The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1900, Page 12

FIREMEN FIGHT A FIERCE FIRE Qostly Blaze in a Gun Store Explodes Powder and Cartridges 4 \ Lodgers Are Nearly Asphyxiated by Smoke — Lieutenant Sayres Narrowly Escapes { | | < | B 421 Kear- | s royed by fire hard task fig s se clouds of e their work. The a x¥ wder and the crack ges i angerous | v hiz men x 26 e ¥ & . i . . be X I " whic ma 5 c nd “wer s re k ¥ w and seeing - ght T : 16 t N a recting e . & r 3 . r urned . W r under his who s he brave 1 r = k to be va.- e ks [ destroyel He g ins r $5000, He car € His clerk L E 1} K in the r - was & < g & neight Ta Ar the n of the fire 1e pa ie - ) ot x » p pe ¢ 1 & » r - h & Br w ¥ s d by J Aia = his the neigh h ¢ Fire alarm evening If story Twenty-second = e building was bad- TH is $800, by Henrietta M- R'S TAYLOR STREE' Four Days’ Grocery Special ward HlM Best astern; all brands; |‘|c selected—lean—sweet; per pound il ASK OTHERS' PRICE. | Gh rdelli’s Best: regu. food; Regular ind package.. YUGOE="2x 10 Sterilized. Made from hard spring wheat EGESpfvaxuma ranch, per dozen 35c Essscpyouefl large white, re- 4nc ceived daily; per dozen. BUTTER 1S LOWER. wHIsKE Old Hermitage or Ok Crow; quart sige.. Highest proof 18%0. E BAKING POWDER Regular 45c. sufl‘ Schilling’s per pound . Ask for sample Maple Syrup. Monopole, genu- CHAMPAGNE .22 30 Best table; why pay T5c? { Per gallon ot Our own brand—always special. We quote prices in ary quantity—ship goods everywhere. EEND YOUR CRDER. * 90| sewhere $1.25. Schilling’s 306 | Best, per pound....... Never beforg sold for less. Best Saleratus, 5 | rest of his da STHTES TEACHERS FLOCK TO CIY Educators Come From All Quarters to Attend An- nual Convention. it Programme of Lectures and Discus- | sions in Every Branch of Ped- agogy Prepared by Those in Charge. . When the thirty-fourth j fon of the California Teachers and the San Francisco Institute ple at 1:30 teachers from almost however remote, pres- Met s Of ed 1 and valle; 1 a convention expec r of more than usual interes 1 last four day he Palace Hotel the stran- in many committee, of which Les- A dan is chairman, the members being the following named The sub rious as th ds of work occupied by those who will attend arc to be ures on the new ph edit f it 1s expected that several interesting theories wili be advanced upoun which the pedagogues may improve and remodel methods of feaching nc « 1y interosti a course of 1 < Frank wing, LL.D., president of the Western University. A gifted orator, deep rea : he has gained the repu- »nal themes d educator will acher ag a Force in ( fon vilization which will t P ¥ a council of educa- parior at the Palace Mayor James D. 1. Pres- ident Cecil W. Mark of the San Franc rd of Education and Superintendent of s Reginalc Webster wili also de- welcome . to which the re- hed by James A. Fo- endent of the Los Angeles the early session the Hon Thomas J. Kirk will act chairman and resting discussion on “Compulsory will Be participated in by shay, P. M. Fisher and Miss shburn. There will also 1 ““The Past, Forecast of by George H Zdward Hyatt, Pro rofessor T. L. will ignation of a m ing place for the ensuing vear will take There will be an_address by th ! s R. Brown of the First Con- urcn of Oakland on *““Meral 4 ion.” In the evening Retrospect and Pros- will be delivered by 1] also be a fine mu- Wiggins' orchestra. the teachers are to Philological Assocla- Pacific Coast at the Mark Ho- of Art. President Benjamin University of Califor. annual address BU . of the morning _se: Temple at 10 Da dent of Leland Stanford will talk on “The Hope Dr. Thwing is to addr “Tools and the Man.’ last general session on Saturday Jr of Japan,’ s the audience on ¢ a. m.. the teachers will assemble in the auditorium of the Mission High h Hon. Thomas J. Kirk, State Su- ndent of Public Instruction, is an- | speak on “Suggestions Rela- ive arse of 8 "~ Reports will from the secretary, Mrs. ) 1, and from the treasurer, and from the heads of Other reports will be that ission 17 School Legisla- omas J. Kirk and those of 1l of education of the committes Miscellaneous business will then accupy tha attention of the con- vention, which will close with an installa- | tion of officers Special subjects will be taken up as fol- lows on Thursday at § m.: The de- partmert ¢ will meet i of the Mis an is James 7 Jose State uld the Drawing chools Tend to the fndustrial or Fine »” On Friday at the same hour and ain meet and in _the public an exhibit of the nt to which the On Taurs: the de- admin fic raining ere will be this departm invited of school High ch place and department ol at hour of on and classic modern lan guages will convene. On Thursday at 9: he department of school hygiene meets in the Mission High = does the. de- partment of his the same these two days the depart- of receiving class work and Kinder- gartens will make their headquarters and hold morning meetings commencing at 9:30 in the Mission High School will also be se of music. ¥ teac! place on Friday morn- | which ment gl h. child study, nature My, fon High School Trunks and traveling bags. Before buying see our “‘bureau trunk.” A. B. Smith Co —_————— Thinks He’s a Poached Egg. Of all the crazy men with queer de- lusions there is none to compare with that of an individual who is confined in the insane asylum in this city, writes a Kingston correspondknt of the New York Sur. He thinks he is a poached egg, and for twenty yvears he has been looking for a piece of toast big enough to sit down on. When visitors come and meet him he always approaches them with the re- quest for a moment’s conversation in pri- vate. As he s perfectly harmless the hwpers do not put any restrictions upon im. If you grant his request he whispers in your ear: Have you got a piece of toast about you : you say. “What is the matter | with you? Are you hungry?” “Hungry ejaculates the man. “Why should T be hungry? 1 have plenty to eat. | I'm tired. I'm a poached egg, and I'm | looking for & piece of toast to sit on.” | Naturally this request Jeads to laughter, and (he poached egg retires in huge high dudgeon, but he comes back regilarly on | the arrival of the next batch of visitors | to see if he can't have better luck. All | sorte of things which look like toasts have {sbeen supplied to the man, but he wants the real thing, and as chairs and couches | are not made out of toasted .bread he is { obliged to go on making his | plea to visitors. In all other respects the | man seems normal, and If this crazy idea could only be got out of his head he might obtaln his discharge. As he persists in his delusion he l‘fi‘ probably spend the ys in the asylum. —_——— Last of a Famous Trio. The recent birthday of the ex:queen of | Naples served to recall the fact that she | 18 now the only surviving sister of the | beautiful group which comprised the late Empress of Austria and the Duchess d'Alencon, who met with so terrible a fate at the burning of the Charity Bazaar in Paris three years ago. .The Queen of Naples, although not so beautiful as her sisters, was nevertheless handsome in her youth, and had a commanding presence. t is sald that at the slege of Gaeto one night when King Francis was nowhere to be found. the Queen donned a uniform and personated her husband on the ram- parte under cover of the darkness. The ex-Queen of Naples has been a widow now for several years.—London Mail. yesterday | f | lind ess of welcome will be de- | | The public did not know the true names /. | She had lived and died like a pauper, | Jeremiah 2 | « There | <ions of the departmenis | 1dy and high school science, all at | the | 125 Ellis.® | perpetual | DIES AS A PAUPER YET LEAVES MUCH HIDDEN GOLD The Passing of Silent Mary, the Pencil Seller, Removes an Odd Street Character. 3 p o — THE SILENT PENCIL SELLERS, WHOSE DAILY APPEARANCE IN SAN | FRANCISCO STREETS CEASED WITH THE DEATH OF MARY HAR- RINGTON AT THE RECEIVING HOSPITAL. s = % P APPY JOHN and contented | the luxury that had crowned her girlhood Mary. the silent pencil sellers, | da; > £ o 2 have taken their last promenade | A nge characteristic of the silent | pencil sellers was the fact that they never together along San Francisco's | BTG, STUETS Was e e busy thorou Poor ¥ | would they act notice to is dead, and John, he ne-legged hus- ! themselves band, is at the City Almshouse, where he | took the outside. expects to spend the remainder of his life, | knee—it was shot country in the Civil hand he carried a can penciis, the sale of w from their door. Mary usually kept one hand tucked under her husband’s arm and in this fashion they walked the streets or stood on the corner, silent