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The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

This Office frequently receives letters
from different parts of the country in
closing advertisements Of individuals
and bureaus claiming to have special
information of value to applicants and
special facilities for imparting them
for civil service examinations. No per-
son has any Information of any inn
portanee to applicants concerning ex-
aminations which can not be obtained
without cost from the manual issued
by the commission. or by request to
the commission. All claims to the con-
trary are therefore MISREPRESENTATION"
LARCENY-A. c. S., City. Which is correct,
petty of7t 'petitp larceny7
The penal code of California says
petit larceny.
IN OR Subscriber. 1gerna. Cal 1t was
the rule for long time . write that business
Gently been changed to .in Market street."
Why has this been done?
It is not a recent innovation. 1t was
in use in San Francisco and many
other places In the early flfties. In"
is used because 1t is more in con-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. City. Which capital
in the United States has the highest and which
has the lowest altitude above sea level?
Denver. Colo, 5.175 feet. Annapolis.
Nd, 4 feet.
PUBLIC DEBT j. Oakland, Cal. What was
the public debt of the United States every 10
years since 1860?
In 1850 it was s64S42,2S7. in 1870,
s2,4S0,672,427; in 1880, $2.12S,7s1,054; in
1890, $1,549, ,2o6,1 126; in 1900. s2,132.S7S,-
os1.
a. BULLET subscriber. City. If a rife were
placed in a wise absolutely perpendicular and
discharged would the bullet in returning to
of ascending?
The Scientific American notes and
queries says: 'The air resists the flight
of a bullet very sensibly. If 1T is fired
vertically upward then 1t Will hot
rise so high as theory requires, and
starting to fall from a lower altitude
than it should have attained by theory,
it will again fail to gain the velocity
with which it began its flight. If there
were no resistance of the air to en-
counter the bullet would rise to the
height given by its initial velocity.
and in falling would regain its initial
velocity"
MARRIAGE LIcENsE-A. E. A.. City. Is a
marriage license required in Reno, New?
Yes. A marriage license is required
in all states, territories and districts
of the United States except Alaska,
New Jersey (if residents, not; other
wise, required), New Mexico and South
Carolina.
was the play of ben Hur staged in San
Francisco before the present season?
AT the Grand opera house. November
2. 1903.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17
Transmigrotion Of Bones
certain degree of deadness is required the
proper for everyday
By Edward F. Cahin

E1s talk Of graves and worms and eptaph
tubnce Valley OF Tamale Indians who
md the slopes and guches Tampai before invaded
America These cold iames dead
useful for maeadamzng the paths and
sidewalks Valley Their graveyard has become quarry and OF their
Therefore arises in the minds of Mill Valley
while others Tree to
sidewalks Possibly the answer to these questions
be- The learned kroeber Tor
tb ~ tb do bns not considered respectable 1t is well
robbery becomes respect
Obviously there are degrees Of deadnes
dct onarchs have become
article of luxury of curiosity form OF decoration OF phase
of bcbrac ouran crooked candeck or stolen spoon
Egyptian king box for the
packed him back he pleaded instead
would have been complete with Ryey
Wallace packing his back Post street That was about the
land and escaped the American baggage aser and aded the
Dingey tariff dihonOb land he because
cubman thought of his gents furnishings
Of three several cemeteries in San Francisco
field which people called
the sand This the Yerba Buena inherited by the city and
used in part or the city hall site and IN part sold o 'ne O Cn
Buceys supervisors The suprauou bones moved
the desoate Pacific where the poes field established Now it is
that they shall again. Their needed for public
park but they yet quite dead enough for use making pathways
generations m aldv yds % within San Francisco limits have been
This justified ground public
health better than real speculation thin
shall 1t will
until relatives of those buried within the city
shall themselves the inevitable road but will
nothing the world and piful
neglected graveyard nothing sordd squad Here for instance
description recently printed OF the present condition OF the city grave
yard at Heights:
is
wood
vegetable
the dead
referred the condition of this neglected
graveyard of the board
eca of
health Accordingly look for municipal ordinance
ding
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

