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edge of the precipice overlooking the
bay, on the edge of which a wall kept
their babies from falling. The effect
was picturesque, and this hill was the
delight of painters. 1t was all more
like Italy than anything in the Ital-
ian quarter of New York and Chicago
the very climate and surroundings,
wine country close at hand, the bay
for their lateen boats, helped them.
Over by the ocean and surrounded
by cemeteries in which there are no
more burials, there is an eminence
which is topped by two peaks and
which the Spanish of the early days
named after the breasts of the woman.
At its foot was Mission Dolores, the
last mission planted by the Spanish
padres in their march upon the coast,
and from these hills the Spanish look
ed for the first time upon the golden
bay.
Many years ago some one set up at
the summit of this peak a sixty-foOt
cross CT timber. Once a high wind
blew it down, and the women Of the
Fair family then had it restored so
firmly that it would resist anything
As it is on a hill it must have stood.
1t has risen for fifty years above the
gay, careless, luXUTiant and lOvable
city, in full view from every eminence
and from every valley. 1t must stand
tonight above the desOlation of ruins.
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DAINTIES for the
LENTEN TABLE
O1HI = C4tONt = II I I-'5'--- ItUU VIIe
and a half pounds Of cooked po-


and a half pounds Of cooked po-
tatoes through sieve. Melt an
ounce of butter in a saucepan, put in
the potatoes and stir them over the fire
for a few minutes, then add two tea
spOOnfuls Of chopped parsley the yolk
of an egg and a good seasoning OF salt
and pepper. When the mixture is thor
Oughly hot turn it on plate. spread it
over evenly and leave until cold. Then
take a tablespoonful Of the mixture and
form it into a ball. When the balls are
shaped beat up an egg and have some
breadcrumbs ready to use. Brush each
bali with the egg and coat il I'm crumbs.
Have ready a pan Of frying fat. When
a blush smoke arises from il put in the
balls and fry them a golden brown.
Drain we'll on kitchen paper and serve
while smoking hot.
CaulifOwer au Gratin.-Trim of the
stalk and all but four or five leaves Of
the caulifiOwer. Let IL soak in cold
water for half an hour, then put il in a
saucepan Of we'll sailed boiling water
and let il boil until tender. When done
lift it out of the water carefully and
drain. Place Il on "A hot dish, squeeze
ing it lightly into a nice shape with the
hand and a clean towel. While tn
caulihOwer is cooking prepare the fob
lowing sauce: Melt one ounce Of but
ter. stir Sc half an ounce Of flour. thef
add one and a half gills Of milk ans
stir over the FIRE TIL the sauce bOils ana
thickens. Season Il carefully and sta
an ounce Of grated cheese into il. Pour
this sauce over the caulihower. Sprin-
kle another ounce Of the cheese and a
few Drowned crumbs over the top Of the
caulifiOwer. Put the dish in a quick
oven till the cheese is nicely Drowned.
then serve very hot.
Sweet Omelet. - Break four eggs,
carefully separating the yOlks and
whites. Add one ounce Of powdered
sugar and little vanilla 10 the yolks
and stir them till they are a thick froth
Add a few grains Of salt TO the whites
and whisk them to a stiff froLh Melt
half an ounce Of butter in an omelet
pan. Mix the whites Of the eggs quick
~ and lightly with the yOlks. stirring
them as little as possible. Pour the
mixture into the pan, place il on the
fire for about three minutes. then put
il in the oven for another three minutes
to set it and slightly brown the TOP.
Turn the omelet on a piece Of sugarsd
paper. Spread One-half Of Il with a
little jam and fold over the other hall
Put it on lace paper dolly and serve
Is quickly a. possible.
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fedged haven't even sprouted. That is
the amazing discovery every newly
married man makes, and the quicker
he makes il and becomes reconciled the
better it is for his future welfare.
Angels are all well enough in pic
lures, but they would certainly CRATE
on our nerEes If we had to associate
with them. Nor is perfection to be de-
sired in a genuine flesh and blood wo-
man. This would be a mighty tire
some world If of US did exactly as
we ought II is mainly our faults and
the faults of others that furnish US the
diversion that makes life worth while
That isn't strictly orthodox, but it's
true. and I believe ii Will continue to
be true as long as humanity retains that
innate cuSsedness which dominates it.
