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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19
PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS FcR VALVES, STEAM
WHISTLES, WATER GAUGES. STEAM
GAUGES, GAUGE COCKS. WATER col
UMNS. ENGINE APPLIANCES. PIPE AND
PIPE FITTINGS. RATCHET DRILLS,
wRENCHES, STOCKS AND DIES, TAPS,
PIPE NISES, HACkSAWS, MACHINE
BOLTS, WASHERS, NUTS, STEEL
BRUSHES, AXES. HAMMERS, HAMMER
AND AXE HANDLES. EMERY CLOTH,
HINGES, OILERS. ETC. Office Isthmian
Canal Commission, Washington, d. c., June
IS, 1905.-Sealed proposals, in triplicate, will
be received at the office of the General Pur
chasing officer, Isthmian Canal Commission.
Washington d. c.. until 1890 a. m. July
Il. 1905, at which time they will be opened
in public Tor furnishing the above mentioned
articles. Blanks and full information may
be obtained from this office, Offices of
Asst Purchasing Agent, "a State St. N. Y.
City. or Asst Purchasing Agent at Custom
had at Chamber of Commerce. san Francisco,
CAL and Commercial CIup, Mobile, Ala.-D.
w Ross General Purchasing Officer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19
SAN LEANDRo REAL ESTATE.
ALAMEDA ADVERT'S'M'TS

ALAMEDA FURNISHED HOUSES.
FURNISHED house. S rooms. bath garden;
10 ) months: references. 1917 San Jose ave.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19

PROPOSAL-Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received at the Secretarys Of
fee OF the State Agricultural Society Sac
ramento. CAL on before June %, 1905. al
p. M. for work and materials in the con-
struction OF stables for horses. containing
about 900 boxstalls. No bid will be con-
sidered unless accompanied by a certified
check or bond in favor of the undersigned
equal to 10 per cent Of the bid with sufficient
security. conditioned that IL the bid be &C
cepted the bidder will enter into contract
faithfully to perform the contract in &C.
cordance with said bid and with plans and
specifications which can be had on applica-
ton to the undersigned. The right to reject
any all bids is hereby reserved. CALL
FORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL So
Getty BY ALBERT LINDLEY. Secretary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19
OAKLAND HOUSES TO LET.

FOR rent-Five-room cottage; bath, laundry;
nice garden; corner; sunshine in every room
10 minutes walk to business; l block 10 car
line: see inside. s. PETER, $50 Nineteenth
St Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19

PROPOSALS will be received at the Bureau of
Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department,
Washington, d. c.. until 10 O'CLOCK a. M,
June 81 1906 and publicly opened immedi-
ately thereafter. to furnish at the navy
Yards Mare Island, Cal, and Puget Sound.
Wash quantity Of naval supplies as speci-
fed below: SCHEDULE 2S3-Spikes, metal
fabric nails fir, piles, Oregon pine. castings,
medium STEEL steel plates, angles, rails, and
splice bars. iron, conduit, cement, cabinets,
electric wire SCHEDULE 2S4-Russian
crash and fax SCHEDULE 2S5-Files, ce-
dar, lignum vitae, mahogany, oak crooks,
crane, motor, radial drills steel, pipe. blue
print paper, water-closets bath tubs, uri-
nails, water heaters. leather hllet, chairs.
SCHEDULE 2S6-Beeswax. lard oil, dammar
and asphaltum varnish, tar, bath bricks.
SCHEDULE 2S6A-Cranes. Applications for
proposals should designate by numbers the
schedules desired. Blank proposals will be
furnished upon application to the navy pay
offices. San Francisco. Cal, and Seattle.
Wash, to the Bureau H. T. B. HARRIS,
Paymaster General U. S. N. 5-24-05
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19

O-MORROwNthe day for bargains in furniture
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-06-19
OAKLAND ADVERTS'M'TS

! HAVE several lots on Twenty-ffth and
Twenty-siSth SITS. near Telegraph ave-; will
build suit purchaser and Will sell on easy
terms J. CONANT. Architect. 1865 Broad
way. rooms II and L.
NEW 2-story bungalow house OF s rooms; lot
81 :6x1z0. with barn: 6SS Thrttieth St; only
$4,000. J. CONANT, Architect. 1055 Broad
way. rooms II and u.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
THE EYER GLORIOUS.