the New York Central, the Erie and other
railways. Lamb makes additional sug-
gestions as to the cooperation of the
Tree Planting association with the local
authorities of each city and town, and
with the civic associations interested In
the Identification of their cities or
towns, so that the tree planting would
be developed from the railway tracks
around the stations and on the main
streets or the roads leading to the sta
tions. The inevitable result. in Lambs
Judgment, would be that the principle
of tree planting would be developed in
each community as its beauty. practical
bility and economy of administration
became appreciated.
Seventy excursionists from the north
west left Spokane last night for Cali
fornia. This is the advance guard of
more excursions of similar character.
There has been considerable discus
sion since January l among the various
lines parties to the east and west
bound tariffs between California and
the east relative to diverting shipments
and the charge to be assessed for the
service The tariffs provide that the
Individual rules of each carrier as filed
with the interstate commerce commits
sion shall govern; consequently a mer
chant, in order to know just what it
is going to cost him TO change either
the consignee or destination of a ship
ment, should have before him the local
regulations of at least five lines and
up to about 200 railroads. this being
approximately the number that are
parties to the aforesaid transconti-
mental tariffs.
The Southern Pacific and the Santa
F'e make no charge, but the Union Pa
cific does; the Canadian Pacific does
not, but the Northern Pacific. the Great
Northern and the Oregon railway and
navigation company do Some of the
lines east of the Missouri river make no
charge if the shipment is diverted be-
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fore reaching destination, but charge
So to S. after shipment has reached
destination. Still other lines east OF
the Missouri river make a charge, re-
gardless of the above conditions.
The foregoing is an illustration OF
the problem confronting shippers when
dealing with the new tariffs.
The Southern Pacific has announced
that during March and April e0lonist
rates will be made from eastern terri
tory to California Fares will be: From
Omaha, Council Bluffs and Kansas City.
$25; Chicago, $33; St. Louis and New
Orleans, s3050; Fort Worth, San An
tonic and Houston, S25; ST. Paul and
Minneapolis. S31.75. and corresponding
rates from other pOints-a reduction Of
50 from each point from similar rates
made last year. These tickets. which
will be sold daily during March and
April. with liberal stopOver privileges.
will bring thousands OF people to the
west
c. c. Crane. who is in the flooded
district, wired John A. Gill yesterday
for shovel and some empty sacks. and
suggests that GIL pack some sand along
to till the sacks. as 1t would be most
distressing to the world if by some
fatal chance he, Crane. fell a victim to
the raging floods.
'In send you some steam schooners."
wired Gill. Il guess you have water
enough to last you for the rest OF your
life"
e. H. Torpey Of the Pennsylvania
lines. In speaking OF business condi-
tions. said yesterday:
'One of the best signs OF returning
prosperity is shown in the number OF
buyers that are going east in the next
few weeks to lay IN supplies for the
spring trade. One large concern In
Market street Is sending 20 men and
other stores in like proportion"
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Messina
and
San Francisco

the tale of robbers cutting off the fingers
dying their and wrenchng eey from their
course nothing of the happened Francisco
told with ccumsantial detail in almost every
newspaper the continent
This legend usually makes its appearance the third day
great calamity, and promptly time the heels
earthquake 1t will be found the newspapers
published days catastrophe had
imagination IS limited and almost identical myths
by separated by half the round globe Phoogers
anopooge discovering these kindred myths held by widely
separated peoples like geneaze from them concerning the
identity Of origins is unstable basis because it his
orca fact that like circumstances suggest the cons the
huiaan mind, whether in Europe Asia or America.
pathetic episode this time based actual experience
caamtes. relates the aectonae impulse the
pets the neglect of valuable forms of
property Here little story from Messina that might be dupi
hundred times from San Francisco experience:
canary bird tell the old She
and
finally Naples by German The
hundred wounded them
children without and without children and all
Of with
probably pretty all had earth lost
bird the big boat docked the little fellow thrilled
udet and OF thanksgiving for all hands that they
In San parks refugee camps
large noisy population Of canary BIRDS parrots and other
pets with infinite pains and the neglect
material property 1t OF the incidents that
trophies bring the touch of that makes the whole world
the reign Of law that like produce like
effects.
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Impertinent Question No. S6
Why Don't You Behave?