Don't infer, however, that consider
imperfections and attractions to in
crease in corresponding ratio. little
salt is necessary to make your food
palatabIe, but a very little more will
spoil il. A faultless wife is likely to
be insipid. and good, healthy imper-
fections should rather be cause for re-
joicing than lament So, my boy, when
you find one in your dear little bride,
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of San Francisco. A district six
blocks long and two blocks wide,
when the quarter was full, housed 3d.
900 Chinese. The dwellings were old
business blocks of the early days;
but the Chinese had added to them,
rebuilt them, had run out their own
balconies and entrances, and had CIV
en- it that feeling of huddled irregu-
larity which makes all Chinese built
dwellings fall naturally into pictures.
Not only this, they had burrOWed to a
depth equal to three stories under the
ground, and through this ran passages
in which the Chinese transacted their
dark and devious affairs-as the
smuggling of opium, the traffic in
slave girls and the settlement of their
difficulties.
There was less of this underground
life than formerly, for the board Of
health had a cleanup some time ago;
but it was still possible to go from
one end of Chinatown to the other
through secret underground passages.
The Chinese lived there their own life
in their own way The Chinatown Of
New York is dull beside it. And the
tourist, who always included China
town in his itinerary, saw little of the
real life. The guides gave him a
show by actors hired for his benefit.
In reality the place had considerable
Importance in a fnacial way. There
were clothing and cigar factories Of
importance, and much of the tea AMI
silk importing was in the hands #
the merchants, who numbered sever
al milliOnaires. Mainly, however, l.
was a TenderlOin for the house ser
wants of the city-for the San Fran
cisco Chinaman was seldom a laun-
dryman; he was too much in deman
at fancy prices as a servant.
The Chinese lived their own lives
in their own way and settled their
own quarrels with the revolvers OF
their highbinders. There were two
theatres in the quarter, a number of
rich joss houses, three newspapers
and Chinese telephone exchange.
There is a race feeling against the
Chinese among the working people Of
San Francisco, and no white man, eX-
cept the very lowest outcasts, lived
in the quarter.
On the Slopes of Telegraph Hill.
On the slopes of Telegraph Hill
dwelt the Mexicans and Spanish, IN
low houses, which they had transform
ed by balconies into a resemblance of
Spain. Above, and streaming cover
the hill, were the Italians The tene-
ment quarter of San Francisco shone
by contrast with that of New York,
for while these people lived in old and
humble houses they had room to
breathe and high eminence for light
and air. Their shanties chung on the
side of the hill or hung on the very
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queer craft, to lose themselves in the
disreputable, tumbledown, but always
mysterious shanties and small saloons.
In the back rooms of these saloons
South Sea Island traders and captains
fresh from the lands of romance,
whaling masters, people who were
trying to get up treasure expeditions,
hhbuSters, Alaskan miners, used to
meet and trade adventures.
Where the Drifters fingered.
There was another elemnt, less pic
turesque and equally characteristic,
along the water front. For San Fran
cisco was the back eddy of European
civilizatiOn-One end of the world.
The drifters came there and stopped,
fingered while to live by Their, wits
in a country where living after a fash
ion has always been marvelously
cheap. These people haunted the wa
ter front or lay on the grass on Ports
mouth Square.
That square, the old plaza about
which the city was built, Spanish
fashion, had seen many things. There
in the first burst of the early DAYS the
vigilance committee used to hold its
hangings. There in the tine of the
sand lot riots Dennis Kearney, VINO
nearly pulled the town down about
his ears, used to make his orations
which set the unruly to rioting. In
these later years Chinatown lies on
one side Of il and the Latin quarter
and the ''Barbary Coast" on the other.
On this square men used to lie all
al
vens.on lay there with them in his
time and learned the things which he
wOve into The Wrecker" and his
South Sea stories, and now in the
center of the square there stands the
beautiful Stevenson monument;
stands or stoOd-One finds his lenses
queerly mixed in writing of this city
which is and vet is no more. In later
years the authorities put up a munic,.
pal building on one side of the square
and prevented the lOungers, for de-
cency's sake, from lying on the grass.
Since then some of the peculiar char
aster Of the old plaza has gone.
Barbary Coast a Bit of Hell.
