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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24
WORKS BOARD
is SUSTAINED
Civil Service Commission Saws
COmmary Must Be Replaced
by a Man on Eligible List
BLASTING Is STOPPED
Spring Valley Company to Con-
yey Necessary Land for Ex-
tension Of Nineteenth Avenue

The Civil Service Commission yes
terday notified the Board of Public
Works that the duties now performed
by W. F. Commary as storekeeper for
the Board Of Education should be per-
formed by an eligible applicant from
any of the three following lists: In
spector cs school buildings, bookkeep-
ers, Board Of Public Works, and expe-
rienced clerks Board Of Public Works
The commission suggests that requi-
sition be made for the certification OF
an applicant from any of these lists
for appointment as storekeeper of the
Beard Of Education. The commb sion
has approved Commarys appointment
for December. but says that in view Of
the statement Of the duties Of his posi-
ton such approval is not to be con-
sidered a precedent for the future ap-
pointment Of Commary, who is a tenn
porary ncn-civil service employe, to the
position he now occupies.
UPHOLDS WORKS BOARD.
This decision on the part of the Civil
Service Commission IS practically an
approval Of the stand taken by the
Board OF Public Works in refusing 10
comply with the request of the Board
q Education that James B. McSheehy.
inspector OF school buildings, be dis
missed. The Board of Works insists
that MCSheehy, who is a civil service
man, be retained to supervise neces-
sary repairs 10 seventy-five school
buildings. AS McSheehy was certified
from the list Of inspector of school
buildings. the board is fortified in its
position by the mandate Of the Civil
Service Commission.
Attorney Garoutte and Assistant En-
gineer Forbes OF the Spring Valley Wa
ter Works appeared before the board
relative 10 the opening Of Nineteenth
avenue. They stated that the directors
Of the corporation will meet shortly
10 take steps to convey the necessary
land TO the city for the purpose. an ap-
preparation having been made to pur-
chase the laod.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24
FORMER senator Passes Away.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec. 23.-Pope
Barrow. Judge of the Superior Court
and who was United States Senator
from 1882 to 1883, died suddenly to-day.
aged GO years.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24
Killed br a Failing Tree.

UKIAH. Dec. 23.-Philip Hage-
mann, the proprietor Of bakery on
Howard street, near Sixth. in san
Francisco. was accidentally killed at
Philo this morning by a falling tree
He was watching some men fell a
large redwood. when it suddenly top
pied over on him and crushed him to
death.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24
ADVERTISEMENTS.
A SEVERE COLD

Is nearly always followed by seri-
Gus complications Protect the
system from sudden Colds, Chills
or attacks OF Malaria, Fever and
Ague by taking Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. 1t IS the best safe
guard in existence and at this
season Of the year no home
should be without it. 1t will also
cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Ner-
vousness, Insomnia and Kidney
Troubles. Be sure to try it. Ask
your druggist for our 1904 Alma
nae.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24

LOS ANGELES Dec "a s. Rollins. a
carpenter. co years old and married. was run
down and instantly killed by the Ocean Park
over electric car while crossing the track at
sixteenth street and Western avenue this morn
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24
PROFESSOR PAGET ANSWERS
LAST GALL AT RIPE AGE

Distinguished instructor of Romanic Languages
and Literatures Passes Away After Long and
lIIustrious Career at His Home in Berkeley
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-24

just received. latest Partisan novelties. Xmas
glove orders Danichen- 12l CSrasf
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
The Value of Appearances.

The appearance of our cheese
factories and creameries has much
to do with insuring an improvement
in the products. The surroundings
of these places do much to set the
pace. A nicely built, clean creamery
is an inspiration to all connected
with it. The workers take better
care of themselves, and the patrons
are more careful to bring only good
products. This is the tendency-ef-
fective to a greater or less degree.
What can we expect of the patrons,
when the creamery itself is a
tumbled-down affair, with drains
filled with a sinking combination OF
putrid milk and dirty water? The
task of securing from the patrons
clean milk is nearly a hopeless one,
unless the establishment that re-
ceives it is measurably clean
Farmers Review.
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LOSING A GREAT SECRET.
With the Departure of the Monks OF
Grande Chartreuse, France Loses
Fayorite Liquor.


