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24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1895. | Rcoflecfions of f[\n)coh? "Tiye Tawvyer, Dolitician, and Stafestmar), as Joseph Bedill knew bim, more. When the speech was finished I found myseli standing at the top of the reporters’ table, shouting and yelling like one possessed. Every one else present was wrought up to the same condition. “At length I bethought me of my notes for the Tribune. I had none. Inmy ex- citement I had quite forgotten my duties as reporter. I turned to my fellow re- porters. They were in the same fix and for the same reason. The speech was not reported and never can be reproduced from memory. e “But I learned one lesson from this mis- adventure. There were but two good newspaper shorthand_reporters in Illinois at that time. I went back to Chicago and chartered one of them for the Tribune when he might be needed. He was ‘Bob’ Hitt, since petter known as the Hon. Robert R. Hitt, Corgressman from Illi- nois and long chairman of the Committee on Foreign Agairs.” spring day in 1855 the | Tribune was invaded tion. The editorial es- ted at that time of a sin- on the third floor of the building called after Dr. E . who also gave his name to the now famous town of Evanston. It stood ona part of the ground now covered by the sky nd block, and from the edi- s “‘the force’’ looked out upon the quagmire called Clark street, wherein, as a frequent diversion from their labors, they might see a hapless wagon sunk hub deep in the mud, over which the driver facetious in misfortune, had set the legend: About noon of office of the Chic by a singular appa tablishment con gle, long room NO BOTTOM HERE. The “force’ was grouped about a single OnForelgs dglrs L e Tong table in the center of the room, the | AN tae Benaigrialchmbeign B0 B editor-in-chief at one end, the proofreader | pefore he became an_avowed candidate for in the interval the re- nd at the other, porters, the Presidency, Mr. Medill met him often on political business. When he ‘went to Springfield he dined several times at the Lincoln house and partook of the fare prepared by Mrs. Lincoln’s hands. Even at this early time Mr. Medill formed the opinion, which his subsequent experience only confirmed, that Mr. Lincoln of all practical politicians’” of his day the keenest and the shrewdest. In organizing a party, securing the doubtiul votes by presenting the issues rightly before them, and in all the details of “practical” work em entered, on the day in question, very tall, angular man of dark conw plexion and hollow cheeks, somew! stooped at the shoulders. He stood hal head above 6 feet in he gs were enor- 1, also thatcl mous feet normal in its ler with a shock of rumpled of a campaign Lincoln had no equal among under - ublicans in Illinois in those days. To eI _eyes, whose keen | gend quinine to a farmer sick with the ut twinkle' went a long | Srevailing illness of the frontier, “fever'n way toward rede from utter com in one hand a car] long, and so deep ming the The visitor carried thag about three feet that, tall as he wa o o was said to be one of his favorite He had a master-hand at - etimes addressed them ‘‘to signed “A. Lincoln.” At barely cleared the floor. It see ther times he wrote the addresses and {m,\(d with all owner's portable be- | ¢irculars which were signed by the central ongings. He glanced along the table to | committee. the editor’s chair, and adrawling hig red voice asked the young man who oc- ied that throne: n you tell me when I cansee Dr. It was in_this campaign of 1858 that Mr. Lincoln delivered in the representatives’ hall at Springfield that famous speech— famous for its radicalism—calling for the ultimate extinction of slavery as a thing in itself ‘‘radically wron, S ntiments sentiment of that time, even in the radical Northern . Ray was then the senior editor of the une. He was not in. S “Well,” contir the visitor, still ad- ec dressing the you 1 at the top of the and Mr. Lincoln was considered by table, “may T you are the new : friends to have committed editor from Cleveland—McDill, or Medill, | political harikari by this speech. But o Priowing Mr. Lincoln as he did: Mc. Medill assured that the speech was no 5 . dithyrambic outburst of sentiment, that & , I guess you'll do just as well deliberate motive lay behind. It was The new ed ed, and with a degree | not, however, until years thereafter, of formalism q gn to the Chicagoan | when Mr. Lincoln " was President, of forty years ago > manner of the | that opportunity offered to confirm visitor had been brusque): thall his bonhommie me whom I have Mr. Lincoln was a this surmise. For, and apparent opennes “Well” (this drawling expleti most _secretive man, even to his_close third time) ‘“‘well, down on the Sa friends. But visiting at the White House River they o call me ham Lin- | i the course of the civil war Mr. Medill coln.’ Now they gen me ‘Old | found the President in a mood which Abe,’ th I ain’t so very 1 = seern favorable to confidence, and “0ld A with in Il Ohio’ directly g engaged him terest to both. to be done. “I'm in a hurry,” amon River by “but I came up to s scribe for you er. 1 can't get it regu- down our way, so I borrow it from a neighbor. But sometimes he lends it be- fore I get around. Now I want to pay for six months ahead,” and he pulled from the cavernous pockets of the ‘jeans” a| pocketbook, untied the strap, and counted | out four $1 bi Mr. Medill took the money (there was no beastly pride in those | 2 m the 2 eipt on a sheet of py” paper. This dc Mr. Lincoln thrust into his marking as he did so: * ur paper;; | Ididn’t like it before you boys took hold of it; it was too much of a Know-NotRing sheet.” Then he plunged into conversation. Buf the young editor observed that his new ac guaintance had a sh faculty for a: ing questions than for answering them. Under his ¢ ss exterior he maintained | an impregnable reserve. He inquired of | Mr. Medill about all the leading politi- | cians in 0, whom he seemed to know with a degree of accuracy surprising in | those early davs when, with few railroads | and fewer telegraphs, Ohio was further | from Illinois than California is now. How were Giddings and Chase, Carter and Wade? Before he arose to go he said, “Well, T guess I'm something of a Seward Whig myself.” This meeting was the beginning of an acquaintance which lasted with increasing intimacy until Lincoln’s death, and in-| volved not a few incidents in his life hith- | erto unrecorded. At the first regular Republican State Convention held in Illinois, at Blooming- ton in May, 1856, Mr. Medill assisted in the city of delegate and reporter | une. The convention is chiefly | noteworthy as the occasion on which Mr. Lincoln delivered the most eloguent speech of his life. Such at least is the tes- timony of the few living persons who heard it. Mr. Medill’s story of the conver- sation and the speech have an especial in- terest in view of his professional relations to the speaker. “After a full inated,” he speech-making, ively in- But first was business the hero of the t ticket had been nom- | ‘there was a season of nd all the talk was of | ‘Bleeding Kans: Among the speakers | was Owen Lovej: After he had finished | a cry went up for Lincoln, and presently | at the back of the church,in which the ! convention was held, up rose my gaunt, angular friend, looking exactly as he aid when I first saw him in the Tribune office a year before. He came forward with a giraffe-like swing (he never walked straight like other men) and stood in front of the pulpit. But after he had spoken a few sentences the delegates shouted to him to get up in the Fulpil. He did so, and there finished his Demosthenian speech. ‘It is one of the regrets of my life that this speech of Lincoln’s was not preserved. | It was easily his most radical, and it was the first of the series of events which made | him President. I have often tried to re- | produce it from memory. Once at’the re- uest of the late Thorndyke Rice of the North American Review, 1 attempted to | reduce my recollections to paper for that magazine; but the more I tried the more Medillian and the less Lincolnian the speech became. So I had to give it up. “I will tell you how the speech came to | be lost. Lincoln (after he had mounted the pulpit) began something like this: ‘“ ‘Gentlemen of the convention, I am not, here as a delegate; I have no credentials, and might be called an interloper. But fvon have given me a ‘call’ to speak, and, ike a Methodist minister, I have re- sponded. A few of us got together in my office at Springfieid yesterday, and elected ourselves as sympathetic visitors to the convention. We have no Republican party organized in Sprinfifield at this time, but we have a few Republicans, foresee trouble ahead that will grow out of this uncalled-for repeal of the Missouri com- promise that will tax the wisest and most Pamouc men to keep American citizens rom imbruing their hands in their broth- ers’ blood.” “Then, for I can remember his exact words no further, he drew a picture of slavery and its baneful effects on this coun- try if extended, and delivered the most ter- rible invective upon that institution, it seemed to me, that ever fell from the lips of mun. Iremember he said at the close something like this: ‘Come what will, you may count on Arabham Lincoln to stay with you to the bitter end on the side of free soil and the rights of free men.’ “But 1 do not pretend to remember ely put the guestion: **Why did you ver that very radical spc(‘(‘cl}v at the e House in the spring of 1 With what seemed like affected surprise L icoln exclaimed : nto_r rve, “What do “Oh!” Then, he put the counter you think was the ason Getting no answer he saw fit to lay aside his reserve and made this characteristic expl nation: “Well, after you fellows had got me into that position of standard-bearer, I con- cluded to takea stand that reflected the real heartfelt thoughts of our party on that terrible slavery question. It was ground we could afford to be beaten on in the pre- liminary battle with slavery. So I con- cluded to say something that would make everybody think.”’ And he did. ‘‘He then,” says Mr. Medill, ‘“‘made the issue on which he afterward elected. He went deeper into the heart of the great issue than even Seward ventured.” Those who remember this Springfield speech may also recall how much use Douglass made of it in the campaign of 1258 t0 alarm the Conservatives and warn them against the “‘reckless demagogue,” his opponent, who would emancipate the slaves. And in his reply to these attacks, coln illustrated another phase of his character by his artful defense of the speech until, as repeated and explained by himself on the stump, it appeared to the most cautious voter as the inevitable out- come of the question from the very nature of things. NEwTON MacMILLAN. Copyright “lure, Limited. 1TY OF L16HTING PRI- VATE CARRIAGES ELEC- TrrcALLY.—Much interest hasbeen aroused by a recent newspaper article on the use of the electric lamps in carriages, and many inquiries have been made as to whether there is any particular difficulty in putting the electric light into ordinary carriages, whether the cost of doing so is small or great, and whether the lamps can be oper- ated and keptin order by any one unac- quainted with electricity. A great deal ot experimental work in carriage lighting has been done in Europe, and a marked im- petus has been given to its adoption by the enthusiasm of the Emperor of Germany, who, besides appreciating the practical value of a well-illuminated vehicle, believes that the beautifying of a city is materially promoted by increasing the brightnessand cheerfulness of its streets. By his order all the court carriages of Berlin have been lit by electricity. In addition to the lan- terns, which throw light in front of the horses and the lamp which shines in the inner roof of the carriage, small colored lamps are placed all over the harness, which looks as if it were studded with fire- flies as the carriage moyes along. Sucha plant costs comparatively little and can be easily installed, and inits operation and care the observance of only a few simple rules is necessary. One accumulator, weighing two pounds, is allowed for each lamp. The accumulators are carried in the oot ioider HisBeat ratie coachman, who makes the necessary connections. An eight-cell storage battery, for an ordinary family carriage, is contained in a box eight inches long, four inches wide ana seven inches deep. This supplies currentenough to keep the lamp lighted for eighteen hours. The cost of recharging varies from 50 cents to $1. so that the electric light costs no more than oil lamps. Heat Distrisutioy From EvrcTric CEN- TRAL StaTIONs,—There is little doubt that before long we shall be able to regulate the temperature of our houses, according to the season of the year, by means of elec- tric heating or electric refrigeration from the electric central station. In the mean- time an ingenious system of utilizing the waste steam of central stations for heating dwellings, office buildings, etc., has been successtully put into operation. The plan requires either that the engines shall be in operation at all times or that live steam be admitted from the boilers into the dis- tribution mains when the engines are shut down. The plan adopted is to store the heat of the exhaust steam by causing it to raise the temperature of the