The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1896, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1896. BLAZEINALOS | ANGELES SCHOOL, Four Hundred Little Tots March Bravely From the Building. THROUGH DENSE SMOKE | Gain the Open Air Without Ut- tering a Cry or Causing a Break in the Ranks. BENEFITS OF THE FIRE DRILL. Children Retain Their Presence of Mind and Implicitly Obey Their Teachers’ Commands, , CAL., March 3.—When e alarm was sounded this morning at Pedro-street School, near Seven- teenth, by Miss Adelia Anderson, the principal, the hearts of 400 children and seven teachers jumped and beat wildly, but not a child moved. At a word all arose and marched out of the building. Att almost blinded by the s than seventy seconds rm was sounded that the standing in martial array ke soldiers, in the peltingrain, out in the were choolyard When Miss Anderson opened the door tothe short hallway leading from her schoolroom to rivate office, at 10 | she discovered g through the floor. She at into the main hall of the ed the firegong. Inan iren all over the building commands from their re- s they had received | ther: almost daily in the fire drill. Not onel'ttle tot tost his or her head. There was ot asound save ihatof the tapping of the bell, the comm of the teachers and the measured tread of the children. v the time all were out of the building smok once rushed bulding and instant the ¢ were receiving spective teachers, the volume of smoke issuing fror: the cel- lar, where the fire was located, very | dense and al i The fire en- 1only GALES AID THE SMUGC ! ERS. ial Raid on the San Clemente Island Delayed by the Storm. ossible for a small boat to go na to San Clemente. Collestor Gaf- y i se are still at Catalina, and will remain there until it is possible to get to San Clemente, or until they get definite f to the number and charac- information ) ter of the C ese at San Clemente. SANTA ROSA’S CARNIVAL. Programme of Events to Occur During the Reign of the Queen of Roses Is Announced. SANTA ROSA, Car., March 3.—The programme for the rose carnival to be held here the last of April and 1st of May has been made v follows: Thursday. 0—Class A of the bicy- cle meet will race for the diamond trophies and on that evening the carnival will be formally opened and the queen crowned. 3 10 A. M. the bicycle parade of The grand flo- M., ven point. At 2 P. M. class B of t cvelists will struggle for supremacy, and the gala day of the celebration will conclude with an open-air concert and the floral ball. Saturday—At 10 A, M. sports, followed by tine champion wheelmen, th to conclude that ment at the heneum. Colonel W r 8. Davis, assisted by the Hon. J. W. Keegan, and C. F. Rohrer, a well-known decorator, have charge of the decorations, which will greatly surpass all previous efforts in that direction here. General George Hall has consented to take charge of the parade, which insures the success of this part of the programme, General Hall having had large experience in such matters both at home and abroad. Five bundred dollars in cash has been set aside for prizes in addition to the wheel- men’s prizes of jewels and medals. There is no lack of money for every purpose, as most of the subscriptions are double those of last year, and the ambition of Santa Rosa is to have the coming carnival the grandest in the history of the State. ral parade wi two hours passing a ¢ come the field cycle races for ee-day jubilee with an entertain- ¥OLO COUNTX Temperance Petition Again Ignorved by the Supervisors. WOODLAND, CarL., March 3.—The rep- resentatives of the anti-liguor petitioners of Yolo County, who have secured 50 per | cent of the signatures of the voters of this county calling foran election on the saloon questi were before the Board of Super- visors this afternoon. For the third suc- cessive time the board laid the matter over. The attorneys for the saloon men filed er which contained a number of ions that had already been argued, but claimed that on account of the peti- tions not being arranged alphaoetically it had been impossible for them to find cer- tain names and procure affidavits that the petit as signed under a misappr‘ehen— sion of the fact that the city of Woodland was not included to present before the board at this meeting. They prayed that the matter be continued until the April meeting of the board, and they would then be able, they said, to procure nearly 200 affidavits of signers who did not under- stand the situation when they signed the petition. -— FRESNOITES ASTONISHED. The Oldest Inhabitant” Amazed at the Descending Flakes. FRESNO, CaL., March 3.—All sorts of weather has prevailed here during the past two days, inciuding a strong southeast wind, with rain at intervals and an occa- sional glimpse of Old Sol. At noon to-day the climax of the weather vagaries was reached when eddy- ing flakes of snow reached terre firma. The ‘“oldest inhabitant” looked on in blank amazement. The wind had veer-d around to the northwest before the fall of snow. The ‘‘beautiful” melted as fast as it fell and did no damage. The weather is chilly to-night, but no danger to fruit is apprehended, notwith- | The Receiver | dealing. and will be | standing the fact that it is remarkably ad- vanced for the time of year. About.30 of an inch of rain fell during the past twenty- four hours, making .71 for the storm and 4.80 for the seas — -—— NORTHERN PACIFIC STRIFE. p Case Submitted for De- cision at Seattle. SEATTLE, Wasn, March 3.