The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1904, Page 15

CO SUN AY CALE beau- victo- the Greek caused an ing, for she ho boasted that he never — 7 = L the ijrritating ne e motorman had eet below t the at a long table in the center form only a few feet fr: COLLEC S f impa- reet cars were leading rates at vere represented ful William M. 10 in turn was eteran of caucus Weed, counseled and head ¢ regency. Pennsyl esented an apparent candidate of Simt Cameron, but never seriously expected ion, and his followers were marshaled and kept together really for purpose of obtaining promises, the Iment of which would inure to the advantage of the clan. Before the Chicago Convention of 1380 mbied slavery had been routed in efforts to capture Kansas and Ne- braska. Nevertheless the “peculiar in- a F.CTIONS ©F i, - AN stitution" avowed mc ed to accept d or ru loi it girded its anew for the contest of 1860. The re t of that contest was no longer doubtful. The Demoeratic party was rent twain, the gre: North had broken its shackles and very air was electric with the presase of the coming triumph of freedom. Yet to achieve triumph the members of the Chicago Convention feit that there was needed not merely a leadsr but a leader of leaders. A man for the times was demanded, and the god of the eternities presented him in the pe son of Abraham Lincoln. He was the child af poverty and toil Not the hopeless poverty and cringing toll of thoge who labor amid the dia of European marts, but the manly sub- ‘and one with the people and he a0 guide to find the way to their hearts. He loved liberty of action, of speech and of thought. and in so as his generous and chivalrie soul would suf- fer him to hate anything he hated tyraney and meanness and shams. He 4 nassicn “hiles: ature w What than th than an tion of better n he Can aliens make nds can make stated in a sentence than t grander plea than his appeal to C 2 freedom to n what we ast best thanr the familiar . with orators shal train of space. There vietorious n T eagles and carried to a tion than ever political ur Ameri outgrowt r subverted ower of the tate was sions of war, dreams of the fut ith the Senat he demands of un- ident zeal ecould along which o often the that nurtured i proves an ex first blast of adve konest by inst t and beca i eccurred to him to be other than b He was in spirit and in vith hould guide was his privilege to cy for the time, and ination was Jittl He stands ap- popular judgment both It needed proved by the of his time and of later mistory as sel- sometimes deceived in his-J men, but he was ha fault in his judgment erstanding the A 2 dual i-meanor snhance aature. he Ilinois. and these famous dis many r breeding at h duced to arnd con He had been ed with Mr. fleged to address ns where there was bate Mr. Limeoln a r and pr y tavern where ers. He withou: om, went d taking ceed- was wait- L™ said the “in my Fways ap from t and all I ria wcoin i The' gre: led to na an express party which Lincoln May ksters of the MNve un- cus and undebauched by the bawds of the lobby. May it live with ears - attuned to the c k of the br s gold h bro randed with the t letter of shame. M t live with its foreign pelicies gashaped by the magnates of trusts and - ances uled by bankers’ synd vest of prosperity w ng to the nation n blasis of selfishness w yet In the milk. 5 5 AT E : 1 | Derrick, 428 Vernon street, Oakland; | T 1 O P WINN R racs-5 o Ragpetess i g oud ot Y WHO 0 S I U NG ‘ ] tin, 7 Guerrero street, San Francisco: | Elbert Plomteaux, 1615 Twenty-third - =L > 4 - SR Ll e #5 TR _; avenue, Oakland: Hilda Gebhardt, 1! . oy = - - 5 8 3 Twenty-ninth street, San Frameisco; ("\l HESE are the names of the 150 nie Crowles Port Costa; Mérhea street. San Francisco; Charles Eaton, Maud Jacobs, 14 Allen street, San By BILLY BURGUNDY. get flimfammed by them pesky Wall- swindler that ever traveled In shoe lucky children who won prises .5, Marik Broaddus, Ag- street. San Francisco; Francisco; Irene Jacobs, 14 Allen street, BN street sharpers. He would explain leather. More than that he had made l 5:;}!