water in a | business as soon as the wi large tank, well protected from radiation, for use when the engine is not running. This heated water is forced through under- round pipes to the coils in the various fiouses and through the return pipe into the bottom of the storage tank. The water leaves the station at a temperature of 180 deg. Fahrenheit and returns at 140 deg. in zero weather. This small loss of heat in the water after passing, as it often does, through from 10,000 to 12,000 feet of street mains is looked upon as excellent practice, and it is in a great measure owin, to the fact that the supply is forcec through the mains at the rate of 328 feet per minute, with a pressure of 35 pounds at the pumps. THE Passiné oF THE HORSE.—A promi- nent electric company has collected some startling figures, which show the almost in- calculable influence of the introduction of the electric car, taken merely on its one basis of replacing the horse for traction purposes. It is estimated that electric cars have already displaced 1,100,000 horses, and this estimate is manifestly far below the actual number. The feeding of these horses would entail the consumption of 500,000 bushels of corn or oats a day. The animals are now back on grass, and the enormous decrease in corn and oats consuwption, caused by their withdrawal, is sufficient to appreciably affect the prices of those grains. In round figures, it amounts to 180,000,000 bushels a year. There is another view of this subject, the significance of which will be probably more apparent a few years hence than it is now. l:c loss of commercial demand for these coarse grains in the cities means an enormous decrease in the tonnage of the railroad freight traffic. This failure is al- ready put at a minimum of 250,000 car- loads. But it is not only in public traffic that the day of the horse is waning. In some cities the_electric car lines have been so judiciously distributed and give such cellent service that many private families { have given up their carriages and use the electric cars instead. ‘WHAT THE YoUuNG ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Has to Expecr.—F. H. Ford puts forward in an electrical journal a strong disclaimer of thestatement which has been made in a daily paper, that “for the average young man the field of electrical engineering | offers more promises of success than law, authorship, the grocery business or knife grinding.” Mr. Ford says that serious arm is being done in the continual hold- ing up of the profession of the electrical engineer as one offering almost unlimited possibilities in the matter of salaries and demand for men. The closing of many large works, owing to financial trouble or {:mem litigation, has thrown a large num- er of men of both experience and ability on the market, and the supply of engi- neers is in excess of the demand. The struggle for place which has naturally fol- lowed has forced down wages so low that the average engineer cannot command a better salary than the head bookkeeper of a large wholesale concern. The young man who chooses electrical engineering as a profession must be prepared to work nard and long, and for wages which would ordinarily be considered inadequate for the work done. A TrorLey Exrress.—It is now war to the death between the steam and the elec- tric railroads. The bid of the latter for | popularity will be favorably influenced by | the introduction of a new feature in their service, a trolley express. Arrangements | are now being made on many lines to run through cars to points at which there is the greatest traffic and to save the passenger the inconvenience of changing cars when- ever it is possible to do so. When the steam lines and_the electric lines parallel each other the effect of this expry i on the competition between then more apparent, and it is not difficult to foretell which system will do the most ther is warm enough to allow of the opening of the car- windows. AN AURORAL SEARCHLIGHT.