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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-15

WASHINGTON.
TACOMA. Nov. A-WHEAT-Quiet and I'M
changed; blue stem, size; club, 56kc.
OREGON.
PORTLAND, Nov. 14.-wHEAT = Firmer;
Walla Walla, SIC; blue STEM 5Sc
The total shipments OF wheat flour fncIudeD
from this port for the week ending to-day were
AIS, 927 bushels.
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PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION co.
And cia Sud Americana de VauOreS

To Valparaiso. stopping at Mexican. Central
and South American ports Sailing from How
ard 8. Pier 10. - m.
PALENA Nov. 27lTUCAPEI. go. Dec q
CHILL Dec 7AREQUIPA Jan
These steamers built expressly for Cen
trail and South American passenger service.
CNO change at Acapulco or Panama.) Freight
and passenger office. 316 California street
BALFOUR. GUTHRIE & CO.. Gen. Agents
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10; mess pork. per Dbl. s1s soa1a 90; lard per
100 lbs. IS 50@S SPY short ribs sides Qoose),
81 S0QS; dry sailed shoulders (boxed). 71z47&c;
short clear sides (boxed) IS 2O@S 30; whisky,
basis of high Wines 81 81 clover. contract
grade 50 %
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Weather Report.


(I20th Meridian-Pacihc Time)
SAN FRANCISCO Nov. H-5 D. m.
The following are the seasonal rainfalls to
date as compared with those of the same date
last season and rainfall in the last twenty
Tour hours:
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Sar Francisco Meat Market.

Receipts of local Hogs falling off, but
supplies are now coming in from Utah. Mon
tana and Oregon, so there is no scarcity. The
feeling is not firm.
Wholesale rates from slaughterers to dealers
are as follows:
BEEF-6@7c for Steers and 5@sc per lb for
Cows.
vEAL-Large, 7@sc; small sGsc per lb.
MUTTON-Wethers. 7Q715c; Ewes. 6k@7c per
pound.
LAMB-70sc per lb.
PORK-Live Hogs. from $50 to $50 lbs, sac;
under $50 lbs, 5AG515c; sows, 20 per cent off
boars 80 per cent off and stays 40 per cent
off from the above quotations; dressed Hogs,
71kGSa4c.
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California Fruit Sales.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14-Porter Bros Com
pany sold California fruit to-day: Tokays
81 3oq1 40 average. 81 3d. One car sold to-day
weather cold
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,ding futures ranged as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
strong: No spring wheat. sS06slkc; No. z
red 73074c: No. 2 corn. 60Ac; No. oats, 410
zSAc; No. ? rye, 601kc; fair to choice mailing
barley, 56GG0c; No. 1 fiaxseed. 81 AZ: No. /
Northwestern, 81 At; prime timothy seed. So 800
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Beans and Seeds.

White Beans rule firm. Pink Beans were
freely offered on the Produce Exchange, and
lower prices were quoted. Receipts were II. 472
SKIS.
Arrival Of 1926 SKIS Of F1axseed from Wash
BEANs-Bayos, 81 so@2 so: Small White, $50
20: Large White. 81 7C0l2 90; Pea, $500 SO;
75:) Limas. 81 eoQ4 20; Red Kidneys, So 5OQ4
per ctl.
Mustard So 1903 4O Flax, 50 656Ds %; Canary,
SAGS1sc for Eastern; Alfalfa, from Utah, S1sc;
Rape, 1A@1a4c; Hemp, SIC per lb.
a. 25 per ctl.
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Ne1v York Cotton Market.

NEW YORK, Nov. H.-Cotton closed 9@12
points net higher, with the close steady.
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PRODUCERS OIL EXCHANGE.
Morning Session.
MINING STOCKS.

Following were the sales on the San Fran
cisco Stock and Exchange Board yesterday.
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General Merchandise.

GRAIN BAas-calcu:ta Grain Bags. &c; local
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P0rtland's Business
Northern Wheat Market.

PORTLAND, Nov. 14.-Clearngs, $500, 6
blances, 500, 500.
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STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE
THURSDAY. Nov. A. 0.

UNITED STATES BONDS.
. Bio ASK Bid. Ask
as guar coup -I15ssu3 IS or CD new. 1S9 1891
Is quar- reg. .lz9su3 is quar- COUP. 1881 =
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Potatoes, Onions and Vegetables.

