The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1896. 9 \ DAY OF OHS /- FOR CHLORE Many Christmas Purchas- ers Throng the Streets. Uaique Scenes in a” Mild Clime During the Holiday Season. Thousands of Men, Women and Chil. dren ‘Buv Gifts to Make Their Friends Happy. No-.city in America, and few spots on the globe, offer such picturesque apd unique ‘'scenes as those witnessed in San Fraucisco during that happy season re- vered in every Christian land as thé time When all men extend good wishes toward their fellows. There were many features of the season yesterday that impressed themselves on th nds of observers as peculiarly San Fr: scan. In other climes men, women and- lictle children battle with winds, swows and boreal temperatures, ranging the way from the freezing point to the azmz blizzard that means death and in- & wenience; but here all day yesterday the “streets were crowded with children clad in fabrics so thin that they would be called spring garments in the East, the skies were sunny and the ‘temperature so mild that a shorn lamb would not have caught pneumonia had it wandered with Mary all day, viewing the toys and good things of the season dirplayed from a thousand gayly decorated windows. ere were many unique features in the plays of yesterday, things that could not be witnessed in any other large Amer- ican city. By reason of the oceau and its great variety of fishes the markets af- foraed a wonderful display of the fruits of angling, A market on Clay street presented the unique spectacle of a Christmas treeladen with fishes, showing all colors, sizes and shapes, many being bedecked with feath- ers, trimmed ‘with necklaces of shrimps and crabs and ornamented with sprigs of green and bunches of pretty flowers. Thousands thronged the stireets, and on the streets proclaiming the virtues of their goods. One of the great featires of the day was noticed in the preparations of the Salva- tion Army for a Christmas dinner. Their rity has brought joy to many hearts in s past and promises to make many ppy to-day. Old men with dolls and monkeys on sticks marched gravely down the crowded sireets, hurrying home to have Santa Ciaus on time for the only grandson or ddau. hter on earth. Fat ladies of dignified mien hurried along with im- petuous pace, carrying toy balloons anc great bags of odd-looking things to make | the little ones at home busy ior a day. In liea of flying snow and whistling | winds of winter, a balmy day bathed all 1n its opulent lights, the mild December ooding benignly over land and sea, 1bol of the doctrine of pesce on earth } goodwill among-men. The contagion of holidays is markea among the populace in this cosmopolitan City, where races from every land mingie with those of every other clime. season. Their children, who know noth- ing of the day by old tradition, catch the spirit by infection, dreaming of sweet- ts, toy had been to the manner born. Thus all over the City strange races met in a common spirit and prepared to celebrate the day which comes but onece in a year as a fulfillment of the dreams of the other 364, disappointing many and bringing joy to others regardless of race or creed. JOHANNESBURG IS BOOMING. That Mohey Comes So FEasy There Prices Are Out of Sight. “Money comes so easy in Johannesburg that prices are inordinately high and one has to pay almost double for every arti- cle of merchandise as compared with prices in England or America,” said Mr. Arthur Hodgson, a young Englishman ning at the Ebbitt, who recently t some time at the famous South African mining camp, *“The shopkeepers are reaping a rich harvest. For they hardly make less than 100 per cent profit on everything they seil, and on many things twice that much. A great many veople who object to being thus bled by the tradesmen send home for their sup- plies, and find it more economical to do =0, even after paying transportation and duties. «“But as the majority of the citizens make big waves they do not grumble over the extoriion. _In fact, everything is on a boom ba Land is held at a valuation in excess of realty in London, and pouse rents are frightful. While 1 was over there a corner business lot, about 50x50 feet, improved by a very or- dinary frame structure, was sold for $150,- €00, and the purchaser expected a return of over 10 per cent oun his investment. Everybody admits that present values are abnormal, and that prices must ere long reach a lower level. ‘Meanwhile, new houses are going up like magic, and the supply doesn’t half meet the demand. Fkilled workmen are scarce and get very high wages. The town has a population of 50,000 now, and the in- dications are that it will have twice t .at numbér in the next five years.”