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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

oozen young people from town havs
been invited for the outing ME-
fessy simpson. the iancee of Lieu.
tenant Harold S. Naylor, u. S. A.-.an,,5
MISS Innes Keeney have Just retprns,,
aIIer visit to Byron. where thew We
the guests of the Meads.
Mrs. Charles S. Fee and her fr+ars..
ing FAMILY will remain at Sbsst.
springs Tor several weeks Ion~er s,e's
are charmingly situated in he 81 So
turesque place since they have tai<e..
49, tIie a1eIrih cottage and are established
Sba,s TOT quite a stay. The PAU
Stoups are going north later FOR !
VISIT, but will not remain for an
tended stay. 10' an ex-
Allan Pollok will pass the boIidsv.
ouI or town and is going to the norty
- sg. oI the state, to Shasta SPRINGS
Polioss Mnere MS sisters. the Misses
sa o'loA' nave taken a cottage for tbe
season. The hospitable summer bo,,.e
,,s1s zen the scene of several eniovabls
49,. parties and the affair in pros
49, 49,. - one OF series enioyed ~, 49,,
trlenas OF the Misses PoIIoIS -. 49,.
lave oeen at their country home ~ ,o
sseeI&I weeks and will remain nntiI
the close Of the season. 'ii
George Nickel, the son of Mr. 81
MIS- MIS-, Leroy Nickel. who has beer ~ a.
tehoing Yale. is home for the So.
vaeauon and is receiving a eo o1-,i;s
Welcome from his many friends in this
MISS susie McEwen has returnea -
eown aIter a pleasant visit in the nort ~
Were she was the guest Of relat5-. -
and is anticipating a series - esas ives,
ENJOYABLE outings in an informal ', 80
Oetore the end Of the summer se.sr,
william Fl. Keith. who has -
passing the summer visiting frisr 49,
IN TINS city and other places Of f ntsrs-s
IN IA lne state; win leave Monday ~
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ABSURD TO INFER
TEN THOUGHT HIM INNOCENT
Fresno Republican

But, of course, it would be absurd
to infer that the jury contained 10 men
who believed Calhoun innocent and two
who believed him guilty. In a substan-
tial sense, all IL unquestionably be-
lieved him guilty. There were not 10
men on that jury, there are not 10 men
in California, who doubt that Abe Ruef
was bribed for 100000 to deliver a
franchise to the United Railroads. and
that Patrick Calhoun personally au-
thorized the payment of that bride. On
that point there is no honest doubt
whatever. reasonable or unreasonable.
on or off the jury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03
FAILURE TO CONVICT
WILL CAUSE WIDE REGRET
Ogden Standard

The failure to convict Patrick CAL
houn, the San. Francisco millionaire,
who, as head of the street railway sys-
tenn of that. city. bribed the aldermen
and aided in corrupting an entire city
administration, will cause regret wher-
ever the hope had prevailed that all
the bribed and all the givers of bribes
would be held up to public obloquy by
juror of their peers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03
Handing the
"SInkens !" in
the Sacramento


but the will proceed further the lines This change
OF plan confession OF failure but the result of the discovery
that navigation be effectively protected and facilitated by
applying the money which be may become available in
different In making the appropriations for these works there
has been of The particularly
the people of the Sacramento valley have desired of all
their land from overflow by sickns which destroys their
productvene But the department which has administered
the funds Jointly contributed interested the
OF navigation The plan goes directly that object
contempate combining the work dredging the
the Colonel John Bdde who charge of and harbor
work in California for the department writes that from the
gained and due improvements dredge
the last few deemed satisfactory and
dredge material down rather than retain it by
dams AS the condition of navigation Colonel Bddle
gradually
before hydraulic mining and has practically
for navigation had.
About 100000 unexpended of the appropriated
the Yuba project The state has appropriated another $4,000
ngen like appropriation from congress- which hoped
obtain the regular session The conditions they appear
hold much hope relief for
and Yuba They will have be with such mitigation of the
scken trouble may result the
Of completion Perhaps the best that be hoped
works that they will prevent things from growing worse
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03
WHAT THEY SAY
OF MR.CALHOUN

