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The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
Brokers Still Fight Hard Over
Three Stocks Of Nevada Mines
San Francisco Board Fixes Flat Rate
fof Commissions at | Per Cent

pressing plant just finished will double the
possibilities of production.
The beginning of the week redoubled ac-
tiyitx through the entire mineral Zone. Leases
on which work stopped have been taken
up By other OPERATORS gallows frames are
being built ana the rattle of and hosts
fills the district from TO the other.
The big producers going merrily taking
out ore. -Four of high, grade sent
yesterday to the Western purchasing COM
pany at Mllers from the Mohawk. Two more
ears of picture ore are In the vault awaiting
shipment
The Combination has two tons sof rich ore
awaiting shipment. and is producing 70 tons
per day. which is being treated at Its own
mill This ore averages 500 to the ton.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
,,-x1oR FoRrsrERs TO ENTERTAIN

Junior Court Pride OF California
No / Foresters of America, Will have
an entertainment and dance in cotillon
bs1l next Tuesday evening under the
5irecfion of the entertainment commit
fee-De Witt Asch, Henry Altman,
Herbert Thai. Harry Shane and Arthur
TnwiR
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following marriage licenses were issued
in this city June 81:
Julian Lippman, 2l, 3404 Clay ST., and Jewel
H. Breslauer Is. Ills Masonic ave-
Clarence r. BAH, 70. Sacramento, and Lii
lian Barnes. %, 1552A OFarrell ST.
Howard w. Graham. 2e, 1927 Buchanan St,
and Juell Lazansky, -. 2S19 Pine ST.
Herman Behnken, 20. and Mary Schiefer, 1s,
both of San Francisco.
Lewis n. Fletcher 90. 1609A Scott St, and
Dorothy L. Michel, 30. T12 kearny ST
Carl A. Larsen, %, Fruitvale and Olive NJ
Clarke. 20, 1893 Pege ST..
William f. Inselmanu. 2i 46TsA Eighteenth
St, and Agatha NJ Guilty. Is, San Jose.sas
William g. Mcmahon. 81 and Christina L.
Condor, 81. both of 1887 Page ST.
Topias Sippala, 20, 243 Steuart ST. and
Mary Waisanen, ~, West Berkeley.
Henry H.. H. krohn, "a, 1694A Howard ST.,
and Emma G. e. Koenig, 80 347 Arlington st.
John Costello 20. 29o2 Twenty third St. and
Mary Griffin 81, 426S Twenty fourth St
William III. Shaw, u. 2723 Jackson ST., and
Alice NJ. Kenny, is, s14 Buchanan st.
Giovanni Battini, %, and Adele Deluxe 49,
both of IL Verona place.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
sam Francisco Mining Exchange

9:15 a. m. Regular Session
100 Great Bend -. 56' 600 CID Con NJ. s.. 20
l0o0 jun Ex. S 5.2.o5l
1l.30 q. N. Regular Session
$50 Com Frc.s5a 2. .sTIsl 1000 Red Tor Ex.. 2I
200 Cid Con n s 81 l2C00 Blue Bull .... p
LOO Jun Ex. SILL 100 Mtg Shos Ex. 10
1000 Jun Exs101. .721z
p. N. Session
1000 Red TOP Ex.. % 300 Com Fro, SO. 90
600 Gold Sceptre 1lEcOO Great Bend .. "a
500 Mayfower 49, "a 1000 Flor G King 26
500 Mayfower 49,. - ZOO Flor King -
800 Cid Con M-6.2z45
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22

with the name and residence of nersons author
lied to have the same published Notices re-
stricted simply to the announcement of the event
are published once in this column free of charge.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
OAKLAND, June 2i.--The following marriag,
licenses were issued today

e. Munyan, %, Hayward
John E. Cosgrove. 34 San Francisco, and
Alice r. Cracknell, "a, Oakland.
Edward Kennedy, ae, and Eva o. Loebel, 80.
both of San Francisco.
James Haynie, SO. and Carrie Thornton. 81,
both OF Oakland
Seth T. Smith, %. Fruityale, and Kathryn
Stutman. %, Davenport, Nebr.
Arthur 4. Brown, 20, and Millicent Norton,
49, both of Berkeley
Ernest Morris. %. and Jessie v. Brady. 20,
Mark R. Daniels. 25. and Frances frost, 10,
both of Berkeley.
Charles +. Wright, %. and Retta V. Jones,
27 both OF Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22