—In the matter of the Northern Pacific receiver- ship to-day the Farmers’ Loan spd Trust Company of New York, through its attor- ney, ex-United States Senator John B. Allen, asked for the immediate removal of Receiver Burleigh, and that he he ordered at once to give an accounting and turn over all properties to Messrs. Bigelow and McHenrv, whose confirmation as receivers for the States of Washington, Oregon, Ids nd Montana was also asked. Messrs. Underwood of New York and Asnhton of Tacoma opposed the motion on behalf of Mr. Burleigh. The Northern Pacitic Company, represented by Colonel | E. M. Carr, prayed that Burleigh, Bige- low and McHenry, with the addition of | Galloway, be declared a receivership board. Counsel for the company said that this was the agreement upon which the appli- cation was to : ave been made to the four Supreme Court Justices, but that some other parties had been guilty of aouble 3 The court reserves decision until to-mor- row morning. Plight of a Napa Faiher. NAPA, Can., March 3.—John Gicquel was sentenced to-day to six months in the County Jail or give bonds for §1000 to keep the peace. Gicquel's 6-year-old daughter has been living with a family named Drouet since his wife died some years ago. | Gicquel came down from Washington yes- teraay and demanded his child, but was refused unless he paid for her board for the past five years. He then threatened to | kill Mr. and Mrs. Drouet. He says he will have revenge if it takes him a lifetime. He | was placed in jail. THECARSON THIL OPENS General Clarke Outlines the Evidence Against John T. Jones. The Prosecution Will Attempt to Prove Complicity in Bullion Thefts. CARSON, Ngv., March 3.—Twenty min- utes er the assembling of court to-day in the case of J, T. Jones, charged with embezzlement of mint bullion, the two ad- ditional jurors were secured. They were E. C. Butler and James Farley of Reno. Tbhis completed the panel and the case opened. The 1ndictment charged John T. Jones with haying stolen $23,000 worth of gold bullion from the United States Mint on the 5th of June, General Clarke, on be- half of the Government in the opening | statement to the jury, gave a detailed ac- count of the events which led up to the very of the shortage and a full his- of the Bodie Standard bar known as ; its journey from the Standard mine into the bullion bank, into the Uniled; tes Mint and through the minting-room | ssayed by Inspector Mason. | He stated that he would show that the de- ) in from Bodie originally con- 000 in gold, and when assaved it was soentered, but when In- | spector son assayed it last summer it contained only a few hurdred dollars in gold. The Government expected to show that the bar had been locked up in a vault with a combination lock ; that no one could enter the vault excert the melter and re- finer, Zabri: his assistant, John T. e was sick most of the s had full charge of the office, and the $20,000 in gold could not bave been abstracted from the bar with- out his knowledge. General Clarke declared that the ac- ts were mutilated by tearing out ves, and false entries were made to er the theit, while the tags and books by which the melt could be readily traced were removed from the mintand destroyed by Jones. On the 13th of June, 1893, gold bar No. 14 was reported to the assayer for remelting, when tbhere was no necessity for such remelting, and it was reported to the assayer for the purpose of deceiving the workmen and covering up the making of a spurious melt. On that day the workmen were kept two hours overtime in order to complete the work. It would also be shown, said Clarke, that Jones came to this city in debt, and soon began to lead an extravagant life. He lived far beyond his means, and spent $5 for every dollar of his salary. After Feb- ruary 9, 1895, Jones left Carson and re- ma away about ten days in San Fran- cisco. During his absence the gold in the vault was weighed, and a bar of gold (No 196), valued at $700, was missing. It had been left on the shelf in the vault, put the day after Jone:’ departure it had disap- peared, Having lpresen(e(l such proof the Government would ask for a conviction. Warren Noteware, the chief clerk of the mint, was on the stand all the afternoon. The most important thing he testified to was the fact that the books kept by Jones showed that he had returned about 4000 ¢ | mittee of the Fifth Congressional District REPUBLICANS AT SAN- JOSE. Fifth District Committee Members Convene at the Vendome. THE SESSION IN BRIEF.| John D. Spreckels Secures an Ad- journment to Meet in San Francisco. HUGG'S SEAT IS CONTESTED. Committeeman Rea Raises a Point of Order, but Is Overruled by the Chairman. SAN JOSE, Cavn., March 3.