The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 16

THE SAN -FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896. ks and Suits. Sealette Jacket left | k and marked them down, | spective of cost and value, to| eifect a speedy s not a question of we can get for them, | soon we can close them 0 each—All our pl , lined adames; redt 0 each. tte Jacke ki and styles, som fronts, , one linings in value at $2 Jresses, The eviots, and e or less braids and ith’ fancy ere sold ta 3 oths are “cheviots, 1d coverts, made in long and short jackets, red and very full ar 50, the most _elaborate & © ; reduced from §2250 , trimmed G ttons and (¢ 0 ® @© Ladies’ | | | Colored Silks. Our entire stock of Colored Satins in street and fancy colors, all 20 to 24 inches wide, and including such colors as tans, golds, terra cotta, navy blues. light biues, greens, bronze, slatey etc. Reduced from 75c and $1 to 29c a¥ard. All-Silk Colored Surahs, our entire line, such colors as greens, tans, blues, browns, grays, gobelins, heliotropes, pinks, rose, nile, corn, etc., always sold at 75¢ a yard. Reduced for this sale to 39¢. Figured and Striped All-Silk Taffetas, in light and dark colorings, just the § material for waists, full cos- tumes or trimmings. pri close them out at once, 35¢ a yard. Chameleon Taffeta Silks, in striped & the most desir- 9 and fizured effects, also black grounds with colored stripes, ablestyieforfancy waistsand skirts. Re- duced from 75¢ and 85c a yard for this sale to 49c a yard. ) Bfack Silks. Black Crystal Be: ine, a good, firm of it, possibly 200 Reduced for this All-Silk Black Crepe, good have sold heretofore at § hat we s t 50 a yard. We have decided not to keep this line | in future and have cut the price for a speedy clearance to 59c. Black Satin Damasse, all-silk goods in copies of the richest satin brocades, very popular for entire costumes or separate skirts; always sold by us at §1 a) To be sold special during this sale at 69¢. Black “Cachemire Alexandre” Gros Grain Silks, the par excellence of Lyons silk dress materials. The actual value is $2 50 a yard, but to reduce our stock we have marked this g y $1 50 a yard. Knowing ones kno |Knit Underwear. Misses’ Gray Wool Ribbed Shirts and Drawers, reduced from 75¢ to 48¢c. Children’s All-wool Scarlet Shirts and Drawers, all sizes, reduced from 85¢ to 50c. Infants’ Wool-ribbed Vests, made in wrapper style, opening all the way down, long sleeves, reduced from 40c to 25¢. Ladies’ Natural and Silver Gray Wool Vests and Drawers, hlfib necks and long sleeves, extra goo duced from $1 to 69¢ each. Ladies’ All-wool Jersey-ribbed Com- bination Union Suits, an extra quality,| that was sold at $3 50 a suit, black and white, high neck, long sleeves, an length, redpced to $1 98 a suit. 0000000000000 0COO000O000! E Hosiery 'Bargains. Infants’ All-wo'ol Ho | and 5, reduced from Ch ildren’s Fa Cotton Hose to be had at ish Ribbec none bette ced to 15¢ a p All-weol Ribbed Hose blue, reducec Children brown, garn: from 50¢ o 2 Cashmere } extra lengths, reduced pair. { Ladies’ extra quality Rea! Maco Bl ‘ Cotton Hose, Hermsdorf dye, a gr that is usual | this sale to 2 | Ladies’ Real Lisle Hose, gu | iast black dye, high-spliced h and’ toes, reduce; 50¢ & pair to 3 pairs for §1. nteed se, in fast black old at 35¢, reduced tfor 'This |Sale Was inaugurated for the purpose of reducing our stock as much as possible before we make our inventory. It is much easier to count coin than yard- ages and dozens, and to simplify mat- ters in that way we have named prices calculated to bring about such results. ‘We have but two weeks left, and to glory we submit to-day’s list of BARGAINS, feeling confident of the merit of each one and assuring you that they cannot be duplicated any- wind the sale up in a great blaze of | where. ® ® 1 5 Requisites. ] Bulb Syringe firtings. . i White Felt Corn P Taleum Infant Pow T Greer's Tc Lavenaer Smelling Salis t Medicines will be sold ¢ izcturers’ cost. ipply. Your corner drug- v then at our prices by ihe te All Pa 1 e | bottle | Muslin | Underwear. The most suegessful sale, the best lines and the greatest bargains ever offered to the San Franeisco ladies. Corset Covers, 15¢ and 25¢ each. The 25¢ line includes all our 35¢, 40¢ and 50¢ quali- ties, each one neatly trimmed. Ladies’ Drawers, maae of cambric and lawn, trimmed with laces and embroideries, former price 75¢, reduced to 50c. Ladies’ Chemise, made of fine materials and neatly trimmed with embroideries, re- * duced from 75¢ each 10 40c: more elaborate styles, made of fine muslin and cambric and elaborately trimmed with laces and Domestic Wonders. No woman who values a bargain, who wants to make a doliar buy as ; Black Dress Goods. 