MEYERS -SCHWANEWEDEL = In this city
June TO- 1907. by the Rev. Herman Gehrckc,
Fred j. E. Meyer of San Francisco and Ella
G. chwanewedel of Alameda. Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS

Birth, marriage and death notices sent by mail
win not be inserted. They must be handed in at
either Of the publication offices and be indarsad
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
BIRTHS
MARRIAGES

DONDERO-In Oakland. Cal, June 49, 1907
TO the wife of A. G. Dondero tnee Barcilles)
daughter.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22

TICKET oFFIcH AT sAUsALITo FERRY
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-13
FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY, SATURDAY APRIL Is. 1907

statistics with more regard than we
can now afford to admit or enjoy.
To any intelligent country gentle
man of the 'old school," the thought
of past, present and future living
means much in the general term. The
homes of childhood must be cherished
and not to be allowed to go into
the possession of renters who have
no thought, whatever, of sentiment OF
fidelity, or to creatures of circum-
stance who know not the value of
home. Teach the children the venera-
tion of aged landmarks, and the love
of parental housekeeping, and the girls
Will be anxious to marry the farmer
boy, and the boy be equally as willing
to wed the country girl, and in the
next decade we shall see contended,
under their own vine and rose tree, the
children who have learned obedience,
order and kindness, and who love
the scenes of nature because these
belong to God.
April, 1907. N. s. COX.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-13
[For the Roundabout
SUCCESS.

Insomnia and nervousness seem tC
be the leading factors in the mathe
NAUTICAL calculus of the present day
and if the grippe" is not in attend
ance, the ailing mortal is full of feal
that perl ~ tomorrow he or she may
be victim to its grasp.
It's high noon, and time to get away
from such impressions! Give them
up instanter, and take "chaw OF
terbacco"-as uncle Dan says-you'll
be able to drive the pillow better in
the spring time, and chop kindling
in the winter.
"Its a wonder to me-" said Judge
B., over at the blacksmith shop,
chow Mr.. Blank manages to live and
educate his children on that small
farm! I'd starve to DEATH" he con-
tinued, in two years; and yet B., has
a pair of mules, a new wagon, and
talks of making improvements in the
next spring." Hits jest this here
way" chimed in Uncle Henry, squirt
ing the amber over among the cold
irons in corner; she tends ter his
own bizness, eats corn bread, and
owes no man anything. Success will
grow Seed"
"Thars Jim Candy, he wus err goin
ter make money in town, sold his
premises, by gum, tried city life fur
a year, and cum back ter Their country
plum broke. Good thing his wife's
father had money ernuff ter buy back
Their farm, and give hit ter Their wife
and children" "Nuff said," replied Dr.
b. Success is dependent upon
health, happiness and the almighty
tdullar,' man can't even hire horse
and buggy to go fishing without plank.
down u ave" Wish had time
ats ~ while and taxi IS 49,;
I ne Farmers Institute held 2 sue
ssful corvocation at the Forks Of
u khdsnxtne sd and 4th ofAbfiI
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-13
DOING BUSINESS AGAIN.

when my friends thought I was
about to take leave of this world, on
account of indigestion, nervousness
and general debility" writes A. A.
Chisholm, Treadwell, N. Y, land when
it looked as if there was no hope left
was persuaded to try Electric
Bitters, and I rejoice to say that they
are curing me. ! am now doing bust
ness again as Of old, and am still
gaining daily" Best tonic medicine
on earth. Guaranteed by all druggists.
soc.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-13
MULE TEAM RUNS AWAY.

