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The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12
GOES To FIELD
IN THE SOUTH
The Rev. George Fuller
Accepts a Call to
Pomona.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.


Ills Broadway, Jan. IL.
The Rev. George Fuller, assistant min
lister Of the First Unitarian Church re-
signed to-day, having accepted ca;T to
the First Unitarian Church of Pomona
1t was a sudden and unexpected move
on the part of the young clergyman who,
since March last, had been very accept
ably filing the position in Oakland. Last
Sunday he preached at Pomona and was
so we'll received that an immediate call
was extended to him. Mr.. Fuller was
under contract to remain until March
in his Oakland charge, but under the
circumstances the trustees to-day reluct-
antly accepted his resignation. the con-
gregation asserting. Resolutions express
sive of their regard for the young minis
ter and appreciation of his work in Oak
land were adopted by the trustees and
by the society.
Rev Mr.. Fuller came to Oakland from
Maine. Before entering the ministry he
had been active in New England Journal
ism. He will depart this week for South
ern California.
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in with a voluntary subscription.
This 5000 committee is exclusively
for young men. Subscriptions will be So
licited only from among young. men. The
older men. those who are likely TO give
large amounts, are to be let alone by this
committee.
The young mems committee is the idea
Of w A. King. the general secretary Of
the Y. NJ c A
1T has taken well" said Secretary
King to-day, "and the boys are so en-
thusiasuc over 1t they have pledged
themselves TO raise the money in month
I believe they'll DO it. Chairman Stearns
has called a meeting for Tuesday night
and We will formulate plans that will
make things hum for awhile"
The officers and members are as fol-
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12
CARMEN WRITE ABOUT
BEST WAYS TO MANAGE
Operatives to Receive Prizes for
Compositions on Care of Roll
ing Stock.

OAKLAND Jan. 1.-THE Oakland
Transit Consolidated has awarded three
Of the prizes it offered to its employees for
the best compositions on the best ways
to care for the rolling stock intrusted to
them. Two of these were awarded to
Motorman V. II. Park Of the Haywards
line, who received s25 for writing most
intelligibly on What is the best method
Of Inspecting a brake" and How to
keep motor brushes in good condition."
being awarded SIS for the first and $40 for
the second subject. Conductor Rose Of
the Alameda line got $40 for his descrip-
ton Of 1.-The best way TO collect fares"
General Manager W. +. Kelly made the
announcement Of the offer Of prizes be-
fore Christmas, agreeing to distribute $3.50
for the clearest explanation of a series OF
questions on car management. A good
many Of these compositions have not yet
been passed upon. From the best ones
s,egestions will be taken for the use of
the employees of the company.
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lows: Chairman, Edwin Stearns; first
vice chairman, Henry A. Dodge; second
vice chairman, DR.. Dudley Smith; secre-
tary, W. z. Rode: treasurer, John Pat
ten; committeeman, A. L. Adams, Wes-
ley Adams. Frank Boek, DR.. H. q. Chap
pei, George Dimpfel, DR.. j. E. Davidson,
r. r. Parish, II. c. Ingram, Otto Kurtz,
DR.. G. L. Schultheis, Herbert Breed, A.
E. Carpenter, Emil Fritsch, H. l. Hol-
comb, Charles J. Schuler. r. Z. Beach,
L. c. Dale, Gabriel Espeland, Al Gray
Steh Teal, Alfred Wilkie Jr., George Pom
erCy, Joseph Lancaster, DR.. NJ. L. Green,
E. c. Brown, John w. Thomas, E. ].
Wagor, George A. Hanmore, Benjamin
Perkins, L. l.. Hotchkiss, w. N. jenkins
II. u. Kemp. Harry Tharsing and Archi-
bald Dick.
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Teachers Get Certificates.

OAKLAND, Jan. 1.-THE following can
dicates have successfully passed exam
sna+fons for grammar grade teachers
Annie Badger, Grace V. Farwell, Geor-
giana Grubb Lillian H. Jackson, Amy
Mott. T. Maria Nash. Florence Piersoll,
Mary B. Wallace, Nitta Wolff and Donna
Whitaker.
Grammar grade certificates have been
issued to Clara L. Reed, Elizabeth S.
Scuphan, L. Roy Jacobs; high school
certifcates-Mabel Z. Sharpe; university
recommendation - Charles Henley; life
certificate grammar grade-Lima Carter;
renewal certificate, primary grade-Agnes
II. Crosb..
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Death of DR.. R. S. Markell.

