The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, *BEATING HS WAY v BOUND THE GLOBE Little Joe Davis, Traveler and Philesopher, ! Arrives. A Typical Jersey City Gamin Who Never Pays Rail- road Fare, Eats Three Meals a Day and Pays His - Room Rent—Rod: in a Pul'- man Car. Joe Davis, traveler is in town again after years, and is doing and philosopher, absence of two ness at his old e that he can find —he is but 14 years ¥ small for his age—is water, stretching all atound on the levee, among the roots of the grass. It was deep enough to keep the porpoise moist, but that was about all. “The boys set about launching him, puliing him throveh the tall grass to tbe drain.” There might have been six or eight inches of water in the drain, not nearly enough to float the porpoise, but enough to make it a great deal easier to move him, and in the drain the boys got him along withount very much effort down to the pocket on the beach. There was water enough for him there and the mmn- ute the porpoise struck it ue siarted off on bis own account, but he couldn’t get out. “The pocket was perhaps thirty feet long and twenty feet wide in the widest part, | with water enough in the greater part of it for the porpoise to swim in. As he swam around in the pocket, the boys thought it would be u good thing to tiy riding him, and they did. The porpoise was wet and slippesy now, and riding him was like riding a greased pig. One boy wouid hold him the best he could, while | the other mounted him. Then, as likely asnot the porpoise would dart forward suddenly betore the boy on his back had got a good hold and slide out from under him and leave him sitting in the water. Then the boys would head bim off”and gel him y ashore, where they could handle him better and try again. They took turns at riding him. Sometimes they would go four or five feet on him and then roll off or slide off or be shaken off into the water; sometimes they would get across the pocket on him,and two or three times, when the porpoise went that way, they managed to hold on and ride the whole length of the pocket on him. “All this was great fun for the boys, but tty rough on the porpoise, but the por- turn came finally. When there was water enough on_the bar the boys let him go and away he went out 1o sea P " Joe Davis, a Fourteen-Year-Old Traveler Who Never Pays a Cent of Fare, probably the most interesting character Wwho ever rode a brakebeam or beat his way in a Pullman car. Twice has he journeyed across the con- tinent without paying a cent of fare, and be is now on a tour of all the States of the Union, after which he will take a journey around the world—*if I don’t croak,” says the urchin, *“and I guessthat’s ail right.” Joe is a typical New York gamin, though he claims Jersey City ashis home port, and ‘what he doesn’: know_ about ways and meansof gaining possession of the elusive nickel is not in the lore of the street arab. . “No trouble to make a livin’ wid me box and nerve,” Joe says, as his sharp, shrewd eyes glance about ameng the feet of a crowd on the stree: corne: for a pair - of boots that need cleaning. Odd jobs of any kind that do not overtax his strength are in Joe’s line, and as his only dissipa- tivnis an occasional cigarette he makes his way anywhere and manages to get three meals a day. Cleared of 1ts wealth of New Yorkslang, -which makes it almost unintelligible to those not familiar with the jargon of the waifs of the pavement, Joe's story isabout . as follows: - “‘My mother died about five months ago, and not liking the climate of Jersey very Well I concluded to go to California, hav- ing been out here before two years ago, and always been treated white. So one *. day I goesdown to the railroad yards and starts on a brakebeam. Say, that's a hard graft, hanging on, and your throat and + nose and eyes full of dust. - “Igets put off at more than one place, but that don’t stop me, and I finally gets to Chicago and stops a time picking up a {few dimes, Then F!tlns again, this time on & freight, and gets to Ogden, and there - I strikes a snap. “Told &« man what I was making for, and he lets me get under his seat in the . sleeper. When I gets hungry I punches his lex and he gives me somwething 10 eat. They caugat on to me at Truckee and I had to skip, but I made another jump to Sacramento on & beam and gets down here easy. *‘Say, this is a great-piace to live. I bad an undershirt when I gets here, but it was too hot and Itakesiv off. Don’t nesd it. T'll keep it until I strikes a cold country. I made money enouzh on my way out to - pay for my room ior two weeks and get meal tickets, and I'm all right, you bet. Hard to beat'the traius? Nit. I cun go . anywhere where they run and not give up any dough to the ‘corps’ either. “Another kid starts with me, but he gets homesick and goes back from Chicago. I ain’t got no bome and I'm going to see ‘the world, Say, where does the China steamers land?” Has a kid got a show to " : get on without being ‘copped?’ ” RIDING® A PORPOISE. Great Fun for Two Hardy Boys Living on the Shores of New York Bay. “Two boys, each about 8 or 10 years old, °* living on the shores of New York Bay, the sons of fishermen, started one day,” the -narrator;said, “down tothe beach to look . on at the hsuling of a seine. Crossing a stretch of salt meadow on the way to the beach the boys heard a sound like heavy ° breathing in the tall grass. Hunting for *the source of it, they found a young por- poise, four or five feet long, that had been - :left stranded by the receding tide. s * “Near by there was a draiu, leading down to the beach. A drain is a depree- * sion like the bed of a brook in the mud and sand of the meadow. The rising tide comesup the drain as in a channel and spreads thence over the adjacent grouna. The current, running with the receding -tide down the drain, often scoups outin the beach, in front of the grass line a pear-shaped pocket, with a littie barin the middle of the broad end toward the ocean. At low tiae this bar may be dry, gnearly 80, while the pocket within is ulf, At high tide there may be on the T water enough to float a big fisb., The Fpoise the boys found had come over - @ bar, crossed the pocket snd gone up the drain and off into the grass at high tide, There was water enough for him then. but be got caught in the grass when the . tide went down and so was left there. . Where the porpoise was when the boys found bim there was about ywo inches of again.,”—New York Sun. | ——— Haggis. Some writers have said that the deriva- tion of the word is traceable to haut gout, signifying a highly flavored dish. “Hudi- bras” has: As French cooks use Thelr haut-gouts, bouillies. or ragouts: or, as the line is said 1o have stood origi- nally: T heir baut-gusts, buollies, or ragusts. Part 1, 1598 But a haggis contains minced meats, and the derivation of the word is more likely to be that given by John Hill | Burton, no mean suthority on such a sub- ject. Writing of some French words, and some words of French origin, which crept into common use in many parts of Scot- land, such as gigot, ashet, etc., he alludes to Burns’ song on the haggis as a national dish, and adds: *‘Yet there can be no | question that this potent pudding is the lineal descendant of the French hachis.” Jamieson's explanation is as follows: “Dr. Johnson derives haggess from hag or hack. The last is certainly the proper origin; if we masy hedge from the Sw. | term used in the same sense, hack-polsa, q. minced porridge. Haggies retains the form of the 8. v. hag. In Gael it is taeais, asthereisnoh in that language; Arm. hacheis, Fr. hachis.”—Notes and Queries. A COWBOY KING. Bill Kensington, the Rough Rider and t{rack Shot, on the ¥lush Times at Jacksons Hole. “Bill” Kensington, the cowboy king of Jacksons Hole, the queer little valley in the mountains of Northern Wyoming of which Captain Bruneville wrote, and which has been a winter resort for hunt- ers, traders and trappers since the earliest times, is in the City. Kensington was one of the men who distinguished themselves in the cowboy war of a few years ago. He is a type of the border character, and although he dods not carry an arsensl with him in the metropolis, he nevertheless wears the garb of the frontier, and his hair and mustache are long and picturesque. He came down by way of the Northern | Pacific and Oregon. Tae early argonauts to Oregon and Washington used to camp and sest their horses and cattle at Jack- sons Hole, and Kensington, who is a na- tive of Wyoming, wanted to see some of them. “'wo or three of them, who are his relatives, reside near Roseburg. He says that since the war among the cattiemen in Wyoming, the cattle and sheep interests had advanced rapidly. “I have never seen s0 many cattle and sheep as now exist in the northern part of @ Bill Kensington, the King of. Jacksons Hole. the new Btate,”” he said vesterday. “The best of it is, too, that beef is commanding amuch better price than formerly, a price that makes it very profitable to the grow- ers. Itisthe same wayin the sheep in- dustry. Mutton is steadily going up, and wool is advancing in a way to make the sheepmen feel as though they had some right tolive. Every industry in that re- | ceived the idea of 70 TRADE N AR PRODLLTS A Little Enterprise Which Will Be Launched on Thanksgiving. Sunday Work Will Be| Allowed on the Sloop by Its Owners. No All the Colored Ministers fo Be In-| vited to the Christening—Melons, | Potatoes and Rubber. There will be an interesting ceremony on Thanksgiving day at Oakland Creek, when a sloop will be christened with appropriate ceremonies, The christening ceremony will mark the launching of a private enterprise by SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1896. 