The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1897, Page 11

p 8 FIVE FAVORITES The. St Patrick’s Day Crowd Left Emeryville With Money. The Buras & Waterhouse Entry Candelaria Given a Stake. Rey del Tierra Scored at O:ds of 50 to .1—A Numbsr of Tumbles in the Hurdle Event. St. Patrick’s day attracted only a trifle iarger crowd than usual at the Emeryville track yeslerday. Green ones in_the bet- ng did not cut & very wide swath, as five of the six favorites tapped the wire first. Rey dei Tierra furnished the surprise, capturing tne fifth race at odds of 5010 1. The Golden Gate handicap over seven and a half furlongs was a languid affair, | though it did prove profitable for Burns & Waterhouse, which firm has experi- ended more than ordinary luck at the track across the bay. Casper, ‘‘thrown in with a catch,” and started Candelaria. The colt was backed down from twos to 605, and after being cut off a couple of times defeated Scarf Pin with ease, still further illustrating the saying, “To him who hath shall be given,” but to the poor wner who possesses not he shall go broke. oln I1 peeked in for the short end. Purser, away up at the scene of Cor- s downfall, wouid probably weep bit- ter tears of anguish as he learned of the victory of his Rey del Tirra. The colt staried at odds of 40 and 50 to 1 in the mile run that was fifth on the card, and | always having the footing over the second choice, Stentor, which kept him company well into the stretch, won easily from the favorite, Colonel Wheeler. performances of the horse bad been very poor, and be was almost eniirely over- looked in the betting. McNaughton & Muir shot out the favor- | ite for tlie first event at six furiongs in Cavailo, which receded in the betting from 7to5t09tos. He kilied off the gray filly Reel and won ridden -out at the end two lengths before the fast-coming Widow ones. Jockey Felix Carr captured another purse with his good sprinter Montgomery in the second event decided, also over six tfurlongs, under selling conditions. The Hanover gelding was a3 to 5 favorite 1n tie ring, and baving Mainstay beaten at the head of the stretch, won with little to spaie, less than two lengths in front of Hazard, a 7 to 1 chance. Another favorite went through in the -furiong dash that followed. Dunboy, with R Isom up, went to the post an even-money favorite, and after cutting out the pace almost from the jump won easily from Hohenzoliern, the second ce, in 1:16. Roselle, a 15 to 1 shot, se- cured the show. Mishaps were numerous in the handicap hardle event, over one mile and a quarter, Thiee Forks, J O C, Rob Roy, Silverado and Tortoni all giving their riders bad spills. Flashlight, carrying all the wise coin a: oads of 8 to 5, eventually won e rom Tuxedo, against whom the ring laid 9 to 1. - NOTES. Eddie Jones, who had the mount on Rosalbra, was fined $100 by the judges for not persevering with the chestnut colt. Seventeen bookmakers cut in yesterday. Colonel R. W. Pate, heavily interested in racing enterprisesin tue City of Mexico, EARNED PURSES They scratched | The recent | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1897 was a spectator at the track yesterday. Colonel Pate says the game ishing condition in that country, but there is a noticeable scarcity of horses. Articus recently won a six-furlong dasb, but next time out was beaten at a mile. | Following are to-day’s entries: First race, eleven-sixteenths of a mile, selling. | 706 Billy Ayres. 108) 706 Tim Murphy 08 708 Encino. -107| 710 Ameila Foaso. 108! Second race, three-quarters of a mile, selling. e 686 Fort Augustus.102((701)8t. Dis 711 Rienzi 105|708 Mercui { g 105/ 711 Nebol 699 Cogent 855 D, J. 07| (700) A 107| 624 Quantrell. .101| 260 Little Flush 101 597 01] ... Sir Edward. 01| 706 Tar and Tartan101 “111| 685 Devault. 110 1201| 706 Ike L 104 ‘108 mp. Disparit 603 Peter II. Fourth race, one and s sixteenth miles. 689 Ballie Clicquot.100| 689 Salvatfon. 697 Cabrillo........ 109 (710)Cash Day. 630 Imp. Ivy......104| 648 Ad Spreckei Fifth race, seven-eighths of a mile, selling. 708 Claudiana...... 84| 464 Let Me See. 689 Argestes. B4 693 Zylpha. 806 La klecha.....1100| 7.8 Api €86 Laura Burt. 90| 693 Mary Nieves 601 Fullerton Lass.106| 681 Joan. X (708)Grandezis 89 Siniait 669 Heartseas Sixth race, thirteen-sixteenths of a mile, sell! 692 LucretiaBorgia. 95| 711 Pollock 695 Thelma. - 98| 709 San Marco.. | 705 Caliente. 1100| 645 Midi | 700 Perii 98| 680 Geo. 687 McLi 13/ (697) Appiause. 