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livelihood. A grocer OF the name OF King
believed III this, and gave her money.
| Another man, whom the police could not
! tell about. once gave her $4,000 In neg o.
table securities for a certain PURPOSE,
and only because the family learned OF
lthis was the property recovered 4 o. ne
police
Mne. De We're had several assistants
|! In ners clairvoyant 3pa:!ors--young women.
There were reports thatSsom pfomlene y,
Ohioians had preferred to pay cons iuera PIE e
money rather than have tho fact Of t g,
visits beconla known to their families.
| There we're at least two divorces In CleYc-
land in which Mime. De We're Was ACCUSED
or having d hand. and one of the men has
since lived abroad. 1t all eliminated with
the Lamb Incident which sent Al me, De
We're 10 prison, Il
joseph Lamb was all express clerk. mar
r!ed with five children Afterward ne
said he met Nine. DE We're and'vlsited her
al her home. Soon afterward she told him
she needed money to go to Philadelphia.
She wanted $500, and Lamb raised It BY
giving her his savings of $1,000, besides
500 cash he had In hand and his note for
the balance She returned 10 the city
after a week and began asking him for
more money. v, '3.l
II really. am Mrs. Florida Blythe Of
Ms Blythe was a very wealthy woman,
and when she asked him to obtain money
on notes supporting to have been signed
BY Mrs. Blythe, he did not hesitate, Forty
thousand dollars was raised in that way
and then came an arrest OF both IN Janl-
airy, 1890. Tho notes were alleged to- be
tforgeTies. IL
!, Lamb at once told everything he knew.
and tho Jury acquitted him on the ground
49,, bo ho5 n al
was sentenced to nine and one-half years
Imprisonment In the Ohio penitentlary,
She served three and one-half years OF ~,
VIXEN she was paroled by Governor NJ e
ISinley .a \ sJ
on her parole Nine. De We're was re-
qu!red to report to tho prison oficia IS IT.
regular intervals. and the flrst two re-
ports came from Woodstock, Ontario .5sat
S'g"I AMI living Quietly with my either,
Mary Anne BisleN, a t Woodstock" says
tho report for 1894.
lii InSths following year came the report
\ 81 am stopping with my sister. MIS-. Alice
York, MT Cleveland,
Her lifo thereafter Is not definitely
known, Some time afterwald, 1 in cleye,
land, tbere appeared q Mrs, G. u ldoo OVER
n elairvoyanta and nlasseuse. There Was
little comment over her. She lived elcr
gantly and made few friends, 4
1T was not until 1897 that tire Chadwic
end OF the case deNelopedi8 sJ Il n Cleveland.
al the time lived a middle aged physicl
Of the r,sme Of DIR. Leroy Shipiyeh Chad
wick, His father had been u veal thy
man. ami lei the son real sest ate anvrg
which was a fine home In Euclid Avenue.
Of Gsnesee Street pr Chadwick was n
widowels and the father of "a daughter.
5IIe was not strong, being q sufferer from
an Injury to his leg. Ell l,i
IIe called on tn Q r}nsseuse for pros
fsssIonal treat lent, IT was not$so long
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her friends and acquaintances that she
was not ali that she appeared to be-a
woman Of great wealth, whose pleasure II
was to lavish fortunes on those to Who y,
she took a fancy, and who was SO prou.-
gal in her expenditures as to attract at
tent,on even in the American colony In
Paris, as well as In her home city.
Ono OF her first hopes was to- obtain
leadership in the exclusive society Of
Cleveland. Soon after her marriage she
gave a reception, to which many were IN
vited who had not crossed the threshold
OF tho Euclid Avenue residence OF Dr.
Chadwick since the death Of his first vile,
years before. a
again. Some Of them failed to BIO I'M
pressed by the lnvlshness Of the expendl-s
ture that had been made in this attempted
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a Lydia clingana Lyle clingan. Lyle
gngley was heard about all over the
country, now the heircss to an estate
abroad. now the wife OF, a prominent cit
Ten, now just Lydia Ciingan. living n
life that brought her into the acquaint-
anccshlp OF many men. .5 g
One incident has been mentioned about
this time, Mrs. Maize Bagley" appeared
at Erie, Pa, and became i'll. She obtain
ed credit. money and other nccessaries
an the usual plea and then departed She,
was located i'll Cleveland and bills reach
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AND / OH 10 RAlLvNAY.
4 CHRISTMAS AN p N II oLtDAY 9Fe x,45s
~ CuRSlQN * RATES FOR T6E 4sIh

