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The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22
OAKLAND ADVERTISEMENTS.
oFFICE-1lls BROADWAY.
OAKLAND REAL ESTATE.

OFFICE-IllS BROADWAY.
OAKLAND REAL ESTATE.
s4sOo-A BRAND NEW HOUSE.
Location, 10th and Webster sts.; lot 43 feet
frontage; house Of rooms and bath; open
and nickel plumbing; the latest in every detail
and nnlsh; this property originally belonged
10 an an estate estate ana II now must be sold; only
trains and business center and Postofhce; this
house good investment Il purchaser did not
J. s. MYERS & CO..
1902 Broadway. Oakland. Cal
S65OO-REsIDENCE N LINDA VISTA
The very mob hill Of Oakland; lot Is feet
frontage; large house Of rooms, barn; all
IN frst-class condition; almost new; this prop
erty should sell for $4,000; an ideal home and
J. s. MYERS & co.
1902 Broadway Oakland, Cal
s2eOO-sHOULD SELL FOR $500.
Almost new 6-rOOm house, note, lot 50x140;
sunny exposure; street work all complete: ifl
0rst-class condition; near cars, SCHOOLS and
business center; owner nonresident and
balance can remain c noTfesre nnTc;ssn sn; snr
can pay cash II he so desires.
J. S. MYERS & CO..
1902 Broadway, Oakland Cal
s375O-FnSE corner residence on main thor
oughfare; close in; rooms; elegantly nm
Up to date plumbing: cementeo basement.
lawn front and rear; must be sold; owner
going away; first come. first served.
J. s. MYERS & co,
1902 Broadway. Oakland. Cal.
SI75O-ORIGINAL COST $500
Store, living and a large corner lot;
elegant place for z grocery. bakery or
laundry; death Of the owner cause for selling;
the late owner Of the property conducted
very successful grocery business and left con-
siderable money q result Of his success in
business. the estate must be closed at once,
hence the sacrifice; first come. first served.
J. :. MYERS & CO..
1902 Broadway. Oakland Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22
RAILWAY TRAVEL.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC

Trains leave and are due 40 arrive as
SAN FBANCISCO.
J nEain Line Foot Of Market StreeG) =
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22

e346O-NEW house, rooms; street work done
modern in every respect. MAY & MORTI-
MER.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22

FROM DEcEMBER 6. l9C
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22

LARGE lot at a little price; tired owner;
must sell. Box 213e, Call office.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22

El<BO-LoT boxl25; situate in Scenic Park
near college; a good investment. MAY &
MORTIMER, Berkeley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03
cAROTTA MYERS: HER NERVE.
How Aeronaut's Wife Saved Crowd
From Panic.

Numerous accounts have been given
OF late OF employers, who in comparing
the respective merits and dement's Of
men and women as workers, say that
in rush or an "emergency' women
lack nerve" Instances are not
wanting, however, where women have
met an emergency with degree Of
nerve and good, hard sense equal to
any ever displayed by men. In ST.
Nicholas, Cleveland Moff ett tells how
a disastrous panic was averted by
Nine. Carlotta Meyers, wife Of the
noted balloOnfst, Prof" Carl Meyers
Of Frankfort. New York.
About dozen years ago, at Ottawa
she made an ascension never forgotten
by the people of that city 1t was
gala occasion in honor of Queen Vic
toria's gift Of the Crystal palace to her
subjects, and Canada had rarely seen
such a gathering. Twenty-Five thous-
and people were packed inside the ex-
position grounds to see the famous
aeronaut rise to the clouds. And there
at the appointed time stood Carlotta
on a raised platform, with a multitude
about her, waiting for the balloon. She
wore short gymnasium suit, and
made an attractive picture with her
fine figure and golden bronze hair. So
thought various city dignitaries, who
chatted with her admiringly while the
crowd surged about them
Meantime Prof Meyers was any-
iously waiting for maneuvers of some
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