683 Morven 648 Detective. | (705)Howard. | "526'Satsuma. SELECTIONS FOR TO-DAY. First race—Toano, Tim Murphy, Major Cook. Second race—Altamax, Rienzi, Mer- | cutia. | Third race—Baron, Peter 1I, Dis- parity. Fourth race—Cash Day, Salvation, Tvy. - ; Fitth race — Grandezia, Claudiana, [ Fullerton Las | Sixth race—Satsuma, Miller. OUTWITTING AN EDITOR. | | Exciting Political Scheme in Which | McCuliagh Figured. | When David R. Francis, now Secretary | of the Interior, was a candidate for uov- | ernor of Missouri, his friends succeeded in using the Globe-Democrat to further his chances of election. Editor McCullagh | had tarned on “Our Dave,” as the Secre- tary is known in 8t. Louis, with bis short | paragraphs with telling effect, and Francie’ | friends got together and concocted a | scheme to offset the editorial work of the | paper. They wrote out a display aaver- | tisement and at a late hour of the Satur- | day morning immediately preceding the | election of 1888 took it to the counting- | room of the Giobe-Democrat. The clerk on duty gave the copy a casual looking over and without a word accepted it. 1t occupied a full page and at length and in | glowing terms set jorth the ‘‘great busi- | | ness capacity and eminen. qualifications |of Mr. Francis to occupy the guberna- torial chair of Missouri.” That advertisement caused the bigzest | row ever witnessed in a newspaper office in St. Louis, When Editor MeCullagh | found what had been done he raged and | stormed for a week. The fast mail had distributed the paver all over Missouri be- | | fore McCullagh bad his attention called | ! to it. Heleft his quarters at the Southern Hotel on a trot. Keaching the corner of | Fourth and Pine streets, he found the | sireets and the office of the Globe-Demo- | crat jammed with people, who were | clamoring to stop their subscriptions. })IcCuUu:) had filled a column on the |'editorial page with “'squibs” strongly op- posing Francis, and *advocating the Re- publican nominee, but the big sisplny of Francis’ friends was the first thing seen on opening the paper. Mr. McCuliagh at once issued an extra, Midlo, George in which be deprecated the oversight by | which the advertisement had found il way into the paper, but it was some tim before the Globe-Democrat office recovered 1 its equilibrium.—Cnicago Record. THE “CALL” RACING GUIDE. (CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. Oakiand Racctrack, Wednesday, March 17. ~Sixtieth Day of the Winter Meeting, 1896-97. Weather fine. Track fast. i 719, FINST BACE—Tureequariers of & mile; three-yearolds; purse +300. i T 1 Betting. Index.| Horse. weleht. | fir.] W-| % | % str. | Fin. ‘up. . 3% = = | 88 |Cavallo sazlan {iss Lo {75 95 700 | Widow Jones | 8% | 835 | 5ig | 21 18 x 697 |Reél ..0. | 83 | 2n in | 31 |10 9| Scarborough . 435 | 3n | 435 | a3 {52 53| 58)| Ezekiel T35 | 43 | 335 | B4 H H ; HAREIR AT 0 100 4 | 7 7 00 91" | &3 | & | 83 |5 3% 0 | 91" | 9 91 0 150 32 (10 | 1010 l2s “as 701 |Fiddie Dee Dee. 11 1 n | 30 700-|Greenleat. . . E & 0 50 699 | Yerba Bueno. i Cle s Time, 1 Good s art. Won cleverly. . Winner, McNaughtoa & Muir's b ¢, by Imp. C 6. 71 © SECOND KACE—Three-quarters of a mile; se.ling: purse §330. (133 Index..| 1lorse (85%) | Montgomer: 5 |Hazd, 4. 697" | Mainstay, 3. 697 |Ri 4..102/ ardo, | 606 |La Flecha. 681 | Roadrunner, 6...108 710 Cna Qua Amo, 4. 679 |Coda, & 1 JOFQUIN MILLER ON THE FHIGHT The Poet Says It Is a Great Disgrace to the Sage- brush State. HE TELLS OF HIS TRIP TO THE EAST. When His New Volume Is Pub- lished He Will Write No Longer. THE COURT DECISIONS MUST BE ENFORCED. | Thankfal He Is the Kit Carson of the Border—Ashamed of Prize- fight Newspapers. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, with his touseled mane all aflare by the gind of Market street, walked into the Pelace Hotel yesterday alter a long absence in the East. He had come tocall on his old friend, Merey Ma | California has not made a rope-ring of herselt or a bull.fight arena and she would do well enongh to say this much at least for herself. “As for ex-Senator John J, Ingalls I was going to say I never heard of him, but I remember I have. He’s from Kan- sasand is a big grasshopper. He’s the biggest ~ grasshopper there, That's enough. You might say, my sonm, there have been three big ones there—John Brown, Senator Dorsey and Ingalls, but the last is the biggest grasshopper. That's all, my son, good-by.” OOURSING AT INGLESIDE. Speed Finished in Front in the Final of | the Day. There was a good attendance at the In- gleside Coursing Park yesterday and some excellent form was seen. In the run-down the results were as follows: Vida Shaw_ beat Kangaroo; Sir John Arnot beat Dan C; Santa