This Fourth is going to be as glorious as other Fourths have been, but it is not going to be quite as noisy and dam gerous. In many places plans have been made for less noise and less dam ger, and the plans are going to be car. ried out. So if Freedom feels obliged to shriek on account of these restric. tions she will not need to shriek aa much as she has on account of the fires, wounds and deaths that are of- fered to her as sacrifices on this day. Of course there will be enough of these, but we can be heartily thankful for what decrease there is, and be heartily prayerful for more decrease in the fu- ture.
 Let independence be our boast to- day, and though. we are mindful what it cost we know it was and is well worth the price. It is a great posses sion. Would that the poor Russians might have it, or as much of it as they could carry. If you want to realize what some of the blessings of freedom are sit calmly down and think little about the difference between your coun- try and Russia. Many of our new cit izens who hardly know what the Fourth of July means are daily doing such thinking and congratulating themselves and each other on their good fortune in being able to leave Rus sia and come to this Land of the Free.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

able to tear their comrade free and ad- minister the restroatives or which he stood so much in need. When the dead octopus was laid out on the pier it was at once seen to be of great size-the largest ever landed in South Africa, in fact. measuring no less than eleven and one-half feet across from tentacle tip to tentacle tip. Unfortunately, before photograph could be taken of it, cer-
 tain Italians-Nith whom, apparently
 euttlefish is highly prfzed delicacy- got at the carcass and cut it up, so that a very interesting exhibit was lost to the local museum. Two of the tenta- GIGS and the skin of the creature were save1 however, and these, at the mo- ment of writing, are being preserved at the little office on the south arm. The tentacles are now much shrunken
 of course, but still measure close on five feet long. In their natural state they would be, at the >thickest part about as thick as mans arms. All things considered, Diver Palmer may think himself a very lucky man. To be seized by such monster as this at the bottom of the sea and yet to escape alive and practically uninjured, is ar experience such as falls to the lot of but few men.-Wide World. ......
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
H0RD,iS.

Cobwigger-Society in this country is still rather crude.
 Merritt-Oh well, perhaps some day the members of the smart set will get married with as little publicity as they get divorced.-Judge.
 Lady Following hounds)-Theres your horse, count! There!
 The count (who has taken several tosses) )-Merci, madam, I wish him not. It is enough. I finish-I go home!- London Punch.
 Jones grumbles at cold weather?"
 Yes
 And he grumbles at hot weather?"
 Yes"
 What does he like?"
 He likes to grumble, ,"-London Tit~ Bits.
 The literature of absent excuses" is increasing. Sometimes it Is the mother who contributes to the gayety of na- tions. Please, Miss Gardiner, excuse Tommy for his absence, and don't whip him when he aint there. "-Century Magazine. sz=--.s4 =@@-
 Miss Browne-She's forever complain- ing, but think she merely lacks stam- ina r'~ '' .'=r
 Mrs. Malaprop-Oh! no, she's got it. That's what her doctor calls her dis ease. She can't sleep, you knoW.-Phil- adelphia Press. .~'I I-.'
 Mabel (not in her first youth)-First of all, he held my hands and told my fortune; and then, Evie, he gazed into my face ever so long and said he could read my thoughts. Wasn't that clever of him, dear?
 Evie-Oh, I suppose he read between the lines, darling.-Punch. , "George!" e@.
 Yes, dear"
 Before we were married you onca asked me if enjoyed a brass band"
 Yves, perhaps did
 You did. And I said yes; but 1t seems I misunderstood you, George. My wedding ring is making a black mark on my finger. "-Cieveland Lead CT.
 The young man (with some embar- rassment)-There is one question you haven't asked me yet, MT. Hurpop; you haven't wanted to know whether or not think I can make a living for your daughter. The other man-That isn't necessary. She'll see that you'll make the living all right, if she's at all like her mother and l think she is.-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
NONE FOE HIM,

In spite. of all that is said by some of the wise and the good there seems to be a real prejudice against tainted money. Tna New York Evening Post has discovered a notable instance of that prejudice in man who for twenty years has been working for a novelty store on Fifth avenue. He came from Hungary and his wages have never bsen over two dollars day. Year after year he has sat in the basement of the store making pretty articles, When not working he was in his tenement on the West Side. The other day he re- ctived word from Hungary that his grandfather had left him $5,000. He ut- tered guttursI exclamation and sent a cablegram. The message was brief and to the point. He did not want the s5,OOO, and wouldn't take 1t under any circumstances. Then he went back to the store and relieved his mind. 'I couldn't get a good nights sleep if I took that money" he said. 'My grand father got his fortune by robbery. He was a usurer and squeezed the life blood from his victims. I made up my mind long ago that I would never touch a coin of his money. And I wont. I have arms and legs and skill. I can earn all that I need. I don't need much. But what value more than all else is my conscience. You may think me foolish, but am satisfied with what have done, My mind is at ease."
 As a mind at ease is worth more than $5,OOO the man has made a good choice.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
IittIc Rreeches.