FOLLOWING are some excerpts from
newspapers in every part of the
United States on the trial of Pat
rick Calhoun. that ended in a disagree
ment of the jury:
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THE SMART SET

~ URLINGAME is to be quite gay
over the holiday. at least that seems
- to be the only conclusion possible
after a glance at the list of society
people from town who have decided to
pass the glorious fourth at this fav-
ored place.
Mrs. Eleanor Martin is going there
to be the guest of Mrs. Walter Martin
and also later in her visit will stop
with Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Cooper. while
her young granddaughter. Miss Gene
We've Walker, leaves today, however.
for San Luis Obispo, whittier she will
be accompanied by the baron and bar
oness Won Schroeder and will be a
guest over the holiday at their coun-
try home. Eagles Nest"
To return to the gossip of Burlin-
game the Francis Carolans are to en-
terrain house party over the fourth.
with Miss Kathrine Page Brown as
their guest of course and half dozen
other young people.
Miss Mary Keeney is going out Of
town and will be the guest of Miss
Florence Hopkins at the Hopkins
country home. and another merry party
of young people will assemble at the
home of Mr.. and MIS- AndreW +.
Welch.
Mrs. Richard H. Sprague and her
attractive daughter. Miss Isabel
Sprague, are at Menlo for the holiday
and Burlingame will claim the Vicomte
and vfcomtesse de Tristan, who are
passing the holidays at their country
home in that place. Mrs Abbie Parrott
will have number of young people at
her home and among them will be her
grandson. Christian de Guigne, who has
come home from Harvard.
Drummond MacGavin will probably
be gone for the holiday, but will pass
the day in town with his parents, the
Walter MacGavins, at their home in
California street
Mr. and Mrs. Louis RisdOn Mead will
entertain house party over the fourth
at their country place at Byron and
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DR.. Eliot
And His
List Of Books

concerned 1t making scheme profit his
business by the high reputation we'll known respected
Far be from The Call nsinuate Doctor Eliots
choice of books influenced by the hope making market
for the book sellers but he appears doubt
have assisted IN creating demand for lot of books
other would have stock on tLe
booIman's shelves.
Doctor Eiots innocence appears imposed on
by ademan and might have been first
place had he explained that he paid for compiling
The eccentricie of the compilation of of
honest conviction but be that the book seller
suspicion prophetic that they would coincide with
congesed districts his shelves The children Manmon
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Francisco are. made to bear a considerable
part of the operating expenses of the Pacific
Mail steamship company. Vice President
Schwerin when in a bad humor is accustomed
to relieve his sense of injury by Dragging
about the steamship commands losses which
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The Insi1er

Tells how the Pacific Mail steamship company u.se'S P-
traffic to vessels of the Canadian PACING anu jap
. NV forbidding the of private chairs
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famous list of books professedly intended to
make the basis of liberal education Doctor
Eliot confesses that the list was largely an
advertising scheme prompted by an astute
book seller who paid the learned university
don for his services So far as the honI. SELLER
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

PRESIDENT TAFT strongly Endorsed the principle
mail subsidy at the dinner given by the
Marine league Washington. The proposition pending
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

in congress is not so much subsidy measure
as a reasonable advance in the pay for ocean
mail carrying service. The bill introduced
by Senator Gallinger proposes only that the
rate of 81 per outgoing mile now paid to ships
of the first class running on routes to South
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