SANTA ROSA, Jan. u-After an illness
of only few hours, DR.. r. S. Markell of
Cloverdale died at an early hour vest r
day morning. Friday evening he retired
in apparently the best of health, but apo
plexy during the night caused his de-
mise. Surviving him are a wife and four
daughters, Mrs. George B. Baer of Clo-
verdale, Mrs. Reuben f. Baer of Healds-
burg, Mrs Dr. C. f. Grant Of Wheatland
and Mrs Z. c. Windor of Stockton Few
men in Sonoma County were better
known than DR.. Markell. For more than
a score of years he had practiced his pro-
fession and been engaged in business in
the city where his death occurred.
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HUNTERS HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH

BERKELEY, Jan. 11.-George Grim
shaw and Oliver Martin, two West Ber-
keleyans, while duck hunting this morn
ing, upset their skiff in the bay and had
an exceedingly narrow escape from
drowning Martin was unable to swim
and but for Grimshaw's efforts would un-
doubtedly have drowned. The two clunp
TO the boat for some time, but later left
it and Grimshaw swan in to shore with
Martin holding TO his shoulder
The accident occurred about 80 O'Clock
this morning, but was luckily not far
from shore The two guns were lost and
the beat drifted away.
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AkLAND. Jan. n.-within

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poses TO accomplish the object
for which 81 was brought into being-to
raise $4,000 FOR the new building fund for
that institution. Twenty-Five young men
are going OUT TO demand tribute from
their friends and neighbors until the pot
cEcrd0ws with its burden.
OF the $4,000 needed $500 has already
been subscribed. Most of that was given
az The dinner on December %. when ff-
teen Young men put their names down for
sT08 sr5ece since then hardly a daY
has passed that somebody has not walked
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Fruitvale Lodge Installs.

OAKLAND, Jan. n.-Fruitvale Lodge
No 1856. F. and A NJ. publicly installed
it's new officers last night in Masonic
Hall on East Fourteenth street. The
newly seated officers are the following
named: Worshipful master, c. H.
Greenman; senior warden, A. N Frost
junior warden, H. w. Fraser; treasurer.
p. H. Blake; secretary. Henry Tyack.
DR.. r. w. Meek of Live Oak Lodge Of
Oakland was the installing officer.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12

~ AKLAND. Jan. u.-Charles H.
"A II Holcomb and Miss Emma Eva
" ~ Lundquist- were united in mar
riage this afternoon at ths
home of the brides mother, Mrs.
Marie Lundquist. Sixty-third street and
San Pablo avenue. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. c. ]. Anderson. rector
OF the Presbyterian Church. Miss Lily
Lundquist. sister of the bride, was maid
of honor, and Theodore Lundquist, her
brother, was best man.
Only relatives of the family witnessed
the ceremony, Mrs. Marie Lundquist, Lily
and Theodore Lundquist, Mr.. and Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12
INSTALL PASTOR
IN NEW CHARGE
Brother Clerics Assist
at a Happy Church
Ceremony.
oakland once San Francisco Call,

Ills Broadway, Jan. II.
Under auspices most favorable, the in
staIIation Of the Rev Thomas A Boyer as
pastor OF the First Christian church was
celebrated this afternoon at Hamilton
Hall. Thirteenth and Clay streets, which
has been taken as the place OF worship
Of the re5uvenated church society Many
clprgymen, brethren in the faith OF the
new pastor, assisted in the installation
services and a large congregation greeted
the young preacher on this, his formal
entrance upon the work OF MS ne"
charge.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12

At Peking the Board of Astronomy has
petitioned the Chinese court for money To
replace part OF the instruments looted
from the observatory, naively explaining
that the instruments were lost last year
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12
Checks Drunken Mans suieide.