Alecia beat Snowbird; Lady Fiizgerald beat White Cloud; Mimoss beat Lady Campbell; Gold Dust beat Alameda; Swinnerton beat Vurnish; Belle of Moscow beat Olden W; Grace Dariing beat Master Rah; Beatrice beat Grace S; Hazel beat Blue Rock; St. Cloud beat Sarcastiv; Said Pasha beat White Lily; Temescal Rauger beat Red Light; beat Donald; Myrile beat Yankee Doodle; Hercules beat Jenny Lind; Jimmy Rix beat Lead On; Speed beat Bobolink; Uncie Sam beat Waratali; Firebail beat Border Val- entine; Ormopde beat Kitty Huba, First ties—Vida Shaw beat S.r John Arnot, Santa Alecia beat Lady Fliz, Gold Dusi besi Mimosa, Swinnerton beat Belle of Moscow, Grace Darling beat Beatrice, Bt. Clond be Hazel, Said Pasha beat Red Light, Myrtie be Merey May, Hercules beat Jimmy Rix, Speed beat Fireball, Second ties—Santa Alecia beat Vida Shaw, Gold Dust beat Swinnertbn, Grace Darling beat 8t. Cloud, Said Pasha beat Myrile, Speed beat Hercules, Ormonde & bye. Third tles—Gold Dust beat Santa Alecia, Grace Darling beat Said Pasha, Speed beat Ormonde. Fourth ties—Grace Darling beat Gold Dust, Speed a bye. Fioal—Speed beat Grace Darling. ———————— E. J. Baldwin Arrested. E. J. Baldwin was arrested yesterday on tho complaint of the Strest Department for not complying with the ordinance requiring him 1o protect his property on Webster street by a proper bulkhead. He was released by Judge Campbell on his own recognizance. JOAQUIN MILLER, Who Says He Will Soon Abandon Writing. Mrs. Howard Coit, of whose iliness he bad just heara at his home, “The Heights,” Where he arrived quietly a few days ago. Mr. Miller had the manuscript and proofs of his new book in his pocket. He talked of the book and other things in bis | usual characteristic and interesting way. Before he got through he delivered him- self of a few opinfions regarding literary work on the Pacific Cosst, and snappy things about the attitude in which Nevada has put herselfl. He also alluded briefly to his pleasant visit East. “I have the proofs of my new work with me here,” said the poet. “I have just been around to see my publisher. Tha book | will be out in thirty days. It isto bea compilation of all my poems that 1 con- sider worth publishing, and will have Aojne L2 some simple title like ‘Joaquin Miller’s eyl Poems.” When I get out this book 1 shall 35 |21 | 3 | quit writing forever and go to work. 1 s §rucjed | will go back to ‘The Heights' and dig in 8 8 € the ground. I am through writing for s u'good. 1 have piped to the people here Good siart. Wou easily. Winer, arr & Co.’s cb. g, by Hanover-Blessiog. Time, 1 '1» THL1D KACE—Three-quarters of a mile; three-yosr-olds; purse 2300, 670 T 7 o] T Betiing, e % | % | s | P | geekey. Jop™ G =5 S T YR BT ) 1 910 bay, 41 | 8% [ 21 | 25 |Hennewv. 8 3 it 42 | 81 | b | 81 [shaw 8 20 Gy | 2185 & |- Toer 20 77| 817" & | 61 ‘| Man R s | 7- |7 | 7% {Thompson. [0 20 8 |8 ‘ 8 | B4 |Spencer, 10 30 H 9 |9 |6 [dBergen. 10, 5o o 110 |10 10 |keay.: 100 d start Won nandily. Winner, Lone stable’s ch. g, by imp. Loyalls-Spray. Time, 1:1614. 715, FOURTIL KaCE—Fif cen-sixieenths of & mile; Golden Gate handicap: purs: 31000. T 1 | Kettin, Tncex.| Rorse, age, welght. | Bt.| % Yo | % op. { jery —_ 3%6) | Canlelarl 5n | b3 2 1 (6.(;) Eenr! Pl "t’!; 1 :‘l_ { ‘; : (540 California.’s. .. {’ | 1% | 31 1 708 | Trappean. 4. 3 | & 4 Good _start. W on Time, 1:34%4. Index.| Horse, age, weight. | 8t.| 34 w | % 704 |Rey del Tierra, 8.101 1 [1n | 23 Col. W heeler, &... uig | Bl | 4N Don Clarencio, 8. 4" | Big | 88 A 415 | 8n in 6 51 7 ® e | B | We were born vastly bigzer than the E: and they have not danced. They have lsughed while I have cried. I am not com- plamning; Iam satisfied. “But 1 am thankful that I have been the Kit Carson if aot the Fremont of the remote border literature. 1 came back from the East with a great deal of strength and confidence. The Kast was magnifi- cent, from the new President down to the Governor of my native State, Indiana, and while they were good to me they were greater to the greater West. “I think we may as well get our prize- fights and newspaper chin-chins done with. It ough: to be enough for usto know they will not have the prize-fizhts in the States, and they will not have these low assaults on our justices of the courts {and our legislators, to know what we oughtto do here. “We ought to first civilize ourselves before asking great civilization to emigrate this way, for we are truly the most civil- ized people and the strongest in the world. But we let ourselves be sidetracked by a Nevada prize-fight, or an Oakland strike, or a san Francisco newspaper