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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20


FOR sale to Observation-Disclosures castle. Hospi-
tai park; .excels White House, designer from
Europe: ON streetear line in city where pa
tfents pay $l00 per MONTH party to lease went
back me: being a widow | am compelled 10
soil; a0c on 81. s. V. c. LEE, corner 18th
and Julian sts. San lose. Cal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20

Advance Window Shade Factory-Bamboo porcl
shades IN all sizes. GEO WAGON. 63I Turk
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20
HOTELS

AAA-NoTICE TO TRAVELLERS
HOTEL COLONIAL. Stockton street above
Suffer American plan, SO; European plan.
81. Telephone steam heat, electricity; every
] modern convenience.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20
RENT THAT VACANT ROOM

small want sd In The Call viii DO fl
quicker than a dozen signs plastered on your
windows and which spoil the looks Of your
home besides Phone Kesrny Sc for an ad man
% call and see you.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20
OFFICES AND sToREs TO LET.

AAA-Small store In Mission ST. for shoemaker
$40. Apply 653 Pacific building.
FRONT near Jackson brick store. 40xSJ COM
mission district. r. & NJ. 219 Croker bldg
COUGH ST.. T33-SpIendidly lighted; complete
for large delicatessen kitchen; range and
boiler: rat proof.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
VETERAN RESERVE.

American Army Men Organize as q
Third Line of Defense.
The veteran reserve corps of the
United States has been organized at
Washington with the hope that it will
form the third line of Defense" the
regulars to be the first and the militia
the second.
The officers are as follows: General
Andrew S. Burt. u S. A., retired, presi
dent; Colonel B. F. Chase, vice presi-
dent; Colonel George S. Livingston,
secretary; Colonel Thacker e. Lee,
treasurer.
The veteran reserve corps is designed
by Its founders to occupy place in
the scheme of the national defense of
the United States that the Frontiers.
mems league and similar volunteer or.
CARNATIONS occupy in England. Units
OF the organization will be called com
panies. and it is planned to have a
company ia every place of adequate
size in the United States. These com,
panies will be organized into regiments,
brigades and divisions and will con-
stitute a real veteran reserve in every
sense.
All persons who have served in any
Of the wars of the United States OF
who have had military service in the
regular army or national guard are eli
gible to membership. Permanent head
quarters of the new organization have
been opened in Washington.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

Private Mickey OF Company F,swho
when called for some one to volunteer
to carry an order for me past a
line exposed to the enemy's entire
line pf sharpshooters, responded at
once to the call carried the message
and returned when the order was ex-
ecuted." General Sherman also spoke
highly of Micley's bravery lngersoll in
his Iowa and the Rebellion" spoke of
this effort as a daring exploit by Pri-
waite Isaac Mickey, performed on the
trying day of the assault" and II. NJ
Byers in iowa in War Times" makes
special mention of this same act of
bravery.
Mickey is also said to have at one
time when haste was necessary in
recalling detachment OF his regi-
ment from Columbus City to Mt
Pleasant, Iowa, where the regiment
was in camp, ridden the distance OF
about thirty-two miles in about three
hours, carrying the word to his COM
rades in time to allow them to rejoin
their regiment before the command
moved south as it had been ordered
to do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

And those who would perch on fames
highest, bars
Now hitch up their wagons to automo
stars.
The farmer is smiling his harvest to gall
When loading his hay on his automo
Or soaring the earth with. his automo
pillow,
Or milking his gasoline automocow,
Or sending the choreman with automo
To gather each morn the fresh automo
Meath the automohens In the autome
coop
To the tune of the ROSTERS shrill aut
mowhoop,
While he who plays golf will rejoice
the call
OF the automocaddy who chases his ba'
The automocamel will soon lead the van
From Automosheba to Automodan.
And down in the kitchen, by hook or
crook
Some day We'll rejoice in an automoco
Who more than q week in the house!lo
will stop
To JOY in the tests of the automocop.
Yes. it's motors by day. and it's moto
by night.
Wherever we look there's motor !
sight.
All over the land they are quite t
fron,age,
And every old barn has become garac
Horace Dodd Castit in Success Mag
zine F.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
ISAAC MICKEY. CONSPICUOUS FOR
CIVIL WAR DEED, FOUND
DEAD IN ,sHANTY.
CARRIED MESSAGE PAST
LINE OF sHARPsHoorERs
Act Commended by General Sherman
and Colonel stone-Mickey Eccentric
In Late Years and Lived Amid
Humble sarroundinss-Found Frog
en- to Death.