9 custom prevailed of presentigez each un- happy wretch with a nosegay. A further condition of Dowe's gitt was that the greatest bell was always to *‘towle” as a passing bell on the occasion of an execution until 10 A. M. or the Sher+ iff's officers returned from the execution. The vestry of St. Sepulchre, though some- what economical, took good care of their bells, for after the great fire of 1666 we find that all the broken bell metal was ordered recast iuto “three sound and tuneable bells,’ which were to be of rqual weight with the quantity of metal delivered. The other three bells belonging to the church apparently escaped injury from the fire, for on the 16th of March, 1668, the vestry ordered a frame to be qnda “to hang the 8ix bells in the steeple.” The tablet recording Dowe’s request is still in existence, but the injunctions are no longer regarded, the charity commis- sioners having taken Dossession oi the funds, which are now appliea for the bene- fit of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid So- ciety. The greatbeil of St. Sepuichre has not been tolled on the occasion of an exe- cution since August, 1890, when Manteaun, a Belgian, was hanged for the murder of a fellow-countryman. Hints for Stamp Collectors, The following are some of the varieties of tricks practiced by unscrupulous per- sons: 1. Ordinary perforated stamps with ex- ceptionally wide margins have their per- forations trimmed off, and such stamps are offered as rare unperforated stamps, 2. Ordinary perforated stamps with wide margins are reperforated with the rare perforations. This is frequently done by an ordinary hand punch. J. A. Hackett, a colored man, who 8. Where stamps are printed in the e e e U S formerly worked with J. W. Girvin & Co., in the rubber-goods business, and has | latterly been in the same business for | imself. He, with two friends, have con- embarking in the trading and general freight business up the Sacramento and Ban Joaquin rivers. They endeavored to buy a suitable vessel, ana, failing, determined to have one built. The sloop, the name of which will be announced on Thursday, is 46 feet long and 15.4 beam. It 1s provided with a cabin and can be handied by two men, with belp to load and unload. ““We will deal in potatoes in the winter *and melons in the summer, with all other kinds of niver products,”’ said Mr. Hackett yesterday. ‘“We expect to find plenty of trade, and will carry everything but passengers. “One feature of our énterprise will be hunting parties. Sunday? No, sir. We don’t intend to do any Sunday work. I ‘am manager and won’t allow it. Of course, if parties hire our boat on Satur- day and reach their destination on the same night they can do what they please, But I am determined to have no Sunday work."”’ The ceremony on Thursday will consist of a flag presentation, invocation, songs and a little speechmaking. It will be particuiariy dignified by the presence of colored ministers, invitations having been sent to the following clergy- men: Rev. H. J. Callis, Zion Church; Rev. M. Duncan, Baptist ciurch; Rev. Mr. Anderson, A. M. E. church; Rev. Mr. Edwards, A. M. E. church of Oak- land; Rev. Mr. Allen, Baptist church, Oakland. B Tne master of the little sloop will be Cbarles Chambers. ROBERT DOWE'S QUEER IDEA, He Left £50 for the Benefilt of Men About to Die. Less than a decade is wanting to com- plete three centuries sigce Robert Dowe, citizen and merchant tailor, by deed of gift conveyed to the parish of St. Sepulchre the sum of £50. The object of the gift was peculiar, and may best be un- derstood from the words of the deed itself, which recites that the money was given “On condition that the said parish forever, with the approbation of the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London, here- after at every sessions holden for the prisoners in Newgate, not exceeding twelve sessions in the year, shall about the hour of 10 of the clock in the quiet of the night next before every execution mote part of the country is beginning to thrive. Itis expect-d that setilers will begin coming in again, and that we will g0 alonlfprolperously.