row. ©AlL I bave to say is gzo ahead—that's all California has to do—and don’t be side- tracked. The Eastern Btates are willing to come to us when we are willing to be quiet and be great, and do what is in us to do. And that is mighty great, my son. “I have been many monhths away. I was born an obServer, and my trade as a seribe for a quarter of a century hes com- pelled me. to observe. I have this for California to say: “Go ahead, go ahead, Don't e sidetracked. this prize-fght show and prize-fight people and prize-fight newspapers. The dirty tbing has cost California five years of her life. I am talking now from the heart of this Republic—from the good big men in the heart of the Union. “Iam ashamed of Nevada and 1 think g0 ahead. Be ashamed of (898) | Fiasolight, 5. F1E! 698 |Tuxedo, 5|2 1. 58 | Reddington. 4 ia $ 585 |Dick O'Maliey, 6. 67 30 600 |Zaragozs, . 5|8 20 498 |Auteuit, a. 1|9 (1 684 | Esperanc 7|33 | 80 474 |Malo Diabo, 8. 8|6 | 80 Rob Roy. 6. 250 9| ten S0 (860)| Three Forks, 6...172( 13 | fell | 698’ |Silverado. a. 25| 10 | £-40 50 692 | Tortoui. 5. 125/ 11 | foil 30 688 |JOC, 8 130] 1 | fell 10000 10 (Good siari, Won easily. Winner, Farrar & Taberville's b. b, by Suriuam-Laura Winston, Time, 2:19. the best €alifornians and the best Oregon- ians are ashamed of Nevada. “It is much to know, however, that T0 KD THE CARHAAL The Associated Improvement Clubs Grapple With Num- erous Questions. High - Hat Ordinance and the Pound L mits Discussed at Length. The The usual bi-monthly .neeting of the Associated Improvement Clubs was held last night at B'nai B'rith Hall. Little if anything was done by the club in the line of advocating City improve- ments, other than al engthy discussion on the pound limits and the suppressing of the big-hat nuisance in theaters as pro- posed by Supervisor Rottanzi'sordinance. The delegates from the Fairmount Club requested the aid of the club in getting Chenery street improved. The matter was turned over to the street commilttee, with instructions to aid the members from Fairmount. The extension of the pound limits along the following boundary evoked consider- able discassion: Commencing at the intersection of D and Stanyan sireets, along Stanyan street to Fred- erick, along krederick to First avente, along First'avenue to H street, along H street to Sixteenth avenue, along Sixteenth avenue to the Ocean House roid, along Ocean House road to Mission road, to Amazon avenue, to Munich street, to Frances avenue, to La Grande avenue, to Visitacion, to Monongahela street, 10 San Bruno avenue, 10 Cortland avenue. This was amended on the motion of Delegate Morris from the Sunset Ciub that all that portion south of the purk be omitted from the proposed limite. This was adopted, much to the satisfaction of the Sunset Club. The by-laws were amended, by which the club will in the future hold monthly instead of bi-montnly meetings, on the tirst Wednesday evening of each month. Henry 5. Martin, Oscar Boldemann and Charles de Gamo Gray, from the carnival committee, were admitted for the purpose of asking the co-operation of the club in the coming May carnival. 3 Mr. Gray acted as spokesman for the committee and in a lucid speech informed the mempbers of what the committee has decided to have done in council next week, and in conclusion asked for finan- cial aid. The request was referred to the carnfval committee: L. H. Kohn, Leon Samuels, A. J. Fritz, C. W. Marks, 1. bchwartz ana Charles Aipers. To Lecture on Greace. This evening at 8 o'clock Rev. Haskett Smith will give his last lecture in the special course at the association auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets, on ““Crete and the Isles of Greece.” He will treat particularly on the present sfiuation of that country ana wil illustrate his lecture by several dissolving views taken by himself while visiting Greece. ——————— More than 2000 people mysteriously'dis- appear from London every year and are never heard of again. MANY JELLIES ARE ADULTERATED Report of Chemist Wenzell of the Board of Health. The Department Alarmel Over the Spread of Contagious Diseases. A Conference on Pure-F ol Subj:cts Is to Be Held Tomorrow Evening. Buying jelly is like buying lottery tick- ets these days. You ‘‘pays your money and takes your choice,” but it is abouta 3to1lshot that you don’t get whatyou pay for, no matter what your choice may be. Ifcurrant jelly is what you want you may get a mixture of apple and currant jelly, or it may be apple jelly and starch colored with aniline dye, or again it may have coal-tar colors and acetic acid mixed