Columbus junction, Dec 9.-Lying
face downwards on the floor of his
shanty in Fredonia the lifeless, frozen
body of Isaac Mickey, an aged &C.
centric character, for years a familiar
figure on the streets of this place and
in Fredonia, whose name is written in
the glowing letters of praise by his
superior officers in the records of the
civil war, was found.
Mickey who daringly braved the
whitening fire of the rebel lines,
lived to meet his end amidst humble
surroundings, and alone.
Neighbors missing him and OBJ
serving no tracks about his shanty
IN the snow that fell Monday night
yesterday afternoon broke into the
house and found the body on the
floor. Help was summoned and upon
the arrival of the undertaken the re-
mains were carried to the nearby home
of the wife from whom he had been
separated.
Mickey's war record was bril-
liant one. He was member of Com
pany F. Twenty Fifth Iowa infantry
and also served as an independen,
scout. Col. George A. Stone in his Of
fetal report of the fight of vicksbure
wrote: Officers and men of my regi-
ment behaved we'll and l shall not
part1cularize by mentioning any save
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
LIKES AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Captain Amundsen, Arctic Explorer
Will Recommend It to Norwesians.
Captain Road Amundsen. the Nor
wegian explorer who saw the recent
Yale-Harvard football game at Cam
bridge. declared the other day at Chi
cago that the American college football
game appealed to him very strongly
as against the game played in Norway.
'oThe American college game seems
to me to be in every way superior to
the game in Norway. where the Rug
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

tural society. There has not been any
thing like it, at least for many years.
OF course the October freeze caused a
great loss to the orchardists, but did not
ruin the crop. There is, however, great
fear that the buds have been so in
jured that the crop of next year will be
very light. Secretary Greene in his
making up of the program for this
year included a great deal Of discus
sion about marketing of apples, as he
has found that growing apples is much
better understood than marketing of
them
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Just a suooest,o,.

In Shakespearean days they used to
label the scenery. They hung out
placards stating that This is wood"
Or This is CASTLE" We don't need to
10 that now. Still, we might use the
scheme to advantage. 1t would help
sometimes to see an alleged Thespian
bearing the legend. This is an actor"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
F r EE
PI l.
CURE
Sent to Demonstrate the Merits OF
Pyramid Pile Cure.
What II Has Done for Others, 1t Can
Do for You.

What II Has Done for Others, 1t Can
Do for You.
We have testimonials by the hum
lreds showing all stages, kinds and de-
grees piles which have been cured by
Pyramid Pile Cure.
If you could read these unsolicited
letters you would no doubt so to the
nearest drug store and buy box of
pyramid Pile Cure at once, price so
cents.
We do not ask you to do this. Send
US your name and address and we will
send you trial package by mail free.
We know what the trial package
will dc. In many cases it has cured
piles without further treatment. If it
proves its value to you order more
from your druggist, at 90 cents a box.
This is fair, is 1T not? Simply fill out
free coupon below and mail today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
For the Mother.

II child be taught nothing else
about the use Of its body it should as
east be taught poise in standing,
walking and sitting. and correct poise
p merely a matter of getting the
Weight on the balls Of tho feet and
iaising the chest. Even young chill.
lren throw their weight osa the heels.
md that this eventually becomes .
habit may be seen by obs.erving men
md women uron the sire eta.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Believed In Wltchcraft.

Sir Thomas Browne. author Of the
Religio Medica," believed in witches.
ne wrote: For my part, have ever
believed, and do now know. that there
are witches. They that doubt Of these
10 not only deny them, but spirits. and
are obltquely. and upon consequence Q
sort. not Of infidels. but atheists."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Tho New obsession
Why Does Il Cure

Not because Il 10 sarsapariiIa,
but because Il ID q medicine Of
peculiar merit, composed Of moro
than twenty dtfferent remedial
agents effootlng phenomenal
cures Of tfoubles Of the blood,
stomach, lIver and bowels.
Thus Hoods Sarsaparilla cures scroll
ula, eczema, anemia, catarrh. nervous
ness, that tired feeling, dyspepsia. loss
Of appetite, and builds up the system.
e. y todey IN the usual hasid eosa = y
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
rhlrty-second Passenaer.