The BaTbary coast was a loud bit
of hell No one knows who coined
the name. The place was simply
three blocks Of solid dance halls,
there for the delight of the sailors Of
the world. On a fine busy night every
door bla-ed loud dance music from
orchestTas. steam pianos and. grama-
phones and the cumulative effect of
the sound which reached the street
was at least strange. Almost any
thing might be happening behind the
swinging doors. For a fine and pic
turesque bundle of names Characters
tic of the place, a police story OF
three years ago is typical: He'll
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the other hand, it is just as necessary
that the wife know the husband, but
don't care to discuss that side of the
question. I don't feel competent.
Reform YeUr Faults, Not Hers.
You may wonder that 1 don't suggest
a study of your wifes virtues. Lord
bless you, my boy, you don't need to
study them. They will fall upon you
and envelop you and permeate you,
and all you have to do is to appreciate
them and give frequent evidence of
your appreciation. Virtues seldom
cause domestic trouble unless they are
allowed to become aggressively active,
and then, as a rule, they cease to be
virtues. Just confine your attention to
her faults. If these are little ones be
thankful and let them alone. II any
should look to be serious don't try TO
remove them with an ak. You are like
" to sprain your arm and dull the tool.
Treat them with tact and patience and
love and in the course of time, perhaps
a long time, you can so modify them
that they will become UNDERSTANDABLE
or even likable.
All this, however, presupposes some
attention to your own failings, which
are probably more numerous and more
pronounced than hers, and in the case
Of q man there are more circumstances
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pie, largely overlooked in the histories
of the early days; and this Latin
leaven has had its influence.
Brought up in bOuntiful country,
where no one really has to work very
hard to live, nurtured on adventure,
scion of a free and merry stock, the
real, native Californian is a distinc-
tive type; as far from the fastener
in psychology as the extreme south
erner is from the yankee. He is easy
going, witty, hospitable, lova.ble, in
clined to be immoral rather than i'm
moral in his personal habits, and
above all easy. to meet and to know.
Above all there is an art sense all
through the popTlace which sets it
off from any other part Of the country
This sense is almost Latin in its
strength, and the Californian owes it
to the leaven of Latin blood The
true Californian fingers in the north;
for Southern California has been built
up by '"lunSers" from the east and
middle west and is eastern in Charac-
ter and feeling.
A City That Never Slept.
San Francisco never went to bed.
There was no closing law, so that the
saloons Kept open nights and Sundays
at their own sweet will. Most of them
elected to remain open until 3 o'clock
in the morning at least. Yet this res
taurant life does not exactly express
the careless, pleasure loving character
of the people. In every part their
pleasures were simple, inexpensive
.f L.
fOnder of expeditions into the cOun-
try, Of picnics-which might be
brought off at almost any season of
the year-and often long tours in the
great mountains and forests. And
hospitality was nearly a vice.
AS in the early mining days, if
they liked the stranger the people
took him in At the first meeting the
local man probably had him put up at
the club; at the second, he invited
him home to dinner. AS long as he
stayed he was being invited 10 week
end parties at ranches. to little din
ners in this or that restaurant and to
the houses of his new acquaintance, >.
until his engagements grew beyond
hope of ;ulfilment. There was rather
too much of it, At the end of a fortnight
a stranger with a pleasant smile and
a good story left the place a wreck.
This tendency ran through all grades
of society-except, perhaps, the sport
ing people who kept the tracks and
the fighting game alive. These also
met the stranger-and also took him
in.
The Burrows of Chinatown.
The foreign quarters are worth an
article in themselves. Chief OF these
was, of course, Chinatown, of which
every one has heard who ever heard
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MOLHNO
Special to The Journal.

Moline, April 27.-Rain is very
much needed in this section. Some
of the farmers say their cotton has
not come up yet and will not until q
rain.
We have a reminder that summer
is cOming-OuT annual little visitors
the mosquitoes
We have also been reminded Of the
an election in May by some Of the
candidates coming to see us.
Col. John Beard and Mr.. JacOby
and others were here last week Col.
Beard interested the audience very
much with his eloquent speech.
Miss Katie Hall. Of Pensacola who
is now teaching school at QUintette,
and Miss Bessie Hannah of QUintetts
were visiting in MolinO last Saturday
Mr.. Tom TAFT spent one afternoon
here last week, the guest of his
aunts, Mrs. Grimbler and Miss TAFT.
Mrs. Pearl BrOwman came ND Sat
urday and went out to visit her pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. Crabtree. Mr..
Bowman come Sunday morning and
they returned to the city Sunday az
ternom.
Mrs. Edna BayOne and her little
daughter Edwin of WomaCh Hill,
Ala, are here visiting their AHnts,
Mrs. Grimler and Miss TAFT.