= SEASON OF 1904.'05,
To the public, sold December 2. ath.
a5th, 26th, SOtn. aust and January LIST and
al, linlite to expire January 4. tlset,
To students and teachers. pr essen ting
ana surrendsring certificate from pres!-t
dent. principal or superintendent 81 col-
e4th, limited to expire January g. 1896, I
FOR etail informatlon and rates, call at
G, o. Ry. Passenger Once. No. go
East Main street. or Richmond Transfer
Company offices. :, 2, !, {, ~, n
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launching OF the stranger into society.
Her display Of costly jewels was the tax
of the town for short time, and she sue
ceeded in making u sensntion, but that
was all. Her failure to gain the soclal
position she sought has been complete, IN
spite OF several well planned campaigns
she has carried on since She took Dr.
gChadWick's name. is T.
But In less exclusive circles sho had
host OF friends. and many girl Of talent
in Cleveland and elsewhere has 70 thank
her for an education along musical or ar
tistic lines IN l Europe and this county,.
Her generosity has been proverbal among
those who knew her, and to her dtsp EMS
fers OF charity knew they could turn for
aid for those less fortunate than she
g$5 During these years, after her failure to
Estartle Cleveland society into recognizing
her on footing OF equality, she spent
much OF her time abroad, in this city and
in the South. Her husband was also away
from home for long periods, Following
his marriage he gradually gave up his
practice, and now for several years has
m ade no %pretense OF attending patients.
Tor the last two years he has been almost
lost sight OF. In fact With his nineteen
year-o old daughter by his previous mar
rage. he has wand cred over Europe With With
out attracting any special attention. -
Mrs. Chad wick has vouched for the fact
that he is in sympathy with her in her
present tiles, but further than this
his part In his wifi 8 fairs is one more
OF the many mysterious phases OF the
story. S .4 N
. Up to about two years ago the husband
and wife were almost constantly toget her,
and seemed TO have deep affection for
each other Their children, almost Of the
same age, appeared to have much in COM
mon, and in the days when the Chadw
were known to a comparatively limited
circle OF friends, and were spending only
thousands. their cqualntances pointed TO
them as a happy. congenial household.
Whether Mrs Chadwick was then carry
ing on In modes way her system Of.
finance has not been disclosed. II she OBJ
tanned large loans during the first five.
years OF her life with DR.. Chadwick and
failed to repay tn EN-, the victims have
preferred to remain silent rather than.
face the publicity which would attend
their disclosures. 1t Is probable. though,
that nobody suffered any loss through her
at that time. It has all along been part
OF her system to establish her credit by
borrowing small amounts and then by
srepaying the loan promptly. placing her
self in position where much larger
amounts would be advanced to her with
out question as to her reliability. II
there was anything still owed by her when
she launched her new campaign, with the
name Of Andrew Carnegie to conjure with.
and borrowed thousands, where up to that
time she had been content with hundreds,
she probably settled the claims so that
on that score she had nothing to fear
when she broadened tho field Of her
activities,
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Increases It's Dividends

OF which MI. Jim SHELTON Williams ID
president and Mr. 4, x, sands cashier,
yesIerduy met and Increased thasauar.
terly dividend OF the bank from one per
II Is said that the bank has prospered
greatly since Its organizato on and that 9
large amount OF money was made II the
road company, These shares had been
taken by tho bank In payment OF as debt
rho dividend will herea fter}5 be I'VE pesl
cent 5S{ sts it3 NJ li iil EfEi
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stcen romance and the physician left her.
Within a day the Campbell chattel mort
gages became known and The sisters
parted. Mrs sprlngstcen brought suit for
separation from her husband and lost
1t. lie subsequently, obtained divorce.
from her
Chapter II.-Mrs. Hoover.
Mrs. Sprinssteen left Cleveland soon
after .hn! and began to travel about the
country. Her power Of fascination had, It
IS said, increased. For more than q year
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
Patriotic AmeriCG.