3 o] 5 v vi th s STl ST T g1 a0 each Figured Black Alpacas, 32 inches wide, | much as two will under any other g : lustrous patterns, over fifty designs. | Circumatances, can aftor@ Bt OTZF 0.« i Ladies’ Night Gowns, over 30 different Reduced for this sale to 19¢ a yard. this sale. The items in £ A styles, including garments that were in stock at §1 75, $2 and $2 50, all put into one line for this sale at $1 each. are all every-day necessities and priced at such figures as will be sure to attract. Black Novelty Suitings, 38 inches wide, Imported Bood s Al ez ® YaTd | 4t 5 cts.—Two casesof new Striped | and Figurea Light Ground Flan-| nelettes. Ladres’ Skirt Chemise, the best bargain in the offering, made ot fine cambric arnd lawn and very elaborately trimmed with fine laces and embroideries, reduced from d hicee. wg e ey el &%Wxfi??&gt’f l;-‘:fdfdfigfiifle;g;’: AloenaNs case c::lfdl"al?cyugggssi ;:j‘ i 5¢. ! Gi ight and dark gr . ) 00 this sale to 35¢. ; Ginghams, lig g‘ o :Efi‘ ! 7% —Tw ark o} Mohairs, some fully 44 inches wide,| i suriped Persian and fancy pat- value at 75c a yard. uring is sale | terns, value at 1234c. i will be sold at 50c. | ! GREAT OCK-T . At 814 cts.—Two cases of Tea Gown Flannels, in light evening colors, printed in stripes and fancy de- signs, value at 12}4¢c. At 1234 cts.—All our Fanecy Eider- down Wrapper Flannels, that sold all season at 25¢ a yard. Black Crepons, the deep, billowy | weaves, fully 46 inches wide, extra | value even at $1 a yard. Specialat 50¢. | 00000 COO0) B At 25 cts.—A large collection of .:" Real Imported French Ail-wool & ® Flannels, light and dark colorings, (% ® real value 75c a yard. -l ® © At 1234c each—100 dozen Bleached 'y’ ® Hemmed Huck Towels, with red & ® borders, 36x18 inches, worth 20c. [« OOOCOCOCOCO00COS — i At 1634c each—100 dozen Bleached Hemmed Huck Towels, with red, ' blue or plain borders, 38x191; ;s inches, reduced for this sale from [ 25¢ each. | Colored Dress Goods. AT 19¢—50 pieces Fancy Cheviot and T'wo-toned Suitings. Reduced from 25c. At 75¢ a dozen—100 dozen Cream Turkish Bath Towels, some plain, [GC0CC.O0OL $'3 100000000 100 pieces Assorted Novelty others with fancy stripes, value at 0} | ne, all-wool fancy and Scotch 15¢ each. |i O | Isand all-wool Cashmeres, in street | and evening colo Worth 50¢ a yard. | Floss Down Cushions and Pillows, /& ® i | just the thing for couches, sofas el ® AT @ 50 pieces 48-inch Novelty | and chairs. Prices greatly reduced :2] ® Small | Buitings, Woo! Plaids, French Costume | for this sale: bl ® Cloths and k and Wool Mixtures. {4 19¢ each, regular 35c ol 29¢ each, regular 50c | each, regular 60c | - 48¢ eacl, regular 75¢ ol s & 5 e 16 inches square, than 75c. | 18 inc none worth le ¥ Wares. AT 50c—Our entire line of 52and 54 inch inches square Dress Materials, in Fancy Cneviot and A Mixed Suitings, silk and wool mottled cts.—We bave massed to- gether in one batch a lot of odds | s Handkerchiefs, over 500 Gozen new patierns, elegant work on sheer pineapple cloth, worth 20c cach, reduced for this <ale Emfijin?for:‘l‘;‘;fock burn SCHegiota b e of Co?hnahlss' all | s —— i double-bea size and covered with Ladies' Hemstitched Silk Hendkerchiefs, —Our regular §1 quality of plain fancy The lot includes i ull size, only a limites y quantity, reduced from 25¢ each to 10¢ everything in stock that sold at $1 | and $1 25 each. id wale effect Storm Serges, regular | ironclad material with no wearout toit. | guipure and £n brie, Swiss, lawn and nainsook, a sale at 5c, Je & yard; 