OAKLAND, Jan 11-While Intoxicated
H. o. Morrison. 80 years old, a boolSkeep-
er, residing in San Francisco, tried to
leap from the $3.50 o'clock broad-gauge
ferry-boat from San Francisco this morn
ing. ]. F. Moe prevented Morrison from
taking the plunge and turned him over to
Policeman Andrews, who sent the man to
the City Prison.
It makes a spinster grit her teeth every
time she encounters a widow who haS
planted three husbands.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12

Lions have been scared away from the
shores Of Lake Victoria Nyanza by the
newly built railway.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09

"Of course" she has been heard
to say, 'if name is woven in there's
no help for it. Otherwise always
put my own mark on every piece be-
lore it goes to the laundry"
Hostesses have been known to lock
up small and valuable articles of brio
a-brac before the coming of guests.
A family living on Seventy fifth street
entertains for some weeks each year
friend from Boston. Each year
with the going away of this friend
many small articles of linen, silver,
china and even clothing are missing.
But" the hostess says, almost
tearfully, aside from this she is so
lovely"
This small pilfering seems to be a
tad for mementos. Women who do
these things would not pick up the
least shred in a shop. They would
never be politely requested to go to
the Office of a department store, but
in hotel, or restaurant, or in the house
Of friend or relative, petty pilfering
seems to wear different aspect.
M doubt many who indulge the
habi view it in the same light in
which servants expect tips. It's a
part IF the days work.-Mew York
,Sun.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
LAUGH IT AWAY.

Don't put on your far-of glasses hunting lions
in the way,
Don't go probing round for troubles-just ig-
more them, day by day.
Don't go signing: "Yee, tits pleasant Just at
present, but-ah me!
There's the sorrow of tOmOrrow-where will all
our sunshine be ?''
If the worst is in the future and has been there
all the while,
the others smile.
If the worst is in the future, let it stay there !:
for we know
That tomorrow's always threatening to bring us
For all time is just pageant of those busy old
t0days,
Let the worst stay in the future where it has
been. all the while;
We can keep it there by laughing till the others
start to smile.
When we look toward the sunset in the gorge
Gus afterglow,
Let us thank the blessed Father for the things
we do not know;
Let us thank Him with all fervency that He has
never sent
Any burden quite unbearable; that, while our
backs have bent
Underneath the load, we've had His arms about
us all the while
Let us laugh away our troubles till the whole
world wears a smile!
Let us laugh away the trouble though our eyes
are dimmed with tears;
Let US laugh away the heartaches and the wor-
ries and the fears;
Just "be good and you'll be happy"-if you're
happy, you'll be good;
For the rules SO double-acting that it's seldom
understood.
Oh, there is no future coming with a lot of trou-
BILE in
We can fight it off by laughing till the others
start to grin
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
THE 'FARM HAND PROBLEM.

Jacob A. Riis makes public a letter
recently received from a Vermont
farmer, who complains that it is ut
terly impossible for him to procure
help" although he is willing to pay
current wages and sure that any per-
son entering his employ will be able
not only to make a living, but to save
little money. The fact is here re-
ferred to because this letter voices a
general complaint that rises from the
agricultural community in every Sec
tion of the United States. Apparent
ly the problem of securing sufficient
labor to carry on the farming industry
of the country is one of the most seri-
Gus with which we are confronted.
The "hired hand" of our boyhood
days is becoming extinct.
There are reasons for this. Farm
labor is arduous. Its hours are verv
long, sometimes including both sun
rise and sunset. It's remuneration
especially if one considers only the
cash involved, is meagre, wages rum
ming all the way from $I8 to $25 a
month. 1t involves, too, a certain
isolation that is not agreeable to the
average man, the worker being alone
during the major portion of the day
and never having much society. In
deed, from the point of view estab-
lished by organized labor, agriculture
offers little encouragement to the av-
erage toiler, who is therefore focking
to the centres of population, where
labor hours are short and cash wages
are large.
1t does not seem to occur to these
men that their money wages is prac-
tically "velvet." They have home.
They receive generous living. Their
environment, however distastefu1 in
its loneliness, involves no great ex-
pense in the matter of clothing. They
are mercifully shut off from the thou
sand and one drain on their pocket
books which characterize city life.
Long hours in summer are compen-
sated for by short hours in winter.
Best of all, on the farm is fresh, pure
air, wholesome diet, refreshing slum
Der and an utter absence of the de-
moralizing temptations incident to
town life. All this should figure in
the farm wage scale, but it doesn't
at least in the view of the ordinary
hand" who is inclined to see only
the summer twelve-hour day and the
SIS pay therefor.
In Kansas and Nebraska the farm
hands are organizing for shorter hours
and more pay. In New England they
are rushing to the cities. All over
the country the spirit of discomfort is
rife among them. The signs of the
times, in fact, point to a radical read
justment of the agricultural conditions
parallel to that in progress in other
industries. No man can forecast the
result, but it is pretty safe to say that
esIaDnSneo, the -Iaysd fiano,- Uni, as
in the past, be the most favorably sit
uated of any of the unskilled laborers
of the country.-Wez0ark (W u
Eyenlpo Meas.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
THE LEAD PENCIL TEST.