grassy inlet, while the top of the riv .r
bound plateau is made up of pictur-
esque tangle of shaven lawns. riots #
shrubbery and odorous pines towering
above a carpet that has been weaving
for centuries in the loom of time.
Comically enough there's a highway
straight as H from the mainland to the
island and from the island (named
Deer Though every feminine visitor
spells it Dear) to the mainland on the
opposite side of the river. This high
way is the width of the first chain
bridge ever built in America, and this
old suspension bridge stands the wear
and tear of decades upon decades very
well indeed. Almost as long as when
the bridge WIS built tavern was
erected on clearing made on the
wilderness which the island was in
those days, and the travellers over the
turnpike christened the place and kept
UP their sponsorship for many a year.
Of course it took poet to see the
possibilities Of the place for q summer
home, and one day Mrs Harriet Pres
colt Spofford and her husband fell in
love with Deer island and bought it
outright. They couldn't do away with
the presidents highway, Sc they
fenced off the road which crosses the
island in a bee line midway, and as f
to make amends for crossing private
property belonging to those who so
dearly love privacy, the little traffic
across the bridge seems to take par
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

throughout her work. When Mrs.
Spofford made the first collection OF
her poems, Mr.. Whittier wrote her:
81 have just got what l longed and
wished for a complete collection Of
thy poems and l have been reading
them with unqualified delight. They
place thee in NO secondary position
among American writer's of verse.
How glad 1 am that our dear Merri-
mac Valley has such singer" When
Mr.. Whittier published the lovely illus
trated edition Of Mabel Martin he sent
a copy to Mrs. Spofford with the in
scription: ''To Harriet Prescott Spot
ford, whose South Breaker made
classic ground on the lower valley Of
our river (the Merrimac), from her
friend and neighbor, John G. Whittier. .
Mrs. Spofford's friends regret for her
fame that of late years, while keeping
up the inspiration for her work as Of
old, she has divided and scattered SO
much of it among publications of an
ephemeral nature. Her fiction is in
graceful contrast; it is from the
tions of the hard, cold facts of life
/ which the ''realists'' have foisted upon
a magnanimOus reading public up till
now, when their star verify seems tooe
setting.
| Mrs. Spofford's versatility not only
shows itself in her equal success with
prose and poetry, with fiction and logi-
cal editorial writing for adults AMI
most charming writing in verse and
story for little people, but she offsets
her Astounding delight in the sensuous
charms of nature in it's most poetic
mood, with terse, tense writing about
the sea and sea goers that is no less
compelling, though so different.
| AS bit of word painting, how is this
from Midsummer and May, in the &C.
| count of the night On the lake:
Ever and anon they passed under
| the lee of some island, and the heavy
! air grew full of idle night sweetness:
the waning moon, with all its sad and
alien power, hung low, malign and dis
| tant, a coppery blotch On the rich
! darkness of heaven. They foated
| slowly, still; now and then she dippei
a hand in the cool current; now and
| then he drew in his oars, and bending
forward, dipped his hand with hers.
| The stars retreated in pallid veil
/ that dimmed their beams. Faint
| lights streamed up the sky-the dark
yet clear and delicious. They paused
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03
THROUGH MISTS OF RAIN.

Through miIts Of rain, the old familiar
place
The valley, hill and plain;
And over all an unforgotten face
Through mists of rain.
The sad, sweet smile-the tender, pity.
ing eyes
shall not see again;
Tear-shadowed memories in ghostly
guise
Through mists of rain.
The voice that thrilled me with Loves
sweet unrest
It's pleasure and its pain;
A lock Of hair Love laid upon my
breast
In mists Of rain.
o summer gardens, lost to all
delight
Dim hills, and f1owerless plain.
1t may be that she looks Loves way
tonight
Through mists of rain!
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Con
stitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

Harriet Prescott Spofford's
Beautiful Summer Home.