in. Chemist Wenzell of the Board of Health has been delving Into the mys- teries of currant jellies for s month past and the result of his labors was made known at the meeting of the board yes- terday. He analyzed thirty-three samples pur- chased at groceries in various parts of town, and of these only nine were found to be pure. Ten were found to be adul- terated so ss to be dangerous as food, fourteen were not currant jelly but mix- tures of the product of the currant and apple jeily, and one tco much decom- posed to tell wuat it was. 2 The result of his investigations will probably be thearrest of the men who told the goods for violating the pure-food aws. The board is again very much alarmed over the spread of contagious diseases, and will redouble its efforts to check them. Dr. Williamson, chairman of the commit- tee on evidemics ana contagious diseases, rendered a report in which he stated that measles was epidemic in all parts of the City except on Telegraph and Russian hilis, and that 781 cases had been reported during February, with six deaths. There were thirteen cases of diphtheria, with three deaths, nine of typhoid fever, with two_deatbs, and nine of scarlatina, with no deaths, The committee further stated that diph- theria was spreading; twenty cases with eight deaths having occurred since the 1st inst., with half the month yet to hear from. The committee urged that the board take some measures to compel physicians to report cases of tuberculosi ting that the doctors were neglecting to comply with the law. On the recommendation of the Health Officer the following buildings were or- dered vacated until they can be placed in sanitary gondition: 17 und 19 Wasnington alley; 1000, 1002, 1004 and 1006 Dapont street; buildings on the southerly line of Bartlett, between Pacific street and Bart- lett alley; sout:east corner of Bartlett alley and’ Pacific street; 910, 912, 914, 916 and 918 Kearny street. The report was adopted. The same course was taken with a corral situated between N and P streets and Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues. A nuisauce was declared to ex- ist in a vacant lot on the northeast corner of Ph street south and Thirteenth avenue south. The board appointed Patrick Lydon an assistant laundry inspector and J. Kelly an ambulance driver, each at a salary of $75 per month. Drs. Morse, Hart and Fitzgibbon were appointed a committee to see the Auditor to try to induce that official to audit bills amounting to $299 30 contracted by the Health Officer, secretary and Aftorney Reinstein, who' is not connected with the board in an official capacity, while lobby~ ing Board of Health bills through the Legislature. A resolution was passed calling?a con- ference for to-morrow evening at 8:30 of the Pure Food Committiee of the Council of Associaied Industries and representa- tives of the Merchants’ Association, Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturers' and Prodncers’ Association, 8an Francisco Fruit_Exchange, State Board of Trade, Ban Francisco Produce Exchange, Me- chanics’ Institute, Srate Development gon:imittec and San Francisco Board of rade. R PURE FOOD CONVENTION. It Will Be Held on the Last Friday in April, In the Morning. An important conference of the board of directors of the Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Association with the pure food committes of the Council of Associated Industries, was held last evéning in the Milis building. The purpose was to fix the time and place for holding the pure food convention which has been called by the association named. It was decided to hold the convention on the last Friday in April, at 10 o'clock, in the Chamber of Commerce Hall, it the hall can be ob- tained. The following committees were selected : Subjects and speakers, B. W. Rowley, M. J. Keller and L. R. Mead; publications, J. A, Filcher, J. W. Kerrand A. Sbarboro; invitation aund correspondence, Isador Jacobs, Chsries R. Allen and W. F. Bow- ers; transportion, Julian Sonntag, the chairman, who will act with the foregoing committees, which were given full power 10 act. “*An invitation from the Board of Health was read in which it stated that all the leading associations of the City will meet in the bosurd rooms in the City Hall on next Friday evening and requesting the association to send representatives. The subject of enforcing the pure-food or- dinance will then be dircussed. President Sonntag stated that there is one of the associations that isendea: ing to have the prosecution of such cases postponed thirty or forty days, so that those who are now