and almost motionless, waiting for whatever the fates might bring. his right his left held the 1 kept the wolf The passing of the couple from the daily life of this city removes two characters that for many vears have been objects of much curio sympathy and benevo- lence, of these odd people. John and Mary they were called and John and Mary were the | The woman was the daughter of a names they always went by, except on | wealthy Massachusetts man. When 18 she occasion married, rather against her father's rare Th. landlad; bufiafee at 641 ) in the two-story wooden sion street knew them | as John Harrington and Ann Harrington and when the old wom taken sick a few days following ' nd wi tion. W00 chec A young man of roaming disposi- They came to California with a $10,- as a wedding present. For a fornia. Then Mary grew harmfully fond was removed to the Rec Hospital | of alcoholic stimulants. A divorce fol- the name Harrington was booked in the | lowed, separation from her child. register. So when Mary died her identity | Left to own devices, Ann drank | was not at the time disclosed more heavily. A few vears ago. in one of | from her favorite haunts, however, her lowly haunts, she met Jack Harring- | brought inquiry as to her whereabouts | ton. Penniless, practically homeless and and then came the tidings of her death. | together friendless, they joined misfor- tunes for better or worse—two earth-tor- tured human souls, hoping nothing, fear- ing nothing. Ann’s parents still reside in the old Bay State and are reported to be immensely | wealthy. o after the end had come the hos | tendants found $500 in gold tied to the lining of her che: calico skirt. She had saved it out of her meager earn- ings and had hoped some day to live amid ecurely Waylaid and Robbed of His Watch. | Keohane, an employe of the | | San Francisco Gas and Electric Company | residing at 1577 Tenth avenue, south, while Japanese Injured by Runaway. A runaway team in which were several Japanese caused a general smash-up at | Colma station in San Mateo County yes- | on his way to his home on Tenth avenue | terday. The Japs were crossing the rafl- | was waylaid by five men near Railroad |road track when the horses took fright avenue at 10 o'clock on Monday night. | at some object and capsized the wagon, The first intimation given Keohane ws spilling the little brown men out on the | | rap on the head, w_mrlh parllj _lmum'l;]nl | track. One of the number had his right from his vest pocket. Observing the in- | 1ess cut and bruised. The man whose | tention of his ailants he g battle | leg was broken was treated by a locai | and saved the loss of his money, for his | physician and afterward sent to the rail- | cries for help scared the robbers and they | road company hospital at Fourteenth | fled. Keohane reported his experience to | and Mission streets, where he was placed | Policeman Buckley of the South San |in bed. None of the occupants of the rahcisco station, but he was unable to | wagon can speak English, consequently ailants, | | give a description’of any of his ass —— e | | as to how the aceident occurred. B S G M Two Sudden Deaths. p Rose Galvin died unexpectedly at 11 o’clock yesterday morning at her resi- dence, Polk street, while her husband ‘was preparing a hot poultice for her chest. Cruel to His Horse. Frank W. Kase, driver for John Line- han’s n Valley dairy, was arrested | yesterday by Speclal Officer McCurrie of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty | | to_Animais on the charge of cruelty to Mr animals. McCurrie was on Cortland ave- | She had been complaining for several days nue when he observed that the horse | past of pains in her chest and could not driven by Kase had plood running over | per™ ot °0r"hed on Christmas morning yulders. McCuirie stopped him and | s - Her husband, James Galvin, had taken off xamining the horse found two large | ;. poultice.and had approached the hed ne on each skoulder. he sweat Eh s - o me ol saeh ‘ak ot hnd il | to.apply a fresh one whemhis wife gaspod ! were covered with blood and Me- | o5,3%ica” The body was removed Go i pe M Bt Morgue. Mrs, Galvin was 55 years old and iy e a native of Ireland. - AR James McDougald, a Scotchman, Bottle Fractures Skull. years old, and a lofiigshvreman by occupa- | Karl Kerle, a ship: carpenter, had