—Wash- ington Post. e —————— SHAWLS OF SHETLAND. A High Degree of Art Employed in Weaving Them. , Putting aside other branches of Shet- land hosiery, the Shetiand shawl may be roughly divided into two classes— «ghawls” and *clouds,’’ Itis unnecessary to explain the nature of the shawl, but there may be a few persons who know not that a *clond” in northern language is but the small, elongated form of shawl, and is a wrap in great requast for evening wear by the ladies of London and the world. Of these shawls and clouds there are, technically speaking, three distinct kinds: First, the most_elaborate and ax,,nnnva is that which is known as ‘‘crape work, in which the knitting is so delicate as to resemble in appearance the most finely interwoven vauze wire. Nexg'm quality and value to this is the *lace’’ work, the name of which explains its'nature. The third sort is that of the far coarser shawls and clouds known as “hap,”” The last are much hesvier in weight and rougher in texture. Yet in some of them theé differ- ent shades of color form & most beautiful effect. 4 Buch is the art employed in their weav- ing that the graduations of tone mtrfe ‘hemselves almost imperceptibly one in the other. And this is more remarkable from the fact that the Shetianderis not fond of “dyes'’ and only uses them to ren- der salablé a piece of Losiery that has, so | to speak, gone wrong. The colors are the natural ones of the sheep—the blacks, browns, graysand all whites of their wool. Only in Fair Isle, midway beiween Shetiand and Orkney, is y elezantly attired ladies and little | ildren stood before rich show windows | or viewed the wares of venders who stood | " Even the Chinese caich the spirit of the | balloons and bonbons as if | “ (o) egflemep, whal"parT” do you prefer? " Gofmostevery 1inq he warted / \\\. \/ w ngmET= e Phew! flw»xab a job What Christmas Means to Some People. this rule departed from. There, it is said, some vessels of the Spanish Armada were stranded during the fleet’s nnwilling prog- | ress round the aorth of Scotland, and nearly 200 men sought the hospitality of the islanders. A portion of these the lat- ter, surreptitiously or otherwise, threw over the cliff. The rest they kept and were taught by them to extract from herbs | certain dyes, such as color-loving South- rons reveled in, and toapply them to their | hosiery. The result is that to-day the Fair | Isle shawls. and stockings contain checks | and lines so giudy as positively to sully the general som berness of the creat island industry.—~Pall Ma.f Gazette. WHERE BOONE'S MEN DIED. | What Was Disclosed by a Landslide in Kentucky. The heavy rains last week caused on | Flat Top Mountain a landslide which has brought to light what appears to have been the last resting place of the long-lost Finley and his party,-who came to Ken- tucky with Daniel Boone in 1769, and disappeared from camp and could never be found. | The mountain on which the landshide occurred is about four and a half miles from Laynesville, on Big Mud Creek, Floyd County; Ky. Charley Akers, 18 vears old, went out squirrel hunting after the storms. He went to this mountain and noticed the change in its contour. About one-third the way up be cametoa large cave, with an entrance twelve feet in diameter. Yourg Akers, who is a daring young fellow, gathered some pitch pine knots, made a torchlight and went into the cave about 100 yards. He came upon an inte- rior enirance and followed it about fifty yards. Then he came into a large room about fifiy feet square, and here he came upon the skeletons of human beings and of horses. The young man was so badly frightened that he beat a hasty retreat to his bome, and there told what he had found. Few would believe it at first, but several men who knew him gave credit to his story and went to see what there was init. Young Akers piloted them to the cave. When they came to the entrance of the large room where the boy had seen the skeletons their hair rose, for befors their eyes lay the skeletons of five human beingsand six horses. The explorers ex- amined the skeletons, which were those of men who had died violent deaths. Three of the ske.etons are of men who must have been 6 feet tall or more; the other two men were about 5 feet 6 inches. | It lookea as if they died while fightine for their lives. Two of the skulls were split open as if with an ax ortomabawk. In one of the skeletons the back and two ribs next to the heart were broken and in another the head was missing. The other two skeletons bad buliet holes throu-h