For the most original wiest this queion-the
briefer the better-The Call will pay FIVE DOLLARS.
For the next FIVE answers The Call will pay ONE DOL
AR EACH. Prize winning answers will be printed next
Wednesday and checks mailed the winners at once Make
vour answer short and SEND 1T ON A POSTAL
CARD to
IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, ag
THE CALL s7
Answers to "Vhat Tteds"
s5prze to A
Searching long and to
A SIS a bit mind.
riehnn sausanto
I'm not-when the boss is looking
1pIzetoD o D. San Jose.
Myself am short and
s prize to a
The who what he not k;eks
because he gets it. 80
o l. G. rsreet city
Wakng-a chalk line
81 prize A. J. Black street. oakland
Waiting for that job on Examiner building
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low The general impression that property worth
$00OOO0 destroyed by the fire. and certainly than
half of the total in the buildings The companies
paid for losses something like $200O00O00 presume
that in majority of the property underwriten for less
than half its value Probably shall know within
$100OO0O00 the exact of the losses.
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proposal impose duty cents pound on coee IS thrown out
It would be unpopular and would hit every family
the country for about $3.50 a year
Curousy enough duty coffee would be welcome to Brazil
which the largest producer of the beam This because
the surplus held that country under the "valorizaton
scheme financed by loan of $0000 enable the
lillian planters hold back the it should appear likely
that congress impose duty coffee the Brazilian surplus
would be dumped this country and when the tariff
became law the Bazans and the United States would
gethe benefit OF the long the coffee lasted
The danger of applies prospective mposi-
Of duty for but to the
the Of coffee Of which there known surplus
proportions awaiting opportunity be dumped
duty coffee looks like easy OF raising large revenue
but the peculiar circumstances Of the will probably have
TO be abandoned
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

TE CALL hopes sign symbol of liberty
and national independence will be permitted visit San
Francisco The Million club asks the city fathers Of Phia
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

delphla Tor brief loan Of the famous Liberty
bell, treasured in that city as national relic
Of the days of To- Idf one sense the bell
belongs to Philadelphia. In another it is the
property of the whole nation. 1t is historical
emblem that carries us back to that heroic
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17
Let us
See The
Liberty Bell

struggle from which the infant nation sprang
1t and proper that the spirit patriotism
country should be oered by the visible symbols inspiring
tons There romantic inspiring page history than
that which tells of the audacous struggle of the bare
armed colons with the might of England Many generations
have and the day when that conflict began
call of this historic bell but the spirit of the lives
nourshed by recalling the days.
onia thought of in those days. but the spirit patriotism
country high here did among those
who made the great fight that lasted seven years.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

about SlOO,OOOOOO year and there IS no
appearance of a disposition to ease off ex-
penditures. Economy is an unpopular cry
and, in fact, the tendency is to increase and
widen the scope of national undertakings
In recognition of these conditions a tentative
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

NE important phase of tariff that has had very little
yet the necessity of raising
Roughly speaking, the United States is making deficit
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

IS WTltng the oTilclaI history OF the San
Francisco fire and earthquake, was on the
lookout for the customary temperance OF
the well seasoned fables that seem to spring
ike mushroom growth from the ruins left
by cataclysm One of these legends that
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

ENRY MORSE STEPHENS of the University of California
has remarked that relation the minor details of great
caasophe history repeats itself Professor Stephens who
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17

EIS talk of graves eptaphs and OF the d
Valley the bones OF Iamale Indians who ono
slopes gulche of Tamalpas before was invade
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17
Gossip of RajIvaymen