his | Uion, died suddenly in his bed last Monday night in- the lodging-house 439 Jackson street. He had been siek for only a day. ———— Victims of the Wassail Bowl. ractured last night in an encounter with M. Skog, a bartender in a Steuart- street hotel. Kerle, who had been drink- | | d to leave the place when re- | do =0 by Skog.. Words followed | Skog aimed a blow at Kerle | r_boitle, fracturing his skuil. O'Keefe arrested Skog, who merry on the introduction of Christmas day imbibed too much liquot. As a re- S o8 Churgea Hall of Justice with Sult they were unable to take care of attempt murder. Kerle was taken te | themselves and awoke vesterday. morning the Receiving Hospital. !'In a cell In the City Frison. When Judge ————— Cabaniss made his appearance shortly You Will Be Right in Its | after 10 o’clock at the prison elfhty»elgh‘s ¢ __men of nearly all natlonaliti | A special men's vici kid, box calf, seai- | of every color and class appeared before | skin or kangaroo shoes, worth $4 to $5, | him. e Judge was merciful and dis- | will be sold to-morrow for $185 a ‘pair. missed them all. One man from Arizona Threse shoes are hand sewed, stylish. All | felt so bad that he could not spend his | sizes. At the shoe trust sale of the Beg | Christmas properly, his money being in | Hive Shoe Co., 717 Market st., nr. Third.* | the ‘hands of the police, that the Judge { took pity on him and gave him a dollar, which the man from Arizona promised to return when he got his money. ——————— Policeman — et Thrown From His Wagon and Hurt. Albert Derian, while rounding the cor- ner of Sixteenth street and Potrero ave- nue yesterday, was thrown from his seat |on a wagon and was injured about the | head. He was conveyed to the City and County Hospital, where he was treated and sent to his home, at Precita avenue and Ala- bama street. Public Installation. Goldén Gate Camp of the Woodmen of the World, the banner camp of the State, having a membership of more than 1200, will publicly install its officers in Native Sons’ Hall on the night of January 17. .The ceremony will be followed by a ball. By | | r“m".m' YT T T YUY YE TR T TITT YTy | » This Tells The Story One Opinion taken from over ome thousand testimonials reccived from the most prominent physicians all over the world. DAVID WALSH, M. D., C. M. Edin., Physician to the - Western Skin Hospital, London, England, writest *1 bave found Hunyadi-Janos to answer every purpose and Iinvariably preseribe it. partly because it can be obtained anywhere and everywhere, partly because of its uniform action, and last, not least. because it is preferred by my patients.” Hunyadi Jinos CURES Constipation Dyspepsia, Billousness and all Stomach and Liver Troubles. No Medicine in the world has received such widespread endorsement LABEL ON BOTTLE is BLUE with Red Gentre Panel » | ¥ | | | i | while there was no happier home in Cali- | no information could be got from them | A large number of persons who made | .| egar enough to cover DISCIPLIN L NT STHTE PRISOH Convicts at Folsom Perform Duties That Belong to Paid Officers. Belief That Lieutenant Governor Neff ‘Will Appoint Active and Able Senators on the Prisons Committee. s Affairs relating to prison management are freely discussed by members-elect of | the Legislature, the opinion being ex- pressed that officlal Investigation will fol- low. It is said that Lieutenant Governor | Neff has resolved to select men of known strengtin and abllity for service on the Prison Committee of the Senate. Reports come from Folsom to the ef- fect that officers of the prison are fre- quently absent. It is said that they often visit San Francisco, and seldom make haste to break away from the allurements of city life. During their absence from the institution convicts are called in to render service that should be performed by free men. It is reported that one of the officers, who has been away for a | week, was obliged to,rest for three days | after his return to Folsom in order to galn sirength and composure to attend to his dutles. The lack of discipline at Folsom Prison is said to be due In a measure to Warden Wilkinson, who was formerly commis sary at San Quentin, | The story is going the rounds that the | Warden recently invited named Howard to bé his g om. Howard was doing time at San Quentin when Mr. Wilkinson