‘ 3 Mr. Kensington has mined for gold and silver, and been a freighter as weilasa cowboy. Heisa ready shot, one of the most unerring in aim among the Wyo- ming cowboys. He has never been in fan Francisco before, nor in any city pre- viously that is larger than Helena, Mont. He will visit Los Angeles before his re- turn, e The ‘“‘Printers’ Bible” is so called be- canse it contains a curious typographical error in the one hundred and sixty-first verse of psalm cxix, which is made to read, *“Printers have persecuted me with- out a cause,” instead of “‘princes.” same color with slight changes in letter ing the rare varieties are made by piecing. For instance, the 1-franc French empire is made by taking the 80 centimes, dark car- mine, with ‘the bottom label from the 1 franc of the republic. 4. Bicolored stamps with the center re- versed, which are extremely rare, are made by cuiting out the center and re- versing it on another copy of the same stamp. For instance, the 1869 United States 15 cent, 24 cent and %0 cent have been made by this process. 5. By chemical means the color is changed. For instance, the 10r. blue of Brazil is changed into the 10r. black. 6. Stamps which have been canceled by pen and ink have their cancellation marks removed by chemical means, and these sltamps are then :old as unused. 7. Counterfeit cancellations are fre- quently made on genuine stamps which bave been surcharged *'reprint’’ or “‘speci- men.”" 8. Counterfeit surcharges are extremely common. They ean be made on an ordi- nary printing press. 0. False water-marks are sometimes made by printing the stamps with wood- cuis, using a certain kind of oil, or they are made by pressing the design of the water-mark on tue stamp and then re- moving a portion of the paper by rubbing with pumice-stone. 10. Very rare stamps of which a portion has disa;}reared bave had these portions added.—Harper’s Round Table. COLDS in the Bud. Influenza or Grippy Colds are quite epidemic and need to be ‘“‘nipped in the bud.”” Treating a Cold in time saves alot of trouble, as three-quarters of all our sickness comes from taking cold— don’t take cold, take Seventy-seven; a few doses will prevent and its continued done a;apoint one to o unto Newgate, there tostand as near the window as he can where the condemned prisoners do lye in the dungeon, with a handbell given to the parishioners by the said Mr. Dowe, and shall there i‘" twelye solemn towles with double swrokes, and then deliver with a loud and audible voice, with wuis face toward the prison window, to the endthe poor condemned persons may give good ear” to a rather long exhortation, which, ata later date, seems to have been versi- fied as follows: All ye that In the condemned hold do lie Lrepare ye for to-marmw ye shall die. an ray, the hour is drawing near before the Almighty must appesr. Examine well yourselves. in ume repent That you may not to eternal flames be sent; And when St- Sepulcher’s bell to-morrow tolls The Lord above have mercy on your souls. Past 18 o'ciock! e e GENUINE plum pudding made from Califor- nia giace fruits, Townsend’s. o As the criminals passed by the church on their way to Tyburn a further admoni 0 them and a curious use will “break up’’ a cold that “hangs on.’’ That means escape from Catarrh, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, all Lung, Caest and Head troubles, A good deal, yon say, for a quarter, but it is true of €37*%; the best goods are done up in small parcels, a vial of *¢7'7*? just fits your vest pocket; handy to carry, always ready for use. Every one has a kind word for Seventy- seven, Dr. Humphreys’ precious cure for Oolds, Grippe, Influenza, Catarrh, Coughs, Sore Throat. Dr. Bumphreys' Homeopathic Manual of Dis- ensés at your Taggist’s or Malled Free. Sold by drugglats, or sent om recelmt of 25 cents, or five for 81 Bnm&hrwn’ Med. Co., Cor. 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If you are sick and ailing in any manner come and be cured, for there is no disease or malady that is not positively incurable that will not yield as if by magic to the superior and highly scientific aid that is given to all patients by the State Electro-Medical Institute. DR. W. EINGSTOIN VANCE: . IS FROM LONDON, ENGLAND. He comes here especiaily to take the position of physician- in-chief of the State Electro-Medical Institute. His diplomas, from the most famous » European colleges, and the certificates which he has received from the medical boards of the different States of our own country, are positive proof of his ability as a physician and his absolute knowledge of medicine and surgery. To the sick and afflicted he offers his profes- sional services at the unprecedented low rate of $5 for all diseases. 