The monks of the Grande Char
treuse are still awaiting the compile
ton of their new home, which is to
be near Vienna. The French govern
ment has definitely expelled the order
from France, and it's cloister, for
merly the richest in the department
of Isere, stands deserted. The gov
eminent declared in answer to the
last petition of the monks to be al
lowed to return to their old home,
that the congregation had never been
authorized from the time of its foun-
dation in 1884, says a recent report
from Paris.
After their first expedition in 1893,
the monks returned in 1916 to France.
Seventeen years afterward they be-
gan to manufacture the liquor now
associated with their names more
closely than any other attribute OF
the order. The white liqueur was
first made, and only two litres of it
were the daily output. One of the
brothers carried this down to Gren-
oble and Chambery, where it was
sold.
The demand for this rare drink in
creased rapidly. The green liquor
was next discovered, and then Peter
GARNER discovered the method Of
making the yellow liquor. Efforts
were soon. made to induce the order
to settle in Rome, but that plan was
abandoned. The authorities forced
the separation of the cloister and the
distillery, which was removed to a
distance. The order was compelled
to send to Rome a share of it's prof
it's which during the first year
amounted to $4,000, but rapidly in
creased to 100000.
1t was much debated, when the
order came that the monks must
abandon their home, whether or not
they were in reality source of pros
perity to the region of Grenoble.
Alcoholism is said to have increased
since they went there, and the popu-
lation, though very poor, is not in
clired to work. The best of the
laborers have emigrated and it has
been necessary to send to Italy for
those needed to work the fields. The
French government, IN TACT, refused
to protect the order on any national
grounds after the nationality of the
most active brothers became known.
Of these. 81 were French, five Swiss,
three German and one Italian, Dutch
and Spanish, in addition to a large
number who belonged to other ma
tions. The brothers, of course, see
in their expulsion only an attempt
to get possession of their trademark
and their old factory that new
chartresse may go out to the world.
''They may take the distillery," the
head of the order is reported as say
ing. ''and even the name and trade
mark How many offers have we al
ready had to sell them? But the
secret of making the liquor is only
ours, and always will be. That we
will carry wherever we 60"
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A FEMININE FINANCIER.
BY a Unique Process of Reasoning.
She Spends Her Money and
Has 1t Too.

George" she said, mother has sent
me a check for $40 to get a new gown"
Every thoughtful and nice of her."
he commented.
Its to be spent for nothing else"
"Quite right"
Il wish you'd put it in with the bank
account and I'll ask you for it when [
want it, L can't do my shopping just
now"
That was the first chapter in this
financial tale, writes Elliott Flower, in
the Chicago Post Now we come to the
second
George" she said, about a week
later, 81 wish you'd bring me home that
money tonight. I'm going downtown
tomorrow"
He brought the money home and
gave it to her. and that ended the sec
ond chapter. The third had a surprise.
George" she said, toward the close
of another week, II wish you'd bring
me home that $40 mother sent"
'Why, gave you that last week" he
protested.
ooh, you gave me $40, of course" she
admitted. ''but you remember mother
said her money was to be used for
gown and nothing else?'
YES"
"Well, I didn't use it for gown, so
the money wasn't hers. | got some
things for the children and the house
with it, and now I want her money for
the gown"
"Oho!' he exclaimed, $50 you misap-
propriated funds"
Il did nothing of the kind" she as
serted.
''She gave you the money for GER
tain purpose and you expended it for
something else" he argued ''That's
clear case of misrepresentation"
Not at ALL she insisted. eff I had
spent it for the gown it would have
been her money; but so long as didn't
it was yours, and l spent it for your
children and your house. Now l want
the money that mother sent"
And what could the poor man do?
Why, nothing at all, except bring home
$40. and waitfor the next chapter.
well" she remarked. in the course
of another week, you have SIS left of
mothers money, and l believe I'll take
it now"
''But gave it all to you," he pro-
tested.
You gave me s4O," she replied, 'and
I spent $29 of it for skirt. That was
mothers money all right. but the
other SIS went for the children and the
house, so that wasn't mothers. There's
just enough left for jacket"
''I'll meet you tomorrow" he said,
''and We'll go together and get that
Jacket. l don't believe l care to take
any more chances with that money"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
FOR DRAWING LOGS IN WOODS