8140, very much | RECRUITS FOR UNCLESAM dition of the teeth is noted. His eyesicht is tested by the reading of small print| several races away, and then follows the test. Men who have never known | ! that their eyesight was at all defective | Applicants for the Service Un- dergo Rigid Examina- tion. ENTERING THE MARINE CORPS. Hard Times Induce Many Young Men —How Deserters and riminals Are Detected. they flock in like ducks remarked Dr. Lowndes States marine recruiting : them in at 1 afford to applicants for the nch of the service, and the appli- Americans as a rule. of course, and espe- ially when the count gaged in a dispute with a fore they are desirable. It may be said that le ‘many are called few are chosen.” The other morning sixteen applicants ap- peard at the door, and of that number only ne was passed. “‘The appl sent over to Mare Island for final inspec- tion, and if the commander there is satis- fied he is put in the reserve; if not, he is returned to this offi 1 for a recrai on the island. Yes meet some strange cases,” con- d the doctor. “Only a few days ago, nee, a tall, fine-featured man, in neat suit of cloth He had the general appear- As he prepared for on I noticed thet the man was His face ed at him in astonish- 1t his pulse and found it h as 120. The examination rther. The man tremblingly « t a time W § vous. pained look. ment when 1 ht hours. T judged him truth and gave him a doller with the request that he eatand sleep and return to me on the following morn The man true to his word, and he passed the examination both here the island. He was fairly educated amily, but had been pursned Dy until le reached almost the starvation point. *“Then, ags we meet young men who are eager for military fame. One wanted me to tell lum what he would have to pass through. to become a major, but I sent m to army headquarters where he could n what he would have to pass through become a private.” As far as naval enlistme cerned arine Corps il nts are con- is the most ines are very w0 years of the enlistment is £ r-lerm o es. Theexamination ,is more exacting than that of the seaman. Sormer he is first questione tone as to facts concerning himself, and to his family history; both his hearing and intelligence being tested in this way. His nose and mouth are microscopically ioned in larg 1t on the land, where he is generally | In the caseof the | a very low | often discover themselves to be color blind. As to measurements a man’s chest must | expand more than thres inches before he can be accepted; he must be between 5 feet 5 inches and 6 feet in height, and weigh " not less than 130 pounds. Heart and lungs are | scienuitically tested, and no appreciable composed almost ex- | y is en- | 1 nation | ant who is successful here is | 8o it is not a sure | ¢ until he has passed off- | , asked to | bore a | he hadn’t tasted food | disorder in these organs can escape the surgeon’s scratiny. From head to foot | the applicant is studied. Indeed, 8o par- | ticular is the marine examiner that no knock-kneed man is passed and even flat- | amined and the sound or unsound con- | war vessel examines applic the crew is short. Good, able-bodied sea- men are hard to get. Applications, how- ever, are as numerous as they are in the marine service. The navy, in fact, offers more chances for army now, for the navy, as a who. really short-handed. Only American sea- men are taken, and there isa particular bar against Englishmen. “There is a large market here from | which men can be picked,” cbserved Al White, who is recognized ¢ sailo) friend. ‘“I'nhe Navy Department is deavoring to man its vessels exclusiv with Americans. Take the Philadelphia and 90 per cent of her crew are Americ nearly all of them obtained in the last f months. The native American is what is DR. LOWNDES [Sketched from life EXA MINING A RECRUIT. by @ “Call’ artist.] footed men have very serious odds against them. A superfluity of corns on the ieet is a cause for rejection. ‘When a man’s body has been gone over | and all scars and marks noted he is made to stand erect with his hands above his head and then all his