—The mem- bers of the Republican Staie Central Com- Committee held a meeting in this city to- night at the Vendome Hotel. An attempt was made to effect a permanent organiza- tion, but a vigorous protest was made and before any business was transacted a mo- tion to adjourn prevailed. There were present the following com- mitteemen: Thirty-fourth Assembly Dis- trict, Gustavus Umbsen; Thirty-fifth, John H. Dawson; Thirty-sixth, C. W. Mainwaring; Thirty-seventh, H. G. Fair. child; Thirty-eighth, P. A. Bergerot; Forty-first, J. D. Spreckels (proxy of Wil- lam Cluff); San Mateo County, George C. Ross; Santa Clara, 8. F. Ayer, James W. Rea (proxy of J. F. 0'Keefe) and J. L Asay. The meeting was called to order by P. A. Bergerot, who was elected temporary chairman. At a meeting held in San Francisco Charles Hugg had been elected to the vacancy in the Fortieth District caused by the death of M. D. Boruck, and Rea arose to a point of order that the Congressional committee had no’right to fill a vacancy, as that was a power delegated only to the State Central Committee. The chairman declared the point of | order not well taken. Rea appealed from | the decision. No vote was taken on the appeal. George G. Ross moved that the commit- tee adjourn to meet on Saturday at 1| o'clock in this city, at the Vendome | Hotel, the time and place set by Chairman | Cornwall. John D. Spreckels moved as an amend- | ment that the committee adjourn to meet | in San Francisco next Saturday at such | an hour as may be fixed by the chairman | of the State Central Committee. The amendment was seconded by J. W. Rhea. It prevailed and the meeting came to an end after being in session just twenty minutes. R F St e Barron Case Continaed. SAN JOSE, Car.,, March 3.—The case of Edward Andrew Barron, the mulatto | claimant to the Barron estate, was this morning continued nntil Thursday on ac- count of the illness of George W. Mon- | teith, the boy’s attorney. A motion by | Attorney Monteith to vacate the order | setting the case for trial was denied. Sev- | eral minor amendments to the plaintiff’s complaint were allowed. Alpheus McCabe’s Estate. SAN JOSE, CavL., March 3.—Margaret A. McCabe, executrix of the estate of Al- pheus McCabe, to-day filed her final ac- count and asked for a distribution. The | estate consists of 167 acres of land on the Homestead road and is valued at $23,000, The estate is bequeathed to the widow during her life and upon her death goes to Mary Stone, a daughter. ———— Marriage Rather Than Captivity. SAN JOSE, CarL., March 3,—Antonio V. Perry, the young Portuguese who pre- ferred being jailed on a serious ofl'eusei rather than marry Mary Rose about a | week ago, this morning changed his mind, and the ceremony was performed by Jus- tice Dwyer. Perry’'s examination was to have taken place to-morrow, but now the case will be dismissed. ounces more than he had received, but the extra metal was silver that had been sub- stituted for gold, and the bars represent- ing the extra metal were spurious. S Attacked by a Weodland Bee. WOODLAND, Car., March 3.—A bee came near causing the death of H. H. Smith at Davisville yesterday. The insect made an assavlt on Smith, and he, hola- ing an open knife 1n hand, struck out wildly to save himself from being stungand plunged the blade through the lower por- tion of his ear. An inch lower and the wound would have been fatal. Smith killed the bee ‘Women of Note. Miss Bennett has been given the chair of public speaking in the Boston University, oi which institution she is a graduate. Mrs Phineas M. Darber of Philadelphia is about to erect and equip &t a cost of about §40.000 a seminary for girls at An- niston, Ala., and give it to the Presbyte- rian Board of Missions for Freedmen. Miss Frances Graham French of Wash- ington was detailed b{ the Secretary of the Interior to study the educational as- pects of the manufacturing industries of the South at the Atlanta Exposition. Miss French is also a delegate to the League of International Press Clubs and special correspondent of the Boston Com- monwealth. Mrs. Yang Yu, wife of the Chinese Min- ister at Washington, received her guests at a recent reception with her two littlechil- dren standing at her side. The children’s names are Tsue and Sougonray. They are pright, active little things, and not easily abashed. Mrs. Yang Yu has a pleasing face, and her Oriental dress is very becom- ing to her. - Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hutter, who was so well known during the war by reason of her labors on behalf of the soldiers in hos- itals, died recently in Philadelphia. She the first woman to cress the line after the battle of Gettysburg. She went by spe- cial permi-sion of President Lincoln, in a car provided for h:r use by the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. S P PR, France is one of the best-pavad countries in the world. The first Napoleon insti- tuted and carried out a road system which gave France the roads which are lasting monuments to the Napoleonic foresight and shrewdness. These roads, always pessable and reaching all the centers of population, are competitors of the rail- ways. They are of greater vaiue to the TO CHNCEL LD GRAATS Important Suits Commenced Against Railroads and Residents. Townsites and Thousands of Acres Are Affected by the Present Litigation. DES MOINES, Towa, March 3.