisses at the angels. Our Bob
is free"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

Anti Imperialistic sentiments haYe
full swing in the senate this week, as
nearly every senator who opposes and
who has not already spoken against i'm
perialism, has given notice of intention
to speak, The treaty of peace will be
voted upon Feb. 9th, and the chances
favor its ratification, because nothing
would be gained by rejecting it. A
motion to reconsider would be made
by one of its friends, and it would re-
quire a majority to table it. That ma
jority its opponents have not. So, if it
were rejected Feb. 9th, all Mr.. McKin-
ley would have to do would be to call
an extra session of the senate in March,
when it would be promptly ratified,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

Senator Butler, in presenting a reso-
luton of the North Carolina Legislature
for the election of senators, by vote of
the people, called attention to this be-
ing the twenty-fourth legislature to
adopt such resolution, and said that
a constitutional amendment ought to
be at once adopted, citing the several
existing deadlocks and scandals in leg
islatures as an argument in it's favor.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

Gen. Miles is still piIing up evidence
official and unofficial, that the beef fur
nished our soldiers in Cuba and Porto
Rico, was unfit to eat. lie has already
about convinced everybody, except the
members Of the administration, and of
the war inv >st;gating committee, that
his charge was true, but they cen de-
termined to stick to it that the beef
was good.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-02

Secretary Alger put another slight
upon General Miles in connection with
the finding of the Eagan court-martial.
The army regulations provide that the
finding of a court-martial shall be for
warded to the secretary of war through
the commanding general of the army,
but Alger instructed the Judge Adyo-
cate to ignore Miles and hand the find
ing to him directly, aud it was done,
While nobody outside the court and of
fcials can swear that the verdict was,
everybody is certain that it was guilty,
aud that the sentence was dismissal