violating t aw may have a chance to dispose of their stock of adulterated goods. That body asserts that a speedy prosecntion of those cases would work a hardsnip on the lers. lsador Jacobs said that the purpose of the proposed delay is to let the dealers relabel their goods, so that the public may not know the contents of packages. It was de- cided that the entire board of directors :honhl be at the Board of Health's meet- ng. Mr. Sonntag brought up the matter of the petition presented, or to be presented, to tbe Supervisors, asking that the rail- road tickei-scalvers’ ordinance, granting a license 10 carry on that business, be re- voked. He said that the railroad com- pany will refuse to grant special rates o excursionists to the carnival of the Goiden Gate and Christian Endeavor convention if the scalpers are permitted to operats in the railroad’s concession. It was decided to authorizz Mr, Sonntag to sign the peti- tion for the two bodies asking the Super- visors to at I porarily revoke the scalpers’ license ordinance. These licenses will expire on April 1, and they shoulu not be renewed, was the expression of those vresent. - A Carpenter Eobbed. | Mary Smith, 9 Quincy place, was arrested The fac-simile signature of 7 is on every wrapper of CASTORIA. 11 ‘last night by Detectives Reynolds and Gibson on the charge of. grand larceny. “She is se- cused by J. F; McDonaid, o carpenter, of rob- bing him of $140 Monday night whilé he was asleep in her place. —————— EASY T0 ACQUIRE GRACE. Practice Before a Mirror Did Wonders for an Awkward Girl. Every woman of society desires to be graceful on all occasions, but many find it exiremely difficalt to master the arf, while many are compelled to acknowledge the impossibiiity of accomplishing the task. Ope woman who was far from graceful by natural gift, but who over- came all obstacles to theattainment of the coveted faculty, tells how she did it “All through my girlhood,” she says, “my mother lectured me on my manifold awk- wardness. My walk, my carriage, my sit- ting down and standing up were a series of angular movements simply_intolerable to her artistic nature. But it neverap- peared to me that I could help it. I was ‘made that way,’ and how could Ichange? “Well, one day I chanced to read of an actress who always studied her paris before a full-length mirror, in order to be sure that her gestures were graceful. It caught my attention in some way, and 1 thought of it many times in the next few days. At last I came to a deliberate resolution that I would adopt her plan and see what would come of it. Thereafter all my spare hours were passec in the drawing-room, where there was a large pier glass. I took my books there to read, and chose an old- fashioned armekair to sit in. At first I merely looked at my reflection after 1 was seated, and actually biushed at its un- gainly angles. Then I observed the figure, approaching the mirror in short, jerky steps, and blusked again, until I was as dissatisfied with myseli as my poor mamma, and became absorbed in my en- deavor to improve. I studied pictures and copled their attitudes as closely as I could. ‘When I went to the theater 1 gave earnest attention to the movements of the actresses, and when I went home tried to imitate them. “I am afraid that all ‘this sounds as if I had developed into a most self-conscious prig and poseuse, but I can acquit myselt of any such feeling. I was studying grace of motion as one migit study drawing, and with no more egotism, but, indeed, most humble self-depreciation. I prac- ticed standing until I Jearned to correct the faults so clearly visibie in that inspir- ing glass, until my limp spinal-column acquired self-reliance and firmness ana the protruded chin drew back into line. I practiced walking on the line suggested by a mere chance sentence in a novel, ‘She walked with rather long, roythmic steps as if to music,” and studied the dif~ ferent rhythms until I found one that scemed o me most graceful.’