managed the com- | missary department of that institution The c s” ‘qualificaticns as a clerk | were utilized in keeping a record of the | receipt and distribution of supplies. A’ short time ago Howard emerged from San Quentin a free man, having served the time of his sentence. The opportunity | to visit Warden Wilkinson at Folsom was | not neglected. According to accounts the best entertainment afforded in the War- |der’s own house was freely tendere and enjoyed by the Warden's guest. Morcover, a ticket to enable Howard to | B0 East by rail was purchased by War- | den Wilkinson. It appears that Howard went as far as Redding, and there tarried to enjoy his freedom. The next thing that happened was his arrest on a charge of | burglary. | i The Warden at Folsom is not criticized | | for giving a hand to help an ex-convict | to make a new start in life, but it is as- serted that his inclination to obliterats | the line between convicts and free men | | tends to impair his strength as a disei- plinarian. The statement is made that | he was reprimanded by Warden Hale at | San Quentin for not observing the rule | which requires that officers and convicts | should not dine together. If haif the | stories told are true, the convicts at Fol- | som are performing many responstble | | dutles which free men are paid to perform. The Challenge Is Out. Wednesday, Janvary the 2d, the great | challenge will take place In this city. * | —_——— BY A HAIR'S BREADTH. | Some Men Who Have Just Missed | Making Great Inventions. “I dare say every great invention, before it is finally hit upon,” remarked a New | Orleans lawyer to a Times-Democrat re- | porter, “‘has been within hand’s reach of } dozens of men who were unaware how near they stood to fortune. There is noth- ing more singular, in fact, than the way people can skate around some huge idea | | without seeing it. When the foreordained fellow comes along, grasps the practica- | bility of the thing and reaps the reward of perspicacity, the others, who have been so near and vet so far, feel some- how that he has Interfered with their vested rights. Lots of famous lawsuits have grown out of these conditions. But | it is certainly exasperating to realize that | you have stubbed vour toe on a genuine old brick and then were fool enough 0 walk off and let some other chap pick | it up. I had an experience of that kind | once myself. It occurred to me that a revolving bookcase would be a handy | | thing for office use and I had one built to | order. It proved a success and on several occasions I thought vaguely of having the | device patented, but dismissed the scheme j @8 ‘not worth while.’ Nearly two yea | afterward a_more intciligent gentleman, | | up In New England, did what I wouldn't do and to-day he is rolling in riches. 1 have been obiiged to buy one of his desks | since and I never hated to give up money ! 80 badly in my life. | Several other instances in the same lina have come under my personal obsery flon. conttmued the. lawyer. I have a riend, for instance, who stumbled upon | the principle of the Bell telephone long before the war. He was at college at tha time and he and a fellow-student actuall went so far as to construct an exFe | mental line over half a mile long. Thev | had it in successful operation for several | weeks, when it was discovered and de- | stroyed by a cantankerous professor and | thus vanished what might have been one | of the biggest fortunes in the world. The | incident had almost faded from my | friend’s mind when Professor Bell | launched his invention on the public. An- | other gentleman, who was formerly a | client of mine, anticipated the pneumatic | tire years before somebody else patented | it. He is fond of fine horses and away | back In the seventies he had a light road | cart made that was almost the exact counterpart of the modern pneumati sulky. The big, clumsy-looking tires ex- | cited great merriment among his friends. | They dubbed them ‘sausage wheels,” and | he has told me more than once that that | foolish joke was the thing which caused | him to abandon the’ experiment. Pne: ! matic tires have since made half a dozen big syndicates rich. Still another ac- quaintance figured out the exact mechan- | fsm of the self-binding reaper nearly ten years before the machine was covered by | patents. Not