/IN MILE?" said Norman w. Hall
p> yesterday. why should 1 not
smile? One of the best things
that ever hannan ed tn ne
The Washington herald., 1909-07-11
synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

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The Washington herald., 1909-07-11

iniquity and pitess. He drew back, even as he had
that night in the cafe when she had wounded him
to the quick, failing TO understand more than that
she did not want him TO come near her and was ac-
cusing him of something which he could not under
stand. He curbed the great desire which rushed
over him in a flood of protecting tenderness to
seize and hold her close and shield her from the
great terror that urked in her wide and staring
eyes
why Billy" he said softly, "Bly, what is it.?
What has happened? Why do you ask me to tell
you where your father is, when you know that
cannot answer-that have done all in my power
to aid you in your search?
He took step toward her; but she drew back
with shudder at his approach, and held out re-
straining hands.
"Ah Dick Dick" she said; "you do know. What
have 1 done that you should have kept me in ig-
norance and blinded me with a glamour of words
when you of all men, knew all the time what
suffered and knew where my father was?"
Il knewV
Eyes you You It you who assisted in
taking him away from home that night when
last he seen"
Her Indignation had risen above her love, ana
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B y r y N O r t o
AUTHOR OF THE VANISHING FLEETS" ETC.

the newspaper men when the =
- presidents private secretary
had finished his reading of the CHIEF
executives appeal to the people. They filed out
silently without the usual chatter and chafhng
They bore the air of men who were close to
great national tragedy-of men who felt that the
fate of the country in the balance. After they
had gone to send the presidents appeal to the
furthermost parts of the nation, Captain Barnes
and the other officers and secretaries, who re-
NAMED looked at each other despOndenty, and
when the clock slowly sounded the hour, every
stroke of it's deep gong seemed the mex
orable beat of doom. Everything in life seemed
dying.
The other captain on duty had been hastily des-
patched on a mission of Importance and DICK was
left alone in the ante-chamber of the apartment IN
which the President was secluded. His square
laws were set hard and his eyes had the desper-
ate look of one who has studied > situation for
many hours without finding hope or ray OF light
The outer door swung wide without premonitory
creak in keeping with the stiffness which broooed
over all things A sentry from outside stood pc
fore him at the salute, and FASTENED to oher ms
apology.
Captain" he said, quietly there Is girl our,
side who was passed beyond the outer guard ana
up to me, because they were as am, unaOie 10
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they were withdrawn, he stood as III
hopelessly dazed and stared before
him, Grace had watched him in
amazement, and now, as il from his
lips could come the solution of all
things, took a step forward. Then,
suddenly, her knees seemed to give
way from sneer weakness, and she
dropped to them at his feet, holding
her clutched fingers up against the
buckle of his belt i'm a mute appeal.
"Oh, darling. darling" she pleaded,
tell me Tell me what has become
of him!"
He stood for long time, still quiet
and dazed, recognizing now in its
completion why he had been watched
and the terrible web OF evidence
which was spun against him.
"Where did you get it?" he asked
hoarsely Where did it como
from?'
"It was given to my uncle by the
men of the Secret Service Depart
ment."
He reached over gently and ten
derly, and lifted Grace to her feet.
In his despairing attitude. she read
the tragedy of man who is at last
hopelessly broken and irredeemably
lost. He had fought a fight of soli-
tude lasting months, which had left
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find the heart TO refuse what she
asks. All she wants is to see you.
think, unless / am mistaken, 1t is
Mr. Testers daughter" Dick leaped
forward, as if delay in such a case
were inexcusable, and then recovered
himself with the recollection that he
was on duty and could not leave the
chamber in which he was stationed.
"Show her i'm at once,"' he said,
and waited before the door to re-
ceive her.
She came quietly, garbed for the
house rather than the street, bare
headed and distrait, and, as she en-
tered the room, she held up hand
to restrain him-to hold him at a
distance. Her eyes were dilated, as
if in terrible. unweeping distress.
Her face was so pale that it ap-
peared waxen and set.
"Dick," she said in slow, heavy
voice, "I have come to you again
after all 1 know-after all l have
been told, to beg you to tell me
where my father is"
She stopped, with her hands
clasped nervously before her, and q
look Of fearing appeal and bitter
agony in her eyes, as if the man she
had loved and to whom she had been
betrothed had proven monster OF
Copyright, 1902 by Roy Norton
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she the daughter OF the man who
n ~ had gone She would no longer be APP
~ - peased by pleas protestations. She ad-
vanced toward him with hands clenched
at her sides she struggled for words,
her white throat gasping If in the clutch OF
invisible hand. She halted as he, alarmed
and broken-hearted, retreated before her step by
step. She lifted impetuous hand up and tore
at the fastening of her gown, and dragged FROM
it's concealment a slip OF paper, which she held
toward him.
THAT" she said in a voice of bitter accusation,
'is the order you gave to the sentinel before our
home, which admitted the man who decoyed my
father away-away to some place from which he
has not returned-from which he may never re-
turn"
II ICKS fingers trembled he reached out fever
- shly and took the slip, and scanned 1t with
frowning brows. AS II the world-his world, EN-
Jodying all he had trusted-were weaving dizzily
around him, he lifted both hands to his head, am
staggered back until he against the wall, his
sword-scabbard clanking hollowly against the
marble.
Mine? Miner" he muttered brokenly; and
then with world of wretchedness in his voice,
he gasped as if in delirium, "the order for en-
trance gave to Tiger Reilly-my order-the one
that opened the way TO crimel"
His hands came before his eyes now, and, when
The Washington herald., 1909-07-11
CHAPTER XVI.

