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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21

est cackle. Bichette alone, having sue
ceeded in hiding herself, remained in
the neighborhood and did not deprive
herself of cackling to her hearts. con-
tent no matter If that would cause
pain to old, kind Benoit. And, as she.
was very gluttonous and lazy, she did
not want to go and hunt for her food
in the fields, but went straight for the
cellar, where she would find, she
thought, the heap of wheat grains
What treat she was going to have.
whereas her companions would be
running through the field to find, after
all. nothing worth eating, while she
only had to stretch her neck to enjoy
q delicious meal.
She entered joyously the cellar
through the venthole. oh, the beauti-
full golden grains, nearly red, heaped up
like a little mountain She flew
straight at them, but hardly had she
eaten the first one when a noise COM
ing from outside made her trenlble
from head to feet. She tried to hide
herself, hurting her body dreadfully, in
a space much too small between two
bags.
The noise continued.
1t was Raminagrobis, the fiercest of
all cats, who mewed to scare ones life
out.
was the very cat that would strangle
chickens in lonely places?
Bichette, in her hiding place, was
more dead than alive. The cat en-
tered the cellar She heard his steps.
Every minute she thought to feel his
dreadful claws on her. oh, the agony
she endured! Ramina grobis remained
there a very long time to take his rest.
When night had come the poor creature
was tired, dead tired. She remained
prisoner until morning, and only when
the sunbeams were shining did she FISK
going outside. But the frightful con-
dition she was i'm She had lost feath-
ers, she was bleeding for having stayed
so long between bags which were
crushing her She was almost dying.
She dragged herself as Well as she
could to the chicken house.
When Benoit was better he took care
gain of his numerous family on
seeing Bichette all the chickens, instead
of rejoicing, felt very sorry. Old Be-
mott took her with him to his home to
have her attended to. She was cured by
the good care WHICH was taken of her.
Back again in the shelter Bichette
related her sad story, which moved all
her companions. Since that time she
has become a good, obedient chicken.
She is no more gluttonous or lazy
She now knows that the wicked are IN
one way or another punished. She is
now liked by every one for her nice
behavior. and the chickens, her friends,
are especially glad for this change.
And in the whole country there is
not a chicken house to be found with
happier inmates than the one of Father
Benoit,
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.ois Mattus. Hayward. age S years

Lois Mattus. Hayward. age years.
Lyle Merchant. 21I1 Howard street.
San Francisco, age 8 years.
Mildred wolfgram. 1855 Eighteenth
street, San Francisco, age Z years.
Lloyd Chatterton, 1860 Michigan
street Elmhurst, age S year.
Elizabeth Rhyner, 1906 Kentucky
street, San Francisco, age 9 years.
Marian Francsk { Buena Vista ave-
nue., age 8 years.
Anita Anderson, Rio Vista. age 10
years.
Paula Ritter. 75s webster street, San
Francisco, age 5 years.
Francis B. Corcoran, Fairfield, age
10 years.
Urlene Hawkins. s2S Laguna street,
San Francisco. age 10 years.
Vivian Gross, go Valencia street,
San Francisco, age S years.
Viola Price. 362 Center street, San
Jose, age 10 years.
James S. McWiHiams, 22s1 Sacra-
mento street, San Francisco, age Z
John BodIey. 1853 Lytton avenue. PaIo
Alto. age years.
Dorothy Kumli. 1929 Kansas street,
San Francisco; age s years
Julian Borck, 1926 Fell street, San
Francisco, age s years
Helen OalSes, Hayward Journal, Hay
ward. age 9 years.
Estein Petersen, 40 Westlake ave-
Violet Peterson. 631 Main. street.
Watsonville, age 10 years.
Doris Boulton. 1924 Turk street. San
Francisco. age 8 years.
Florence Grace. 2140 O'Farrell street,
San Francisco. age Z years.
Viola Skelly 1885 Webster street,
Alameda.
Roy Chandler. SO2 Webster street,
Oakland age I years.
John Mcmahon, GO Hermann street,
San Francisco. age 10 years.
Lillian RolIin box %. rural 4, Peta-
luna. age years.
Carmel Friscia Marshall. age S years.
Robert McIlwrath. Tucker avenue,
San Bruno, age 10 years.
Alice Mae Jenkins, 1876 South Ameri-
can street, Stockton, age years.
Edwina Pratt. 274 North Fifth street,
San Jose, age 10 years.
Marguerite Johns. POSI- Santa Clara
avenue, Alameda, age years.
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This Is how to make them: Measure
your dolls foot by placing it Hat upon a
stif piece of cardboard and drawing a
line around IT marking the shape OF the
foot Measure each foot the same
way
Next make duplicates OF both these
shapes. The barefoot sandal will have
to have an outer and an inner sole.
Now cut eight strips OF narrow ribbon
or tape each about four or I'VE inches
long-longer II your doll is very large
one. Each. sandal VIII need four OF
these tapes to tie it firmly in place.
In order to put the sandal together
so that It can be worn put some good
glue upon the inside Of each sandal 50
that the two similar soles are placed
together. Place between them the four
tapes, arranged as in Fig s. Then al
low the glue to harden hrmly and.
presto. there you have barefoot san
Gal for your doll.
Take her in your lap and tie the hrst
ribbons above her ankle. being sure TO
tie them tightly. Tie the lower ribbons
over the instep. Now. isn't that COM
Portable warm Vss ther fOotgear?
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linen bread crumbs and grains of
wheat. With what JOY would they see
him come, They would be hopping
toward the food as if they were crazy
little bodies He gave them also nice
clear water in a clean tin basin. And
when he went away they would cluck
as If they wanted TO thank him.
One among them, however would not
cluck. and her name was Bichette, for
she did not want to take the time for
IL. as she was too greedy. Besides,
she was mean and lazy. as gluttony
often leads TO other vices. She would
he the first TO jump on the grains of
wheat and would have no one around
her: she chased them all away by peck
ing at them. IN this way several had
been wounded in their eyes. OF course
no one in the henhouse liked her. The
Young ones avoided her company, while
the old ones chattered about her faults
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21
Pop in Taw