I don't go much on religion.
 I never ain't had no show; But I've got a middlin' tight grip, sir, On the handful O things I know. I don't pan out on the prophets, And free-will and that sort of thing But I blieve in God and the angels Ever since one night last spring. come into town with some turnips, And wy little Gabe came along No four year-Old in the county Could beat him for pretty and strong. Peart and chippy and sassy,
 Always ready to swear anaN fight And I'd larnt him to chaw teFbacker, Just to keep his milk teetk white. The snow came down like g. blanket As I passed by Taggart's store; l went in for a jug of molasses And left the team at the door. They scared at something and started I heard one little squalI And hell to split over the prairie Went team, Little Brooches and all. Hell to split over the prairie!
 l was almost froze with skeer; But we rousted up some torches And searched for 'em far and near. At last we struck hosses and wagon Showed under a soft. white mound, Upsot, dead beat-but of little Gabe No hide nor hair was found. AHu u6Ee all HOD6S SOuEEu UIl lliS, Of my fellow critters aid jes Topped down on my marrow bones, Crotched deed in the snow and prayed. Ay this the torches was played out And me and Isrul Parr Went off for some wood to @ Sheepfold That he said was somewhere thar We found it at last and little shed Where they shut up the lambs at
 hignt.
 We looked in and seen them huddled
 thar. .s@s ,p t@%.'.%
 So warm and sleepy and white. And thar sot Little Brooches and chirp- ed,
 As pert as ever you sec, T want a chaw of terbacker,
 And that's what the matter of me-" How did he git thar? Angels.
 He never could have walked in that
 storm: .z5.+'. They jest scooped down and toted him To whar it was safe and warm. And I think that saving a little child, And fotching him to his own, Is 2 darned sight better business
 Than loaflng around the throne.
 JOHN HAY.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
PERENNIAL COTTON.

The cotton cornerers and the cotton burners of this country have perhaps overdone it in their efforts to make cotton cost the English and others big money. Anyhow, the English are mak- ing efforts to become more independent of United States cotton growers. One of the latest statements is that the cot ton plant has been converted from an annual into a perennial crop by Major Hurrell, who has been experimenting near the River Gwibf, in Rhodesia. The advantage of the perennial is that 1t is not killed by frost. The cost of culti- walton is reduced by emitting annual planting. Major HurrelPs product is said to be a great success. The cotton ginned was taken from plants "cut back'' in their second year, and twen- ty-five pounds of specimens have been sent to London. Large efforts arc be- ing made to develop the planting of cotton in Rhodesia, as in other parts of British Africa.
 Of course there will continue to bs, a market for all the cotton raised in this country, but it may not be 50 often a forced market as it has been.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
4 FINE SPIDER.

Our consuls are about as busy mak- some of the reports are interesting. Madagascar has a silk producing spider which is taken favorable notice of in a recent special report from United States Consul Hunt, at Tamatavi. The full grown female of the species at matur- ity is about two and one-half inches long, while the male reaches only one- sixth of that size They abound in the
 island, and the fiber they produce has been long known to the natives, though little use has been made of it. At the Paris exposition of 1900 piece of spider silk fabric eighteen yards long and eighteen inches wide was exhibited, be- ing woven of 100000 yards of spun thread of twenty-four strands, and for its manufacture 25,0O0 spiders were re- quired. These were procured by offer ing the natives so much a hundred: this brought them in in basketfuls, mostly dead so it was found necessary for the winding off machines to go to the spiders instead of calling in the spiders to the fiIatories. The cloth was of shimmering golden yellow color, the exposition nowhere presenting q greater curiosity. There seems a pros pect of making the fibre commercially available, and expert attention has for some time been addressed to the sub-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

London will soon put on it's streets a motor street cleaning machine that will do the work Of 300 men. It operates rakes for caked mud, "squeezees" for wet weather, revolving brush and set of overlapping scrapers to complete the cleaning operation. All the refuse goes into a box. It works at the rate of eight miles an hour.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