joints are tested to | see that he is thoroughly supple. He is also made to shut his eyes and as the same time raise the fore part of the feet so that his whole weight rests on_his heels, then if he has any spinal trouble it will be made speedily evident by the twitching or winc- ing. The final step is vaccination and then the ordeal is ended. Seamen for the navy are recrnited down at Al White’s sailor’s boarding-house on the waver front. There the surgeon of a _wanted in the navy, and as opportunities |'on land are growing fewer all the time better material is coming to hand grad- ually for good seamen.” As to the army, it is fairly well filled just now. The Fifth Regiment, at the residio, is very close to its limit, and a halt was called in the recruiting business some time back for that reason. Every time a recruit enlists a descrip- tion card is made out for identification in case of desertion or for other causes. Itis use the service as a temporary refuge when pursued by officers of the law. Now all recruiting stations are provided with identification cards bearing the out- line of an anatomical man. The cards are now a hazardous thing for a criminal to, nts whenever | about eight inches square, and ‘the out- | lined figure of a man is_printed on both | One side shows a front view of the | :, with the hands and arms straight own at the sides, and the other shows | the rear figure. Blank cpaces are provided | for the man’s name, age, height, nation- ality, color of his eyes and a few minor | auestions that might assist in identifying Liim, | hena man shows up to recruit the n strips him and subjects him to a itiny for scars, moles, tattooing and other permanent marks on the body. He | indicates with ink on the card the nature | of any marks, and the card is sent to | Washington, where there is a card on file | for every man in the service. In fact, the military detective burean, under the sur- geon-general of the War Départment, is a b | most important concern. | When & 1 honorably discharge bis card is When a man d or commits apy other mili the commander of the post at which he is stationed forwards his name to | the department and his card is removed | from the alphabetical files. The man’s| me is then lost sight of entirely and his is classified in a criminal file by the ion in which his most prominent scar 1f his most prominent scar is | on the right foot his card is placed on the | right-foot file. If he bas several large scars in different sections duplicate cards are made out and a card is filed in the proper file for each scar. It is claimed for this system that it bas never yet failed. No two men have ever | been found to have scars just ahke. Some have hali a dozen permanent marks, others many as six times that many. Criminals are not captured by any particu- car class of marks, but by a combination of marks. ‘When a man deserts his name is for- warded to the bureau by the commander of the post and his card is filed with the ‘‘undesirable men,” according to his most prominent scar. If the man re-enlists he naturally presents himself in a strange re- | cruiting office under a false name. He is enlisted and amined like all new re- cruits and his identification card is for- warded to the department. Cards of cur- rent recruits are examined by a corps of clerks for the most prominent scar, This scar is marked with a circle of red ink and compared with cards on tile of the crimin- als with scars in an identical location. 1f the card shows no identical scars with | the card of a criminal, it is filed alphabeti- cally; but if one scar is iden 1 with that | of a crimmnal all the other scars are com- pared with that criminal’s card, and if the two cards tally the new recruit will find himself in a guardhouse without much more delay than is required to transmit a telegraph message to the commander of the post at which the enlistment took place. In the Naval Department a similar bureau exists, It is separate and distinet, of course, from the Military Detective Bureau, but the system isidentical. When a marine or sailor deserts or is dishonorably discharged his