The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1896, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1896. ry books agal ir regular heroes oing to school cheerfully word of complaint. ndered you or about boys. with his satchel 2 face, creeping hool’—indeed. ble respect for sa writer I d have lived getting back to mas vacation. 1 right, though b th *grips.” were the: with 1 with soapsuds minated the e's ideal irea: - yd m g faces they shone oh my, oh m nave been of the an the g of the >, and for ed to hug the classic (enough), or cynical to imagine it might or might not mean. And if you could have seen those modern schoolboys *‘creeping, like snails, unwill- ingly to School I Have vou seen the football games and a college rush ? Oh, well, those things were slow by com- parison. That is, so far as eager anticipation and | downright happiness were concerned. | The thing had to be done with dignity, of course, but bright eyes and rosy cheeks be- trayed even some of the sedate seniors, | and the fine swing of the happ; legs that were going bs not at all “creeping, like snails. I was just going to say, when I inter- rupted myeelf, that afier all neither Shakespeare nor the boys are to be won- dered at. The change isn't so much in the young folks—it's in the schools. If you don’t be. lieve, read what Charles Dickens has about school life in England long And if that isn’t enou 3 father about the schools of h and he will be pretty sure to tell you that there was rather mare flogging than any thi else. Your uncles had a better time, but even they will be pretty sure to tell you that things are pleasanter now—and they will | he just as glad as you and I are that it is so. The Runaway [Continue Mariners. last week.] | When the boys woke in the morning it SOME OF THE BOYS OF ‘96, i down to prepare oceans | tons of good roast beef and ly puddings and pies. tears in their eyes, ered about whi be voung ! T 3 Sons and bas heard that college—whine, have been denied your birthe haven’t heard it nobody can tell aper how that whine sounds. Yo T.C.! ni-ah! 1 joins already pre- everything that is onee to that call. the students of the e and a pleasure college life that icha liowship of ged to ans everything, that col- of us may be poetic enouch, or honest DONALD MAKING SOAP BUBBLES. may be able to | ested the young wanderers r and set the college cooks | did not take them long to learn that the | canoes, which were well laden with ba- | Susan was lying at rest in a peaceful harbor. Bert and Walter managed fo reach the deck after a while and they were greatly interested in what they saw from that point of observ 5 A tropical island stretched before and around them, an island picturesque with palm trees. Toward the ship came brown-skinned and almost naked people rowing queer little nanas, cocoauuts and breadfruit. But the island and its inhabitants inter- less than a great white ship that was their neighbor in the little land-locked harbor. She floated, this beautiful ship, the stars and stripes—the blessed ‘red, white and | blue.” | From the masthead floated another flag, | a 200-foot streamer, which set the boys | a-wonderin “That’s a big American man-of-war, but | what do yousuppose the streamer means?"’ | said Bert, with a well-suppressed sob in | his throat. | “Well, I don’t know what it means,” re- | nvent & way to | plied poor Walter, with white lips, “*but | somehow I am pretty sure it means some- thing good.”” { And it did. tain of the Jolly Susan had him- | | of being entertained, and went home quite | | his plate before he came to the hidden | | regret haying todisappoint theirlittle boy, | and leaving three or four rings of crusi self rowed out to visit the great white flag- ] ship. There was never any very extended | official report of what he said fo the navy | captain, nor of what that gallant gentle- | man replied. | But before those runaway San Francis- cans had had time to eat half as many | bananas as they reaily wanted a steam | launch from the man-o-war came along- | side the Jolly Susan and those rascally boys were carried over to the shelter of those stars and stripes quite as if they were | young princes recalled to their father’s | most royal and majestic presence. The | war had steam up already, and | t before Walter could gasp out a | question as to that mysterious streamer up | aloft the ship was under way. “It's the homeward-bound pennant,” was the welcome and most unexpected | answer to Master Walter’s mquiry. And | | the glorious man-of-war steamed out of the harbor while the sailors on the Jolly Susan cheered and the flagship’s band played, *Oh, Ain’t I Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness?’ *‘Home, Sweet Home,"” and plenty of other air: THE EN The Strange Birthday Present. “‘Oh, to-morrow is my birthday! I shall be 10 years old, and I want ever so many things! How I hope I shall get them all!’’ So cried little Patsie one night as he | danced around the nursery in his white htgown. Finally his mamma quieted him, and after tucking him in his little bed and lis- tening to his “Now I lay me,” soon left him fast asleep. When he awakened in the morning, he was dressed in a jiffy, then downstairs he flew two steps at a time! | | Oh, yes, everything was there; from the | shining, glittering safety, to the pile of | | story-books. | When papa and mamma entered the | f: oom they found their little son | happy and very much excited over | utiful gifts, and it was quite hard work to get bim to eat his breakfast. Dur- ing the meal his father told him thata | very mysterious package, tied very s curely, had arrived for him, with the fol- lowing words printed on the wrapper: | NOT T0 BE OPENED UNTIL DINNER TIM | “Isn’t that mean?’ said Patsie, “‘dinner time isa long ways off.” *Never mind, Patsie,” said mamma’s gentle voice, *‘just don’t think of it, but have a good time riding your safety and playing football your little brother.” But Patsie could not forget that pack- age, and every few minutes he would come in to take a “‘peek’ at it and to wonder what it was. Soall the beautiful sunshiny morning hours passed and sie had not felt either happy or contented. | In the afternoon his mamma tried to read to him out of *his lovely new story-books, but the restless child kept looking toward the unrevealed gift, so she had to stop, because you know it is very hard to read | to a littie boy when he does not pay at- tention. Then some friends came to play with | | \Y\\ 1ol | | | | | | ing—wooden for such plumbing—wool fks and clogged drains—would Indian.” 2 e the “npl!afilnt~mnls— v ried with a i the committee was Vva i A nitary arrangement of building No. 2 was found to be ina fearful condi- No. 2 hhe fixtures were without traps or Sullivan, * boxes for sin disgust a Digger ‘At the Almshouss L » closets witnout ventil- si nage and the clos! 0 i an‘l‘:‘l));? The outbuildings were 1n a still filthier condition from lack of perfect P (‘onlnn,thcresxdeniphys:fle:; essary to keep every stated that it was necessary y S eow in the house open from '.t‘}l\;;r:;: | tom and top to insure proper ven ion. K » or incurable ward, The *last chance, A 2 >esthouse, while a palace formerly the old Pesthouse, while pala dit. compared to its con : still far frum being up to the standard of san tary perfection. 2 7 it i i visited a change for In all the buildings visited a change for the better was observable, bu i ments go on very gradually, held li“chci as was stated, by the smallness of appro priations. : On Monday morning committee will visit branc STOCKHOLDERS 10 MEET Future of the Grangers’ Bank to Be Decided Next Tuesday. at 11 o’clock the h jail No. 3. How to Pay the Depositors the Main Question—Half Enough Money on Hand Now. The stockholders of the Grangers’ Bank will hold their annual meetinz on Tues- day to take final action about settling the A FEATHER IN HER CAP. forger it. Little Patsie felt very much | | ashamed, and the whole family were seatec | center-table, where ten little colored wax candles were burni beautiful birth; mamma’s side try ater in the evening when iround the ly around his iipped to his would always crusts, to remember to eat hi The Tardy Lamalie W stered tight, v neys pla: g o1 Christmas day; u please L0 take me in and' 1| am happy to say the little fellow kept his O his high-chair before the table. Mamma ]vulnul an apron over his clothes; gave 1im some old soft rags to wipe pa: his hands and picture: Then the active little boy spent a long time in pasting the pictures he had cut out in his dear oid | pbook. Eighth—When he had wearied of this his mamma brought out a large bowl of soapsuds and a clay pipe. This meant the best fun of all—making soap-bubbles. It | was hard for him to stop this fascinating | | | play, even when dinner time came. Ninth—After dinner. a delightful story | from papa finished a little boy’s happy | rainy d Indoor Amusements. Of the many games which are elaborated | him and they brought him some more pretty gifts; but he spent almost all of the time they remained in ing if they had sent the mysterious present or in try- ing to make them guess who was in it. His companions did not enjoy tais way | | | early, declaring that ‘‘Patsie” was a very disagreeable boy on his tenth birthday. At last dinner time came (as it alway does). Mamma had prepared a lovel dinner for her young son, but the excite curious child scarcely glanced at the beau- tifully decorated table, he was so eager to open the package. 1 ““Ah, 1o, you must eat your dinner first,” said papa. And the littla fellow proceeded | to obey as fast as he could. | Then came the eventful moment. | Thoughts of all sorts of beautiful things that he had wished for flashed through his brain. | One string was untied, one paper wrap- | per was removed; another string was un- tied and another paper covering taken off, | “My! it must besomething fine to need | so much wrapping up!”’ thought he. | Well, that little boy untied & great many | strings, and had quite a lot of paper beside treasure, and when he_did, what do you think he found? Nothing but a little pile of dry crusts of bread ! I know you all feel like saying, oh, how | mean! and that you feel very sorry for little Patsie. So did his papa and mamma but they had tried so hard for two or three | years to teach him to_eat all of his siice