six inches through and three feet
long for runners. The two hunks
were about the same size and two
feet eight inches long. The forward
bunk is put on with one bolt in each
end, so it can have a good chance to
work.
For the middle bunk I put two
two-inch holes through each runner,
then took a small, round birch of the
size wanted, heated it hot in a fire
and bent it in the shape needed to
put over the middle bunk and the
two ends down through the runner,
then wedged them solid, but SO there
would be plenty of play. The nose
of the runners must be made SO they
will not catch on every rock or
stump. This can be done by putting
the forward bunk at the very end
of the runner. The chain is put on
the log with a half hitch and drawn
through hole through both hunks.
Birch is the best wood, as it wears
the smoothest on frozen ground
Orange Judd Farmer.
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Leax. orders in Writing.

Have a small box with sloping
cover fastened up in the barn. Use
this for a desk and have pencil and
tablet always fastened there with a
string. When you think of some
thing that needs doing, a fence to
be mended or gate rehung, jot it
down and slip the note onto hook.
Glance over these notes every day,
and you'll be surprised to see how
you'll find time to keep up with the
odd jobs which you've forgotten be-
fore. When you're suddenly called
away from the farm. don't leave word
with your wife in regard to the hired
mans work. She has more to re-
member already than she ought to
have. Make your note on paper, and
leave it at the desk in the barn with
the understanding that the note is
to be kept as the order for doing the
work. This will do away with the
frequent misunderstanding caused
by orders misunderstood. = Farm
Journal.
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the room for it's new occupant.
Loading his revolver with unusual
care, Jack babe his friend good
night and retired, locking the only
door belonging to the chamber and
making a careful survey of every
nook and corner. The bed had been
draped in the whitest of Aean linen,
and Jack rubbed his hand over the
smooth surface in appreciation of
the rest it promised. Something
stuck to his fingers. A subtle odor
greeted his sensitive nostrils. He
touched his tongue to the substance
on his fngers-it was cheese.
His first thought was to call Ma
lita. She did not answer, and he
sought her in the kitchen of the
house. She was startled by his
abrupt entrance and showed fear,
although a man was with her. Jack
had not seen him before, and in his
heart pronounced him a picturesque
vagabond. He asked Malta who he
was. She answered sullenly:
mine son, eXcellenzia."
Jack was surprised. Il never knew
you had a son." he said; II did not
know you ever married"
mo, senor-me mooch marry-yes,
long time now.' And Jack asked no
question about the cheese as he in
tended; the strange man had put
that in the background.
The denouement is tame enough,
although it's inception had cost a
life Ross Morton, waking for his
friends sake, heard the report of
revolver near dawn. He rushed to
the rescue, broke in the door, and
found Jack standing in the middle
of the room with the counterpart
of the object in the eye of the photo
graph held at arms length. There
was the fiendish face, devilish with
frightful devices, the eyes tricked
! out with horrid rings of fire, the
pointed ears ablaze with spectral
light, yet stripped of its PHOSPHORUS
glow and with Jacks bullet in it's
heart it proved to be nothing more
harmful than one of the squirrel ro-
dents of California, but Jack him
self declared that his own senses had
almost suspended with fear at the
approach of the thing, which loollee
five feet high as it leaped about il
it's uncanny guise.
Nothing more was seen of Malta
The rat had been a pet of hers, and
it was surmised that she had only
intended to give the place the name
of being haunted that she might not
be dispossessed. 1t was recalled that
singular light had frequently been
noticed moving in erratic shapes
about the house. The affair, which
was the talk of the time, is likely to
come to notice again, as. the San
Francisco papers announce that Man
uel Lugren, who died a bachelor, is
suing the estate for a share of the
property. Chicago Record-Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
SOME IMMENSE FARMS.
One In Texas, Owned by Illinois SyH~
dictate, Is as Large as the state
of Connecticut.