The nrmness in Potatoes continues. and the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-15

MISCELLANEOUS.
Alaska Pack. Isl 152 iOceanic Co.. 4S
Cal Fruit ASH. 99%100 Pac Aux F A. 23s =
Cal Wine ASH. S9% 80 Pac c Borax .165
Mer Exchng...110 - Par Paint.. I6
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-17
Chapter iii.
Being the Tale of Column
bus Success in Spain. :.
:$s== PAGES TORN FROM history. By Billy


By hurdling eghteen-year section time we pull
up even with Chris Coumbo just in time to the
gent from Genoa in the act of hanging up
sand dollars worth of diamonds the iron boys
necessary for the yacht building was about to
start.
Chris was plodder. He had been in Spain many
long years before he promise of something
doing, but he backed up. king of Portugal
after seeing himself whpsawed by adrals he had
started out in the attempt Chris fixed bundle
had mailed several special delivery messages to c.
Columbo, but had been enough for Christie and
after reading the communications he carefully sealed
them again and returned them to his majesty un-
opened.
The world must roast the relations othello for
the te-up in c. Columbos plans which compelled the
eigheen-year delay of the getaway, Woman suffrage
had landed dame the throne Spain and assisted
by dub husbanS this lady busily engaged in mix
ing things with the Moors.
Chris found it rather hard get next to the royal
family with his proposition By this time string on
the Columbo hand laundry had looked
q plain case of croak to the employment bureau
But it the books for Christie be original pro-
meter and the gent from Genoa again just
the thrilling
King Ferdinand, the dub husband overtraned by
too close confinement in the war Office threw the
yoke one afternoon and began reaching for the hgn
balls By the time he had acquired between-stations
speed he decided that the town bars recalled
isfenee In the palace and tackled for the front
That tack saved Chris Columbo. While explaining
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By Billy Mac.


ment He hadn't noticed handles the this
mundane sphere of and when Chris argued
world was round ball Ferdinand became father
OF the I'm from Missouri gag.
Inc dub king was enough to suggest that
the man who had saved his appearance during
the waterfront rough house had
decisions pushing his brain repository space
offered to furnish the address of well known funny
house
Again Chris Columbo saved. If Ferdinand had
insisted upon being in the spitup it 200 to
shot that Mrs Ferdinand would have said Ferdi-
nand instead declared that Chris could any
yacht flying the royal colors and Immediately
cided that Chris was about to start
Isabella generally had things Isabela's way,
but Ferdinand had been busy during the
sion of the legislature and had pulled through a
that allowed Ferdinand and Ferdinand alone spepd
Ferdinands money Isabella had spent her j., the
mix-up with the Moors, and Ferdinand anSyered all
suggestions with terse mot my money! Mrs Ferdi-
nand and c. Columbo the Onward march of
progress to work a thinks.
You couldn't stop Mrs Ferdj>iand wnen she entered
for win, and the family jewels were soon packel in
handy grip Chris was let out back door and a few
moments later a child of the Ghetto was working
microscope over tie Isabella diamonds. They were
real and Chris carried heavy load of bullion and
several bundles of paper money back to the palace
That night snipbuilder signed the contract for
three 1892 model yachts and Chris Coumbo saw his future
fame within reaching distance
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gulary biggest Ratchet that she could find
in her woodshed-and started down to Hussey,s store
II was the village general store and Miss Pearson
always done all her trading and was ON the best
OF terms with tie old who owned it.
I must start right in him." Miss Pearson to
hefsef for If git to talking with shall forg1r
good together He's took eggs and paid good
price and-well well, mustn't get soft'nn' I have
my bounden duty to perform"
And humming harshly under her breath Dare to be
Dan-yel dare to stand went sternly into the
store The crowd dodgers sitting around
back of the stove splitting boxes of sawdust and
holding the usual endless nothing Hus
sey was weighing two pounds Of ten-penny nails and
had his down snug to the scale beam while he
hooked the weight along gingerly
Miss Pearson stood before him.
Mister Hussey,' she called. was so absorbed In
finding the right nick for the weight
up notice her. Besides he was very deaf
Mister Hussey, she called more Sharply Miss
irony Pearson usually very mild, now her
tarness aroused the interest the
her so-well.
Reckin Ike must have give her squiggy
cheese suggested onesof the behind stove,
scratching his chin huJnorousy.
When she had called MS third time the old
man slowly Strengthened UP holding to his back.
.Darned old o. mine gettin dullern
seythe in swale grass said he Afternoon,
Pearsoni I'll tend to you Jest 1 git these
nails done up
Miss Pearson poked er chin forward over the counter
you'll attend to right now" said she. Then
pulled out her Ratchet from under her shawl
tive avenger,'' she shouted
"Hay?' cried Uncle Hussey with his hand followed
his
'This Ratchet is ayenger''
'Hatchet her? Why don't porry
Ratchet"
I'm going to Ratchet ye.'
Hay?"
I'm going to hatcnet,"
Uncle Hussey looked at weapon critically
it?" ne repeated NO. I'm afraid can't I'm g1ttin
low. hatchets"
where is that rnis-ab1e cider barrel?' persisted
Miss Pearson. She white and her voice trern-
bling but she evidently full of high resolve.
"EIay?' cried Uncle Hussey with much bewfderment
appearing his He couldn't understand
ace in the looks of the old maid.
Where is that tank of Satan, that cider barrel,
that
Miss irony was getting so excited and her voice
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-17
PLAIN TALES IN POETRY AND PROSE.