the heads, one in the right temple and the other in the forshead. Nearly a quart of battered bullets were found near the wall of the room, besides numerous Indian arrow heads. Nothing could be found to ideptify the dead men positively. The skeletons of the horses lay in a semicircle, which seems to_ indi- cate that the borses were killed and used as a breastwork, Each of the horses had a bullet hole in the right temple, It is supposed that these skeletons are the last remains of the Finley party, who wandered off from the Boone camp on Licking River in the winter of 1769, and that they lost their way, and in their wan- derings came to this cave, where the were attacked by Indians and killed. It seems as if there was a landslide long ago, which covered up the mouth of the cave. The oldest settlers say their fathers used to tell them about this cave before the mouth of it was covered up. The old set- tlers said it was haunted. This mountam is not very'steep, but is more than 1000 feet high.and owing to the recent heavy rains the loose nirt be- came soaked with waterand nearly the whole mountain side bad slibped about 100 yards, uprooting everym(‘x’:g in its downward course and revealing its secrets, which bad been closed for over a century. People from miles around go daily to iook st the skeletons, which have been moved to a schoolhouse about a mile from the cave. A large party oi men will ex- plore the cave and find out whether it holds any more s crets.—Pikeville Dis- patch to New York Sun. SETTING THE RIVER ON FIRE Origin of This Popular and Expressive 3 Phrase. Sometimes when a person wants to make an unpleasant remark in a pleasant sort of way abouta dull boy he will say, “That boy wiil never set the river on fire.” smartest man in the world could never set a stream of water on fire, and so perhaps, many of you who have heard this expres- aion have wondered what is meant by set- ting the river on fire. In England many, many years ago, be- fore the millers had machinery for sifting flour, each family was obliged to sift its own flour. For doing this it was necessary to use a sieve, called a temse, which was so fixed that it could be turned round and round and round in the top of a barrel. If it was turned too fast the frietion would sometimes cause it to catch fire, and a: it was only the smart, hardworking boys who could make it go so fast as that, peo- vle got into the way of pointing out a lazy boy by saying that be would never set the temse on fire, After a while these sieves went out of use, but as there were still plenty of stupid boysin the worid people kept on saying that they would never set the temse on fire. Now, the name of the River Thames is pronounced exactly like the word “temse,” and so, after many years, those persons who had never seen or heard of the old-fashioned sieve thought that *'set- ting the temse on fire” meant setting the River Thames on fire. This expression Became very popular and traveled far and wide, until the people living near other streams did not see why it was any harder for a slothful boy to set the Thames on fire than any other river, and so the name of the river was dropped and everybody after that simply said *‘the river,” meaning the river of his particular city or town, and that is how it is that people to-day taik of setting the river on fire.—St. Nicholas. e ee——— THE MYERS BALLOT-MACHINE. It Was Used in Rochester at the Late Election. The names of candidates are arranged in columns after the fashion of the blanket ballot, with this distinction: On the official ballot the square in which the cross must be marked comes before the name of each candidate; on thd Myers machine the button that must be pressed follows the name of each candidate, There is scarcely any danger of confusion here, as the party kuob is in every case of the same color as the party co'umn. The voting of a straignt ticket with the Myers machine is simplicity itseif. The various pnr_? columns are distingnished by colors, be. Democratic color is yel- low, the Be‘fubllcnn xzd, the Prohibition- ist biue, and so ou. t the top of the Democratic column is a button, which, upon being pressed in firmiy until it re- mains fast, votes the straight ticket. Having dofe this, the voter walks out of the exit door (another door having been used for entrance), closes it behind him, and his straight vote is recorded. Voting “split’”’ tickets is a trifle mofe difficulg, but this, too, will be found simple enough iI the voter keeps bis wits about him,” Suppose a Democrat wishes to vote for a Prohibition candidate for the As- sembly. In that event the first thing