Ne learns without surprise from the testimony switch
ing charges in this city taking by the interstate
commission that merchants and shippers of San
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he declares constitute form OF patriotism, but the public
knows the extremity of Mr.. Schwen subject
has prompted him disclose the fact that the burden
switching charges for Pacific Mail freight pro by
general advance paid by all San Francisco freight
that handled by the Pacific Mail 1t ingenious plan
San Francisco trade carry considerable part of the
OF pride and patriotism pres
If he feels the collar true
the American Aag but he does dwell the that
patriotism large part of the pockets of San Francisco
merchants and shippers
In the examination now proceeding before agent of the
interstate commission the Southern Pacific company
defend the and oppressive switching charges levied
the trade of this city by setting forth the total operation
Tor this service The contention is that the total of switching
should fall the shippers but making calculation no
allowance made for of this character behalf of
the Pacific Mail 1t another shabby
NOCFOR ELIOT, the distinguished former president of
Harvard university all hu his
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anticipated, and especially in Yuba and Suffer
counties, where complaint is made that the
works are inadequate for their purpose. The
federal government has expended the greater
part of an appropriation of $4,000 on these
works, half of this appropriation being contrib
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

Drummond MacGsvin will probably
be gone for the holiday, but will pass
the day in town with his parents, the
Walter MacGavins, at their home in
California street
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

THE Canadian Pacific and the japanese
steamship lines in the trans-Paclnc trade
are said to have profted handsomely by
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Risdon Mead will
entertain house party over the fourth
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

NOCTOR ELIOT, the distinguished former president OF
Harvard university, does help his at all by his
exclamation the prompting on which he comned his now
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

A PPARENTLY the government plan of building restraining
"A dams hold the debris and sickens from mining other
erosion in the Sierra has proved the that
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william Fl. Keith. who has -
passing The summer visiting fr,so 1S..
+; IN ms ms city and other places OF fnteress
his home in New York. Nuas Tor
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-03

Now, gentlemen" said the chairman Of the
Reno businessmen's committee working for
subway, Eve must be thoroughly prepared
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-23
HER TWO PRAYERS.
Both Were Answered, but the Resuits
Were Disccuraqing.

Both Were Answered, but the Results
Were Discouraging.
During and for many years after the
civil war there lived in Franklin coun-
ty, Mo-, where the old state road, built
before the days Of railroads. crossed
Boeuf river, Mrs. Samuel Hutton,
who met with the misfortune Of hav-
ing two of her prayers answered, and
thereafter. her neishbors used to say.
she never prayed again. And this hap
nened during the civil war.
Sam being away in the Confederate
army" was the way she used to tell it,
"I got lonesome among so uany brag-
sing stay 1T home northerners that one
day l got down on my knees and pray
ed for the southern boys to come and
clean out the neighborhood, and it
wasn't week before along came Cen
eral Pap Prices army, and, it being
near dark, the whole outfit camped
along the river, confiscated all my
stock feed, robbed my chicken roost
and burned half the fence rails on the
place without asking my PERMISSION.
As I didn't know where Sam was to
tell him what the scamps had done, l
prayed again, asking the Lord to send
the Federals to chase Pap Price to the
jumping off place 1t was about sun
down that day when I looked up the
road and saw my answer coming. and
the northern boys stopped at the river
for the night. ate what food the Con-
federates had left me and destroyed
the balance of the fence rails."-Buf.
falo Times.
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Immune From Arcecf.

In Washington. in the capital Of the
nation, there reside 200 men who. With
their households, have absolute immu-
nifty from the laws Of the land. even
though they commit crimes Of the first
degree. They may shoot down the
man who Injuries them; they may, If
they see fit, paint the equestrian statue
Of General Phil Sheridan q vivid pea
green, yet the hands Of Uncle Sam
must be kept from their shoulders, and
woe unto the unterrifed policeman or
other servant Of the law Who under
takes to bring them to justice once
they have declared their official con-
nections. These men who are so cloth
cd II immunity are the members Of
the diplomatic corps, and their shield
is international law. It is provided in
the laws of nations that they must
answer before the tribunals Of their
own countries for the ofsenscs they
commit here In Washington. but that
they shall not be tried by any court Of
the United S;tates-Washington Star.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-23
MARS SEASONS.
Vital In The Gccetative Economy Of
The E!Nne.'a Yer