—An indica- tion of the estimation in which the search- | light is now held as a medium for the pro- jection of light to distant points is recorded from England. An electrical journal says it ignificant of the spread of electric ap- paratus, which were a few years ago re- garded ratheras curiosities, that the recent fine dis of the aurora borealis in the north of England was by many people put down to the now more familiar Eeams ofa searchlight. It was only when, on com- paring notes, it was found that the display ad been seen in far distant places out of the range of any possible projector that this very practical explanation was aban- doned. VALLEY-ROAD CARS. They Will Be Built in California—The Bakers’ and Furniture-Workers’ Boycotts. The action of the Trade Council in criti- cizing certain business interests of this city led to inquiries in regard to the matters discussed. W. B. Storey, chief engineer of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, said the directors of the road had not been negotiating with firms in the East for the purpose of having the cars for the new road manufactared there. He said the company had deciaed to give every factory in this State that had ever manu- factured cars, or that would undertake their manufacture, the first chance v build the cars. William Ruisinger, the present proprie- tor of the Log Cabin Bakery, said: “l am at a loss to understand why the Labor Council has declared a boycott against my place of business. 1 only acquired the business a short time ago, having pur- chased it from Ward Bros. last Monday. There was a boycott declared against Ward Bros. a short time before the business changed hands, but it wassupposed by me, when I took possession, that the boycott had been declared off. Why it hasbeen renewed I am unable to state. G. H. Fuller of the G. H. Fuller Desk Company when spoken to in regard to working his men ten hours a day without extra pay said: ‘“Yes, sir; I have been working my men ten hours a day for the last seven months, and shall continue to doso. When I am forced to work my men under the direc- tion of the Trades Council I shall discon- tinue my business. I have been engaged in the manufacture of mantels since last April, and in that time bave sold in the neighborhood of 2000, and if it had been ne- cessary for me to comply strictly with the nine-hour custom, it would have been im- possible for me to have successfully com- peted with the East, where the wage rate is much lower, and where, in some fac- tories, it is required of the employes to work as long as eleven and twelve hours.” THEOREMS TO0O ABSTRUSE. 'Gene Field’s Cuffs Failed to Solve Geometrical Problems. “’Gene Field has a young son, a very bright lad, who is going to college outside of Chicago,” said a friend of the Western humorist. “Not long since the boy came home on a visit and a friend of his father asked him, in the latter’s presence, how he was getting along with his studies. ““‘Very well,’ replied young Field, ‘in everything except mathematics. Geom- etry is too abstruse for me, and my stand- ing in it is so low that I am almost at the foot of the class.” ‘ *Twas the same thing with me,” spoke up Field pere. ‘I never could get along in geometry. Tried to beat the professor b writing out the theorems on my cuffs. It was a good scheme for everyday recita- tions, but it wouldn’t work when examina- tion time came, for they insisted on exam- isning me in the nude.’”—Washington tar. ——————— The new English torpedo-boat destroyer Contest recently made a nineteen-hour trip during which she averaged the re- ;lnnknble speed of twenty-eight knots an our. €79 fhe Felds. By A Naluralis! Abroad, c— Here where a little spring issues from the ground and seeps away over a bed of stones, overgrown with brakes and vetches, and a tangle of wild blackberry, I have come upon a dense growth of the scouring- rush. It is a quaint vegetation, looking for all the world like a miniature pine forest. The rushes spring up first like little brown spikes, thrusting their heads above the ground. They grow rapidly and presently unfurl their tiny verticillate branches to the breeze as proudly as any tree might do. Here isa tiny spike just vushing thrcugh the soil. Yonder the giant of the lilliputian forest towers, fully half a foot high, ‘‘Scouring-weed,” says my neighbor the farmer, contemptuously, as Istand watch- ing them. “They aint no good. Some call 'em horsetail.”” In fact the queer little spikes have a number of names—candle-rush, scouring- rush, horsetail, are some of these. They have, moreover, their own particular ap- pellation, equisetum. I have gathered a number of the little trees and brought them into my study. They are not very | pretty, and as my neighbor said, they are The Scouring-Rush. not particularly useful; nevertheless they are of intense interest to me because of what it has been. For our scouring-rush was not always the puny, insignificant thing we now see it. It was once a mighty forest tree, of