The thirty-second passenger boarded
the street car and paid his fame. When
the conductor rang up this fare. the
new passenger peered up at the fare
register moment. then turned to the
man next to him:
Ibid We see phwat he did?~
mo; what?"
"Oi gave him a nickel am he rans
up 80 cints!"-Sunday Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
HIa PrIda.

A New Jersey man has been an
rested SO times for beating his wife,
and he says he Is proud of his record.
A wife who will stay around to bs
beaten SO times probably ought to be
beaten, hence the gentleman's pride.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

Following Homer's Example.
"Oh. no." said the impecunious au-
thor. Il don't mind my poor. bare gar
ret. Homer, you know, wrote his mas
lerpieces up under the roof" "Where's
your authority for that?" HE cor
tainly wrote them In the Attic"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Motherhood.

Motherhood is a spiritual relation.
and it should be coterminous with the
kingdom of womanhood. No woman is
worthy of the name who has not in
her the mother heart-Mrs. Arthur
Somervell.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Homemade Fire Extlnauishers.

Homemade Fire Extfnguishers.
A simple fire extingulsher may be
made at home, and if kept always on
hand, will sometimes prove of great
value. Take 20 pounds of common
salt and ten pounds of sal ammoniac
or nitrate Of ammonia, which can be
bought at any drug store. Dissolve
these in seven gallons of water. Put
in thin glass bottles holding a quart
each, cork tightly, and seal to pre-
vent evaporation. When a fire breaks
out, throw one of these bottles so that
it will break in or near the flames or
If this is not possible, break off the
neck of the bottle and scatter the con
tents on the fire. This has been
tested. Sometimes 1t is necessary to
use several bottles.-National Maya
zine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Foolish Question.

Some one stole every blessed
stockings off our line" What are
blessed stockings?" Those which are
not darned. of course. Judge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
Up-to-Date Romance.

Up-to-Date Romance.
''At last we are alone!" he muir.
INJURED, as the airship rose above the
city.
Wait minute!" she exclaimed.
There's somebody rubbering through
that skylight!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if 1t
fails to cure. e. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. Csc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

Foley's Honey and Tar is the bes.
and safest cough remedy for children.
At the first symptoms of cold. give as
directed, and ward off danger of Group,
bronchitis. sore throat, cold in the head,
and stuffy breathing. 1t brings comfort
ana ease to the little ones. Contains
no opiates or other harmful drugs.
Keep always on hand, and refuse sub
stitutes. Mcbride & Will Drug Com
1s9nv
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
uneIa Ezra Saw.

OHoIo Ezra SAya:
stick to the farm. but don't n.c..
sarily. when you are away frum homs
let the farm stick to you"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09

by rules are played" said Captain
Amundsen. "The American game al
lows greater action and requires great
er skill and athletic ability. AS soon
as return to Norway shall talk to
the university presidents there and
shall attempt to persuade them to
adopt the American college rules.
believe that change in the playing
rules would be a good thing for the
Norwegian players. II they could see
an American game I am sure that this
change would be made"
Captain Amundsen went tc Chicago
to arrange for pemmican and canned
goods at the Chicago packing houses
for his projected voyage of four years
duration across the arctic.
Tho New Obsession.
oh. It's motoring here. and It's motoring
It's motoring. motoring. everywhere!
Tho babies in motoring carriages 90;
The kids soon will coast on the silvery
snow
In AUTOMOBILES UP steep automobiles
In wildly hilarious automobiles.
Our dancers are dancing gay automotigs,
Our doctors drive round In their automo-
RiNa.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
Injured Woman Found in Deserted
House.-Cotham Excited.