Of all the quaint homes Of women
or men, the quaintest lies in the mid
die of the Merrimack river opposite
the picturesque old town of Newbury
port, we'll along toward New Hamp-
shire, on Massachusetts northernrock-
bound coast.
Jealous Of the sweep Of the river
which here becomes inexpressively
expansive nature in pique tossed an
island in the very midst Of it, and tn en-
to make UP for its audacity in cutting
the waters in two made it very
dream of an island. 1t is but seven
acres big all told. but those seven
acres are hemmed in by the greatest
diversifcation of repelling cliffs and
boulders, and inviting approaches 1T
the next turn of shelving beach and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

ticular pride in making so little noise
it is never heard by the jewellers In
the castle of Deer island.
The castle, which it ought to be
called because of it's lordly position
and defended situation, is really a
charmingly old-fashioned large
rambling house of the age when land
was cheap and building materials
plentiful. 1t has been moved from
it's original foundations, renovated just
enough within and without to add ID
all the Injuries refined sensibilities
and exquisite tastes desire and none Of
the incongruous addenda Of citydom
that are so often lugged into the coun-
try to spoil the harmony of effects.
One can't imagine anyone unlimited
to Deer island with termerity enough
to open the gate from the highway
and make his or her errand known to
the mistress Of the unique spot receiv-
ing anything but delightful courtesy,
no matter what the errand turned out
to be. And one may believe the gen
tie, gracious queen of the island could
not find it in her heart to refuse any
thing but one-this is to be inter-
viewed She will not be Inter
viewed" It's refreshing to come up
on one in these days of Photographic
realism who loves to steal away from
the glare and publicity Of the great
world But when you have made the
trip all the way to Deer island in order
to say something about its fascina.
tons, and the greater fascination of
its mistress for the interest Of those
who may not make the trip for them
selves, you plead hard for permission
to at least say something" about her
and her home. Mrs. Spofford says
still only Il hate to be written about.
Whenever I see my name in print
have the sensation you have in the
nightmare when you find yourself IN
a crowd half dressed. Perhaps it's be-
cause | haven't done what | set out
to do
She has done so much though that
entities her to consideration from the
people whose consideration is vastly
| well worth having, even the embargo
which Mrs. Spofford lays upon her
own lips can't prevent her friends
rcmin;sc:n~ about her and her work,
nor the Journalistic caller from invol-
| unfairly making and carrying away
| pictures of the home Of one of the
all Americas daughters who have
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

made name , nd fame for themselves.
Lowell Queruous.
When James Russell Lowell was
editor Of the Atlantic Monthly and
Emerson, Holmes, Hawthorne, Whittier
and Longfellow were its chief contrib
utGrs in the year that Mrs Harriet
Beecher Stoves Minister'S Wooing
and Dr. Holmes Professor at the
Breakfast Table were running N
serial form in the magazine, Mr.
Lowell received short story by ali
unknown contributor-Harriet Pres
colt by name. In a Cellar it was
called, and it was so notably good =
story, so entirely out of the grade of
first productions and unsolicited manu-.
scripts, Mr.. Lowell decided that the
author wasn't playing quite fair, and
had turned in as original a translation
by some clever foreign author. There
fore he said so when he returned the
MSS, which he did promptly.
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
was friend of the real author who
truly was Miss Prescott herself, and 10
him she told Mr.. Lowells reply.
Colonel Higginson assured the editor
Of the Atlantic that the story was no.
a translation, and it was as promptly
accepted as it had been before re-
Jected. In a Cellar was talked about
a great deal. The Amber Gods came
out, and that was talked about. Why?
Because the writer commanded atten-
ton. In those days the society col
umn booming of lions and lionesses n
embryo or adult stages was unknown.
and publishers had not learned the
advertising media in use in latter
years. If people became known to the
world it was because their work de-
served it.
Miss Prescott went up TO Boston for
a visit, her home at that time being in
Newburyport, and the hostesses of the
day tried to make her their guest of
honor, but she shrank from even the
gentle process of being shown off as it
was practiced even in those days, and
flew away to her quiet home. When
the publishers of the Atlantic gave a
farewell dinner to Mrs. Stowe, on the
eve of her departure for Europe, Miss
Prescott was the only other lady pres
ent. Mrs. Stowe had stipulated that
there should be no wine served, and
Mr.. LOngfellow, in his post prandial
toast, paid a most charming compli-
ment to the shy young authoress by
saying, I'VE shall find all the wine we
need in Miss Prescott's Cellar.
Fine Word Pictures.
In SO Sir Romans Ghost was pub
lished, and though written by a mere
girl the critics praised it on all hands
for qualities. akin to those of Poe and
Hawthorne. The literary reviews IF
the next few years devoted columns
to calling attention to the wondrous
beauty and power Of the color sense n
Miss Prescott's writings. "She uses
words as painters use colors,' said the
critics then and this poetic exuberancs
of her fancy had always radiated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03
AN OPTIMIST.
Ole Uncle Finn was q good ole chap,
But he never seemed fer to care rap,