—United States Attorney-General Harmon and Dis- trict Attorney Charles D. Fullen began three suits in the Federal court here to- day against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and Burlington and Missouri rail- roads, and nearly 1000 residents and land- owners of Mills, Montgomery and Adams counties, together with a large number of financial institutions and persons inter. ested in the lands. The suits are brought by the Govern- ment to cancel land grants made to the Burlington route in 1856 and 1864. The grants attacked comprise 35,000 acres and settlers and owners are made a party to the suits, although they purchased the land of the railroads. The grounds for the action relate to the adjustment of the land grant claims law of 1887. It is al- leged that the lands in question were pat- ented prior to the transfer of the railroad. Several pieces of town property are af- fected and none of the land can be bought for less than $50 an acre. Towns along the Burlington route in three counties named are somewhat affect- ed, as well as thousands of acres along the route of the road. e MINEEAL LAND PRE-EMPTIONS. Introduction of @ Bill to Amend the Re- vised Statutes. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—Repre- sentative Allen introduced in the House and Cannon in the Senate a bill to amend section 2335 of the Revised Statutes by providing that ‘*‘All affidavits re- quired to be made under this chapter may be verified before any officer authorized to administer oaths in any farmer than the railways, and have served as a means of putting the peasant farmers in communication with the market, be- sides increasing the value of farming land. State or Territory in the United States having an official seal, and all testimon: and proofs may be taken before any suc| officer and when duly certified shall have the same effect as if taken before a register and receiver of a land office. " ‘‘In caseof contest as to the mineral or agricultural character of land the testi- mony and proofs may be taken under such notice and regulations as tie Com- missioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, provided that the presence of rock (in place) or of deposits bearing goid, silver, cinnabar or other mineral shall be regarded 18 prima facie evidence that the land containing the same is mineral in character; provided, further, that m in- vestigating the character of land, with a view of ascertaining whether it is more valuable for mineral than for agricultural purposes, evidence may be taken of min- eral discovered and developed adjacent to such land, proof of which shall be corrob- orative evidence that the land in question is mineral in character; provided, further, that when the land is proved to be.witnin 2 well-defined” mineral belt it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the min- eral character of said land.’” — STOOD BEFORE 4 MIRROK. Suicide of @ Man Who Could Not Bear Life's Burdens. NEWBURGH, N.Y., March 3.—Kdward M. Doyle shot himself Sunday night at the home of his widowed mother, where he was staying with his wife and two chil- dren. He stood before the mirror, pointed the revolver at his breast and the bullet entered just above the heart. He will probably die. Five years ago Doyle was followed here from Portland, Or., where he had been in the lumber business, by an officer, who took him back there on a charge of embez- zlement and forgery. His mother settled this case by paying $800. Not long ago he got into some trouble in New Jersey and a warrant was issued for his arrest, but it is said that the case was settied. He returned to Newburgh on Saturday night and a short time thereafter shot himself. TRANSFER OF THE FUNDS Conference Over the Finances of the Salvation Army. The American Spirit Rampant Among Officers and the Rank and File. MONTCLAIR, N. J., March 3.—Staff Captain Crafts, who is the head of the financial department of the Salvation Army, met in conference with Commander and Mrs. Booth and their attorney this afternoon to negotiate tLe transier of the Salvation Army funds. The question of liabilities came up, and it was determined before turning over the money on deposit to secure the creditors. Laabilities that can be paid at once will be paid, and suflicient funds will be retained to secure liabilities not yet payable. The | balance will be transferred to the account of the new commissioner, Eva Booth. A statement of the liabilities will be pre- pared by Staff Captain Crafts, who has had charge of the army’s finances for the past three years. A prominent Salvationist is authority for the statement ihat the American spirit isrampant among the officers and rank and file, and it only awaits the announce- ment of Commeander Booth's plans to bring flocking to his standard the best ele- ment comprising the army to-day. ST e MARGARET LOST THE SUIL Claim of an Indian Woman to Be the Widow of a Millionaire. ST. PAUL, Mix~., March 3.