New York, Aug. 20 The curl
Gus circumstances in which Mrs. H.
n. l.. Benedict, wife of prominent
music instructor, was found uEcou-
scious in Ter lome in the exclusive
Nark slope section of Brooklyn, are
pN22ling the police. Mrs. Bcnnl'2'
is in q hospital, unconscious and for
only moment has she been able to
speak, and then not in any way to
Gissipate the mystery.
For several days the neighbors had
observed that the windows and front
doors of the Benedict home had been
open, that neither Nr. Benedict or
his wife had been seen, and that no
one responded to the ringing of the
door bell The nelghbors discussed
the matter until it was decided to
notify the police ami then two off
GERS went TO the louse and found
ii open as il had been for a number
of days and nights The first and
second floors were in disorder ana
deserted
Rugs were piled in corners, chairs
knocked over end cabinets sprawling
on the floor In a third floor bed
room the police found Mrs Benedict
lying on the floor under the bed,
only her feet protruding. The wo-
man was half dressed and uncon4
scious. An ambulance surgeon
thought Mrs Benedict had been
without food for several days, but
was unable to say why she was un-
conscious. There were no marks
of violence.
Efforts to find Mr.. Benedict have
so far failed One neighbor said he
was seen leaving the house five days
before his wife was found, and car
rying a suit case Surgeons are en-
deayoring to restore Mrs Benedict
in the hope that she can explain the
mystery which has greatly perturbed
t1e locality
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
MYSTERIOUS CRIME IN NEWY0RK POLICE ROUND UP THE ACRE


Fort Worth, Aug 90 Following
the assassination of Police Officer
Campbell and the general agitation
for a cleanup of the reservation
district Captain of Police Blanton
and a number Of officers yesterday
morning made a raid of number OF
Joints in the acre" and arrested for
ty men on vagrancy charges.
This. however, is only a starter
All officers were given instructions
TO arrest all persons found lounging
around in places in the red light dis
rrfct. and the instructions Is IN a,-s-ssss--
forced to the letter. All persons
who make a habit OF hanging out In
this section of the city Will be taken
up and given a chance 10 explain
to the city authorities why they are
out of employment and how they
make their living
In this connection, Captain Blan-
ton yesterday morning received an
unsigned letter to the effect that he.
Captain Bills. Patrolman Jones, Wal
lace. and Haynie were marked for
death and would be killed in the
same manner as Police Officer Camp
bell The letter was very brief and
the spelling was very bad. Captain
RiantOp and the other officers men
toned do not believe 1t was written
by anyone who has any intention of
carrying out the threat. In fact,
they believe it the work of some
fool negro, and do not pay any at
| tention to it whatever.
The majority of those arrested
yesterday were the regular "acre"
FOUNDERS. who make habit of lying
| around the joints in that district.
! They will be given a hearing in the
| city court this morning. Some of
! them were released on bond.
/ Superintendent O. Pagitt, head
Of the State Brewers association for
1.-THE enforcement of the liquor laws,
yesterday rendered his services to
1.-The police department In assisting In
cleaning out the acre" However,
| his services were declined Captain
Blanton says the police department
is we'll able 10 attend TO this matter
without outside assistance.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
ASLEEP, JUMPS FROM WINDOW
Hotel Clerk Imagined He Heard q
Woman Crying for Help.

San Antonio, Aug. 20 Roswell
Porter, a clerk at the Hot Wells ho-
yesterday morning at $50. Porter
jumped from the window of his room
on the third floor of the hotel build
ing and was asleep when he raised
the screen of the window and made
the leap.
Following his recovery from the
shock of tie fall, Porter said he had
been dreaming and imagined that he
heard a woman crying for help and
Jumped. Ills injuries are compare
lively severe bruises. He recently
came to San Antonio from Okla
hoila.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
HAVOC WROUGHT
BY THE FLOOD
Railway Tracks Hurled from
Mountain Into Canyon.
RAILROADS DETOUR TRAINS
World Famed Royal Gorge Filled by
Rock to Depth Of 1000 Feet.
- Residents Are Driven
from Home.