They were telling mining camp stor-
les at the Lick House the other day
and one pioneer from Calaveras con-
tributed the following:
We had aVanged for big Fourth
of July celebration at San Andreas and
to make sure that it would be a success
we planned to get all Of the miners out
in a big procession. Among the under
ground workers were hundreds of Ital-
ians. To gain their interest we named
Dominick Ratio, the boss Italian OF the
district grand marshal of the parade.
1t worked to perfection.
THE morning of the Fourth hun
dreds of our swarthy skinned friends
from sunny Italia had been herded into
semblance of order along Main street
Ratio, in all the splendOr of glittering
regalia and mounted on the best horse
we could find, was imposing. Every
thing was ready for the pageant to
move. Ratio, conscious Of his i'm
pOrtance, made one last survey Of the
hosts. and, turning in his saddle, let
forth in broken but sounding English:
ALA righta in fronta, ALA righta,
belinda, leta she goa
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
Not His FanH.

Captain Neil Haig, the herculean
English poloist, who has been so pic
turesque and so popular a figure on the
field at Burlingame and at Del Monte
this season, has a slight impediment in
his speech.
In directing the work of the players
on his team he sometimes uses Ian
guage which comes under the head of
"terse and vigorous English"
While playing before a fashionable
gathering on an English field last year
the work of one of his men did not
please him and he swOre softly at him.
AS misfortune would have it, the Ian
guage was used in front of the mem
bers' stand and was plainly heard by
the ladies and others there. The Of
ficials felt that something had to be
done, and asked the doughty captain to
explain why he took that inOppOrtune
time to use such language.
The captain said in explanation:
"Y-y-you s-s-see. 1 st-st-started to
s-s-swear away d-d-down the field,
b-b-but L d-d-didn't g-g-get it out un-
til 1 r-r-reached the s-s-stand.'
The captains apology was accepted.
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Rope for MaHchlriG.

China is a land of immense rivers
and other waterways. and there is no
country in the world Where boats are
used so generally for all imaginable
purposes. A large proportion of the
Chinese people practically live on the
water all the time. In the single port
of Newchwang 1000 junks were regis
tered last year. All this makes
large demand for sail-clOth, roping
and other accessories for small boats.
The sea-going junks use great quanti-
ties of rope, especially of large sizes.
instead of anchor chains. The fact
that considerable quantities Of Ameri-
can rope are being ordered for Man
churia-sOme for Chinese junks-indi-
Gates the possibilities Of a trade in
this line. If sales can be established
throughout North China they may
grow to wonderful proportions. II,
in addition, it would be possible to get
part of the rope trade of Southern
and Central China. the volume would
be sufficient TO keep several large
plants in operation. Our Consul at
Newchwang, Henry B. Miller.
says that if samples and prices are
sent TO him he will gladly give the
matter attention and endeavOr to in
trOdUce the gOOds.-Leslie's Weekly.
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Comment on Slang.
sAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2s.

SAN FRANCESCA r FtD- 20
Editor of The Call: 1 have been
much interested in the articles you
have been publishing for some time
under the heading, Instructive
Studies" The article on Slang in
last Thursdays Call is worth more
than a passing notice. The universal
use of slang at the present time is
most deplOrable. 1t CRATES on the SEN
sibilities of all who love to hear pure
English. Would it not be a good idea
to organize anti-slang clubs? 1t seems
to me that some movement should be
started to, kill the evil.
1 have an idea in my mind Of what
ought to be done. but content myself
for the present with simply throwing
out the thought. / could shape some
thing that seems to me to be practic
able if the suggestion is seconded.
Clubs of the kind I have in mind could
be formed to promote the study OF
pure English and literature, and his
tory might be added. 1t seems to me
that it is time to set in motion some
movement TO stem the tide that threat
ems to smother our mother tongue.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29