being a farmer he failed 1o appreciate the importance of the thing. It impressed him as being chimerical and he pigeonholed his Jdrawings to ther dust until he awakened to the fact that he had had fortune by the throat, only to let go again. His comments on_the inci- dent wouldn't sound well at & prayer meeting.” Apple and Pepper Sauce. Wash well a dozen firm tart applés, cut | them, unpeeled, into thick, narrow slices, | and pack down in an earthen jar, in alter- | nate lavers with small ripe Ted peppers, | sprinkling the layers ligm;ir with salt, and dgoppl in an occasion slice of mild | onion. o a teaspoonful each of whole cloves, allspice, mace and black pepper in a musiin bag and drop the bag into vin- ‘he apples and pep- pers. Bring the vinegar to a boll, then add for each pint a heaping tablespoonful of sugar. Let it boil up again, skim well | and pour bolling hot over the sliced apples. Let sf till next day, drain off Vihegar, boil and return. Do this three | times, then put everything over the fire, let it boll ten minutes, return to the jar and tie down while still hot, first taking out of the bag of spent spices. Excellent for game or roast meats or as an ingre- dient of gravles, curries and so on. Capture Chinese Torpedo-Boats. At Taku the British destroyers Fame and Whiting captured four fine Chinese torpedo-boats. ne each was given to France, Russia and Germany, and Eng- land kept the fourth. They ' have now n renamed. The French one is called 'aku, “in honor of a glorious epoch in the French marine.” The Russian one is called Taku ‘“‘to commemorate a great Russian naval victory.” The German one likewise is christened Taku, ‘‘in never-to- be-forgotten memory of this all-convine- ing gmot that Germany's future is on the sea. All of these remarks are taken from the official reports. The English, who captured the boats and divided the -m:h also named their boat the Taku, 4 se there Is a e “3 the ‘Ta’ in th ll‘u.lmm:oo "—New ;‘a‘r’k o re Ad- v 5 : | Dried Fruit | Mail | the Chefs Plaids ADVERTISEMENTS. Holiday Goods. We will have on sale all this week elegant-lines of the following NEW GOODS, verg suitable for HOLIDAY PRESENTS: Fine Battenberg Tldies, Scarfs, Center Pieces, Pillow Shams, Tabie Covers and Bed Sets. Elderdown Comforters and Piliows in Silk, Satin and French Sateen Covering. Ladies’ Feather Boas, Fur Scarfs, Novelty Belts and Fine Purses. Ladies’ and Gents' Initialed Handerchiefs, in Silk, Linen and Linen Cambric. Gents' Silk Mufflers, Reefers, Scarfs and Noveltp Neckwear. Ladies' Lace Collars, Fichus, Ties, Ruffs, Jabots and Fancy Neckwear. Ladies’ and Children’s Fine Hostery and Underwear, at popular prices. Gents’ Silk, Cashmere and Merino Underwear. Also complete line of fine Half Hose. Ladies' Fine Crochet Shawls, in white, pink, black, gray, blue and cardinal. Ladies’ and Gents’' S{lk Umbrellas, with horn, pearl, natural wood and gun metal handles. Ladies’ and Gents’ Best Makes Kid Gloves of French, English and German manufacture, STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, i, u3, ns, nT, U9, 121 POST STREET, STATE BOARD OF TRADE ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE Wishes Co-operation of Organized Bodies to Make Satisfactory State Exhibit at Buffalo. * The State Board cf Trade has issued an appea! to the people of the State to assist in making the exhibit of Californla products at theé Pan-Amer. fcan Exposition of Buffalo the com- ing year a success. The board has undertaken to install the exhibit and to maintain it without asking for any money from the State Legislature. It has been | collecting exhibits for some time and will also have much of the Southern Pacific exhibit that was shown at the Paris Ex- position, but these will need reinforce- ment to give an adequate and advan- tageous idea of the resources of the State | to_the millions of visitors at Buffalo. Suggestions .are made _that assistance can be rendered by the San Joaquin Val- ley Commercial Assoclation, the Sacra- mento Valley Development Association, the Canners’ Association, the California Assoclation, the Company, the Raisin Growe Association, the Wige Growers and ail other associations. B. N. Rowley, Arthur R. Briggs and O. M. Wooster have been appointed a committee to gather exhibits. PARLIAMENT OF SARK. Unique Legislative Body of Ome