he does is to press in the knob following the name of this candidate. That action locks all the buttons of the other candidates for this office, so that it would be impossible to vote for two candidates for the same place. Having done this—and he can re- };en the operation with other candidates or whom he might wish to *'split”—the voter must now go back to the Demo- cratic column and press all the buttons following the names of the remaining Democratic candidates. Remember that a vote outside the party column bars the use of the button at the head of that col- umn. Remember, too, that where you vote for selected candidates outside your party you must invariably press their bute tons first and then press in the remaining buttons on your own columns.—Rochester Herald. ———— ANGLOMANIA IN FRANOE. English Customs and Bports Are Popu- lar in the Republiec. 1t French newspapers irom time to time break out in violent diatribes against England, never wers English manners and customs so popular with our neigh- bors as now. I have just been makinga round of visits in chateaus and country houses, all more or less remote from the capital, Everywhere I heard English speech, found abundance of native litera~ ture and was remirded of insular habits. Atternoon tea is served as regularly as at home. Valets or housemaids, as the case may be, demand at what hour mon- sieur or madame would like their “tub,’” and if hot or cold. Out of doors lawn ten- nis is the order of the day, the men wear- Now, that is all very true, for even the [ing knickerbockers and orthodox stock- ings, the ladies sailor hatsand tailor-made dresses. At a Burgundian, chatean the other day I saw a curious evidence of this flatiering imitativeness. On the luncheon table, placed at intervals, stood two little sily-r toast racks containing dry ioast. The house party, including myself, the only foreigner, numbered fourteen per- sons. All but two or thrce had visited England, and all possessed some knowl- edge of our language, as well as consider- able familiarity with our literature. One young lady who spoke very good English indeed was an enthusiastic admirer of Keats -nvt; Bhelley. Another fellow guest, a retired naval officer, was particularly fond of Captain Marryatt’s sea stories. This gailant old sailor could also express himself fairly well in the tongue of perfide Albion. I mention such facts because, trifling as they may seem in themselves, they prove how much more natural liking and sympathy exist between the French and Engiish nations than any other two of Europe. Our politics, of course, is a very different matter. On this subject I only touch so far as to show how Anglo- philia and Anglophobia counteract each other, the latter, let us hope, to be finally overcome. But it is by no means in manners, cus- toms, art and literature that English in- fluence is predominant. Even. while France and England remain sworn foes we were flattered by the same imitative- ness, _ Historians record how the Sun_ King, as the arch tyrant, Louis XIV, was called, thereby received one of the most mortifying rebuffs of his life. Again and again be had pros tested against the disfiguring bhairdressing of court ladies then in vogue, stage upon stage of scaffolding on which the hair or wig was elaborately arranged. In vain, The autocrat who made up his mind that not only his subjects’ consciences and lives but even - their houses, lands ana fortune belonged tc him found himself checkmated by female vanity. Not even Mme. de Maintenon wonld alter her hair to please the defied King. One day, however, there came to Versailles an English lady of hizh rank with her locks dressed closely around the brow. Next morning one and all of the pagoda-like coiffes fell as by magic. Every woman in the place had copied the insular mode of hairdressing. The King was fu- rious.—Westminster Gazette. A DECIMAL DAY. The French Plan to Divide the Day Into One Hundred Parts. In nothing perhaps is the difference be- iween the Latin and Anglo-Baxon races more pronounced than in their methods of computation. The former chose, as if by instinct, the easiest route to reach re- sults and the decimal arrangement of welghts, measures and values first insti- tuted by the French has been adopted by them all, as well as by their Teutonic neighbors. The Anglo-Saxons, however, seem to care nothing for ease or simplitity in this matter, and their tables of weights and measures are 8 mass of incongruities. The originals have been largely deter- mined by accident, as the length of a cer- tain kine's foot or of another's forearm. Not only have they adopted a