—Margaret Kittson, as she'calls herself, the old half- blood Indian woman of the Menominee tribe, has lost her case against the estate of Norman W. Kittson, vatued at $1,269,925. Judge Egan filed a decision and memoran- dum to that effect this afternoon in the District Court. The court decided that the claim of Margaret to be a widow of Norman W. Kittson could not be allowed. Margaret Kittson, or Margaret Robin- son, 18 now an old woman of 75 years, and lives on the Indian reservation, Keshena, Wis. She claims that she was regularly married to Kittzon by a Catholic priest and that her marriage was known to the people of her tribe. e GERMANY'S NAVAL [ESTIMATES. The Amount Asked Voted After a Long Discussion. BERLIN, GErMaxY, March 3.—The com- mittee of the Reichstag to which was re- ferred the naval estimates prepared by the Government, to-day voted the amount asked for after a long discussion. Vice-Admiral Holmann, Secretary of the Imperial Admiralty, repudiated the stories that the Government intended to make large expenditures in the decision of in- creasing the navy. He declared that the plans for the future had hitherto been indefinite. Germany, he added, would never be the equal of the French or the British fleet, but she must be strong enough to command the Baltic. Sy gaon TFrance and Madagascar. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—The recent action of France in establishing a colonial form of government over Mada- gascar has been communicated to-the State Department in a note stating that in view of the difficulties of maintaining a protectorate the French Government had annexed the island. No official ac- tion has been taken by Becretary Olney in the matter except a statement that the United States will maintain her treaty rights secured from the Hova Govern- ment. Before making any declaration in the matter this Government will await the receipt of more definite and formal in- {ormation showing 311:! what status the French have assume —_— O, R. & N. Keorganization. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 3.—Stock- holders of the Oregon Raiiway and Navi- zation Company are informed by Alfred 8. Heidelback, chairman of the reorgani- zation committee, that upward of 226,700 shures of the stock of the company, out of atotal of 240,000 shares, have been de- vosited with the committee, and that further deposits of such stock with the State Trust Company of New York, of the 0ld Colony Trust Company of Boston, may be made upon payment of assessment of §6 per share on or before March 16, i Sailed for Corinto. WASHINGTON, D. 0., March 3.—A telegram to the Navy Department an- nounces that the Alert sailed to-day from Acapulco, Mexico, for Corinto, Nicaragua, to give protection to American interests in the event of any serious_outbreak follow- ing the incipient row at Leon. —— e Among Sioux Indians, when one family borrows a cooking utensi! from another, it is expected that, when the vessel is re- turned, a small portion of the food cooked in it will be left in the bottom. Disregard of this usage ends the borrowing subse- quently. ————————— The quantity of butter received from Australia and New Zealand from the be- ginning of September to the end of last year was 82,624 cwt., a8 compared with 120,323 cwt. for the corresponding period of the previous yea: — It Fercurs ONE UP VERY SHORT to be seized Wwith Pleurisy, Pneumonia, or any acute Throat of Lung affecton. Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant Proves a handy help In such attacks, and ls, be- sldes, a good old-fashioned remedy for all Coughs 2nd Colds. BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR STANFORD. President Jordan’s Projects for Enlarging the University. WORK FOR THE FUTURE. New Buildings to Be Added, Now That the Famous Suit Has Been Decided. PALO ALTO STILL REJOICING. Students Apply Cardinal Paint as an Evidence of Their Glee Over the Result. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Car, March 3.—Because of the favorable de- cision of the suit on which the fate of this university seemed to depend, a general holiday was allowed the students to-day. Everything was quiet and subdued, for nearly every enthusiast exhausted his activities yesterday. of the cannon was about the only re- minder that the suit has finally been dis- posed of. All dwellings on the campus are deco- rated with flags and buntiug, and the uni- versity postoffice presents a curious spec- tacle. Last night some students, animated by fiery zeal, procured asupply of cardinal pain and repainted the vostoffice builda- ing. The job was hurriedly performed, and the rain, which began about the time of the application, resulted in streaking the walls in a manner painful to behold. There is a general sentiment 1n favor of giving the building a second coat as soon as the weather allows. Just what the results will be, now that the litigation