of the Channel Islands. The other day I attended the opening of the, as yet, unreformed Parliament of Sark, says a writer in the London Daily There is but one House, and it “’s called the Chefs Plaids. So far so good, for 1 believe every sane political refazmer agrees that the model state should rave one legislative body only. But, alas, thts single Hou: sively a .House of landlords, exclusiyely a House of herecitary legislators. The people of the Island are not allowed to elect their representatives. Land alone is represented; not wealth, nor Intellect, ror the toiling masses, nor the submerged tenth. And the land is répresented in a culiar way. pe\Vhen the island, then uninhabited, was granted in 1665 by Queen Elizabet to Heller de Oarteret, Lord of St. Ouen in Jersey, it was stipulated that he should colonize it and should grant parts of it to forty of his retainers or followers as copyholders or customary tenants under him. It was also stipulated that these tenants, though they might alienate their holdings upon payment to the Lord of a thirteenth of the value, might on no ac- count subdivide them. Thus there are still in the island the ori, n;k forty estates, and the holder of each estate oc- cuples with regard to the seigneur, or ford, almost exactly the same position as a “leude” or a baron occupied in the old feudal day; of Normandy with regard to sovereign. lh’lehe eioting Parlfament of Sark s, in effect, the “assemblee des leudes et bar- ons” of the island. The law of strict obtains, and there would ereéltlry members of t for two circumstan- ces. One is that if a tenant happens to be a woman she does not sit, though she may vote in the House by proxy. The other is that, in the course of years, cer- tain of the members, by inhexjtance or purchase. have acquired more than one estate. There are now, therefore, mnot more than thlrlr actual_sitting members of the Chefs Plaids. They represent—if they can be sald to represent—a popula- tion of some 570 souls and an extent of about 1275 acre: ‘Where Water Costs 3 Congressman_Allen of Mississippi is not one of those who holds back a good story for_relationship’s sake. He has brought to Washington an {llustration of the rural lflsslsslpgl estimate of the silver is- sue. In the campaign a Bl"l in_spellbinder met a Mississippl farmer who was drivin A goat which was Arawing a barrel of ‘“What's that goat worth”? asked inder. “Two dollars,” said the A ‘nder free silver that goat would ring $4,” rejoined the spellbinder. ‘Yes,' drawled the farmer, “‘and I reckon that if I had this barrel of water in Sheol It ;ou'ld bring . $1000 easy.”—Washington ost. Not Mistaken in His Taste. An amusing story is told of Lord Wolse- ley’s interest in the Commissariatt De- partment, in which his zeal on o sion certainly got the better of his dis- cretion, says on M. A, P. Dinner was being served to the soldiers, and or- derlles hurried backward and ' forward with steaminz pails Packers’ is exclu- rimogeniture g. to-day forty ne occa- of soup, Lord “alifornia | | Wolseley stopped one of them. The man | | | was at attention in a_moment. ““Remove the I1d.” No sooner said than ‘But, “Let me tast I say.” And taste he 4ia. Tastes llke noth! in the world but dish ‘“Plaze yer honor,” “and so it is!" water.” gasped the man, THE MONEY-SAVING FURNITURE and CARPET OUR NEW GOODS HAVE ARRIVED. We invite you to see them. You will save money {f you buy from us. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN EVERY DE- PARTMENT. We have had a large Christmas busi- ness, but intend to increase our trade by selling good goods at low prices Every article marked in plaln figures 10 PER CENT OFF for CASH CASH OR _CREDIT. KRAGEN FURNITURE CO., 1015-1017 Market Street, OPPOSITE TAYLOR ST. The *‘DANN" RECLINING CHAIR A Handsome Christmas Present. Easy and Comfortable. Price $15. Come and see it. W. A. SCHROCK, 19 New Montgomery Streot. ST. GERMAIN BILLIARD Lfiél!l’clg.', Formerly JACOB STRAH Established 1352 409 MARKET STREST. SAN FRANCISCO. Klnuhd fl;! Po! 1 Tables, Standard PBilllard an ‘ool and Steam Beer Pumps. Billlard Tables on Installments or Rent TS &bnow AND RELIABLE OLD cialist cyres Bl00d Poison. Gonor i, Oress Siiordare, Rook on Dlscaben ot S {hele ltoldt{‘y. R0t b OV ER. e Toto 15 mnanl-"“ P. ROSCOE McNULTY, M. D. 26}; Kearny St., San Francisco,