Pop in Taw is the name Of a game
now attracting attention in England
time. Each player is supplied with
small fiat wooden shovel. steel cone
and ive steel balls. The cones are
set small end up. and the game con-
sists in transferring the steel balls
from the table into the cones. using
only the shovel. The small end of
the cone has an opening barely large
enough TO admit one ball at time.
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Eileen

The dancing flames o. sunshine
GLADDEN. the break o. day.
They falter not. nor hover,
But speed the meadows over.
And from the dewy clover
They wipe the tears away.
The dancing flames o. sunshine
GLADDEN. the break o day.
The silvery feet o. moonshine
Ripple upon the lake.
The nightingale is dreaming.
Through misty light, down streaming
Thickly the dewdrops cleaning
Upon the feathery brake.
The silvery feet o. moonlight
Ripple upon the lake.
The happy light o. laughter
Cleans in thy darling face.
And night has lost its sorrow.
And joy comes with the morrow.
And heavy hearts aye borrow
Hope from thy sunny grace.
The happy light o. laughter
Cleans in thy darling face.
Helen Coale Crew.
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among themselves just as human be-
ings will do in regard to their neigh
bOrs.
To make matters short. Bichette had
a black soul, as black as her feathers.
She just delighted in soiling the water
of the basin. She would take pleasure
in disturbing the conversations and in
upsetting the games of the others. At
night she would select the warmest
spot. away in the rear of their shelter,
and would push her comrades toward
the opening. where cold, chilly winds
were blowing. She would even keep
them awake by frightening them. She
would make believe that an ugly ani-
NAL was pursuing her. panic would
ensue and all the chickens would fly
for their lives. as she did. All those
traits and mean pranks proved that
she was bad at heart. Even the cor
rections of the rooster would not
change her. The end was that she was
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feared. for, as a rule. all wicked crea-
lures are feared.
one morning Father Benoit did not
appear. The chickens were calling in
chanted "Kokerico! Kokerico!' After
two long hours they saw coming to-
ward them little boy, who seemed to
be very sad and whom they had never
seen before. He did not wear an
apron, either; he only opened the gate
of latticework and said TO them: Go
little chickens, and all of you; go and
take your breakfast in the fields far
from here, as your master is sick and
you must not make any noise.''
The chickens, with heavy hearts,
went out right away and followed the
rooster in silence. The black, the
gray the red, the white, the old and
the young ones, they all glided along
the walls, through the hedges toward
the fields, without emitting the slight
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21
CHE LOST APPLES