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Special and particular attention is given by the State Electro-Medical Institute to the treatment of all kinds of diseases of women. Every modern idea and the latest and most scientific methods known to the medical world are employed in the treatment of ailments of this character, and as a result women who place themselves under the care of the doctors of the Institute speedily regain perfect health, All women suffering from womb orovarian troubles, painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, dyspepsia, constipation, headaches, spinal weakness, diseases of the genito-urinary organs shouid, if they desire to be cured, consult the doctors of the State Electro-Medical Institute. HEA“T Bnmu “n HEBVES The heart is the grand vital organ of the human system, and the ’ $ * mostdangerous to life when disordered or diseased. The mos: com- mon symptoms of diseases of the heart. brain and nerves are palpitation, flushes of heat and cold, pain in region of heart, dizziness of the head, pallor of the lips and face, cold feet, sweli- ing of hands or feet, puffiness of face or eyes, sleeplessness, a tired, irritable, discontented feeling, fear of impending danger and death, gloom and despondency. If you have any of these symptoms the warning alarm is sounded. You can be cured by the doctors at the Institute. m_mm BISEASES If your blood is diseased or tainted with poison you can never feel well nor be * well until the disease is cured. Contagious blood poison is the most baneful and loathsome of all blood diseases. Eruptions of the skin, sores, ulcers, eczema, etc., are all evidences of the existence of blood disease, and as any kind of blood disease makss rapid headway when once started no time should be lost by those afflicted with disorders of this kind in consulting the doctors of the State Electro-Medical Institute. All kinds and forms of skin and blood diseases absolutely cured in a very short time. HHEUHA"S" This disease is treated with unsurpassed skill and success at the State Electro- * Medical Institute. Both medical and electrical treatments are given in conjunc- tion with each other, as in all other diseases, and the medicines are so well selected and the electricity so properly and scientifically applied that every form of rheumatism, whether acute, chronic, inflammatory, sciatic or muscular, is positively d permanently cured. EAMHHH There is no disease that develops more repulsive and even disgusting and danger- * ous features than does catarrh. It is usually caused by repeated colds that produce a highly inflamed condition of the nasal passages, resulting in copious discharges of mucous matter. If not checked the inflammation extends to the bronchial tubes, the discharges be- coming absorbed into the lungs and also taken into the stomach. Their poisonous nature quickly causes contamination of these organs, resulting in either consumption, catarrh or cancer of the stomach. The symptoms of the disease are too common and well known to re- quire enumeration. If you are afflicted with catarrh go at once to the State Electro- Medical Institute. The oldest and worst cases quickly and permanently cured. DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS'AND URINARY ORBNS. Amons those most provalent are Bright' gout, inflammation of kidneys, diabeteg, uraemia, gravel, stone and inflammation of the bladder. The maladies which result from diseased kidneys, bladder and urinary organs are numerous and serious, and if not cured usually prove fatal. The State Electro-Medical Institute is supplied with all the late invented apparatus for testing the urine, and microscopic examinations are made by Dr. W. Kingston Vance with an accuracy which never fails to detect the real disease with which the kidneys are afflicted. s-mllc“ LWEB A"n BIIWELS With a diseased stomach or liver health is incompatible. The two y * conditions cannot exist in the same body at the same time. The State Electro-Medicali Institute is fully equipped with all the latest achievements in medicine, su?ary,and electricity to promptly and permanently cure all diseases of the stomach, liver an bowels. BISEASES 0F IE' Manly power, perfect physical and mental strength and vigor are the natural * attributes of a perfectly healthy man. Itis a distressing fact thata large per- centage of the men of this country have so drawn upon and impaired theirvital forces thatthey are litile better than wrecks, both mentally and physicaliy. This condi.ion is due to unnatural losses and to a recklessdisregard of nature’'slaws. Any man who is in this deplorable condition should without delay consult the doctors of the State Electro-Medical Institute. They will start him on the right road, and under their care and treatment the worst victim of nervous debility and exhausted vitality will soon regain perfect health, strength and manly vigor. All diseases of a private nature promptly and permanently cured. STATE ELECTRO-TTEDICAL INSTITUTE, 3 Eddy Street, San Francisco. s disease,