Ole Uncle Finn was a good ole chap,
But he never seemed fer to care a rap,
If the sun forgot
To rise some day,
Jest like as not
Ole Finn would say
Uncommon dark, this here we're in,
But faint so BIS os it might "a BEEN"
But big cyclone came w. re day,
An the town was wrecked and blowed
away;
When the storm had passed
We stood around
And thought at last
Ole Finn had found
The state O things he was buried in
About as bad as it could "a been.
So we dug i'm out O. the twisted wreck
And lifted rafter off his neck.
He was bruised an cut,
And a sight to see;
He was ruined, but
He says, says he.
With a weak look round and
smashed-up grin.
al udIl 81 Dcu DIS II
been,
So up an low that ole Firms list
What some folks call an optimist:
Who, if he went
Below, would say,
Tell them that sent
Ne down this way,
I'm much obleedgedl It's hot as sin
But faint half as bad as it might a.
beeni"
But after all it's the likes o. Finn
Makes this world fit fer Twin in,
When days are drear
And skies are dark,
It's good to hear
Some ole cuss bark,
Now see here, SOM" with a cheerful
grin,
:" faint half so bad as it might a.
BEEN"
Lowell 0. Reese in San Francisco
Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

Andrew SCHNEIDER has arrived at his
Monroe home from Switzerland. He
was accompanied by George Figi, who
went there to live for the remainder of
his days but became homesick for
America and decided to come back.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

Nurse-"A little baby came to your
folks from heaven last night, Tommie .
Misunderstanding it a black
one? I've been praying for a Niger
baby for a long time!"- Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17