cumber<ome and illogical system of compuiing weighu and measures, but they resolutely decline to accept the limf‘l‘e and convenient sys- tem offered by the Latins, although to do so would not onl; be a saving of time and labor, but would facilitate commercial and other intercourse among the nations. But while the Latin decimal system of notation is much the best, it may be car- ried too far, and this seems to be the case with the latest French idea to revise the division of time and make the day consist of 100 parts ins'ead of twenty-four. course, after the French style, the division is to be carried down to the most minute portions of time, provisions being made for *‘ces,” or hundre ths of a day, “‘centi- ces” and *‘millices,” but it will probably be found impracticable to carry it higher and impossible to extend it to the whole yeer. It iseasy enough in theory, and, if the present computation were not so firmly established, would probably be found profitable in practice to divide the' dav by decimals; but France has trisa to abolish the week and divide the month decimally without success, while it is manifestly out of the question to divide the year not either more or less than 365 days, The number is fixed by the laws of na- ture, since just so many periods of light and darkness occur in the aunual jou: of the earth around the sun and t.iere no other way to estimate a day than by grouping together one period of light 'ni one of darkness. Reasoning backward from this it will be seen that no better arrangements of months can be made than the oxe we bave 1 now, since the 365 days are divided among them as nearly evenly as possible, and, on the same.account, the number of daysin a month could not be changed for the better. The Geographical Bureau of the French army is experimenting with the new sys- tem, and it may be adopted in France, but it is certain that English-speaking coun- tries wiil have none of it. The failure to establish even that very sensible reform, the twenty-.our hour day, is sufficient as- surance of that.—Philadelphia Ledger. THE- HOURS OF THE DAY. In Italy the Time Will Be Calculated From 1 to 24. The Italian Government is giving the weight of its power and influence to aid in the accomplishment of the reform which will eventually bring about consistent no- tation of the hours of the day by making the numbers run from 1 to 24 All Gov- ernment time-pieces, schedules and an- nouncements will hereafter run upon that system, and there will be no more trouble about duplication of figures and the con- sequent necessity for distinguishing terms to show which portion of the day is meant. There can be little doubt that in time the new notation will be accepted and used by the people in their private business, for it is the only sensible system. The new system will only affect the hours of the day from noon to midnignt, and the success attending the Italian system lhov(vis that it can be readily and easily ap- plied. ‘The schools open at 9o’clock, as before, but they close at 16 o’clock, instead of 4 P. M. The Government theaters announce that their curtains rige at 21 o’clock, and the railroad time-tables are atlast intei- ligible to all who can read figures, That the reform is making its way with the people is evidenced by tne fact that the theaters not under Government control have generally accepted the system by announcing their entertainments as ‘‘Be- ginning at 21°0’clock (9 P. a.).”” It 1s easy to carry the new system into private busi- ness, and it must eventually be done to avoid confusion of terms. The school children alone will be a power in this respect, for the new notation of the hours of the day will become nataral to them. Perhaps the present generation will not come to the full use of the new system to the exclusion of the other, but as it passes away the one which takes its place will have no stubborn conservatism to unlearn. have succeeded easily in this country in accomglishing a kindred re- formation in the adoption of standard time over the old system which gave cor- rect solar time everywhere, but kept the railroad traveler always in trouble. That reform had to combat strong local preju- dices, but it has succeeded simply because it showed its advaniages over the old me:hou. If the Italian method of time notation should be adopted in this coun- try as the public system the people would naturally accept and use it. It will come, for the American people only need to comprehend the advautages offered by an innovation to graft it upon their own sys- tem.