For when ! passed the barrel
Il heard a noise so plain;
1t sounded Just ike crying;
Step close and hear again.
The fruits stayed up that evening.
Well wait till dark al night.
Then rescue the poor creatures
Before it is daylight"
They Sneaked up to the barrel
When everything was still;
The walnut turned the faucet.
They wept as good friends will.
They called out to the apples
To crawl right through the spout,
But not single apple
Just cider drip dropped out
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21

Florence Smith. SIS Ivy avenue, age
10 years.
Lilah E. c. Bricken, 3724 Palm ave-
nue.. Oak Park. age years.
Lylis Breblow, Tulare, age 10 years.
Madge Montgomery, jamestown, age
years
sherman Jones Jr., s1S Broadway.
Chico.
Ida Green. 421 East Poplar street,
Stockton, age 10 years.
Irving Green, 421 East Poplar street.
Stockton, age s years.
Emilia Elsa Sherwood, 1852 Filbert
street. San Francisco. age 9 years.
Margaret Dean. 921 Orchard street.
San Jose. age years.
Georgia Knott, Richmond. age 10
years.
Guido E. Garbarini. Jackson, age s
years.
Viola Dye. 1s2 Boyd avenue. Oakland.
age 6 years.
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Beatrix Fontsns. Batavia. age 8
years.
Olive Alice Kastl 799 Mouitris
street San Francisco. age years.
Louis Kastl. 79f MOultrie street. San
Francisco. age 8 years.
Clara Hansen. 249S Harrison street
San Francisco. age years.
Birdie MittenthaL S02 y street. Frcs-
no, age 5 years.
Evelyn Morrow. Jackson. age 9
years.
Raymond Hill PA Haight street. san
Francisco. ROSemOuut apartments.
RamOne Hayes. lis second avenue.
Richmond district. San Francisco. age
s years.
Alan ". Davidson. 243 Texas street.
San Francisco age z years.
Master Marvin Deter. Chico. age I'D
years.
Lester Wessling. 1903 sherman
street Alameda. age 9 years
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your name and address plainly, and be
certain to put on the name of the town
or city in which you live, and if you
live in the country, or course, your
postoffice address. This is very inn
portant. fa
This picture work is for the younger
juniors only, those who are 10 years of
age and younger. Twenty paint boxes
viii be awarded to 90 pictures most ar
tisticaily and neatly colored.
The children who have been awarded
prizes for painting the picture Of the
girl blowing soap bubbles are:
Sarah Shemanski, 1916 Hayes street.
San Francisco, age 10 years.
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BICHETTE. THE .GLUTTON
BY n. V. D. VEER DE VEER

~ Id BENOIT had many chickens
in his henhouse; they were of
various colors-black, gray, red,
white-and OF different ages, old
ones, fat, heavy, with a waddling gait,
and young ones, which were lively,
nimble and which were trotting hap
PLY about. Very early in the morn
ing you would hear them peep and
csckle so loud that they would awake
old Benoit. The rooster. a beautiful
rooster with shining feathers. would
join their calls with his large voice,
which sounded like a trumpet, "Kok
erico, hokerico"
Benoit did not make them wait long.
Bsreheaded. spectacles raised on his
forehead. wearing wooden shoes. which
Struck the floor, click, clack." he
would bring them in his apron of blue
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21
A Laughing Monkey

The keeper held a young ehimpanzee
in his arms
Want to hear a monkey laugh%' he
said. Then listen"
The keeper tickled the chimpanzes
under the arms. 1t squirmed and wrig
gled. and its body was staken with
chuckIing laughter.
-Chimpanzees." said the keeper. "are
the only creatures besides man that
laugh. A bear or a tiger wouldn't
laugh IL you tickled him all day. Ask
Teddy
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21

I-ODAY we have the picture OF the
clown training the parrot, and
what a splendid picture it is for
tho younger juniors to paint, 1t viii
he great fun TO dress the clown up in
his proper colors and to paint the
plumage of the big ord.
Paint your picture as quickly as pos
sible and mail il 20 the editor of The
Junior Call so that it viii reach the Of
fee Of The Junior Call not later than
Wednesday afternoon. as pictures re-
ceived after that time can not be used.
srd please be quite sure that you write
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-21