Judge a mans character by his
lead pencils?" repeated a drummer
in an uptown hotel, relates the Wash
20 on
by lead pencils" continued an
elderly gentleman with benevolent
countenance and evidently plethoric
bank account.
II am the head of one of the larg-
est retail houses in Chicago" he re-
sumed. II was formerly manager of
the concern, and 1 hired all of its en-
ployes. I soon became used to sizing
up men, young and old, for what 1
say does not apply to women, because
they don't carry pencils.
Human nature, I soon found, runs
in regular channels, and the man who
catches on to the courses of these
channels is not going to be so very
much fooled by his fellowmen, even
though the latter may conceal their
characteristics artfully or innocently.
Zone day while an applicant for a
place stood before me / asked him to
lend me his pencil. He produced one
so neatly sharpened at both ends that
l gave him second glance and saw
that his appearance, though his cloth
ing was not new, accorded with the
exactness shown in the neat sharp
pencil. l engaged him and today he
is the assistant manager of Our store.
"That gave me new idea. |
would ask applicants to lend me
pencil. Men who carried scrappy
bits of pencil, dull and unsharpened
or bitten off at the ends, as a rule l
found to show other external evil
dences Of possessing characteristics
which negatived their engagement.
l found that men who kept about
them well-sharpened pencils, were, as
rule, good mathematicians, were
handy with their pen, wrote a good
hand, were neat in their habits and
were otherwise superior to their fell
lows.
''I won't say that the lead pencil
test of mans nature proves any
thing definite as regards his honesty,
but it will show a good line on his
characteristics, and this class of men
are usually more honest and certainly
more scrupulous and exact than the
chaps who carry pencils that can't be
used until you go through the tire
some process of getting out your own
knife and putting point yourself
upon the lead"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09

THE COOKS duties cover wide
range.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
ESTABLISHED 1850.

trouble trouble till trouble troubles
you.' Loa6ng was about the onlv
thing that he didn't consider trouble.
One time when he went hunting with
crowd of fellows, he and somebody
else made tramp into the mountains
and got lost. The other fellow want
ed to make an effort to find the camp
where the others in the party were,
but the main actor in the play said
he wasn't going to bother himself.
The other members of the party ought
to come and find him, was the view
he took of the matter. His comnan-
ion left him behind, and hadn't gone
tar before he wounded bear. The
main character heard the report of
the gun, but wasn't going to trouble
himself. The bear was passing his
way and saw him. His companion
yelled for him to look out, but he
wasn't going to trouble himself and
1-J sNiAa 4 1AC DSaL mn De-
fore he moved. The man who wasn't
going to trouble himself had lots of
trouble all at once. The bear began
by hugging him, and then he pro-
ceeded to undress him with its claws,
incidentally ripping his hide open in
afew places. His companion clubbed
the bear into insensibility, thereby
freeing the man who wasn't going to
bother himself.
"The main actor in the play did
some monstrous groaning, and then
began to complain, saying, If them
fellows up at the camp had sense
enough to come out and get me before
this happened, that blame fool brute
wouldn't have spoiled my new hunt
ing suit. Most people don't have the
sense they're born with. Their lack
of sense makes me lots of trouble
when he got back to the camp,
he roundly rated the other fellows for
not taking care of him and ended by
saying he hadn't bothered himself
and wasn't going to.
II don't know whether you find
anything of interest in the incident,
but it shows what one man got by
living on the plan of not doing today
what he could put off till tomorrow.
"Say, snapped Doolittle, 81 know
what you are driving at. You're
trying to compare that fellow to me.
You can't do it. I'll tell you right
now, for l never was in the noun
tains; and I'll tell you another thing,
I'm not going to work till l have to."
"Oh, l believe that" said Bill,
and Doolittle, who had been some
what angry was straightway placated.
He became so good humored that he
said to Bill in patronizing way,
"You do have some sense occasion
ally"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
SCHOOL IN 1860.