PA team of mules hitched to a
ERpgon, took fright on the Versailles
pike, on Tuesday, and ran away. In
the wagon were a number of men, but
fthey could not control the frighten-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

i have none at present. / am going
to make an experiment this evening in
order to help me form one. You can
now go to bed. The cat is to be turned
out doors. I shall stretch myself out
on the lounge, with note book and pen
ell in hand, and record my feelings I'M
til lost in slumber. I can't find that
any one has done that to settle this
controversy"
You will probably get up with
cold in your head after an hour or So"
That will be entirely my affair,
Mrs Bcwser VIII you now escort
that yaller-eyed cat down stairs and
throw her out and give her to under
stand that The first maui she utters
from the back fence will be the signal
for her death?'
IF you wake UP with your head all
stuffed up. don't blame me- she an
swered as she drove the cat before her.
Men have often given their lives to
settle questions not so grave at these
he replied with much pomposity and
dignity.
Ten minutes later he was alone The
gas was turned out to one burner. and
he stretched himself on the lounge
and prepared to record for the benefit
of science. He lost no time in begin
ming.
Having assumed an easy position.
House quiet. Mrs. Bowser gone to bed.
No care en- my mind.
"Arn looking up at the ceiling. The
calling his wares. but 1 am seeking to
make myself oblivious of the fact.
big toe on the left foot begins to
feel numb. Is it possible that sleep
| first makes its appearance through
the toes2
81 seem to feel a slight draught of
cold air on my head. Perhaps that is
the pressure of drowsiness.
There is an itching sensation in the
right heel. Am I about to discover
that humanity goes to sleep through
its heels? IF so, all theories thus far
advanced will fall to the ground and
the Bowser theory take their places.
"Draught of cold continues. Must
| the human scalp become cooled off be-
| fore sleep will come? This line of
| thought is worth following.
! Right leg suddenly gave a jerk.
Left leg seemed to want to get up
off the lounge.
! Il don't want to rush things, but it
/ seems to me that am on the brink of
an important discovery.
| I have just felt a twitching of the
ears
THE jerk of the right leg has been
renewed.
In my thoughts had gone back to
boyhood days when both legs suddenly
\ drew up at once, as if 1 were trying to
climb a ladder
AS the above motions were followed
/ by numb feeling in the back of my
neck nothing is yet decided.
More twitching of the ears
Strange sensations in both big toes.
How Mrs. Bowser can go to bed and
snore away with such a monentous
question undecided is puzzle to me-
My eyes are now fastened on one
particular spot on the ceiling and / am
old farm VI '--0
II now see the mill just as it used to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
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"And just what is this question? Mr.
Bowser. Even if I do attend bargain
sales perhaps my opinion on other sub
Iects is worth something
II will state the case, but I warn you
In advance that 1 won't stand for any
of your sarcasms. If you can't treat
1t seriously you needn't answer at all.
You know what sleep is, of course. All
creation has to sleep. You have some
times realized the fact that you We're
dropping off to sleep. Now, then, what
part of the human being goes to sleep
first? Is it the feet, the brain, the legs.
arms, eyes or what? There is the ques-
ton in a nutshell. Doctor Bull, says
one thing and Doctor Delos another.
and between them they have got a
million people interested. Have you
any Information to Offer
81 simply contend that sleep is what
may be called a natural anesthetic and
that 1T affects the brain first 1 don't
think there can be any question about
that
10y our assurance is equal to your ig-
norance- You stand in opposition to
a thousand wise men,. That's Just like
a woman. She'll blurt out an opinion
on any subject as glibly as a parrot,
and with as little sense to back it,"
stAnd how about your opinion ?"
asked Mrs. Bowser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