TV HERE was utter gloom among
the newspaper men when the
presidents private secretary
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Silk PetfiCOQtS

AlShk exhibit
Peicoas wanted
models that the latest plain shades the elite Persian
h tscvco offer II any
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Tailored Cloth Walking Skirts

ANDY
plant
in oni blacks blues and dwmr
a temn savn Sec synopss
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Stylish Broadcl0th, Serge, Jersey and Silk
One Piece Dresses for Wintey-Sacrifced

The
lnaker erof New wYok;m eladap
style
brada and
f and misses the c
quo Lon ll mcrchand Sec ynopSS
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MOdish Styles From Fifth Avenues EacEu-
siUe Manufacturers at soc ON the Dollar

1 Mh hd superb int and h
caves d sh Every sn is n rich A g tar rSu
ras and exquisite peh lie winters sd xhu modes for women and m:a sze-
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Goats and CQDeS

ons New Winter handsome
il andd ark pater
mill in
nopss
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NeW YORK Gives Up It's Richest Merchandise
For Sah Lakes Ready Cash-A Manlnnoth SaLe

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sharpu
m Of
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Tailored Winter Cloth Suits
See Description

$500 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits S1295
$500 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits . $l695
$3.50 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits $1995
$4,000 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits $l995
$4500 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits $22.95
$4,000 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits S2495
$500 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits $3495
$4,000 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits S4295
$12500 Tailored Cloth Winter Suits :. .S5995
Smart Military Capes
See Description
$1750 Broadcloth Military Capes 49, 1895
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Net and Lace Waists
See Description

IVGE %TEIG NG4CC W GIEOEO
See Description
$3.50 Imported Net and Lace Waists 1895
$3.50 Imported Net and Lace Waists $685.
$500 Imported Net and Lace Waists. $1695
$3.50 Imported Net and Lace Waists $1895
$4,000 Imported Net and Lace Waists $2995
Handsome Silk Waists
See Description
$3.50 Handsome Silk Waists, choice So 95
$8.75 Handsome Silk Waists, choice . $4.95
$l0.75 Handsome Silk Waists, choice 495
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selling at tremendous sacrifices
of
in the makb brought
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Gents ON the Dollar

that unparalleled the merchandising history Yoa
How the