Demanding Aherns Menlo Park, age
years.
Ernest Cresswen, yaeaville.- age 10
years.
Grace zDuYal, ASS Duboce avenue, San
Francisco, age s years.
Billy Delaney, 371 South First street,
San Jose, age years.
Myron c. Eppler, 1923 North Douty
street, Hanford age o years.
Thomas Flynn, San Anselmo, age S
years.
Ada Goddard. 1866 Capp street, San
Francisco age 5 years.
Francis Kelsey. 2215 Ellsworth
street, Berkeley age 9 years
Pauline Marion. $50 Webster street,
San Francisco, age 10 years.
cravnr, and send ,.,,ediafaIu
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i
the Junior
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22

From the quality of the political dope that
is being printed bya the st. Paul papers, we
think it is about time that the Pioneer Press
put responsible editor" in charge. Political
news is the hardest kind there is to handle, for
the reporter who sticks to only established
be of any use, while the reporter who prints
every fairy tale that floats around is worse than
useless. At this distance, it looks as if the
reporter for the st. Paul papers has very
limited knowledge of state politics, and prints
any kind of a tale that some one man or small
coterie of men sees fit to feed to him. Better
put a man on the job.
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22
A NEW LEGISLATURE.

A brand new legislature will be elected
next year, Legislature that will be called on to
perform important duties to the state during
it's term of office, It will be called in 1911 to
elect U. S. senator to succeed Senator Clapp
and the senators chosen will vote in 1918 for a
successor to Senator Nelson. These are i'm
portant functions in themselves, but by no
means the most important Several matters of
important Legislation unfinished at previous
sessions will come up for consideration and
settlement at these sessions We mention the
tonnage tax, county option, re-districting of the
state and appropriate action a federal in
come tax These all important matters and
call for honest and intelligent action and that
means honest and intelligent men. We had
many such men in the last Legislature but-not
enough. The tonnage tax just squeezed
through; county option got A out of 119 votes
distrcting was treated as a joke and the federal
income tax not touched upon. Before the
new members are nominated, and especially
before they are elected, it should be definitely
ascertained where they stand these ques-
tons, they surely will be called upon to help
decide them. This is particularly true of the
many new and untitled men who will come out
or be brought out as candidates. No
knows how they stand while as to the present
members we do In many districts the voters
are altogether too Indifferent in their anti
election scrutiny of candidates for the legisIa-
ture; they will critcise the actions of these
men after they elect them instead of investigat
ing them and their views well-known sub
jects of legislation before the election. Atwater
Republican-Press.
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22

The Peary broadsde against Cook in the
claims of the latter to having discovered the
North Pole did not have much effect in shak-
ing public confidence in Cooks achievement,
for it had been already discounted by Cook in
that he long ago stated that he had instructed
his Eskimos not to disclose anything to Peary.
The most damaging evidence against Cook has
been the afidavits of Burrille, the guide of DIR.
Cook on the latter's claimed ascent of Mount
Mckinley in Alaska in 1906 Burrille claims
that they never got nearer than fourteen miles
to the summit, and did not attain altitude of
more than 10000 feet, and that he made false
entries in his diary at the command of Cook.
This affidavit is corroborated to some extent by
the other members of the party, tho Cook and
Burrelle were alone during the time Cook
claims they reached the summit. DR.. Cook gives
the lie direct to Burril1e, and claims that he
left records on the summit of Mount Mckinley.
DR.. Cook is either a much prosecuted man and
most unfortunate in the men he has had with
him. or else the greatest faker of modern times
+ s
The Minnesota G. o. p seems to be up
against the county option sentiment AS
practical political move to get votes, we are in
clined to think that the Endorsement of the plan
would be winner-because if left to the peo
pie about eighty per cent of the counties in
Minnesota would go dry, and the other twenty
per cent would not be specially interested. But
we have never been able to the wisdom of
county option, temperance measure-or
that it was founded on correct governmental
principles. On the other hand there is nothing
to be said in favor of the booze industry We
have been legslating against the whisky traffic
for many years No truthfully say
that any of the numerous plans tried from wide
openness to high license and prohibition has
been successful There has been great ad-
vance in temperance, because the incorporate
man is soon down and out-and the people
learning wisdom by experience. AS political
proposition county option has some promise for
the Republican party of Minnesota, and much
tribulation.-St Cloud Journal-Press.
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22