While the United States census re-
ports 100000 farms averaging 146
acres each in the southwest states
and territories, the average size is
500 acres each. Col. C.. c. Slaughter,
of Dallas, Tex, has 1,250,000 acres of
farm and ranch land In the Pan
handle district of Texas the Capt.
toll syndicate, of which Senator c. B.
FarweQ, of Illinois, is the head, has
a ranch of 100000 acres, or more
than as large as the state of Con-
necticut. They raise from 10000 to
10000 acres of corn and other forage
crops and ship from $4,000 to 10000
beef steers each year; $50 cowboys
and so farmhands are employed. In
Oklahoma is one ranch of $4,000
acres. They raised this year 5000
acres of wheat, 5000 acres of forage,
millet and Kaffir corn: 5000 to TO-
900 cattle are shipped each year. Al
though the expenses of running the
ranch are $4,000 year, the profits
the last year were $15O,OOO. The
Forsha farm in central Kansas has
5000 acres. On it are a Touring mill,
a complete weather bureau, post Of
fee for owner and employees, gas
plant and long-distance telephone.
The wheat grown is made into flour
on the farm. There is the largest
field of alfalfa in the United States,
1,5OO acres in one tract. This cuts
three crops a year, about one ton
at each cutting. Frank Rockefeller
has $4,000 acres of grazing and farm
ing land in western Kansas, of which
about 5000 acres are under cultiva-
ton and the rest in alfalfa and tim
othy pastures. There are some of
the finest bred Hereford and Short
horn cattle in the world en- this
farm, valued at $350,00O, including
one $4,000 bull. The grain for these
cattle is grown and ground on the
farm. He intends to convert 10000
acres of pasture land into alfalfa.
The cattle and horse barns are OF
iron and stone. John w. Stewart,
of Wellington, Kan, has 40 farms,
all separate and in different parts
of the state. 1t is not uncommon
for a farmer in these sections to buy
Is harvesters, a dozen plows and as
many corn harvesters at one time.
Fifty men make a good harvesting
crew for a farm there.
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MALTA, did my uncle partakc of
any supper or lunch after L left him
that night?" Tne thought that an
acute Indigestion had killed him oc-
Cured to the young man.
''No, excellenzia." She emphasized
her words with sign of the cross
Then what were crumbs of cheese
doing scattered ON his bed and pill
low?"
"Chee? Chez? Me not know,
senior. Me see not chez that day-it
plenty make in house"
Her English, good enough at or
binary times, gave out entirely with
the stress of the tragedy, and there
seemed no connection between a few
crumbs of cheese unaccounted for
and the death Of the master of the
house. Jack Lugren laid aside the
puzzle as insolvable and gave his at
tention to more important details.
One of these was having a photo
graph taken of his uncle for reasons
Of his own. When the funeral was
over and his friend, Ross Morton, a
young Englishman, a subaltern in
the royal navy, was staying with him
prior to the trip the two were about
to make to Japan, Jack made crit
zeal examination of the picture with
a magnifying lens. What he saw
compelled him to drop it in alarm
and call to his friend.
Ross, for Gods sake come here!
! Tell me what you see"
Morton took the lens and exam
ined the photograph with the same
care Jack had used. THE devil" he
exclaimed ''lOok at the eyes. Some
thing not human is reproduced there.
Do you see that frightful face? 1t
your uncle saw that the shock must
have killed him
Il do not believe in the supernat-
ural, and if this is not a trick of
the camera | shall find out what it is.
Ross, l sleep in that room tonight"
LET me occupy the lounge-you
may need assistance"
mo, [ will keep watch alone. [
cannot cope with supernatural pow
ers, but if anything of this world
attacks me L will down it. And |
shall take all due precautions against
secret assassins. This night can
hardly watt
Old Malta was ordered to prepare
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use it for butter making. Fresh milk
is heated in kettles to boiling point
and allowed to cool to so degrees,
after which small quantity of old
''yaoort" is added This fermenta-
ton is induced, and the result is a
junket-like stuff with a slight acid
taste.
''Yaoort" is very nutritious and
easily digested, and is used in the
preparation of various Turkish dish
es, both meats and vegetables.
When it is employed for butter maxi
ing it is put into a jar of earthen-
ware, or goatskin, suspended by
cords. Enough hot water is added to
raise the temperature to so degrees,
and the primitive churn is kept agi-
tated for 40 minutes, until butter
forms. The residual buttermilk
FUSED in the kitchen where American
cooks would employ ordinary butter
milk or sour milk is called the wine
of the Turks" and is known in the
market as ''airan."
Most of the milk thus used fOE
making butter is that of the sheep,
and the product is white and curdy
in appearance. The Turks seem will
ing to learn new, dairy methods, how
ever, and might do so very proftably
to themselves, the pastoral wealth
of the country being great. Recent
ly at Harput, Turkey, Yankee churns
were exhibited in operation, and ma
tive visitors were much astonished
to see yellow butter turned out from
cows milk in seven or eight minutes.
N Y Herald
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HE AND SHE