Teacher (to newly arrived pupil)
Have you your vaccination certif-
cate with you? ?"
eyes, sir"
"Have you been inoculated against
croup?"
eyes, sir"
"Have you a written certificate
that you have been made immune
against whooping cough, measles and
scarlatina 7"
eyes, SIR"
care you willing that at least once
every week all your books be thor
oughly fumigated with sulphur and
your clothes be disinfected with mer-
curic bichloride 2"
eyes, sir"
every well, then, as you possess
all the necessary protective measures
prescribed by our modern hygienic re-
quirements you may mount over that
wire enclosure and take yonder isolat-
ed aluminium seat and may begin
your lessons.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
Trying A NEW SODA DRINK.

"Alout now" said Mr.. Nozzleby,
is the time when the dispensers of
soda water are thinking up new drinks
for summer and trying them on an un-
suspectmg public to see whether they
are likely to take or not. I saw one
of these new drinks announced on a
paper pasted on a soda water sign
board in front of drug store, and
asked for one.
care you in good health?' the
man behind the soda counter asked.
Why, surep
Made your will?" said the soda
man.
"'Yep.'
"The soda man reached down
under the counter and brought out a
hatchet not to tomahawk me with,
but to chop off chunk of ice. He
explained to me casually that they
hadn't got out all their ice tools yet.
He broke up the chunk of ice he
had chopped off and put the fragments
in soda glass; then lie put the glass
under syrup spout down at one end
of the fountain and drew little syrup
into it. Then he shifted the glass
along the fountain, with halts at ir-
regular intervals, until finally he had
drawn into it little each of four
kinds of syrups. Then he squirted
into the glass a dash of something
from a bottle, put shaker on the
glass and shook the compound vigor-
ously; put the glass under soda
spout and filled it up with fzz, and
finally stuck a straw down in it and
set it before me on the counter say
in" oravely:
I suspected that the reason for
this was that the earlier purchasers
of the drink could not absorb much
of it at once, but must take it gradu-
ally; for this the effect could be OBJ
served in time to make it possible to
take the bulk of it away from the
drinker and so save him from serious
consequences, if such a step should
prove necessary. But 1 drank it, or
most of it, and felt no evil effect
from it.
"'What do you think?' said the
soda dispenser more cheerfully.
II have seen worse, I said and
so had-once.
"Once I knew a soda man who
made drink he called Mystery
He had soda fountain that had set
in front of it circular attachment of
the shape and dimensions of small
grindstone, but, of course, handsome
ly silver-plated like all the rest of the
fountain fittings. Around the verti-
cal face were marked the names of
the syrups the fountain contained on
draught. Spinning the silver grind
stone around to bring the lemon
mark, for instance, over the syrup
spout, you made connection with the
lemon syrup tank and could draw
lemon through the spout, and so on.
But if you lifted the attachment up a
little you could draw through the fizz
spout into a glass dash of every one
Of the syrups at once. The drink
made with this compound for foun-
dation the soda man called Mystery
/ took a Mystery once.
81 said nothing of that experience
to this later dispenser, but rose and
pushed back my glass on the counter.
"fYou'll mention it to your
friends?' said the soda man.
"'If live,' said. At which he
put the tomahawk back under the
counter and 1 passed out into the cold
world, and, being still alive, 1 am
now mentioning it. ~. Y. Sun
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09

MAKE IT rule that whomsoever
you meet you will improve him or let
him improve you.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
KISSING THE ROD.

o heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry sol
What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have, you knowi
What we've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrows driving rain,
We can better meet again,
If it blow!
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When our tears fell with the shower,
All alonei
We're not shine and sorrow blent
AS the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own.
For we know not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Let us fold away our fears,
And put of foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
just be glad.
james Whitconab Riley.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
THE OLD SQUARE PIANO.

The old square piano-there it stands;
Age has yellOwed the once white keys;
In graves, no doubt, there are pulseless hands
That once lured from it sweet melodies.
The pedals are rusted where dainty feet
Were pressed in the dead old long ago
How the cushion is worn on the once soft seat,
All, shame on the years to have treated it so /!
The old piano, thick legged and square,
What tales it might tell If it had a tongue;
How many man who is gray leaned there
On its heavy old side when he was young.
What secrets were told to the dear old thing
By maidens who long since ceased to trill;
Romance still clings to its every string.
And love seems to hover around it STILL
All, what of the old, sweet songs, the airs
That long years ago filled hearts with joy
AS the maidens father crept down those stairs
To drive away some lingering boy?
The old square piano-there it stands;
Age has yellowed its once white keys
Hark! One who played it is using her hands
On believing boy bent over her knees.