which this that I hold in my hand is but a degenerate descendant. Like the ferns and the mosses, our scouring-rush belongs to the carboniferous age. It has nothing to do with our mod- ern civinzation. It had reached its high- est perfection and entered upon its down- ward career before ever man appeared upon earth. Its progenitors flourshed with the giant ferns, the reat rank mosses, and the rest of the carbon-storing In those early days the little rush was, as I have said, a mighty tree, growing 200 feet tall and spreading its great whorls of branches in every direc- tion. Let us see what happened to the great primeval tree, that we should only know 1t in this degenerate creature of the bog. Nothing, it would seem, could be more commonplace than this commonest of rushes, yet it represents in_its humble ex- istence a reading from the Darwinian Tliad. Itis a living example of the sur- vival of the fittest. Now, survival of the fittest does not necessarily mean survival of the best. The scouring-rush is by no means better than was its carboniferous ancestor. It is only fitter to sury which is why it is here. Nature takes no note of good and better. Her one aim is to fit the creature to sur- vive under the conditions that surround it. To do this the egolutionary process may work up or down or sidewise. In the case of the scouring-rush it has worked down- ward. In the carboniferous age the air of the earth was much warmer than it is now, even in the tropics. The great mass which constitutes this globe had not cooled sufficiently to sustain any very high forms of life. There were no trees, as we now understand the word, and very little animal life. There were beetles, spiders and scorpions and salamanders big as alligators, but no mammals, nor even any birds. The world was still in twi- light, warm, reeking with moisture both in the air and on the earth’s surface. These were the conditions in which our great rush luxuriated. Its great spongy stem and branches drank in food from the poisonous air; its great creeping rootstocks soaked it up from the morass beneath, and the rush towered high in air. Intime it died and the mighty stem fell back into the waters of the bog. Then came some terrible upheaval, some cataclysm in which the land sank, and the rocks and_debris of the sea floor were thrown upon the decay- ing vegetation. It was pressed and com- pressed beneath this weight—the fronds of the mighty ferns, the high stems of the giant rushes, the great club-mosses, and the primeval forest became a peat-bog. Still greater pressure—a longer lapse of | @®ons, and the peat became coal. But the evolutionary process still went on. The rank gases of the atmosphere were largely stored up in the earth. The earth itself ‘had cooled—the atmosphere was rarer, purer. New life, new growths were coming in, but the giant rush was starving. It could not find food in this thin air. Its roots could not suck up enough moisture to sustain life. It became smaller and smaller. Flowers, seeds it never had borne. Tt now gave up its leaves. Between every two whorls of branches on our scouring. rush vou will find a little brown toothed sheath completely encircling the stem, Each tooth was once a leaf, in the days of the plant’s prosperity. Now that it has learned the sweet uses of adversity it can maintain no such extravagance as leaves, so they are as we see them. The stem is hollow and is divided intp closed sections or joints just where each Whorl of branches is given off. There is also an outer ring of tiny tubes, through which the plant draws moisture from the earth. It is a little higher order of creature than the fern,but itis stilla cryptogram--that is, a plant never bearing true flowers or seeds, but propagating by spores, as do the ferns. And so, fallen upon hard lines, chilled. stunted by the cold, having but a brie season of existence, when the cold winter rains have ceased and the summer droughts not yet begun, we have our scouring-rush, only a few inches high. And this branched stem that we see is not fertile. "Tis enough for it that it sports this waving green feather; the fertile stems are not branched. They thrust them- selves above earth, pale, shrinking, live a brief season, develop their spores and die. Indeed, they can Kardly say that they have lived. "It is hard tc say why they do scouring-rush has survived, so far, by fitn | cording to her cloth, and so the rush has | become modified to an extent that enables | it to survive under