footmen bearing the same dishes. daintily
dressed and served.
The functionary who receives the low
est salary is the rat-catcher. He must
exc out an existence on f75 o year. He
is the only servant whose salary is pro-
vided outside the civil list, and every SEES
sion of the House of Commons, in COM
mittee of supply, considers this vote and
gravely agree to il.
The royal washing costs f2,000 yearly
and is done at a picturesque building near
Richmond Park. called the Royal Laundry
The linen is carried to and
from the laundry in cedar
boxes. bearing brass plates in
scnbed with the different names, for ex-
ample: The King, ~ THE Queen, q"
Princess Victoria" The boxes carrying
the househo:d linen is marked with the
initials of the palace, as wv. c." or "B.
quite free from alkalies, is used, and is
extremely costly. Queen Alexandra :
body linen is exquisitely fine and severe
ly plain, and she never wears a flannel
petticoat after !: has been washed.
The royal household costs in the ag-
gregate 1852 coo a year in salaries, while
an average of f172ooO year is paid to
1.-THE butcher, the baker and the candle
stick maker" and the other tradespeo-
hold.
The ultra private apartments OF Queen
Alexandra Windsor, which is the Of
fetal royal residence, consist of four
rooms-the audience chamber, the sitting
room, bedroom and dressing room. They
are on the first floor of that portion OF
the castle known as the Victoria Tower.
and are approached from without by
secluded pOrtico, where the Queen may
enter her carriage unobserved by any one
except those in immediate attendance
The suite of rooms is entered through
two large double doors of oak, picked out
with gold and paneled in Gothic style A
costly lift, oak, upholstered in crimson,
conveys the Jueen from the portico I'd
to her rooms In the audience chamber
the Queen receives people with whom IT
is her wish to speak, either on matters of
business or pleasure. Her sitting room,
which faces south, is of great hight.
From a wide orial window is a fine view
of the Long Walk. the Home Park and
the Great Park. There is a magnificent
marble mantel and a fireplace, in which
is burned nothing but beech logs.
In cabinet in this room are kept the
sixty leather-bound volumes or catalogues
in which Is the inventory of all the fur
nishings of Windsor Castle-china. glass
silver. draperies and furniture of the ZOO
apartments, This inventory was made by
order of Queen Victoria. and in accord
ance with her ideas. Like a good house
wife, the Queen was fully aware of the
individual merit and the places where
they ought to be kept, of hundreds of her
possessions, although there were, OF
course. thousands of which she had no
reckoning.
The most costly dinner service in the
world is at Windsor Castle. 1t is of solid
gold and valued at fsoO000 OF the mum
erous services of plate and china, but
three are ever in use In the crimson
drawing room is kept a magnificent col
lection of china
The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17
A VISIT TO THE
CITY HOSPITAL.
By MHRGHRErL. BRIGGS.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Going n : surprised
find Of the still further
hospitals
examination. operation
Nearly the
period which
o
In this the
penalty of dangerous operation
and occasionally a ia al ending.
which
Ovarian troubles
They
first by such insufficient
development unmstakable symptoms shown
Ovarian troubles develop and
who
quickly discover mysterious symptoms
No in the history
been E.
pound
OF accurate and technical proof While this
is effective reproductive system
prove certainty peculiar efficient in such cases
Many of the who have
Pnkan Vegetable
was their only hope Letting the trouble
quicker
the cure and the less the hazard to life and health
is difficult o
these troubles the
its work is YET the printed letters
thousands on file in Mrs Pnkham's library
Drust mysterious
backache feeling
Mrs Pinkham advice kept many
ard many yours
great hey court of resort
example
thousands other who
Mrs Pnkham Write her dice
The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17
CASH DOWN FOR LAWS.
TORY ARE SCENES OF OPEN
BARTER AND SALE

To Become a Member of the Council
and Sell His Vote Is the Ambition
of the Indian PoIitician-No Sem
timent Against Bribery Among the
Five Tribes-IlObbYiSts with Bulg-
ing Pockets Flock TO the Sessions.
The Anti-IntermnrriRgc Dill and
the Bachelor Lobby-SOme Curious
Laws of the Indian COun cils-Leg-
isIatIon So Corrupt That Congress
viii Put n stop 10 1t After This
Session.
Wichita, Kan, Feb. 1O.-If you ask an
Indian boy belonging to one of the Five
Tribes, what he hopes to be when he
grows uu. he will, in case he feels com
lnunicative, express an ambition to be-
come, some day, a member of his coun-
Gil. DO not, however, infer from this
that it is the honor of the position which
fires his youthful heart dis views are
far more practical. What he looks for
ward to is the financial consideration,
for well he knows that in no other ca
pacity, with an equal absence of effort
on his part. can he make as much money
as by getting elected to the council.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17

Letting tour. Every white man who was
known 10 be attentive to an Indian gil
was called upon to contribute. Even the
Indian maidens themselves who were
prospective brides, were touched" Be
fore the bill was brought up a powerful
influential and (Which is the same thing
well "heeed" bachelors '.obby was on
hand at the Cherokee capital 10 fight the
bill. 1t never became law, being de
feated over whelmingly. incidentally many
of the Cherokee girls of the half or quar-
ter blood, who are still, despite the adj
mixture, members of their tribe, are de-
cidediy pretty, and in almost all cases
they prefer to marry white men rather
than the braves of their own or other
tribes,
Congress has known for some time that
the Indian councils were most corrupt,
and two years ago a Jaw was passed put
ting an end to this kind of legislation.
The sessions now in pr Sress will be the
last. Reports from Indian capitals say
that the Indians are making the most of
II. w. r. Draper.