of read instead of digging out the soft part | | around his plate that they just had to impress it on his mind so he would never ] f I | “shady =) il Gillermiee Slezm) e g = N A BELATED SA A CLAUS. | nd keep me till November? T'd ratier start Thanksgiving day han miss you next 1 KaTE D. WIGGIN, in - - cholas. THE DONALD SERIES—NO. XI| FOR TINY BOYS. When the blue eves opened in the morn- ing there were no sunbeams dancing around the nursery, but the room was real as Donald said. When he heard the tinkie, tinkle of the tiny raindrops against the tin water-spout he satup in bed crying “*Oh dear, it's raining. I can’t have any fun to-day.” “Let’s you and mother try if we cannot have a real happy time all day,” said mamma as she lifted him from his little | bed to get him ready for breakfast. Donald did have a merry, happy, busy time that day and at night just before he went to slumberland he said: ‘““Mamma, [ hopeall the tiny boys had as much fun as I bad to-day.” So after the dear little fellow was fast asleep mamma wrote out & programme of just how the tiny boy spent the day. First—He looked out of the window. Watched the raindrops falling into the gutter, forming bubbles which he played were ships as they sailed away so grace- fully. When two bumped together he said the ships had a collision and an ex- plosion. Second—Watched the poor horses driven so fast over the slippery street that three or four of them fell down, Was not a bit sorry for the men who had to get out and cut their harness and push back the shafts to allow them to get up again. Third—Saw the little children going to school, wrapped in all sorts of funny cloaks'and waterproofs to keep them dry. Saw some poor little ones with nothing to protect them from the rain but very thin, old clothes, Fourth—Mamma and he chose horses by colors, ke choosing all the white horses that passed by and mamma the brown ones. Fifth—Had on his rubber boots, warm cap and great coat. Went out in the rain for half an hour. The only place the rain- drops could touch him was on his chubby {face. Donald laughed with jovous glee as the r trickled down his rosy cheeks. Sixth—Had a hearty lunch, and then cut all sorts of pictures from a pile of old papers. Seventh—Went into the kitchen; sat in“ | | from a series of words none is better than | the old one: “I love my love with an a.” | It is played in this fashion. The first | member of the company begins, “I love my love with an a because he 1s amiabl { I hate him with an a because he is athletic. He took me to Atlanta and treated me to apples and his name is Alfred.” Then the next person continues, “I Jove my love with a_b because he is beautiful; I hate | bim with a b because he is brutal. He took me to Baltimore and treated me to buns and his name is Benjamin.” Girls | give the name of a boy and boys the name | of a girl. If any one falls to think promptly | | of a word beginning with the right letter a | forfeit must be paid.—Brooklyn Eagle. Song of the Holly-Buds. Little ones, pretty ones, wide-eyed and wonder- eyed, Johnny and Lonny and Budgie and Belle, Chasing up laughter from basement to raster, Hark to the story the holly-buds tell: “Once within the long-ago To a manger lowly Wiser than the world could know— Came the Christ-child holy. “ Came to bring his glory down To all lives of sorrow, And to weave them golt n crown For his glad to-morro; ince then. the holly elves, Never sad nor lonel Don their red coats by themselves For the Christmas only.” HESTER A. BENEDICT, Tongue Twisters. A good merry making game at an even- ine party, or for that matter at any time, is trying to repeat difficult sentences over and over agai One of the simplest and | best of these is *‘Mixed biscuits.” Another is “'Gig whip” and even worse than that is “Six thick thistle stick.” Peter Piper fades into insicnificance when compared with such jawbreakers. Having mastered them attempt *‘She stood at the door wel- coming him in,”” and proceed to the direc- tion which the writer has been obliged to give, *‘Stop at the shup at the top of Sloane street.”” Should any member of the com- pany feel sure of the prize thus far an an- tidote to conceit is, “There was an old woman and she was a thistle sifter. She | had a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted thistles, and she was a thistle siiter.” | Telezraph poles in Sw itze; served from rapid decay by with a creosote compound, gravity into one end of the wood. rland are pre- being charged pressed by | Chief Plumbing Inspector J. | went spinning acro | spection simply of the sanitary and plu | line throughout the City and County in- | The S | more favorable state than in an | the sink. | i | | found in a deplorable sanitar | step was climbed, the place where a vipe SAW FAULTY SANITATION, Hospital Committee of the Board of Health Inspects the Jails. | | | | | | THE ALMSHOUSE ALSO VISITED. | Accumulated Filth Caused by Imperfect | Plumbing Was Deplorably in Evidence. y morning when t re the fogs had 1 , the physicians con- | stituting the Hospital Committee of th ted 1 d of Health, Drs. Hen H. Hart, M. Williams d G Fitzgibbon, companied t Physicians J. R. Mc Murdo and O