is ended. calls to mind cer- tain plans which Dr. Jordan announced some weeks ago. At that time, in ad- dressing the students, he said that all future progress of the institution after a favorable decision would largely depend on Mrs. Stanford’s own arrangements. Among oher things which, he hinted, would probably be given first attention and which he felt would be necessary as soon as obtainable, were an enlarged library building and increased number of volumes; the completion of a large audi- torium or chapel; the improvement of en- gineering facilities, especially for the elec- trical, mechanical and architectural de- partments, and numerous additions to the faculty in ail departments. He also sug- gested that a number of new departments or branches would probably be opened at an carly date. Just when this work will begin depends on Mrs. Stanford, and the lpmvailing opinion here is that renewed building may begin during the summer. It is quite probable that inside of a vear or two the capacity of the coliege will be increased 50 per cent. At the present time there are 1000 students in attendance, dnd a large {reshman class will undoubtedly enter next fall. Itis certain that the next class that enters Stanford will see an expansion in the now richest university in the world which has never been witnessed by any other class in college history. STORIES OF LINCOLN. The Very Last Law Case That He Was Engaged In. “Speaking of Lincoln’s birthday,” said Senator Palmer yesterday, ‘‘reminds me that the very last case Lincoln ever tried was one in which I, too, was engaged. It was in Springfield, in Jane, 1860, after Mr. Lincoln had received the Presidential nomination. Old David Baker, who had been a Senator in the early days, had sued the trustees of Shurtleff College, my alma mater, for expelling his grandson, a lad named Will Gilbert. Mr. Lincoln appeared for the prosecution. I was the college at- torney. Mr. Lincoln came into court and the Judge said to him: ‘Mr. Lincoln, I'll argue this case for you. You have too much on your handsalready. You haven’t any case.” And he explained the law and application, “‘Well,” said Mr. Lincoln, with a smile, ‘don’t you want to heara speech from me?’ *‘No,’ said the Judge, and the last case Mr. ]}A,ncoln tried he—well, he didn’t try it at all.” ““The first time I met Mr. Lincoln was in 1839, when I went Lo Soringfield to be ad- mitted to the bar, He was already recog- nized as a Whig leader. He wore, I re- member, a suit of linsey woolsey, that could not have been worth mbre than $8 even in those days. The last time I saw him was in February of 1865. 1 had come to Washington at the request of the Gov- ernor, to complain that [llinos had been credited with 18,000 too few troops. I saw Mr. Lincoln one afternoon, and he asked me to come again in the morning. “Next morning I sat in the anteroom while several officers were relieved. At length I was told to enter the President’s room. Mr, Lincoln was ir the handsof the barber. **‘Come in, Palmer,’ he called out, ‘come in. You're home folks, Ican shave be- fore you. I couldn’t before those others, and I have to do it some time.’ “We chatted about various matters, and at length I said: 3 *“Well, Mr. Lincoln, if anybody bad told me that in a great crisis like this the peo- ple were going out to alittle one-norse town and pick out a one-horse lawyer for Pro idcmfwouldn‘t. have believed it.’ “Mr. Lincoln whirled about in his chair, his face white with lather, a towel under his chin. At first [ thought he was angry. Sweeping the barber away he leaned for- ward, and placing one hand on my knee said: ‘¢ ‘Neither would I. But it was a time when a man with a policy would have been fatal to the country. I have never had a policy. I bave simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.’ “Lincoln was not an eloquent man. He was a strong lawyer, and an ingenious one. His stronghold was his ability to reason Iogically and clearly. He was ‘a very self- contained man, and not easily excited. I remember the night when the news of his election was received at Springfield. The patriotic ladies of the town were serv- ing a lunch in an upper room opposite the Capitol. Mr. Lincoln was there, and read the returns as they were brought to him. The returns from New York decided the day. Mr. Lincoln stood up and read the telegram. He was the calmest man in the room. When he had finished he said, simply, ‘Well, I must go and tell my wife.! . “Mr. Lincoln never told a story except for a purpose. I remember one that he told in my presence. A certain Judge Krum, a lawyer, had been compiaining of the treatment he had received from local Judges. He swore he meant to carry his case to the Supreme Court and humiliate the upstart Judge who had decided against him. * Mr. Lincoln spoke in his quiet, dry way: ‘*‘That makes me think of a story. There was a certain man who dreamed that a treasure was buried, and that to find it he had but to dig in a certain spot. His labors were to be crowned with suc- An occasional boom | cess only on condition that he kept silent while he was digging. He began to dig. A ternific battle was waced near him. A naval encounter was fought near by. In- numerable people tried to engage him in conversation. Still he kept silent. A reat giant passed, walking very rapidly. g‘he digeer did not even turn his head. After a while a dwarf came prancing ;lpxag, walking as if he were nine feet igh. f¢4Say,” he said to the digger, “did a giant pass here?”’ “‘The digger did not answer. The dwarf repeated his inquiry. No answer. ‘+¢Can’t you answer a civil question?” asked the dwarf. No answer. £+‘Oh, well,” said the dwarf, “I'll just walk along and overtake him.” “*Then the digger broke his silence. *¢*“The h— you will!” he said.””” —————— FAMILIAR MISQUOTATIONS. Passages Should Never Be Cited at Second Hand. Of the many causes of misquotation the most fruitful is citing a passage at second band. Hundreds of familiar quotations, however, which are continually dropping from men’s lips and pens, nave not even the advantage of being taken literally at second, but are taken from the third or thirtieth hand. If in the former case they greet their anthors with ‘‘a certain alien- ated majesty,”” what must be their look in the latter? Must not a writer be com- pelled to disavow even if he does not fail to recognize the children of his brain when they are thus mutilated or metamor- phosed? Familiar as all educated persons are supposed to be with Shakespeare few English guthors are oftener misquoted. The line— One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, is continually quoted as though the poet meant to say that a single trait of natural- ness in the character outbalances all the artificialty of modern life, and is an evi- dence of the underlying kinship of men, whereas, as another has said, Shakespeare meant that nature has implanted in hu- manity one characteristic, which shows that all men are really of one stock, namely, the universal tendency to run after novelty, and to prefer superficial to concealed virtues. How rarely is the speech of Lady Macbeth quoted correctly. “But screw up your courage to the stick- ingplace!” For “place” the word ‘*point’” is substituted. Mr. Lowell is usoally careful as well as felicitous in quotation, but there is a lapsus penne in his quotation of afamiliar line of Goldsmith’s when the critic says of Drummond’s ‘‘Gondibert’’ that “it is re- mote, unfriendly, melancholy and, above all, slow.” Another passage from Gold- smith’s play, “She Stoops to Conquer,” namelv, *Ask me no questions and I'l tell you no fibs,” Is usuaily misquoted, “lies” being substituted jor ‘‘fibs.” Butler's couplet: He that complies agaipst his will Is of his own opinion still, is usually transformed into A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion stili. In quoting the well-known passage from one of Morton’s plays, “Approbation from Sir Hubert Slnnre_v is praise indeed,” the word ‘‘praise’”’ is usually substituted for “‘approbation.” The charm of Tennyson lies so much in the curious felicity of his words and in his exquisite rhythm that the ear of one of his admirersis tortured i more than it usually is by misquotation, | when other words are substituted for his, or their collocation is changed; as, when ‘My good sword cleaves the helms of men” is substituted for “My good blade carves | the casqueg of men,” etc. A passz‘fe in Virgil that has often been misquoted is the following from the ZEneid II, 723: Dextre se parvus Tulus Implicit sequiturque patrer non passibus wquis. ‘When these lines were quoted some years ago by a speaker at a convention in aneuil Hall General B. F. Butler, who presided, undertook to correct him, telling him that he shou!d have said, ‘‘haud passibus mquis.” The speaker insisted that he was right, as he was, albeit in the collection of quotations fromr foreign lan- guages in Worcester's Dictionary at that time autbority might have been found for Butler’s assertion. Two noted maxims of Christian life ascribed to St. Augustine have been shown by Dean Stanley not to be his, namely, ““We believe the miracles for the sake of the gospels, not the gospels for the sake ot the miracles,” and “In necessarius unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas.” The substance of the former saying may be found 1n various writers far less famous than Augustine; the latter is due to Ru- pertus Meldenius, an obscure German divine of the seventeenth century. It was the Abbe Boileau, not Boileau, the French oet, as some suppose, who said of the esuits that they lengthened the creed and shortened the decalogue.—Springfield Re- publican. ——————— The Napoleon Dynasty. Feeling himself sufficiently strong, Na- poleon clearly intended to gratily in others the weak human pride which, as Montesquieu says, desires the eternity of a name, and thereby to erect a four-square foundation for the perpetuity of his own dynasty. The brothers Joseph, Louis and Jerome were now no longer Bonapartes, ruling as Joseph Napoleon, Louis Napo- leon, Jerome Napoleon, over their respect- ive fiefs. Murat, the brother-in-law, was already provided for in the same way, and there were three reigning princes among the satellites of the imperial throne. All these could transmit their name and do- minions in the line of hereditary succes- sion.