into disuse but there is no substitute for it in the home
or classroom that has yet been devised and
doubtful if any instrument be found suppant
for ordinary
large proportion of the homes of California harbor
the utiltaran piano. Vons may thrill and compel tears
gayety horns may warble like birds the hicket the
soaring may sing reedy madrgals; the
which Walt Whitman styled ''the hearts lament" may
be frequently solo voice gtering integral part OF
the ensemble; the laundering organ may jar the air and
rafters vibrate with power but many
the piano has and will have rival Not while
the children who have contributed buy the many
Berkeley school pianos live will its popularity abate 1t
the center of the home singing, of the music that fur
nshes the time for dancing; faithful and sympathetic
accompanist and musical comrade of the vocal artist
the PLATFORM the obging instrupent that
yields true all degrees of competency in
competency requiring less skill than any other mpOr
instrument produce results that give average sat
isfaction.
Beethoven, who created such wonderful symphonies
for brass reeds and strings still holds his preeminence
largely by of his piano sonatas. Chopin wrote
principally for the piano Orchestral conductors like
Anton Seid and Damrosch have used it interpret to
audiences their conceptions of the subtle meanings of
Richard Wagner. Mozart and Mendelssohn composed
very largely for it Symphonies arranged for four or
eight hands through its agency, brought within the
reach daily of thousands of homes removed from musical
ceners. Operas to the piano extension of knOw
edge of their beauties number of people whose
means do not permit them to be where fashion
cOngregates to await the spell of baton and vocal effort
The Berkeley boys and girls have therefore selected
the right nsrument~to lend itself their There
is other solo instrument that embraces much OF
music with equal degree of availability. With this
goes conmendaton for the boys and girls who clearly
that musical education, in slight degree has
its claims upon them.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
Al for Us.

The San Francisco Call is rapidly
coming to the front as the leading
home paper among the big dailies.
No better evidence of this could be
cited than the fact that of its issue
of Sunday. January 81, there were
printed and distributed S5,440 full and
complete copies of A pages each, re-
curing the use of over $4,000 pounds
of paper. We are pleased to note the
rapid strides of The Call in the mat
ter of circulation, as it is one of the
brightest, cleanest and newsiest Of
newspapers and deserving of the in
creasing support which it is receiving.
-Livermore Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
AFFAIRS IN PORTO RICO.

~ n January IL the Hon. William II. Hunt Gov
ernor OF Porto Rico sent to the insuar Legisla
- tive Assembly his annual message. To those who
have kept watchul eye the development of the
insuar government in new possessions growth
significant only the people of Porto Rico but to
the history of the United Sates-Governor Hunts mes
sage carries the OF in the fufllment
scheme for colonial control
To the Legislative Assembly, it is and still
used to the spirit and forms of government
Governor Hunt gives solid advice upon the conduct of
the exchequer and the necessity for economy and
efficient expenditure of money the conduct of the va
rous branches of the island SO enacously
cling the old Spanish methods of conducting financial
affairs that the American Governor has the ma
tive legislators that bring the government of the ISL
and up its full degree of efficiency expenditures all
along the line will have to receive closer supervision
"The experience of the past year" says Governor
Hunt, has made it clear that with the exercise OF
due economy the income received by the municipalities
is insufficient their legitimate and necessary ex
pendures. Although there has been reduction in both
floating and bonded indebtedness many of the munich
paities the present time suffering the lack
of funds In the salaries of municipal en-
ployes have been paid in full for months
The municipalities receiving one-half of the
property tax Of cent | recommend that they be
given hreeqarers of the property tax threefourths
of per cent. This would increase in yearly
of approximately 100000 In order to further
releVe the municipalities from their burden indebted
the Governor suggests that the tax be re-
moved from the shoulders of the municipalities and made
nsuar be expended directly by Department
of Education.
The local government of the municipalities themselves
receives considerable attention from Governor Con-
trary his advice given former message the Leg
islatve Assembly sought institute general scheme
for the government of the municipalities whereby smaller
communities were merged with larger in the vcn-
ity and made to share the burden of taxation equally
with their pretentious and favored neigh
bors. BY this act twenty of the smaller communities
disenfranchsed and merged with their more pop
ulous neghbors Such legislation Governor Hunt takes
pains point out, works hardship upon the residents
of the disenranchised towns who have support bur
den of taxation from which they receive none of the d
rect benefits.
"In my judgment" reads his message at would be
both wise and eNpedient to place in class all the
of the island whose population less than GER
number be agreed upon hereafter and to confer
upon them autonomy in local affairs be exercised
through smpifed form of the governmental nachin-
cry provided by the municipal law in force" This
suggestion the of the Governor introduces into
Porto Rico for the first time the American idea of viii
lage town and city government.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
Friend and Enemy.

MY friend was perfect in my sight
And all he did was done Alright;
I saw in him no flaw or blot.
When men assailed him l was hot
His dear perfectiOns to defend,
Because he was my trusted friend.
Mine enemy was wholly bad.
| saw each weakness that he had,
/ wondered what men saw to praise
And heard approval with amaze.
No worth or goodness could 1 see,
Because he was mine enemy.
Yet l was wrong. for after all
In him | thought was wholly small
I've found so many greatnesses.
I've found so much of littleness
In him who had my perfect trust
That time has made my judgments just.
And now with keener eyes l see
That neither friend nor enemy
Is wholly good or wholly i'll.
For both are men and human still.
In both is much the years shall prove
That we should hate-but more to love.
-Leslie's Monthly.
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Science and Rats.