Brien, together with J. Sullivan, the rocky roads, over d the branch jails and the hills, out towa the Almshouse. Chief Inspector Sullivan was in the lead. The object of the committee was an in- ab- ing condition of these institutions. | Captain P. N. Clarkson of the Branch | Jail 2, formerly the House of Correction, conducted the party through that building. The doctors thoroughly and conscien- iously examined the plumbing fixtures ations of Mr. Sulli- van regarding the improvements in this ¢ stitutions, in this b ling alone have his suggestions been satis! y cted upon. committee found things there in a v of the three buildings visited yesterda: Some very abje however, in the wa wer holes and faultily constructed bathitubs. In the butcher-shop, which serves also as a refrig- erator, a large Lole connecting directly with the sewer opens in the floor next to The effluvium arisi from it lingers among the legs of mutton and quarters of beef. “If we did not flush things out two or three times a day,” | remarked Captain Clarkson, “the meat would wal ay in the night.” | “There should be : beneath this | drain,” said Mr. Sullivan, “'and the flush. should be automaticaily done, as it is in other institutions of the kind.” ““I'd make improvements fast enough,” hed the , “but we lack stuff. nomy, There are 286 prisoners in the jail. The women's department, jail 3, was v state. “Ah, this room,"” sad Dr. Hart, peering througn the darkness, ‘‘needs lignt and air and a coat of paint. Patches of plastering in a wide expanse of protruding lath were coated with siime. The doctors beat a hasty retreat. *Con- demn it, condemn it,” was whispered by each one. Then began a long night-marish tramp throngh shadowy passage -w. from which a vista would open now and then of large, low-ceilinged rooms, where cringing creatures huddled in groups together; up shaky winding stairways that led to misty, dusty attics, only to view, when the last es exist, risivg from filth beneath penetrated the roof to send 1ts noxious breath into adja- cent windows. Then down through the uncertain way again to the place where the filth stagnated and dealt out its deadly miasma to the poor unfortunates above. In a tomb-like bathroom six coffin tubs rose from a floor reeking with nastiness. In the laundry near the dining-room a witch of Endor stirred with a long stick a noiseme brew of dirty linen, and the dining-room itself was remarkable for an open cesspool at one end, an open sewer at the other, and a strong drait between. The committee hastened outside to air itseif. ‘‘And yet,”” said Dr. McMurdo, “there is very little sickness here, and it is all owing to the excellent care that is maintained by those in charge.” affairs of the institution. There was held yesterday a meeting of the directors, with 11 the members present, to talk over their report to be de to the shareholders. There is cash on hand in the bank $60.000, of which $30,000 has been collected since the suspension. The directors say that they expect to have $70,000 by Tuesday and to be pre- pared to pay off at least half the ount due depositors, which is about $130,000. It is expected that arrange- ments will be made soon, probably within a month, to pay off the whole amount owed deposi v securing ade on securit from some of the wealthy shareholders. on 1ces The securities have been examined into a second time by the Bank Commis- sioners, Mr. La Rue, speaking of the securi- t pid : “Daniel Mey Hellman 1 others know the v our securi . The 3ank Comum ers are thoroughly fa- miliar with th rth of the notes and we hold. The sto olders ),000 or perhaps $250,000, but no depositor will lose a cent. ‘“After the Bank Commn ioners made their first statement I feared that Mr. Montpeliier's iasm bad indu | him to plac on our secu ties than the m ymn w ssion rranted and so [ s to_go over the off everything done and we what we can cult to raise tgages and con- cts. For example, Mr. McNear pur- chased from us a line of ehouses for | $60,000 to be paid for in six years in annual installments of $10,000. On this account we have $50,000 due the bank ine of warehouses was sold to anotl for $40,000 on the same terms and on .hat ac- bunt the sum of $30,000 will come in. I'hese contracts are gilt edged, but we can- not raise money on them.” ‘ again doubtful. 1 know exactly cour 1t n it c on dif is ey on the best of mor wa E .- - Klose Taken to San Quentin. ose, the murderer of Willlam was taken to San Q yesterc deputy Sheriff to await exe Deady was asleep s 1 on Hayes street, when Klose, ith an oath, suid that he could wake him up. and pl into his neck, sever- t Was convicted of enced to was & fine young ny friends in his neighbor- Two married men who refuse to provide for their families were sent to the County Jail by Judge Campbell cher, & wealthy contractor, who was arrested on a rant on_ Frida ree months, thaniel Hodgss ainter, was awarded six months. NEW TO-DAY. 50 Cts. TEAS EXTRA QUALITY With each pound is given a LOVELY DISH Newest Shapes Prettiest Decorations ALSO GIVEN WITH GOLIMA PURE SPICES, COLIMA BAKING POWDER. Great American Importing Tea Co. 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