me talk Tho hired man gave me a
look of warning, but passed it by and
replied:
my story is one that I need not
be ashamed of I am on the road as
a tramp simply because l was stead
fast in my love for one of the most
beautiful and 1ovable girls in all the
world"
You don't meansitt' exclaimed the
widow, as she threw her hands up.
That's what I said to Jim an hour ago
that you didn't look like a common
tramp
"'And said he did. and he does -
growled the hired man.
:" 4 had just finished at Princeton
college, I said when I attended a
theater in the city and fell in love with
the actress who played the part of the
heroine in Coon Hollow. I managed
to. secure an introduction to her that
evening and told her of my love. She
thought it was rather sudden. like fall
ing off a house, but she did not dis
courage me. followed the theatrical
company around for month, and then
Gwendclin promised to be mine. When
she spoke the words she. made me the
happiest man in all the world
"'Great snakes, but you don't tell
mel exclaimed the blushfng widow.
fWhy-why-I used to be on the stage
myself
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puritan character, with its historic
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The February Century will be al
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Bishop Potter's account of 1.-THE
Graves of Three Westinghouse Prof.
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Moltke's View of Washington's Stra-
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The Macmillan company has in the
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Travels" of the famous Captain John
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
THE SAME MIR. BOWSER.
He Attempts to Settle Another Vexed
Question.

Mr.. Bowser had been quiet and pre-
occupied all the evening, and Mrs
Bowser, although she had noticed his
attitude, had failed to make any re-
mark on it for fear of starting him off
on some tangent. 1t got to be nine
O'Clock and he could stand it no longer
After walking the floor for two or
three minutes he said:
Mrs Bowser,- did YOU ever hear of
Sir James Bull. the celebrated English
physician?"
81 think I have seen his name men
toned" she carelessly replied.
'tAnd perhaps you may have seen the
name of Doctor Delos,. Of France, men
toned pes
@safs can't say. Doctor So-and-So is
bringing out consumption cure to-
day, and some other doctor is follow
ing with a cure for something else to-
morrow, and one can't keep track of
half the names he sees on the bottles
in the drug stores"
Good Heavens he groaned after
regarding her with a look of mingled
The names of two of the greatest ply
stefan in the world and you connect
them with corn-cures and cough
syrupsl Woman, can't your mind get
beyond the buying of a two-dollar cor
set for a dollar and forty cents at some
bargain sale?"
well, what about these great doc
torso"
1T will be waste of breath to tell
you, but just now they are engaged in
a controversy that I can perhaps help
settle. 1t occurred to me this morning
that I could, and / have been thinking
ABOUT it all day. If 1 could prove the
means of so doing it would make me
famous in a day.
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TRAMP TALKS.
The Dilapidated Gentleman Continues
His Stories. -As a