* mx;zl- contest—ihe nine = e et Ellis str San Francisco; Lillian Jacobs, 14 Allen NCE upon a time there H in what an easy thing it would be for !h‘mmd to bamboozle m“_ - ifferent Parts of ‘'a Watch— B X Curran, 5 Guer- Street, San Francisco; Margaret Rich- the town of Hedgev him to Beat the brokers at their own daylights out of every ¢ity upstart th. published in The Sunday Call of Stelis Vallejo; Louise ro e cpratds 1242 Union street, San Fran- of the name of Heze game if he cared to-live in the city came his way, just on gemeral princt February 28 Hige! PYPEr nette Inglls, 1320 Masonic avenue, CiSc0: Katie Ryan, Alabama and Twen- bee. ey m:nrkeL . Obe night Wil was X 2¢ Masoni v e, et 2 g i s 1 i e night wi i lean- » to 666 e Oakland; “rancisco; Luey Hopkins, 2400 ighth streets, San Francisco; Pat- Hezekiah was as sharp as a Would also warn hig hfar -against Koo a’;;‘ss e C: qz_u:x;\ 4 -\ Sarah Watk Va >; Hazel Young. San F 5 ‘. rice O'Hair, 513 Howard street, San gteel trap and right up to snuff. He 8etting tangled up in any business de.1 g ag: t tl un A;A. m“ ga s . . San r rcisco; g r 1 e city ain’ . wis tapper Samsalito: R 2530 Fol- W Pias st Ges mmoueL R, JMabsma _and cquld answer riddles, work out puzzles, brbto g 1 e e = eet, enty-eighth streets, 0; urkey: e — - e Trautner, 548 Stack- Z:n}r;?:;lx’::nu 1110 Treaat.nlzr::; PR e i sl B e “H habits and family commections are the sfore and asked the boss if he s 5 San Francisco; Laura Ma- @ 4 3 funny stories like a drummer, spe e ol knew a garty of the name of Hezekiah new; Hazel McEvoy, fabe! Bowman. San Ma- th, Berkeley Gus Maxine Isoard, Ne- eve Lake uron San Jose; g Coul- Rosa; John Murray, San wilt Wheeler Stey Nellie San Jose; Anna Paul, Suisun; Lund, Suisun: Caries Temple- t Sacramento; Syria Lombardo, 1 Jose; Henry Jensen, Suisun; An- uitvale Cumberiand street, San Franeisco; 36 Maple Court, Laura Peterson. 1413 cisco; Juanita Clapp, Thirtieth street, San Fran- San Franeisco; Genevieve McCormick, 404 Octavia street, San Francisco; Rafala Mooney, 1525 Ninth avenue, San Francisco; Lillie Smith, 1067 Twenty- eighth street, Oakland: Raphael Weich, 1251 Webster street, San Francisco; C. Christian, 438 Haight street, San Fran- cisco; Harold Adams, 761 Haight street, San Francisco; Olive Farmer, 978 Sev- enth avenue, East Oakland; Sadie Fred- ericks, East Oakland; Eleanor Yonge, 3108 Potrero avenue, San Francisco; George Blanding, 2329 Bryant street, San PFrancisco; Leona Engwer, 1788 Union street, San Franciseo; Ella Win- field, 1623 Noe street, San Francisco; Stanley Groom, 486 Valencia street, San Francisco; Lee Girvin, 2293 Sacramento irteenth street, San Fran- 1, 1075 Union street. 0; John McKenzie, 1393 Pin San Francisco; Donald Young, 442 Fourteenth street, San Fran- cisco; Helen Wallls, 316 Eighth street, San Francisco; Laurence Taylor, 1705 street, San Francisco: George 1312 Washington street, San isco; “Aileen Kramer, 76 Belcher street, San Francisco; Ada Myers, San Jose; Clinton Lowell, Merced; Sam Hern, Tulare; Frieda Bertelsen, Ala- meda; Fred Hind, 106 Devigadero street, San Francisco; Grace Peal, 111, Fillmore street, San Francisce; May Connell, 302 Oak street, San Francisco; Clarence O’Connell, Berkeley; Gustave Maas, 532 Castro street, San Francisco; Hal Cur- tis, 918 Ellis street, San Franeisco; Mf- dred Payot, 406 Clayton street, San Franciseo; Henry Russell, Haywards; Bernice Cameron, 351 Devisadero street, San Francisco; Charles Young, 442 Fourteenth street, San Francisco; Viva McCarthy, 1111 Treat avenue, San Fran- cisco; Ethel Schwert, 3508 Twenty-third street, San Francisco; Paul Barrett, 353 Tenth street, Oakland; Antoinette Guste, 1107 Treat avenue, San Francis- co; Ruth Meryon, 1060 Market street, San Francisco; Bonnylin Luckhardt, 1714 Hearst avenue, Berkeley; Vida cisco: Haze Franct street, Francisco; Lucy Kelly, 45 Fillmore et, San Franeisco; Isabel Flanagin, 2 Twentieth street, San Francisco: N. Andrews, 458 Noe street, San tr R. Francisco; Kitty Castillo, 1011 Webster street, -Oakland; Charlie Levinson, 83 Cumberland street, San Franciseo; Henry Heritage, West Oakland; Leo