Did she ever permit you to kiss her?''
 No, indeed; she's not that kind of a girl"
 Then you have never kissed her?" Of course have kissed her."
 But if she never permitted" Bah; the man who waits for per- mission to kiss a girl doesn't deserve to kiss her, and she generally sees that k1e doesn't. n't.''-Houston Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
AnvnRTIsINa RATEs.

situationA Wants, Rents, and other spiail Advertisements. One Cent a Word eech insertion, Five Cents a word For Q full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch, one insertion, $1.20: each subsequent inser- tiou. 70 cents; one weex, ss.2O; one month. s10; one year. $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

A woman has been elected as local magistrate in the commune of Rank Herlin, Hungary. because the whole adult male population of the place had emigrateds to America, and there was not single man left to fill the posi- ton,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04
DEv1LFIsH sEIzEs DIVER.

Terrible Experience Under South Afri-
 can Waters.
 Some time ago the Union Castle liner Dunvegan Castle collided with the south arm of Cape Town Harbor. So great was the force, of the collision that many of the enormous blocks of con- crete forming the pier were forced from their places and fell to the bottom of the sea, which at this point is between
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

Tine poor showing made by the Wis consin lads at Poughkeepsie was a great disappointment and chagrin to their home folks. Tt is suggested" says the Free Press of Milwaukee, that an intercollegiate corn-hoeing contest be arranged by another season, instead of the boating match on the Hudson. Bet you Wisconsin wouldn't be sixth in that, What is Cornell, and what is Syracuse, that they should do all the winning? Syracuse is 8 college about the size of Lawrence, Cornell is some- what larger, but only about a quarter as large as our university. Do they raise better men in the East than we do in Wisconsin? Is it in the coach- ing? What is the matter with Wiscon- sin?" 5
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

ject. with results which are said to be encouraging and satisfactory.
 By and by perhaps silk will be so cheap that it wont be fashionable.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

Morgan H. Treat, of New York, suc- ceeded Ellis H. Roberts, also of New York, as United States Treasurer at Washington on Saturday. The change necessitates count of the money left on hand at the time of Mir. Roberts re- tirement Sixty employees have, begun the work. and it will take them three months. The amount involved is $1,- )152, ,811, FPS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

The Clifton Hill (MissourD Rustler gives the following directions for eat ing German carp: When fishing if you catch German carp clean it and hang 1t out in the sun six weeks to dry, then nail it to a pine board and cover it Thoroughly with salt or mud. Let it
 d two months longer and then bake
 dass. Remove the nails. throw
 over the back fence and eat ard, but nevssg eat the carp.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE c1TY. 1s GENTS A WEEK. 50 CENTS A MONTH, ss FOR SIX MONTHS. Ss d YEAR THE SAME TERMS BY HAIL. SINGLE COPIES. CENTS
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

THM WEEKLY JOURNAL, snsnsd Thursdays, One Dollar e Year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

There's nothing new under the sun. Nothing doing" seems modern enough, but in the "Creevy Papers, there is a letter written to Thomas Creevy by a pr. Currie, dated May 1, 1903. He is referring to Napoleon: We are all cursed hatt here about the spunnet ne- gotiations. Nothing doing. Everything Stagnated. We shall have war, be- cause 1t is just the most absurd thing in creation"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

It was a, peculiarity of of the late Baldwin Moelhausen that in nearly all his novels the scene is placed partly in Germany, partly in America, He was extremely prolific, his stories and travel sketches making up nearly two hundred volumes He spent many years in the western prairies and the Rocky Mountains before he became li- brarian at Potsdam. His eightieth birthday was celebrated last January. To the last he kept his enthusiasm for the west. He left to Berlin museum four albums containing pictures of America. as no one will ever gain see it''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-04

Tn a recent issue of an English maga-
 zine writer described the compressed food used by the Russian army In
 Manchuria. The illustration of the tea
 tablet was accidentally printed upside down. Thus the Insignia of the czar iipon the tablet was reversed. This revolutionary proceeding proved too much for the censor. In every copy of fthe magazine that reached it's Russian subscribers the unfortunately placed engraving was ruthlessly blacked out.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-03-16
TOGO is AFTER
ROJESTvENSKY
Concluded from First page,