He walked along as If he might
Have known a thing or two;
He slipped and hit the icy walk,
As if he might go through.
He gathered up his scattered words.
And said them over twice,
Because his equilibrium
Had failed him, on the ice.
He looked around him just in time
To see a saucy maid
Laugh loud, and then go slipping Gown
Like mercury in the shade.
She gathered up her packages
And smiled an empty smile;
She didn't say a word out loud,
But talked INSIDE the while.
She. cracked the smile to fool the mar
She laughed at, wouldn't YOU?
The man gave several cEuckies.
And the "Eorrid ice" cracked, too.
The fall, the laugh, the ice, the joke,
Were all forgotten when
They started on together lest
They both go down again
-Leola Allard, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
CONSIDER THE CALVES.
To Sell TIL EN- Now, at n SEA crit ce Price
Is ShOrtsightedness Absolutely
InexcusabIe.

From market reports one might
conclude that there has been an enor-
nous wave of calves sweeping over
the country. The markets, especially
those of the west, have been over
stocked, so that even in the face of
record breaking beef prices the prices
of calves are lower than a year ago.
1t is difficult to believe that there is
an overproduction of calves, and the
rushing of them to market at what
appears to be a sacrifice price cannot
be anything but business shortsight-
edness. The beef supply of the coun-
try must be short, else such high
prices would not rule. 1t is a plain
proposition that the male calf is
father to the steer, and if the calves
are sacrificed there is no possibility
of cheaper beef for several years.
We farmers, breeders and feeders do
not want cheaper beef, for we see no
more profit in the making of the
beef than the maker of it deserves.
AS for the consumers in the cities
and towns, they will have to make
the best of it. for the nation that
spends nearly S4OO,OOO,OOo yearly for
beverage liquors can cut down the
drink bill to keep up with the butch
err. But it would appear to be good
business for the raisers of calves to
keep on the farms such calves as
have promise of growing into good
beef animals or good dairy animals.
The present scarcity of feeds will not
always continue, and when the new
crops are available for feeding those
who are DESTROYS of making home
consumption of home productions
are likely to find shortage of
mouths to do the eating.-W. T. Nc
Spartan in National Stockman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
TURKS MAKING BUTTER.
The Way in Which They Operate
Their Creameries Is Amusing
and Very Primitive,

Efforts are to be made to introduce
American dairy machinery in Turkey,
where the creameries are managed
on rather primitive plan. Constan-
tinople imports most. of its butter
from Siberia, instead of encouraging
the development of the industry at
home, and the fat of the tail of
the famous fat-tailed sheep is used
throughout the country as culinary
substitute.
Butter in Turkey is manufactured
exclusively from thickened milk,
known as ''yaoort," no attempt be-
ing made to collect the cream and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
Americas Apple Industry.

Few people realize the extent of
the apple industry of the United
States. Thirty years ago barrel
of American apples was a curiosity
in the English market. The total
exports from American to Euro
pean ports, for first week of last
December, amounted to 114,191 bar
rels. The total shipments of apples
from american ports for last year
up to December 6, were 1,566,39S bar
reIs. The total for preceding year
amounted to only 469,385 barrels, an
increase of over million barrels
AS a staple money crop" they are
hard TO beat.
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the directions, bathing Charlie and
putting that nice Ointment on the
sores.
81 wouldn't have believed that
my baby would have been cured by
little thing like that. Not all of
sudden, mind you. Little by little,
but so surely. Charlie and both
got more peace by day, and more
sleep by night. The sores sort of
dried up and went away. L shall
never forget one blessed night when
l went to bed with Charlie beside
me, as soon as / got the supper
dishes out of the way and the older
children undressed when woke
up the sun was streaming in. For
the first time in six months had
slept through the night without
break.