woman mean by making sech fool of herself? But
when the work of Carrie Nation mentioned in
pirnentary fashion the Monthly Home Treasury and
Denominational Intengencer the thing took on a new
phase in Miss 'Fronys eyes. believed everything
that she in the Home Treasury,
UNCONVENTIONAL paper. Miss that Mrs.
Nation-thus endorsed by the Treasury point
good works in bad the chiefest Waterbury
market-and she didn't seem inclined to run down,
either
Il nave wronged that good in my
thoughts Pearson to herself as she took her
bweekly tin of cream of tartar biscuit oven.
Il wish could do something to show her that
sympathy with her movement I might send her a new
Ratchet perhaps"
But re-perusng the Intel1igencer that after
noon Miss Pearson noted that already enthusiastic SYM
pathizers in different States
to Mrs Nation hatcnets And then Miss
Pearson at loss. Mrs. Nation didn't appear to
be the sort of that help in any special
direction. She seemed entirely capable of going it
alone.
But Miss 'Frony's favorite apothegm is "A way is
always opened
That afternoon Mrs Penley dropped in with her
shawl over her mead Said she In the of con-
versation:
ITS sight way that old Hussey is running that
store OF MS They do that he cider to
nIgh about whosoever wants it. heard that he had
SOLD some to Mel Johnsons boys they went home
pretty well set And heard that Mis- Hiram SPOON
er went down to the store and begged sell any
more to her husband. hear her all over the
neghborhood talking to the old fool drafted
deef that he couldn't hear clap thunder ten feet
from his head. If he sold hard cider to kin of mine
Il go and chop him the way Nation woman out In
Kansas is dom to them rummies. I'd learn him"
Now that gave Miss irony idea. She thought the
thing over after her caller had "traipsed back home
Said she to herself:
i m Jest an old maid and if I should git my
mead cuffed off it would only be my
T of EJuccax
when tie Desperation Doins next week with
whole long piece about how have smashed Husseys
place III send marked copy to Mrs Nation to
see that her sisters in Maine holding up hands
while the battle goes
Then Miss Pearson put her strictly on
her severely Gothic head and arose in Gothic an
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habit of licking his before turning tie next
page he missed but few pages and he cutched the
opportunity collar just in time to
kngy countenance assuming the appearance of
overworked meal ticket for in those days the
classes hobnai boots.
Three days after King Ferdinand had taken the
degree of the hired related the
tails of the Being agenerous king ais majesty
Chris invited him to sit in with Mrs. Ferdl-
himself the family evening meal. The
Booker washington incident die not get to Ferdinand
ALL
farther tucked the royal napkin under the
Columbo chin that night During his long years of wait
ing c. Colun1bo waded through several blue, red
and green handbooks OF etiquette and he was right
there with the play called for He had Isabella
staring before the second reached Christie
missed his reachzfor the right spoon and he
fused stab the bread with his fork He remembered
that lady gentleman ever worked the remnants
of the feed their molars with splinter of wood
while presence others and seeing him the
toothpck test Mrs Ferdinand listed him real
tlenan.
Chris became popular at the palace. He got in
far the royal dining about week, and all