The -:11c. Year.
Were .::::::,::- 80; III o!.l planet. cor
roboratiu- ny :Gi;s"!ice of cloud the
general ca':::c o; planetary de"elop-
rlcl:. or k!iowIe:irg OF it would have
been ;l;:;:,t 10 l:,."ill with. it enables
US TO mark I:lr l,2r:il;!:!rHc% III place Of
the planets features and so 70 time
their axi:iI rotation by w:::ch we come
to knowledge ui' lie planets day. This
DAY proveS IL Gi:.,r little from our
own in ,!nratin!: being - hours 10
minutes !0il" i;,stc%:i Of ~ hours Next
planets orEit;; i:t:it2. y relation which
causes the scaSni:S Of Tie year. Now,
The Nartiln tit rs We'll as IL" Martiap
time Of rotation turns out 70 be Singh
larly like our own. hc;n=. in fact. "a
degrees ,s against 23I. degrees for the
earth. The ycHI. Of Mars however. is
twice ours in lcagth. which, joined tc
great eccentricity OF orbit. gives il Gi-
versiiicdly long seasons. Thus il he
northern hemisphere spring lasts 100
days, summer 1S3, autumn HI and
winter 15S, while in its southern hemi-
sphere the 1igHres stand reversed.
The numbers have more than aca-
demic Importance. for absolute length
IS as vital factor III Il seasons in
fIuence as the fact of &se season itself.
Much may he brought to pass in twice
the time which could not develop in
the shorter period. and it is not 4 little
interesting that precisely this possibil-
ity actually turns out to be vital il
the vegetative economy of the planets
year.-Pcrcival Lowell il Century.
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4 Mere Hint.

The young man had married the rich
mans daughter and wasn't killing
himself with work to support her. Ono
GaE the old man took him 10 task.
':Look here he said emphatically
"why' don't you go to work:'
81 don't have to-" the son-in-laW re-
piled, with brazen efrontery.
''Well, you will have to-"
'Why will r."
Because, sir, I cannot I've always
to support you
But you will leave us something?'
"Not much I won't. There won't be
anything to leave"
The son-in-law was alarmed.
"Great Jupiter!!" he exclaimed. "Iou
don't mean to tell me you have moth
ing?"
That's about the size Of t."
The son-in-law devoted himself to
profound thought for several seconds.
Il have 4 suggestion to ofer," 7,
said IN q busineSSlike manner.
'What is it, asked the old gent.
"Well, I suggest that you take out,
say, 925,OOO life assurance on yourself
to save wear and tear on my mind
Illustrated Bits.
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Welcoming the Traveller.

l have always had 4 good opinion of
the enterprise of the life insurance
agent. 1t has seemed to me that the
busy bee IS lazy ne'er-do-wel; COM
pared with him. Recently this opin-
ion has been strengthened
An old colored servant living In a
neighboring family made his first trip
away from home and visited relatives
in New York.
On his return to Louisiana he was
asked what he did while in the north.
"Well,- 'mong uddah t'ings I done TUX
out life insurance policy TO- f. hun'ea
dollahs."
"Why, what on earth do you want
with life insurance policy? You have
no wife or Children
"DaGs what I done tol him, but I
had t. take it, all de same. De agent
man, he met me at de boat landin', an
he said I'd haf t. have one or he'd SEN
me back home. BE warn't gwine fo' t.
low me t. land if I didn't buy one. Dey
don't low no one in New Yawk less
dey has 'suhance policy"-Woman's
Home Companion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-23
What Man Owes to Birds.