—Sloane’s ‘‘Napoleon’ in the March Century. ———— Diary of Few Pages Wanted. “I want to get a diary for my husbana. He promised to begin the new yearright,’’ said the lady, entering the store. “Here’s a very nice one, ma'am,” re- plied the clerk; ‘‘containing over 200 pages.”’ “It’s too large. Haven’t you one with three or four pages?’—Yonkers States- man. Strange Things Going On! All the Folks Surprised ! Mem.—A man pounded his finger; lost fifteen minutes’ time, curing it. Another got a whack square in the eye. He was docked one hour's pay—could then see out of it and went to work again. 8till another had sat up nights with Felons, tried cocaine and opium, but the agony had got there first and would not yield. Finally his wife, who had cured her tender feet, gave him a pointerand Hubby's Agony Found a Master, For he says he “Was Asleep in Ten Minutes.” No “Royal Purple” After either accident. MrrcHELL'S Magre Loriox did the business for them all. Money in Your Pocket To have it around, for nobody knows when or where the Lightning Is Going to St3ike. Any Druggist can get it for you | 25¢, 50¢ and $1. Be sure and read the directions. FA0M EXPERIENCE That Is, After AIL the Best Way to Form an Gpinion. St. Louls Man Got Hls, and How a Y What It Amounts to. There are tew people who argue any !ixnd of a question who do not sooncror later develop into the vulgariem, “How do you know?’ Of course, if & man | &5 scen or felt anything, that is admitted to be the best kind of evidence, but woe betide the poor mortal who ver to substantiate his case with I was to e‘rc, ke life In the words of the genticmen who mirke interesting on the cattle treils of Texas, *That don't go, pardner,” is what will be <houted at the offender. The good old Southern proverb that What we have seén and heard With confidence we tell. Is usually the fixed and unyielding rule that obtains, and 1t is a pretty good ome, too. A gentleman from St. Louis, who was asked re- cently for his opinion on the Hudson Meaical Institute—that grand establishment whick his known a8 “the big white building,’”” and which stands on the corner of Market, Stockton and Ellis streets—said: “I was treated there, nnd_l know what I am talking about when I say iv has no equal in the Union.”” And another gen- tleman from the same city has expressed his opinion in a letier to the specialists practicing there as follows: ST. LOUIS, M ., August 9, 189! Hudson Mealcal [nstitute, San Francisco, Cal. — Gentlemen: A few months ago I placed mys under treatment with the Hudson Medical 1nsti- tute, #8 I h: been a sufferer for a long time with a complication of diseases that seemed to success: fully resistail treatment. 1 must confess that [ was at first a liitle bit skeptical about piacing my- self under the care of physicians nearly three thou- sand miles away, but I had reached a point where something had to be done, as L could neither sizep nor eat with any degree of comfort. M system seenied to be out of order and I pletely worn ont. I now desire tu exy sincere thanks to you for the carefal, cons treatment that you gave my case. I am a very different man to-day. and [ have not felt as well in five years past as I do now. I wish to sav, too, to those who may be suffering from diseases of long standing, no matter of what nature, chat if they write or apbply to the large white building at the corner of Market, Stockton and Ellis streets [ am sure they will find the reiief they s that they will recetve the same careful and treatment that I have at the handsof the physiciang of the Hudson Medical Institute. Wishing you continued success i aid suffering humanity, I remain FRAN There is mothing really surprising in this letter, though no doubt many people might think s In his good opinion of the F Medical Institute Mr. Minturn is sustained by g vast cloud of witnesses.”” The good that iy done in all cases is so prompt and so lasting that patients feel bound to be grateful for what has been done for them. Robt. Ashurst Jr. says: “My brain is clearer and my intellect brighter, and I would not take $500 to relapse into the state I was in before commencing treatment.”’ Geo. H. Bent of Rochester, Cal.: “From the way I am feeling now, I don’t think I will need to take any more medicine than what I have now.” S. M. Hooker of Los Angeles: “L now feel as though I was a cured and well mao.” And so the letters come—all about in the same tone, and all grateful for what has been done for them. There are thousands of people all over this Union who bless the day when they first heard of The Hudson Medical Insti. tute, and if they could be marshaled together they would make a most imposing army.. And nd all” say that if you are suffer- want to be cured SAFELY and the great and grand old HUD- N MEDICAL INSTITUTE IS BY FAR THE BEST PLACE TO GO TO. 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