Did it ever occur to you that Weary
William meets up withzcoincidences as
we'll as other folks % asked the
Dilapidated Gentleman, as he pock-
eted the coin and prepared to talk.
well. then. let me say. that he does,
and two that occurred to me a couple
of years ago in my travels are worth
hard for a couple of weeks when my
feet got sore and I looked for a place
to lay off for day or two. I selected
a. modest-1o okiIfs u farmhouse and
turned in, and my knock ON the
Kitchen door was apswered by a wo-
man Of about forfet " lIof weighed full
ly two hundred pounds. She proved to
years old. and was running the farm
with the help of a hired man.
- ST offered to work for my board for
two or there days. land was set to
picking up cider apples in the orchard.
When supper time came / had my meal
alone and then helped the hired man
do up the chores. The tramp who
square himself with the hired man
on. the farm @particularly if he has the
bossing of things. This one didn't cot
ton to me worth a cent. He was gruff
and surly, and though I made it plain
that I was not after his job he would
not be friendly. AS I afterwards came
to- know. the widow had said word
or two in my praise, and that had
cooked M mutton with him.
AFTER things had been cleared up
for the night I sat down on the ver-
anda steps, and presently the others
came out. / was for moving away, but
the widow detained me by saying that
I must have many adventures on the
road, and she would be glad to hear
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TT now start to enter it to take a
drink.
1.-The mill now vanishes.
81 think sleep is coming. While
am not exactly satisfied, 1t seems to
come more from the brain than the
feet. No ones feet can think of a
cider mill
4 II may be dreaming or I may be
awake, but it seems to me as if I could
hear the wailing of cats in the back
yard.
LAS near as can make out, my
right foot shot out a moment ago, as
if kicking a feline.
"a sort of a numb feeling in the
right shoulder.
THE prickly sensation is present in
both heels.
''The body seems to be almost
asleep, while the brain is still active.
''It seems to me that there are cats
in the kitchen down stairs, but of
| course this is impossible. Am I to dis
cover that one has to think of cats for
half an hour or so before slumber will
come? If so, the statement is bound
to make a great sensation.
''Have tried to turn my thoughts
into various other channels, out they
arbitrarily return to cats.
"I think / hear cats softly ascend
ing the basement stairs.
II think I hear them in this very
room.
81 think they are led by our own
yd14SI-SS Ell O1Q l0tlHe, ana THAT
But the data ended there. YelIs of
terror brought Mrs. Bowser, who had
not yet gone to bed, down stairs and
the sight that greeted her eyes was a
| lively one. She had left the back door
open in turning out the cat, and he,
followed by half a dozen others of his
tribe, had entered to see how Mr.. Bow
ser's theory was panning out. Some
disagreement took place after they
had reached. the sitting room, and as
the lounge seemed to be the strategic
point all made for it and Mr. Bowser
was instantly buried under a mass of
fighting cats.
Why try TO picture the situation in
words? Why look to reproduce his
yells and whoops and swear-wortls :?
Why give the details of the wild flee
ing and the wilder pusuit and the Ian
guage addressed to the laughing Mrs
Bowser when the last feline had struck
the snowdrift in the back yard? Let
it suffice that the Bowser theory on
how sleep comes has not yet been put
forth to the world, and he may never
again seek to solve ft.-(Copyrieht
1907. by c. H. Sutcliffe.)
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Smith, SOMETIMES Governour in Those
Countryes. and Admiral Of New Eng
land" The rare works that make up
this volume are here assembled in con-
venient form for the first time since
their original publication in 1624-30.
The edition will contain facsimile re-
productions of all the maps and Illus
trations in the originals, including the
rare portraits of the Duchess of Rich
mond and Pocahontas. The other
book is THE Birth of the Nation.
jamestown, 1907" by Mrs. Roger A.
Pryor, author of THE Mother of
"Reminiscences of Peace and War"
Mrs. Pryor's admirable style and I'M
tagging enthusiasm for colonial his
tory should find fitting employment in
this story of the first Virginia colony.
Annette NJ. B. Meakin, the author
of the new volume. Russia recently
published by the Lippincotts. was the
first EngliShwoman to cross Siberia
on the Great Siberian railway. She has
spent much time in Russia, and has
travelled widely through the empire,
gathering at f1rst-hand the material
used in her volumes on this country,
of which three have now appeared.
The Harpers, who are the publishers
of the Sherlock Holmes books, have
just received an interesting letter from
a man in Tennessee. He is deeply
concerned over some unexplainable
markings on an important paper and
writes in naive confidence for the adj
dress of Holmes, so that he may sub
nit to him the mystery and ask for the
solving of it!
The publication this week of a new
book by Miss Jane Adams, the head
of Hull house in Chicago, is an event
of some Importance. Miss Adams is
too busy a woman to be a voluminous
writer, but her few published books
and occasional articles have proved
that that she not only has something
to say, but can say it in a remarkably
interesting wax. Newer Ideals of
Peace" which appears under the edi-
torship of Professor sfeichard T. Ely,
in the Citizens library, is described as
study of the gradual development of
the moral substitutes for war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
Wanted His Moneys Worth.

.sWhfle most Of the money lost IN
Wall street is contributed by the Uncle
Reubens," said a drummer from the
metropolis, II occasionally run across
a farmer who isn't looking for the 1Oo
per. cent profit. I found such man
Ia st week in a Pennsylvania village. A
canvasser fer a magazine had hold OF
him, and, finding him suspicious, pro-
ceeded to Pile 1t on to see what the
result would be- After he had onered
a dollar magazine for half price, and
agreed to throw in SIS dictionary free
of cost, he added:
Look here, Uncle. I'm bound to
have your subscription, as you are a
prominent man around here. The
subscription shall be so cents year;