Denver, Col, Aug. 20 Trains
blocked in lonely mountain passes,
tracks washed away and in some in
stances pitched into canyons hun
dreds of feet below, people driven
from their homes to seek safety with
their belongings in higher places
These scenes We're revealed at day
break yesterday aloeg the overflowed
Arkansas river.
Alarmed by another cloudburst at
Four Mile creek near Canon City
scores of people in the lower sec
tions of Pueblo and other points
passed the night in rescuing house
hold effects from the danger line.
The famous Royal Gorge, filled in
by rock / 900 feet high, has been
washed by torrent for almost forty
eight hours and the railroad tracks
have been washed out
Trains on the Colorado Midland,
Denver and Rio Grande and other
railroads, most of them carrying
eastern tourists, have been detoured
over circuitous routes One road
had to detour trains by way of Ala
moosa, Col =. in the southern part of
the state. distance out of the regu-
lar line of travel of more than 800
miles.
Engineers have been sent out by
some of the roads to determine the
amount of damage done in the noun
tain passes, it being declared the de-
touring of trains will be necessary
for four or five days. Not only the
Arkansas river, but almost all of it's
tributaries are overflowed The
rainfall in the last few days has been
unusual.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
Northern States Of Mexico Ap-
parsntly to Open Rebellion.
STRONG FORCE OF TROOPS
Are Sent into Coahuila.-Covernor Of
Nuevo Leon Has Practically
Abdicaled and Gone to
Ranch of a Friend.

! City of Mexico, Aug. 90. .-Tele-
grams from the northern part of
Mexico received in this capital yes
terday indicate state of unrest in
| the border states of Coahuila and
Nueyo Leon which is giving consid-
cradle anxiety to the. federal govern
/ ment. -s
General Bernardo Reyes. governor
of the state of Nuevo Leon, who is
prominently named as a vice presi-
Dental candidate in opposition to
Ramon Corral, the incumbent and
administration candidate for re-elec-
ton, has left the mountain resort
of Galeana for the ranch of a friend
He is now practically inaccessible 9.
Meanwhile the affairs of the state
of Nuevo Leon are really in the hands
of the commander of the third mill
tary zone, General Geronimo Trevino
recently appointed to that position
by President Diaz.
AccordlaC ;c a telegram received /
yesterday by ia Heraldo, also a gov
ctnnIeut CrTan, SIS 900 was shipp I'd
to General Reyes by Augustine Guer-
erros, said to be a spy in the employ
of Reyes. The transference of this
large sum of money to mountain
resort is causing many conjectures.
The twenty-third regiment OF in
fantry, under command Of General
Juvencio Robles, has arrived at Mon
terey. A special train carrying 400
cava1rymen and seven carloads of
horses and fodder is under sealed
orders to proceed north. Their des-
tination is said to be the town of
Sabinas Hidalgo, in the state of Goa
hula, where it is reported recent
political disturbances have taken
place.
A telegram to an afternoon paper
says that General Reyes has re-
signed his post as governor OF Nuevo
Leon, but this cannot be verified
The recently removed mayor of the
city Of Monterey, Pedro Martinez, is
preparing to leave for New York
though his mission is not known I,
! A number of the political friends
of Reyes have gone to his mountain
retreat to confer with him. The
Reyista party has petitioned Presi-
dent Diaz asking that full political
! liberty be granted in state elections
and that district officials be pun
ished for arbitrary action in denying
| the franchise right to qualified voters
The petitioners cite the interview
granted to James Creelman an Amer
lean journalist, nearly two years ago,
when President Diaz was quoted as
favoring party Of opposition and
as signifying his desire to retire at
the end of this term.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20

The S6.75 kinds are worth up TO $500.
The $3.50 kinds are worth up to $35O 90.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
{ ard Of Thanks i.

We take this method of thanking
our neighbors for their timely ef-
forts in lending their aid in our re-
cent misfortune in losing our home
by fire, Had it not been for their
faithful efforts our loss would have
been much greater.
s. f. HILBURN and Family.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
CAN'T TT A SHAME ="
Jack johnson Sues Hotel Because He
Was Refused Accommodations.

Salt Lake City. Aug 20 Jack
Johnson, the heavyweight pugilist
yesterday entered suit against local
hotel proprietor for $25, 900 dam
ages, alleging he was shut out of the
hotel after he had engaged accom-
modations there. He alleged that
he was Disseminated against because
he was a negro.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20

Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 20 -
The highest price paid for cotton in
Montgomery in twenty-five years was
reached today when the first new
bale OF the season for this county
was sold at auction at 60 cents a
pound The bale was sold by Jos
N Carter.