this time stopped thinking about the Coumbo
future the charts in the inside pocket of his
weskt but Ferdinand family deeply interested
in the bulletins and the charts remained in the
weskit pocket.
When the warshps tied up for the winter, Chris
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Gould Not Afford to Meet Chap. who Were Not In
His Set.
Nerve could work his way Inner Circle if he
would set out to do attend closely to his Knit
ting.
IF cared to pull the Wires and give the Time to
It, could be right in the Front the Rowdy-Dows
within six months he said.
This boastful Crack was ridicued, he offered to
wager Supper for the Party that he could Land He
was mapped up and ne started out to win the Bet
Little Willie the Fox Immediately started after the
back-number atrons He to the highest Episcopal
Church in Town. took front and tried to drown
the Choir After services he in the vestry shaking
hands with every mentioned in the Blue Book
AS the Church gave a Charity Bazaar. he
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rembled much that the old could understand
her She licked her dry lips with her tongue and
tried again. Sne caught him by the lapel
old jumper and pulled him forward till he leaned
the counter toward her
'Where that cider barrel?,
Tried to quarrel?-why, Miss Pearson, We
enough that never had trouble with We all my
life nor I don't want to have
Il haint takin about any QUARREL want
where that cider barrel that hel-broth-"
Uncle Hussey's jaw dropped and ne gaped forward
in his efforts to understand but the which
his brows wrtnked showed his perpexity.
looked around the store. One of the old
doddering on his
Uncle Hussey cried to the cid the stuffy
of the deaf, What is Miss Pearson a-saying? can't
jest ketch it,
The old got close to the storekeeper and
lowed in to his ear, Miss irony
the cider barrel s-guess shewants -some-ci-
der-some cider"
ing his countenance. 'Cfder-cider? Yas got
cider. Miss Pearson hardern tunket
don't REILLY b'lieve would like it very well did
have pretty good sweet cider but the air got into
it and spilled it,
"show me that cider" said irony st1n with deter
minaion. Uncle Hussey looked blanky at the other
old
''wnat she say Jeff?" asked the storekeeper.
jeff took in big breath "Shes baound
some of it, roared he But land, mum, It'll lay We
out stiffern poker he protested in lower tones to
Miss Parson.
It didn't s'pose you in anyways took to'ards
cider" said Uncle Hussey reproachfully But of
course, if ye're set havn' I'm wlin' to
modate ye.'
Il don't want to drink it, shrieked Miss Pear
son.
THAT'S right did think of ye." agreed
Uncle Hussey. But wimmen-folks is queer critters
Perhaps Doc Adams ordered it for yer? he suggested
Miss Pearson made answer. Her breath
hausted and of her courage too. Uncle Hussey
lighted stuhby and ma1odorous candle and
way down the cellar stairs. He had told irony that
there was need of her coming down. She insisted
though Uncle Hussey marveled because she wasn't
willing to stay up stairs until he brought the
So did the other old marvel No
store had yet any idea Pearson was
trying to do. Uncle 1ussey tottered along
Miss Pearson followed down the stairs, gathering
her skirts around her Gothic figure.
These old maids is blamed suspicious critters COM
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-17
Copyright, 1901, by
Robert Howard Russell.