name is dropped from the alphabetical list, and his identification card, by marks, is not only filed among the ‘‘und:sirable men” at the Naval Burean but also sent to the War Depart- ment Bureau. Criminal cardsare likewise transmitted from War to Naval bureau. Thus a double comparison is made, one in each department, and a deserter or crim- inal from the navy is thus barred from the army, while an army deserter or criminal will seek to enter the navy in vain. As was remarked above, hard times may drive a great many into the ranks; but still forever there will be the proverbial recruit who is intent on “‘seeking the bub- ble reputation even in the cannon’s mouth”; or the one who, crossed in love, thus flees the vanities of a heartless world; and still forever will the young seeker after adventure in the service be disappointed in the mouotonous routine of a soldier’s life in time of peace. . Fourth of July, Memorial day and Wash- ington’s Birthday all come on Saturday this year. Labor day falls on Monday and Thanksgiving on November 26. SHORT LESSONS IN HORSE GUIDANCE. DRIVING. Good hands’’ are as essential in driving as in riding, although we do nQ* hear so much of the need for them. You should be able to feel your horse’s mouth hout worrying'it. This can only be done by keeping the reins in a firm, light, gentle hold. The fingers, rather than the hands, ould do the work. The reins should usualiy be held in the left hand. Take the right rein between the middle and the index fingers and pass it beneatb the index finger, holding it firmiy under the ball of the thumb. Let the left rein pass between the ring and little fingers, and carry it, too, across the ring, middle and index fingers, to be held by the thumb. If the reins are held in both hands the right hand should be always ready to seize the whip. If you have a nervous horse, liable io take sudden fright, keep the whip in hand when passing through a crowded street, or any place of danger. In such case keep | hands on the reins. rjerk or flap the reins. Naver strike a horse for & g. [If you notice that he is eying any object with suspicion give him a gentle tap with the whip to distract his attention, but do not punish him after he has made the jump. He will be sure to associate the blow with the object of his terror, and the habit will become confirmed. Never strike a balking horse. Never drive one, either. make this nnisance endurable. In meeting a turnout you should KEEP T0O THE RIGHT, but in overtaking one the rule is To PASS ON THE LEFT. this rule is the cause of many accidents and much profanity. Keep as far behind another driver as you can conveniently. Life and time are too vrecious and good animals too plentiful to Disregard of If obliged to drive close in the rear of another vehicle pull THE DRIVER OF THE I-IACK DISREGARDED ONE OF THE RULES OF THE ROAD. your horse to a jog and have him well in hand. Otherwise the driver 1n front of you, by suddenly stopping or turning to right or left, may cause you great discomfiture. Under such circumstances I have known a horse’s leg to be thrust through a wheel of the preceding vehicle and broken. Observe this rule, particularly on hilly roads. Never start to back or turn without seeing what is beside or behind you. Make a point to pull up a little at crossings. Be courteous and keep a qool head, even when foot passengers get bewildered and dodge back and forth before you. In such case you will often save time by halting. In crossing a car-track make as sharp a turn as space will allow, and drive across directly rather than diagonally. Pay attention to your horse, no matter how interested you may feel in what is going on in the street. Never pull up suddenly on a damp pavement, or on asphalt pavement, dry or. damp. Keep cool. Nothing is helped by excitement. If you cannot command your nerves in an emergency you will never become a successful driver, and should not attempt to guide a horse in a busy street. Keep your horse well in hand. Keep your whip in hand. Keep your temper in hand. Keep your eyes and mind on the matter in hand. And let the horse do the rest.