Dillon, 38 Cumberiand street, San Fran- cisco; Francis Perthoff, Los Banos Louis Murray, Ross; Stanley Fullalove, 2506 Pine street, San Francisco; Jessie Mangold, Vallejo: M. B. Kirner, 617 Willow avenue, San Francisco; Katie Crowley, Port Costa; Alfred Kolb, Palo Alto; Florence Hutchison, 1210 West etreet, Oakland: Charles Varien, Pa- cific Grove: G. A. Gregerson, Pacific Grove; Vera Banks, 111B Franklin street, San Francisco; Edna Barthold, 1360 Scott street. San. Francisco; Alice Maxwell, 1918B Tayler street, San Fran- ciseo; Grace Fauth, 238 Pourteenth street, San Francisco; Camille Pollock, 1225 Gelden Gate avenue, San Fran- cisco: Leslie Koegel, 3% Cumberland street, San Francisco; Eva Wagener, 2011 Green street, San Francisco; Reta Sherrett, 32 Chenery street, San Fran- ciseo; Eunice Clayton, 228 Thirteenth street, San Franelsco: Max Rhode, 474 Edward street, Oakland; Lilllan Mason. 773 Haight street, San Francisco. the biggest word in the dictionary and play as tricky a game of checkers as any man in Seasongoed County. Hezekiah was an authority on all subjects. He could give any lawyer cards and spades on statute law, could ure yellow jaundice quicker than the :neltyd.octonj?n the w:ole ereation and 890d County who could strike a bar- knew. a blamed sight e about ‘£ain with a stranger without having Secripture than the best preacher that the very life skinned out of him quick- ever ordered the basket passed around °F ‘"‘3" Jack Robinson 'l" as easy as while the choir sang “We I Meet falling off & log. in the Sweet By and By® He had Italways made the sly and uncheat- bought in a house at a tax sale, got able Hezekigh laugh §t ta kil to hear the best of a gypsy it a horse trade, tell of one of the Hedgevillians getting won $5 in the Mexican loftery and trimmed by a smooth from one of had put several other high curves the big towns. He it figured out across the plate to prove that he was that if his friends have gump- as slick as greased lighining and able Jon enough to keep their eye' peeled to hold his own in the fastest com- after listening o | _“-..m pany. day after day, they could just take Every night after knocking off at their medicine an@ not ook to him for the saw mill, Hezekiah would have &n¥ sympathy, even If they got his bite and strut over to the General cléaned out plum up to their sus- Store. Affer standing the clérk off pender Buckles. until Saturday for a nicksl plug of _ Ia all his life Hezekiah had never Mellow Twist, he would back up to buf ence been took in by a stranger. the stove and emit valuable informa- that was when he miss-cued in tion until the fire was out and all spotting the right shell when he had hands were ready to turn in. a dollar bet down with the critter who At every one of these night sessions followed the Three-Ring Circus. From Hezekiah would make it a point to that time on, Hezekiah ‘lowed that he roast the life out of the galoots who was too cunning for even the best While he was confident that he was more than able to take czre of himselt with any city man that might come to Hedgeville to make g deal, it was pinders to pianos that there wasn't an- other resident of the whole Season- Sigsbee. “That - Hezekiah, as he walked over to be . m name, man from way down East. They step- ped 6 the fromt of the store and 2 a lengthy whispered conversation. Hezekiah dashed out of the door and made a bee-line for his home. The newcomer = bought cigars for crowd, spoke highly of the enter ing appearance of Hedgeville and excellence of the surroun He said that he ‘Bad never refined and hospitable - people than these who lived. in Seasongood Coun He bemoaned the fact that his bu ness was of such a cBaracter tha: could mot spend awmonth-or two in Hedgeville just {0 get the benefit of its refining influence. While the stranger was delfvering the bull-con to the rustics. He . g crops. met more hot cakes at An hour boarded the West und Midnig' Flyer for virgin soil, Hezekiah tumbled to the fact that he had been bumfuzmled. Moral—-It is the wise guy who gets stung the worst. Cepyright, 1203, by Steve Floyd, N. T,