Mrs. BayOne will be here for sew
eTal weeks.
Mrs. Gerald Murphy came up from
Pensacola Saturday to visit her sis
ter Mrs Dan Proctor.
Mr. Mackey and his son Mr.. Wal
ter came Sunday and spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Proctor.
Mr.. Byrd Cooper, Mr.. VIM. II.
Trimmer and Mr.. w. A. Miller of this
place have gone to Confederate re-
union at New Orleans.
Mr. Jake Moore an old resident Of
MOlinO died Thursday at o'clock p.
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should cause an entire change Of rela-
tions. Some people seem to think that
the tender little attentions which mark
the period of cOurtship and that i'm
mediately follow the wedding are in
compatible with the struggle for a liv-
ing; that the kiss, the caress, the lit
tie compliments, are not only unneces-
sary, but even foolish. If you desire
happiness as nearly absolute as posi-
BILE here below, don't make that mis-
take.
Love Is Not All.
Love alone is not sufficient for a wo-
man. She hungers for it's outward and
visible manifestation, and it is hun
ger that can never be fully appeased.
A man can rest content in the conf
dence Of his wife's affection and doesn't
worry if she neglects to express it in
words or actions. But she is of differ
ent fiber. She wants to hear you say
81 love you" once in awhile, to feel your
arm steal around her and your lips
pressed to hers. She never grows
weary of these things, and she never
grows too old to appreciate them. Their
neglect is the beginning Of Indifference,
and Indifference is loves deadliest foe.
Without love marriage degenerates first
to a mere convenience and then to a
condition of bondage in which iron
chains take the place Of roses, chains
which the divorce courts are too often
called upon to sever. If you do not give
your wife frequent evidence of your af-
lection, you will have only yourself to
blame if she turns to some one else for
that which her nature demands. No;
you cannot possibly attach too much
Importance to these seemingly insig-
nihcant things. They are the very
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THE BEAUTIFUL CITY THAT STOOD BY THE GOLDEN GATE


Tho old San Francisco is dead. The
-,-as-. highest hearted, most pleasure
fori-r city Of this continent, and in
-~srr ways the most interesting ana
-,~ar-ic. is a horde of huddled refu-
- living among ruins. II may re-
mid. il probably viii; but those who
have known that peculiar city by the
Co.den Gate and have caught its ia
vo- nj the ARABIA Nights feel that it
r-- never be the same. It is as
fhoreh a pretty, frivolous woman had
rsssel JnrOugn a great tragedy. She
survives, but she is sObered and diff
farent. II il rises out Of the ashes it
must be a modern city, much like
other cities and without its old flavor
A Resort Of all Races.
The old san Francisco was a city of
romance and a gateway TO adventure
Il opened out on the mysterious Pa
cifc the Untamed ocean, and most Of
China. Japan. the South Sea Islands,
Lower California, the west coast of
Central America, Australia that came
10 This country passed in through the
Golden Gate. There was a sprink-
linz. too of Alaska and Siberia. From
his windows on Russia Hill one saw
always something strange and sug-
ges-ive creeping through the m'sts Of
the bay Il would be a South Sea
Island brig, bringing in cOpra, to take
Out C0JOns and idols; a Chinese junk
with tanlike sails. back from an ex-
peiu on after sharks livers; an old
whaler, which seemed to drip oil.
back from a year Of cruising in the
Arctic. Even the tramp windjam-
me-s were deep chested craft, capable
Of rounding the Horn or Of circumna-
vigat ng the globe, and they came in
sr6s6ed and picturesque from their
long vOyaging.
IN The orange cOlOred dawn which
always comes through the mists Of
that bay, the fishing fleet would crawl
in under triangular lateen sails, for
the fishermen Of San Francisco bay
are all NeapOlitsns who have brought
their customs and their costumes
and sails with lateen rigs shaped like
the ear Of a horse when the wind fills
them and stained an orange brown.
Smelling Pot Of the Races"
Along the water front the people Of
these craft met. The smelling pot
OF the races" Stevenson called il;
and this was always the city Of his
soul There are black Gilbert Island
erz. almost indistingUishable from ne
groes, lighter Kanakas from Hawaii
or Samoa; Lascars in turbans; thick
SCI Russian sailors; wild Chinese with
un5raided hair: Italian fishermen in
tam o shanters, loud shirts and blue
saSaes: Greeks, Alaska Indians, little
bay Spanish-Americans, together with
men Of all the European races. These
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worshiped from afar nor a mental to
be bOssed at close range. She is Just a
delightful bundle of flesh and blood
and nerves, designed for everyday wear
and attaining her highest happiness in
loving and helping you.