—Chicago Chronicle. —_—— NAVAL DISCIPLINE: Some of the Hardships Endured by Sail- ors in the Times Long Ago. Keelhauling was a method of naval dis- cipline particularly in vogue with the Datcb navy, for as Van Tromp swept the Channel with a broom at the masthead, his countrymen sometimes used buman sweepers unaer their keels. In large square-rigged vessels the victim was lashed to a spar and had iron weights secured to his feet; spans were secured to this spar and lines were led from it to the main- yard. When all was ready the culprit was swayed up to the mainyard, dropped into the sea and hauled under the ship to the other side. Here is the way Marryat describes its overation in that small cutter where Smallbones suffered, and Snarleyow was thought to be a dogfiend : “'This ingenious process,” he writes, ''is nothing more nor less than scudding a poor navigator on a voyage of discovery under the bottom of the vessel, lowering him down over the bows and with the ropes retaining him ex:ctly in his position under the keelson, while he isdrawn aft by a hauling line until he makes his appearance at the rudder-chains, gcnerally speaking quite out of breath, not at the rapidity of his motion, because when so long under the water he had expended all the breath in his body and induced to take salt water in lien. ®- ¢ & “In the days of keelhauling, the bot- toms of vessels were not coppered, and in consequence were all studded with z spe- cies of shellfish called barnacles, which attached themselves, and as these shells were all open-monthed and with sharp, cutting points, those who underwent this punishment (for they were made to hug the keelson of the vessel by the ropes at each side fastened to their arms) w-re cut and scored all over the body, as if with so many lancets, generally coming up bleea- ing in every part. But this was consid- ered rather advantageous than otherwise, as the loss of blood restored the patient if he was not quite drowned, and the con- sequence was that one out of three, it is said, have been known to recover after their submarine excursion.” No words can.add to this weird descrip- tion of & very old and hearty sea way of murdering. ~All the officers of junior and middls rank, and all the men, whether volunteered, shangbaied or pressed, were syste! icaliy underpaid and robbed.— Harper's Woeekly. General Porter’s Story of Grant. General Horace Porter, in the January Century, tells this anecdote of General Grant: “A drum corps in passing caught sight of the genera). and at once struck up a then popular negro camp-meeting air. Every one began to laugh and Rawlins cried: ‘Good forthe drummers!" ‘What's the fun?’ inquired the general. ‘Wny,’ was the reply, ‘they are playing, “Ain’t I glad to get out of de wilderness!” The general smiled at the ready wit of the musicians and said: ‘Well, with me a musical joke always requires explanation. I know only two tune-.. Oueis “Yankes Doodle” and the other ién’t.’ ” The fate George W. Childs in_his autobiography tells the climax of this story in a some- what different form. He heard it from Grant some years after he had become celebrated, and by that time the general was accustomed to sny that the only tunes he knew were two: “One is ‘Hail to the Chiet’ and the other isn’t’ General Porter’s reminiscence shows that Grant probably originated this pleasantry at an early age, aud carried 1t through life, .adapting it to circumstances as he moved from obscurity to fame. The late Sir Isaac Pitman once said that only one person in eight who professes to write shorthand can transcribe his notes. CLERK C. F, CURRY HIGHLY HONORED The Knuights of Honor Elect Him to Hold Two Oifices. Legislation Keeps Members Busy During the Last Day's Session. Resolution. Adopted Thanking “The Call” for Efficient Chronicling of the Work Doce The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor held its second and last day’s ses- sion yesterday. In order to complete the work outlined it was found necessary to hola an evening session. The principal work of the dey consisted in the election of officers. After spirited contests for the various positions, the fol- lowing were elected for the ensuing term: Grand dictator, P. L. Archibald (re-elected); grand vice-dictator, W. J. Thomsou: grand assistant dictator, Thomas Learned; graad re- orter, Thomas Johnstone; grand treasurer, F. N, Zehtuss; grand chaplain, J. L. Orr; grand guide, F. Raabe; grand_guardiau, H. L. Far- rier; grand sentinel, W. S. Lane; grand trustees: George W. Lamont, George J. Vin- J. 