1T should be realized, said nat
uralist. that without birds TO hold in
check the insects vegetable life soon
would cease and lift for man would
become impossible upon the earth.
Birds are natures check to the alnaZ-
ing power Of insects 10 Increase. II
insect life were allowed free course it
would soon ovcrpowcr plant life. and
therefore animal life. Including that OF
man. wou.d be impossible. This IS an
astounding conclusion. bat it is the
conclusion of science. If the birds
were gone very Scon the leaves would
disappear from the trees, and the limbs
would be festooned with the webs Of
caterDillars or with masses of their
nests. These would move from tree to
tree, Increasing by the million rs they
advanced IN the course Of !: few
seasons there would be no trees. IN
the fields other species Of insects would
destroy the grass and the grain and
all vegetable life, and the ground
would be as if sea Of deyourins
mouths had passed over IT,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-23
To MuItioIy hv Division.

Everybody knows that learning the
tens in the multiplication table is as
easy as pie" and that the tiveS are
not much harder; but, slight as is the
mental effort required IL multiplying
any number by five. it may be leSsened
still more by diScarding the multiplier
entirely and substituting diviSor in
stead This may sound paradoNical,
but by experimenting you will find
that dividing BY two will bring the
same result us multiplying by five,
provided You add q cipher to the quo
ticnt if the dividend be an even num-
Der or five if it be odd For instance.
if you multiply 2,i33+ by tive the prod
uct is 1860. What is still easier, di-
vide 2.733.t By TWO. which is done al
most irStanraneously then tack on
your and you have 1860
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-23
Soft Hearted Bill!

An. dearie me!' sighed the woman
when Mrs. pipkins, the sympathetic
parishioner. called upon hec. Eyes
there was worse men than my poor
Bill, but there. e's took now-gone. E
'ad his good points. 'ad BILL
Il am indeed glad to hear it." said
Mrs. Pipkins
Poor Bill" went on the bereaved
woman, "e-well. e weren't exactly
'andsome, but e were soft 'earted
enough to smoke like a chimbly when.
ever e left the 'ouse."
Indeed" broke in the visitor. "But
fail to see the connection between
smoking and
That; becos you never seed my
poor Bill put in the widow. "Bill
weren't pretty. and e knowed it-but
there-sooner than Scare hinnercent
little children into fit Bill always i'd
that terrible mug O. is in cloud O
smoke Yes, e was soft 'earted and
thoughtful for others, was Bill
London Answers.
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q Nzcessity.

Twenty dollars for retrimmins Your
hat" exclaimed aIr Madison. But
we agreed to spend nothing except fot
things that were positively needed.
Well, John. this is. You sec. my
best friend has just had hers retrim-
med, and have promised to 90 with
hec 20 the concert on Friday
"Oh, all right. But l can't give you
more than fifteen this morning. be-
cause broke my meerschaum and
must have 1t mended.''
Cant you smoke Your OLD bricr-
wood
Certainly. dear And YOU can wear
your old hat
John, let's begin to economiZe next
month after we get things ali straight
cned out
..-Au right."-New York Herald.
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CHOOSING A VOCATION.
Follow Common Sense ana Conscience
ard DO Your Best

ard DO Your Best.
It is very certain that no man is I'll
for everything. but it IS almost as Ger
tain. too, that there is scarce any one
man who Is rot ct for something
which something nature plainly points
out tc. him by giving him a tendency
and propensity to 1t.
look upon common sense to be tc
the mind whit conscience IS to the
hcart-the faithful and constant moni
tor Of what is right or wrong. And
am convinced that no man commits
either crime or a folly but against
the manifest and sensible representa-
tio1.S Of the one CT the other.
Every man finds in himself. either
from nature CT education-for they are
hard to distinguished peculiar bent
ard disposition to some particular
character. and his struggling against
1t IS the fruit!css and endless labor OF
Sisyphus. Let him follow and cult
vate that vocation; he will succeed il
it and be considerable IN one way at
east. whereas If be departs from it he
will at best be inconsiderable, proba'
bly, ridiculous.--Lord Chesterfield.