A Youth who had the Love Mcrobe all through his
System trying marry Girl without letting her
know anything about it. He dead willing to Hook
Up and the sooner the better but he was afraid to
undertake Proposal fear he would tumble. Every
time he up to the High Jump he laid back his
Ears and squatted
Sometimes he thought he would do it by Phone but
he knew that Central might be the Line. He had
written good many Letters with Darling played in
every Line, after he read them they so
very Charlotte Russo that he tore them up.
He knew what he ought to do, all right enough. His
work was mapped and to who braced
Social Farocite the Asking Business is Soft
When one sits back on 81 Pad in the Parquette and
sees James K Hackett off Love Scene, the whole
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-17
By Holman Day.

box Reckin is baound to see that he don't e4,a hon
kairosene for cider Haw haw!'
IN moment there were sounds from down
cellar funk, funk, tunki echoed a spasmodfc chop-
ping Mingled with this was the voice of Uncle
Hussey crying: o,o
Hi there, nay there Miss Pearson what We do
cider barrel"
Then there split and swoosh and the
despaiing wall from the storekeeper:
There, you've done it-youve done it'll What in tarna
ton do we mean?'
The next moment Miss irony Pearson came bounc-
ing UP the cellar stairs and with her nose high in the
air, with her hatcnet hand all dripping with the
cider and with red spots her cheeks swept
past the astonished old who CAPPED after her,
Ihey Were still gaping when Uncle Hussey puff
ng and sputtering up the stairs mis- eyes staring big
and round behind his iron-bound Specs open.
'E1es she gomez" he gasped
Went streal1in through here like the mill-tai O.
topnet" replied Uncle Jeff
DO you boys know what she done?"
"Naw-w-w"-in chorus
'She took that ere Ratchet heern and she
pounded in the head barrel and evry gol-
darned drop of it has Don't that beat the
nation, what she done that fur?"
oval, them Pearsonses all have got little loony
long bout her time life" explained Uncle Ike.
Didn't she nothin' when she a-don' it.
Hussey?" asked Jethro.
.Wal, I asked her what in tunket she was try1n.
to do and she KEEP sayin suthin couldn't ketch very
well Suthin' about suthin' that
sort Then she KEEP sayin' she didn't nation
bout what she done-or suthin that I can't hear
we'll know that Ratchet was racketins
away all the time!'
All the old looked at one another None of them
had heard of Carrie Nation her crusade They had
too many Desperation Mills topics to canvass in that
store to bother with outside matters
'Reckin irony better tooken care of fore
she kills some of the neignbors,' last said Uncle
JEFF It'll call in and speak to the slec'men about It
when long home. It's bad, cause she's alus
been dretful nice sickness-real neghborly
But these old maids do git pernckety after while.
Then all the old signed and smoked ex-
perforated and lamented this
world.
Uncle Hussey busy writing in ledger.
Col darn her. said he, faint fault that she's
1oony But she'll pay for that cider guardeen
will after they We took her to the hospital"
thus fell the temperance crusade Despera-
ton Mills.
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He Gnawed Hi. Way Into the Crowd.


through a Trial Heat. The Man had a Green Badge,
Wnlcn gave him the right to go into the Paddock
see the Animal backed into the Shafts
When the Man the House where few
Friends had dropped in he heard Noise.
an Electric Light Plant that having Trouble with
the Machinery Popeyed Ladies with Autograph Albums
under their Arms doing the Vault over the
Front Fence and piking for the Stand
The Man buttoned his Coat and began to bowl over
wh1tehaired Women and slender Girls with Studio Hair
He gnawed his way into the thick Of the Crowd His
Ticket called for Good Geniu. and one
Cup OF Tea and he there to Collect. After a while
he succeeded in buttng his Cozy Corner where
the Smilax thickest.
There stood Thin Man. He was at Bay. He wore
Herbert Kelley Suit and Smile. Eight large
strong Females had beaten down his Guard and fought
him to the Posts and they telling him. all at the
same time how much they had enjoyed his There
was look of Mute Appeal that Face as to
ask "Oh why did the Publisher come down into the
Country and dig me up?,
He had just me same chance that a Sheen has in A
Packing House.
The Man went home and all through the Night ne
saw that Wan Face lifted in pale Specification So lie
got up and burned his Manuscripts.
IF published the blamed Stuff and it goes NAV bs
up against the same Combination" he said
MORAL If Man could write for Posterity and COL
lect mis- Royalties in Advance would Fine Business
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had Grit in them They packed in oakum to fill the
Cavity The Young recovered and soon able to
attend Parties where he scored heavily Comic his
great Speciality being to make Pun somebody's
Name. The Mental Strain of making Puns too
much for the small wad of Gray Matter remaining, SO
he had Inflammation of the oakum complicated with
Paress Hystera and Emotional Dementa. They had
to take him away to tie Wheel House and put him in
upholstered Room. He was without Means and the
Future seemed dark indeed until it discovered that
when provided with Pen and Paper he could write Sent
mental Songs of the kind warranted to make Hired
Girl weep and sell 100000 Copies.
Then the Warden remembered having read in Book
somewhere that Insanity Genius closely allied.
MORAL: If you don't believe it read of the
Songs
The Modern Fable of the Man who Crawled Under
the Tent md Then Stayed for Circus.
One Evening cynical Person was sitting at Stag
Party throwing Rocks at Fashionable Society," He had
for the Elite He said that any White Man who
had two three changes of Raiment and a Medium
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-17
By George AIDE.

Friends were just There was some talk set
ting fire to the House in which. they lived.
And yet if they had stopped to CONSIDER he the
only Kind of Man she could Marry and she the
only Kind OF Girl qualified to protect delicate Piece
of Work
MORAL: The Logical Marriage is the one that
causes the most Talk
The Modern Fable of the Roundup in Honor of
the New Luminary
One Day Man who been trying to turn I'D hi,
Wick the Ltry Lights received special Bid to
attend Afternoon Reception. this Social Donny-
brook Author to be trotted out and put