paign is closed. that it will be next to
impossible for Russia 10 put a new
army in the field and that talk of do
ing so is a mere bluff intended to in
fiuence peace terms.
II is believed that the French gov,
eminent has utilized the financial
lever to convey to Russia her view it
is the proper course to seek 10 ar
range terms.
A rumor, persists that Russia has
acquaintaa-Franee with her willing.
ness TO discuss terms, but not on
basis Of indemnity, which Russia con
tends would ruin her prestige. claim
ing that she will rather continue the
war man submit TO such Il demand
Discussing peace prospects the
Post warns Great Britain 10 be pre-
pared for Russia making a determin-
ed effort to renew the combination
with France and Germany which com
PEELED the Japanese at conclusion of
the war with China to abandon Port
Arthur in order in this case to inau-
cnce terms Of settlement.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-03-16
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Corrected to March 5th, 1906,
TUE FAST MAIL ROUTE
Shortest and Quickest Route TO
St. Louis s Chicago


1888 a. 10. Daily Chicago Vestibuls
iImited, arriving In Chicago at 1850 .. Il.
connecting with afternoon trains for all poinis
east and north.
2:2O a, m. Daily st. Louis Nigh, Limited
arriving in st. Louis at 7 :0s a. m. connecting
at Unicn Station for all poiats west. Sleeping
cars open 8t 2:45 p. m.
5:I6 a. M. Chicago Daylight ExpreA-
except Sunday, makes all stops between Cairo
and Chicago, arriving IN Chicago at $3.50 p. IN
5:i 5 u. M, II. Louis Morning Express,
except sunday, arriving ia St. Louis a. l;A
making all stops.
II ;8Ua. M. st. Louie Fast Mail, arriv-
ing in 81. Louis at eos p m.
4 $50 a. m. Chicago Midday Specia
arriving in Chicago, 1850 ?. m.
2:32p. M. Daily ~. Louis Limited, ar
irving 10 ST. Louis At 7:3s p. m, connecting
Uuicn Station for X ansas City, Omaha, Den
yer, San Francisco and all points west
2:32 y. m. Fnst Express for Olin, FL
bingham, Nation, TolonR, Champaign, Chs
cago
0lIO p. NJ. Thebes accommodated,
$40 y. IN. Chicago and Easteru Fx-
press arriving in Chicago Of sos q. m, Indian
apolis rs Cincinnati, 1885 q. M, Buffalo, s:&
z. NJ, New York 7;s0 a. m. Sleeping cars 10
Chicago,
Daccan0are For New York aud eastern
aSoSsSSiS cities should bear IN mind
that the Illinois Central IA the quickest route
by many hours, leaving Cairo at s:05 p. N. aud
arriving Ia New York at 1850 the second morn
tag.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-03-16

There seems 10 be a movement on
foot in the an erent Kitty league
towns 10 have a ascor & league. com
posed OF semiprcfossional or ANA
teur PLAYERS. Cairo VIII in all prob
ability be the pennanr winner in both
leagues as the old "Athlstics" are to
Dc recognized soon ana if they are
mp 10 heir fgfmr trim prove to be
one of the best amateur teams in this
part of the country
Regarding an amateur league the
'Paducah sun says
Paducah fans viii see g5 Cd, fast
baseball every day ana Sur day too.
in Paducah This season, Re ides the
regular Kitty league team taere Will
be -four other teams. and in addition
% the Paducah senalpr sfessional
teams, the towns o. Metr polls ana
Princeton WIN be taken in and
city league" orgraized
MIR. Alfred Winirey, Of The Illinois
Central Woodworking shops has or
ganized q team to ne known as the
Illinois Centfals
Mt Harry Kyicr nr tie machinists,
has organized team to be Known as
"The Famous
II tho Athletics can frarlc up with
that bunch us a hundred 10 one that
they viii AT least make It interesting,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-03-16

Because he would rather wear a
unilo. IN decorated with brass but
tons aad pose as member of Hop
kinsyiie finest. Ohio Mulen may
nor cap er about the Henderson oul.
Gell this season
Mullen was elected TO the police
force at. Hoplinsyille last week 1t
was thoug nj BY the local manage
ment thai the young man, who is al
mired because OF his haemess. was
bluffng and would soon gel The base
ball fever bur il seems that The deer
like Mullen has lost all interest in
the game anI prefers 10 be a copper
In the meanwhile Manager Kubitz
ard Secretary zimbro are wondering
ii they cannot persuade Mullen to
give up his uniform and club They
have not given up hope of securing
him He had peen depended upon to
play center fisld. and If he does not
report the M nagemenr will have to
hustle out anal find 4 new player
Henderson Cleaner