'H. McDonald; supreme representa- C.F. Curry, J. W. Rourke; alternates: C. E. Garthorne, W. W. Morrison. Among those elected County Clerk Curry was honored as the oaly man se- lected on the first ballot. He was nomi- nated by Judge John A. Carroll. A reso- lution ‘was also adopted creating him grand past dictator. It was recommended to the Supreme Lodge that the official paper be sent regu- larly to every member of the order. The per capita tax for the ensuing year was fixed at $1 25. The last act of the session was to intro- duce a resolution thanking THE CALL for the amount of space it i.ad seen fit to de- vote to_the work done by the organiza- tion. The resolution was adopted unan- 1mously. QUEER NOTICES TO QUIT. Some of the Reasons for Moving Given by Dissatisfied Tenants. Draughty rooms, smoky chimneys, high rents and ghosts are classical reasons for giving up occupancies, but the same can hardly be said of the excuses made by many people who develop a desire to get out of their holdings. A man who has had theletting of houses for twenty years recently recounted a few of his experiences in connection with this phase of his occupation, and a selection of them may prove interesiing reading to many. “['can’t stand it any longer,’ was the remark of a man who came with his no- tice in his hand. “The people in the nexc house live on bloaters! It's herrings for breakfust, herrings for dinner and her- rings for tea, and we find it impossible to open a door or & window for the odor that emanates from them. It permeates every room in the house, and all our belongings smell of it. I'll have no more of the wretched thing; so you can look out for another-tenant!” I. was quite a different reason that a lady had ior l}niul’ng a tenement that she had occupied for three years and a half. At the back of the house she rented was a lawn, adorned with flower-bed and an arbor, which formed a delightful retreat on a summer’s afternoon. Here the lady spent many & pleasant half hour, and would have done So again, but that her peace of mind had been rudely disturbed by a neighbor, who, developing a sudden hobby, erecied an apiary in his garden, and devoted himself enthusiastically to the manufacture of hohey. An occasional swarm of bees round the lady’s ears, just as she was in the middle of a siesta, was more than she cared * for, hence her deter- mination to zo. Ttis not an unusual thing for a person to give up a dwelling in_consequence of 1ts contiguity to a publié” house, but to leave one for the exactly opposite reason isa much rarer occurrence. Such, how- ever, was the motive assigned by an arti- san for getting out ot his cottage. *It's like this,” he said, in explanation. “T never keep beer in the house; it gets flat and unprofitable under the parlor stairs. 1 like my ale fresh drawn_and served up 'in something like condition, and a_find the public’s the place to get this. Now, there isn’t a licensed house within a quar- ter of a mile where I live, and 440 yards (except for a sprinter) is too far to fetch a pint o’ dinner beer bejore the potatoes get cold. You can put my shanty on the ‘To Let’ list.”" Saperstitious tenants are people that the house agent has to reckon with. A newly developsd district on the borders of & provincial town was lately taken in hand by the local autbority and the houses numbered. A tenant whose house got the number “13” went in_hot_ baste to the agent with a notice to guit, being sure, he said, that ill luck would be his portion if he stayed. 1n similar manner another nervots one gave up a hou-e becanse for three nights in succession he heard the *whoo-whoo” of a luckless ow! in some trees near by. A facetious tenant wound up his quit notice with the following. laconic sen- tence: “The doors won’t shut and the windows won’topen; the fires won't draw up and the blinds won'tdraw down; the water won't turn on and the gas won'c turn off; the rooms are too small and the cracks in the walls too large; the rentis too bigh and my income 100 low."" . There is little in the giving up of a bouse to call forth pretic feeling and sen- timent. but a tenant once accompanied his nétice to leave witn the subjoined effusion: The best of friends must part; 'tis ever so; Your house and 1 are friends, and I content, Then why not stay? you nrge. "Tds this: aithough Ilike your house 1do not like your rent! London T — e NEW TO-DAY! PERHAPS YOU HAVE Never asked our price on Shoes— So you don’t know what good Shoes we sell for little money. 2 — Child’s Fine Vici Kid, button, coin toe 6 10 714, the regular $1 26 Kind. “This week... .$1.00 EIII: 8to 10%, regular $1 50. ’lhh. week.......... 51.10 Misses’ ¥ine Vici Kid But on, con andtip, sizes 11 10 2, regular price $175. 1his week 1.30 Carry a Full Line of Buckingham & Hecht’s Fine Shoes. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. NEW TO-DAY. You don’t know how very low we are selling them this week. Come in. The prices will surprise you. —— Boys' Fine Veal Calt Lace Shoes, sizes 110 14, regular §175. This week.$1.20 Men’s Satin Caif Lace or Congress, regu- lar price $2. This week. ... 3150 —— Kasts Cannot Prepay Charges on Above Advertisen Gonds. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. e e P e AN Ot e | i |