Do all you can, therefore, to keep
that love light burning brightly, for If
you are the right sort your own happi-
ness will be based upon hers. Love
her always and let her know, let her
know, let her know that you love her
That is the fatal mistake of so many
keeping their love to themselves, as II
it were something to be ashamed Of
until continual suppression extinguishes
it entirely Exercise is as necessary to
love as il is TO all attributes Of life,
physical, mental or spiritual This is
not theory, but fact, which has been
proven over and over again since the
world began, and my own experience
does not differ from that of countless
thousands Of others who bear testimony
to it's truth.
Your mother reminds me that It is
time for me to be in bed, so 1 must
bring this epistle to a close. With love
to tile new Mrs. Sneed-God bless her
I remain your affectionate father,
JOHN SNEED.
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broke out in Eve Wink Dance
Hail. The trouble was started by a
sailor known as Kanaka Pete, who
lived in the What Cheer House, over
a woman known as IOdOform Kate.
Kanaka Pete chased the man he had
marked to the Little Silver Dollar,
where he turned and punctured him.
The by-product. of his gun made some
holes in the front of the Eye Wink,
which were proudly kept as souvenirs
and were probably there until it went
out in the fire. This was low life, the
lowest Of the low.
Until the last decade almost any
thing except the commonplace and
the expected might happen to a man
on the water front The cheerful in
dusty of shanghaing was reduced to a
science. A stranger taking a drink
in one of the saloons which hung out
over the water might be dropped
through the floor into a boat, or he
might drink with a stranger and wake
in the forecastle of whaler bound
for the Arctic. Such an incident is
the basis of Frank Norris novel,
Moran of the Lady Lefty" and al
though the novel draws it pretty
strong, it is not exaggerated Ten
years ago the police and the foreign
cCnsuls, working together, stopped
this. ..--
Notorious Kearney Street.
Kearney street, wilder and strang-
er BOwery, was the main thorough
fare Of these people. An exiled Cali
fornian, mourning over the city of his
heart, said:
In half an hour of Kearney
street, l could raise a dozen men for
down a statue to searching for the
Cocos Island treasure"
This is hardly an exaggecat1on.
These are a few Of the elements
which made the city strange and gave
it the glamour of romance which has
so strongly attracted such men as
Stevenson, Frank Norris and Kjpling.
This lay apart from the regular life
of the city, which was distinctive in
itself
The Californian is the second gener-t
alton of a picked and mixed stock.
The merry, the adventurous, often
the desperate, always the brave, de-
serted the South and New England in
184S to rush around the Horn or to-
try the perils of the plains. They
found there already grown old in the
hands of the Spaniards younger sons
of hildalgos and many of them of the
prOudest blood of Spain. To a great
extent the pioneers intermarried with
Spanish women; in fact, except for a.
proud little colony here and there, the
old Spanish blood is sunk in that of!
the conquering race. Then there was
an influx Of intellectual French peO-
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New Road Completed Soon.

The Birmingham, Columbus & st.
Andrews Railroad will, we are inform-
ed, soon be completed from Chipley 10
the bay. The fact that this new line
of road opens up a vast territory rich
in natural resources, and also gives
northward, is causing all eyes to be
turned in that direction. The new ad.
of Butler &, Simmons, real estate deal
ers, of Chipley, Florida, appears in
this issue. They are on the ground,
and will be glad to answer all in
quiries concerning that interesting
part of our state.
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Some would call it an old fashioned
idea that has no place in the advanced
civilization of today. The mountains
and the hills, the lakes and the rivers,
are old fashioned, and they are no moro
immutable than human nature, of which
love is the highest expression. In spite
of all of our culture, men and women,
under the veneer, are just the same 9s
they were when Pan played his pipes
in the groves of Arcadia. We are as
God made us, and while we may devel-
Cd the brain we can't alter its compost
ton, nor can we eradicate the love long
ing from a wOmans heart. So let her
have all she wants.
Keep the Love Light Burning.
/ am writing all this now because I
want to keep you from settling down in
the all too customary way after your
return from your wedding trip. You