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Morris tribune., 1909-10-22
FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1909.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1909.
The crisis in Spain has all the appearance
of revolution which will result in the over
throw of the monarchy and the establishment
of republican form of government. Every
great revolution seems to demand martyr and
the state murder of Francisco Ferrar, the edu-
Gator, on the charge of melting the Barcelona
riots will do more to enlist the sympathy of the
civilized world and stregthen the of those
who are seeking to overthrow Spanish tyranny
Judge Anderson, of the U. S. district court
refused to permit the editor of the Indianapolis
News to be removed to Washington for trial
for criminal libel in connection with the Pana-
ma scandals. The Judge also took occasion
to say things about the liberty of the
press in America when in a matter of great
public concern, corrupt profit of $26,OO0,OOO
was involved. The starting of this libel suit
was one of the unpopular acts of the Roose-
welt administration, and it is we'll that it has
been disposed of.
According to the Northfeld News, leading
Republicans considering the advisibility of
ditching Billy Hamm and the whole bunch of
interests that have been riding the Republican
party in this state like "old Man of the Sea-"
1t is further said that the steel trust crowd who
have been in alliance with the railroads and
brewery interests, have begun to look favorably
on an alliance with the county optionists The
latter are developing considerable effective
strength and will be important factor in the
next Republican convention
s t
A prominent business man of Amenia,
N. d., last week swindled out of $4,000 by
means of the ancient gold brick game. The
victim is wealthy of wide business ex-
perience and he followed the swind1er to Min
neapols where the deal was consumated. Such
are taken in by swindlers because of their
lust for wealth and their own dishonesty. The
victims cupidity drove him into the belief that
he was about to shrewdly acquire interest
in Mexican mine of fabulous worth Such
men are much victims of their own weak
nesses as they of the swindlers trickery.
+ s
"Surely,' said President Lowell of Harvard
university in his inaugural address. "the es-
SSAANN VI
itude of mind, familiarity with methods of
thought, ability to use information, rather
than a memory stocked with facts, however
valuable such a storehouse may be-" President
Hadley of Yale puts it this way: "The ideal
college education seems to me to be one where
the student learns things he is not going to use,
by methods that he is going to use. The form
er element gives the breadth, the latter ele-
ment gives the training
Commenting the editorial in this paper
recently regarding the raising of fnnd of
- $4,000 in Duluth to obtain equitable railway
rates for that city, the Litchfeld ws-Ledger
hands out the following good advice to the
Duluthians:-
THAT shows how green we are, for we
were of the opinion that the state provides a
railroad and warehouse commission on pur-
pose to straighten out such matters without
putting individuals localities to such euor-
nous expense. If that board is not attending
to it's business cannot be trusted, the sooner
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22
Our Old Bjckory Wdgon


Black Birch
first clear yellow Poplar finished like buggy Every abso
guaranteed n every better
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MISSOURI MAY GO
DRY" At ELECTION
Initiative and Referendum to
Be Used by Prohibition
lists to Win.

Missouri may be the next State to go
dry"
1t is the storm center just now of a
big fight over prohibition, though that
fact has escaped with but little notice
outside of the state. Should Missouri
cease 20 be wet" It would be OF ma
tIonsl Importance to the liquor and
brewing industries. st. Louis is one OF
the greatest brewing eenters of the
United States. as everyone knows, and
with prohibition the breweries there
would, OF course, be driven out OF the
State.
II prohibition comes in Missouri in
the contest which is now on It will
come by a unique route. This will be
by way of the initiative and referendum.
Already. over half the counties of the
State are dry. Last winter a strong
effort was made 10 get the general
assembly 70 enact prohibition law.
This failed, but it was not by a wide
margin. At the last State election. a
constitutional amendment was adopted
providing for the initiative and refer
endum. The prohibitionists at the time
saw the possibilities of it and they voted
for II as a unit. This made its adoption
possible.
Now, the general assembly has re-
fused TO submit the question OF prohi-
bitton TO the voters. The anti-saloon
forces charge that the assembly is
controlled by the brewery interests.
And, with the assembly opposed to their
plans. they have concluded TO force the
legislators 10 grant submission by use
OF the initiative and referendum.