its present hard_condi- tions. Its branches have grown thread- like, as branches and leaves of vegetation | always do when the food supply becomes | scarce. This in order that a greater ab- | sorbing surface may be exposed to the air. | The outer walls of its hollow stem contain | two rows of minute tubes that enable the plant to suck up moisture from the earth, | and the sheath of toothlike leaves also | gathers its modicum of plant food from | the air. It takes all these forces and agen- i to keep the plant alive through its brief season, and for all its fierce strug- le for existence, one still wonders why it | lives. The ‘“sweet uses of adversity’’ have | done their worst for it, and it lives; but what would the giant rush that begot it this thing in my hand ? There is another interesting parallel to | what has taken place in the case of the | scouring-rush. It is interesting because | we can trace the whole process in the course of a few hours’ journey. The birch is one of the most magnificent trees of Norway. Tall, symmetrical, with | a silvery sheen of graceful foliage, it is, on the plains and uplands of its native coun- tr, thing of beauty and use. Itisavery persistent type, and we may follow the tree, growing smaller as it ascends, clear to the limit of perpetual snow. Here the climbing mountain sheep and goats find | for herbage, for a brief three months of the year, a short, two-leafed plant, about an inch'high. The country people call it dog- ear. It is the Norway birch, making a game strugele for existénce against condi- tion: hard as to make existence all but impossible. But transplant the dog-ear to the lower ranges and it begins a process of regenera tion. It starts again on the way to be: come a tree. For the scouring-rush there is no renewal of life. Itisdying, as die stock. One cannot but admit, contemplat- ing it, the pitiless force of the sentence pronounced upon the puny survival, “It ain’t no good.” TWIRLED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. 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Painter’s Coca 85¢ Meriana Wine 100 Sozodont . 50c FINE PERFUMERY! Our stock comprises ths finest and rarest brands of Imported and Domestic Perfumery and Toilet Articles. ‘A full line just received of the Crown Perfumery Company’s Perfumes. All the very latest odors and novelties. HEADQUARTERS FOR MME. YALE’S TOILET SPECIALTIES ! We have them in all style toes. For perfect- fitting qualities and stylish appeararice on the {00 they Liave no equal. Country orders filled Our new illustrated catalogue sent free, postpaid, to | any address for the asking: Porrs SULLIVAN'S SHOE-HOUSE, 18, 20, 22 Fourth Street, Just Below Market. ALLEN’S [, SOAL! COAL! PURE MALT WHISKY [ |G tons 520 § oo ton, § Dby return mall or express. | Yale’s Excelsior Hair Tonic. Yale's Fruticura. | Manufactured low prices, but if you should see the 48-inch All-Wool Serge that we are showing at 5o cents; also a line of Fancy Novelties in Black at 50 cents that are good value for 75 cents. E THE PLACE. West of Fifth Street. 'C. CURTIN, rket Street. DRIVES — TN — CROCKERY! This Elegant Toilet Set, as per cut ahove, con- sisting of 6 pieces, decorated in biue, 3 25 per set of 6 3 or pink. Decorated Pie Plates, three colors, pleces.......... i Decorated Breakfast se. of 6 pieces.......... 3 450 Decorated Soup Plates, three colors, per set of 6 pieces. . .....60c Handsome Decorated After-Dinner and Saucers, each.. St 100 German China 3-Piece Decorated Mush Sets. ...85¢ GLASSWARE. 9-Inch Glass Berry Dishes, either square or round, at each......... . Neat Plain Water Goblets, set of 6 Goblets with engraved band, set of 6. BOWLS. New Invoice Just Recelved. Blue Bowls. for. . -.Be to 35¢ each Electrical Construction and Repairing of All Kinds. Estimates Given. NOTE.—Special attention paid to grind- ing Razors, Shears and Edged Tools by skilled mechanics. Prices moderate. 818-820 Market Street Phelan Building. Factory—30 First Street. GRANITE MONUMENTS ot Jones Bros. & Co. Cor. Second and Brannan Sts., S. F, B Superior to ALL 0THERs and the latest de- signs. Strictly Wholesale. Can be purchased ihrough any Retal Dealer. 8 (0—Half ton, Regular Price $1.25. WeCut to 856, |~ 8 00—Half ton, 425 Seven 00. live. Their work is done; but theirs was 4 hardy stock, and they die hard. Butour edwood, $1 23-Country orders filled at our regular cut-rate | KNICKERBOCKER COAL CO., pric 522 Howard Street. Near First. No Percentage Pharmacy, 953 Market St