The spread of the plague in the East
has been shown to be due to rats
which are carried from infected ports
on vessels. A preventive method,
which promises to be efficacious in
checking the plague, has recently been
devised by NJ. Danysz, of the Pasteur
Institute in Paris. The plan is thus
described in the current Harper's
Weekly: m. Danysz has found the
bacillus of a disease which is peculiar
to rats and extremely fatal to such. as
are inoculated with it. A culture can
be made of this bacillus bouillon in
which bread or grain is soaked. This
is exposed for the rats to eat. and has
been found successful means of COM
municating the disease, which usually
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
Rec0H For5Uard.

General William Tecumseh Sherman
was one of the best raconteurs of his
time. He had a fund of dry humor
and sly enjoyment of good yarn that
was infectious. During his later years
when he became a lion of Washington
and New York society. he was much
petted and monopOlized by the ladies,
but occasionally the old warrior would
be found at a favorite club with small
circle of men friends about him, de-
lighting them with incidents Of the
Civil War.
when the war began" he said one
day at the New York Union League,
every officer in the Union army was
beset by sanguine inventors, VINO
sought his influence with the Govern
ment to procure the adoption OF their
devices. The majority of these inven-
tions were in the line of arms and ord
nance, and if you listened to their pro-
moters you were assured that the ART
of warfare would be Tevolutionized
forthwith.
"One of these irrepressible fellows
tackled me few days after the assault
on Sumter, begging me to help him get
a Government contract for the manu-
facture of his new gun.
" The point about this here cannon
general, is jest this he declared 1t
hain't got no re-cOil-nOt a derned bit
of re-coil. If anything, it re-coils
Ieetle bit forward"
And the gray old fighter lay back in
his chair and chucl1led over the recol-
lection of the gun that upset the laws
of physics.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
STATUS OF THE PIANO.

HE superintendent of the Berkeley public schools
reports that the average boy and girl of Berkeley
4 has been much in evidence during the past year
social factor Indeed the boys and girls the beau
tifu and growing city the bay have devoted
of their energy the public good that nearly every
schooroom in Berkeley is equipped with good
piano. Daily the sound of fresh young voices singing
the songs of patriotism in the several places where
the school children congregated there heard
the cadence marking music of the piano.
And this brings up a consideration that will be new
after the ground of the utility nutily of the
has been threshed repeatedly We have heard
that there will time when the piano will go
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29
INSTRUCTIVE JTUDIE1S
By NOTE EAsAaEIsN AND
IssSsTfEN

supreme moment when your feet touch
the waters of the dark river.
OH bid the baby welcome, Let the
DAY OF its advent be Gay of joy! Let
it come amidst the songs of the angels,
as the Christ child did! Devote your
selves to it, Gaze into Its eyes. Press
it to yc1Ir heart Listen to its inartic-
ulste disclosures Of the mystery and
meaning of life. 1t is r, an oracle.
1t has come from God, bringing it's
trailing clouds of glory"
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29

DECIMAL SYSTEM-A. E. s. san
Jose, Cal. In 1882 Gouverneur Nor
ris, assistant financial agent of the
Continental Congress of the United
States, reported a decimal currency
system designed to harmOnize the
moneys of the States. He estimated
that the 144Oth part of Spanish dol
lar was common divisor for various
currencies- With this as a unit he
proposed the following: 10 units 1
penny; 10 pence 1 bill. and 10 bills 1
dollar In 1884 Jefferson. Chairman
of a committee of Congress. proposed
the following: $40 gold piece. silver
dollar, 10th Of a silver dollar and
Tooth of a dollar in copper. Congress
adopted his proposition, hence the
cent, dime. dollar and eagle (S1O) of
the United States currency.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-29

proves fatal in less than twelve uayS-
The method has been tried on the ra Is
in the Paris sewers and thOse OF IN
BOurse de Commerce, which attack the
grain supplies. 1t is now recognize
that if the rats can be destroyed u
is possible to keep plague and other
diseases from Europe and the civilized
portions of the East