—Milwaukee Journal. B A quarrel between two ladies in a Hun- arian town ended in a duel. One oi the ladies sent her pistol-ball into a boy who was perched on a tree, and the other lady lod; her bullet in the side of a calf. This blood-letting satisfied the duelists, and they strolled homeward the best of friends, ———— Tarolaro, an island one and a half miles in diameter, in the Mediterranean, 18 the smallest republic in the world. Tt has filty-five inhabitants: the President Of | ig elected for six years; no public official receives any pay, and women and men ars voters. NEW TO-DAY. 0ld Grist Mill Wheat Coffee is the original and only PURE HEALTH COFFEE. Ask your grocer for this brand and insist on getting it. He has it or can get it—it’s sold a little closer me¥ | than imitations—that's all. POTTER & WRIGHTINGTON, Boston, Mass. STREET FAKIRS. Big Profits for the Stars of the Curb Merchants. Btreet fakirs are divided into two clases; those who work for themselves and those who vpeddle for others, says the New York Recorder. The former are, of course, the aristocrats of the profession. These men buy their stock at a low price for spot cash from the wholesale dealerin street goods, and are thus enabled tocleara handsome profit on their sales. The workers for otbers are those who, throngh spendthrift habits or lack of capi- tal, are compelled to sell on commission for some wholesale or patron. In spite of their reduced profits, these men are still able, if at all fitted for the business, to make very fair profits. ‘Whetber or not familiarity with the try- ing ordeal of facing the audiences J)roves good training for the businessof pedaling, the fact remains that a great many of the street fakirs come from the lower ranks of the theatrical profession. Thef usually possess some smattering knowledge and are apt in illustrative language. When these men badle & musical instrument or trick top they at ofice acquire a thorough knowledge of its use and 1illustrate it in a manner that causes the purchaser to envy them when he takes home his purchase and tries it for himself. Sometimes the fakirs seil things really cheap. For instance, such standard books as “Paradise Lost™ or “Pilgrim’s Progress’” are procurable from them for ten or fifteen cents, and a reporter recently obtained a very fair copy of Tennyson’s poetical works, good type and heavy paper covers for 3 cents. On the barrows of these literary Cheap Johns paper-covered novels bearing such well-known titles as ‘“Micah Clarke,” “The Sign of the Four,”’ “Dodo,” “The Manxman,” etc., are selling for 5and 10 cents. These books are pirated editions of the originals, the typography is imperfect and their paper stock of the cheapest quality. Unless one takes the trouble to glance over his purchase he may find half the pages duplicates or some foreign leaves introduced instead of the right ones. Many of these fakirs have regular routes and some travel all over the country visit- ing the county fairs and other local as- semblages, but they get back to New York sooner or later. ¢ Others, again, never go out of the city, and several have certain stands or ‘‘beats’” that they occupy day in and day out throughout the year. ———————— A Man of His Word. Customer—I bought a carpet from you a couple of months ago. Deal r—Yes, sir. come to buy another? Customer—No, I have not, although I'm sorry to say I need a new one. I came to tell you that you are a skin and cheated me outrageously. Dealer—Why, sir, what’s the matter? Customer—Matter enough. After using that carpet two months the color not only came out, but it is getting full of holes. Dealer—Well, I didn’t guarantee it when you bought it. Customer—Yes, you did. When I asked you if it was durable yon said you had used one like it for two years, and it looked just as good as ever. Dealer—IIf I said that, it must have been so. What kind of earpet was it? Look around the store and tell me if you see anything like it. Customer—Yes, there it is. That made- up earpet hanging on the wall. Dealer—So that's it, eh? Well, sir, I've been using that identical carpet for over two years. There’s nothing the matter with that, is there? Customer—No. been using it? Dealer—Why, up there on the wall. ‘Where have you been using yours? Customer—On the floor, of course. Dealer—Pshaw!_ Why didn’t you tell me so at once. You're the most unrea- sonable man I've met in a long time. No one but a fool would expect a carpet to last"as long on a floor as hung on a wall. I knew I hada’t told you I'd been using those carpets under foot for two years. We never deceive customers that way in this_store. Good day, sir.—New York ‘World. 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